Company: EVLVW
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-020353
Chunk: 329

Company: Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 329
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 which could divert management’s attention, fail to meet our expectations, result in additional dilution to our stockholders, increase expenses, disrupt our operations or otherwise harm our operating results.

We may in the future acquire or invest in businesses, products, or technologies that we believe could complement or expand our platform, enhance our technical capabilities, or otherwise offer growth opportunities. The pursuit of potential acquisitions may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur various expenses related to identifying, investigating, and pursuing suitable acquisitions, whether or not they are consummated. Even if they are consummated, we may not be able to fully realize the anticipated benefits of any future acquisitions or anticipated benefits may not transpire.

There are inherent risks in integrating and managing acquisitions. If we acquire additional businesses, we may not be able to assimilate or integrate the acquired personnel, operations, products, services, and technologies successfully or effectively manage the combined business following the acquisition and our management may be distracted from operating our business. We also may not achieve the anticipated benefits from the acquired business due to a number of factors, including, without limitation:

•unanticipated costs or liabilities associated with the acquisition;

•incurrence of acquisition-related costs, which would be recognized as a current period expense;

•inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset acquisition or investment costs;

•inability to maintain relationships with customers and partners of the acquired business;

•difficulty of incorporating acquired technology and rights into our platform and of maintaining quality and security standards consistent with our brand;

•delays in customer purchases due to uncertainty related to any acquisition;

•the potential loss of key employees;

•use of resources that are needed in other parts of our business and diversion of management and employee resources;

•inability to recognize acquired deferred revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policies; and

•use of substantial portions of our available cash and equity or the incurrence of debt to consummate the acquisition.

Acquisitions also increase the risk of unforeseen legal liability, including potential shareholder suits or potential violations of applicable law or industry rules and regulations, arising from prior or ongoing acts or omissions by the acquired businesses that are not discovered by due diligence during the acquisition process or new regulatory restrictions at the federal, state, or local levels. Generally, if an acquired business fails to meet our expectations, our operating results, business, and financial condition may suffer. Acquisitions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition