Company: SKLZ
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001801661-25-000071
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Company: Skillz Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 thousand for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, which represented an effective tax rate of negative 0.06% and 19.58% for the respective periods.  The Company has historically been in an overall loss position and is only subject to foreign and state taxes.  The Company maintains a full valuation allowance for all its net deferred tax assets. The effective tax rates were less than the federal statutory rate of 21% primarily due to book losses, state taxes and equity award activity, mostly offset by a full valuation allowance on our deferred tax assets for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

12. Segment Reporting

Operating segments are components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision-making group (the “CODM”). Our CODM consists of the Chief Executive Officer who allocates resources and measures profitability based on our operating segments, which are managed and reviewed separately, as each represents products and services that can be sold separately to our customers. The CODM does not review information regarding total assets on a reportable segment basis. Effective in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company had two operating and reporting segments.A description of the Company’s two reportable segments, including products and services, is as follows.SkillzSkillz is a leading eSports gaming platform. Its platform enables game developers to monetize their content through multi-player competition. By utilizing Skillz’ monetization services, developers can enhance their end-user experiences by enabling them to compete in head-to-head matches, live tournaments, and leagues while also increasing player retention through referral bonus programs, loyalty perks, on-system achievements, and rewards / prizes. Skillz provides its monetization services to developers via a downloadable SDK. The SDK integrates with developers’ existing games. Monetization services include end-user registration, player matching, fraud & fair play monitoring, and settlement for player billings and payouts. Skillz is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV with an office in Bangalore, India and a presence in San Francisco, CA.AarkiAarki is an Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) company that delivers advertising solutions to drive revenue growth for mobile app developers. Aarki enables brands to effectively engage audiences in a privacy-first world by using billions of contextual bidding signals coupled with proprietary machine learning and behavioral models. Aarki works with hundreds of advertisers globally and manages millions of mobile ad requests per second from over 10 b