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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024
OR
☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from __to __
Commission File Number: 001-41211
nCino, Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
| | | | | | | | |
| Delaware | | 87-4154342 |
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization) | | (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.) |
6770 Parker Farm Drive
Wilmington, North Carolina 28405
(Address of principal executive offices including zip code)
(888) 676-2466
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| | | | | | | | |
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
Common stock, par value $0.0005 per share | NCNO | The Nasdaq Global Select Market |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No o
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes o No ☒
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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us. Forward-looking statements include information concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations, business strategies and plans, trends, market sizing, competitive position, industry environment, potential growth opportunities and product capabilities, among other things. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and, in some cases, can be identified by terms such as “aim,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “goal,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “potential,” “predicts,” “projects,” “seeks,” “should,” “strive,” “will,” “would,” or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. As used in this report, the terms “nCino,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean nCino, Inc. and its subsidiaries unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including those described in “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and elsewhere in this report. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Some of the key factors that could cause actual results to differ from our expectations include, but are not limited to:
•our future financial performance, including our expectations regarding our revenues, cost of revenues, operating expenses, and our ability to achieve and maintain future profitability;
•our ability to execute strategies, plans, objectives, and goals;
•our ability to compete with existing and new competitors in existing and new markets and offerings;
•our ability to develop and protect our brand;
•our ability to effectively manage privacy, information, and data security;
•costs associated with research and development and building out our sales, professional services and customer support teams;
•the concentration of our customer base in the financial institution sector and their spending on cloud-based technology;
•our ability to add and retain customers;
•our ability to expand internationally and associated costs;
•our ability to comply with laws and regulations;
•our expectations and management of future growth based on subscription revenues over the term of our customer contracts;
•our expectations concerning relationships with our customers, partners, and other third parties;
•general macroeconomic conditions, including inflation and higher interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties;
•economic and industry trends;
•projected growth or trend analysis;
•our relationship with Salesforce and our system integration ("SI") partners;
•seasonal sales fluctuations;
•our ability to add capacity and automation to our operations;
•our ability to attract and retain key personnel;
•our ability to successfully integrate and realize the benefits from acquisitions and other strategic transactions;
•our ability to service our debt obligations; and
•our ability to successfully defend litigation or other proceedings brought against us.
Any forward-looking statement made by us in this report speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, we disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. In addition, statements such as “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date on which it is made and, although we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted a thorough inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements. Furthermore, if our forward-looking statements prove to be inaccurate, the inaccuracy may be material. In light of the significant uncertainties in these forward-looking statements, you should not regard these statements as a representation or warranty by us or any other person that we will achieve our objectives and plans in any specified time frame, or at all. Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events, or otherwise.
PART I
Item 1. Business
Overview
Through its single software-as-a-service ("SaaS") platform, nCino helps financial institutions ("FI") serving corporate and commercial, small business, consumer, and mortgage customers modernize and more effectively onboard clients, open accounts, make loans and navigate the loan lifecycle, and effectively monitor and manage their portfolio. Transforming how FIs operate through innovation, reputation and speed, nCino is partnered with more than 1,800 customers globally. With the nCino Bank Operating System, FIs can:
•Digitally Serve Their Clients Across Lines of Business. The nCino Bank Operating System delivers distinctive experiences across devices, channels and products, enabling a seamless digital relationship between an FI, its employees, its clients and key third parties. Because nCino is a cloud native platform, employees can serve their customers anywhere, at any time, from any internet-enabled device, empowering them to build deeper relationships. For consumers who increasingly expect frictionless digital services, this ability is no longer a differentiator for FIs, but a necessity.
•Improve Efficiency. nCino customers leverage the platform’s capabilities to drive efficiency by eliminating cumbersome legacy systems, improving client satisfaction and retention, and digitally expanding their brand presence and reach. By connecting previously disjointed functions and breaking down internal silos, nCino increases transparency at all organizational levels across all lines of business, enabling FIs to measure their operations and maximize performance, productivity and profitability.
•Elevate Employee Experience and Performance. The nCino Bank Operating System’s automation, workflow and digitization capabilities help eliminate manual processes and redundant efforts, freeing an FI's employees to focus on their clients’ experiences rather than their transactions. In addition, our intelligent enterprise content management system includes a standardized filing system across applications, providing instant and ongoing access to digital documentation and checklists to help ensure that compliance and credit requirements are met. For example, client documents are associated with a unique identifier, eliminating the need for repeat document collection and duplicative data input, which means employees only have to ask for information once.
•Manage Risk and Compliance More Effectively. The nCino Bank Operating System can help FIs reduce regulatory, credit and operational risk through workflow and automation, data reporting, standardized risk rating calculations and financial modeling. For example, the content management, automated workflow and digital audit trail and snapshot functionality within the nCino Bank Operating System helps our customers more effectively and efficiently prepare for regulatory examinations. Because nCino is highly configurable, it can adjust as regulations and the FI's risk requirements evolve, including regulatory changes, economic headwinds, sharp pivots, and ongoing volatility.
•Establish an Active Data, Audit and Business Intelligence Hub. Key to the nCino Bank Operating System is infusing intelligence into every stage of the banking lifecycle. nCino provides FIs with innovative technology that helps them meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, including predictive artificial intelligence ("AI") applications like Commercial Pricing and Profitability and Automated Spreading. As a trusted partner, nCino continues to develop solutions powered by nCino IQ ("nIQ") that help FIs integrate predictive and generative AI capabilities when and where it matters most, across the banking lifecycle.
•Embrace the Power of Intelligent Automation and Uncover Data-Driven Insights. AI is rapidly changing the financial services industry. As AI creates new value streams within banking, nCino is simplifying FIs’ navigation through this transformative technology. nCino provides FIs with innovative technology that helps them meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, including predictive AI applications like Commercial Pricing and Profitability and Automated Spreading.
Our Journey
nCino was originally founded in a bank to improve that FI’s operations and client service. After realizing that the same problems—cumbersome legacy technology, fragmented data, disconnected business functions, and a disengaged workforce made it difficult to maintain relevancy in their clients' lives—were endemic across the financial services industry, nCino spun out as a separate company in late 2011. This heritage is the foundation of our deep banking domain expertise, which differentiates us, continues to drive our strategy, and makes us uniquely qualified to help FIs create new efficiencies by providing an end-to-end platform that spans business lines and combines capabilities for a seamless experience.
The nCino Bank Operating System was initially designed to help transform commercial and small business lending for community and regional banks. This solution was introduced to enterprise banks in the United States ("U.S.") in 2014, and then internationally in 2017, and has subsequently expanded across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific ("APAC"). Throughout this market expansion, we broadened the nCino Bank Operating System by adding functionality for consumer lending, client onboarding, deposit account opening, analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning ("AI/ML"). On January 7, 2022 (the "Acquisition Date"), nCino acquired SimpleNexus, a leading cloud-based mobile-first homeownership software company in the U.S., which expanded the suite of products to include a suite of mortgage solutions. On September 8, 2023, SimpleNexus began operating as SimpleNexus, LLC d/b/a nCino Mortgage, LLC ("nCino Mortgage") as part of our rebranding effort.
In March 2024, we acquired DocFox, Inc. ("DocFox"), a leading solution provider automating onboarding experiences for commercial and business banking, for an aggregate purchase price of $75.0 million. See Note 20 "Subsequent Events" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information.
How the nCino Bank Operating System Works
The nCino Bank Operating System connects FIs' employees, their clients and third parties on a single, cloud-based platform, eliminating silos and bringing new levels of coordination and transparency to an FI. By utilizing a single platform across business lines, processes and channels, FIs are able to leverage the same data and information across their entire organization to drive efficiency, enhance decision-making, and increase connectivity.
As a native cloud platform that utilizes a single code base regardless of the size and complexity of the FI, the nCino Bank Operating System is highly scalable and configurable for the specific needs of each FI. Once implemented, our solution becomes deeply embedded in our customers’ business processes, enabling mission critical workflow across the FI and allowing our customers to serve their clients anytime, anywhere, from any internet-enabled device.
The nCino Bank Operating System also delivers data analytics and AI/ML capabilities through nIQ application suite to provide our customers with automation and insights into their operations, such as tools for analyzing, measuring and managing credit risk, as well as to improve their ability to comply with regulatory requirements.
Fundamental elements of the nCino platform are built on Salesforce (the "Salesforce Platform"), which allows the Company to focus product development efforts on building deep vertical functionality specifically for FIs, while leveraging Salesforce's global infrastructure, reliability, and scalability. nCino also has solutions that leverage the Amazon Web Services ("AWS") platform.
We generally offer the nCino Bank Operating System on a subscription basis pursuant to non-cancellable multi-year contracts that typically range from three to five years, and we employ a “land and expand” business model. The nCino Bank Operating System is designed to scale with our customers, and once our solution is deployed, we seek to have our customers expand adoption within and across lines of business.
Benefits and Features of the nCino Bank Operating System
The nCino Bank Operating System leverages common data sets and functionality across applications, which optimizes and accelerates its deployment throughout a FI. These include:
•Client Onboarding. Built into the nCino Bank Operating System is client onboarding functionality that supports and automates the front, middle and back office onboarding process, allowing FIs to effectively evaluate the risk of doing business with a client, while also providing clients an efficient and personalized
user experience. Clients are able to upload documents directly into the nCino Bank Operating System, complete identity verification and provide information about themselves and their business, offering a level of transparency to the FI that enables regulatory compliance, such as Know-Your-Customer (“KYC”). With enhanced onboarding reporting tools, FIs can generate customized reports and use real-time analytics and data from government watchlists and other third-party systems to achieve a holistic client view, enabling our customers to offer their clients more value-added services and custom-tailored offerings.
•Deposit Account Opening. The nCino Bank Operating System’s deposit account opening application optimizes the process for opening checking, savings, debit/ATM cards, money market, certificates of deposit and retirement accounts. FIs can utilize nCino’s intuitive, scalable and flexible workflow to efficiently open consumer, commercial or small business accounts while maintaining individual account processes and requirements. Seamlessly embedded within the account opening experience, the nCino Bank Operating System provides the new client onboarding capability to collect KYC related information to meet compliance standards. The deposit account opening application allows clients to open a deposit account digitally, across any device, in a branch or through a call center, with speed and flexibility.
•Loan Origination. The loan origination functionality embedded within the nCino Bank Operating System combines an innovative and intuitive framework with automated workflow, checklists, document management, analytics and real-time reporting to provide a complete, end-to-end loan origination system from application, to underwriting, to adjudication, to document preparation, to closing. In one view, all stakeholders have visibility into where the loan process stands and what data is needed to complete the process. Post-closing, the nCino Bank Operating System provides a view into loan performance and tools for portfolio management, providing FI employees the ability to utilize information to maximize efficiency. Each stakeholder in the loan process works from a single digital loan file, allowing clients to apply for loans and upload documents; third parties, such as appraisers, lawyers and regulators, to access and review loan files; and employees to seamlessly manage the entire loan process efficiently and compliantly.
Our loan origination functionality supports a wide range of lending products across commercial, small business and consumer lines of business. The nCino Bank Operating System can facilitate the origination of an FI’s most complex commercial lending products, including syndicated loans, commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans and construction loans, while also supporting the depth required for specific products such as agriculture lending, asset-based lending, SBA loans and leasing. Our solution also supports the speed and convenience required for small business and consumer loans across products, such as home equity lines of credit, home equity term loans, uncollateralized lines of credit, automobile loans and credit cards, while providing the tools needed to address regulatory compliance, including fair lending and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
•End-to-End Mortgage Suite. nCino’s Mortgage Suite increases an FI's mortgage profitability by automating loan processing and closing, delivering modern customer convenience, surfacing data insights, and simplifying incentive compensation management. As a leading provider of digital mortgage technology within the U.S. market, nCino’s Mortgage Suite helps financial institutions in the U.S. streamline their borrower journey, improve stakeholder collaboration, seamlessly connect lender system tools, and enhance efficiency in operations – all so lenders can increase mortgage profitability and provide their customers an exceptional user experience.
•nIQ: The nCino Bank Operating System is powered by nIQ, which leverages AI/ML and analytics, helping FIs become more predictive, personalized and proactive. Through nIQ’s Automated Spreading feature, FIs can streamline manual data entry processes throughout the underwriting process and automatically capture more data, reducing the time it takes to spread and process documents and enabling bankers to devote more time to insightful financial analysis and focus on value-add activities. By combining newly available data from digitized processes with sophisticated profitability models, nIQ’s Commercial Pricing and Profitability functionality delivers targeted pricing insights at the point of decision, helping relationship managers intelligently price loans and win the right deals. FIs can also leverage the data visualization and predictive analytics capabilities of nIQ’s Portfolio Analytics solution to maintain a holistic view of portfolio trends, discover new lending opportunities, and proactively address risk within different segments. By embedding insights and automation into the loan lifecycle, nCino empowers FIs to accelerate revenue growth, improve operational efficiency and win the trust of their customers.
•A Powerful Ecosystem. By harnessing the power of diverse partners and leveraging open application programming interfaces and productized integrations, the nCino Bank Operating System creates a connected and scalable ecosystem that brings together disparate data sources and systems, acting as a data hub that integrates with core systems, credit reporting agencies and other third-party applications to centralize an FI’s data, creating an actionable single data platform and warehouse. In addition, we work with some of the world’s leading technology and SI partners to help implement our solution, which has increased our capacity to deliver and deploy the nCino Bank Operating System and enabled us to scale more quickly.
Our Customers
As critical and attractive as our innovation platform is, it is our proven execution and delivery that makes nCino an ideal partner to FIs. Working closely with our customers, we take a pragmatic approach to helping institutions digitally transform.
As a pioneer in cloud banking, we have developed trusted relationships and a reputation for successfully implementing our solutions with FIs of all sizes in multiple geographies. Our diverse customer base ranges from global FIs, such as Bank of America, Barclays, Santander, and TD Bank; to enterprise banks, such as Truist Bank and U.S. Bank; to regional and community banks, like WaFd Bank, M&F Bank, and ConnectOne Bank; to credit unions, such as Navy Federal Credit Union, SAFE Credit Union, Marine Credit Union, and Conexus Credit Union; to new market entrants, such as challenger banks like Recognise Bank and Judo Bank; to independent mortgage banks like Synergy One Lending and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. These companies represent a cross-section of FIs across asset classes and geographies and each of these customers represent a substantial level of Annual Contract Value ("ACV") in its respective category.
As of January 31, 2024, we had 460 FIs that have contracted for the nCino Bank Operating System for client onboarding, loan origination and/or deposit account opening. In addition, we have over 1,000 FIs that have contracted for our Portfolio Analytics solutions, which we acquired with the nCino Portfolio Analytics, LLC (formerly, Visible Equity, LLC, "Visible Equity") acquisition in fiscal 2020, and over 430 customers that have contracted for nCino Mortgage Suite. In total, we had over 1,800 customers as of January 31, 2024, of which 501 each generated more than $100,000 in subscription revenues in fiscal 2024. No single customer represented more than 10% of total revenues in fiscal 2024.
How nCino Will Grow
We intend to continue growing our business by executing on the following strategies:
•Expand Within and Across Our Existing Customers. We believe there is a significant opportunity to further expand within our existing customer base both vertically within business lines and horizontally across business lines. Our revenues from existing customers continue to grow as additional users are added, creating strong customer cohort dynamics.
•Expand Our Customer Base. We believe the global market for a single platform is large and underserved. With FIs needing to replace legacy point products with modern technology and increased consumer demand for digital services, we believe there is a significant opportunity to deliver our solutions and expand our customer base to FIs of all sizes and complexities around the world. Currently deployed in 19 countries, we have made significant investments to expand our presence in EMEA and APAC, and the nCino Bank Operating System can currently support over 120 languages and over 140 currencies. We promote sales in North America out of our offices in the U.S. and Canada, in APAC out of our offices in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and in EMEA out of our offices in the UK and Spain.
•Continue Strengthening and Extending Our Product Functionality. We invested 24.6% of our revenues back into research and development in fiscal 2024 and will continue to invest at similar levels in fiscal 2025 to continue to extend the breadth and depth of the nCino Bank Operating System. Additionally, we plan to continue to develop our portfolio analytics and credit modeling capabilities, as well as our AI/ML capabilities through automation, predictive analytics, digital assistant services and data source integration. These innovations will further reduce the human resources required for routine but time-consuming tasks.
•Foster and Grow Our SI and Technology Ecosystem. We have developed strong relationships with several leading SIs, including Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and West Monroe Partners, that increase our capacity to onboard new customers and implement the nCino Bank Operating System, extend our global reach and drive
increased market awareness. To date, over 3,500 SI consultants have completed our training program to implement the nCino Bank Operating System. Through the open architecture of the nCino Bank Operating System, an increasing number of third-party technology partners, including Rich Data Co, Alloy, Codat, Plaid, and DocuSign, among others, are integrated with our solution.
•Selectively Pursue Strategic Transactions. In addition to developing our solutions organically, we may selectively pursue acquisitions, joint ventures, or other strategic transactions. We expect these transactions to focus on innovation to help strengthen and expand the functionality and features of our solutions and/or expand our global presence. For example, in fiscal 2020, we acquired nCino Portfolio Analytics, LLC (formerly Visible Equity) and FinSuite Pty Ltd ("FinSuite") as part of our strategy to build out our nIQ capabilities, and we established our nCino K.K. joint venture to facilitate our entry into the Japanese market. Additionally, in January 2022, we completed our acquisition of SimpleNexus, which expanded our capabilities to the U.S. point-of-sale mortgage market.
Our Relationship with Salesforce
From our inception, we built the nCino Bank Operating System on the Salesforce Platform to leverage its global infrastructure, reliability, and scalability. This strategy has allowed us to benefit from Salesforce’s investment in the continual improvement of the Salesforce Platform. We believe we have a mutually beneficial strategic relationship with Salesforce.
Pursuant to our agreement with Salesforce, when we sell our client onboarding, loan origination, and/or deposit account opening applications, we include a subscription to the underlying Salesforce Platform and remit a subscription fee to Salesforce. In exchange, Salesforce provides the hosting infrastructure and data center for these applications, as well as configuration, reporting, and other functionality within the Salesforce Platform. In addition, under our agreement with Salesforce, we are an authorized reseller of Salesforce’s CRM functionality to certain FIs in the U.S. Our original agreement with Salesforce was entered into in December 2011, which was superseded and replaced on June 19, 2020. On December 20, 2023, our agreement with Salesforce was amended and its term was extended to expire on January 31, 2031 unless earlier terminated by either party in the event of the other party’s material breach, bankruptcy, change in control in favor of a direct competitor, or intellectual property infringement. Our agreement with Salesforce automatically renews for additional one-year periods thereafter unless notice of termination is provided.
Global Revenue Organization
Our Global Revenue Organization includes business development representatives, account executives, field sales engineers, and marketing. These teams are responsible for demand and lead generation, driving new business, and helping to manage account relationships and renewals, further driving adoption of our solutions within and across lines of business. These teams maintain close relationships with existing customers and act as an advisor to each FI to help identify and understand their unique needs, challenges, goals, and opportunities.
In addition, our marketing team oversees all aspects of the nCino global brand including brand strategy, public relations and external communications, integrated marketing, product marketing, market strategy, marketing operations, and regional marketing. Our marketing efforts span the full buyer journey from brand awareness and pipeline generation to adoption and cross-sell.
Customer Success
Once a customer contracts for the nCino Bank Operating System, we provide configuration and implementation services to assist the customer in the deployment, either directly or through our SI partners. Configuration and implementation engagements typically range in duration from three months to 18 months, depending on the scope. For enterprise FIs, we generally work with SIs such as Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC. For regional FIs, we work with SIs such as West Monroe Partners, and for community banks, we work with SIs or perform configuration and implementation ourselves. When we work with SIs, we generally field a small team of advisory consultants alongside the SIs to help ensure the success of the engagement.
We support our customers with 24/7 access to engineers and other technical support personnel, outcome-based support offerings, release management, managed services, and technical support via online chat. To help our customers achieve success with the nCino Bank Operating System, we offer in-depth change management workshops, classroom and virtual end user and administrator training, consultative functionality adoption services, and best practices. The nCino Customer Success
Management team is the customer’s central touch point, whose primary job is to manage the long-term health and success of each customer.
A significant majority of our FI customers, whose employees utilize our client onboarding, loan origination, and/or deposit account opening applications, have joined our online nCino User Community. In the nCino User Community, users can access product guides, technical documents and support articles, engage and share best practices with other users and nCino subject matter experts through a variety of general and solution-focused discussion groups, suggest and vote for future product development ideas, and access training videos, materials and product certifications.
Research and Development
Our research and development organization is responsible for the design, development, and testing of our solutions.
We utilize industry best practices, such as continuous integration/continuous deployment, automated testing and distributed version control, to develop new functionality and enhance our existing solutions. We provide opportunities for innovation through hackathons and new technology pilots, and we encourage customers to participate in our Product Design Programs to provide us with input on our product development roadmap. Our research and development spend was $117.3 million or 24.6% of total revenues in fiscal 2024.
Competition
Historically, the primary competition for the nCino Bank Operating System has been point solution vendors and systems developed internally by FIs. We believe our ability to provide client onboarding, loan origination, deposit account opening, analytics, portfolio management, and AI/ML on a single platform across lines of business, our deep banking domain expertise, our mortgage suite, our reputation for high-quality professional services and customer support, and our strong company culture, distinguish us from our competition. We believe our success in growing our business will depend on our ability to demonstrate to FIs that our solutions provide superior business outcomes and value to those of third-party vendors or internally developed systems. In this regard, we are likely to be assessed on a number of factors, including:
•breadth and depth of functionality;
•ease of deployment, implementation and use;
•total cost of ownership and return on investment;
•level of customer satisfaction;
•brand awareness and reputation;
•cloud-based technology platform and pricing model;
•quality of implementation and customer support services;
•capability for configurability, integration, and scalability;
•domain expertise in banking technology;
•security and reliability;
•ability of our solutions to support compliance with legal and regulatory requirements;
•ability to innovate and respond to customer needs quickly;
•ability to integrate with third-party applications and systems; and
•insights and benchmarking derived from the cross-institution data and transactions that flow through our platform.
We believe we compete favorably with respect to these factors, but we expect competition to increase as existing competitors evolve their offerings and as new companies enter the market. Our ability to remain competitive will depend on our ongoing efforts in research and development, sales and marketing, professional services, customer support, and our business operations generally. For additional information, see the section titled “Risk Factors—The markets in which we participate are intensely competitive and highly fragmented, and pricing pressure, new technologies or other competitive dynamics could adversely affect our business and results of operations.”
Intellectual Property
Our success depends in part on our ability to protect our core technology and innovations. We rely on federal, state, common law, and international rights, as well as contractual restrictions, to protect our intellectual property. We control access to our proprietary technology by entering into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and contractors, and confidentiality agreements with third parties. We seek patent protection for certain key innovations, protocols, processes, and other inventions. We pursue the registration of our trademarks, service marks, and domain names in the U.S. and in certain other locations. These laws, procedures and restrictions provide only limited protection and the legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability, and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain and still evolving. Furthermore, effective patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret protection may not be available in every country in which our products are available.
As of January 31, 2024, we had 12 issued U.S. patents as well as one patent application pending in the U.S. We file patent applications where we believe there to be a strategic technological or business reason to do so. Although we actively attempt to utilize patents to protect our technologies, we believe that none of our patents, individually or in the aggregate, are material to our business.
Human Capital Management
We are in the business of fundamentally changing the way FIs operate. To transform an industry, we believe it is essential to foster a company culture that not only empowers its employees to challenge the status quo, but also emboldens them to drive change and champion customer success.
Culture is a key differentiator; our position as the worldwide leader in cloud banking depends on the people who work at nCino. For these reasons, we have built our company with a cultural foundation based on six core values: Bring Your A-Game, Do the Right Thing, Respect Each Other, Make Someone’s Day, Have Fun and Be a Winner. We believe our culture is the foundation for the successful execution of our strategy and, as a result, is a critical strength of our organization. In recognition of our continued focus on employee engagement, satisfaction and culture, we have received numerous workplace awards.
As of January 31, 2024, we had 1,653 employees, of which approximately 84% were in the U.S. and 16% were in other locations around the globe. We believe our employee engagement and experience remain strong.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community
As a global company whose employees represent a wide variety of identities across race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability and disability, class, immigration status and so much more; we know diverse identities, experiences and perspectives make for stronger teams. We believe we can't realize our full strength unless we work collectively to acknowledge, respect, empathize with and appreciate each other's differences. To ensure that nCino remains rooted in our commitment to build a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, our talent acquisition strategy includes relationships with diverse professional organizations and minority colleges and universities.
To further our commitment to a culture of inclusiveness, our employee-led Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Council meets regularly with nCino’s Executive Leadership Team. In addition, nCino is home to six Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”), which serve our Veteran, LGBTQIA+, Latinx, AAPI, Black/African-American, and Women employee populations. These groups play an important role in building community and belonging among employees, providing resources to the broader nCino community, recruiting diverse talent and creating opportunities for professional development, mentorship and community outreach. Each ERG includes executive sponsorship and a connection to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council.
In 2021, nCino hired a full-time Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Involvement leader to champion these initiatives and programs, with support and oversight from nCino’s CEO and People Operations leadership. As a result, nCino has been able to support many causes and initiatives in the community, such as sponsoring the local Martin Luther King, Jr. march, volunteering with veterans’ organizations that aid military personnel in their transition back to civilian life, and being a premier sponsor of an all-girls middle/high school that focuses primarily on STEM education.
In 2021, we also announced two long-term partnerships in Wilmington, North Carolina, where nCino’s headquarters is located. The first was a sponsorship with The City of Wilmington and the Wilmington Hammerheads Youth Soccer Club to help fund a new sports complex, which will help make sports more accessible to youth in the Wilmington community. The second was a partnership with the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. We committed to a donation over a five-year period to support the development of the nCino Hunger Solutions Center, a new facility in Wilmington that is helping the organization expand its food relief efforts and ensure substantial growth in its nutrition services, food access and distribution throughout southeastern North Carolina.
These are just some of the activities achieved through nCino's philanthropic and community service team, nVolve. Through nVolve, nCino prioritizes giving back to our communities and volunteering time by providing all global employees paid volunteer days separate from regular leave or holidays to support organizations and causes that are important to them.
Total Reward, Well-being & Employee Experience
nCino believes that productivity is driven by employees who are actively engaged, both by their connection to our purpose and their certainty that the company cares about their well-being. We therefore invest in their financial, social and physical wellness, as well as the communities in which they work.
Because nCino’s future success is dependent on our ability to attract and retain highly qualified personnel, we offer competitive compensation, opportunities for equity ownership, retirement plans to help employees invest in their future and generous, country-specific benefit packages. In addition, we offer competitive parental leaves, holiday pay, student debt repayment programs and vacation time and flex holidays. nCino supports healthy lifestyles and wellness by offering office step challenges, nutritious snacks, standing and treadmill desks, financial education, mental health initiatives, cycle to work programs, on-site flu shots, recreational outings and more.
These offerings demonstrate a commitment to our employees’ well-being and play a critical role in engaging and retaining the talented individuals that comprise our organization.
Technology, Development and Cloud Operations
We deliver our solutions as highly scalable cloud computing application and platform services on a multi-tenant technology architecture. Multi-tenancy is an architectural approach that allows us to operate a single application instance for multiple organizations, treating all customers as separate and virtual isolation from each other. This approach allows us to spread the cost of delivering our services across the globe and scale our business faster than traditional software vendors while focusing our resources on building new functionality and enhancing existing offerings.
Our technology and product efforts are focused on improving and enhancing the features, functionality, performance, availability, and security of our existing service offerings, as well as developing new features, functionality, and services. We also remain focused on integrating businesses, services and technologies from acquisitions and with partners.
Global Financial Service Providers Are Highly Regulated
Global financial service providers and their solutions are subject to extensive and complex data, security and regulatory guidance and oversight by international, country, federal, state and other regulatory authorities. These laws and regulations are constantly evolving and affect the conduct of financial service providers operations and, as a result, the business of their technology providers. The compliance process with these regulatory requirements depends on a variety of factors, including functionality and design, the classification of the financial service provider and its services, region or country of operation, and the manner in which the financial service provider and its end users utilize the solutions. In order to ensure compliance with these laws, financial service providers may be required to implement operating policies and procedures to protect the privacy and security of their, the financial service providers', and their end users' information, and to undergo periodic audits and examinations.
Security Is Paramount for Global Financial Service Providers
The risks of cybercrime and fraud have always existed in banking and financial services. As the adoption and use of digital channels increase in financial services, the incidence of cybercrime and fraud has grown substantially. The methods by which criminals seek to commit fraud are constantly changing, requiring financial services providers and their technology providers to continually modify their security protocols and best practices. Providing services to FIs requires experience, constant vigilance, and continuous investment to stay informed and guard against these ever-changing threats.
Available Information
Our website is located at www.ncino.com and our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and all amendments to these filings, can be obtained free of charge from our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file or furnish such materials with the SEC. The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov. The contents of these websites are not incorporated into this filing. Further, the Company’s references to the URLs for these websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
You should consider and read carefully all of the risks and uncertainties described below, as well as other information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the section titled "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our consolidated financial statements and related notes before making an investment decision with respect to our common stock. The risks described below are not the only ones we face. The occurrence of any of the following risks or additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe to be immaterial could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations. In such case, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.
Summary Risk Factors
The below summary of risk factors provides an overview of many of the risks we are exposed to in the normal course of our business activities. As a result, the below summary risks do not contain all of the information that may be important to you, and you should read the summary risks together with the more detailed discussion of risks set forth following this section under the heading “Risk Factors,” as well as elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Additional risks, beyond those summarized below or discussed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, may apply to our activities or operations as currently conducted or as we may conduct them in the future or in the markets in which we operate or may in the future operate. Consistent with the foregoing, we are exposed to a variety of risks, including risks associated with the following:
•We derive all of our revenues from customers in the financial services industry, and any downturn or consolidation or decrease in technology spend in the financial services industry could adversely affect our business.
•We have a limited operating history at the current scale of our business, which makes it difficult to predict our future operating results, and we may not achieve our expected operating results in the future.
•We have a history of losses and while we have achieved profitability in a quarterly period, we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability on a generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP") basis in the future.
•If we are unable to attract new customers or continue to broaden our existing customers’ use of our solutions, our revenue growth will be adversely affected.
•If the market for cloud-based banking technology develops more slowly than we expect or changes in a way that we fail to anticipate, our sales would suffer and our results of operations would be adversely affected.
•We may not be able to sustain our revenue growth rate in the future.
•Our quarterly results may fluctuate significantly and may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business.
•We may not accurately predict the long-term rate of customer subscription renewals or adoption of our solutions, or any resulting impact on our revenues or operating results.
•A breach of our security measures or those we rely on could result in unauthorized access to customer or their clients’ data, which may materially and adversely impact our reputation, business, and results of operations.
•Fundamental elements of the nCino Bank Operating System are built on the Salesforce Platform and we rely on our agreement with Salesforce to provide this solution to our customers.
•Because we recognize subscription revenues over the term of the contract, downturns or upturns in our business may not be reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
•The markets in which we participate are intensely competitive and highly fragmented, and pricing pressure, new technologies, or other competitive dynamics could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
•Our increased focus on the development and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in our solutions and our business, as well as our potential failure to effectively implement, use, and market these technologies, may result in reputational harm or liability, or could otherwise adversely affect our business.
•We depend on data centers operated by or on behalf of Salesforce, AWS and other third parties, and any disruption in the operation of these facilities could adversely affect our business and subject us to liability.
•We may acquire or invest in companies, or pursue business partnerships, which may divert our management’s attention or result in dilution to our stockholders, and we may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions, investments or partnerships.
•Because one of our stockholders holds a substantial amount of our total outstanding common stock, the influence of our public stockholders over significant corporate actions is limited and sales by this stockholder could adversely affect the value of our common stock.
•Our customers are highly regulated and subject to a number of challenges and risks. Our failure to comply with laws and regulations applicable to us as a technology provider to FIs could adversely affect our business and results of operations, increase costs and impose constraints on the way we conduct our business.
•We are presently subject to a purported stockholder derivative lawsuit alleging violation of fiduciary duties with the series of mergers in which we became the parent of nCino OpCo and SimpleNexus. The court dismissed these claims and that decision is currently under appeal. This matter or future litigation against us could adversely affect our operations and prospects, damage our reputation, and be costly and time consuming to defend.
Risks Relating to Our Business and Industry
We derive all of our revenues from customers in the financial services industry, and any downturn or consolidation or decrease in technology spend in the financial services industry could adversely affect our business.
All of our revenues are derived from FIs whose industry has experienced significant pressure in recent years due to economic uncertainty, fluctuating interest rates, liquidity concerns and increased regulation. In the past, FIs have experienced consolidation, distress and failure, including in March 2023 when the FDIC took control of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank due to liquidity concerns and a number of other FIs experienced turbulence and a precipitous decline in market value. It is possible these conditions may persist, deteriorate or reoccur. If as a result of these or other factors any of our customers merge with or are acquired by other entities, such as FIs that have internally developed banking technology solutions or that are not our customers or use our solutions less, we may lose business. Additionally, changes in management of our customers could result in delays or cancellations of the implementation of our solutions. It is also possible that the larger FIs that result from
business combinations could have greater leverage in negotiating price or other terms with us or could decide to replace some or all of the elements of our solutions. Our business may also be materially and adversely affected by weak economic conditions in the financial services industry. Any downturn or prolonged disruption in the financial services industry may cause our customers to reduce their spending on technology or cloud-based banking applications or to seek to terminate or renegotiate their contracts with us. Moreover, economic fluctuations caused by factors such as the U.S. Federal Reserve changing interest rates may cause potential new customers and existing customers to forego or delay purchasing our solutions or reduce the amount of spend with us, which would materially and adversely affect our business.
We have a limited operating history at the current scale of our business, which makes it difficult to predict our future operating results, and we may not achieve our expected operating results in the future.
As a result of our limited operating history at the current scale of our business, our ability to forecast our future operating results, including revenues, cash flows, and profitability, is limited and subject to a number of uncertainties. We have encountered and will encounter risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in the technology industry, such as the risks and uncertainties described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and others we may not be able to presently identify. If our assumptions regarding these risks and uncertainties are incorrect or change due to changes in our markets, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our operating and financial results may differ materially from our expectations and our business may suffer.
We have a history of losses and while we have achieved profitability in a quarterly period, we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability on a GAAP basis in the future.
We began operations in late 2011 and have experienced net losses since inception. We generated net losses attributable to nCino of $49.4 million, $102.7 million, and $42.3 million for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively. Our net loss includes the results of operations of SimpleNexus from the date of acquisition on January 7, 2022. We had an accumulated deficit of $352.8 million at January 31, 2024. While we have been profitable on a GAAP basis for a quarter, we may not be able to maintain or increase our level of profitability. We intend to continue to support further growth and extend the functionality of our solutions in future periods. We will also face increased costs associated with growth and the expansion of our customer base and have seen increased costs in being a public company. Our efforts to grow our business may be more costly than we expect, and we may not be able to increase our revenues enough to offset our increased operating expenses. We expect, depending on a number of factors, to continue to incur losses on a GAAP basis as we continue to invest in product development, and we cannot predict whether or when we will achieve or sustain profitability on a GAAP basis. If we are unable to achieve and sustain profitability, the value of our business and common stock may significantly decrease.
If we are unable to attract new customers or continue to broaden our existing customers’ use of our solutions, our revenue growth will be adversely affected.
To increase our revenues, we will need to continue to attract new customers and succeed in having our current customers expand the use of our solutions across their institution. For example, our revenue growth strategy includes increased penetration of markets outside the U.S. as well as selling our retail applications to existing and new customers, and failure in either respect would adversely affect our revenue growth. In addition, for us to maintain or improve our results of operations, it is important that our customers renew their subscriptions with us on the same or more favorable terms to us when their existing subscription term expires. Our revenue growth rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including customer spending levels, customer dissatisfaction with our solutions, decreases in the number of users at our customers, changes in the type and size of our customers, pricing changes, competitive conditions, the loss of our customers to other companies, and general economic conditions. Our customers may also require fewer subscriptions for our solutions as their use may enable them to operate more efficiently over time. Therefore, we cannot assure you that our current customers will renew or expand their use of our solutions. If we are unable to sign new customers or retain or attract new business from current customers, our business and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.
If the market for cloud-based banking technology develops more slowly than we expect or changes in a way that we fail to anticipate or we fail to market our solutions effectively, our sales would suffer and our results of operations would be adversely affected.
Use of, and reliance on, cloud-based banking technology continues to evolve and we do not know whether FIs will continue to adopt cloud-based banking technology such as the nCino Bank Operating System in the future, or whether the market will change in ways we do not anticipate. Many FIs have invested substantial personnel and financial resources in
legacy software, and these FIs may be reluctant, unwilling, or unable to convert from their existing systems to our solutions. Furthermore, these FIs may be reluctant, unwilling, or unable to use cloud-based banking technology due to various concerns, such as the security of their data and reliability of the delivery model. These concerns or other considerations may cause FIs to choose not to adopt cloud-based banking technology such as ours or to adopt them more slowly than we anticipate, either of which would adversely affect us. Our future success also depends on our ability to sell additional applications and functionality to our current and prospective customers. As we create new applications and enhance our existing solutions, these applications and enhancements may not be attractive to customers. In addition, promoting and selling new and enhanced functionality may require increasingly costly sales and marketing efforts and if customers choose not to adopt this functionality, our business and results of operations could suffer. If FIs are unwilling or unable to transition from their legacy systems, or if the demand for our solutions does not meet our expectations, our results of operations and financial condition will be adversely affected.
We may not be able to sustain our revenue growth rate in the future.
Our revenues increased from $273.9 million for fiscal 2022 to $408.3 million for fiscal 2023 to $476.5 million for fiscal 2024. Our revenues include the revenues of SimpleNexus from the date of acquisition on January 7, 2022. However, we may not be able to sustain revenue growth consistent with our recent history, if at all. Our revenue growth in recent periods may not be indicative of our future performance. Furthermore, to the extent we grow in future periods, maintaining consistent rates of revenue growth may be difficult. Our revenue growth may also slow or even reverse in future periods due to a number of factors, which may include slowing demand for our solutions, our ability to successfully sell and implement new applications, such as our retail applications, increasing competition, decreasing growth of our overall market, our inability to attract and retain a sufficient number of FI customers, concerns over data security, our failure, for any reason, to capitalize on growth opportunities, or general economic conditions. If we are unable to maintain consistent revenue growth, our business could be adversely affected, the price of our common stock could decline or otherwise be volatile and it may be difficult for us to achieve and maintain profitability.
Our quarterly results may fluctuate significantly and may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business.
Our quarterly results of operations, including the levels of our revenues, gross margin, profitability, cash flow, and deferred revenue, may vary significantly in the future and, accordingly, period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations may not be meaningful. Thus, the results of any one quarter should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. Our quarterly financial results may fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control, and may not fully or accurately reflect the underlying performance of our business. For example, purchases of our Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") solution during the COVID pandemic may have had the effect of accelerating demand that might have otherwise materialized as new business in later periods as well as accelerating the activation of the licenses and recognition of subscription revenues associated with the PPP solution. Further, while subscriptions with our customers generally include multi-year non-cancellable terms, in a limited number of contracts, customers have an option to buy out of the contract for a specified termination fee. If such customers exercise this buy-out option, or if we negotiate an early termination of a contract at a customer’s request, any termination fee would be recognized in full at the time of termination, which would favorably affect subscription revenues in that period and unfavorably affect subscription revenues in subsequent periods. Fluctuation in quarterly results may negatively impact the value of our common stock. Factors that may cause fluctuations in our quarterly financial results include, without limitation, those listed below:
•our ability to retain current customers or attract new customers;
•the activation, delay in activation, or cancellation of large blocks of users by customers;
•the timing of recognition of professional services revenues;
•the amount and timing of operating expenses related to the maintenance and expansion of our business, operations, and infrastructure;
•acquisitions of our customers, to the extent the acquirer elects not to continue using our solutions or reduces subscriptions to our solutions;
•significant disruptions or distress in the FI industry;
•customer renewal rates;
•increases or decreases in the number of users licensed or pricing changes upon renewals of customer contracts;
•network outages or security breaches;
•general economic, industry, and market conditions;
•changes in our pricing policies or those of our competitors;
•seasonal variations in sales of our solutions, which have historically been highest in the fourth quarter of our fiscal year;
•the timing and amount of litigation and litigation-related expenses;
•the timing and success of new product introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the competitive dynamics of our industry, including consolidation among competitors, customers, or strategic partners; and
•the timing of expenses related to the development or acquisition of technologies or businesses and potential future charges for impairment of goodwill or intangible assets from acquired companies.
We may not accurately predict the long-term rate of customer subscription renewals or adoption of our solutions, or any resulting impact on our revenues or operating results.
Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our solutions after the expiration of the initial or current subscription term, and our customers, if they choose to renew at all, may renew for fewer users or on less favorable pricing terms. The average initial term of our customer agreements is three to five years for the nCino Bank Operating System and one to three years for nCino Mortgage. We have a limited operating history at the current scale of our business with respect to rates of customer subscription renewals and cannot be certain of how actual renewal rates will compare to what we anticipate. Our renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including our customers’ satisfaction with our pricing or our solutions or their ability to continue their operations or spending levels. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions for our solutions on similar pricing terms, our revenues may decline and our business could suffer.
Additionally, as the markets for our solutions develop, we may be unable to attract new customers based on the same subscription model we have used historically. Moreover, large or influential FI customers may demand more favorable pricing or other contract terms from us. As a result, we may in the future be required to change our pricing model, reduce our prices, or accept other unfavorable contract terms, any of which could adversely affect our revenues, gross margin, profitability, financial position, and/or cash flow.
Our business faces significant risks from diverse security threats. A breach of our security measures or those we rely on could result in unauthorized access to customer or their clients’ data, which may materially and adversely impact our reputation, business, and results of operations.
Certain elements of our solutions, particularly our analytics applications, process and store personally identifiable information (“PII”) such as banking and personal information of our customers’ clients, and we may also have access to PII during various stages of the implementation process or during the course of providing customer support. Furthermore, as we develop or acquire additional functionality, such as nCino Mortgage, we may gain greater access to PII. We maintain policies, procedures, and technological safeguards designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this information and our information technology systems. However, we and our third party service providers, frequently defend against and respond to data security incidents. We cannot entirely eliminate the risk of improper or unauthorized access to or disclosure of PII or other security events that impact the integrity or availability of PII or our systems and operations, or the related costs we may incur to mitigate the consequences from such events. Further, our products are flexible and complex software solutions and there is a risk that configurations of, or defects in, our solutions or errors in implementation could create vulnerabilities to security breaches. There may be continued unlawful attempts to disrupt or gain access to our information technology systems or the PII or other data of our customers or their clients that may disrupt our or our customers’ operations. In addition, because we leverage third-party providers, including cloud, software, data center, and other critical technology vendors to deliver our solutions to our customers and their clients, we rely heavily on the data security technology practices and policies adopted by these third-party providers. A vulnerability in a third-party provider’s software or systems, a failure of our third-party
providers’ safeguards, policies or procedures, or a breach of a third-party provider’s software or systems could result in the compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of our systems or the data housed in our solutions.
Cyberattacks and other malicious internet-based activity, including increased threats from the use of artificial intelligence, continue to increase and evolve, and cloud-based providers of products and services have been and are expected to continue to be targeted. In addition to traditional computer “hackers,” malicious code (such as viruses and worms), phishing, employee theft or misuse, and denial-of-service attacks, sophisticated criminal networks as well as nation-state and nation-state supported actors now engage in attacks, including advanced persistent threat intrusions. Current or future criminal capabilities, discovery of existing or new vulnerabilities, and attempts to exploit those vulnerabilities or other developments, may compromise or breach our systems or solutions. In the event our or our third-party providers’ protection efforts are unsuccessful and our systems or solutions are compromised, we could suffer substantial harm. A security breach could result in operational disruptions, loss, compromise or corruption of customer or client data or data we rely on to provide our solutions, including our analytics initiatives and offerings that impair our ability to provide our solutions and meet our customers’ requirements resulting in decreased revenues and otherwise materially negatively impacting our financial results. Also, our reputation could suffer irreparable harm, causing our current and prospective customers to decline to use our solutions in the future. Further, we could be forced to expend significant financial and operational resources in response to a security breach, including repairing system damage, increasing security protection costs by deploying additional personnel and protection technologies, and defending against and resolving legal and regulatory claims, all of which could be costly and divert resources and the attention of our management and key personnel away from our business operations.
Federal and state regulations may require us or our customers to notify individuals of data security incidents involving certain types of personal data or information technology systems, and those laws and regulations continue to evolve to add more reporting requirements on faster timelines. Security compromises experienced by others in our industry, our customers, or us may lead to public disclosures and widespread negative publicity. Any security compromise in our industry, whether actual or perceived, could erode customer confidence in the effectiveness of our security measures, negatively impact our ability to attract new customers, cause existing customers to elect not to renew or expand their use of our solutions, or subject us to third-party lawsuits, regulatory fines, or other actions or liabilities, which could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
In addition, some of our customers contractually require notification of data security compromises and include representations and warranties in their contracts with us that our solutions comply with certain legal and technical standards related to data security and privacy and meets certain service levels. In certain of our contracts, a data security compromise or operational disruption impacting us or one of our critical vendors, or system unavailability or damage due to other circumstances, may constitute a material breach and give rise to a customer’s right to terminate their contract with us. In these circumstances, it may be difficult or impossible to cure such a breach in order to prevent customers from potentially terminating their contracts with us. Furthermore, although our customer contracts typically include limitations on our potential liability, there can be no assurance that such limitations of liability would be adequate. We also cannot be sure that our existing general liability insurance coverage and coverage for errors or omissions will be available on acceptable terms or will be available in sufficient amounts to cover one or more claims, or that our insurers will not deny or attempt to deny coverage as to any future claim. The successful assertion of one or more claims against us, the inadequacy or denial of coverage under our insurance policies, litigation to pursue claims under our policies, or the occurrence of changes in our insurance policies, including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or coinsurance requirements, could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
As cyber threats have evolved and continue to evolve, vulnerabilities in our solutions and information technology systems have been and will in the future be detected, and we expect to expend additional resources to continue to modify or enhance our layers of defense to remediate such vulnerabilities. System enhancements and updates create risks associated with implementing new systems and integrating them with existing ones, including risks associated with the effectiveness of our, our customers' and our third-party providers' software development lifecycles. Due to the complexity and interconnectedness of our systems and solutions, the process of enhancing our layers of defense, including addressing hardware-based vulnerabilities, can itself create a risk of systems disruptions and security issues. Customer utilization of older versions of our solutions can increase the risk and complexity of security vulnerabilities and the resources and time required to address them.
Fundamental elements of the nCino Bank Operating System are built on the Salesforce Platform and we rely on our agreement with Salesforce to provide this solution to our customers.
Fundamental elements of the nCino Bank Operating System, including our client onboarding, loan origination, and deposit account opening applications, are built on the Salesforce Platform and we rely on our agreement with Salesforce to use
the Salesforce Platform in conjunction with this solution, including for hosting infrastructure and data center operations. Any termination of our relationship with Salesforce would result in a materially adverse impact on our business model.
Our agreement with Salesforce expires on January 31, 2031, unless earlier terminated by either party in the event of the other party’s material breach, bankruptcy, change in control in favor of a direct competitor, or intellectual property infringement, and automatically renews for additional one-year periods thereafter unless notice of non-renewal is provided. If we are unable to renew our agreement with Salesforce, there would be, absent a termination for cause, a wind-down period during which existing customers would be able to continue using the nCino Bank Operating System in conjunction with the Salesforce Platform, but we would be unable to provide this solution to new customers and could be limited in our ability to allow current customers to add additional users. In addition, if we are unable to renew our agreement with Salesforce, our customers would need to obtain a separate subscription from Salesforce in order to access the nCino Bank Operating System. This could cause a significant delay in the time required to enter into agreements with customers, place us and our customers at a disadvantage in negotiating with Salesforce, and lead customers not to renew or enter into agreements with us. We also cannot assure you that the pricing or other terms in any renewal with Salesforce would be favorable to us, and if they are not, our business and operating results may be materially and adversely affected.
In addition, Salesforce has the right to terminate their agreement with us in certain circumstances, including in the event of a material breach by us. If Salesforce terminates our agreement for cause, it would not be required to provide the wind-down period described above. We are also required to indemnify Salesforce for claims made against Salesforce by a third party alleging that the nCino Bank Operating System infringes the intellectual property rights of such third party.
An expiration or termination of our agreement with Salesforce would cause us to incur significant time and expense to acquire rights to, or develop, a replacement solution and we may not be successful in these efforts, which could cause the nCino Bank Operating System to become obsolete. Even if we were to successfully acquire or develop a replacement solution, some customers may decide not to adopt such solution and may, as a result, decide to use a different product. If we were unsuccessful in acquiring or developing a replacement solution or acquire or develop a replacement solution that our customers do not adopt, our business, results of operations, and brand would be materially and adversely affected.
Furthermore, there are no exclusivity arrangements in place with Salesforce that would prevent them from developing their own offerings that compete directly with ours, acquiring a company with offerings similar to ours, or investing greater resources in our competitors. While we believe our relationship with Salesforce is strong, Salesforce competing with us could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Privacy and data security concerns, data collection and transfer restrictions and related domestic or foreign regulations may limit the use and adoption of our solutions and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Personal privacy, information security, and data protection are significant issues in the U.S., the European Union (“EU”), the United Kingdom ("UK") and a number of other jurisdictions where we offer our solutions. The regulatory framework governing the collection, processing, storage, and use of certain information, particularly financial and other PII, is rapidly evolving. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with applicable privacy, security, or data protection laws, regulations, or industry standards may materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We expect that there will continue to be new proposed and adopted laws, regulations, and industry standards concerning privacy, data protection, and information security in the U.S., the EU, and other jurisdictions in which we operate. For instance, the California Consumer Privacy Act (the "CCPA") became effective on January 1, 2020. The CCPA gives California residents expanded rights to access and delete their personal information, receive detailed information about how their personal information is used and shared by requiring covered companies to provide new disclosures to California consumers (as that term is broadly defined), and provide such consumers rights to opt-out of certain sales of personal information. The CCPA provides for potential civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that is expected to increase data breach litigation. The California Privacy Rights Act (the "CPRA"), which expands the CCPA, passed in November 2020 and went into effect on January 1, 2023, potentially requiring still to be determined additional compliance investment and potential business process changes. Among other things, the CPRA imposes additional data protection obligations on companies doing business in California, including additional consumer rights processes, limitations on data uses, new audit requirements for higher risk data, and opt outs for certain uses of sensitive data. It has also created a new California data protection agency authorized to issue substantive regulations which could result in increased privacy and information security enforcement. Additionally, other U.S. states are proposing and enacting laws and regulations that impose obligations similar to the CCPA or that otherwise involve significant obligations and restrictions. If passed, such laws will
require additional resources to ensure compliance, and may have potentially conflicting requirements that would make compliance challenging.
Privacy and cybersecurity laws continue to evolve to impose ever stricter standards for the collection, use, dissemination and security of personally identifiable information, including financial information. Actual, potential, or perceived violations of such laws could result in regulatory investigations, fines, orders to cease/change our use of such technologies and processing of personal data, as well as civil claims including class actions, reputational damage and ongoing compliance costs, any of which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition. Moreover, federal, and state regulation around artificial intelligence may be expected in the near future, including developments in response to the recent Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence issued on October 30, 2023.
Similarly, the European Economic Area (the "EEA") (comprised of the EU Member States and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (the "EU GDPR") in May 2018 and the UK implemented the EU GDPR by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 which sits alongside the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (known as the "UK GDPR", and together with the "EU GDPR", the "GDPR"). The GDPR has a direct effect where an entity is established in the EEA or the UK and has extra-territorial effect where an entity established outside of the EEA or UK processes personal data in relation to the offering of goods or services to individuals in the EEA and/or the UK or the monitoring of their behavior. The GDPR imposes a number of obligations on controllers, including, among others: (i) accountability and transparency requirements which require controllers to demonstrate and record compliance with the GDPR and to provide more detailed information to data subjects regarding processing; (ii) enhanced requirements for obtaining valid consent where consent is the lawful basis for processing; (iii) obligations to consider data protection as any new products or services are developed and to limit the amount of personal data processed; (iv) obligations to comply with data protection rights of data subjects including a right of access to and rectification of personal data, a right to obtain restriction of processing or to object to processing of personal data and a right to ask for a copy of personal data to be provided to a third party in a useable format and erasing personal data in certain circumstances and the right not to be subject to solely automated decision-making; (v) obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard personal data; and (vi) obligations to report certain personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority without undue delay (and no later than 72 hours where feasible) and affected individuals, where the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms. Processors are required to notify the controller without undue delay after becoming aware of a personal data breach.
In addition, the EU GDPR prohibits the international transfer of personal data from the EEA to countries outside of the EEA unless made to a country deemed to have adequate data privacy laws by the European Commission or a data transfer mechanism in accordance with the EU GDPR has been put in place or a derogation under the EU GDPR can be relied on. In July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "CJEU") in its Schrems II ruling invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, a self-certification mechanism that facilitated the lawful transfer of personal data from the EEA to the U.S., with immediate effect. The CJEU upheld the validity of standard contractual clauses ("SCCs") as a legal mechanism to transfer personal data but companies relying on SCCs will need to carry out a transfer privacy impact assessment ("TIA") which, among other things, assesses laws governing access to personal data in the recipient country and considers whether supplementary measures that provide privacy protections additional to those provided under SCCs will need to be implemented to ensure an ‘essentially equivalent’ level of data protection to that afforded in the EEA. The EU and U.S. governments have recently advanced the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework to foster EU-to-U.S. data transfers and address the concerns raised in the aforementioned CJEU decision, but it is uncertain whether this framework will be overturned in court like the previous two EU-U.S. bilateral cross-border transfer mechanism to replace the EU-US Privacy Shield framework. The UK GDPR imposes similar restrictions on transfers of personal data from the UK to jurisdictions that the UK does not consider adequate. The UK Government has published its own form of the EU SCCs, known as the International Data Transfer Agreement and an International Data Transfer Addendum to the new EU SCCs. The UK Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") has also published its own version of the TIA and guidance on international transfers, although entities may choose to adopt either the EU or UK-style TIA. Further, on September 21, 2023, the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology established a UK-U.S. data bridge (i.e., a UK equivalent of the Adequacy Decision) and adopted UK regulations to implement the UK-U.S. data bridge ("UK Adequacy Regulations"). Personal data may now be transferred from the UK under the UK-U.S. data bridge through the UK extension to the DPF to organizations self-certified under the UK extension to DPF. This may have implications for our cross-border data flows and may result in additional compliance costs.
The GDPR also introduces fines of up to €20 million (under the EU GDPR) or £17.5 million (under the UK GDPR) or up to 4% of the annual global revenue of the noncompliant company, whichever is greater, for serious violations of certain of the GDPR’s requirements. The GDPR identifies a list of points to consider when determining the level of fines to impose (including the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement). Data subjects also have a right to compensation for financial or non-financial losses (e.g., distress). Complying with the GDPR may cause us to incur substantial operational and compliance costs or require us to change our business practices. Despite our efforts to bring practices into compliance with the GDPR, we
may not be successful either due to internal or external factors such as resource allocation limitations or a lack of vendor cooperation. Non-compliance could result in proceedings against us by governmental entities, regulators, customers, data subjects, suppliers, vendors or other parties. Further, there is a risk that the measures will not be implemented correctly or that individuals within the business will not be fully compliant with the new procedures. If there are breaches of these measures, we could face significant administrative and monetary sanctions as well as reputational damage which may have a material adverse effect on our operations, financial condition and prospects.
The E.U. has also proposed the draft ePrivacy Regulation which, once finalized and in effect, will replace both the ePrivacy Directive and all the national laws implementing this Directive. The ePrivacy Regulation, as proposed in its current form, would impose strict opt-in marketing rules, change rules about the use of cookies, web beacons, and related technologies, and significantly increase penalties for violations. It would also retain the additional consent standards as required under the EU GDPR. Such regulations may have a negative effect on businesses, including ours, that collect, process, and use personal data in the EU and UK, including online usage information for consumer acquisition and marketing and may increase the potential civil liability and cost of operating a business that collects, processes, or uses such information and undertakes online marketing.
From a cybersecurity perspective, the GDPR does not provide for a specific set of cybersecurity requirements or measures to be implemented, but rather requires a controller or processor to implement appropriate cyber and data security measures in accordance with the then-current risk, the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing. The GDPR however does explicitly require that controllers notify personal data breaches as described above.
On January 17, 2023, the EU Network and Information Systems Security 2 Directive (“NISD2”) entered into force and will take full effect following implementation into EU Member State law (i.e., by October 17, 2024). Under the NISD2, more stringent cybersecurity and incident reporting requirements are imposed on ‘essential’ and ‘important’ entities, which include information and communication technology (“ICT”) managed service providers.
NISD2 states that any maximum fine which national implementing law provides for should at least be set at €10 million or 2% of total worldwide turnover, whichever is higher, where essential entities are concerned. Other sanctions may include (i) a temporary suspension to provide services in the EU (by suspending relevant authorizations/certifications); (ii) an order to make public certain elements of the infringement and/or inform customers; and (iii) injunctions to immediately cease infringing conduct. Importantly, NISD2 also provides that senior members of staff can be held personally liable, and face administrative fines or be temporarily suspended from exercising managerial functions at the legal representative or chief executive officer level.
On January 16, 2023, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”) entered into force and will apply from January 17, 2025. DORA imposes regulatory obligations to reinforce the digital operational resilience of entities operating in the financial services industry, and to adequately manage and remediate risks related to the engagement of ICT third-party service providers. DORA only imposes direct regulatory obligations on ICT third-party service providers that are considered ‘critical’ within the meaning of DORA. Non-critical ICT third-party service providers are only indirectly impacted by DORA, by virtue of the mandatory contractual terms that DORA requires financial entities to implement with ICT third-party service providers.
DORA does not provide for minimum or maximum monetary sanctions but empowers EU Member State competent authorities to enforce DORA and determine the appropriate sanction on the basis of the factors set out in DORA, including the gravity and duration of the infringement. Sanctions may be administrative or criminal in nature, and DORA also provides that individual members of the management body can be held personally liable for any non-compliance.
We cannot yet fully determine the impact these or future laws, rules, and regulations may have on our business or operations. Any such laws, rules, and regulations may be inconsistent among different jurisdictions, subject to differing interpretations or may conflict with our current or future practices. Additionally, we may be bound by contractual requirements applicable to our collection, use, processing, and disclosure of various types of information including financial and PII, and may be bound by, or voluntarily comply with, self-regulatory or other industry standards relating to these matters that may further change as laws, rules, and regulations evolve.
Any failure or perceived failure by us, or any third parties with which we do business, to comply with these laws, rules, and regulations, or with other obligations to which we or such third parties are or may become subject, may result in actions or other claims against us by governmental entities or private actors, the expenditure of substantial costs, time, and other
resources, or the incurrence of fines, penalties, or other liabilities. There is also a risk that we could be impacted by a cybersecurity incident that results in loss or unauthorized disclosure of personal data, potentially resulting in us facing harms similar to those described above. In addition, any such action, particularly to the extent we were found to be guilty of violations or otherwise liable for damages, would damage our reputation and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Because we recognize subscription revenues over the term of the contract, downturns or upturns in our business may not be reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
We generally recognize subscription revenues ratably over the terms of our customer contracts. Most of the subscription revenues we report each quarter are derived from the recognition of deferred revenue relating to subscriptions activated in previous quarters. Consequently, a reduction in activated subscriptions in any single quarter may only have a small impact on our subscription revenues for that quarter. However, such a decline will negatively affect our subscription revenues in future quarters. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales or market acceptance of our solutions may not be apparent in our current-quarter revenues or reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
The markets in which we participate are intensely competitive and highly fragmented, and pricing pressure, new technologies or other competitive dynamics could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We currently compete with providers of technology and services in the financial services industry, primarily point solution vendors that focus on building functionality that competes with specific components of our solutions. From time to time, we also compete with systems internally developed by FIs. Many of our competitors have significantly more financial, technical, marketing and other resources than we have, may devote greater resources to the development, promotion, sale and support of their systems than we can, have more extensive customer bases and broader customer relationships than we have and have longer operating histories and greater name recognition than we do.
We may also face competition from new companies entering our markets, which may include large established businesses that decide to develop, market or resell cloud-based banking technology, acquire one of our competitors or form a strategic alliance with one of our competitors or with Salesforce. In addition, new companies entering our markets may choose to offer cloud-based banking applications at little or no additional cost to the customer by bundling them with their existing applications, including adjacent banking technologies. Competition from these new entrants may make attracting new customers and retaining our current customers more difficult, which may adversely affect our results of operations.
If we are unable to compete in this environment, sales and renewals of the nCino Bank Operating System could decline and adversely affect our business and results of operations. With the introduction of new technologies and potential new entrants into the cloud-based banking technology market, we expect competition to intensify in the future, which could harm our ability to increase sales and achieve profitability.
Our increased focus on the development and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in our solutions and our business, as well as our potential failure to effectively implement, use, and market these technologies, may result in reputational harm or liability, or could otherwise adversely affect our business.
We envision a future where artificial intelligence and machine learning is embedded throughout nCino’s platform to help our customers maximize their productivity. We have incorporated and may continue to incorporate AI/ML solutions and features into our solutions, and otherwise within our business, and these solutions and features may become more important to our operations or to our future growth over time. There can be no assurance that we will realize the desired or anticipated benefits from AI/ML, or at all, and we may fail to properly implement or market our AI/ML solutions and features. Our competitors may incorporate AI/ML into their products, offerings, and solutions more quickly or more successfully than we do, which could impair our ability to compete effectively, and adversely affect our results of operations. Additionally, our AI/ML solutions and features may expose us to additional claims, demands, and proceedings by private parties and regulatory authorities and subject us to legal liability as well as brand and reputational harm. The legal, regulatory, and policy environments around AI/ML are evolving rapidly, and we may become subject to new legal and other obligations in connection with our use of AI/ML, which could require us to make significant changes to our policies and practices, necessitating expenditure of significant time, expense, and other resources. For example, in the EU/UK, laws and regulation regarding AI are developing at a fast pace. On March 13, 2024 the EU adopted its standalone law to govern the offering and use of AI systems in the EU (the "AI Act") and the UK intends to regulate AI via a sector-specific, principle-centered approach.
We depend on data centers operated by or on behalf of Salesforce, Amazon Web Services ("AWS"), and other third parties, and any disruption in the operation of these facilities could adversely affect our business and subject us to liability.
Our solutions are primarily hosted in data centers operated by or on behalf of Salesforce, AWS, and other third parties and we do not control the operation of these data centers. Problems associated with these data centers could adversely affect the experience of our customers. Any disruptions or other operational performance problems with these data centers could result in material interruptions in our services, adversely affect our reputation and results of operations, and subject us to liability.
We may acquire or invest in companies, or pursue business partnerships, which may divert our management’s attention or result in dilution to our stockholders, and we may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions, investments, or partnerships.
From time to time, we consider potential strategic transactions, including acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, technologies, services, solutions, and other assets. For example, in March 2024 we announced our acquisition of DocFox and in fiscal 2022, we acquired SimpleNexus, our largest acquisition to date. We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our solutions, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution, discount pricing, or investments in other companies. Negotiating these transactions can be time-consuming, difficult, and expensive, and our ability to close these transactions may be subject to approvals that are beyond our control. For instance, we incurred significant costs in connection with the SimpleNexus acquisition. In addition, nCino has limited experience in acquiring other businesses. If an acquired business fails to meet our expectations, our operating results, business, and financial position may suffer. We may not be able to find and identify desirable acquisition targets, we may incorrectly estimate the value of an acquisition target, and we may not be successful in entering into an agreement with any particular target. If we are successful in acquiring additional businesses we may not achieve the anticipated benefits from the acquired business due to a number of factors, including:
•our inability to integrate or benefit from acquired technologies or services;
•unanticipated costs or liabilities associated with the acquisition;
•incurrence of acquisition-related costs;
•difficulty integrating the technology, accounting systems, operations, control environments, and personnel of the acquired business and integrating the acquired business or its employees into our culture;
•difficulties and additional expenses associated with supporting legacy solutions and infrastructure of the acquired business;
•difficulty converting the customers of the acquired business to our solutions and contract terms, including disparities in terms;
•additional costs for the support or professional services model of the acquired company;
•diversion of management’s attention and other resources;
•adverse effects to our existing business relationships with business partners and customers;
•the issuance of additional equity securities that could dilute the ownership interests of our stockholders;
•incurrence of debt on terms unfavorable to us or that we are unable to repay;
•incurrence of substantial liabilities;
•difficulties retaining key employees of the acquired business; and
•adverse tax consequences, substantial depreciation, or deferred compensation charges.
In addition, a significant portion of the purchase price of companies we acquire may be allocated to acquired goodwill and other intangible assets, which must be assessed for impairment at least annually. In the future, if our acquisitions do not yield expected returns, we may be required to take charges to our operating results based on this impairment assessment process, which could adversely affect our results of operations.
Our customers are highly regulated and subject to a number of challenges and risks. Our failure to comply with laws and regulations applicable to us as a technology provider to FIs could adversely affect our business and results of operations, increase costs, and impose constraints on the way we conduct our business.
Our customers and prospective customers are highly regulated and are generally required to comply with stringent regulations in connection with performing business functions that our solutions address. As a provider of technology to FIs, we have been, and expect to continue to be, examined on a periodic basis by various regulatory agencies and may be required to review certain of our suppliers and partners. In addition, while much of our operations are not directly subject to the same regulations applicable to FIs, we are generally obligated to our customers to provide software solutions and maintain internal systems and processes that comply with certain federal and state regulations applicable to them. For example, as a result of obligations under some of our customer contracts, we are required to comply with certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA") related to the privacy of consumer information and may be subject to other privacy and data security laws because of the solutions we provide to FIs. The GLBA includes limitations on FI's disclosure of nonpublic personal information about a consumer to nonaffiliated third parties, in certain circumstances requiring FIs to limit the use and further disclosure of nonpublic personal information to nonaffiliated third parties and requiring FIs to safeguard nonpublic personal information. Banking regulations for information security and breach notification also impose obligations on us due to our relationships with customers that increase our information security obligations and customers may impose additional information security standards upon us, such as those relating to the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation. Matters subject to review and examination by federal and state FI regulatory agencies and external auditors include our internal information technology controls in connection with our performance of data processing services, the agreements giving rise to those processing activities, and the design of our solutions. Any inability to satisfy these examinations and maintain compliance with applicable regulations could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business, including attracting and maintaining customers. If we have to make changes to our internal processes and solutions as result of these regulations, we could be required to invest substantial additional time and funds and divert time and resources from other corporate purposes to remedy any identified deficiency.
The evolving, complex, and often unpredictable regulatory environment in which our customers operate could result in our failure to provide compliant solutions, which could result in customers not purchasing our solutions or terminating their contracts with us or the imposition of fines or other liabilities for which we may be responsible. In addition, federal, state, and/or foreign agencies may attempt to further regulate our activities in the future which could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Any legal proceedings against us could adversely affect our operations and prospects, damage our reputation, and be costly and time-consuming to defend.
We are presently subject to a purported stockholder derivative lawsuit alleging violation of fiduciary duties with the series of mergers in which we became the parent of nCino OpCo and SimpleNexus. The court dismissed these claims and that decision is currently under appeal. We may, in the future, become subject, from time to time, to other legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, such as claims brought by our customers in connection with commercial disputes or employment claims made by current or former employees. Legal proceedings might result in damages and harm to our operations and prospects, reputational damage, substantial costs, and may divert management’s attention and resources, which might adversely impact our business, overall financial condition, and results of operations. Insurance might not cover such claims, might not provide sufficient payments to cover all the costs to resolve one or more such claims, and might not continue to be available on terms acceptable to us. Moreover, any negative impact to our reputation will not be adequately covered by any insurance recovery. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or underinsured could result in unanticipated costs, thereby reducing our results of operations and leading analysts or potential investors to reduce their expectations of our performance, which could reduce the value of our common stock.
Our corporate culture has contributed to our success, and if we cannot maintain it as we grow, we could lose the innovation, creativity and teamwork fostered by our culture, and our business may be adversely affected.
We believe our corporate culture is one of our fundamental strengths, as we believe it enables us to attract and retain top talent and deliver superior results for our customers. As we grow, we may find it difficult to preserve our corporate
culture, which could reduce our ability to innovate and operate effectively. In turn, the failure to preserve our culture could negatively affect our ability to attract, recruit, integrate and retain employees, continue to perform at current levels and effectively execute our business strategy.
We may encounter implementation challenges, including in situations in which we rely on SIs, which would materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We may face unexpected challenges related to the complexity of our customers’ implementation and configuration requirements. Implementation of our solutions may be delayed or expenses may increase when customers have unexpected data, software, or technology challenges, or unanticipated business requirements, which could adversely affect our relationship with customers and our operating results. In general, the revenues related to implementation and other professional services we provide are recognized on a proportional performance basis, and delays and difficulties in these engagements could result in losses on these contracts. In addition, our customers often require complex acceptance testing related to the implementation of our solutions. We also leverage the services of SIs, including Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and West Monroe Partners, among others, to implement and configure the nCino Bank Operating System for our larger FI customers, while we have historically performed professional services for smaller FIs ourselves. While SI partners generally contract directly with our customers, any failure or delay by the SI partners we work with in providing adequate service and support would likely adversely affect our brand and reputation. For implementations we conduct ourselves, project delays may result in recognizing revenues later than expected. Further, because we do not fully control our customers’ implementation schedules, if our customers do not allocate the internal resources necessary to meet implementation timelines or if there are unanticipated implementation delays or difficulties, our ability to take customers live and the overall customer experience could be adversely affected. We rely on existing customers to act as references for prospective customers, and difficulties in implementation and configuration could therefore adversely affect our ability to attract new customers. Any difficulties or delays in implementation processes could cause customers to delay or forego future purchases of our solutions.
We have experienced rapid growth, and if we fail to manage our growth effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of service and customer satisfaction, or adequately address competitive challenges, any of which may materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Since our inception, our business has grown rapidly, which has resulted in a large increase in our employee headcount, expansion of our infrastructure, enhancement of our internal systems, and other significant changes and additional complexities. Our revenues increased from $273.9 million for fiscal 2022 to $408.3 million for fiscal 2023 to $476.5 million for fiscal 2024. Our revenues include the revenues of SimpleNexus from the date of acquisition on January 7, 2022. Our total number of employees increased from 436 as of January 31, 2018 to 1,653 as of January 31, 2024. Managing and sustaining a growing workforce and customer base geographically-dispersed in the U.S. and internationally requires substantial management effort, infrastructure, and operational capabilities. To support our growth, we must continue to improve our management resources and our operational and financial controls and systems, and these improvements may increase our expenses more than anticipated and result in a more complex business. We also have to expand and enhance the capabilities of our sales, relationship management, implementation, customer service, research and development, and other personnel to support our growth and continue to achieve high levels of customer service and satisfaction. Our success depends on our ability to plan for and manage this growth effectively. If we fail to anticipate and manage our growth or are unable to continue to provide high levels of customer service, our reputation, as well as our business and results of operations, could be materially and adversely affected.
Defects, errors, or other performance problems in our solutions could harm our reputation, result in significant costs to us, impair our ability to sell our solutions, and subject us to substantial liability.
Our solutions are complex and may contain defects or errors when implemented or when new functionality is released. Despite extensive testing, from time to time we have discovered, and may in the future discover, defects or errors in our solutions. Any performance problems or defects in our solutions may materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations. Defects, errors, or other performance problems or disruptions in service to provide bug fixes or upgrades, whether in connection with day-to-day operations or otherwise, could be costly for us, damage our customers’ businesses, and harm our reputation. In addition, if we have any such errors, defects, or other performance problems, our customers could seek to terminate their contracts, elect not to renew their subscriptions, delay or withhold payment, or make claims against us. Any of these actions could result in liability, lost business, increased insurance costs, difficulty in collecting accounts receivable, costly litigation, or adverse publicity. Errors, defects, or other problems could also result in reduced sales or a loss of, or delay in, the market acceptance of our solutions.
If we fail to accurately anticipate and respond to rapid changes in the industry in which we operate, our ability to attract and retain customers could be impaired and our competitive position could be harmed.
The financial services industry is subject to rapid change and the introduction of new technologies to meet the needs of this industry will continue to have a significant effect on competitive conditions in our market. If we are unable to successfully expand our product offerings beyond our current solutions, our customers could migrate to competitors who may offer a broader or more attractive range of products and services. For example, in fiscal 2022, we launched our Commercial Pricing and Profitability solution, powered by nIQ, and we may fail to achieve market acceptance of this offering. Unexpected delays in releasing new or enhanced versions of our solutions, or errors following their release, could result in loss of sales, delay in market acceptance, or customer claims against us, any of which could adversely affect our business. The success of any new solution depends on several factors, including timely completion, adequate quality testing, and market acceptance. We may not be able to enhance aspects of our solutions successfully or introduce and gain market acceptance of new applications or improvements in a timely manner, or at all. Additionally, we must continually modify and enhance our solutions to keep pace with changes in software applications, database technology, and evolving technical standards and interfaces. Uncertainties related to our ability to introduce and improve functionality, announcements or introductions of a new or updated solution, or modifications by our competitors could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We leverage third-party software, content, and services for use with our solutions. Performance issues, errors and defects, or failure to successfully integrate or license necessary third-party software, content, or services, could cause delays, errors, or failures of our solutions, increases in our expenses, and reductions in our sales, which could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We use software and content licensed from, and services provided by, a variety of third parties in connection with the operation of our solutions. Any performance issues, errors, bugs, or defects in third-party software, content, or services could result in errors or a failure of our solutions, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations. In the future, we might need to license other software, content, or services to enhance our solutions and meet evolving customer demands and requirements. Any limitations in our ability to use third-party software, content, or services could significantly increase our expenses and otherwise result in delays, a reduction in functionality, or errors or failures of our solutions until equivalent technology or content is either developed by us or, if available, identified, obtained through purchase or license, and integrated into our solutions. In addition, third-party licenses may expose us to increased risks, including risks associated with the integration of new technology, the diversion of resources from the development of our own proprietary technology, and our inability to generate revenues from new technology sufficient to offset associated acquisition and maintenance costs, all of which may increase our expenses and materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We may fail to successfully expand internationally. In addition, sales to customers outside the U.S. or with international operations expose us to risks inherent in international sales, which may include a marked increase in expenses.
For the fiscal years ended January 31, 2022, 2023, and 2024, sales to customers outside the U.S. accounted for 15.9%, 15.1% and 18.7%, respectively, of our total revenues. Our revenues include the revenues of SimpleNexus from the date of acquisition on January 7, 2022. A key element of our growth strategy is to further expand our international operations and worldwide customer base. We have expended significant resources to build out our sales and professional services organizations outside of the U.S. and we may not realize a suitable return on this investment in the near future, if at all. We have limited operating experience in international markets, and we cannot assure you that our international expansion efforts will be successful. Our experience in the U.S. may not be relevant to our ability to expand in any international market.
Operating in international markets requires significant resources and management attention and subjects us to regulatory, economic, and political risks that are different from those in the U.S. Export control regulations in the U.S. may increasingly be implicated in our operations as we expand internationally. These regulations may limit the export of our solutions and provision of our solutions outside of the U.S., or may require export authorizations, including by license, a license exception, or other appropriate government authorizations, including annual or semi-annual reporting and the filing of an encryption registration. Changes in export or import laws, or corresponding sanctions, may delay the introduction and sale of our solutions in international markets, or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our solutions to certain countries, regions, governments, persons, or entities altogether, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We are also subject to various domestic and international anti-corruption laws, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act, as well as other similar anti-bribery and anti-kickback laws and regulations. These laws and regulations generally prohibit companies and their employees and intermediaries from authorizing, offering, or providing
improper payments or benefits to officials and other recipients for improper purposes. Although we take precautions to prevent violations of these laws, our exposure for violating these laws increases as our international presence expands and as we increase sales and operations in foreign jurisdictions.
In addition, we face risks in doing business internationally that could adversely affect our business, including:
•unanticipated costs;
•the need to localize and adapt our solutions for specific countries;
•complying with varying and sometimes conflicting data privacy laws and regulations;
•difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations, including employment laws and regulations;
•unstable regional, economic, or political conditions;
•different pricing environments, longer sales cycles, and collections issues;
•new and different sources of competition;
•weaker protection for intellectual property and other legal rights than in the U.S. and practical difficulties in enforcing intellectual property and other rights outside of the U.S.;
•laws and business practices favoring local competitors;
•compliance challenges related to the complexity of multiple, conflicting, and changing governmental laws and regulations, including employment, tax, and anti-bribery laws and regulations;
•increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;
•restrictions on the transfer of funds; and
•adverse tax consequences.
Our international contracts often provide for payment denominated in local currencies, and the majority of our local costs are denominated in local currencies. Therefore, fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies may impact our results of operations when translated into U.S. dollars. We do not currently engage in currency hedging activities to limit the risk of exchange rate fluctuations.
The failure to attract and retain additional qualified personnel could prevent us from executing our business strategy.
We must attract and retain highly qualified personnel. In particular, we are dependent upon the services of our senior leadership team, and the loss of any member of this team could adversely affect our business. Competition for executive officers, software developers, sales personnel, and other key employees in our industry is intense. In particular, we compete with many other companies for software developers with high levels of experience in designing, developing, and managing cloud-based software, as well as for skilled sales and operations professionals. Our principal operations are in Wilmington, North Carolina, where the pool of potential employees with the skills we need is more limited than it may be in larger markets, and we are sometimes required to induce prospective employees to relocate. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we do. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our growth prospects could be severely harmed. In addition, job candidates and existing employees often consider the actual and potential value of the equity awards they receive as part of their overall compensation. Thus, if the perceived value or future value of our stock declines, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees may be adversely affected.
Failure to effectively expand our sales capabilities could harm our ability to increase our customer base.
Increasing our customer base and expanding customer adoption within and across business lines will depend, to a significant extent, on our ability to effectively expand our sales and marketing operations and activities. We plan to continue to
expand our direct sales force both domestically and internationally for the foreseeable future. We believe that there is significant competition for experienced sales professionals with the sales skills and technical knowledge that we require. Newly hired employees require significant training and time before they achieve full productivity and they may not become as productive as quickly as we expect, if at all. Further, we may be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the future in the markets where we do business. Our business will be adversely affected if our sales expansion efforts do not generate a significant increase in revenues.
If we fail to provide effective customer training on our solutions and high-quality customer support, our business and reputation would suffer.
Effective customer training and high-quality, ongoing customer support are critical to the successful marketing, sale, and adoption of our solutions and for the renewal of existing customer contracts. As we grow our customer base, we will need to further invest in and expand our customer support and training organization, which could strain our team and infrastructure and reduce profit margins. If we do not help our customers adopt our solutions, quickly resolve any post-implementation matters, and provide effective ongoing customer support and training, our ability to expand sales to existing and future customers and our reputation would be adversely affected.
If we are unable to effectively integrate our solutions with other systems used by our customers, or if there are performance issues with such third-party systems, our solutions will not operate effectively and our business and reputation will be adversely affected.
Our solutions integrate with other third-party systems used by our customers, including core processing systems. We do not have formal arrangements with many of these third-party providers regarding our access to their application program interfaces to enable these customer integrations. If we are unable to effectively integrate with third-party systems, our customers’ operations may be disrupted, which may result in disputes with customers, negatively impact customer satisfaction and harm our business. If the software of such third-party providers has performance or other problems, such issues may reflect poorly on us and the adoption and renewal of our solutions, and our business and reputation may be harmed.
Our sales cycle can be unpredictable, time-consuming and costly.
Our sales process involves educating prospective customers and existing customers about the benefits and technical capabilities of our solutions. Prospective customers often undertake a prolonged evaluation process, which typically involves not only our solutions, but also those of our competitors. Our sales cycles are typically lengthy, generally ranging from six to nine months for smaller FIs and 12 to 18 months or more for larger FIs. We may spend substantial time, effort and money on our sales and marketing efforts without any assurance that our efforts will produce any sales. Events affecting our customers’ businesses may occur during the sales cycle that could affect the size or timing of a purchase, contributing to more unpredictability in our business and results of operations. As a result of these factors, we may face greater costs, longer sales cycles and less predictability in the future.
Failure to protect our proprietary technology and intellectual property rights could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Our future success and competitive position depend in part on our ability to protect our intellectual property and proprietary technologies. To safeguard these rights, we rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret laws and contractual protections in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, all of which provide only limited protection and may not now or in the future provide us with a competitive advantage.
As of January 31, 2024, we had 12 issued patents and one patent application pending relating to the nCino Bank Operating System in the U.S. We cannot assure you that any patents will issue from any patent applications, that patents that may be issued from such applications will give us the protection we seek or that any such patents will not be challenged, invalidated, or circumvented. Any patents that may issue in the future from our pending or future patent applications may not provide sufficiently broad protection and may not be enforceable in actions against alleged infringers. We have registered the “nCino” name and logo in the U.S. and certain other countries and we have registrations and/or pending applications for additional marks including “nIQ” in the U.S. and certain other countries. However, we cannot assure you that any future trademark registrations will be issued for pending or future applications or that any registered trademarks will be enforceable or provide adequate protection of our proprietary rights. We also license software from third parties for integration into our solutions, including open source software and other software available on commercially reasonable terms. We cannot assure you that such third parties will maintain such software or continue to make it available. We also rely on confidentiality
agreements, consulting agreements, work-for-hire agreements, and invention assignment agreements with our employees, consultants, and others.
Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary technology and trade secrets, unauthorized parties may attempt to misappropriate, reverse engineer, or otherwise obtain and use them. In addition, others may independently discover our trade secrets, in which case we would not be able to assert trade secret rights, or develop similar technologies and processes. Further, the contractual provisions that we enter into may not prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of our proprietary technology or intellectual property rights and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure of our proprietary technology or intellectual property rights. Moreover, policing unauthorized use of our technologies, trade secrets, and intellectual property is difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, particularly in foreign countries where the laws may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the U.S. and where mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be weak. We may be unable to determine the extent of any unauthorized use or infringement of our solutions, technologies, or intellectual property rights.
We use “open source” software in our solutions, which may restrict how we use or distribute our solutions, require that we release the source code of certain software subject to open source licenses, or subject us to litigation or other actions that could adversely affect our business.
We currently use in our solutions, and may use in the future, software that is licensed under “open source,” “free,” or other similar license, where the licensed software is made available to the general public on an “as-is” basis under the terms of a specific non-negotiable license. Some open source software licenses require that software subject to the license be made available to the public and that any modifications or derivative works based on the open source code be licensed in source code form under the same open source licenses. Although we monitor our use of open source software, we cannot assure you that all open source software is reviewed prior to use in our solutions, that our programmers have not incorporated open source software into our solutions, or that they will not do so in the future.
In addition, our solutions may incorporate third-party software under commercial licenses. We cannot be certain whether such third-party software incorporates open source software without our knowledge. In the past, companies that incorporate open source software into their products have faced claims alleging noncompliance with open source license terms or infringement or misappropriation of proprietary software. Therefore, we could be subject to suits by parties claiming noncompliance with open source licensing terms or infringement or misappropriation of proprietary software. Because few courts have interpreted open source licenses, the manner in which these licenses may be interpreted and enforced is subject to some uncertainty. There is a risk that open source software licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to market or provide our solutions. As a result of using open source software subject to such licenses, we could be required to release proprietary source code, pay damages, re-engineer our solutions, limit or discontinue sales, or take other remedial action, any of which could adversely affect our business.
Assertions by third parties of infringement or other violations by us of their intellectual property rights, whether or not correct, could result in significant costs and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Patent and other intellectual property disputes are common in our industry. We may be subject to claims in the future alleging that we have misappropriated, misused, or infringed other parties’ intellectual property rights. Some companies, including certain of our competitors, own a larger number of patents, copyrights, and trademarks than we do, which they may use to assert claims against us. This disparity may also increase the risk that third parties may sue us for patent infringement and may limit our ability to counterclaim for patent infringement or settle through patent cross-licenses. In addition, future assertions of patent rights by third parties, and any resulting litigation, may involve patent holding companies, non-practicing entities, or other adverse patent owners who have no relevant product revenues and against whom our own patents may provide little or no deterrence or protection. Our solutions utilize third-party licensed software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more of these licenses could adversely affect our business. Third parties may also assert claims of intellectual property rights infringement against our customers, whom we are typically required to indemnify. As competition increases, claims of infringement, misappropriation, and other violations of intellectual property rights may increase. Any claim of infringement, misappropriation, or other violation of intellectual property rights by a third party, even those without merit, could cause us to incur substantial costs defending against the claim, could distract our management from our business, and could deter customers or potential customers from purchasing our solutions.
There can be no assurance that we will successfully defend third-party intellectual property claims. An adverse outcome of a dispute may require us to:
•pay substantial damages, including treble damages, if we are found to have willfully infringed a third party’s patents or copyrights;
•cease developing or selling any elements of our solutions that rely on technology that is alleged to infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property of others;
•enter into potentially unfavorable royalty or license agreements in order to obtain the right to use necessary technologies or intellectual property rights;
•expend additional development resources to attempt to redesign our solutions or otherwise develop non-infringing technology, which may not be successful; and
•indemnify our customers and other third parties.
Any license we may enter into as a result of litigation may be non-exclusive, and therefore our competitors may have access to the same technology licensed to us. Any of the foregoing events could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Our ability to raise capital in a timely manner if needed in the future may be limited, or such capital may be unavailable on acceptable terms, if at all. Our failure to raise capital if needed could adversely affect our business and results of operations, and any debt or equity issued to raise additional capital may reduce the value of our common stock.
We have funded our operations since inception primarily through equity financings and receipts generated from customers. During our fiscal year 2023, we supplemented our liquidity with a revolving credit facility of up to $50.0 million (the "Credit Facility"). As of January 31, 2024, we had no amounts outstanding under our Credit Facility. In March 2024, we amended our Credit Facility and increased our borrowing availability to $100.0 million. We cannot be certain when or if our operations will generate sufficient cash to fund our ongoing operations or the growth of our business. We intend to continue to make investments to support our business and may require additional funds. Additional financing may not be available on favorable terms, if at all. If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to invest in future growth opportunities, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations. If we incur debt, including under the revolving line of credit, the lenders would have rights senior to holders of common stock to make claims on our assets, and the terms of any future debt could restrict our operations, and we may be unable to service or repay the debt. Furthermore, if we issue additional equity securities, stockholders may experience dilution, and the new equity securities could have rights senior to those of our common stock. Because our decision to issue securities in a future offering will depend on numerous considerations, including factors beyond our control, we cannot predict or estimate the impact any future incurrence of debt or issuance of equity securities will have on us. Any future incurrence of debt or issuance of equity securities could adversely affect the value of our common stock.
Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be limited.
We have incurred substantial net operating losses (“NOLs”), during our history. U.S. federal and certain state NOLs generated in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 are not subject to expiration. Federal NOLs generally may not be carried back to prior taxable years except that, under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, federal NOLs generated in tax years 2018, 2019, and 2020 may be carried back to each of the five taxable years preceding the taxable year in which the loss arises. Additionally, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2020, the deductibility of federal NOLs is limited to 80% of our taxable income in such taxable year. NOLs generated in tax years before 2018 may still be used to offset future taxable income without regard to the 80% limitation, although they have the potential to expire without being utilized if we do not achieve profitability in the future. However, under the rules of Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its NOLs, pre-change tax attributes and any net unrealized built-in losses to offset its post-change taxable income or taxes may be limited. The applicable rules generally operate by focusing on changes in ownership among stockholders considered by the rules as owning, directly or indirectly, 5% or more of the stock of a company, as well as changes in ownership arising from new issuances of stock by the company. The rules of Section 382 are regularly being evaluated to determine any potential limitations. If we experience one or more ownership changes as a result of future transactions in our stock, then we may be
limited in our ability to use our NOL carryforwards, pre-change tax attributes or deductions to offset our future taxable income, if any.
Amendments to existing tax laws, rules, or regulations, or enactment of new unfavorable tax laws, rules, or regulations could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.
The rules dealing with U.S. federal, state, and local income taxation are constantly under review by persons involved in the legislative process and by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department. Changes to tax laws (which changes may have retroactive application) could adversely affect us or holders of our common stock. In recent years, many such changes have been made and changes are likely to continue to occur in the future. For example, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted in 2017 and made a number of significant changes to the current U.S. federal income tax rules, including reducing the generally applicable corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, imposing additional limitations on the deductibility of interest, placing limits on the utilization of NOLs, and making substantial changes to the international tax rules. In addition, on March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was signed into law, which included certain changes in tax law intended to stimulate the U.S. economy in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, including temporary beneficial changes to the treatment of net operating losses, interest deductibility limitations, and payroll tax matters. Many of the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act still require guidance through the issuance and/or finalization of regulations by the U.S. Treasury Department in order to fully assess their effects, and there may be substantial delays before such regulations are promulgated and/or finalized, increasing the uncertainty as to the ultimate effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on us and our stockholders. There also may be technical corrections legislation or other legislative changes proposed with respect to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the effects of which cannot be predicted and may be adverse to us or our stockholders.
Risks Relating to Ownership of Our Common Stock
The market price of our common stock may be volatile or may decline steeply or suddenly regardless of our operating performance and we may not be able to meet investor or analyst expectations and you may lose all or part of your investment.
The market price of our common stock may fluctuate or decline significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
•variations between our actual operating results and the expectations of securities analysts, investors, and the financial community;
•any forward-looking financial or operating information we may provide to the public or securities analysts, any changes in this information, or our failure to meet expectations based on this information;
•actions of securities analysts who initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow us, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
•additional shares of our common stock being sold into the market by us or our existing stockholders, or the anticipation of such sales;
•hedging activities by market participants;
•announcements by us or our competitors of significant products or features, technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or capital commitments;
•changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of companies in our industry, including our competitors;
•price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole, including inflation and rising interest rates;
•lawsuits threatened or filed against us;
•developments in new legislation and pending lawsuits or regulatory actions, including interim or final rulings by judicial or regulatory bodies; and
•other events or factors, political conditions, election cycles, war or incidents of terrorism, or responses to these events.
In addition, extreme price and volume fluctuations in the stock markets have affected and continue to affect many technology companies’ stock prices. Stock prices often fluctuate in ways unrelated or disproportionate to a company’s operating performance. In the past, stockholders have filed securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and seriously harm our business.
Moreover, because of these fluctuations, comparing our operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. You should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance. This variability and unpredictability could also result in our failing to meet the expectations of industry or financial analysts or investors for any period. If our revenues or operating results fall below the expectations of analysts or investors or below any forecasts we may provide to the market, or if the forecasts we provide to the market are below the expectations of analysts or investors, the price of our common stock could decline substantially. Such a stock price decline could occur even when we have met any previously publicly stated revenue or earnings forecasts that we may provide.
Because one of our stockholders holds a substantial amount of our total outstanding common stock, the influence of our public stockholders over significant corporate actions is limited and sales by this stockholder could adversely affect the value of our common stock.
Based on the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of January 31, 2024, entities affiliated with Insight Partners (“Insight Partners”) holds approximately 34% of our total outstanding common stock. As a result, Insight Partners has the ability to influence the outcome of corporate actions requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors, the approval of mergers, or other changes of corporate control, any of which may be in opposition to the best interests of our other stockholders and may adversely impact our results of operations and the value of our common stock. Sales of our common stock by Insight Partners could have an immediate and substantial adverse effect on the value of our common stock.
We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future and, as a result, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation in the price of our common stock.
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock and do not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. We anticipate that we will retain all of our future earnings for use in the development of our business and for general corporate purposes. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our board of directors. Accordingly, investors must rely on sales of their common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments.
Future securities issuances could result in significant dilution to our existing stockholders and impair the market price of our common stock.
Future issuances of shares of our common stock, or the perception that these sales may occur, could depress the market price of our common stock and result in dilution to existing holders of our common stock. Also, to the extent outstanding options to purchase shares of our common stock are exercised or options, restricted stock units, or other stock-based awards are issued or become vested, there will be further dilution. The amount of dilution could be substantial depending upon the size of the issuances or exercises. Furthermore, we may issue additional equity securities that could have rights senior to those of our common stock. As a result, purchasers of our common stock bear the risk that future issuances of debt or equity securities may reduce the value of our common stock and further dilute their ownership interest.
Delaware law and provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws could make a merger, tender offer, or proxy contest difficult, thereby depressing the trading price of our common stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could depress the trading price of our common stock by acting to discourage, delay, or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management that the stockholders of our company may deem advantageous. These provisions include the following:
•establish a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board of directors are elected at one time;
•permit the board of directors to establish the number of directors and fill any vacancies and newly-created directorships;
•provide that directors may only be removed for cause;
•require super-majority voting to amend some provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws;
•authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could use to implement a stockholder rights plan;
•prohibit stockholders from calling special meetings of stockholders;
•prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;
•provide that the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, or repeal our bylaws;
•restrict the forum for certain litigation against us to Delaware; and
•establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at annual stockholder meetings.
Any provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation designates a state or federal court located within the State of Delaware as the exclusive forum for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to choose the judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the sole and exclusive forum for (1) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf under Delaware law, (2) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to us or our stockholders, (3) any action arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”), our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws, (4) any other action asserting a claim that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine, or (5) any other action asserting an “internal corporate claim,” as defined in Section 115 of the DGCL, shall be the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) in all cases subject to the court having jurisdiction over indispensable parties named as defendants. These exclusive-forum provisions do not apply to claims under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
To the extent that any such claims may be based upon federal law claims, Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.
Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. However, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains a federal forum provision which provides that unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act.
Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any of our securities shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this provision. This exclusive-forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum of its choosing for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers, and other employees. If a court were to find the exclusive-forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could harm our results of operations.
General Risks
Uncertain or weakened economic conditions, including inflation and rising interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties, may adversely affect our industry, business, and results of operations.
Our overall performance depends on economic conditions, which may be challenging at various times in the future. Financial developments, monetary and other developments seemingly unrelated to us or our industry may adversely affect us. For example, the higher interest rate environment in the U.S., undertaken as a means to manage inflation, has had an impact on the real estate market in the U.S. and specifically, the demand for mortgage and mortgage-related products and services, which has had a negative impact on our nCino Mortgage business and may continue to adversely impact that business to the extent the higher interest rate environment persists.
Moreover, domestic and international economies have from time-to-time been impacted by falling demand for a variety of goods and services, tariffs and other trade issues, threatened sovereign defaults and ratings downgrades, restricted credit, threats to major multinational companies, poor liquidity, reduced corporate profitability, volatility in credit, equity and foreign exchange markets, bankruptcies, and overall uncertainty, including uncertainty as a result of geopolitical events such as the conflicts in and around Ukraine, the Middle East and other parts of the world. We cannot predict the timing, strength, or duration of the current or any future potential economic slowdown in the U.S. or globally. These conditions affect the rate of technology spending generally and could adversely affect our customers’ ability or willingness to purchase our solutions, delay prospective customers’ purchasing decisions, reduce the value or duration of their subscriptions, or affect renewal rates, any of which could adversely affect our results of operations.
Natural or man-made disasters and other similar events may significantly disrupt our business, and negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
A significant portion of our employee base, operating facilities, and infrastructure are centralized in Wilmington, North Carolina. Any of our facilities may be harmed or rendered inoperable by natural or man-made disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, nuclear disasters, acts of terrorism or other criminal activities, infectious disease outbreaks or pandemic events, power outages, and other infrastructure failures, which may render it difficult or impossible for us to operate our business for some period of time. Our facilities would likely be costly to repair or replace, and any such efforts would likely require substantial time. Any disruptions in our operations could adversely affect our business and results of operations and harm our reputation. Moreover, although we have disaster recovery plans, they may prove inadequate. We may not carry sufficient business insurance to compensate for losses that may occur. Any such losses or damages could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. In addition, the facilities of our third-party providers, including Salesforce and AWS, may be harmed or rendered inoperable by such natural or man-made disasters, which may cause disruptions, difficulties, or otherwise materially and adversely affect our business.
If securities or industry analysts either do not publish research about us or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, our business, or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our common stock adversely, the trading price or trading volume of our common stock could decline.
The trading market for our common stock is influenced in part by the research and reports that securities or industry analysts may publish about us, our business, our market, or our competitors. If one or more analysts initiate research with an unfavorable rating or downgrade our common stock, provide a more favorable recommendation about our competitors, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our common stock price would likely decline. If any analyst who covers us or may cover us were to cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause the trading price or trading volume of our common stock to decline.
Failure to maintain the adequacy of internal controls over financial reporting may adversely affect investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock.
We are required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. On an annual basis, this assessment includes disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal controls over financial reporting. Our independent registered public accounting firm is required to annually attest to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting. We are required to disclose significant changes made in our internal controls procedure on a quarterly basis.
Our compliance with Section 404 has required, and will continue to require, that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management efforts.
During the evaluation and testing process of our internal controls, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal controls over financial reporting are effective. We cannot assure you that there will not be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting in the future. Any failure to maintain internal controls over financial reporting could severely inhibit our ability to accurately report our financial condition and operating results. If we are unable to conclude that our internal controls over financial reporting are effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm determines we have a material weakness or significant deficiency in our internal controls over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our common stock could decline, and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities. Failure to remedy any material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting, or to implement or maintain other effective control systems required of public companies, could also restrict our future access to the capital markets.
Operating as a public company requires us to incur substantial costs and requires substantial management attention.
As a public company, we have incurred and will continue to incur substantial legal, accounting, and other expenses. For example, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the rules and regulations of the SEC, and the rules and regulations of The Nasdaq Global Select Market. As part of these requirements, we established and maintain effective disclosure and financial controls and make changes to our corporate governance practices. Compliance with these requirements has and will continue to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming.
Our management and other personnel divert attention from other business matters to devote substantial time to the reporting and other requirements of being a public company. In particular, we incur significant expense and devote substantial management effort to complying with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
The terms of our Credit Facility contain restrictive covenants that may limit our operating flexibility.
On February 11, 2022, we entered into Credit Agreement by and among the Company, nCino OpCo, Inc., certain subsidiaries of the Company as guarantors, and Bank of America, N.A. as lender, as amended by that certain First Amendment, dated February 9, 2024, pursuant to which we received access to a revolving Credit Facility of up to $50.0 million. As of January 31, 2024, we had no amounts outstanding under our Credit Facility. In March 2024, we amended our Credit Facility and increased our borrowing availability to $100.0 million. The Credit Facility contains affirmative and restrictive covenants that limit our operating ability including to, among other things, dispose of assets, merge with other companies, incur additional indebtedness and liens, engage in new businesses, acquire certain other companies and modify organizational documents. In addition, the Credit Facility is secured by substantially all of our personal property, and the Credit Facility requires us to satisfy certain covenants, including maintaining certain senior secured leverage and interest coverage ratios under the Credit Facility. As a result of these restrictions, we will be limited as to how we conduct our business and we may be unable to raise additional debt or equity financing to compete effectively or to take advantage of new business opportunities. There is no guarantee that we will be able to meet our covenants or pay the principal and interest on any such debt. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that future working capital, borrowings or equity financing will be available to repay or refinance any such debt. Any inability to make scheduled payments, meet the financial or other covenants in our Credit Facility would adversely affect our business. Further, at any time, if we violate the terms of the Credit Facility or otherwise fail to meet our covenants, we may not be able to obtain a waiver from the lenders under satisfactory terms, if at all, which would limit our operating flexibility and/or liquidity and which would have an adverse effect on our business and prospects.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 1C. Cybersecurity
nCino’s Enterprise Risk Management Program includes a cybersecurity risk management process and a formal Information Security Management System ("ISMS") as foundational components of the program. We routinely assess risks that could affect the organization's ability to meet its business objectives and provide reliable services to our customers. nCino’s Chief Information Security Officer ("CISO") is responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing material cybersecurity
risks. nCino’s CISO brings over 25 years of experience in security and risk management to the company and takes the lead on reporting risk to senior management and nCino’s Board of Directors.
nCino conducts annual cybersecurity risk and threat assessments which include detailed control analyses for measuring both inherent and residual risk factors. These assessments are performed by nCino Information Security as part of the ISO27001 ISMS requirements. Our annual risk assessment is performed by using the nCino ISO27001 risk assessment as a basis for risk identification, with additional assessments to address risks that threaten the achievement of the control objectives as appropriate. Threats to security, confidentiality, and availability are identified and assessed as part of our annual and routine risk assessments.
nCino’s CISO reports cyber security risk assessment results at Disclosure Committee Meetings, Board and Audit Committee Meetings, and executive subcommittees specializing in cyber security risk management (Risk Information Security Committee). nCino maintains a documented process for when and by whom senior management is informed of a cybersecurity incident and when such information will be reported to affected parties. These processes are detailed within our Incident Response Plan which is regularly reviewed and updated by the information security team.
Item 2. Properties
Our headquarters are located in Wilmington, North Carolina where we lease several facilities encompassing approximately 224,000 square feet plus a 648-space parking deck. The leases relating to approximately 180,000 square feet of those facilities plus an adjacent parking deck expire in October 2037, each with options to extend and a purchase option that expires if not exercised on or before November 30, 2026. We have additional domestic offices in the U.S. and international offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, Spain and France. All of our offices are leased, and we do not own any real property.
We believe our facilities are adequate for our current needs. We believe that we will be able to obtain additional space on commercially reasonable terms.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
We are currently a party to, and may from time to time in the future be involved in, various litigation matters and subject to claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. For information regarding legal proceedings, see Note 16 "Commitments and Contingencies" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is incorporated by reference into this Part I, Item 3.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information for Common Stock
Our common stock has been listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “NCNO” since July 14, 2020. Prior to that date, there was no public trading market for our common stock.
Stockholders
As of January 31, 2024, there were 141 holders of record of our common stock. Because many of such shares are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders represented by these record holders.
Dividends Policy
We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and future earnings, if any, to fund the development and expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination regarding the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on then-existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results, contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects, and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant. Our ability to pay cash dividends on our capital stock may be limited by any future debt instruments or preferred securities.
Stock Performance Graph
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The graph below compares the cumulative total return to our stockholders on our common stock between July 14, 2020 (the date our common stock commenced trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market) through January 31, 2024 in comparison to the Russell 2000 Index, and the S&P 1500 Application Software Index. The graph assumes $100 was invested in our common stock on July 14, 2020, the Russell 2000 Index, and the S&P 1500 Application Software Index and assumes the reinvestment of any dividends.
Comparison of Cumulative Total Return of nCino, Inc.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
See Part III, Item 12 “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” for more information regarding securities authorized for issuance.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
None.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None.
Item 6. [Reserved]
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion of our financial condition and results of operations should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes and other financial information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates, and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those discussed below and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly in the section titled “Risk Factors.” Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any period in the future. Our fiscal year ends on January 31 of each year and references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to a fiscal year mean the year in which that fiscal year ends. For example, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to "fiscal 2024" refer to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024.
The following section of this Form 10-K discusses our financial condition and results of operations for fiscal 2024 and 2023 and year-to-year comparisons between fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023. Discussions of fiscal 2022 items and year-to-year comparisons between fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2022 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in Part II, Item 7,
“Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 28, 2023.
Overview
Through its single software-as-a-service ("SaaS") platform, nCino helps financial institutions ("FI") serving corporate and commercial, small business, consumer, and mortgage customers modernize and more effectively onboard clients, open accounts, make loans and navigate the loan lifecycle, and effectively monitor and manage their portfolio. Transforming how FIs operate through innovation, reputation and speed, nCino is partnered with more than 1,800 customers globally. With the nCino Bank Operating System, FIs can:
•digitally serve their clients across lines of business,
•improve efficiency,
•elevate employee experience and performance,
•manage risk and compliance more effectively,
•establish an active data, audit, and business intelligence hub, and
•embrace the value of intelligent automation and uncover data-driven insights.
nCino was originally founded in a bank to improve that FI’s operations and client service. After realizing that the same problems—cumbersome legacy technology, fragmented data, disconnected business functions, and a disengaged workforce made it difficult to maintain relevancy in their clients' lives—were endemic across the financial services industry, nCino spun out as a separate company in late 2011. This heritage is the foundation of our deep banking domain expertise, which differentiates us, continues to drive our strategy, and makes us uniquely qualified to help FIs create new efficiencies by providing an end-to-end platform that spans business lines and combines capabilities for a seamless experience.
The nCino Bank Operating System was initially designed to help transform commercial and small business lending for community and regional banks. This solution was introduced to enterprise banks in the United States ("U.S.") in 2014, and then internationally in 2017, and has subsequently expanded across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific ("APAC"). Throughout this market expansion, we broadened the nCino Bank Operating System by adding functionality for consumer lending, client onboarding, deposit account opening, analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning. In fiscal 2020, we acquired nCino Portfolio Analytics, LLC (formerly Visible Equity) and FinSuite as part of our strategy to build out our nIQ capabilities, and we established our nCino K.K. joint venture to facilitate our entry into the Japanese market. Additionally, in January 2022, we acquired SimpleNexus, which expanded our capabilities to the U.S. point-of-sale mortgage market. On September 8, 2023, SimpleNexus began operating as SimpleNexus, LLC d/b/a nCino Mortgage, LLC ("nCino Mortgage") as part of our rebranding effort, resulting in a change to the trade name useful life. As a result, the Company recorded accelerated amortization to fully amortize the remaining trade name intangible asset. The effect of this change in estimate for the year ended January 31, 2024 was an increase in sales and marketing amortization expense of $9.5 million, which resulted in an increase in loss of operations and net loss attributable to nCino, Inc. of $9.5 million, or $0.08 per basic and diluted share.
We generally offer the nCino Bank Operating System on a subscription basis pursuant to non-cancellable multi-year contracts that typically range from three to five years, and we employ a “land and expand” business model. The nCino Bank Operating System is designed to scale with our customers, and once our solution is deployed, we seek to have our customers expand adoption within and across lines of business. For fiscal 2024, we had a subscription revenue retention rate of 117%. See Item 7 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Factors Affecting Our Operating Results—Subscription Revenue Retention Rate” for additional information on subscription revenue retention rates.
We sell our solutions directly through our business development managers, account executives, field sales engineers, and customer success managers. Our sales efforts in the U.S. are organized around FIs based on size, whereas internationally, we focus our sales efforts by geography. As of January 31, 2024, we had 223 sales and sales support personnel in the U.S., including nCino Mortgage, and 69 sales and support personnel in offices outside the U.S.
To help customers go live with our solutions, we offer professional services including configuration and implementation, training, and advisory services. For enterprise FIs, we generally work with SI partners such as Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC for the delivery of professional services for the nCino Bank Operating System. For regional FIs, we work with SIs such as West Monroe Partners, and for community banks, we work with SIs or perform configuration and implementation ourselves. We expect enterprise FIs to make up a greater proportion of our nCino Bank Operating System sales.
On January 18, 2023, the Company announced a workforce reduction of approximately seven percent 7% and office space reductions in certain markets (collectively, the “Restructuring Plan”) in furtherance of its efforts to improve operating margins and advance the Company’s objective of profitable growth. Employees impacted by this event are included in our headcount as of January 31, 2023. The Company incurred charges in the fourth quarter of the Company’s fiscal 2023 of $4.8 million in connection with the Restructuring Plan. As of January 31, 2023, the accrual for severance and related benefit costs of $5.0 million for terminated employees was included in accrued compensation and benefits in the consolidated balance sheets and was paid in the first quarter of the Company’s fiscal 2024. The Company paid $0.8 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 to exercise an early termination clause to exit a facility during fiscal 2024, which was accounted for as a lease modification under ASC 842. See Note 19 "Restructuring" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information.
Our total revenues were $273.9 million, $408.3 million, and $476.5 million for fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively, representing a 31.9% compound annual growth rate. Our revenues include $3.9 million in revenues from SimpleNexus from the Acquisition Date for fiscal 2022 and $65.4 million for fiscal 2023. Our subscription revenues in fiscal 2022 were $224.9 million or 82.1% of total revenues, $344.8 million or 84.4% of total revenues in fiscal 2023, and $409.5 million or 85.9% of total revenues in fiscal 2024, representing a 34.9% compound annual growth rate. Our subscription-based revenues include $3.7 million from SimpleNexus from the Acquisition Date for fiscal 2022 and $59.8 million for fiscal 2023. Due to our investments in growth, we recorded net losses attributable to nCino in fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024 of $49.4 million, $102.7 million, and $42.3 million, respectively. Our net losses include the operating results of SimpleNexus from the Acquisition Date.
In March 2024, we acquired DocFox, a leading solution provider automating onboarding experiences for commercial and business banking, for an aggregate purchase price of $75.0 million. See Note 20 "Subsequent Events" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information.
Factors Affecting Our Operating Results
Market Adoption of Our Solution. Our future growth depends on our ability to expand our reach to new FI customers and increase adoption with existing customers as they broaden their use of our solutions within and across lines of business. Our success in growing our customer base and expanding adoption of our solutions by existing customers requires a focused direct sales engagement and the ability to convince key decision makers at FIs to replace legacy third-party point solutions or internally developed software with our solutions. In addition, growing our customer base will require us to increasingly penetrate markets outside the U.S., which accounted for 18.7% of total revenues for fiscal 2024. For new customers, our sales cycles are typically lengthy, generally ranging from six to nine months for smaller FIs to 12 to 18 months or more for larger FIs. Key to landing new customers is our ability to successfully take our existing customers live and help them achieve measurable returns on their investment, thereby turning them into referenceable accounts. If we are unable to successfully address the foregoing challenges, our ability to grow our business and achieve profitability will be adversely affected, which may in turn reduce the value of our common stock.
Mix of Subscription and Professional Services Revenues. The initial deployment of our solutions by our customers requires a period of implementation and configuration services that typically range from three months to 18 months, depending on the scope. As a result, during the initial go-live period for a customer on the nCino Bank Operating System, professional services revenues generally make up a substantial portion of our revenues from that customer, whereas over time, revenues from established customers are more heavily weighted to subscriptions. While professional services revenues will fluctuate as a percentage of total revenues in the future and tend to be higher in periods of faster growth, over time we expect subscription revenues will make up an increasing proportion of our total revenues as our overall business grows.
Subscription Revenue Retention Rate. We believe that our ability to retain and grow subscription revenues from our existing customers over time strengthens the stability and predictability of our revenue base and is reflective of both the adoption curve of customers and the value we deliver to them. We assess our performance in this area using a metric we refer to as subscription revenue retention rate. We calculate our subscription revenue retention rate as total subscription revenues in a fiscal year from customers who contracted for any of our solutions as of January 31 of the prior fiscal year, expressed as a
percentage of total subscription revenues for the prior fiscal year. In accordance with this definition, subscription revenues from customers obtained through an acquisition will first be included in the calculation in the fiscal year subsequent to such acquisition, for the periods they were a customer of nCino. Our subscription revenue retention rate provides insight into the impact on current year subscription revenues of:
•the number and timing of new customers and phased activation of seats purchased by them in prior years, which activation schedules can span several fiscal years for larger contracts;
•expanding adoption of our solutions by our existing customers during the current year, excluding any revenues derived from businesses acquired during such year; and
•customer attrition.
For fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024, we had subscription revenue retention rates of 133%, 148%, and 117%, respectively. The most significant driver of changes in our subscription revenue retention rate each year has historically been the number of new customers in prior years and the associated phased activation schedules for such customers. In addition, because larger FIs tend to make more sizable purchases with longer activation schedules, we expect variability in our subscription revenue retention rates based on the timing and extent of our continued penetration of this portion of the market. The increase in our subscription revenue retention rate for fiscal 2023 was due to the inclusion of customers who had contracts with nCino Mortgage in effect prior to January 31, 2022. Subscription revenues from periods prior to the acquisition were excluded from the calculation for fiscal 2023. Excluding nCino Mortgage, the subscription revenue retention rate for fiscal 2023 was 125%. The moderation in our subscription revenue retention rate for fiscal 2024 was due to a decline in revenues from customers adversely affected by an increase in mortgage interest rates, from the expiration of licenses utilized for forgiveness monitoring of Paycheck Protection Program loans, and from the acquisition of customers by non-customers. Our use of subscription revenue retention rate has limitations as an analytical tool, and investors should not consider it in isolation. Other companies in adjacent markets may calculate subscription revenue retention rates or similar metrics differently, which reduces its usefulness as a comparative measure.
Long-term ACV Expansion. A key element of our growth strategy is to expand our deployed footprint with a customer after initial adoption. Our customers typically purchase the nCino Bank Operating System for a defined line of business or to support a specific use case and, once deployed, we seek to convince the customer to adopt our solutions within and across additional lines of business. To date, we have been successful in executing our land and expand strategy as a result of the ability of our solutions to streamline workflow, generate meaningful insights for operational improvement, and help drive improved bottom line results. Due to our rapid growth, many of our customers have not yet come up for renewal, so our historical net retention rates may not be predictive of future results. If our customers do not continue to see the ability of our solutions to generate return on investment relative to other available solutions or at all, net retention rates could suffer and our operating results could be adversely affected.
We believe our ACV-based net retention of customers over the long term illustrates our success in executing our land and expand strategy, as it demonstrates growing adoption by existing customers, including price increases but net of attrition. To measure net retention, we categorize customers by the year in which they first contracted for one of our solutions, which we call an annual cohort. For each annual cohort, we measure the total ACV for our most recently completed fiscal year and divide it by the total ACV for such cohort at the end of the initial cohort year. We refer to the resulting quotient as “ACV-based net retention.” In any given period, ACV for a customer represents the annualized subscription fees from the fully activated subscription contracts in effect for such customers at the end of the applicable period. While we expect ACV-based net retention to increase over time for each respective cohort as we execute our land and expand strategy, occasionally ACV-based net retention can moderate from one period to the next, from customer consolidation for example.
The graphic below illustrates our ACV-based net retention for customers initially signed since fiscal 2013. Customers who signed with nCino Mortgage prior to January 31, 2022, are included in the fiscal 2022 cohort and customers
who signed with Portfolio Analytics prior to January 31, 2020, are represented in the fiscal 2020 cohort. Each individual cohort is not necessarily predictive of other or future cohorts.
Annual Contract Value ("ACV")
Macroeconomic Environment. We are currently operating in a higher interest rate environment as the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised interest rates as a means to manage inflation. These rate increases have had an impact on the real estate market in the U.S. and specifically, the demand for mortgages and mortgage-related products and services, which has had a negative impact on our nCino Mortgage business.
We will continue to monitor the impact the macroeconomic environment may have on our business.
Continued Investment in Innovation and Growth. We have made substantial investments in product development, sales and marketing, and strategic acquisitions since our inception to achieve a leadership position in our market and grow our revenues and customer base. We intend to continue to increase our investment in product development in the coming years to maintain and build on this advantage. We also intend to invest in sales and marketing both in the U.S. and internationally to further grow our business. To capitalize on the market opportunity we see ahead of us, we expect to continue to optimize our operating plans for revenue growth and profitability.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenues
We derive our revenues from subscription and professional services and other revenues.
Subscription Revenues. Our subscription revenues consist principally of fees from customers for accessing our solutions and maintenance and support services that we generally offer under non-cancellable multi-year contracts, which
typically range from three to five years for the nCino Bank Operating System and one to three years for nCino Mortgage. Specifically, we offer:
•Client onboarding, loan origination, and deposit account opening applications targeted at a FI’s commercial, small business, and retail lines of business, for which we generally charge on a per seat basis.
•nIQ for which we generally charge based on the asset size of the customer or on a usage basis.
•Through nCino Mortgage, a digital homeownership solution uniting people, systems, and stages of the mortgage process into a seamless end-to-end journey for which we generally charge on a per seat basis.
•Maintenance and support services as well as internal-use or “sandbox” development licenses, for which we generally charge as a percentage of the related subscription fees.
Our subscription revenues are generally recognized ratably over the term of the contract beginning upon activation. For new customers, we may activate a portion of seats at inception of the agreement, with the balance activated at contractually specified points in time thereafter, to pattern our invoicing after the customer’s expected rate of implementation and adoption. Where seats are activated in stages, we charge subscription fees from the date of activation through the anniversary of the initial activation date, and annually thereafter. Subscription fees associated with the nCino Bank Operating System are generally billed annually in advance while subscription fees for nCino Mortgage are generally billed monthly in advance. Maintenance and support fees, as well as development licenses, are provided over the same periods as the related subscriptions, so fees are invoiced and revenues are recognized over the same periods. Subscription fees invoiced are recorded as deferred revenue pending recognition as revenues. In certain cases, we are authorized to resell access to Salesforce’s CRM solution along with the nCino Bank Operating System. When we resell such access, we charge a higher subscription price and remit a higher subscription fee to Salesforce for these subscriptions.
Professional Services and Other Revenues. Professional services and other revenues consist of fees for implementation and configuration assistance, training, and advisory services. For enterprise and larger regional FIs, we generally work with SI partners to provide the majority of implementation services for the nCino Bank Operating System, for which these SI partners bill our customers directly. We have historically delivered professional services ourselves for community banks and smaller credit unions and nCino Mortgage has historically provided professional services directly to its customers. Revenues for implementation, training, and advisory services are generally recognized on a proportional performance basis, based on labor hours incurred relative to total budgeted hours. To date, our losses on professional services contracts have not been material. During the initial go-live period for a customer on the nCino Bank Operating System, professional services revenues generally make up a substantial portion of our revenues from that customer, whereas over time, revenues from established customers are more heavily weighted to subscriptions. While professional services revenues will fluctuate as a percentage of total revenues in the future and tend to be higher in periods of faster growth, over time we expect to see subscription revenues make up an increasing proportion of our total revenues.
Cost of Revenues and Gross Margin
Cost of Subscription Revenues. Cost of subscription revenues consists of fees paid to Salesforce for access to the Salesforce Platform, including Salesforce’s hosting infrastructure and data center operations, along with certain integration fees paid to other third parties. When we resell access to Salesforce’s CRM solution, cost of subscription revenues also includes the subscription fees we remit to Salesforce for providing such access. We also incur costs associated with access to other platforms. In addition, cost of subscription revenues includes personnel-related costs associated with delivering maintenance and support services, including salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense, travel and related costs, amortization of acquired developed technology, and allocated overhead. Our subscription gross margin will vary from period to period as a function of the utilization of support personnel and the extent to which we recognize subscription revenues from the resale of Salesforce’s CRM solution.
Cost of Professional Services and Other Revenues. Cost of professional services and other revenues consists primarily of personnel-related costs associated with delivery of these services, including salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense, travel and related costs, and allocated overhead. The cost of providing professional services is significantly higher as a percentage of the related revenues than for our subscription services due to direct labor costs. The cost of professional services revenues has increased in absolute dollars as we have added new customer subscriptions that require professional services and built-out our international professional services capabilities. Realized effective billing and utilization rates drive fluctuations in our professional services and other gross margin on a period-to-period basis.
Operating Expenses
Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our sales and marketing employees, including salaries, sales commissions and incentives, benefits and stock-based compensation expense, travel and related costs. We capitalize incremental costs incurred to obtain contracts, primarily consisting of sales commissions, and subsequently amortize these costs over the expected period of benefit, which we have determined to be approximately four years. Sales and marketing expenses also include outside consulting fees, marketing programs, including lead generation, costs of our annual user conference, advertising, trade shows, other event expenses, amortization of intangible assets, and allocated overhead. We expect sales and marketing expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenues as we leverage the investments we have made to date.
Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation associated with our engineering, product and quality assurance personnel, as well as allocated overhead. Research and development expenses also include the cost of third-party contractors. Research and development costs are expensed as incurred. We expect research and development costs will decrease as a percentage of revenues as we leverage the investments we have made to date.
General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation associated with our executive, finance, legal, human resources, information technology, compliance and other administrative personnel. General and administrative expenses also include accounting, auditing and legal professional services fees, travel and other corporate-related expenses, and allocated overhead, as well as acquisition-related expenses, such as legal and other professional services fees. We expect general and administrative expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenues as we leverage the investments we have made to date.
Non-Operating Income (Expense)
Interest Income. Interest income consists primarily of interest earned on our cash and cash equivalents.
Interest Expense. Interest expense consists primarily of interest related to our financing obligations along with interest expense on borrowings, commitment fees, and amortization of debt issuance costs associated with our secured revolving credit facility.
Other Expense, Net. Other expense, net consists primarily of foreign currency gains and losses, the majority of which is due to intercompany loans that are denominated in currencies other than the underlying functional currency of the applicable entity.
Income Tax Provision (Benefit). Income tax provision (benefit) consists of federal and state income taxes in the U.S. and income taxes in foreign jurisdictions.
Results of Operations
The results of operations presented below should be reviewed in conjunction with the financial statements and notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following tables present our selected consolidated statements of operations data for fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024 in both dollars and as a percentage of total revenues, except as noted.
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands, except share and per share amounts) | 20221 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
Revenues: | | | | | |
Subscription revenues | $ | 224,854 | | | $ | 344,752 | | | $ | 409,479 | |
Professional services and other revenues | 49,011 | | | 63,563 | | | 67,064 | |
| Total revenues | 273,865 | | | 408,315 | | | 476,543 | |
Cost of revenues: | | | | | |
| Cost of subscription revenues | 64,508 | | | 106,265 | | | 120,861 | |
| Cost of professional services and other revenues | 46,905 | | | 63,341 | | | 70,609 | |
| Total cost of revenues | 111,413 | | | 169,606 | | | 191,470 | |
| Gross profit | 162,452 | | | 238,709 | | | 285,073 | |
Operating expenses: | | | | | |
| Sales and marketing | 82,901 | | | 127,669 | | | 130,547 | |
| Research and development | 79,363 | | | 121,576 | | | 117,311 | |
| General and administrative | 71,545 | | | 83,477 | | | 76,727 | |
| Total operating expenses | 233,809 | | | 332,722 | | | 324,585 | |
| Loss from operations | (71,357) | | | (94,013) | | | (39,512) | |
Non-operating income (expense): | | | | | |
| Interest income | 194 | | | 403 | | | 2,567 | |
| Interest expense | (1,514) | | | (2,807) | | | (4,135) | |
| Other expense, net | (1,277) | | | (1,356) | | | (856) | |
| Loss before income taxes | (73,954) | | | (97,773) | | | (41,936) | |
| Income tax provision (benefit) | (23,833) | | | 4,071 | | | 1,590 | |
| Net loss | (50,121) | | | (101,844) | | | (43,526) | |
| Net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest | (1,569) | | | (1,119) | | | (1,109) | |
| Adjustment attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest | 894 | | | 1,995 | | | (71) | |
| Net loss attributable to nCino, Inc. | $ | (49,446) | | | $ | (102,720) | | | $ | (42,346) | |
| Net loss per share attributable to nCino, Inc.: | | | | | |
| Basic and diluted | $ | (0.51) | | | $ | (0.93) | | | $ | (0.38) | |
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding: | | | | | |
| Basic and diluted | 96,722,464 | | | 110,615,734 | | | 112,672,397 | |
1Includes the operating results of SimpleNexus from the Acquisition Date, see Note 7 "Business Combinations" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information.
The Company recognized stock-based compensation expense as follows:
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Cost of subscription revenues | $ | 960 | | | $ | 1,430 | | | $ | 1,847 | |
| Cost of professional services and other revenues | 5,195 | | | 7,263 | | | 9,369 | |
| Sales and marketing | 7,520 | | | 13,283 | | | 15,417 | |
| Research and development | 6,186 | | | 11,602 | | | 15,942 | |
| General and administrative | 8,616 | | | 16,654 | | | 15,460 | |
Total stock-based compensation expense1 | $ | 28,477 | | | $ | 50,232 | | | $ | 58,035 | |
1Includes $0.2 million benefit incurred for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 in connection with the restructuring plan commenced in January 2023. See Note 19 "Restructuring" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.
The Company recognized amortization expense for intangible assets as follows:
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Cost of subscription revenues | $ | 2,604 | | | $ | 17,019 | | | $ | 16,306 | |
| Cost of professional services and other revenues | — | | | 94 | | | 330 | |
| Sales and marketing | 2,303 | | | 11,087 | | | 20,590 | |
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| Total amortization expense | $ | 4,907 | | | $ | 28,200 | | | $ | 37,226 | |
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Revenues: | | | | | |
| Subscription revenues | 82.1 | % | | 84.4 | % | | 85.9 | % |
| Professional services and other revenues | 17.9 | | | 15.6 | | | 14.1 | |
| Total revenues | 100.0 | | | 100.0 | | | 100.0 | |
Cost of revenues (percentage shown in comparison to related revenues): | | | | | |
| Cost of subscription revenues | 28.7 | | | 30.8 | | | 29.5 | |
| Cost of professional services and other revenues | 95.7 | | | 99.7 | | | 105.3 | |
| Total cost of revenues | 40.7 | | | 41.5 | | | 40.2 | |
| Gross profit | 59.3 | | | 58.5 | | | 59.8 | |
| Operating expenses: | | | | | |
| Sales and marketing | 30.3 | | | 31.3 | | | 27.4 | |
| Research and development | 29.0 | | | 29.8 | | | 24.6 | |
| General and administrative | 26.1 | | | 20.4 | | | 16.1 | |
| Total operating expenses | 85.4 | | | 81.5 | | | 68.1 | |
| Loss from operations | (26.1) | | | (23.0) | | | (8.3) | |
| Non-operating income (expense): | | | | | |
| Interest income | 0.1 | | | 0.1 | | | 0.5 | |
| Interest expense | (0.6) | | | (0.7) | | | (0.9) | |
| Other expense, net | (0.5) | | | (0.3) | | | (0.2) | |
| Loss before income taxes | (27.1) | | | (23.9) | | | (8.9) | |
| Income tax provision (benefit) | (8.7) | | | 1.0 | | | 0.3 | |
| Net loss | (18.4) | % | | (24.9) | % | | (9.2) | % |
Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended January 31, 2023 and 2024
Revenues
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Revenues: | | | | | | | |
| Subscription revenues | $ | 344,752 | | | 84.4 | % | | $ | 409,479 | | | 85.9 | % |
| Professional services and other revenues | 63,563 | | | 15.6 | | | 67,064 | | | 14.1 | |
| Total revenues | $ | 408,315 | | | 100.0 | % | | $ | 476,543 | | | 100.0 | % |
Subscription Revenues
Subscription revenues increased $64.7 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, due to initial revenues from customers who did not contribute to subscription revenues during the prior period and growth from existing customers within and across lines of business. Of the increase, 86.2% was attributable to increased revenues from existing customers as additional seats were activated in accordance with contractual terms and customers expanded their adoption of our solutions, and 13.8% was attributable to initial revenues from customers who did not contribute to subscription revenues during the prior period. Subscription revenues were 85.9% of total revenues for fiscal 2024 compared to 84.4% of total revenues for fiscal 2023, primarily due to growth in our installed base.
Professional Services and Other Revenues
Professional services and other revenues increased $3.5 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, primarily due to the addition of new customers as well as expanded adoption by existing customers within and across lines of business where implementation, configuration, and training services were required.
Cost of Revenues and Gross Margin
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Cost of revenues (percentage shown in comparison to related revenues): | | | | | | | |
| Cost of subscription revenues | $ | 106,265 | | | 30.8 | % | | $ | 120,861 | | | 29.5 | % |
| Cost of professional services and other revenues | 63,341 | | | 99.7 | | | 70,609 | | | 105.3 | |
| Total cost of revenues | $ | 169,606 | | | 41.5 | | | $ | 191,470 | | | 40.2 | |
| Gross profit | $ | 238,709 | | | 58.5 | % | | $ | 285,073 | | | 59.8 | % |
Cost of Subscription Revenues
Cost of subscription revenues increased $14.6 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, generating a gross margin for subscription revenues of 70.5% compared to a gross margin of 69.2% for fiscal 2023. Costs related to Salesforce user fees increased $10.4 million as we continued to add new customers and sell additional functionality to existing customers, and other costs of subscription revenues increased $2.5 million due to costs associated with access to other platforms and data center costs. Personnel costs, including stock-based compensation expense, increased $2.0 million, mainly from an increase in average headcount. We expect the cost of subscription revenues will continue to increase in absolute dollars as the number of users of the nCino Bank Operating System grows.
Cost of Professional Services and Other Revenues
Cost of professional services and other revenues increased $7.3 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, generating a gross margin for professional services and other revenues of (5.3)% compared to a gross margin of 0.3% for fiscal 2023. For fiscal 2024, personnel costs increased $6.3 million for professional services and other revenues compared to the prior year period, mainly from an increase in average headcount and a $2.1 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, partially offset by a decrease in restructuring costs incurred in connection with the headcount reductions announced in January 2023. The increase in cost of professional services and other revenues also included an increase of $0.8 million in allocated
overhead costs due to growth supporting our business, partially offset by a decrease of $0.3 million in travel-related costs. The decrease in our professional services and other gross margin for fiscal 2024 was primarily due to a decline in realized effective billing and utilization rates in our professional services teams.
Operating Expenses
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Operating expenses: | | | | | | | |
| Sales and marketing | $ | 127,669 | | | 31.3 | % | | $ | 130,547 | | | 27.4 | % |
| Research and development | 121,576 | | | 29.8 | | | 117,311 | | | 24.6 | |
| General and administrative | 83,477 | | | 20.4 | | | 76,727 | | | 16.1 | |
| Total operating expenses | 332,722 | | | 81.5 | | | 324,585 | | | 68.1 | |
| Loss from operations | $ | (94,013) | | | (23.0) | % | | $ | (39,512) | | | (8.3) | % |
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses increased $2.9 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, primarily attributable to an increase of $9.5 million in trade name amortization expense as a result of accelerated amortization expense in the third quarter of fiscal 2024 to fully amortize the remaining trade name intangible asset as a result of the rebranding of the SimpleNexus solution to nCino Mortgage. The increase in sales and marketing expenses also included an increase of $0.8 million in allocated overhead costs. The increase in sales and marketing expenses was partially offset by a decrease of $4.3 million in personnel costs, mainly from a decrease in average headcount and a decrease in restructuring costs incurred in connection with the headcount reductions announced in January 2023, partially offset by a $2.1 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, compensation increases, and an increase in expatriate tax equalization expenses. Also included in the offset to the increase in sales and marketing expenses was a decrease of $1.3 million in marketing costs, a decrease of $1.2 million in sales-related travel costs, and a decrease of $0.6 million in third-party consulting fees.
Our sales and marketing headcount decreased by 64 from January 31, 2023 to January 31, 2024 primarily due to attrition and our workforce reduction announced in January 2023. We expect sales and marketing expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenues as we leverage the investments we have made to date.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses decreased $4.3 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, primarily due to a $2.4 million decrease in third party professional fees as a result of reduced contract research and development spend and a decrease of $2.3 million in personnel costs, mainly from a decrease in average headcount and a decrease in restructuring costs incurred in connection with the headcount reductions announced in January 2023, partially offset by a $4.3 million increase in stock-based compensation expense and compensation increases. The decrease in research and development expenses was partially offset by an increase of $0.7 million in allocated overhead costs due to growth supporting our continued business expansion.
Our research and development headcount decreased by 71 from January 31, 2023 to January 31, 2024 primarily due to our workforce reduction announced in January 2023. We expect research and development expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenues as we leverage the investments we have made to date.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses decreased $6.8 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, primarily due to a decrease of $3.5 million in third party professional fees, mostly attributable to decreases related to acquisition costs for SimpleNexus and fees and expenses related to other litigation expenses including a dismissed government antitrust investigation and related civil action (the "Antitrust Matters"), partially offset by the proposed settlement agreement for the related civil action of approximately $2.2 million, disclosed in Item 3 "Legal Proceedings" of Part I of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and an increase in other professional fees. The decrease in general and administrative spend also included a decrease of $3.4 million in personnel costs for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, mostly attributable to a $1.2 million decrease in stock-based compensation expense, a decrease in average headcount, and a decrease in restructuring costs incurred in connection with the headcount reductions announced in January 2023, partially offset by compensation increases. Also
included in the decrease in general and administrative expenses was a decrease of $0.5 million in travel-related costs, offset by an increase of $0.5 million in allocated overhead and other general and administrative costs.
Our general and administrative headcount decreased by 26 from January 31, 2023 to January 31, 2024, primarily due to our workforce reduction announced in January 2023. We expect general and administrative expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenues as we leverage the investments we have made to date.
Non-Operating Income (Expense)
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Interest income | $ | 403 | | | 0.1 | % | | $ | 2,567 | | | 0.5 | % |
| Interest expense | (2,807) | | | (0.7) | | | (4,135) | | | (0.9) | |
| Other expense, net | (1,356) | | | (0.3) | | | (856) | | | (0.2) | |
Interest income increased $2.2 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, due to increase in our accounts earning interest and increased interest rates. Interest expense increased $1.3 million for fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023, due to borrowing on our revolving credit facility and an increase in our financing obligations for leases for which we are considered the owners for accounting purposes. The decrease of $0.5 million in other expense, net was primarily driven by intercompany loans and transactions that are denominated in currencies other than the underlying functional currency of the applicable entity.
Income Tax Provision
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Income tax provision | $ | 4,071 | | | 1.0 | % | | $ | 1,590 | | | 0.3 | % |
Income tax provision was $1.6 million for fiscal 2024 compared to a provision of $4.1 million for fiscal 2023 and resulted in an effective tax rate of (3.8)% compared to (4.2)% in the prior fiscal year.
See Note 12 "Income Taxes" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further details on the components of income tax and a reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory rate to the effective tax rate.
We continue to maintain a valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets in several jurisdictions, including the U.S. It is determined by management when a valuation allowance should be recorded, utilizing significant judgement and the use of estimates. In fiscal 2024, based on all available positive and negative evidence, having demonstrated sustained profitability and cumulative pre-tax book income for the past three years, which is objective and verifiable, we have concluded that it is more likely than not that our United Kingdom deferred tax assets will be realizable. We released $3.7 million of our valuation allowance in fiscal 2024 and will continue to monitor the need for a valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis.
We have adopted, as required, Code Section 174, as amended by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This will result in the repartition of our deferred tax asset balances from net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards to non-tax attribute deferred tax balances. In addition, this may reduce our operating cash flows in future periods through cash remittances of U.S. federal and state income tax. We expect these changes to continue to impact our cash tax liability.
The Company regularly evaluates and continues to monitor the likelihood of outcomes resulting from legislation changes to determine the adequacy of our provision for income taxes.
In 2021, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development introduced its Pillar Two Framework Model Rules ("Pillar 2"), that was supported by over 130 countries worldwide, which is designed to impose a 15% global minimum tax on adjusted financial results. Certain aspects of Pillar 2 took effect on January 1, 2024, while other aspects go into effect on January 1, 2025. While many aspects of the application of Pillar 2 remain to be clarified, the Company does not expect Pillar 2 to impact its tax liability. The company will continue to monitor and reflect the impact of such legislative changes in future financial statements as appropriate.
Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended January 31, 2022 and 2023
For a discussion of our results of operations for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 compared to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022, please refer to Part II, Item 7, “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 28, 2023.
Non-GAAP Financial Measure
In addition to providing financial measurements based on generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), we provide an additional financial metric that is not prepared in accordance with GAAP ("non-GAAP"). Management uses this non-GAAP financial measure, in addition to GAAP financial measures, to understand and compare operating results across accounting periods, for financial and operational decision making, for planning and forecasting purposes, and to evaluate our financial performance. We believe that this non-GAAP financial measure helps us to identify underlying trends in our business that could otherwise be masked by the effect of the expenses that we exclude in the calculations of the non-GAAP financial measure.
Accordingly, we believe that this financial measure reflects our ongoing business in a manner that allows for meaningful comparisons and analysis of trends in the business and provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our operating results, and enhancing the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects. Although the calculation of non-GAAP financial measures may vary from company to company, our detailed presentation may facilitate analysis and comparison of our operating results by management and investors with other peer companies, many of which use a similar non-GAAP financial measure to supplement their GAAP results in their public disclosures. This non-GAAP financial measure is non-GAAP operating income (loss), as discussed below.
Non-GAAP operating income (loss). Non-GAAP operating income (loss) is defined as loss from operations as reported in our consolidated statements of operations excluding the impact of amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses, legal expenses related to certain litigation, and restructuring and related charges. See Note 19 "Restructuring" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on the charges related to the restructuring. Non-GAAP operating income (loss) is widely used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties to evaluate the profitability of companies. Non-GAAP operating income (loss) eliminates potential differences in performance caused by these items that are not indicative of the Company's ongoing operating performance and hinders comparability with prior and future performance.
This non-GAAP financial measure does not replace the presentation of our GAAP financial results and should only be used as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, our financial results presented in accordance with GAAP. There are limitations in the use of non-GAAP measures because they do not include all of the expenses that must be included under GAAP and because they involve the exercise of judgment concerning exclusions of items from the comparable non-GAAP financial measure. In addition, other companies may use other measures to evaluate their performance, or may calculate non-GAAP measures differently, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison.
The following table reconciles non-GAAP operating income (loss) to loss from operations, the most directly comparable financial measure, calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP (in thousands):
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| GAAP loss from operations | $ | (71,357) | | | $ | (94,013) | | | $ | (39,512) | |
| Adjustments | | | | | |
| Amortization of intangible assets | 4,907 | | | 28,200 | | | 37,226 | |
| Stock-based compensation expense | 28,477 | | | 50,232 | | | 58,035 | |
| Acquisition-related expenses | 10,006 | | | 2,276 | | | 878 | |
Litigation expenses1 | 10,326 | | | 6,147 | | | 4,525 | |
Restructuring and related charges2 | — | | | 5,017 | | | 627 | |
| Total adjustments | 53,716 | | | 91,872 | | | 101,291 | |
| Non-GAAP operating income (loss) | $ | (17,641) | | | $ | (2,141) | | | $ | 61,779 | |
1Represents legal expenses related to the Antitrust Matters and a shareholder derivative lawsuit.
2Stock-based compensation benefit of $0.2 million related to restructuring is included on the stock-based compensation expense line item for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of January 31, 2024, we had $112.1 million in cash and cash equivalents, and an accumulated deficit of $352.8 million. Our net losses have been driven by our investments in developing the nCino Bank Operating System and scaling our sales and marketing organization and finance and administrative functions to support our rapid growth.
To date, we have funded our capital needs through issuances of common stock including our initial public offering in July 2020, operating cash flows, and during fiscal 2023, our revolving line of credit. We generally bill and collect from our customers annually in advance. Our billings are subject to seasonality, with billings in the first and fourth quarters of our fiscal year substantially higher than in the second and third quarters. Because we recognize revenues ratably, our deferred revenue balance mirrors the seasonality of our billings.
As of January 31, 2024, the Company had no amounts outstanding, no letters of credit issued under the Credit Facility, was in compliance with all covenants and had borrowing availability of $50.0 million. On March 17, 2024, the Company entered into the Second Amendment for the Credit Facility which, among other things, increased our borrowing availability to $100.0 million. In March 2024, we borrowed $75.0 million under the Credit Facility to fund the acquisition of DocFox. The interest rate at the time of borrowing was 7.36%. Following the acquisition, we had borrowing availability of $25.0 million. See Note 15 "Revolving Credit Facility" and Note 20 "Subsequent Events" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.
We believe that current cash and cash equivalents as well as borrowings available under the Credit Facility will be sufficient to fund our operations and capital requirements for at least the next 12 months. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including our growth rate, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts to enhance the nCino Bank Operating System and introduce new applications, market acceptance of our solutions, the continued expansion of our sales and marketing activities, capital expenditure requirements, and any potential future acquisitions. We expect capital expenditures will be appreciably higher in absolute dollars in fiscal 2025 for planned office build-outs, mainly for an international office, compared to prior fiscal years to accommodate our growth, which we estimate to be approximately $8.5 million. We may from time-to-time seek to raise additional capital to support our growth. Any equity financing we may undertake could be dilutive to our existing stockholders, and any debt financing we may undertake could require debt service and financial and operational covenants that could adversely affect our business. There is no assurance we would be able to obtain future financing on acceptable terms or at all.
nCino K.K.
In fiscal 2020, we established nCino K.K., a Japanese company in which we own a controlling interest, for purposes of facilitating our entry into the Japanese market. We have consolidated the results of operations and financial condition of nCino K.K. since its inception. Pursuant to an agreement with the holders of the non-controlling interest in nCino
K.K., beginning in 2027 we may redeem the non-controlling interest, or be required to redeem such interest by the holders thereof, based on a prescribed formula derived from the relative revenues of nCino K.K. and the Company. The balance of the redeemable non-controlling interest is reported on our balance sheet below total liabilities but above stockholders’ equity at the greater of the initial carrying amount adjusted for the redeemable non-controlling interest’s share of earnings or losses and other comprehensive income or loss, or its estimated redemption value. As of January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024, the redeemable non-controlling interest was $3.6 million and $3.4 million, respectively.
As part of our joint venture obligations, we made an additional cash capital contribution of $1.0 million to nCino K.K. during the third quarter of fiscal 2024.
Cash Flows
Summary Cash Flow information for fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024 are set forth below.
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| ($ in thousands) | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | $ | (19,229) | | | $ | (15,381) | | | $ | 57,285 | |
| Net cash used in investing activities | (278,488) | | | (20,725) | | | (6,328) | |
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | 15,922 | | | 36,712 | | | (21,113) | |
Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities
The $57.3 million provided by operating activities in fiscal 2024 reflects our net loss of $43.5 million and $16.4 million used in changes in working capital accounts, offset by $117.2 million in non-cash charges. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization, amortization of costs capitalized to obtain revenue contracts, non-cash operating lease costs, deferred income taxes, provision for bad debt, foreign currency losses related to intercompany loans and transactions, and an unrealized gain on investment. Cash used in working capital accounts was principally a function of a $14.3 million increase in accounts receivable due to the timing of billings and collections from customers, payments of $10.3 million of capitalized costs to obtain revenue contracts, which consisted primarily of sales commissions, a $6.0 million decrease in accrued expenses and other current liabilities which includes payments of approximately $5.0 million for severance and other employee costs associated with the restructuring plan and changing commission payment plans from a quarterly basis to a monthly basis, and a decrease of $4.1 million in operating lease liabilities. The cash used in working capital accounts was partially offset by a $15.9 million increase in deferred revenue, as we expanded our customer base and renewed existing customers, a $1.9 million decrease in prepaid expenses and other assets, and a $0.5 million increase in accounts payable.
The $15.4 million used in operating activities in fiscal 2023 reflects our net loss of $101.8 million and $14.9 million used in changes in working capital accounts, partially offset by $101.3 million in non-cash charges. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization, amortization of costs capitalized to obtain revenue contracts, non-cash operating lease costs, foreign currency losses related to intercompany loans and transactions, deferred income taxes, and provision for bad debt. Cash used in working capital accounts was principally a function of a $26.8 million increase in accounts receivable due to the timing of billings and collections from customers, an increase of $12.2 million of capitalized costs to obtain revenue contracts, which primarily related to payments for sales commissions as we expanded our customer base, a decrease of $4.8 million in operating lease liabilities, a $3.4 million increase in prepaid expenses and other assets, and a $1.2 million decrease in accrued expenses and other current liabilities. The cash used in working capital accounts was partially offset by a $33.5 million increase in deferred revenue, as we expanded our customer base and renewed existing customers.
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities
The $6.3 million used in investing activities in fiscal 2024 was comprised of $3.5 million used for the purchase of property and equipment and leasehold improvements to support the expansion of our business, $2.5 million used for the purchase of preferred stock in Rich Data Co, and $0.4 million for the final cash considerations relating to an asset acquisition completed in August 2022. The $20.7 million used in investing activities in fiscal 2023 was comprised of $18.3 million used for the purchase of property and equipment and the completion of leasehold improvements to our additional headquarter building to support the expansion of our business, $2.5 million used for the purchase of preferred stock in Zest AI, and $0.6 million for
an asset acquisition completed in August 2022. The cash used in investing activities was partially offset by $0.7 million received for a net working capital adjustment from our SimpleNexus acquisition.
Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities
The $21.1 million used in financing activities in fiscal 2024 was comprised principally of payments of $30.0 million on the Credit Facility and principal payments of $1.2 million on financing obligations. The cash used in financing activities was partially offset by $4.7 million of proceeds from stock issuances under the employee stock purchase plan, $4.5 million of proceeds from the exercise of stock options, and $1.0 million in proceeds from the non-controlling interest in our Japan joint venture. The $36.7 million provided by financing activities in fiscal 2023 was comprised principally of $50.0 million of proceeds from borrowings on the Credit Facility to expand our liquidity, $4.5 million in proceeds from stock issuances under the employee stock purchase plan, and $3.8 million of proceeds from the exercise of stock options. The cash provided by financing activities was partially reduced by payments of $20.0 million on the Credit Facility, principal payments of $1.1 million on the financing obligations, and payments of debt issuance costs of $0.4 million.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
Our estimated future obligations principally consist of leases related to our facilities, purchase obligations related primarily to licenses and hosting services, financing obligations for leases for which we are considered the owners for accounting purposes, and the Credit Facility. See Note 14 "Leases," Note 15 "Revolving Credit Facility," and Note 16 "Commitments and Contingencies" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires our management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and related disclosures. Our estimates are based on our historical experience and on various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these judgments and estimates under different assumptions or conditions and any such differences may be significant.
We believe that the following accounting policies involve a high degree of judgment and complexity. Accordingly, these are the policies we believe are the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our consolidated financial condition and results of our operations. See Note 2 "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, for a description of our other significant accounting policies. The preparation of our consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reported in those financial statements and accompanying notes. Although we believe that the estimates we use are reasonable, due to the inherent uncertainty involved in making those estimates, actual results reported in future periods could differ from those estimates.
Revenue Recognition
We derive our revenues from subscriptions and professional services. We recognize revenues when a contract exists between the Company and a customer and upon transfer of control of promised products or services to such customer in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for those products or services. We enter into contracts that can include various combinations of subscriptions and professional services, which may be capable of being distinct and accounted for as separate performance obligations, or in the case of offerings such as subscriptions, services and support, accounted for as a single performance obligation. Revenues are recognized net of allowances and any taxes collected from customers, which are subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.
We determine revenue recognition through the following steps:
•Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;
•Identification of the performance obligations in the contract;
•Determination of the transaction price;
•Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and
•Recognition of revenues when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation.
Subscription Revenues
Subscription revenues primarily consist of fees for providing customers access to our solutions, with routine customer support and maintenance related to email and phone support, bug fixes, and unspecified software updates and upgrades released when and if available during the maintenance term. Revenues are generally recognized on a ratable basis over the contract term beginning on the date that our service is made available to the customer, which we believe best reflects the manner in which our customers utilize our subscription offerings. Arrangements with customers do not provide the customer with the right to take possession of the software supporting the cloud-based application service at any time and, as a result, are accounted for as a service contract. Generally, our subscription contracts for the nCino Bank Operating System are three years or longer in length, billed annually in advance, are non-cancelable, and do not contain refund-type provisions. Subscription contracts for nCino Mortgage typically range from one to three years and are generally billed monthly in advance. Subscription arrangements for the nCino Bank Operating System that are cancelable generally have penalty clauses.
Professional Services and Other Revenues
Professional services and other revenues primarily consist of fees for deployment, configuration, and optimization services, as well as training. The majority of our professional services contracts revenues are recognized over time based on a proportional performance methodology which utilizes input methods. Professional services contracts are billed on a time and materials or fixed fee basis.
Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations
Most of our contracts with customers contain multiple performance obligations. For these contracts, we account for individual performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations on a relative standalone selling price (“SSP”) basis. We determine SSP by considering its overall pricing objectives and market conditions. Significant pricing practices taken into consideration include our discounting practices, the size and volume of our transactions, the customer demographic, the geographic area where services are sold, price lists, our go-to-market strategy, historical sales, and contract prices. As our go-to-market strategies evolve, we may modify its pricing practices in the future, which could result in changes to SSP.
Given the variability of pricing, we use a range of SSP. We determine the SSP range using information that may include market conditions or other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual products and services due to the stratification of products and services by customer size.
Remaining performance obligations ("RPOs") represent contracted revenues that have not yet been recognized, including deferred revenue and unbilled amounts that we expect will be recognized as revenues in future periods. Our reported RPO balance is influenced by several factors, including the timing of renewals, average contract terms, and foreign currency exchange rates. Because we often enter into large, multi-year contracts and the timing of renewal of these contracts varies by customer, our reported RPOs may fluctuate significantly from period to period, and we do not believe this measure is a useful gauge of our future performance. For these reasons, we do not use RPOs as a tool for managing our business.
Business Combinations
We use our best estimates and assumptions to assign fair value to tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date. The estimates of fair value require management to make estimates of, among other things, future expected cash flows, obsolescence life and factor, and discount rates. The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. While we use our best estimates and assumptions, our estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, the Company may record adjustments to the fair value of these tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the fair value of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to the Company's consolidated statements of operations. Determining the useful life of an intangible asset also requires judgment as different types of intangible assets have different lives.
Income Taxes
Accrued income taxes are reported as a component of either accounts receivable or other accrued liabilities, as appropriate, in our consolidated balance sheets and reflect our estimate of income taxes to be paid or received.
Deferred income taxes represent the amount of future income taxes to be paid or refunded and are accounted for using the asset and liability method. Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases. We recognize deferred tax assets for temporary deductible differences and deferred tax liabilities for temporary taxable differences. Deferred tax assets are also recorded for any tax attributes, such as net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards.
A valuation allowance is provided against a deferred tax asset when we determine that it is more likely than not that all, or a portion of, the balance will not be realized. This requires management to utilize significant judgement and the use of estimates. Any realization of the Company’s deferred tax assets is based upon the evaluation of four sources of taxable income, the future reversals of taxable temporary differences, future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carryforwards, taxable income in prior carryback years, and tax-planning strategies. At January 31, 2024, we determined that it is more likely than not that the majority of our deferred tax assets will not be realized and as such, recorded a valuation allowance of $148.3 million against our deferred tax assets of $201.9 million as of that date.
The Company is subject to income tax in the U.S., multiple state and local jurisdictions and various foreign countries. The tax laws and regulations in each jurisdiction may be interpreted differently in certain situations, which could result in differing financial results. The Company is required to exercise judgement regarding the application of these tax laws and regulations. Through this judgement process, the Company will evaluate and recognize any tax liabilities related to any income tax uncertainties. Due to the complexity of any uncertainty, the ultimate resolution may result in a remittance that is different from the current estimate of any tax liabilities.
Change in Accounting Estimate
See Note 8 "Goodwill and Intangible Assets" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a change in estimate related to the useful life of the SimpleNexus trade name during the third quarter of fiscal 2024.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for recently adopted accounting pronouncements and recently issued accounting pronouncements not yet adopted, if applicable.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily the result of fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates.
Interest Rate Risk
At January 31, 2024, we had cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash of $117.4 million, which consisted primarily of bank deposits and money market funds. Interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. However, our historical interest income has not fluctuated significantly. A hypothetical 10% change in interest rates would not have had a material impact on our financial results included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes and have not used any derivative financial instruments to manage our interest rate risk exposure.
On February 11, 2022, we entered into a senior secured revolving credit facility of up to $50.0 million. Borrowings bear interest, at the Company's option, at: (i) a base rate equal to the greater of (a) the lender’s “prime rate”, (b) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, and (c) the Bloomberg Short Term Bank Yield Index ("BSBY") rate plus 1.00%, plus a margin of 0.00% (provided that the base rate shall not be less than 0.00%); or (ii) the BSBY rate (provided that the BSBY shall not be less than 0.00%), plus a margin of 1.00%. As a result, we are exposed to increased interest rate risk as we make draws. At January 31, 2024, we had no amounts outstanding under the Credit Facility. A hypothetical 100 basis point change in interest rates would
not have had a material impact on our financial results included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. See Note 15 "Revolving Credit Facility" of the notes to our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our reporting currency is the U.S. dollar and the functional currency of each of our subsidiaries is its local currency. The assets and liabilities of each of our subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars at exchange rates in effect at each balance sheet date. Revenues and expenses are translated using the average exchange rate for the relevant period. Equity transactions are translated using historical exchange rates. Decreases in the relative value of the U.S. dollar to other currencies may negatively affect revenues and other operating results as expressed in U.S. dollars. Foreign currency translation adjustments are accounted for as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within stockholders’ equity. Gains or losses due to transactions in foreign currencies are included in non-operating income (expense), other in our consolidated statements of operations. Furthermore, our customers outside of the U.S. typically pay us in local currency. We have not engaged in hedging of foreign currency transactions to date, although we may choose to do so in the future. We do not believe that an immediate 10% increase or decrease in the relative value of the U.S. dollar to other currencies would have a material effect on operating results or financial condition.
At January 31, 2024, based on the balances of our cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash denominated in foreign currencies, a hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in foreign currency exchange rates would have had an impact of approximately $6.2 million on our cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at January 31, 2024.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of nCino, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the consolidated balance sheets of nCino, Inc. (the Company) as of January 31, 2023 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at January 31, 2023 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) and our report dated March 26, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
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| Revenue Recognition | |
| Description of the Matter | As discussed in Note 2, the Company derives revenues primarily from subscription services and professional services. Revenues are recognized when a contract exists between the Company and a customer and upon transfer of control of promised products or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to receive in exchange for those products or services. The Company assesses terms and conditions associated with contracts that can include various combinations of subscription and professional services, which may be capable of being distinct and accounted for as separate performance obligations, or in the case of offerings such as subscription services and support, accounted for as a single performance obligation. For contracts that contain multiple performance obligations, the Company accounts for individual performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations on a relative standalone selling price basis.
The audit effort in evaluating the Company’s accounting for revenue recognition was extensive and required auditor judgment for certain customer contracts to evaluate the terms and conditions, identify distinct performance obligations and support the allocation of transaction price.
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How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company’s revenue recognition processes, including controls designed to mitigate the risk of override of controls. This included testing controls over management’s review of customer contracts and review of manual revenue journal entries.
To test the Company’s accounting for revenue recognition, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, selecting a sample of revenue transactions to test for occurrence and to evaluate contract terms and conditions for accounting in accordance with ASC 606. This testing included reperforming the Company’s assessment of the distinct performance obligations within the arrangement, determination of the allocation of transaction price to the respective performance obligations, as well as testing the application of the revenue recognition requirements including reperforming the calculations of revenue recognized and testing the underlying data used in the calculations. We also assessed the appropriateness of the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
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/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016.
Raleigh, North Carolina
March 26, 2024
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of nCino, Inc.
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited nCino, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, nCino, Inc. (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2024, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets as of January 31, 2023 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2024, and the related notes and our report dated March 26, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Raleigh, North Carolina
March 26, 2024
nCino, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
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| January 31, 2023 | | January 31, 2024 |
| Assets | | | |
| Current assets | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents (VIE: $2,019 and $2,277 at January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024, respectively) | $ | 82,036 | | | $ | 112,085 | |
Accounts receivable, less allowances of $899 and $1,451 at January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024, respectively | 99,497 | | | 112,975 | |
| Costs capitalized to obtain revenue contracts, current portion, net | 9,386 | | | 10,544 | |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 16,274 | | | 15,171 | |
| Total current assets | 207,193 | | | 250,775 | |
| Property and equipment, net | 84,442 | | | 79,145 | |
| Operating lease right-of-use assets, net | 10,508 | | | 19,261 | |
| Costs capitalized to obtain revenue contracts, noncurrent, net | 18,229 | | | 17,425 | |
| Goodwill | 839,440 | | | 838,869 | |
| Intangible assets, net | 152,825 | | | 115,572 | |
Investments (related party $2,500 at January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024) | 6,531 | | | 9,294 | |
| Long-term prepaid expenses and other assets | 8,101 | | | 10,089 | |
| Total assets | $ | 1,327,269 | | | $ | 1,340,430 | |
| Liabilities, redeemable non-controlling interest, and stockholders’ equity | | | |
| Current liabilities | | | |
| Accounts payable | $ | 11,878 | | | $ | 11,842 | |
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| Accrued compensation and benefits | 22,623 | | | 16,283 | |
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | 10,897 | | | 10,847 | |
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| Deferred revenue | 154,871 | | | 170,941 | |
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| Financing obligations, current portion | 1,015 | | | 1,474 | |
| Operating lease liabilities, current portion | 3,874 | | | 3,649 | |
| Total current liabilities | 205,158 | | | 215,036 | |
| Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent | 7,282 | | | 16,423 | |
| Deferred income taxes, noncurrent | 2,797 | | | 3,687 | |
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| Revolving credit facility, noncurrent | 30,000 | | | — | |
| Financing obligations, noncurrent | 54,365 | | | 52,680 | |
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| Total liabilities | 299,602 | | | 287,826 | |
Commitments and contingencies (Note 16) | | | |
Redeemable non-controlling interest (Note 3) | 3,589 | | | 3,428 | |
| Stockholders’ equity | | | |
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized, and none issued and outstanding as of January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024 | — | | | — | |
Common stock, $0.0005 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized as of January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024; 111,424,132 and 113,684,299 shares issued and outstanding as of January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2024, respectively | 56 | | | 57 | |
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| Additional paid-in capital | 1,333,669 | | | 1,400,881 | |
| Accumulated other comprehensive income | 694 | | | 996 | |
| Accumulated deficit | (310,341) | | | (352,758) | |
| Total stockholders’ equity | 1,024,078 | | | 1,049,176 | |
| Total liabilities, redeemable non-controlling interest, and stockholders’ equity | $ | 1,327,269 | | | $ | 1,340,430 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
nCino, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Revenues | | | | | |
| Subscription | $ | 224,854 | | | $ | 344,752 | | | $ | 409,479 | |
| Professional services and other | 49,011 | | | 63,563 | | | 67,064 | |
| Total revenues | 273,865 | | | 408,315 | | | 476,543 | |
| Cost of revenues | | | | | |
Subscription (related party $41,404, $0, and $0, respectively)1 | 64,508 | | | 106,265 | | | 120,861 | |
| Professional services and other | 46,905 | | | 63,341 | | | 70,609 | |
| Total cost of revenues | 111,413 | | | 169,606 | | | 191,470 | |
| Gross profit | 162,452 | | | 238,709 | | | 285,073 | |
| Operating expenses | | | | | |
| Sales and marketing | 82,901 | | | 127,669 | | | 130,547 | |
| Research and development | 79,363 | | | 121,576 | | | 117,311 | |
| General and administrative | 71,545 | | | 83,477 | | | 76,727 | |
| Total operating expenses | 233,809 | | | 332,722 | | | 324,585 | |
| Loss from operations | (71,357) | | | (94,013) | | | (39,512) | |
| Non-operating income (expense) | | | | | |
| Interest income | 194 | | | 403 | | | 2,567 | |
| Interest expense | (1,514) | | | (2,807) | | | (4,135) | |
| Other expense, net | (1,277) | | | (1,356) | | | (856) | |
| Loss before income taxes | (73,954) | | | (97,773) | | | (41,936) | |
| Income tax provision (benefit) | (23,833) | | | 4,071 | | | 1,590 | |
| Net loss | (50,121) | | | (101,844) | | | (43,526) | |
Net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest (Note 3) | (1,569) | | | (1,119) | | | (1,109) | |
Adjustment attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest (Note 3) | 894 | | | 1,995 | | | (71) | |
| Net loss attributable to nCino, Inc. | $ | (49,446) | | | $ | (102,720) | | | $ | (42,346) | |
| Net loss per share attributable to nCino, Inc.: | | | | | |
| Basic and diluted | $ | (0.51) | | | $ | (0.93) | | | $ | (0.38) | |
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding: | | | | | |
| Basic and diluted | 96,722,464 | | | 110,615,734 | | | 112,672,397 | |
1See Note 9 "Reseller Agreement" and Note 17 "Related-Party Transactions."
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
nCino, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(In thousands)
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Net loss | $ | (50,121) | | | $ | (101,844) | | | $ | (43,526) | |
| Other comprehensive income (loss): | | | | | |
| Foreign currency translation | (568) | | | 572 | | | 315 | |
| Other comprehensive income (loss) | (568) | | | 572 | | | 315 | |
| Comprehensive loss | (50,689) | | | (101,272) | | | (43,211) | |
| Less comprehensive loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest: | | | | | |
| Net loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest | (1,569) | | | (1,119) | | | (1,109) | |
| Foreign currency translation attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest | (256) | | | (194) | | | 13 | |
| Comprehensive loss attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest | (1,825) | | | (1,313) | | | (1,096) | |
| Comprehensive loss attributable to nCino, Inc. | $ | (48,864) | | | $ | (99,959) | | | $ | (42,115) | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
nCino, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
(In thousands, except share data)
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| Common Stock | | Additional
Paid-in
Capital | | Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss) | | Accumulated
Deficit | | Total |
| Shares | | Amount | |
| Balance, January 31, 2021 | 93,643,759 | | | $ | 47 | | | $ | 585,956 | | | $ | 240 | | | $ | (161,064) | | | $ | 425,179 | |
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Stock issuance related to business combinations, net of issuance costs of $210 | 12,762,146 | | | 7 | | | 647,292 | | | — | | | — | | | 647,299 | |
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| Exercise of stock options | 2,758,904 | | | 1 | | | 13,906 | | | — | | | — | | | 13,907 | |
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| Stock issuance upon vesting of restricted stock units | 559,191 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Stock issuance under the employee stock purchase plan | 54,542 | | | — | | | 2,543 | | | — | | | — | | | 2,543 | |
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| Stock-based compensation | — | | | — | | | 28,455 | | | — | | | — | | | 28,455 | |
| Other comprehensive loss | — | | | — | | | — | | | (312) | | | — | | | (312) | |
| Net loss attributable to nCino, Inc., including adjustment to redeemable non-controlling interest | — | | | — | | | (894) | | | | | (48,552) | | | (49,446) | |
| Balance, January 31, 2022 | 109,778,542 | | | 55 | | | 1,277,258 | | | (72) | | | (209,616) | | | 1,067,625 | |
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| Exercise of stock options | 579,662 | | | 1 | | | 3,749 | | | — | | | — | | | 3,750 | |
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| Stock issuance upon vesting of restricted stock units | 883,561 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Stock issuance under the employee stock purchase plan | 182,367 | | | — | | | 4,450 | | | — | | | — | | | 4,450 | |
| Stock-based compensation | — | | | — | | | 50,207 | | | — | | | — | | | 50,207 | |
| Other comprehensive income | — | | | — | | | — | | | 766 | | | — | | | 766 | |
| Net loss attributable to nCino, Inc., including adjustment to redeemable non-controlling interest | — | | | — | | | (1,995) | | | — | | | (100,725) | | | (102,720) | |
| Balance, January 31, 2023 | 111,424,132 | | | 56 | | | 1,333,669 | | | 694 | | | (310,341) | | | 1,024,078 | |
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| Exercise of stock options | 785,794 | | | 1 | | | 4,468 | | | — | | | — | | | 4,469 | |
| Stock issuance upon vesting of restricted stock units | 1,277,625 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Stock issuance under the employee stock purchase plan | 196,748 | | | — | | | 4,661 | | | — | | | — | | | 4,661 | |
| Stock-based compensation | — | | | — | | | 58,012 | | | — | | | — | | | 58,012 | |
| Other comprehensive income | — | | | — | | | — | | | 302 | | | — | | | 302 | |
| Net loss attributable to nCino, Inc., including adjustment to redeemable non-controlling interest | — | | | — | | | 71 | | | — | | | (42,417) | | | (42,346) | |
| Balance, January 31, 2024 | 113,684,299 | | | $ | 57 | | | $ | 1,400,881 | | | $ | 996 | | | $ | (352,758) | | | $ | 1,049,176 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
nCino, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
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| Fiscal Year Ended January 31, |
| 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 |
| Cash flows from operating activities | | | | | |
| Net loss attributable to nCino, Inc. | $ | (49,446) | | | $ | (102,720) | | | $ | (42,346) | |
| Net loss and adjustment attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest | (675) | | | 876 | | | (1,180) | |
| Net loss | (50,121) | | | (101,844) | | | (43,526) | |
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities: | | | | | |
| Depreciation and amortization | 10,006 | | | 34,652 | | | 45,264 | |
| Non-cash operating lease costs | 2,534 | | | 3,840 | | | 4,534 | |
| Amortization of costs capitalized to obtain revenue contracts | 5,779 | | | 8,459 | | | 9,934 | |
| Amortization of debt issuance costs | — | | | 177 | | | 184 | |
| Stock-based compensation | 28,477 | | | 50,232 | | | 58,035 | |
| Deferred income taxes | < |
