Company: NAVN
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001628280-25-042130
Chunk: 55

Company: Navan, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: S-1
Chunk 55
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ctions. Our business depends on a strong brand, and if we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our ability to maintain and expand our base of customers may be impaired, and our business and results of operations will be harmed. We believe that the brand identity that we have developed has significantly contributed to the success of our business. We also believe that maintaining and enhancing the Navan brand is critical to expanding our customer base and establishing and maintaining relationships with suppliers and other partners. Successful promotion and protection of our brand will depend largely on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, our ability to ensure that our platform remains high-quality, reliable, useful and competitively priced, the quality and perceived value of our platform, our ability to successfully differentiate our platform and features from those of our competitors, and the ability of our customers to achieve successful results by using our platform and features. Maintaining and enhancing our brand may require us to make substantial investments not just in our Travel Management offerings but also in newer offerings, such as Bleisure, and to make substantial investments in new non-U.S. markets, which may not be successful. Marketing campaigns are also critical to the success of our product-led growth sales strategy. Substantial advertising expenditures may be required to maintain and enhance our brand, which may not prove successful. Advertising and other brand promotion activities may not generate customer awareness or increase revenue, and even if they do, any increase in revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building our brand. In addition, existing and future brand-marketing campaigns and customer awareness strategies may have lengthy return on investment time horizons. We also have limited experience conducting broad marketing campaigns, such as global integrated marketing campaigns, and other marketing initiatives. As a result, we may not be able to adequately assess the benefits of such initiatives until we have made substantial investments of time and capital, which could also negatively impact our ability to effectively allocate sales and marketing funds and resources to the sales strategy that generates the greatest return on our investment. There could also be a negative reaction to certain advertising campaigns and values-based activity and communications. Additionally, our brand could be damaged by incidents involving our suppliers, particularly if the incidents receive considerable negative publicity or result in litigation, some of which may occur in the ordinary course of our business or the business of our suppliers and other partners. In addition, our failure to provide timely and sufficient support services to our users and customers in connection with travel delays and incidents could harm our brand and reputation. Such incidents may arise from events that are 39 or may be beyond