Joint Venture

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

On July 13, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement with Japan Cloud Computing L.P. (“JCC”) and M30 LLC (collectively, the Investors) to engage in the investment, organization, management and operation of New Relic K.K., a Japanese subsidiary of the Company that is focused on the sale of the Company’s products and services in Japan. On August 21, 2018, the Investors initially contributed approximately $3.6 million ($396,000,000 Japanese Yen) in exchange for 40% of the outstanding common stock of New Relic K.K. On August 21, 2019, the Company and Investors additionally contributed approximately $1.5 million (156,000,000 Japanese Yen) and approximately $1.0 million (104,000,000 Japanese Yen), respectively, to subscribe to additional shares. As of December 31, 2019, the Company owned approximately 60% of the outstanding common stock in New Relic K.K.

All of the common stock held by the Investors may be callable by the Company or puttable by the Investors upon certain contingent events. Should the call or put option be exercised, the redemption value would be determined based on a prescribed formula derived from the discrete revenues of New Relic K.K. and the Company and may be settled, at the Company’s discretion, with Company stock or cash. As a result of the put right available to the redeemable non-controlling interest holders in the future, the redeemable non-controlling interest in New Relic K.K. is classified outside of permanent equity in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2019, and the balance is reported at the greater of the initial carrying amount adjusted for the redeemable non-controlling interest’s share of earnings or losses, or its estimated redemption value. The resulting changes in the estimated redemption amount are recorded within retained earnings or, in the absence of retained earnings, additional paid-in-capital. The estimated redemption value of the call/put option embedded in the redeemable non-controlling interest was $0 at December 31, 2019.

The following table summarizes the activity in the redeemable non-controlling interest for the period indicated below:


Balance as of March 31, 2019	$	2,733
Investment by redeemable non-controlling interest	978
Net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest	(1,437)
Balance as of December 31, 2019	$	2,274