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Organization and Business Operations
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Organization and Business Operations  
Organization and Business Operations

Note 1. Organization and Business Operations

GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (f/k/a GTY Govtech, Inc.), a Massachusetts corporation (“GTY”, the “Company” or “Successor”), is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On February 19, 2019 (the “Closing Date”), the Company consummated several acquisitions (collectively, the “Acquisition”), pursuant to which it (i) acquired each of Bonfire Interactive Ltd. (“Bonfire”), CityBase, Inc. (“CityBase”), eCivis Inc. (“eCivis”), Open Counter Enterprises Inc. (“Open Counter”), Questica Inc. and Questica USCDN Inc. (together, “Questica”) and Sherpa Government Solutions LLC (“Sherpa” and together with Bonfire, CityBase, eCivis, Open Counter and Questica, the “Acquired Companies”) and (ii) became the parent company of its predecessor entity, GTY Technology Holdings Inc., a blank check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands (“GTY Cayman”). Until the Acquisition, GTY Cayman did not engage in any operations nor generate any revenues.

In connection with the closing of the Acquisition, the Company changed its name from GTY Govtech, Inc. to GTY Technology Holdings Inc. and became a successor issuer to GTY Cayman and continued the listing of its common stock and warrants on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“NASDAQ”) under the symbols “GTYH” and “GTYHW,” respectively. As of June 2019, the Company’s warrants are no longer listed on any exchange.

GTY is a public sector SAAS company which offers a cloud-based suite of solutions primarily for North American state and local governments. GTY’s cloud-based suite of solutions for state and local governments addresses functions in procurement, payments, grant management, budgeting and permitting. The following is a brief description of each of the Acquired Companies.

Bonfire

Bonfire Interactive Ltd. was incorporated on March 5, 2012 under the laws of the Province of Ontario, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bonfire Interactive US Ltd., was incorporated in the United States on January 8, 2018. Bonfire is a provider of strategic sourcing and procurement software, serving customers in government, the broader public sector, and various highly-regulated commercial vertical markets.

Bonfire offers customers and their sourcing professionals a modern SaaS application that helps find, engage, evaluate, negotiate and award vendor and supplier contracts. Bonfire delivers workflow automation, data collection and analysis, and collaboration to drive cost savings, compliance, and strategic outcomes. All of Bonfire’s applications are delivered as a SaaS offering, and Bonfire offers implementation and premium support services.

CityBase

CityBase, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Chicago, provides dynamic content, digital services, and integrated payments via a SaaS platform that includes technological functionality accessible via web and mobile, kiosk, point-of-sale, and other channels. CityBase software integrates its platform to underlying systems of record, billing, and other source systems, and configures payments and digital services to meet the requirements of its customers, which include government agencies and utility companies.

eCivis

eCivis, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is a leading SaaS provider of grants management and indirect cost reimbursement solutions that enable its customers to standardize and streamline complex grant processes in a fully integrated platform. The eCivis platform consists of four core cloud-based products including grants research, grants management, sub-recipient management, and cost allocation and recovery. To assist its customers in the implementation of its cloud-based products, eCivis offers one-time implementation services, including data integration, grants migration and change management. Additionally, eCivis provides ongoing grants management training, cost allocation plan consulting and cost recovery services.

Open Counter

Open Counter, a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a developer and provider of software tools for cities to streamline permitting and licensing services for municipal governments. Open Counter provides customers with software through a hosted platform and also provides professional services related to software implementation.

Questica

Questica, Inc., Questica USCDN Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary Questica Ltd., design and develop budgeting software that supports the unique requirements of the public sector. The Questica suite of products are part of a comprehensive web-based budgeting preparation, performance, management and data visualization solution that enables public sector and non-profit organizations to improve and shorten their budgeting cycles.

Questica Inc. was organized in 1998 as an Ontario corporation, maintains two offices located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and serves the healthcare, K-12, higher education and local government verticals primarily in North America. Questica USCDN was organized in 2017 as an Ontario corporation and Questica Ltd. was incorporated in 2017 in the United States as a Delaware corporation. Questica Ltd. is located in Huntington Beach, California, primarily serving the non-profit market and services a limited number of customers in the public and private sector. The majority of the Questica Ltd.’s customers are located in the United States and Canada, and as well as some international customers, primarily located in the United Kingdom and Africa.

Sherpa

Sherpa is a Colorado limited liability company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, established in 2004. Sherpa is a leading provider of public sector budgeting software and consulting services that help state and local governments create and manage budgets and performance. Customers purchase Sherpa’s software and then engage its consulting services to configure the software and receive training on how to manage the software going forward. Following implementation, customers continue to use the software in exchange for maintenance or subscription fees.