EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1734722
Filing Year: 2025
Filename: 1734722_10-K_2025_0001734722-25-000007.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business
Overview
First established in a Bucharest, Romania apartment in 2005, UiPath was incorporated in Delaware in 2015 as a company principally focused on building and managing automations, starting with computer vision technology and user interface automations in our initial RPA offering, which remains the foundation of our platform today. Over the course of the past several years, we have followed a strategy of leveraging advances in AI to broaden our automation capabilities and have expanded, through both internal product development and strategic acquisitions, from RPA as a tool to automation as a platform.
Our end-to-end, integrated technology, The UiPath Platform™, allows customers to integrate AI with automation, enabling automation to take action based on learning and experience. It enables employees to quickly build automations for both existing and new processes and to automate a vast array of actions including, but not limited to, logging into applications, extracting information from documents, moving folders, filling in forms, reading emails, and updating information fields and databases. The ability of our platform to replicate steps performed by humans in executing business processes drives operational efficiencies and enables companies to deliver on key digital initiatives with greater speed, agility, and accuracy.
AI-powered automation is here, and its momentum is continuing to grow as organizations around the world begin to understand the combined power of automation and AI to drive efficiency and accelerate business outcomes. The UiPath Platform™ continues to shape the future of work as we evolve into an AI-native platform, where agentic AI is combined with RPA to not only help our customers automate workflows, but also to orchestrate and transform end-to-end business processes.
Trends Shaping Our Industry
The following are key industry trends affecting our business outlook and product strategy:
A fragmented application landscape complicates business processes and hinders digital transformation. Businesses worldwide have spent billions of dollars on software in an attempt to drive efficiency and competitive advantages. A proliferation of applications has resulted in a shift from traditional software suites to specialized point solutions. Enterprises have transitioned from managing a handful of multi-purpose, largely on-premises applications to managing hundreds or thousands of point solutions deployed across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. These applications, which were generally not designed for interoperability, run in tandem with legacy technologies, relying on humans to act as the connective tissue in the performance of business processes. As a result, employees lose valuable time navigating a fragmented application landscape and attention is diverted away from more cognitive activities that could directly improve business outcomes.
Advancements in AI are enabling automation of sophisticated business processes and broader use cases.
While RPA can easily capture data and manipulate applications like a person would, automation of certain more complex and cognitive tasks has historically been out of reach. The evolution of AI, which refers to the capability of computer systems or algorithms to emulate intelligent human behavior, has now enabled the automation of processes with characteristics-such as high variability, inherent uncertainty, and unstructured data-that would have been impossible to automate with RPA alone. AI expands capabilities by enabling automations to learn how to read, write, listen, recognize patterns, and make complex decisions, bringing automation to a new level by opening a world of new opportunities for business growth, cost reduction, and improved productivity.
Low-code and no-code automation is enhanced by new AI capabilities.
Low-code and no-code development platforms have been greatly enhanced with the evolution of AI-including large language models, generative AI, and agentic AI. In addition, many enterprise software companies have introduced AI-powered assistants into their products. Users can simply describe their automation needs in plain language, and the assistant can automate a range of repetitive tasks and simple workflows. These advancements are transforming the way that automations are created and broadening the accessibility and footprint of automation across the enterprise.
AI-rich environments call for heightened security and governance. Security and governance of AI, particularly generative and agentic AI, are key concerns of IT professionals. Enterprises must monitor the actions and decisions of AI agents to ensure that AI-generated outputs can be trusted to be accurate and non-hallucinatory. Further, security concerns around use of AI have increased as cyberattacks have grown in frequency and sophistication, intensifying the need for organizations to ensure that their sensitive data will not be compromised by AI agents and large language models.
Competition
The market for automation remains a fast-growing enterprise software market and is increasingly competitive. The recent introduction of AI agents has created a flurry of investment among established software companies and startups. We believe that our competitors primarily fall into the following categories:
•Enterprise platform vendors that are acquiring, building, or investing in automation and AI functionality or partnering with automation and AI providers.
•Traditional enterprise software companies that are enhancing their offerings with investment in new AI agents.
•AI model research organizations and incubators that seek to build on their models with new capabilities for directly augmenting and assisting human workers.
•AI startups focused on process orchestration and intelligence.
•RPA software providers and adjacent automation and integration platform companies in markets such as low-code, BPM, iPaaS, process mining, IDP, and test automation that provide additional features that can be useful for automations.
We have alliances and integrations with key vendors across much of the competitive landscape, but these vendors often develop and market their own automation capabilities as extensions of their core models or platforms.
A number of technology companies have attempted to address the AI and automation needs of organizations through the application of BPM, application development platform offerings, RPA tools, and AI point offerings, as well as other horizontal software applications. However, when conducting common enterprise workflows and business-critical processes, these existing offerings are challenged by a number of inherent limitations, including:
•immature UI and API automation capabilities;
•lack of proprietary AI models relevant to company-specific and complex document or image automation;
•lack of integration and compatibility with the broad and diverse tools and systems typical in more complex workflows; and
•lack of governance capabilities at scale, including mature and proven credential management and security.
What We Offer
Our platform is purpose-built to be responsive to these challenges and to advance the next generation of automation with several key strengths:
•We deliver scalable, reliable, and secure software robots that emulate human actions with precision and speed, empowering organizations to automate repetitive tasks.
•Our platform’s embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing by adapting to constantly changing variables.
•Our platform allows users to seamlessly design and combine UI automations, API integrations, and AI-based document understanding in a single workflow.
•Our multi-tenant platform is built for enterprise deployment, with security and governance at its core, and can be deployed on-premises, in a public or private cloud, or in a hybrid environment. In addition, we offer a managed, multi-tenant SaaS version called Automation Cloud™, which allows rapid automation without infrastructure overhead.
•Our intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality empowers users of all technical levels to build and deploy complex automations quickly, using customizable and sharable components as modular building blocks.
•Our platform provides users with AI-powered automated testing for their applications, allowing them to streamline development and find and fix issues before they impact production systems.
•Our platform's process mining capabilities analyze the digital footprint of users' processes across all systems to identify the root causes and impact of inefficiencies and shorten the timeline between process analysis and automation deployment.
•Our platform tracks, measures, and forecasts automation performance, providing actionable metrics and predictive insights to continuously optimize business processes and maximize return on investment.
•Our platform was designed to enable people and automations to work together intelligently, with each focusing on the processes they execute best, to enhance productivity and improve business outcomes.
The UiPath Platform™
The UiPath Platform™ unites AI with enterprise automation, turning AI's promise into real-world impact. It provides our customers with a robust set of capabilities that allow them to discover opportunities for automation, automate using a digital workforce that seamlessly collaborates with humans, and operate a mission critical automation program at scale.
Discover
Identify the highest-ROI opportunities for continuous process optimization and automation using the power of AI
Process mining uses data from business applications to give organizations a detailed understanding of their business processes and how to automate and improve them.
Task mining provides an objective, data-driven picture of employees' desktop activities without disrupting ongoing work, allowing organizations to identify process improvement areas or automation candidates.
Communications mining lets users mine, monitor, and automate service conversations, finding the value in these communications to unlock insights and improve the experience of their customers.
Idea capture and management enables organizations to centrally capture and manage automation ideas and process improvements and to prioritize them based on KPIs.
Automate
Rapidly build AI-powered automation that seamlessly collaborates with people and systems to transform every facet of work
UI and API automation are combined for maximum scale and speed across the broadest range of apps and systems, building automations that "see" components of dynamic interfaces with the power of AI.
Low-code development empowers employees to build business apps and automations rapidly with low-code, visual tools, making automation-and innovation-available to everyone.
Generative AI and experiences expand automation's impact and address a broader range of business challenges, stretching the limits of what's possible.
IDP and specialized AI remove the work from paperwork with semantic understanding of a wide range of documents-accurately and quickly.
Process orchestration automates cross-functional business processes and allows seamless collaboration between software robots and humans.
Operate
Establish an enterprise-grade foundation to run and optimize a mission-critical automation program at high scale
Real-time and trend analytics provide context for data-driven automation decision-making and strategy.
Continuous testing delivers low- and no-code and coded automated testing across the entire testing lifecycle, with AI-powered features to boost efficiency.
Unified management and governance allow organizations to monitor the integrated platform and their automation programs centrally, enabling them to scale quickly-and responsibly.
Cloud-first flexibility offers AI-powered enterprise-ready automation instantly with SaaS, or allows organizations to self-host for data isolation or regulatory compliance needs.
In October 2024, at our Forward VII user conference, we announced our commitment to lead in agentic automation by adding core agentic AI capabilities to our existing enterprise automation platform. Our intention is to create the world's first integrated platform for agentic automation. As the UiPath Platform™ continues to evolve into an increasingly sophisticated AI-native platform, our new agentic capabilities (now in preview) will work in concert with our proven RPA capabilities to not only help our customers automate business processes, but also to build true end-to-end agentic workflows.
Our Growth Strategies
Agentic automation leadership-In addition to RPA, we are focused on targeting a new adjacent market-agentic automation- built around delivering on the benefits of agentic AI across enterprise workflows. Our approach is to drive continued awareness of the new agentic automation market, facilitate collaboration and research with influential industry analysts, engage with and showcase customers realizing early business outcomes from agentic automation, and join forces with partners that are aligned with this emerging market opportunity.
Customer acquisition and expansion-We sell our platform through a direct sales team, supported by a team of pre-sales engineers and our professional services organization, who offer technical expertise to help customers accelerate adoption and time-to-value. We also sell through channel partnerships, as well as with systems integrators, and are focused on maintaining and growing a high-quality ecosystem of partners that build, train, and certify skills on our technology as well as those that deploy our technology on behalf of their customers.
We sell to organizations of all sizes across a broad range of industries and geographies, with a focus on enterprise customers. In certain geographies, we maintain specialized teams that concentrate on specific verticals such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and public sector. We've designed our go-to-market engine to divide our customer base according to propensity to invest in automation, and we strive to align our coverage model accordingly:
•Enterprise-We dedicate a higher density of resources and coverage to Forbes Global 2000 companies with the highest propensity to invest in and potential to adopt automation at scale. We believe these accounts represent our largest growth opportunity. Here we focus on selling positive business outcomes that resonate with C-level executives and leverage our largest partners for customer enablement. Dense coverage ratios and industry alignment of sales teams allow us to accelerate both new customer acquisition and usage expansion.
•Corporate and Mid-Market-For corporate and mid-market accounts, which are in the earlier stages of their automation journey, we use both direct marketing and a partner-led approach, where we provide resources to support our partners. With our new agentic automation initiatives, we expect to see a rise in inbound activities through our trial and sandbox digital marketing efforts.
•Small and Mid-Sized Business-We seek to sell to the smallest companies primarily through our most efficient partner-led, self-service, and digital channels, focusing on low-cost, durable customer acquisition. In addition, we are developing opportunities for product-led growth, which will enable us to speak to users within the product to organically nurture adoption and sell additional capabilities.
Our sales efforts are complemented by our marketing initiatives, which build brand and category awareness, cultivate a large and growing community, and drive demand through a combination of global and local campaigns. We employ a variety of approaches to reach prospective customers, including community evangelism, in-person and digital events, content marketing, digital advertising, search optimization, partner marketing, social media, and public relations. We host and present regularly at regional and global events, including our own Forward and On Tour conferences, and Summit and DevCon events.
Our customers see rapid time-to-value with our products, often expanding use cases and increasing their number of automations beyond their initial deployment. We expect that our new agentic automation capabilities will follow a similar trend, enabling us to expand sales within organizations as customers automate more complex workflows that require decision-making and benefit from a higher degree of agency. The broad applicability of our platform enables us to sell across all levels and departments of an organization, affording opportunity for eventual graduation to larger platform sales.
Platform investment and innovation-We intend to deliver functionalities that increase the surface area of automation for our customers through the addition of agentic AI capabilities throughout the UiPath Platform™. To this end, we have made and plan to continue to make significant investments in research and development to enhance our technology. For example, in November 2024, we released version 24.10 of the UiPath Platform™. Notably, this release introduces Autopilot for Everyone, which provides a conversational assistant for creating and interacting with automations, and Clipboard AI, which acts as an intelligent copy-paste assistant, transferring data between documents, spreadsheets, and applications. In December 2024, we released a private preview of our new Agent Builder product, which allows users to craft AI agents that can think and work by themselves, and in March
2025, our Agentic Orchestration product, which integrates AI agents, robots, and people into complex, multisystem processes, was made available for public preview.
Strategic Acquisitions-We have acquired businesses and technologies to drive platform and market expansion. For example, in July 2022, we acquired Re:infer, a provider of NLP software focused on unstructured documents and communications, laying the foundation for our Communications Mining technology, which has been a fitting complement to our existing IDP capabilities. In March 2025, we acquired Peak AI Limited, a U.K.-based software company offering an AI platform that provides pricing and inventory intelligence to customers in manufacturing and retail. We expect to continue to evaluate acquisition opportunities that we believe are complementary to our platform.
Community Engagement-We have cultivated a dynamic ecosystem of users through our Community, UiPath Academy, and Academic Alliance initiatives, which support and empower individuals to use our platform to navigate the evolving landscape of automation and AI. Our annual UiPath Community Most Valuable Professional award program recognizes global UiPath Community members for their outstanding contribution, innovation, and evangelism and provides us with a source of continuous user feedback and foresight. Additionally, to make automation more accessible, we offer free access via our Community Edition and Enterprise Trial, both available online. (Community Edition is a limited version of our platform that is offered for free to small businesses, university students, and individuals, whereas Enterprise Trial provides full functionality for a limited time.)
We believe that our highly engaged user community sets us apart and that by equipping individuals with the skills to leverage AI-powered automation, we are paving the way for broader adoption and innovation across industries. The result is a global network of automation professionals who are not only building and sharing automations, but also transforming the way work gets done.
Customers
We have a large and diversified customer base across a broad range of industry sectors.
We determine our customer count by considering the number of accounts with a unique account identifier for which we have an active license or SaaS subscription in the period indicated, including entities to which we have sold our products either directly or indirectly (for example, through a channel partner). A single organization with multiple divisions, segments, or subsidiaries is counted as a single customer. Our customer count is subject to adjustment for acquisitions, consolidations, spin-offs, and other market activity. Non-paying partners and resellers and users of free or trial subscriptions are excluded from our customer count.
We had approximately 10,753 and approximately 10,830 customers as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Partners
We develop and maintain business and technology partnerships that help us to integrate the latest technology into our platform and to market and deliver our platform to our customers around the world.
Our business partners include global and regional system integrators, value-added resellers, and business consultants that enhance our market presence and drive greater sales efficiencies.
Our technology partners bring specialized capabilities to our platform. We collaborate to develop solutions that address the specific requirements of horizontal and industry use cases, resulting in faster time-to-value for customers. With technology partners, hyperscalers, and AI partners, we strategically engage across product and development, marketing, and go-to-market functions. We work toward interoperability and native extensibility to ensure both first- and third-party agents, robots, and humans are seamlessly orchestrated by the UiPath Platform™ across enterprise systems, applications, and data.
Additionally, we maintain partnerships with leading cloud vendors, such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Inc., and Microsoft Corporation, to both simplify the deployment of our platform and to extend our platform to offer customers the benefits of cloud-based AI capabilities.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property rights are important to the success of our business. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, as well as license agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements with third parties, and other contractual protections, to protect our intellectual property rights, including our proprietary technology, software, know-how, and brand.
We continually review our development efforts to assess and identify the existence and patentability of new intellectual property, and maintain an active patent program that has enabled us to steadily build our patent portfolio over the past several fiscal years, as illustrated in the following chart:
As of January 31, 2025, we held 262 issued patents which are scheduled to expire between 2039 and 2045. As of January 31, 2025, we also had 152 pending patent applications in the U.S. (including 14 allowed U.S. patent applications), 124 pending Patent Cooperation Treaty applications, and 303 pending and 23 allowed patent applications in other jurisdictions. Our patent portfolio is aligned to and supports the UiPath Platform™ as follows:
Discover Automate Operate
includes 99 AI assets
includes 228 AI assets
includes 24 AI assets
The terms of individual patents extend for varying periods of time, depending upon the date of filing of the patent application, the date of patent issuance, and the legal term of patents in the countries in which they are obtained. Generally, patents issued for applications filed in the U.S. are effective for 20 years from the earliest effective filing date of a non-provisional patent application. The duration of patents outside of the U.S. varies in accordance with provisions of applicable local law, but is typically also 20 years from the earliest effective filing date.
However, the actual protection afforded by a patent varies from country to country and depends upon many factors, including the type of patent, the scope of its coverage, the availability of legal remedies in a particular country, and the validity and enforceability of the patent.
In addition to our patents, we held 18 registered U.S. trademarks and had 3 pending U.S. trademark application and more than 500 active foreign trademark filings as of January 31, 2025.
Although we rely on intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as contractual protections to establish and protect our proprietary rights, we believe that factors such as the technological and creative skills of our personnel, development of new services, features, and functionality, and frequent enhancements to our platform are equally essential to establishing and maintaining our technology leadership position.
We restrict access to and use of our proprietary technology and other confidential information through the use of internal and external controls, including contractual protections with employees, contractors, customers, and partners. We require our employees, consultants, and certain other third parties to enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements, and we control and monitor access to our software, documentation, and other confidential information. Our policy is to require all employees and independent contractors to sign agreements assigning to us any inventions, trade secrets, works of authorship, developments, processes, and other intellectual property generated by them on our behalf and under which they agree to protect our confidential information. In addition, we generally enter into confidentiality agreements with our customers and partners. See Risk Factors-Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property, included in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, for a description of risks related to our intellectual property.
Government Regulation
Our business is and will continue to be subject to extensive U.S. federal and state and foreign laws and regulations, including laws and regulations involving privacy, data protection, security, intellectual property, competition, taxation, anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, use of artificial intelligence, and other similar laws. Many of these laws and regulations are still evolving and are likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future, and these laws and regulations can vary significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The costs of complying with these laws and regulations are high and are likely to increase in the future. Further, the impact of these laws and regulations may disproportionately affect our business in comparison to our competitors that have greater resources.
In the U.S., we are subject to data security and privacy rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of the FTC, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the CCPA, and other state and federal laws relating to privacy and data security. The CCPA requires covered businesses to provide new disclosures to California residents and to provide them with new ways to opt out of the sale of personal information, and provides a private right of action and statutory damages for data breaches. Other jurisdictions in the U.S. are beginning to propose laws similar to the CCPA.
As a result of our global operations, we must comply with many data security and privacy laws that may vary significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Virtually every jurisdiction in which we operate has established or is in the process of establishing data security and privacy legal frameworks with which we or our customers must comply. Our failure to comply with the laws of each jurisdiction may subject us to significant penalties. For example, the data protection landscape in Europe, including with respect to cross-border data transfers, is currently unstable and other countries outside of Europe have enacted or are considering enacting cross-border data transfer restrictions and laws requiring local data residency. Furthermore, the EU AI Act imposes onerous obligations for providers and deployers of AI-related systems. In addition, we must comply with any sanctions that may be issued by countries in which we do business.
We may also be subject to regulation with respect to ESG matters. For example, the state of California has adopted rules that require companies to provide expanded climate-related disclosures, and the EU adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Compliance with these developing regulations may cause us to incur additional costs.
For a discussion of the various risks we face from regulation and compliance matters, see Risk Factors-Risks Related to Data Privacy and Cybersecurity and Risk Factors-Risks Related to Regulatory Compliance and Governmental Matters included in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Human Capital
Our People
Our people are our most important asset and are key to our success. We seek to employ passionate individuals with a growth mindset who are excited to innovate and challenge the status quo.
As of January 31, 2025, we had a total of 3,868 full-time employees, geographically distributed as follows:
The following chart presents the distribution of our full-time employees by financial statement line as of January 31, 2025:
We are subject to local labor law requirements in all countries in which we operate. We consider our employee relations to be good and have not experienced any work stoppages.
Our Values
We believe that our values serve as our compass, guiding our culture, strategy, and behaviors. Embedding these values into everything we do is critical to our success and helps us deliver value to our customers, employees, and stockholders.
Humble
Keep an open mind. Cultivate kindness. Be a team player. Check your ego.
Bold
Speak up. Act with courage. Make decisions. Think big.
Immersed
Dive deep. Be passionate. Own what you do. Be customer centric.
Fast
Practice agility. Prioritize simplicity. Drive results. Be proactive.
Employee Experience
Changing the world of work starts with creating a workplace in which our employees feel inspired, empowered, and supported. We strive to provide equal opportunity and to foster an environment that drives inclusion and belonging, while also supporting our employees' overall well-being.
We continue to evolve our culture to support our strategy and our vision of accelerating human achievement through the power of automation and AI. We have designed our rewards programs to be competitive and to attract, retain, and motivate high-performing employees. We employ a consistent performance management approach globally, whereby individual performance is evaluated based on impact and alignment with our values, and we utilize various global and functional programs to recognize employee achievement and tenure.
We cultivate high-performing leaders and individual contributors through integrated talent development initiatives. Our approach empowers all employees to drive their professional growth through access to various e-learning platforms, structured mentoring relationships, and individual coaching and customized learning plans aligned with their career aspirations.
Social Responsibility and Community Initiatives
We have built an employee-led giving strategy through which employees can support charities of their choosing via donation. We further support the charitable pursuits of our people by allotting additional paid time off for activities with social impact. Our employees have volunteered, for example, in building homes for those without, feeding those in need, and in teaching children valuable technical and life skills.
In furtherance of our mission, vision, and strategy, we are committed to making automation a force for good in the world. We have invested in research, collaborations, and partnerships to develop solutions that help address global challenges and increase the positive impact of automation on people and our planet. We have supported initiatives dedicated to improving automation skills and technology access and creating social good with our free online learning platform, UiPath Academy. Working with our partners to develop accessible paths toward fulfilling careers and foster meaningful employment opportunities remains a priority for us, and we have expanded our network of partner organizations to equip students with automation skills as part of our UiPath Academic Alliance program. We also train and certify our own employees as citizen developers to automate mundane tasks, which promotes empowerment and engagement.
We also founded the UiPath Foundation, an independent non-governmental, non-profit, non-political, and non-religious global organization based in Romania, which aims to provide children living in poverty with the skills and tools necessary to reach their full potential.
At the time of our IPO in April 2021, we pledged to donate equity as a member of Pledge 1%, a global corporate philanthropy movement; as of January 31, 2025, we have donated 0.9 million shares of our Class A common stock to fund projects related to our environmental, social, and governance initiatives, with an additional 1.9 million shares of our Class A common stock reserved for distribution by April 2031.
Corporate and Available Information
We were first established in Bucharest, Romania in 2005 and incorporated in Delaware on June 9, 2015. Our principal executive offices are located at One Vanderbilt Avenue, 60th Floor, New York, New York 10017, and our telephone number is (844) 432-0455.
The UiPath logo, “UiPath,” and our other registered and common law trade names, trademarks, and service marks are the property of UiPath, Inc. or our subsidiaries. Any other trade names, trademarks and service marks used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of their respective owners.
Our website address is www.uipath.com. Information found on, or accessible through, our website is not a part of, and is not incorporated into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We file electronically with the SEC our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. We make available on our website at www.uipath.com, free of charge, copies of these reports and other information as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, 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.
We may use our website as a distribution channel for material company information. Financial and other important information regarding UiPath is routinely posted on and accessible through our website at www.uipath.com. We therefore encourage investors and others interested in UiPath to review the information that we make available on our website, in addition to following our filings with the SEC, webcasts, press releases, and conference calls. In addition, interested parties may automatically receive email alerts and other information about UiPath when they enroll an email address by visiting “Resources” under the "Investor Relations" section at www.uipath.com.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described below. The reader should consider and read carefully all of the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information contained 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 the related notes. The risks described below are those which we believe are the material risks 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 Class A common stock could decline.
Risks Related to Our Business, Products, Operations, and Industry
We have incurred net losses in the past, anticipate continuing to incur significant operating expenses in the future, and may not achieve or sustain consistent profitability.
We have incurred net losses in the past, and may continue to incur net losses in the future. We expect to continue to incur significant operating expenses in the foreseeable future. This includes leveraging the investments made in our organization in prior years and continuing to implement initiatives designed to grow our business in a disciplined manner. These initiatives include increasing our overall customer base and expanding sales within our current customer base, continuing to penetrate international markets, investing in research and development to improve the capabilities of our platform (including AI capabilities), acquiring businesses, technology, talent, and related integration efforts, growing our distribution channels and channel partner ecosystem, deepening our user community, hiring additional employees and investing in our existing workforce, expanding our operations and
infrastructures both domestically and internationally, and incurring expenses related to legal, accounting, and other administrative expenses aspects of operating as a public company. In particular, we intend to continue to expend significant funds to further develop our platform. This includes introducing new functionalities and adapting and growing our inside sales team and enterprise sales force. These efforts are aimed at driving new customer adoption and expanding use cases and integrations.
We have entered into non-cancellable multi-year capacity commitments with certain third-party cloud providers for cloud infrastructure services. These commitments require us to pay for such capacity irrespective of actual usage. These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently, or at all, to offset these higher expenses, and achieve, or once achieved, sustain profitability.
We may delay or re-evaluate these efforts due to any anticipated or actual adverse impact to our business as a result of, among other things, global economic and geopolitical uncertainties, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, tariffs, government shutdowns, regional conflicts, or other similar events or circumstances. In addition, growth of our revenue may slow, or revenue may decline for a number of reasons, including a decrease in our ability to attract and retain customers, a failure to increase our number of channel partners, an increase in competition, a decrease in growth of our overall market, a decrease in the term lengths of our contracts with customers, an inability to timely and cost-effectively introduce new products and services that are favorably received by customers and partners, and as a result of global economic conditions, such as rising inflation and interest rates, that could cause our customers to reduce their spending levels with us. A shortfall in revenue could lead to operating results being below expectations because we may not be able to quickly reduce our fixed operating expenses in response to short-term business changes. If we are unable to meet these risks and challenges as we encounter them, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.
These investments may not be successful on the timeline we anticipate, or at all, and may not result in revenue or ARR growth. For instance, we anticipate that our customers will continue to increase adoption of our SaaS products in future periods. We cannot predict how increased adoption of our SaaS products will change the buying patterns of our customers or impact our future revenue or ARR. If we are unable to maintain or increase our revenue or ARR at a rate sufficient to offset the expected increase in our costs, our business, financial condition, and results of operations will be harmed, and we may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability over the long-term. Additionally, we have encountered, and may in the future encounter, risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing industries, such as unforeseen operating expenses, difficulties, complications, delays, and other known or unknown factors that may result in losses in future periods. If our revenue or ARR growth does not meet our expectations in future periods, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed, and we may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future. If we are unable to sustain profitability, the value of our business and Class A common stock may significantly decrease.
We may not be able to successfully manage our growth. If we are not able to grow efficiently, we may not be able to reach or sustain consistent profitability, and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be harmed, which has in the past caused and could in the future cause our stock price to decline.
We have experienced and may continue to experience rapid growth and organizational changes. We generated revenue of $1,429.7 million and $1,308.1 million for fiscal years 2025 and 2024, respectively, representing a growth rate of 9%. Our ARR was $1,666.1 million and $1,463.7 million at January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, representing a growth rate of 14%. However, the revenue or ARR growth of any prior quarterly or annual fiscal period should not be relied upon as an indication of our future performance. Even if our revenue and ARR continue to increase, our revenue and ARR growth rates may decline in the future as a result of a variety of factors, including the maturation of our business, increased competition, changes to technology, a decrease in the growth of our overall market, or our failure, for any reason, to continue to take advantage of growth opportunities. In addition, our past results may not be indicative of our future performance. Overall growth of our business depends on a number of additional factors, including our ability to:
•price our products that we offer on our platform effectively so that we are able to attract new customers and expand sales to our existing customers;
•expand the functionality and use cases for the products we offer on our platform;
•maintain and expand the rates at which customers purchase and renew licenses to our platform;
•provide our customers with support that meets their needs;
•continue to introduce and sell our products to new markets;
•continue to develop new products and new functionality for our platform and successfully further optimize our existing products and infrastructure;
•successfully identify and acquire or invest in businesses, products, or technologies that we believe could complement or expand our platform; and
•increase awareness of our brand on a global basis and successfully compete with other companies.
We may not successfully accomplish any of these objectives, and as a result, it is difficult for us to forecast our future results of operations. Further, actions we may decide to take in the future in our attempt to achieve or sustain profitability may not be successful in yielding our intended results and may not appropriately address either or both of the short-term and long-term strategy of our business. If the assumptions that we use to plan our business are incorrect, or change in reaction to changes in our market, or if we are unable to maintain consistent revenue, ARR, or revenue or ARR growth, our stock price could be volatile, and it may be difficult to achieve and sustain profitability.
Macroeconomic conditions, including volatile and weakened global economic conditions, and geopolitical tensions and conflicts, including changes to trade policies and regulations, present significant risks to us in several jurisdictions. Such conditions have in the past adversely affected and may in the future adversely affect our industry, business, and results of operations.
We have sales, product, and engineering operations in many countries, and some of our business activities are concentrated in one or more geographic areas. Moreover, sales outside the U.S. accounted for 56% of our revenue for fiscal year 2025. As a result, our operations and our financial results, including our ability to execute our business strategy, design, develop, or sell products, and the demand for our products, are at times adversely affected by a number of global and regional factors outside of our control.
Adverse changes in global or regional economic conditions periodically occur, including recession or slowing growth; changes or uncertainty in fiscal, monetary, or trade policy; volatility in foreign exchange markets; tighter credit; fluctuating inflation and interest rates; lower capital expenditures by businesses, including on IT infrastructure; increases in unemployment; and lower consumer confidence and spending. Adverse changes in macroeconomic conditions can significantly harm demand for our products and make it more challenging to forecast our operating results and make business decisions, including prioritization of investments in our business. An economic downturn or increased uncertainty may also lead to increased credit and collectability risks, higher borrowing costs or reduced availability of the capital and credit markets, reduced liquidity, asset impairments, adverse impact on our partners or failures of counterparties including financial institutions and insurers. Trade policies and disputes have resulted and will result in increased tariffs, trade barriers, and other protectionist measures, which can make our products less competitive, reduce demand for our products, limit our ability to sell to certain customers, or impede or slow the movement of our products across borders. Increasing protectionism and economic nationalism may lead to further changes in trade policies and regulations, domestic sourcing initiatives, or other formal and informal measures that could make it more difficult to sell our products in, or restrict our access to, some markets. They can also result in declining consumer confidence and slowing economic growth or recession, and could cause our customers to reduce, cancel, or alter the timing of their purchases with us. Sustained geopolitical tensions could lead to political instability and economic uncertainty globally, long-term changes in global trade and technology supply chains, domestic sourcing initiatives, and the decoupling of global trade networks, which could make it more difficult to sell our products in, or restrict our access to, some markets and have a material adverse effect on our business and growth prospects. For example, these types of unfavorable conditions have in the past disrupted and could in the future, disrupt the timing and attendance of key industry events, which we rely upon in part to generate sales of our products. If those events are disrupted in the future, our marketing investments, sales pipeline, and the ability to attract new customers and generate sales of our products could be negatively and adversely affected.
We can be adversely affected by other global and regional factors that periodically occur, including:
•inefficient infrastructure and other disruptions, such as supply chain interruptions, and large-scale outages, or unreliable provision of services from utilities, transportation, data hosting, or telecommunications providers;
•government restrictions on, or nationalization of, our operations in any country, or restrictions on our ability to repatriate earnings from or distribute compensations or other funds in a particular country;
•adverse changes relating to government grants, tax credits, or other government incentives, including more favorable incentives provided to competitors;
•differing employment practices and labor issues, including restricted access to talent;
•local business and cultural factors that differ from our current standards and practices;
•continuing uncertainty regarding social, political, immigration, tax, and trade policies in the U.S. and abroad;
•global tensions and conflict in areas where we have customers or employees, and in surrounding areas, such as the Russian military operation in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East, and rising tensions between China and Taiwan. Although our operations in Belarus, China, Israel, Ukraine, and Russia represent an immaterial portion of our business, individually and in the aggregate, such global and regional factors may have adversely impacted and could adversely impact our customers and employees; and
•fluctuations in the market value of our domestic and international investments and in the capital and credit markets, which can be negatively affected by liquidity, credit deterioration or losses, interest rate changes, financial results, political risk, sovereign risk, or other factors.
Further, these conditions have affected and may continue to affect the rate of IT spending, could adversely affect our customers' ability or willingness to attend our events or to purchase our products and services, could have delayed and may delay customer purchasing decisions, could have reduced and may reduce the value and duration of customer subscription contracts, and may adversely affect our customer attrition rates. All of these risks and conditions could materially adversely affect our future sales and operating results.
Our past results may not be indicative of our future performance. We expect fluctuations in our financial results, making it difficult to project future results, and if we fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors with respect to our results of operations, our stock price could decline.
Our results of operations have fluctuated in the past and are expected to fluctuate in the future due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control. As a result, our past results may not be indicative of our future performance. In addition to the other risks described herein, factors that may affect our results of operations include the following:
•fluctuations in demand for or usage of our platform and products;
•fluctuations in our mix of revenue from licenses and service arrangements;
•our ability to attract new customers and retain our existing customers;
•customer expansion rates and the pricing and quantity of licenses renewed;
•fluctuations in mix of revenue, cost of revenue, and gross margin from sales directly to end-customers and/or through channel partners including our strategic alliances;
•timing and amount of our investments to expand the capacity of our third-party cloud infrastructure providers;
•seasonality;
•investment in new products and features relative to investments in our existing infrastructure and products;
•the timing of customer purchases;
•fluctuations or delays in purchasing decisions in anticipation of new products or enhancements by us or our competitors;
•changes in customers’ budgets and in the timing of their budget cycles and purchasing decisions;
•our ability to control costs, including our operating expenses;
•the amount and timing of payment for operating expenses, particularly sales and marketing expenses, including commissions, and research and development expenses;
•the amount and timing of non-cash expenses, including stock-based compensation, impairments of goodwill or other assets, and other non-cash charges;
•the amount and timing of costs associated with recruiting, training, and integrating new employees and retaining and motivating existing employees;
•the effects of acquisitions and their integration;
•general economic conditions, both domestically and internationally, as well as economic conditions specifically affecting industries in which our customers participate;
•the impact of new accounting pronouncements;
•changes in regulatory or legal environments that may impact us, including by causing us to incur additional compliance obligations and expenses;
•changes in the competitive dynamics of our market, including consolidation among competitors or customers; and
•significant security breaches of, technical difficulties with, or interruptions to the delivery and use of our products and platform.
We derive our revenue from the sale of our software licenses for use of our proprietary software, maintenance and support for our licenses, right to access certain products that are hosted by us (i.e., SaaS), and professional services. Under ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, we recognize revenue when a customer obtains control of promised goods or as services are rendered. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration that we expect to receive in exchange for these goods or services. Licenses revenue (including the term license portion of Flex Offerings) is recognized when we transfer control of the respective license to the customer. Revenue from SaaS and revenue from maintenance and support are recognized ratably over time since control passes to our customers over the arrangement’s contractual period. Professional services revenue is recognized as services are rendered.
The presentation of our financial results requires us to make estimates and assumptions that may affect revenue recognition. In some instances, we could reasonably use different estimates and assumptions, and changes in estimates may occur from period to period.
Given the foregoing factors, our actual results could differ significantly from our estimates. Comparing our revenue and operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful, and our past results may not be indicative of our future performance.
For more information on our revenue recognition policy, refer to Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies-Revenue Recognition, included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Any of these and other factors, or the cumulative effect of some of these factors, may cause our results of operations to vary significantly. If our quarterly or annual results of operations fall below the expectations of securities analysts or investors who follow our stock, the price of our Class A common stock could decline substantially, and we have faced and could in the future face lawsuits that are costly and may divert management’s attention, including securities class action suits and derivative actions.
Because we derive substantially all of our revenue from our UiPath Platform™, failure of this platform to satisfy customer demands could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
We derive and expect to continue to derive substantially all of our revenue from our UiPath Platform™. As such, market adoption of our automation platform is critical to our continued success. Demand for our platform may be affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including continued market acceptance and integration of our platform into our customers’ operations; the continued volume, variety, and velocity of automations that are generated through use of our platform; timing of development, and release of new offerings by our competitors; technological change, including in the areas of AI and ML systems, and the rate of growth in our market. Additionally, the utility of our platform and products relies in part on the ability of our customers to use our automation, AI and ML products in connection with other third-party software products that are important to our customers' businesses. If these third-party software providers were to modify the terms of their licensing arrangements with our customers in a manner that would reduce the utility of our products, or increase the cost to use our products in connection with these third-party software products, then our customers may no longer choose to adopt our platform or continue to use our products. If we are unable to continue to meet the demands of our customers and the developer community, our business operations, financial results, and growth prospects will be materially and adversely affected.
In addition, as we expand our business, it is important that we continue to maintain a high level of customer service and satisfaction. If we are not able to continue to provide high levels of customer service, our reputation, as well as our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be harmed. As usage of our platform grows, we will need to continue to devote additional resources to improving and maintaining our infrastructure and integrating with third-party applications. In addition, we have needed and will continue to need to appropriately scale our internal business systems and our services organization, including customer support and professional services, to serve our growing customer base. Failure of, or delay in, these continuing efforts could result in impaired system performance and reduced customer satisfaction, resulting in decreased sales to new customers, lower dollar-based net retention rates, the issuance of service credits, or requested refunds, which would hurt our revenue growth and our reputation. Even if we are successful in our expansion efforts, they will be expensive and complex, and require the dedication of significant management time and attention. We have faced and could continue to face inefficiencies or service disruptions as a result of our efforts to scale our internal infrastructure. We cannot be sure that the expansion of and improvements to our internal infrastructure will be effectively implemented on a timely basis, if at all, and such failures could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our business depends on our existing customers renewing their licenses and purchasing additional licenses and products from us and our channel partners. Declines or significant delays in renewals or purchases of additional licenses and products by our customers could harm our future operating results.
Part of our growth strategy relies on our ability to deliver significant value in a short time to our customers, so that our customers will scale the use of our platform throughout their enterprise. Accordingly, our future success depends in part on our ability to exhibit this value and sell additional licenses and products to our existing customers, and our customers renewing their licenses with us and our channel partners when contract terms expire. Our license agreements primarily have annual terms, and some of our license agreements have multi-year terms. We generally do not sell standalone licenses with a term of less than one year. However, during the term of an annual contract or the last year of a multi-year contract, our customers may enter into an additional license agreement with a termination date that is coterminous with the anniversary date of such annual contract. Our customers have no obligation to renew their licenses for our products after the expiration of their license period. We provide some customers the opportunity to use our platform and products for free prior to purchasing a license. We also work with our customers to identify opportunities for follow-on sales to increase our footprint within their businesses.
In order for us to maintain or improve our results of operations, it is important that our customers renew or expand their licenses with us and our channel partners. We cannot accurately predict our renewals and dollar-based net retention rate given the diversity of our customer base in terms of size, industry, and geography. Our renewals and dollar-based net retention rate may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, many of which are outside our control, including the business strength or weakness of our customers; continuing or new delays in renewals due to economic conditions; customer usage, including the ability of our customers to quickly integrate our products into their businesses and continually find new uses for our products within their businesses; cloud automation deployment or adoption issues; customer satisfaction with our products and platform capabilities and customer support; the utility of our platform to cost-effectively integrate with third-party software products; our prices; the capabilities and prices of competing products; mergers and acquisitions affecting our customer base; consolidation of affiliates’ multiple paid business accounts into a single paid business account or loss of business accounts in their entirety; the effects of global economic conditions; reductions in our customers’ spending on software solutions or their spending levels generally; perceived security or data privacy risks from the use of our products; changes in regulatory regimes that affect our customers or our ability to sell our products, including changes to sanctions and export control regimes; or changes in the views of the industry and public with regard to our products and automation products generally, including as a result of increased automation, use of AI, and displacement of human workforces. These factors may also be exacerbated if, consistent with our growth strategy, our customer base continues to grow to encompass larger enterprises, which may also require more sophisticated and costly sales efforts. If our customers do not purchase additional licenses and products from us or our customers fail to renew their licenses, our revenue may decline and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed.
We continually review how best to market our platform to our customers and potential customers and how to organize, train, and deploy our sales teams for efficiency and effectiveness; however, if our efforts and the changes that we are trying to implement on an ongoing basis are not successful, it could adversely affect our platform adoption and our growth.
If we are unable to attract new customers, our business, financial condition, and results of operations will be adversely affected.
To increase our revenue, we must continue to attract new customers. Our success will depend to a substantial extent on the widespread adoption of our platform and products as an alternative to existing solutions, including as an alternative to traditional systems relying on manual tasks and processes. Many enterprises have invested substantial personnel and financial resources to integrate traditional human-driven processes into their business architecture and, therefore, may be reluctant or unwilling to migrate to an automation solution. Accordingly, the adoption of automation solutions may be slower than we anticipate. A large proportion of our target market still uses traditional systems relying on manual tasks and processes for the major part of their operations. This market may need further education on the value of automation solutions in general and our platform and products in particular, and on how to integrate them into current operations. A lack of education as to how our automation platform and solutions operate may cause potential customers to prefer more traditional methodologies or their limited, internally-developed automated processes, to be cautious about investing in our platform and products, or to have difficulty integrating our platform and products into their business architecture. If we are unable to educate potential customers and change the market’s readiness to accept our technology, we may experience slower than projected growth and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed.
In addition, as our market matures, our products evolve, and competitors introduce lower cost or differentiated products that are perceived to be alternatives to our platform and products, our ability to sell licenses for our products could be impaired. Further, as various forms of AI, including generative and agentic AI, become more widely adopted and acceptable, if customers were to feel that our technology was not developing apace, our business and growth prospects could be harmed. The rapid evolution of AI may require the application of resources to develop, test, and maintain our products and services so that they are ethically designed to minimize unintended, harmful impacts. Similarly, our license sales could be adversely affected if customers or users within these organizations perceive that features incorporated into competitive products reduce the need for our products, or if they prefer to purchase other products that are bundled with solutions offered by other companies that operate in adjacent markets and compete with our products. As a result of these and other factors, we may be unable to attract new customers, which may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
The markets in which we participate are competitive and if we do not compete effectively our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be harmed.
Our platform and products provide automation solutions that our customers can integrate throughout their businesses. Accordingly, we compete with enterprise platform vendors that are acquiring, building, or investing in automation and AI functionality or partnering with automation and AI providers, RPA software providers and adjacent automation and integration platform companies in markets such as low-code, BPM, iPaaS, process mining, IDP, and test automation vendors, among others. We also compete with companies that provide and support the traditional systems relying on manual tasks and processes that our platform and products are designed to replace, including companies that facilitate outsourcing of such tasks and processes to lower cost workers. Our customers may also internally develop their own automated solutions to address tasks particular to their business.
The automation market is a fast-growing enterprise software market and is increasingly competitive. With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect that the competitive environment will remain intense going forward. For instance, as our market becomes increasingly driven by cloud-based solutions, native cloud providers may enter this market and provide competitive offerings at lower prices. Additionally, open source alternatives for automation that are offered at no cost may impact our ability to sell our products to certain customers who may prefer to rely on these tools. Our competitors may be able to respond more quickly to new or expanding technology, such as newly emerging generative and agentic AI technologies, and devote more resources to product development than we can. The speed of technological development may prove disruptive to some of our markets if we are unable to maintain the pace of innovation. Some of our actual and potential competitors have been acquired by other larger enterprises, have made or may make acquisitions, may enter into partnerships or other strategic relationships that may provide more comprehensive products than they individually had offered, or may achieve greater economies of scale than us. In addition, new entrants not currently considered to be competitors may enter the market through acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic relationships. As we look to market and sell our products and platform capabilities to potential customers with existing internal solutions, we must convince their internal stakeholders that our products and platform capabilities are superior to their current solutions. If we fail to do so, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed.
If we fail to continue to differentiate our platform and products from those offered by our competitors, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed.
Our competitors vary in size and in the breadth and scope of the products offered. Many of our competitors and potential competitors have greater name recognition, longer operating histories, more established customer relationships, larger marketing budgets, and greater resources than we do. Further, other potential competitors not currently offering competitive solutions may expand their product or service offerings to compete with our products and platform capabilities. For instance, a number of our potential competitors already have close, integrated relationships with our customers and potential customers for other service offerings. If any of these potential competitors were to provide an automation solution within their current service offerings as a single, integrated solution, our customers and potential customers may choose to adopt the integrated solution due to administrative ease or other factors that are outside our control. Our current and potential competitors may also establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their resources and product offerings in our addressable market. Our competitors may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can, to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards, and customer requirements. An existing competitor or new entrant could introduce new technology that reduces demand for our products and platform capabilities. In addition to product and technology competition, we face pricing competition. Some of our competitors offer their on-premises or SaaS solutions at a lower price, which has resulted in, and may continue to result in, pricing pressures.
For all of these reasons, we may not be able to compete successfully against our current or future competitors, and this competition could result in the failure of our platform to continue to achieve or maintain market acceptance, which would harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
If we fail to retain and motivate members of our management team or other key employees or to integrate new team members, or fail to attract additional qualified personnel to support our operations, our business and future growth prospects could be harmed.
Our success and future growth depend largely upon the continued services of our executive officers, particularly Daniel Dines, our CEO, co-founder, and Chairman, as well as our other key employees in the areas of research and development, and sales and marketing. Additionally, many members of our management team have been with us for a short period of time. From time to time, there have been and may continue to be changes in our executive management team or other key employees resulting from the hiring or the departure of these personnel. Our executive officers and other key employees are employed on an at-will basis, which means that these personnel could terminate their employment with us at any time. The loss of one or more of our executive officers, or the failure by our executive team to effectively work with our employees and lead UiPath, could harm our business. Further, we have in the past taken and may in the future take actions to streamline our senior management structure. Any of these changes may not achieve our desired results. As we experience personnel turnover, we have experienced and may continue to experience some loss of internal knowledge from time to time. The streamlining of our senior management team could introduce additional risks with fewer executives tasked with leading our organization.
Because of the complexity of our products and platform capabilities, we also are dependent on the continued service of our existing software engineers and our ability to recruit qualified new engineers. Competition for these personnel is intense, especially for engineers experienced in designing and developing RPA, AI, and ML applications. From time to time, we have experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications. Potential candidates may not perceive our compensation package, including our equity awards, as favorably as employees hired in the past given the recent volatility in the price of our Class A common stock and in the public markets. In addition, our recruiting personnel, methodology, and approach has needed to be altered and may in the future need to be altered to address a changing candidate pool and profile. We may not be able to identify or implement such changes in a timely manner.
Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have. If we hire employees from competitors or other companies, their former employers have attempted and may in the future attempt to assert that these employees, or we, have breached their legal obligations, resulting in a diversion of our time and resources. In addition, prospective and existing employees often consider the value of the equity awards they receive in connection with their employment. As some of our employees' perception of our equity awards has declined, and may decline from time to time due to the lower price of our Class A common stock, if the Class A common stock continues to experience significant volatility, or volatility increases such that prospective employees believe there is limited upside to the value of our equity awards, it may adversely affect our ability to
recruit and retain key employees. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our business and future growth prospects could be harmed.
Changes in our management structure and in senior leadership could affect our business and financial results.
As of February 1, 2024, Robert Enslin (who had served alongside Daniel Dines as our Co-CEO since April 2022) assumed the role of our sole CEO. Mr. Dines assumed the newly-created role of Chief Innovation Officer, and continued to serve as the Executive Chairman of the board of directors. Effective June 1, 2024, Mr. Enslin resigned, and Mr. Dines again assumed the role of sole CEO, which he had held prior to April 2022.
Such senior leadership transitions can be difficult to manage and may cause disruptions to our operations. This or other leadership transitions may also increase the likelihood of turnover amongst our employees and result in changes in our business strategy, which may create uncertainty, and negatively impact our ability to execute our business strategy quickly and effectively. Leadership transitions may also impact our relationships with our customers and other market participants, creating uncertainty among investors, employees, and others concerning our future direction and performance. Any significant disruption, uncertainty, or change in business strategy could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results. Finally, our organizational structure is becoming more complex as we continue to scale our operational, financial, and management controls as well as our reporting systems and procedures. If we fail to manage our anticipated growth, company personnel transitions, and change in a manner that preserves the key aspects of our corporate culture, our employee retention may suffer, which could negatively affect our products, brand, and reputation.
A limited number of customers represent a substantial portion of our revenue and ARR. If we fail to retain these customers, our revenue and ARR could decline significantly.
We derive a substantial portion of our revenue and ARR from sales to our top 10% of customers. As a result, our revenue and ARR could fluctuate materially and could be materially and disproportionately impacted by the purchasing decisions of these customers or any other future large customer. Any of our largest customers may decide to purchase less than they have in the past, may alter their purchasing patterns at any time with limited notice, or may decide not to continue to purchase our platform and products at all, any of which could cause our revenue and ARR to decline and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. If we do not further diversify our customer base, we will continue to be susceptible to risks associated with customer concentration.
We rely on our channel partners, including our strategic alliances, to generate a substantial amount of our revenue, and if we fail to expand and manage our distribution channels or fulfill our future service obligations, our revenue could decline and our growth prospects could suffer.
Our success significantly depends upon maintaining and growing our relationships with a variety of channel partners, and we anticipate that we will continue to depend on these partners in order to grow our business. Our channel partners enable us to extend our local and global reach, in particular with smaller customers and in geographies where we have less direct sales presence. For fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, we derived a substantial amount of our revenue from sales through channel partners, and we expect to continue to derive a substantial amount of our revenue from channel partners in future periods. Our agreements with our channel partners are generally non-exclusive and do not prohibit them from working with our competitors or offering competing products, and many of our channel partners may have more established relationships with our competitors. If our channel partners choose to place greater emphasis on products of their own or those offered by our competitors, do not effectively market and sell our products, or fail to meet the needs of our customers, then our ability to grow our business and sell our products may be adversely affected. In addition, the loss of one or more of our larger channel partners, who may cease marketing our products with limited or no notice, and our possible inability to replace them, could adversely affect our sales. Moreover, our ability to expand our distribution channels depends in part on our ability to educate our channel partners about our platform and products, which can be complex. Our failure to recruit additional channel partners, or any reduction or delay in their sales of our products or conflicts between channel sales and our direct sales and marketing activities may harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Even if we are successful, these relationships may not result in greater customer usage of our products or increased revenue. We also bear the risk that our channel partners will fail to comply with U.S. or international anti-corruption or anti-competition laws, in which case we might be fined or otherwise penalized as a result of the agency relationship with such partners.
In addition, the financial health of our channel partners and our continuing relationships with them are important to our success. Some of these channel partners may be unable to withstand adverse changes in economic conditions, which could result in insolvency and/or the inability of such partners to obtain credit to finance purchases of our products and services, which could negatively impact our future financial performance. In addition, weakness in the end-user market could negatively affect the cash flows of our channel partners who could, in turn, delay paying their obligations to us, which would increase our credit risk exposure. Our business could be harmed if the financial condition of some of these channel partners substantially weakened and we were unable to timely secure replacement channel partners.
Further, we from time to time enter into strategic alliance arrangements wherein we sell our products and services to a partner. These strategic alliances may include investments we make to enable the partner to create or enhance their automation practice. If the strategic alliance partner is unable to successfully create or expand their automation practice, we may not realize the benefits we expect.
These strategic alliances may also include non-cancelable commitments we make to these third-party alliance partners whereby we plan to leverage the partner’s products or services in arrangements with third-party customers. Should we be unable to deploy the partner’s products or services in arrangements with third-party customers, it may materially and adversely impact our revenue, gross margin, profitability, and financial results in any given period. Further, these strategic alliances are a vector for potential growth and expansion for us and these alliances may not be successful and/or as profitable as we project.
If we and our channel partners fail to provide sufficient high-quality consulting, training, support, and maintenance resources to enable our customers to realize significant business value from our platform, we may see a decrease in customer adoption of our platform.
Our customers sometimes request consulting and training to assist them in integrating our platform into their business, and rely on our customer support personnel to resolve issues and realize the full benefits that our platform provides. As a result, an increase in the number of customers is likely to increase demand for consulting, training, support, and maintenance related to our products. Given that our customer base and products continue to grow, we will need to provide our customers with more consulting, training, support, and maintenance to enable them to realize significant business value from our platform. We rely on our ecosystem of partners that build, train, and certify skills on our technology, as well as deploy our technology on behalf of their customers. We have been increasing our channel partner and customer enablement through our UiPath Academy and other training initiatives designed to create an ecosystem of people that are skilled in the use and integration of our platform in business operations. However, if we and our channel partners are unable to provide sufficient high-quality consulting, training, integration, and maintenance resources, our customers may not effectively integrate our automation platform into their businesses or realize sufficient business value from our products to justify follow-on sales, which could impact our future financial performance. Additionally, if our channel partners fail to perform or if any of our channel partners suffer reputational or brand harm, our customers may choose to not rely on our channel partners for consulting, training, integration, and maintenance resources. Further, some of our customers are industry leaders, and our contracts with them receive significant public attention. If we or our channel partners encounter problems in helping these customers implement our platform or if there is negative publicity regarding these engagements (even if unrelated to our services or products) our reputation could be harmed and our future financial performance could be negatively impacted. Finally, the investments required to meet the increased demand for our consulting services could strain our ability to deliver our consulting engagements at desired levels of profitability, thereby impacting our overall profitability and financial results.
If we are not able to introduce and release new features or services successfully and to make enhancements to our platform or products, particularly with respect to developing AI technologies, our business and results of operations could be adversely affected.
Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers depends in part on our ability to enhance and improve our platform and to introduce new features and services. To grow our business and remain competitive, we must continue to enhance our platform with features that reflect the constantly evolving nature of automation and AI technology and our customers’ evolving needs. For instance, with the development of next-generation solutions that utilize new and advanced features, including AI and ML, we may be required to commit significant resources to developing new products, enhancements and developments. Other companies may incorporate AI into their products more quickly or more successfully than us, which could impair our ability to compete effectively and adversely affect our financial results. The success of new products, enhancements, and developments depends on several factors including, but not limited to: our anticipation of market changes and demands for product features, successful product design and timely release of new functionality, sufficient customer
demand, and cost effectiveness of our product development efforts. In addition, because our platform is designed to operate with a variety of third-party systems, applications, data, and devices, we will need to continuously modify and enhance our platform to keep pace with changes in such systems. We may not be successful in developing these modifications and enhancements. Furthermore, the addition of features and solutions to our platform will increase our research and development expenses. Any new features that we develop may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner or may not achieve the market acceptance necessary to generate sufficient revenue to justify the related expenses. It is difficult to predict customer adoption of new features. Such uncertainty limits our ability to forecast our future results of operations and subjects us to a number of challenges, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. In addition, significant delays between announcement and general availability of new functionality could adversely affect our business. If we cannot address such uncertainties and successfully develop new features, enhance our software, or otherwise overcome technological challenges and competing technologies, our business and results of operations could be adversely affected.
We also offer professional services including consulting and training and must continually adapt to assist our customers in deploying our platform in accordance with their specific automation strategies. If we cannot introduce new services or enhance our existing services to keep pace with changes in our customers’ deployment strategies, we may not be able to attract new customers, retain existing customers, or expand customers' use of our software or secure renewal contracts, which are important for the future of our business.
We are subject to numerous risks associated with the evolving market for products with AI capabilities.
The markets and use cases for products with AI capabilities have been rapidly evolving, are difficult to predict, and may impact demand for our products, our sales cycles, our ability to forecast results from sales of these products, and the preferences of our customers and potential customers. The significant investments we have made to develop products and software to address what we believe will be increasing demand for AI capabilities may be insufficient, and we face significant hurdles, including whether demand will materialize, whether third-party software providers will develop functionality that allows their software to utilize the AI capabilities of our products, and whether we will be successful in developing, pricing, and packaging products that can compete with offerings by established competitors.
We have in the past invested and may in the future continue to invest in potentially disruptive technologies, through various vehicles such as equity or debt investments, joint ventures, or strategic partnerships. Such investments may not produce the expected results, may require more financial resources than anticipated, or may otherwise be unsuccessful, and the value of the investments may decline or be impaired, or our business may be adversely impacted.
Additionally, our use of AI technology in general may subject us to reputational, financial, legal, or regulatory risks. As we continue to incorporate AI technology into our products and services, any failures to address concerns relating to the responsible use of the evolving AI technology in our products and services may cause harm to our reputation or result in financial liability, and as such, may increase our costs to address or mitigate such risks and issues. AI technology may create ethical issues, generate defective algorithms, and present other risks that create challenges with respect to its adoption. In addition, evolving rules, regulations, and industry standards governing AI may require us to expend significant resources to modify, maintain, or align our business practices or products to comply with U.S. and non-U.S. rules and regulations, the nature of which cannot be determined at this time. Several jurisdictions around the globe, including the EU and certain U.S. states, have already proposed or enacted laws governing the development and use of AI, such as the EU's AI Act. We expect other jurisdictions will adopt similar laws.
The regulatory environment surrounding the impact of the implementation of AI on our products and services may adversely affect our ability to produce and export products, and as a result, may cause harm to our reputation and result in financial liability.
Risks associated with the use of AI (including ML and large language models) in our platforms may result in reputational harm or liability.
AI is enabled by or integrated into parts of our technology platform and may also be used directly or indirectly as part of our internal systems and processes. As such, AI remains a significant and growing element of our business and operations. As with many developing technologies, AI presents risks and challenges that could affect its further development, adoption, and use. AI algorithms and models may be flawed. Our AI-related efforts, particularly those related to generative and agentic AI, or the datasets that we use in training our systems, subject us to risks related to harmful or illegal content, accuracy, bias, intellectual property infringement or misappropriation,
defamation, data privacy, cybersecurity, sanctions, and export controls, among others. Third-party AI capabilities that can be integrated with our platform or used in our internal systems and processes, including generative AI, could also produce false or "hallucinatory" inferences about customer data, enterprises, other information, or subject matter. The use of generative AI processes at scale is relatively new, and may lead to challenges, concerns, and risks that are significant, or that we may not be able to predict, especially if our direct or indirect use of these technologies in our products and internal systems and processes were to become more important to us over time. If the recommendations, forecasts, or analyses that AI applications, including AI agents, assist in producing are deficient or inaccurate, we could be subject to competitive harm or potential legal liability, including under existing and future legislation or regulations, including in the U.S. and the EU. The rapid evolution of AI may also require us to expend additional resources to help ensure that AI is implemented appropriately in order to minimize unintended or harmful impact which may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Some AI scenarios may present ethical issues, and the enablement or integration of AI into our platform or internal processes may subject us to new or heightened legal, regulatory, ethical, or other challenges, as this is an area of rapid development. We take into consideration these challenges when designing our technologies and implementing our business practices. For example, our platform includes data governance tools and other tools, which are intended to regulate and limit user access. In addition, we have developed internal responsible AI guidelines. However, we have no assurance that these tools or guidelines, nor their implementation, will be sufficient to protect us against evolving AI-related risks. As a result, if we face any claims or litigation relating to our use of AI, including its purported or real impact to, human rights, data privacy, employment, or other societal issues, we may experience brand or reputational harm, as well as regulatory or legal scrutiny, which could have a material adverse effect on our operations, and business outlook.
We offer free trials and a free tier of our platform to drive awareness of our products, and encourage use and adoption. If these marketing strategies fail to lead to customers purchasing paid licenses, our ability to grow our revenue will be adversely affected.
To encourage awareness, use, and adoption of our platform and products, we offer a community edition and enterprise trial version of our software, each of which provides free, online access to certain of our products. This “try-before-you-buy” strategy may not be successful in driving developer education regarding or leading customers to purchase our products. Many users of our free tier may not lead to others within their organization purchasing and deploying our platform and products. To the extent that users do not become, or we are unable to successfully attract, paying customers, we will not realize the intended benefits of these marketing strategies and our ability to grow our revenue will be adversely affected.
We target enterprise customers, and sales to these customers involve risks that may not be present or that are present to a lesser extent with sales to smaller entities.
Our enterprise sales force focuses on sales to large enterprise, organizational, and government agency customers. As of January 31, 2025, we had 2,292 customers with ARR of $100 thousand or more and 317 customers with ARR of $1 million or more, which accounted for approximately 87% and 51% of our revenue, respectively, for the period then ended. As of January 31, 2024, we had 2,054 customers with ARR of $100 thousand or more and 288 customers with ARR of $1 million or more, which accounted for approximately 86% and 52% of our revenue, respectively, for the period then ended. See the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Key Performance Metric” for a description of ARR. Sales to large customers involve risks that may not be present or that are present to a lesser extent with sales to smaller entities, such as longer sales cycles, more complex customer requirements (and higher contractual risk as a result), substantial upfront sales costs, less favorable terms, and less predictability in completing some of our sales. For example, enterprise customers may require considerable time to evaluate and test our solution and those of our competitors prior to making a purchase decision and placing an order. A number of factors influence the length and variability of our sales cycle, including the need to educate potential customers about the uses and benefits of our automation platform and products, the discretionary nature of purchasing and budget cycles, and the competitive nature of evaluation and purchasing approval processes. As a result, the length of our sales cycle, from identification of the opportunity to deal closure, may vary significantly from customer to customer, with sales to large enterprises typically taking longer to complete and requiring greater organizational resources. Moreover, large enterprise customers often begin to deploy our products on a limited basis, but nevertheless demand configuration, integration services, and pricing negotiations, which increase our upfront investment in the sales effort with no guarantee that these customers will deploy our products widely enough across their organization to justify our substantial upfront investment.
Real or perceived errors, failures, or bugs in our platform and products could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
Our platform and products are complex and use novel technology. Undetected errors, failures, or bugs have occurred in our platform and products in the past and may occur in the future. Our platform and products are used throughout our customers’ business environments and with different operating systems, system management software, applications, devices, databases, servers, storage, middleware, custom and third-party applications and equipment, and networking configurations, which may cause errors or failures in the business environment into which our platform and products are deployed. This diversity of applications increases the likelihood of errors or failures in those business environments. Despite testing by us, real or perceived errors, failures, or bugs may not be found until our customers use our platform and products. Such failures or bugs can cause reputational damage, and in some cases can affect our revenue due to the impact of service level commitments that we offer to our customers.
Our platform and products also empower our customers to develop their own use cases for our automation platform and products. We cannot guarantee that these user-developed automations will be effective or that they do not include errors, failures, or bugs that then may be attributed, correctly or not, to our underlying technologies. For instance, our customers may use our products in a manner in which they were not intended and that could cause our platform or products to be implicated in any resulting errors or failures. Real or perceived errors, failures, or bugs in our platform and products could result in negative publicity, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our platform and products, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, harm to our brand, weakening of our competitive position, claims by customers for losses sustained by them, or failure to meet the stated service level commitments in our customer agreements. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend significant additional resources in order to help correct the problem. Any errors, failures, or bugs in our platform or products could also impair our ability to attract new customers, retain existing customers, or expand their use of our software, which would adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Incorrect or improper implementation or use of our platform and products could result in customer dissatisfaction and harm our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
Our automation platform and products and related services are designed to be deployed in a wide variety of technology environments, including in large-scale, complex technology environments across a wide range of use cases. We believe our future success will depend, at least in part, on our ability and the ability of our channel partners to support such deployments. Implementations of our platform may be technically complicated and it may not be easy to maximize the value of our platform without proper implementation and training. If our customers are unable to implement our platform successfully or in a timely manner, or if our customers perceive that the implementation of our platform is too complex or time-consuming, customer perceptions of us and our software may be impaired, our reputation and brand may suffer, and customers may choose not to renew their licenses or increase their purchases of our related services.
We regularly train our customers and channel partners in the proper use of, and the variety of benefits that can be derived from, our automation platform and products to maximize their potential. We and our channel partners often work with our customers to achieve successful implementations, particularly for large, complex deployments. Our failure or the failure of our channel partners to train customers on how to efficiently and effectively deploy and use our platform and products, or our failure or the failure of our channel partners to provide effective support or professional services to our customers, whether actual or perceived, may result in negative publicity or legal actions against us. Also, as we continue to expand our customer base, any actual or perceived failure by us or our channel partners to properly provide these services will likely result in lost opportunities for follow-on sales of our related services.
We rely upon third-party providers of cloud-based infrastructure to host our cloud-based products. Any disruption in the operations of these third-party providers, limitations on capacity, or interference with our use could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our continued growth depends in part on the ability of our existing and potential customers to continue to adopt and utilize our cloud-based products in conjunction with our platform. We outsource substantially all of the infrastructure relating to our cloud-based products to third-party hosting services. Customers of our cloud-based products expect to be able to access these products at any time, without material interruption or degradation of performance. Our cloud-based products depend on virtual cloud infrastructure hosted by third-party hosting services. UiPath protects these services by maintaining the configuration, architecture, features, and
interconnection specifications, as well as the information stored in these virtual data centers, which is transmitted by third-party internet service providers. Any disruption as a result of cyberattacks or similar issues, or any limitation on the capacity of our third-party hosting services, could impede our ability to onboard new customers or expand the usage of our existing customers, or otherwise adversely affect our business, which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Due to the fact that we rely on third-party providers of cloud-based infrastructure to host our cloud-based products, it may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve their performance, especially during peak usage times and as our cloud capabilities become more complex and our user traffic increases, because we do not control the infrastructure supporting these services. In addition, any incident affecting our third-party hosting services’ infrastructure that may be caused by cyberattacks, natural disasters, fire, flood, severe storm, earthquake, power loss, telecommunications failures, outbreaks of contagious diseases, military actions, terrorist or other attacks, and other similar events beyond our control could negatively affect our cloud-based products. If our cloud-based products are unavailable, or if our users are unable to access our cloud-based products within a reasonable amount of time or at all, we may experience a loss of customers, loss or delay of market acceptance of our platform and products, delays in payment to us by customers, harm to our reputation and brand, legal claims against us, and the diversion of our resources. We may also incur significant costs for using alternative equipment or taking other actions in preparation for, or in reaction to, events that damage the third-party hosting services we use.
In the event that our service agreements with our third-party hosting services are terminated, or there is a lapse of service, elimination of services or features that we utilize, interruption of internet service provider connectivity, or damage to such facilities, we could experience interruptions in access to our cloud-based products as well as significant delays and additional expense in arranging or creating new facilities and services, and/or re-architecting our cloud-based products for deployment on a different cloud infrastructure service provider, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Delays or difficulties associated with the design, implementation, or post-implementation use of our new enterprise resource planning system could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We rely on information systems, particularly ERP technology, to manage our business, summarize our operating and financial results, and provide timely information to our management. We are currently engaged in a multi-year implementation of a new ERP system. This implementation is a complex project with broad scope, in which we have invested and will continue to invest significant financial and human capital. Despite our efforts, we may experience delays, unexpected costs, or other difficulties as the implementation process continues. Further, although we plan to run our existing technology in parallel with the new ERP system for a period of time and to conduct extensive testing to ensure that the new ERP system is operating as intended, post-implementation disruptions to or difficulties in use of the new ERP could require us to incur additional costs, or could impair, among other things, our ability to record sales, process transactions, collect receivables, and produce timely and accurate historical and forecasted financial information, which could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Additionally, if the new ERP system does not ultimately operate as intended, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting could be harmed.
Seasonality may cause fluctuations in our sales and results of operations.
Historically, we have experienced seasonality in new and renewal customer bookings, as typically we enter into a higher percentage of license agreements with new customers and renewals with existing customers in the fourth quarter of our fiscal year. We believe that this seasonality results from the procurement, budgeting, and deployment cycles of many of our customers, particularly our enterprise customers. While we believe that this seasonality has affected and will continue to affect our quarterly or annual results, we expect that this seasonality will become more pronounced as we continue to target larger enterprise customers and as our rapid growth begins to slow. Seasonal fluctuations in our sales means that our revenue may not be consistent from period to period. Accordingly, our quarterly or annual results should not be expected to be predictive of any future period.
Our key performance metric, ARR, and certain other operational data in this report are subject to assumptions and limitations and may not provide an accurate indication of our future or expected results.
ARR is based on numerous assumptions and limitations, is calculated using our internal data that has not been independently verified by third parties, and may not provide an accurate indication of our future or expected results. We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution SKU from subscription licenses and maintenance and support obligations assuming no increases or reductions in customers' subscriptions. ARR does not include the costs we may incur to obtain such subscription licenses or provide such maintenance and support.
ARR also does not reflect nonrecurring rebates payable to partners (upon establishing sufficient history of their nonrecurring nature), the impact of nonrecurring incentives (such as one-time discounts provided under sales promotional programs), and any actual or anticipated reductions in invoiced value due to contract non-renewals or service cancellations other than for certain reserves (for example, those for credit losses or disputed amounts). As a result, ARR and our other operational data may not reflect our actual performance, and investors should consider these metrics in light of the assumptions used in calculating such metrics and limitations as a result thereof. In addition, investors should not place undue reliance on these metrics as an indicator of our future or expected results. Moreover, these metrics may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies and may not be comparable to such other metrics. See the sections titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Key Performance Metric” for additional information regarding our ARR.
We may require additional capital to support the growth of our business, and this capital may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.
We have funded our operations since inception primarily through customer payments and net proceeds from sales of equity securities. We cannot be certain whether our operations will consistently generate sufficient cash to fully fund our ongoing operations, our planned investments, or the growth of our business. Following our IPO, we focused on growing our business to take advantage of our market opportunities. While growth remains important, we are also focused on the path to profitability. Any future investments we make to drive growth may require us to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. Financing may not be available on terms favorable to us, if at all. The effects of the disruptions to and volatility in the credit and financial markets in the U.S. and worldwide from geopolitical and macroeconomic events could limit our access to financing and increase our costs of borrowing.
If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to invest in future growth opportunities, which could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. If we incur debt, the debt holders would have rights senior to holders of Class A common stock to make claims on our assets, and the terms of any future debt could restrict our operations, including the ability to pay dividends on our Class A common stock. Furthermore, if we issue additional equity securities, stockholders will experience dilution, and the new equity securities could have rights senior to those of our Class A common stock. Because our decision to issue securities in the future will depend on numerous considerations, including factors beyond our control, we cannot predict or estimate the amount, timing, or nature of any future issuances of debt or equity securities. As a result, our stockholders bear the risk of future issuances of debt or equity securities reducing the value of our Class A common stock and diluting their interests.
If we fail to maintain and enhance our brand, our ability to expand our customer base will be impaired and our business, financial condition, and results of operations may suffer.
We believe that maintenance and enhancement of UiPath brand is important to support the marketing and sale of our existing and future products to new customers and expand sales of our platform and products to existing customers. We also believe that the importance of brand recognition will increase as competition in our market increases. Successful maintenance and enhancement of our brand will depend largely on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, our ability to provide reliable products that continue to meet the needs of our customers at competitive prices, our ability to maintain our customers’ trust, our ability to show that our products improve efficiency for our customers while improving engagement and satisfaction of their employees, our ability to continue to develop new functionality and use cases, our ability to successfully differentiate our products and platform capabilities from competitive products, and our ability to adequately obtain and protect our trademarks and trade names. Our brand promotion activities may not generate customer awareness or yield increased revenue, and even if they do, any increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building our brand.
Our ability to maintain and enhance our brand may also be subject to factors that are outside of our control. For instance, media stories regarding the potential effects on employment of automation and AI technologies that replace traditional, human-driven systems are commonplace. Unfavorable publicity regarding the impact automation may have on unemployment levels could harm our brand and reputation, even if unrelated to our products. Such negative publicity could also reduce the potential demand and size of the market for our products and decrease our revenue.
Additionally, we may not be able to protect all of our registered or unregistered trademarks or trade names relevant to our brand, and our rights may be challenged, infringed, circumvented, declared generic, lapsed, or determined to be infringing on or dilutive of other marks. If we are unable to protect our rights in these trademarks and trade names, third parties may file for registration of trademarks similar or identical to our trademarks, thereby
impeding our ability to build brand identity and possibly leading to market confusion. If we fail to successfully promote and maintain our brand, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may suffer.
If we cannot maintain our corporate culture as we grow, our success and our business and competitive position may be harmed.
We believe our culture has been a key contributor to our success to date and that the critical nature of the technology that we develop promotes a sense of greater purpose and fulfillment in our employees. We have developed a culture in which our employees adhere to our core tenets of being humble, bold, immersed, and fast. As we continue to hire more employees to keep pace with our growth, it may become more difficult for us to find employees that exhibit these values or to instill them in our new employees. Any failure to preserve our culture could negatively affect our ability to retain and recruit personnel, which is critical to our growth, and our ability to effectively focus on and pursue our corporate objectives. As we grow and develop our corporate infrastructure, we may find it difficult to maintain these important aspects of our culture. If we fail to maintain our company culture, our business and competitive position may be harmed.
Indemnity provisions in various agreements to which we are party potentially expose us to substantial liability for infringement, misappropriation, or other violation of intellectual property rights, data protection, and other losses.
Our agreements with our customers and other third parties may include indemnification provisions under which we agree to indemnify or otherwise be liable to them for losses suffered or incurred as a result of claims of infringement, misappropriation, or other violation of intellectual property rights, data protection, damages caused by us to property or persons, or other liabilities relating to or arising from our software, services, or platform, our acts or omissions under such agreements, or other contractual obligations. Some of these indemnity agreements provide for uncapped liability and some indemnity provisions survive termination or expiration of the applicable agreement. Large indemnity payments could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Although we attempt to contractually limit our liability with respect to such indemnity obligations, we are not always successful and may still incur substantial liability related to them, and we may be required to cease use of certain functions of our platform or products as a result of any such claims. Any dispute with a customer or other third-party with respect to such obligations could have adverse effects on our relationship with such customer or other third-party and other existing or prospective customers, reduce demand for our products and services, and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, although we carry general liability and cybersecurity insurance, our insurance may not be adequate to indemnify us for all liability that may be imposed or otherwise protect us from liabilities or damages with respect to claims alleging compromises of customer data, and any such coverage may not continue to be available to us on acceptable terms or at all.
We have in the past engaged, and may in the future engage, in acquisition and investment activities, which could divert the attention of management, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value, and adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
As part of our business strategy, we continually evaluate opportunities to acquire or invest in businesses, products, or technologies that we believe could complement or expand our products and solutions, enhance our technical capabilities, or otherwise offer growth opportunities. For example, in July 2022, we acquired Re:infer, an NLP company for unstructured documents and communications. In March 2025, we acquired Peak AI Limited, a U.K.-based software company offering an AI platform that provides pricing and inventory intelligence to customers in manufacturing and retail. In the future, we may be unable to identify suitable acquisition candidates and, even if we do, we may not be able to complete desired acquisitions on favorable terms, if at all. If we are unable to complete acquisitions, we may not be able to strengthen our competitive position or achieve our goals. Future acquisitions and investments may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures, including disruption of our ongoing operations, diversion of management attention, and increased expenses and liabilities. An acquisition may also negatively affect our financial results because it may:
•require us to incur charges or assume substantial debt;
•cause adverse tax consequences or unfavorable accounting treatment;
•expose us to claims and disputes by third parties, including intellectual property and privacy claims and disputes;
•not generate sufficient financial return to offset additional costs and expenses related to the acquisition;
•cause us to incur liabilities for activities of the acquired company before the acquisition;
•cause us to record impairment charges associated with goodwill or acquired intangible assets; and
•cause other unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures.
Moreover, to pay for an acquisition or investment, we would have to use cash, incur debt and/or issue equity securities, each of which may affect our financial condition or the value of our Class A common stock and (in the case of equity financing) could result in dilution to our stockholders.
In addition, a failure to successfully integrate the operations, personnel, or technologies of an acquired business could impact our ability to realize the full benefits of such an acquisition. Our limited experience acquiring companies increases these risks. If we are unable to achieve the anticipated strategic benefits of an acquisition, or if the integration, or the anticipated financial and strategic benefits, including any anticipated cost savings, revenue opportunities, or operational synergies, of such an acquisition are not realized as rapidly as or to the extent anticipated by us, our business, financial condition, and results of operations, could suffer.
Our aspirations and disclosures related to ESG matters expose us to risks that could adversely affect our reputation and performance.
We have issued baseline ESG impact reports, and are in the process of determining emissions baselines and plan to set corporate goals. Our reports and statements reflect our current plans and aspirations and are not guarantees that we will be able to achieve them. Our failure to accomplish or accurately track and report on these goals on a timely basis, or at all, could adversely affect our reputation, financial performance, and growth, and expose us to increased scrutiny from the investment community as well as enforcement authorities.
Standards for tracking and reporting ESG (including sustainability, climate, and human capital) matters continue to evolve. Our selection of voluntary disclosure frameworks and standards, and the interpretation or application of those frameworks and standards, may change from time to time or differ from those of others. This may result in a lack of consistent comparative data from period to period or between UiPath and other companies in the same industry. In addition, our processes and controls may not comply with evolving standards for identifying, measuring, and reporting ESG metrics, including ESG-related disclosures that may be required by the SEC, state regulations, and other global regulatory requirements to which we may be subject, including SEC climate-related disclosure requirements and the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive; such standards may change over time, which could result in significant revisions to our current goals, reported progress in achieving such goals, or ability to achieve such goals in the future.
If our ESG practices do not meet evolving investor, customer, or other stakeholder expectations and standards, our reputation, our ability to attract or retain employees, and our attractiveness as an investment, business partner, acquirer, or service provider could be negatively impacted. Further, our failure or perceived failure to pursue or fulfill our goals and objectives, or to satisfy various reporting standards on a timely basis, or at all could have similar negative impacts or expose us to government enforcement actions and private litigation.
We have undertaken, and may in the future undertake, internal restructuring activities that could result in disruptions to our business or otherwise materially harm our results of operations or financial condition.
From time to time, we have undertaken and may continue to undertake internal restructuring activities in an effort to better align our resources with our business strategy. For example, we initiated a restructuring plan in July 2024. This follows an earlier restructuring plan we initiated in fiscal year 2023 that was completed during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024. We incur substantial costs to implement restructuring plans, and our restructuring activities may subject us to reputational risks and litigation risks and expenses. There can be no assurance that any restructuring activities that we have undertaken or undertake in the future will achieve the cost savings, operating efficiencies, or other benefits that we may initially expect. In addition, restructuring activities may result in loss of institutional knowledge and expertise, attrition beyond our intended reduction in force, or a negative impact on employee morale and productivity or our ability to attract highly skilled employees. Internal restructurings can also require a significant amount of time and focus from management and other employees, which may divert attention from commercial operations. If any internal restructuring activities we have undertaken or undertake in the future fail to achieve some or all of the expected benefits, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
Any future litigation against us could be costly and time-consuming to defend.
We are subject and may in the future become subject to 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 our current or former employees. In addition, we have been sued by potential class action plaintiffs and have been sued in several potential derivative actions in connection therewith. Litigation might result in substantial costs and may divert management’s attention and resources, which might seriously harm our business, 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. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or underinsured could result in unanticipated costs, potentially harming our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Risks Related to Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
We and third parties with whom we do business are subject to stringent and evolving U.S. and foreign laws, regulations, and rules, contractual obligations, industry standards, policies, and other obligations related to data privacy and security. Our actual or perceived failure to comply with such obligations could lead to adverse business consequences, including regulatory investigations or actions; litigation (including class claims) and mass arbitration demands; fines and penalties; business disruptions; reputational harm; loss of revenue or profits; and loss of customers or sales.
In the ordinary course of business, we collect, receive, access, generate, transfer, store, disclose, share, make accessible, protect, secure, dispose of, and use (collectively, process) personal data and other sensitive information, including proprietary and confidential business data, trade secrets, intellectual property, financial information, geolocation information, social security numbers, government-issued identification information, and sensitive third-party data about employees, contractors, customers, suppliers, and others (collectively, sensitive information). Our data processing activities subject us to numerous data privacy and security obligations, such as various laws, codes, regulations, industry standards, external and internal privacy and security policies, contracts, and other obligations.
In the U.S., federal, state, and local governments have enacted numerous data privacy and security laws, including data breach notification laws, personal data privacy laws, and consumer protection laws (e.g., Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act), and other similar laws (e.g., wiretapping laws). For example, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, imposes specific requirements relating to the privacy, security, and transmission of individually identifiable protected health information.
Numerous U.S. states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws that impose certain obligations on covered businesses, including providing specific disclosures in privacy notices and affording residents with certain rights concerning their personal data. As applicable, such rights may include the right to access, correct, or delete certain personal data, and to opt-out of certain data processing activities, such as targeted advertising, profiling, and automated decision-making. The exercise of these rights may impact our business and our ability to provide products and services. Certain states also impose stricter requirements for processing certain personal data, including sensitive information, such as conducting data privacy impact assessments. These state laws allow for statutory fines for non-compliance. For example, the CCPA, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) (collectively CCPA), applies to personal data of consumers, business representatives, and employees who are California residents, and requires businesses to provide specific disclosure in privacy notices and honor requests of such individuals to exercise certain privacy rights. The CCPA provides for statutory fines and allows private litigants affected by certain data breaches to recover significant statutory damages. Similar laws are being considered in several other states, as well as at the federal and local levels, and we expect more states to pass similar laws in the future. These developments further complicate our compliance efforts, and increase legal risk and compliance costs for us, the third parties upon whom do business, and our customers.
Additionally, under various privacy laws and other obligations, we are required to obtain certain consents to process personal data. For example, some of our data processing practices may be challenged under wiretapping laws, if we obtain consumer information from third parties through various methods, including chatbot and session replay providers, or via third-party marketing pixels. These practices are subject to increased challenges by class action plaintiffs. Our inability or failure to obtain consent for these practices could result in adverse consequences, including class action litigation and mass arbitration demands. In the EEA, the Collective Redress Directive
(effective June 2023) will allow collective actions to be brought by a representative body against businesses if they breach legislation intended to protect EU consumers, including for data protection matters.
Outside the U.S., an increasing number of laws, regulations, and industry standards apply to data privacy and security. The EU GDPR, the U.K. GDPR (collectively, "GDPR"), Brazil’s LGPD, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and China’s PIPL impose strict requirements for processing personal data. Violations may result in temporary or definitive bans on data processing, material fines, or private litigation related to processing of personal data brought by classes of data subjects or consumer protection organizations authorized by law to represent their interest. We may have to change our business practices to comply with such obligations. In Canada, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and various related provincial laws, as well as Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, apply to our operations. As another example, the LGPD applies to our operations. The LGPD broadly regulates processing personal data of individuals in Brazil and imposes compliance obligations and penalties comparable to those of the EU GDPR. We also target customers in Asia, have operations Asia including in Japan, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong, and are subject to new and emerging data privacy regimes including China’s PIPL, Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act. We are also subject to the EU DSA, which requires us to further change our products, policies, and procedures. These new regulations create additional reporting obligations and oblige us to enhance our content moderation practices, update our internal procedures to allow users to notify of illegal content, and create internal mechanisms to handle complaints. Failures to comply with the DSA obligations may result in material fines. In addition, privacy advocates and industry groups have proposed, and may propose, standards with which we are legally or contractually bound to comply.
Our employees and personnel use generative AI technologies to perform their work, and the disclosure and use of personal data in generative AI technologies is subject to various privacy laws and other privacy obligations. Governments have passed laws and are likely to pass additional laws regulating generative AI. Our use of this technology could result in additional compliance costs, regulatory investigations and actions, and lawsuits. We also use AI/ML to assist us in making certain decisions, which is regulated by certain privacy laws. For example, certain privacy laws extend rights to consumers (such as the right to delete certain personal data) and regulate automated decision-making, which may be incompatible with our use of AI/ML. These obligations may make it harder for us to conduct our business using AI/ML, lead to regulatory fines or penalties, require us to change our business practices, retrain our AI/ML, or prevent, or limit our use of AI/ML. Furthermore, the FTC has required other companies to turn over (or disgorge) valuable insights or trainings generated through the use of AI/ML, where the FTC alleges those companies have violated privacy and consumer protection laws. If we cannot use AI/ML, or that use is restricted, our business may be less efficient, or we may be at a competitive disadvantage. Furthermore, in the EU, the EU AI Act, which has extraterritorial scope, imposes onerous obligations for providers and deployers of AI-related systems.
Certain jurisdictions have enacted data localization laws and cross-border personal data transfer laws, which could make it more difficult to transfer information across jurisdictions (such as transferring or receiving personal data that originates in the EU or in other foreign jurisdictions). Existing mechanisms that facilitate cross-border personal data transfers may change or be invalidated. For example, absent appropriate safeguards or other circumstances, the EU GDPR generally restricts the transfer of personal data to countries outside of the EEA that the European Commission does not consider to provide an adequate level of data privacy and security, such as the U.S. The European Commission released a set of SCCs that are designed to be a valid mechanism to facilitate personal data transfers out of the EEA to these jurisdictions. Currently, these SCCs are a valid mechanism to transfer personal data outside of the EEA, but there exists some uncertainty regarding whether the SCCs will remain a valid mechanism. Additionally, the SCCs impose additional compliance burdens, such as conducting transfer impact assessments to determine whether additional security measures are necessary to protect the at-issue personal data.
In addition, Switzerland and the U.K. similarly restrict personal data transfers outside of those jurisdictions to countries such as the U.S. that do not provide an adequate level of personal data protection, and certain countries outside Europe (e.g. Brazil, China, Russia) have also passed or are considering laws requiring local data residency, or otherwise impeding the transfer of personal data across borders, any of which could increase the cost and complexity of doing business. Although there are currently various mechanisms that may be used to transfer personal data from the EEA, U.K., and Switzerland to the U.S. in compliance with law, such as the U.K.'s International Data Transfer Agreement / Addendum, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the U.K. extensions thereto (which allows for transfers to relevant U.S.-based organizations who self-certify compliance and participate in the Framework), these mechanisms are subject to legal challenges, and there is no assurance that we can satisfy or rely on these measures to lawfully transfer personal data to the U.S.
If we were unable to implement or maintain a valid compliance mechanism for cross-border data transfers, or if the requirements for a legally-compliant transfer are too onerous, we could face significant adverse consequences, including the interruption or degradation of our operations, the need to relocate part of or all of our business or data processing activities to other jurisdictions (such as the EEA) at significant expense, increased exposure to regulatory actions, substantial fines and penalties, and injunctions against processing or transferring personal data from the EEA or other foreign jurisdictions. The inability to import personal data to the U.S. could significantly and negatively impact our business operations, including by limiting our ability to collaborate with parties that are subject to such cross-border data transfer or localization laws, by or requiring us to increase our personal data processing capabilities and infrastructure in foreign jurisdictions at significant expense. Additionally, companies that transfer personal data out of the EEA and U.K. to other jurisdictions, particularly to the U.S., are subject to increased scrutiny from regulators, individual litigants, and activist groups. Some European regulators have ordered certain companies to suspend or permanently cease certain transfers out of the EEA for allegedly violating the GDPR's cross-border data transfer limitations.
Regulators in the United States such as the Department of Justice are also increasingly scrutinizing certain personal data transfers and have proposed and may enact certain data export restrictions and localization requirements, for example, the Preventing Access to U.S. Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern or Covered Persons rule finalized by the Department of Justice in late 2024, enacting the Biden Administration’s executive order Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern, which is due to go into effect April 8, 2025.
In addition to data privacy and security laws, we are contractually subject to industry standards adopted by industry groups, and we may become subject to additional such obligations in the future.
Our obligations related to data privacy and security (and consumers' data privacy expectations) are quickly changing, becoming increasingly stringent, and creating uncertainty.
Our business model materially depends on our ability to process personal data, so we are particularly exposed to the risks associated with the rapidly changing legal landscape. For example, we may be at heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny, and any changes in the regulatory framework could require us to fundamentally change our business model. We may at times fail (or be perceived to have failed) in our efforts to comply with our data privacy and security obligations. Moreover, despite our efforts, our personnel or the third parties with whom we do business may fail to comply with such obligations, which could negatively impact our business operations and compliance posture. For example, any failure by a third-party processor to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or contractual obligations could result in adverse effects, including inability to or interruption in our ability to operate our business and proceedings against us by governmental entities or others.
If we or the third parties upon whom we do business fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences, including, but not limited to: government enforcement actions (e.g., investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections, and similar); litigation (including class action claims) and mass arbitration demands; additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; temporary or permanent bans on processing personal data; orders to destroy or not use personal data; and imprisonment of company officials. In particular, plaintiffs have become increasingly more active in bringing privacy-related claims against companies, including class action claims and mass arbitration demands. Some of these claims allow for the recovery of statutory damages on a per violation basis, and if viable, carry the potential for monumental statutory damages, depending on the volume of data and the number of violations. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, or financial condition, including but not limited to: loss of customers; interruptions or stoppages in our business operations (including interruptions or stoppages of data collection needed to train our algorithms); inability to process personal data or to operate in certain jurisdictions; limited ability to develop or commercialize our products; expenditure of time and resources to defend any claim or inquiry; adverse publicity; or substantial changes to our business model or operations.
Additionally, we publish privacy policies, marketing materials and other statements, such statements regarding our compliance with certain certifications or self-regulatory principles, regarding data privacy and security. Regulators are increasingly scrutinizing these statements, and if these policies, material, or statements are found to be deficient, lacking in transparency, deceptive, unfair, or misrepresentative of our practices, we may be subject to investigation, enforcement actions by regulators, or other adverse consequences. Although we endeavor to comply with our privacy policies and other data protection obligations, we may at times fail to do so or may be perceived to have failed to do so. Moreover, despite our efforts, we may not be successful in achieving compliance if our employees, contractors, service providers, or vendors fail to comply with our published policies and documentation. Such failures could subject us to potential foreign, federal, state, and local action.
Claims that we have violated individuals’ privacy rights or failed to comply with privacy policies and other data protection obligations, even if we are not found liable, could be expensive and time-consuming to defend and could result in adverse publicity that could harm our business. We are also bound by contractual obligations related to data privacy and security (including related to industry standards), and our efforts to comply with such obligations may not be successful. For example, certain privacy laws, such as the GDPR and the CCPA, require our customers to impose specific contractual restrictions on their service providers. Additionally, some of our customer contracts require us to host personal data locally.
We have in the past received and may in the future receive inquiries from or be subject to investigations by data protection authorities regarding, among other things, our privacy, data protection, and information security practices. The result of such investigations has in the past impacted and could in the future impact our brand reputation, subject us to monetary remedies and costs, interrupt or require us to change our business practices, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, or subject us to other remedies that adversely affect our business.
If our information technology systems or data, or those of third parties with whom we do business, are or were compromised, we could experience adverse consequences resulting from such compromise, including but not limited to regulatory investigations or actions; litigation; fines and penalties; disruptions of our business operations; reputational harm; loss of revenue or profits; loss of customers or sales; and other adverse consequences.
In the ordinary course of our business, we and the third parties with whom we do business process proprietary, confidential, and sensitive information, including personal data, intellectual property, and trade secrets. Cyberattacks, malicious internet-based activity, online and offline fraud, and other similar activities threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our sensitive information and information technology systems and those of the third parties with whom we do business. Such threats are prevalent and continue to rise, are increasingly difficult to detect, and come from a variety of sources, including traditional computer "hackers", threat actors, "hacktivists", organized criminal threat actors, personnel (such as employee theft or misuse), and sophisticated nation-state and nation-state supported actors. Some actors now engage and are expected to continue to engage in cyberattacks, including without limitation, nation-state actors for geopolitical reasons, in conjunction with military conflicts and defense activities. During times of geopolitical and other major conflicts, we, the third parties with whom we do business, and our customers may be vulnerable to a heightened risk of these attacks, including retaliatory cyberattacks, that could materially disrupt our systems and operations, supply chain, and ability to produce, sell, and distribute our goods and services.
We and the third parties with whom we do business may be subject to a variety of evolving threats. These include but are not limited to; social-engineering attacks (including through deepfakes, which are difficult to identify as fake, and phishing attacks), malicious code (such as viruses and worms), malware (including as a result of advanced persistent threat intrusions), denial-of-service attacks, credential stuffing attacks, credential harvesting, personnel misconduct or error, ransomware attacks, supply chain attacks, software bugs, server malfunctions, software or hardware failures, loss of data or other information technology assets, adware, telecommunications failures, attacks enhanced or facilitated by AI, and other similar threats. In particular, severe ransomware attacks have become increasingly prevalent and can lead to significant interruptions in our operations, ability to provide our products or services, loss of sensitive data, loss of income, reputational harm, and diversion of resources. Extortion payments may alleviate the negative impact of a ransomware attack, but we may be unwilling or unable to make such payments due to, for example, applicable laws or regulations prohibiting such payments.
We are incorporated into the supply chain of a large number of companies worldwide and, as a result, if our solutions are compromised, a significant number or, in some instances, all of our customers, and their data could be simultaneously affected. The potential liability and associated consequences we could suffer as a result of such a large-scale event could be catastrophic, and result in irreparable harm. In addition, remote work has increased risks to our information technology systems and data, as more of our employees utilize network connections, computers, and devices outside of our premises or network, including working at home, while in transit, and in public locations. Future or past business transactions (such as acquisitions or integrations) could expose us to additional cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, as our systems could be negatively affected by vulnerabilities present in acquired or integrated entities' systems and technologies. Furthermore, we may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence of such acquired, or integrated entities, and it may be difficult to integrate companies into our information technology environment and security program,
We rely on third-party service providers, sub-processors, and technologies to operate critical business systems to process sensitive information in a variety of contexts, including without limitation, third-party providers of
cloud-based infrastructure, encryption and authentication technology, employee email, content delivery to customers, and other functions. Our ability to monitor these third parties’ information security practices is limited, and these third parties may not have adequate information security measures in place. We share and receive sensitive information with and from third parties. If our third-party service providers experience a security incident or other interruption, we could experience adverse consequences. While we may be entitled to damages if our third-party service providers fail to satisfy their privacy or security-related obligations to us, any award may be insufficient to cover our damages, or we may be unable to recover such award. In addition, supply chain attacks have increased in frequency and severity, and we cannot guarantee that third parties and infrastructure in our supply chain or our third-party partners' supply chains have not been compromised.
While we have implemented security measures designed to protect against security incidents, there can be no assurance that these measures will be effective. We take steps designed to detect, mitigate, and remediate vulnerabilities in our information systems (such as our hardware and/or software, including that of third parties with whom we do business). We have not detected and in the future may not detect and remediate all such vulnerabilities including on a timely basis. Even if we have issued or otherwise made available patches or information to address vulnerabilities in our software applications, products, or services, our customers may be unwilling or unable to deploy such patches and use such information effectively and in a timely manner. Further, we may experience delays in developing and deploying remedial measures designed to address any such identified vulnerabilities, which could lead to such vulnerabilities being exploited and result in a security incident.
Any of the previously identified or similar threats could cause a security incident or other interruption that could result in unauthorized, unlawful, or accidental acquisition, modification, destruction, loss, alteration, encryption, or disclosure of, or access to, our sensitive information or information technology systems, or those of the third parties with whom we do business. For example, we have in the past been the target of unsuccessful phishing attempts, and we expect that such attempts will continue in the future. A security incident or other interruption could disrupt our ability (and that of third parties with whom we do business) to provide our platform.
We may expend significant resources or modify our business activities to try to protect against security incidents. Certain data privacy and security obligations may require us to implement and maintain specific security measures or industry-standard or reasonable security measures to protect our information technology systems and sensitive information. Applicable data privacy and security obligations may require us to notify relevant stakeholders, including affected individuals, customers, regulators, and investors, of security incidents. Such disclosures are costly, and the disclosures or the failure to comply with such requirements could lead to adverse consequences.
If we (or a third-party with whom we do business) experience a security incident, or are perceived to have experienced a security incident, we may experience material adverse consequences, such as government enforcement actions (for example, investigations, fines, penalties, audits, and inspections); additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; restrictions on processing sensitive information (including personal data); litigation (including class claims); indemnification obligations; negative publicity; reputational harm; monetary fund diversions; diversion of management attention; interruptions in our operations (including availability of data); financial loss; and other similar harms. Security incidents and attendant consequences may prevent customers from using or cause customers to stop using our platform and products, deter new customers from using our platform and products, and negatively impact our ability to grow and operate our business.
A security incident may cause us to breach customer contracts. Our agreements with certain customers require us to use industry-standard or reasonable measures to safeguard personal information. We are also subject to laws that require us to use industry-standard or reasonable security measures to safeguard personal information. Our contracts may not contain limitations of liability, and even when they do, there can be no assurance that limitations of liability in our contracts are sufficient to protect us from liabilities, damages, or claims related to our data privacy and security obligations. A security breach could lead to claims by our customers or other relevant stakeholders that we have failed to comply with such legal or contractual obligations. As a result, we could be subject to legal action or our customers could end their relationships with us. In some cases our customer agreements do not limit our remediation costs or liability with respect to data breaches.
In addition to experiencing a security incident, third parties may gather, collect, or infer sensitive information about us from public sources, data brokers, or other means that reveals competitively sensitive details about our organization and could be used to undermine our competitive advantage or market position. Further, sensitive information belonging to us or our customers could be leaked, disclosed, or revealed as a result of, or in connection with, our employees', personnel's, or vendors' use of generative AI technologies. Any sensitive information (including confidential, competitive, proprietary, or personal data) that we input into a third-party generative AI/ML
model could be leaked or disclosed to others, including if sensitive information is used to train the third party's AI/ML model. Additionally, where an AI/ML model ingests personal data and makes connections using such data, those technologies may reveal other personal or sensitive information generated by the model.
We face unique threats and vulnerabilities as a SaaS company, including, but not limited to, adverse consequences resulting from any vulnerabilities in our platform and products and customer misuse of our platform and products. The reliability and continuous availability of our platform and products is critical to our success. However, software such as ours can contain errors, defects, security vulnerabilities, or software bugs that are difficult to detect and correct, particularly when such vulnerabilities are first introduced, or when new versions or enhancements of our platform or products are released. Additionally, even if we are able to develop a patch or other fix to address such vulnerabilities, such fix may be difficult to push out to our customers, or otherwise be delayed. Additionally, our business depends upon the appropriate and successful implementation of our platform and products by our customers. If our customers fail to use our platform or products according to our specifications, our customers may suffer a security incident on their own systems or other adverse consequences. Even if such an incident is unrelated to our security practices, it could result in us incurring significant economic and operational costs in investigating, remediating, and implementing additional measures to further protect our customers from their own vulnerabilities and could result in reputational harm.
Litigation resulting from security breaches may adversely affect our business. Unauthorized access to our platform, systems, networks, or physical facilities, or those of our vendors, could result in litigation with our customers or other relevant stakeholders. These proceedings could force us to spend money in defense or settlement, divert management’s time and attention, increase our costs of doing business, or adversely affect our reputation. We could be required to fundamentally change our business activities and practices or modify our products and/or platform capabilities in response to such litigation, which could have an adverse effect on our business. If a security breach were to occur and the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of personal data or sensitive information was disrupted, we could incur significant liability or our platform, systems, or networks may be perceived as less desirable, which could negatively affect our business and damage our reputation.
We cannot be sure that our insurance coverage will be adequate or sufficient to protect us from or to mitigate liabilities arising out of our privacy and security practices, that such coverage will continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all, or that such coverage will pay future claims.
Risks Related to Regulatory Compliance and Governmental Matters
We are subject to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and similar laws, and noncompliance with such laws can subject us to criminal or civil liability and harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We are subject to the U.S. FCPA, U.S. domestic bribery laws, the U.K. Bribery Act, and other anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws in the countries in which we conduct activities. Due to the international scope of our operations, we must comply with these laws in each jurisdiction where we operate. Additionally, many anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, including the FCPA, have long-arm statutes that can expand the applicability of these laws to our operations worldwide. Accordingly, we must incur significant operational costs to support our ongoing compliance with anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws at all levels of our business. If we fail to comply with these laws we may be subject to significant penalties. Anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws have been enforced aggressively in recent years and are interpreted broadly to generally prohibit companies, their employees, and their third-party intermediaries from authorizing, offering, or providing, directly or indirectly, improper payments or benefits to recipients in the public or private sector. As we increase our international sales and business and sales to the public sector, we may engage with business partners and third-party intermediaries to market our products and to obtain necessary permits, licenses, and other regulatory approvals. In addition, we or our third-party intermediaries may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities. We can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of these third-party intermediaries, our employees, representatives, contractors, partners, and agents, even if we do not explicitly authorize such activities.
While we have policies and procedures to address compliance with such laws, we cannot provide assurance that all of our employees and agents will not take actions in violation of our policies and applicable law for which we may be ultimately held responsible. As we increase our international sales and business, our risks under these laws may increase.
Detecting, investigating, and resolving actual or alleged violations of anti-corruption laws can require a significant diversion of time, resources, and attention from senior management. In addition, noncompliance with anti-corruption, anti-bribery, or anti-money laundering laws could subject us to whistleblower complaints, investigations, sanctions, settlements, prosecution, enforcement actions, fines, damages, other civil or criminal penalties or injunctions, suspension or debarment from contracting with certain persons, reputational harm, adverse media coverage, and other collateral consequences. If any subpoenas or investigations are launched or governmental or other sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any possible civil or criminal proceeding, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be harmed. In addition, responding to any action will likely result in a materially significant diversion of management’s attention and resources and significant defense costs and other professional fees.
Sales to government entities and highly regulated organizations are subject to a number of challenges and risks.
We currently sell, and anticipate continuing to sell, to U.S. federal, state, and local, and foreign governmental agency customers, as well as to customers in highly regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. Sales to such customers are subject to a number of challenges and risks. Selling to such customers can be highly competitive, expensive, and time-consuming, often requiring significant upfront time and expense without any assurance that these efforts will generate a sale. These current and prospective customers may also be required to comply with stringent regulations in connection with purchasing and implementing our platform and products, or particular regulations regarding third-party vendors that may be interpreted differently by different customers. In addition, regulatory agencies may impose requirements on third-party vendors generally, or our company in particular, that we may not be able to or may not choose to meet. In addition, government customers and customers in these highly regulated industries often have a right to conduct audits of our systems, products, and practices. In the event that one or more customers determine that some aspect of our business does not meet regulatory requirements, we may be limited in our ability to continue or expand our business. In addition, if our platform and products do not meet the standards of new or existing regulations, we may be in breach of our contracts with these customers, allowing them to terminate their agreements.
Government contracting requirements may also change and in doing so restrict our ability to sell into the government sector until we have attained the requisite approvals. Government demand and payment for our products are affected by public sector budgetary cycles and funding authorizations, with funding reductions or delays adversely affecting public sector demand for our products.
These customers may also be subject to a rapidly evolving regulatory framework that may impact their ability to use our platform and products. Moreover, changes in the underlying statutory and regulatory conditions that affect these types of customers could harm our ability to efficiently provide them access to our platform and to grow or maintain our customer base. If we are unable to enhance our platform and products to keep pace with evolving requirements, or if new technologies emerge that are able to deliver competitive products at lower prices, more efficiently, more conveniently, or more securely than our platform, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.
Further, governmental and highly regulated entities may demand contract terms that differ from our standard arrangements and are less favorable than terms agreed with private sector customers, including preferential pricing or “most favored nation” terms and conditions or contract provisions that are otherwise time-consuming and expensive to satisfy. In the U.S., applicable federal contracting regulations change frequently, and the President may issue executive orders requiring federal contractors to adhere to new compliance requirements after a contract is signed. If we undertake to meet special standards or requirements and do not meet them, we could be subject to significant liability from our customers or regulators. Even if we do meet these special standards or requirements, the additional costs associated with providing our platform to government and highly regulated customers could harm our results of operations. In addition, engaging in sales activities to foreign governments introduces additional compliance risks specific to the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act, and other similar statutory requirements prohibiting bribery and corruption in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
Such entities may have statutory, contractual, or other legal rights to terminate contracts with us or our partners for convenience or for other reasons. Any such termination may adversely affect our ability to contract with other government customers as well as our reputation, business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international markets or subject us to liability if we violate the controls.
Our business activities are subject to Trade Controls which may prohibit or restrict the sale or supply of certain products, including encryption items and other technology, and services to certain governments, persons, entities, countries, and territories, including those that are the target of comprehensive sanctions.
While we have implemented controls designed to promote and achieve compliance with applicable Trade Controls, our platform and products may have been provided in the past and could in the future be provided in violation of such laws, despite the precautions we take. Any failure to comply with applicable Trade Controls may materially affect us through reputational harm, as well as other negative consequences, including government investigations and penalties. Accordingly, we must incur significant operational costs to support our ongoing compliance with Trade Controls at all levels of our business.
Also, various countries in addition to the U.S. have enacted Trade Controls that could limit our ability to distribute our platform and products, or could limit our customers’ ability to implement our platform and products in those countries. Changes in our platform or products or future changes in Trade Controls may create delays in the introduction of our platform and products in international markets or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our platform and products to certain countries, governments, or persons altogether. Any change in Trade Controls could result in decreased use of our platform and products by, or decrease in our ability to export or sell our platform and products to, existing or potential customers. Any decreased use of our platform or products or limitation on our ability to export or sell our platform and products would adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
For example, over time, the U.S. has imposed Trade Controls that restrict the export of U.S.-regulated products and technology in response to geopolitical actions. Such Trade Controls and any further restrictions that may be promulgated by relevant governmental authorities could adversely affect our business.
Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property
Any failure to obtain, maintain, protect, or enforce our intellectual property and proprietary rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand.
Our success depends to a significant degree on our ability to obtain, maintain, protect, and enforce our intellectual property rights, including our proprietary technology, know-how, and our brand. We rely on a combination of trademarks, trade secret laws, patents, copyrights, service marks, contractual restrictions, and other intellectual property laws and confidentiality procedures to establish and protect our proprietary rights. However, the steps we take to obtain, maintain, protect, and enforce our intellectual property rights may be inadequate. We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights if, for example, we are unable to enforce our rights against infringement or misappropriation, or if we do not detect unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights. If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors may gain access to our proprietary technology and develop and commercialize substantially identical products, services, or technologies, and our business, financial condition, results of operations, or growth prospects may be harmed.
In addition, defending our intellectual property rights may entail significant expense. Any patent, trademark, or other intellectual property rights that we have or may obtain may be challenged or circumvented by others or invalidated or held unenforceable through administrative processes, including re-examination, inter partes review, interference, and derivation proceedings and equivalent proceedings in foreign jurisdictions (e.g., opposition, invalidation, and cancellation proceedings), or litigation. Moreover, there can be no assurance that our pending patent applications will result in issued patents. Even if we continue to seek patent protection in the future, we may be unable to obtain or maintain patent protection for our technology. In addition, any patents issued from pending or future patent applications or licensed to us in the future may not be sufficiently broad to protect our proprietary technologies, may not provide us with competitive advantages, or may be successfully challenged by third parties. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and various foreign governmental patent and trademark agencies also require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment, and other similar provisions during the patent and trademark application process and after a patent or trademark registration has issued. There are situations in which noncompliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent, patent application, or trademark filing, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent or trademark rights in the relevant jurisdiction. If this occurs, our competitors might be able to enter the market.
Furthermore, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability, and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy our
brands, products, and platform capabilities, and use information that we regard as proprietary to create brands and products that compete with ours. Effective patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret protection may not be available to us or commercially feasible in every country in which our products are available. Further, intellectual property law, including statutory and case law, particularly in the U.S., is constantly developing, and any changes in the law could make it harder for us to enforce our rights. The value of our intellectual property could diminish if others assert rights in or ownership of our trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property rights, or adopt trademarks that are similar to our trademarks. We may be unable to successfully resolve these types of conflicts to our satisfaction. In some cases, as noted below, litigation or other actions may be necessary to protect or enforce our trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property rights against infringement or misappropriation. As we expand our international activities, our exposure to unauthorized copying and use of our products and platform capabilities and proprietary information will likely increase. Moreover, policing unauthorized use of our technologies, trade secrets, and intellectual property may be 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 or inadequate. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon, misappropriating, or otherwise violating our intellectual property rights. Any of the foregoing could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We may become subject to intellectual property disputes, which are costly and may subject us to significant liability and increased costs of doing business.
We are from time to time subject to intellectual property disputes. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to develop and commercialize our products and services without infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property rights of third parties. However, we may not be aware that our products or services are infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating third-party intellectual property rights, and such third parties may bring claims alleging such infringement, misappropriation, or violation. As one example, there may be issued patents of which we are not aware, held by third parties that, if found to be valid and enforceable, could be alleged to be infringed by our current or future technologies or products. There also may be pending patent applications of which we are not aware that may result in issued patents, which could be alleged to be infringed by our current or future technologies or products. Because patent applications can take years to issue and are often afforded confidentiality for some period of time, there may currently be pending applications, unknown to us, that later result in issued patents that could cover our current or future technologies or products.
Lawsuits can be time-consuming and expensive to resolve and can divert management’s time and attention. The software industry in which we operate is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual and proprietary rights. Companies in the software industry are often required to defend against litigation claims based on allegations of infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of intellectual property rights. Our technologies may not be able to withstand any third-party claims against their use. In addition, many companies have the capability to dedicate substantially greater resources to enforce their intellectual property rights and to defend claims that may be brought against them than we can. In a patent infringement claim against us, we may assert as a defense that we do not infringe the relevant patent claims, that the patent is invalid, or both. The strength of our defenses may depend on the patents asserted, the interpretation of these patents, or our ability to invalidate the asserted patents. However, we could be unsuccessful in advancing non-infringement and/or invalidity arguments in our defense. In the U.S., issued patents enjoy a presumption of validity, and the party challenging the validity of a patent claim must present clear and convincing evidence of invalidity, which is a high burden of proof. Conversely, the patent owner need only prove infringement by a preponderance of the evidence, which is a lower burden of proof. Competitors and others may now and in the future have significantly larger and more mature patent portfolios than we have, which could prevent us from deterring patent infringement claims through our own patent portfolio. Any litigation may also involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners that have no relevant product revenue, and therefore, our patents may provide little or no deterrence as we would not be able to assert them against such entities or individuals.
An adverse result in any infringement or misappropriation proceeding could subject us to significant damages, injunctions, and reputational harm. If a third party is able to obtain an injunction preventing us from accessing such third-party intellectual property rights, or if we cannot license or develop alternative technology for any infringing aspect of our business, we may be forced to limit or stop sales of our relevant products and platform capabilities or cease business activities related to such intellectual property. Although we carry general liability and intellectual property insurance, our insurance may not cover potential claims of this type or may not be adequate to indemnify us for all liability that may be imposed. We cannot predict the outcome of lawsuits and cannot ensure that the
results of any such actions will not have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. Any intellectual property litigation to which we might become a party, or for which we are required to provide indemnification, may require us to do one or more of the following:
•cease selling or using products or services that incorporate the intellectual property rights that we allegedly infringe, misappropriate, or violate;
•make substantial payments for legal fees, settlement payments, or other costs or damages;
•obtain a license, which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all, to sell or use the relevant technology;
•redesign the allegedly infringing products to avoid infringement, misappropriation, or violation, which could be costly, time-consuming, or impossible;
•rebrand our products and services and/or be prevented from selling some of our products or services if third parties successfully oppose or challenge our trademarks or successfully claim that we infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate their trademarks or other intellectual property rights; and
•limit the manner in which we use our brands, or prevent us from using our brands in particular jurisdictions.
Even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims and the time and resources necessary to resolve them could divert the resources of our management and harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Moreover, there could be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions, or other interim proceedings or developments, and if securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the price of our Class A common stock. The occurrence of infringement and misappropriation claims may grow as the market for our platform and products grows. Accordingly, our exposure to damages resulting from infringement claims could increase and this could further exhaust our financial and management resources. Any of the foregoing could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We may become involved in lawsuits to protect or enforce our intellectual property, which could be expensive, time consuming, and unsuccessful.
Third parties, including our competitors, could be infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating our intellectual property rights, and we may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect those rights. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights and to protect our trade secrets. Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming, and distracting to management, and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property.
Further, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims, and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights, and if such defenses, counterclaims, or countersuits were successful, we could lose valuable intellectual property rights. An adverse determination of any litigation proceedings could put our intellectual property at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and could put our related patents, patent applications, and trademark filings at risk of being invalidated, not issued, or cancelled. Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential or sensitive information could be compromised by disclosure in the event of litigation. In addition, during the course of litigation there could be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions, or other interim proceedings or developments. If securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a substantial adverse effect on the price of our Class A common stock. Our inability to protect our proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costly litigation or diversion of our management’s attention and resources, could delay further sales or the implementation of our products and platform capabilities, impair the functionality of our products and platform capabilities, delay introductions of new functionality, result in our substituting inferior or more costly technologies into our products, or injure our reputation. Any of the foregoing could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our trade secrets, our business and competitive position would be harmed.
We rely heavily on trade secrets and confidentiality agreements to protect our unpatented know-how, technology, and other proprietary information and to maintain our competitive position. However, trade secrets and know-how can be difficult to protect. We seek to protect these trade secrets and other proprietary technology, in
part, by entering into non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with parties who have access to them, such as our employees, consultants, and other third parties, including suppliers and other partners. However, we cannot guarantee that we have entered into such agreements with each party that has or may have had access to our proprietary information, know-how, and trade secrets. Moreover, no assurance can be given that these agreements will be effective in controlling access to, or distribution, use, misuse, misappropriation, reverse engineering, or disclosure of our proprietary information, know-how, and trade secrets. Further, these agreements may not prevent our competitors from independently developing technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our products and platform capabilities. These agreements may be breached, and we may not have adequate remedies for any such breach. For example, past employees have sought to misappropriate source code relevant to certain of our products. While we have taken steps to enjoin misappropriation that we are aware of, such steps may not ultimately be successful and we may not be aware of all such misappropriation. Any of the foregoing could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We may be subject to claims that our employees, consultants, or advisors have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of their current or former employers or claims asserting ownership of what we regard as our own intellectual property.
Many of our employees and consultants are currently or were previously employed at other companies in our field, including our competitors or potential competitors. Although we try to ensure that our employees and consultants do not use the proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or these individuals have used or disclosed intellectual property, including trade secrets or other proprietary information, of any such individual’s current or former employer. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.
In addition, while it is our policy to require our employees and contractors who may be involved in the conception or development of intellectual property to execute agreements assigning such intellectual property to us, we may be unsuccessful in executing such an agreement with each party who, in fact, conceives or develops intellectual property that we regard as our own. The assignment of intellectual property rights may not be self-executing, or the assignment agreements may be breached, and we may be forced to bring claims against third parties, or defend claims that they may bring against us, to determine the ownership of what we regard as our intellectual property. Any of the foregoing could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We use open source software in our products, which could negatively affect our ability to sell our platform and products or subject us to litigation or other actions.
We use open source software in our products and we expect to continue to incorporate open source software into our products in the future. Few of the licenses applicable to open source software have been interpreted by courts, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed in a manner that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our products. Moreover, we cannot ensure that we have not incorporated additional open source software in our products in a manner that is inconsistent with the terms of the applicable licenses or our current policies and procedures. If we fail to comply with these licenses, we may be subject to certain requirements, including requirements that we offer our products that incorporate the open source software for no cost, that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon, incorporating, or using the open source software, and that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of applicable open source licenses. In addition, although we employ open source software license screening measures, if we were to combine our proprietary software products with open source software in a certain manner, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software products. If an author or other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations and could be subject to significant damages, enjoined from the sale of our products that contained the open source software, and required to comply with onerous conditions or restrictions on these products, which could disrupt the distribution and sale of these products.
From time to time, there have been claims challenging the ownership rights in open source software against companies that incorporate it into their products and the licensors of such open source software provide no warranties or indemnities with respect to such claims. As a result, we and our customers could be subject to lawsuits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software. Litigation could be costly for us to defend, have a negative effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations, or require us to
devote additional research and development resources to change our products. Some open source projects have known vulnerabilities and architectural instabilities and are provided on an “as-is” basis, which, if not properly addressed, could negatively affect the performance of our product. If we inappropriately use or incorporate open source software subject to certain types of open source licenses that challenge the proprietary nature of our products, we may be required to re-engineer such products, discontinue the sale of such products, or take other remedial actions, any of which could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
If we cannot license rights to use technologies on reasonable terms, we may be unable to license rights that are critical to our business.
In the future we may identify additional third-party intellectual property that we may need to license in order to engage in our business, including to develop or commercialize new products or services. However, such licenses may not be available on acceptable terms or at all. The licensing or acquisition of third-party intellectual property rights is a competitive area, and more established companies may pursue strategies to license or acquire third-party intellectual property rights that we may consider attractive or necessary. These more established companies may have a competitive advantage over us due to their size, capital resources, and greater development or commercialization capabilities. In addition, companies that perceive us to be a competitor may be unwilling to assign or license rights to us. Even if such licenses were available, we might be required to pay the licensor substantial royalties based on sales of our products and services. Such royalties are a component of the cost of our products or services and may affect the margins on our products and services. If we are unable to enter into the necessary licenses on acceptable terms or at all, it could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Risks Related to Our International Operations
Our current operations are international in scope, and we may pursue further geographic expansion, creating a variety of operational challenges.
We currently operate internationally, and a component of our growth strategy involves the further expansion of our operations and customer base internationally. Customers outside the U.S. generated 56% and 57% of our revenue for fiscal years 2025 and 2024, respectively. Beyond the U.S., we have operational presence internationally, including in Romania, the U.K., and a number of other countries in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, among others. We are continuing to adapt to and develop strategies to further address international markets, but there is no guarantee that such efforts will have the desired effect. For example, we anticipate that we will need to establish relationships with new partners in order to expand into certain countries, and if we fail to identify, establish, and maintain such relationships, we may be unable to execute on our expansion plans. As of January 31, 2025, the majority of our full-time employees were located outside of the U.S. We expect that our international activities will continue to grow for the foreseeable future as we continue to pursue opportunities in existing and new international markets, which will require significant dedication of management attention and financial resources.
Our current and future international business and operations involve a variety of risks, including:
•slower than anticipated availability to and adoption of our platform and products by international businesses;
•changes in a specific country’s or region’s political, regulatory, or economic conditions;
•the need to adapt and localize our products for specific countries;
•greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;
•potential changes in trade relations, regulations, laws, or tariffs;
•unexpected changes in laws or regulatory requirements, including tax laws and regulations;
•more stringent regulations relating to privacy and data security and the unauthorized use of or access to commercial and personal data, particularly in the EU;
•differing and potentially more onerous labor regulations, especially in Europe, where labor laws are generally more advantageous to employees as compared to the U.S., including deemed hourly wage and overtime regulations in these locations;
•challenges inherent in efficiently managing, and the increased costs associated with, an increased number of employees over large geographic distances, including the need to implement appropriate systems, policies, benefits, and compliance programs that are specific to each jurisdiction;
•difficulties in managing a business in new markets with diverse cultures, languages, customs, legal systems, alternative dispute systems, and regulatory systems;
•increased travel, real estate, infrastructure, and legal compliance costs associated with international operations;
•currency exchange rate fluctuations and the resulting effect on our revenue and expenses, and the cost and risk of entering into hedging transactions if we chose to do so in the future;
•limitations on our ability to reinvest earnings from operations in one country to fund the capital needs of our operations in other countries;
•laws and business practices favoring local competitors or general market preferences for local vendors;
•limited or insufficient intellectual property protection or difficulties obtaining, maintaining, protecting, or enforcing our intellectual property rights, including our trademarks and patents;
•the impacts of political instability, military conflicts, or terrorist activities on our employees, our business, and the global economic environment;
•an outbreak of a contagious disease, which may cause us or our third-party providers and/or customers to temporarily suspend our or their respective operations in the affected city or country;
•exposure to liabilities under anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws, including the FCPA, U.S. bribery laws, the U.K. Bribery Act, and similar laws and regulations in other jurisdictions;
•exposure to anti-competition laws in foreign jurisdictions that may conflict with or be more restrictive than similar U.S. anti-competition laws; and
•adverse changes to domestic and foreign tax laws and regulations, and the requirements of foreign exchange controls, which could make it difficult to repatriate earnings and cash.
Although we have taken steps designed to ensure that we comply with applicable regulations including evolving U.S. and international sanctions, these steps involve additional compliance costs and operational costs. Any of these risks could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Failure to comply with these international regulations as they evolve could harm our business. If we invest substantial time and resources to further expand our international operations and are unable to do so successfully and in a timely manner, our business and results of operations will suffer.
Risks Related to Tax and Accounting Matters
If we fail to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable laws and regulations could be impaired.
We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, SOX, the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange, and other securities rules and regulations that impose various requirements on public companies. Our management and other personnel devote substantial time and resources to comply with these rules and regulations. Such compliance has increased and will continue to increase our legal, accounting, and financial compliance costs and make some activities more difficult and time-consuming. SOX requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. We are continuing to refine our disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting, and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our financial statements and in the reports that we file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that information required to be disclosed in reports under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our principal executive and financial officers.
Our current controls and any new controls we develop may become inadequate because of changes in conditions in our business. Additionally, to the extent that we acquire other businesses, the acquired company may not have a sufficiently robust system of internal controls and we may uncover new deficiencies. Weaknesses in our internal controls may be discovered in the future. Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our results of operations, may result in
a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods, may cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, could result in an adverse opinion regarding our internal control over financial reporting from our independent registered public accounting firm, and could lead to investigations or sanctions by regulatory authorities.
Section 404 of SOX requires our management to certify financial and other information in our quarterly and annual reports and provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. We are also required to have our independent registered public accounting firm attest to, and issue an opinion on, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which could cause the price of our Class A common stock to decline.
Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We are exposed to fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which affect our results of operations.
While our sales contracts are denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars, we also have sales contracts representing a large portion of our revenue denominated in foreign currencies. Therefore, a significant portion of our revenue has been and continues to be subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Additionally, for our foreign sales contracts denominated in U.S. dollars, a strengthening of the U.S. dollar has increased and could continue to increase the real cost of our products and platform capabilities to these customers outside of the U.S., which could adversely affect our results of operations.
Further, an increasing portion of our operating expenses are incurred outside the U.S. We conduct our business and incur costs in the local currency of most countries in which we operate. We incur currency transaction risk whenever one of our operating subsidiaries enters into either a purchase or a sales transaction using a different currency from the currency in which it operates, or holds assets or liabilities in a currency different from its functional currency. Changes in exchange rates can also affect our results of operations when the value of sales and expenses of foreign subsidiaries are translated to U.S. dollars. We cannot accurately predict the impact of future exchange rate fluctuations on our results of operations. Given the volatility of exchange rates, we may not be able to effectively manage our currency risks, and any volatility in currency exchange rates may have an adverse effect on our financial condition, cash flows, and profitability.
Our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements cause us to be subject to the tax laws of various jurisdictions, and we could be obligated to pay additional taxes, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
Our international operations and personnel have rapidly expanded to support our business in numerous international markets. We generally conduct our international operations through directly or indirectly wholly-owned subsidiaries, and we are or may be required to report our taxable income in various jurisdictions worldwide with increasingly complex tax laws based upon our business operations in those jurisdictions. Our intercompany relationships and agreements are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by tax authorities in various jurisdictions with potentially divergent tax laws. Tax authorities may disagree with tax positions that we have taken. For example, the IRS or another tax authority could challenge our allocation of income by tax jurisdiction and the amounts paid between our affiliated companies pursuant to our intercompany arrangements and transfer pricing policies, including amounts paid with respect to our intellectual property in connection with our intercompany research and development cost sharing arrangement and legal structure. We are currently under audit in certain jurisdictions, and topics as described above have been raised in our current and prior tax audits in Romania and India, leading to disputes and litigation. While we believe our positions are reasonable, the administrative procedures to finalize these tax audits, disputes, and litigation are in process.
The amount of taxes we pay in different jurisdictions may depend on the application of the tax laws of the various jurisdictions, including the U.S., to our international business activities, changes in tax rates, new or revised tax laws or interpretations of existing tax laws and policies, and our ability to operate our business in a manner consistent with our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements. The authorities in these jurisdictions could audit our tax returns or require us to file tax returns in jurisdictions in which we are not currently filing and could impose additional tax, interest, and penalties. In addition, the authorities could claim that various withholding requirements apply to us or our subsidiaries, assert that benefits of tax treaties are not available to us or our subsidiaries, or challenge our methodologies for valuing developed technology or intercompany arrangements, including our transfer pricing. If such a challenge or disagreement were to occur, and our position was not
sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest, and penalties, which could result in one-time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows, and lower overall profitability of our operations. Our financial statements may not include adequate accruals to cover such contingencies. Furthermore, we are subject to periodic audits in the various jurisdictions in which we operate. We regularly assess the likelihood of an adverse outcome resulting from these audits to determine the adequacy of our accruals for taxes. Although we believe our estimates are reasonable, the final outcome of audits could materially differ from our expectations.
Changes in tax laws or tax rulings could materially affect our financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
The tax regimes that we are subject to or operate under, including income and non-income taxes, may be subject to significant change. Changes in tax laws, regulations, or rulings, or changes in interpretations of existing laws and regulations, could materially affect our financial condition and results of operations and we must monitor such changes closely. For example, the TCJA, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act enacted in 2020, and the Inflation Reduction Act enacted in 2022, made many significant changes to the U.S. tax laws, especially with regard to international aspects of taxation. Further, effective January 1, 2022, the TCJA eliminated the option to deduct research and development expenses for tax purposes in the year incurred, and instead requires taxpayers to capitalize and subsequently amortize such expenses over five years for research activities conducted in the U.S. and over 15 years for research activities conducted outside the U.S. Although there has been legislative adoption in the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the capitalization requirement, there can be no assurance that the provision will be further adopted by the U.S. Senate or otherwise modified. Similarly, as our operations are material in Romania, legislative changes have resulted in an alternative minimum corporate tax for fiscal years starting after January 1, 2024, to which we are subject. Future guidance from the IRS and other tax authorities with respect to any existing or new laws may affect us, and certain aspects of such laws could be repealed or modified in future legislation.
In addition, the OECD has been working on a BEPS Project and issued a report in 2015, an interim report in 2018, and has issued additional guidelines, model rules, and final proposals that may change various aspects of the existing framework under which our tax obligations are determined in many of the countries in which we do business. In particular, the OECD is coordinating the implementation of rules to be adopted from 2023 for taxing the digital economy, specifically with respect to nexus and profit allocation (Pillar One), and for a global minimum tax (Pillar Two). Although a number of jurisdictions, including the EU and the U.K., have enacted legislation to implement core elements of Pillar Two, it remains uncertain whether the U.S. will enact similar legislation.
Additionally, the European Commission and several countries have issued (and continue to issue) legislation and proposals that could change various aspects of the current tax framework under which we are taxed. These proposals include changes to the existing framework to calculate income tax, as well as proposals to change or impose new types of non-income taxes, including taxes based on a percentage of revenue or online sales (e.g. Romanian alternative minimum corporate tax, digital service taxes, equalization levies).
We continue to examine the impact of these and other tax reforms on our business, and cannot predict the timing and ultimate outcome or the potential impact they may have on our tax obligations, business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Due to the large and expanding scale of our international business activities, these types of changes to the taxation of our activities could increase our worldwide effective tax rate, increase the amount of taxes imposed on our business, and harm our financial position. Such changes may also apply retroactively to our historical operations and result in taxes greater than the amounts estimated and recorded in our financial statements.
We could be required to collect additional sales, use, transfer, or other indirect taxes or be subject to other tax liabilities that may increase the costs our customers would have to pay for our products and adversely affect our results of operations.
We currently collect and remit applicable sales, use, transfer, or other indirect taxes in jurisdictions where we, through our employees or economic activity, have a presence and where we have determined, based on applicable legal precedents, that sales or licensing of our products are classified as taxable. We do not currently collect and remit state and local excise, utility user or ad valorem taxes, fees, or surcharges in jurisdictions where we believe we do not have sufficient nexus. There is uncertainty as to what constitutes sufficient nexus for a state or local jurisdiction to levy taxes, fees, and surcharges for sales made over the internet, and there is also uncertainty as to whether our characterization of our products as not taxable in certain jurisdictions will be accepted by state and local tax authorities.
An increasing number of states have considered or adopted laws that attempt to impose tax collection obligations on out-of-state companies. Additionally, the Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et al that online sellers can be required to collect sales and use tax despite not having a physical presence in the buyer’s state. In response to this ruling, or otherwise, states or local governments may adopt, or begin to enforce, laws requiring us to calculate, collect, and remit taxes on sales in their jurisdictions. A successful assertion by one or more states requiring us to collect taxes where we presently do not do so, or to collect more taxes in a jurisdiction in which we currently do collect some taxes, could result in substantial tax liabilities, including taxes on past sales, as well as penalties and interest. The imposition by state governments or local governments of sales tax collection obligations on out-of-state sellers could also create additional administrative burdens for us and put us at a competitive disadvantage if they do not impose similar obligations on our competitors.
Our ability to use our NOLs to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.
Certain of our NOLs could expire unused and be unavailable to reduce future income tax liabilities because of their limited duration or because of restrictions under U.S. or foreign tax law. NOLs generated in taxable years beginning before January 1, 2018 are permitted to be carried forward for only 20 taxable years under applicable U.S. federal income tax law. Under current law, NOLs arising in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2020 may not be carried back. Moreover, under current law, NOLs generated in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 may be carried forward indefinitely, but the deductibility of such NOLs generally will be limited to 80% of current year taxable income. NOLs generated in taxable years beginning before January 1, 2024 are permitted to be carried forward for 7 taxable years under the Romania income tax law. In 2023, the Romanian government approved Emergency Ordinance No. 115/2023. Under the Ordinance, NOLs generated in taxable years beginning after January 1, 2024 can be carried forward for 5 years, and the utilization of the NOLs is limited to 70% of current year taxable income.
In general, under Section 382 of the IRC, a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” (as defined under Section 382 of the IRC and applicable Treasury Regulations) is subject to limitations on its ability to utilize its pre-change NOLs to offset future taxable income. We have identified Section 382 ownership changes in April 2017 and July 2020 and, accordingly, our NOLs are subject to limitation. We did not experience a subsequent ownership change in connection with the Series F Financing and our IPO. We do not believe that any Section 382 limitations will prevent us from fully utilizing our NOLs. It is possible that we have in the past undergone and may in the future undergo additional ownership changes that we have not identified and that could result in additional limitations on our NOLs. Furthermore, our ability to utilize NOLs of companies that we have acquired or may acquire in the future may be subject to limitations. There is also a risk that due to regulatory changes, such as suspensions on the use of NOLs or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs could expire or otherwise be unavailable to reduce future income tax liabilities, including for state tax purposes. For these reasons, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of our NOLs, even if we achieve or sustain profitability, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us and could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock
The dual class structure of our common stock has the effect of concentrating voting control with Daniel Dines, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founder, and Chairman, which will limit stockholders' ability to influence the outcome of important decisions.
Our Class B common stock has 35 votes per share and our Class A common stock has one vote per share. Our CEO, co-founder, and Chairman, Daniel Dines, collectively with his controlled entities, holds all our outstanding shares of Class B common stock, and beneficially owned shares representing approximately 87% voting power of our outstanding capital stock as of January 31, 2025. As a result, Mr. Dines has the ability to control the outcome of matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or our assets, even if his stock ownership represents less than 50% of the outstanding aggregate number of shares of our capital stock. This concentration of ownership will limit the ability of other stockholders to influence corporate matters and may cause us to make strategic decisions that could involve risks to other stockholders or that may not be aligned with other stockholders' interests. As a board member, Mr. Dines owes a fiduciary duty to our stockholders and is legally obligated to act in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the best interests of our stockholders. As a stockholder, Mr. Dines is entitled to vote his shares in his own interests, which may not always be in the interests of our stockholders generally. Mr. Dines’ control may adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock.
Further, future transfers by holders of our Class B common stock will generally result in those shares converting into shares of our Class A common stock, subject to limited exceptions, such as certain transfers effected for tax or estate planning purposes.
We have not elected to take advantage of the “controlled company” exemption to the corporate governance rules for publicly-listed companies but may do so in the future.
Because our CEO, co-founder, and Chairman, Daniel Dines, who, collectively with his controlled entities, holds all our outstanding shares of Class B common stock, and beneficially owns shares representing in excess of 50% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock, we are eligible to elect the “controlled company” exemption to the corporate governance rules for publicly-listed companies. We have not elected to do so. If we decide to rely on the “controlled company” exemption, then under the corporate governance rules for publicly-listed companies, we would not be required to have a majority of our board of directors be independent, nor would we be required to have a compensation committee or an independent nominating function. If we choose controlled company status in the future, our status as a controlled company could cause our Class A common stock to be less attractive to certain investors and adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock.
We cannot predict the impact our dual class structure may have on the market price of our Class A common stock.
We cannot predict whether our dual class structure, combined with the concentrated control of our CEO, co-founder, and Chairman, Daniel Dines, who holds all of the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock, will result in a lower or more volatile market price of our Class A common stock or in adverse publicity or other adverse consequences. Certain index providers have announced restrictions on including companies with multiple-class share structures in certain of their indexes. Given the sustained flow of investment funds into passive strategies that seek to track certain indexes, exclusion from stock indexes would likely preclude investment by many of these funds and could make our Class A common stock less attractive to other investors. As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected.
Future sales of our Class A common stock in the public market could cause the market price of our Class A common stock to decline.
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Class A common stock in the public market in the future, or the perception that these sales might occur, could depress the market price of our Class A common stock and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities. We are unable to predict the timing of or the effect that such sales may have on the prevailing market price of our Class A common stock.
In addition, there were 30,384,125 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon the exercise of options and upon the vesting and settlement of restricted stock units outstanding as of January 31, 2025. We have registered all of the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding options, vesting and settlement of outstanding restricted stock units, and other equity incentives we may grant in the future for public resale under the Securities Act. The shares of Class A common stock became eligible for sale in the public market to the extent such options are exercised or restricted stock units vested and settled, subject to compliance with applicable securities laws. Further, certain of our stockholders have rights, subject to some conditions, to require us to file registration statements covering the sale of their shares or to include their shares in registration statements that we may file for ourselves or other stockholders.
Sales, short sales, or hedging transactions involving our equity securities, whether or not we believe them to be prohibited, could adversely affect the price of our Class A common stock.
Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management, and limit the market price of our Class A common stock.
In addition to the effects of our dual class structure, provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control or changes in our management. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws include provisions that may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management by making it more difficult for stockholders to replace members of our board of directors, which is responsible for appointing the members of our management.
In addition, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which generally, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any of a broad range of business combinations with any “interested” stockholder for a period of three years following the date on which the stockholder became an “interested” stockholder. Any of the foregoing provisions could limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our Class A common stock, and they could deter potential acquirers of our company, thereby reducing the likelihood that stockholders would receive a premium for their shares of our Class A common stock in an acquisition.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the U.S. will be the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for the following types of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law:
•any derivative claim or cause of action brought on our behalf;
•any claim or cause of action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty;
•any claim or cause of action against us arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law;
•any claim or cause of action arising under or seeking to interpret our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws; and
•any claim or cause of action against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine.
The provisions would not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act. Furthermore, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all such Securities Act actions. Accordingly, both state and federal courts have jurisdiction to entertain such claims. To prevent having to litigate claims in multiple jurisdictions and the threat of inconsistent or contrary rulings by different courts, among other considerations, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the federal district courts of the U.S. will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause or causes of action arising under the Securities Act, including all causes of action asserted against any defendant to such complaint. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision is intended to benefit and may be enforced by us, our officers and directors, the underwriters to any offering giving rise to such complaint, and any other professional entity whose profession gives authority to a statement made by that person or entity and who has prepared or certified any part of the documents underlying the offering.
While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum provisions are facially valid, a stockholder may nevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in the exclusive forum provisions. In such instance, we would expect to vigorously assert the validity and enforceability of the exclusive forum provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. This may require significant additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions and there can be no assurance that the provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions.
These exclusive forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable 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 either exclusive forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur further significant additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, all of which could seriously harm our business.
General Risk Factors
Our stock price may be volatile, and the value of our Class A common stock may decline.
The market price of our Class A common stock may be highly volatile and may fluctuate or decline substantially as a result of a variety of factors, some of which are beyond our control, including:
•actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial condition or results of operations;
•variance in our financial performance from expectations of securities analysts;
•changes in the pricing of our products and services;
•changes in our projected operating and financial results;
•changes in laws or regulations applicable to our platform and products;
•announcements by us or our competitors of significant business developments, acquisitions, or new products;
•significant data breaches, disruptions to, or other incidents involving our software;
•our involvement in litigation or governmental investigations;
•future sales of our Class A common stock by us or our stockholders;
•changes in senior management or key personnel;
•the issuance of new or changed securities analysts’ reports or recommendations;
•the trading volume of our Class A common stock;
•changes in the anticipated future size and growth rate of our market;
•economic and market conditions in general, or in our industry in particular; and
•technical factors in the public trading market for our Class A common stock that may produce price movements that may or may not comport with macro, industry, or company-specific fundamentals, including, without limitation, the sentiment of retail investors, the amount and status of short interest in our securities, access to margin debt, trading in options and other derivatives on our common stock, and other technical trading factors.
Accordingly, we cannot assure stockholders of the liquidity of an active trading market, the ability to sell their shares of our Class A common stock when desired, or the prices that they may obtain for their shares of our Class A common stock. The lack of an active market may impair stockholders' ability to sell their shares at the time they wish to sell them or at a price that they consider reasonable. The lack of an active market may also reduce the fair value of their shares. An inactive market may also impair our ability to raise capital to continue to fund operations by selling shares and may impair our ability to acquire other companies or technologies by using our shares as consideration.
Broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political, regulatory, and market conditions, may also negatively impact the market price of our Class A common stock. In addition, technology stocks have historically experienced high levels of volatility. In the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their securities have been subject to securities class action litigation. We have been and may be the target of this type of litigation in the future, which could result in substantial expenses and divert our management’s attention.
Our issuance of additional capital stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our equity incentive plans, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.
We expect to issue additional capital stock in the future that will result in dilution to all other stockholders. We expect to continue to grant equity awards to employees and directors under our equity incentive plans. We may also raise capital through equity financings in the future. As part of our business strategy, we may acquire or make investments in companies, products, or technologies and issue equity securities to pay for any such acquisition or investment. Any such issuances of additional capital stock may cause stockholders to experience significant dilution of their ownership interests and the per share value of our Class A common stock to decline.
Our business, financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows could be significantly hindered by the occurrence of a natural disaster, public health crisis, military action, terrorist attack, or other catastrophic event.
Our business operations may be susceptible to outages due to fire, floods, unusual weather conditions, power loss, telecommunications failures, military actions, terrorist attacks, public health crises, and other events beyond our control. Natural disasters including tornados, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes may damage the facilities of our customers or those of their suppliers or retailers or their other operations, which could lead to reduced revenue for our customers and thus reduced spending on our platform and products. In addition, a substantial portion of our operations rely on support from our headquarters in New York City and our office in Bucharest, Romania. To the extent that fire, floods, unusual weather conditions, power loss, telecommunications failures, military actions,
terrorist attacks, and other events beyond our control materially impacts our ability to operate those offices, it may have a material impact on our business operations as a whole.
To the extent that such events disrupt our business or the businesses of our current or prospective customers, or adversely impact our reputation, such events could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting estimates prove to be incorrect, our results of operations could be adversely affected.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. The results of these estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities, and equity, and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Significant estimates and judgments relate to revenue recognition and stock-based compensation. Our results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our results of operations to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the market price of our Class A common stock.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Not applicable.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties
Our corporate headquarters and other significant leased real property as of January 31, 2025 are shown in the following table.
Location Business Purpose
Square Footage
Lease Expiration Date
New York, NY Global headquarters 26,363 3/31/2038
Bucharest, Romania Corporate office 100,335 3/1/2028
Bellevue, WA (1)
Product development center 39,120 4/30/2025
Bangalore, India Corporate office 21,006 2/14/2028
Tokyo, Japan Corporate office 7,868 7/31/2028
(1) In January 2024, we entered into a lease for a new Bellevue, WA product development center, the term of which commenced in May 2024 and expires on October 31, 2034; this new space, with an area of 44,735 square feet, will replace our existing Bellevue lease once its build-out is completed.
We also lease other spaces for our sales, services, development, and administrative activities in various locations in the U.S. and around the world. We do not own any real property. We believe our leased properties are in good operating condition and adequately serve our current business operations.
For additional information regarding obligations under operating leases, see Note 8, Operating Leases, to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Information pertaining to legal proceedings can be found in Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies-Litigation, to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information
Our Class A common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "PATH." There currently is no established public trading market for our Class B common stock, but each share of Class B common stock is convertible at any time at the option of the holder into one share of Class A common stock, and is automatically converted upon sale or transfer into one share of Class A common stock.
Number of Holders of Common Stock
The number of record holders of our Class A and Class B common stock as of March 20, 2025 was 45 and one, respectively. The number of beneficial owners of our Class A common stock is substantially greater than the number of record holders because a large portion of Class A common stock is held in “street name” by brokers.
Dividends
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our Class A or Class B common stock, and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
Issuer Purchase of Equity Securities
The following table presents our Class A common stock repurchase activity under our stock repurchase program for the three months ended January 31, 2025 (in thousands, except for per share data):
Period Total Number of Shares
Purchased Average Price Paid Per
Share (1) Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (2) Approximate Dollar Value of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
November 1 - 30 744 $ 12.55 $ 744 $ 507,386
December 1 - 31 - - $ - $ 507,386
January 1 - 31 - $ - $ - $ 507,386
Total 744 744
(1) Excludes brokerage commission.
(2) On September 1, 2023, our board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program which authorized the repurchase from time to time of up to $500.0 million of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock. This authorization was scheduled to expire on March 1, 2025. On August 30, 2024, our board of directors authorized an additional $500.0 million of repurchases under the stock repurchase program. The current authorization may be suspended or discontinued at any time and does not have a specified expiration date. Repurchases under the program may be effected through open market purchases, privately-negotiated transactions, or otherwise in accordance with applicable federal securities laws, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans and under Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business and market conditions, and alternate uses of capital.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
None.
Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total return of our Class A common stock for the period from April 21, 2021, the date our Class A common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, through January 31, 2025, as compared to the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Index and S&P 500 Technology Index over the same period. The graph assumes a $100 investment in our Class A common stock and each of the above indices at April 21, 2021, with cash dividends reinvested as applicable.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. [Reserved]

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion, particularly with respect to our future results of operations or financial condition, business strategy, and plans and objectives of management for future operations, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties as described under the heading “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Readers should review the disclosure under the heading “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. Our fiscal quarters end on April 30, July 31, and October 31, and our fiscal year ends January 31. References to fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 in this Annual Report on Form 10-K refer to our fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. A discussion regarding our financial condition and our results of operations for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024 is presented below. For a discussion regarding our results of operations for fiscal year 2024 compared to fiscal year 2023 see the 2024 Form 10-K, under the section titled "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," which is incorporated herein by reference.
Overview
UiPath is at the forefront of technology innovation and thought leadership in automation, as the provider of an end-to-end platform that can help customers realize the true potential of digital transformation. The UiPath Platform™ leverages AI, ML, and NLP to empower automations that emulate human behavior, driving operational efficiencies and meaningful business outcomes without requiring significant changes to the organization's underlying technology infrastructure.
Historically, we have grown our revenue and ARR significantly by helping customers adopt automation as a tool, process by process. Today, we continue to build on this foundation and drive the evolution of AI-powered automation by inspiring customers to see automation more holistically, as not just a tool but as a whole new way of operating and innovating.
Our results of operations and financial condition are impacted by the macro factors affecting our industry, including the proliferation of cloud-based applications, the cost of skilled human capital, and the global demand for automation solutions. While our business is influenced by these macro factors, our results of operations are more directly affected by certain company-specific factors, including:
•our ability to attract new customers, which depends on a number of other factors, including our ability to drive awareness of the benefits and power of automation among our existing and prospective customers, the effectiveness and pricing of our products, the offerings of our competitors, and competition among resellers;
•our ability to increase sales to existing customers, which depends on factors such as our customers’ satisfaction with our platform, competition, and pricing, and overall changes in our customers’ propensity to invest in automation;
•our ability to grow our partner base and execute on all aspects of partner relationships, which depends on the competitiveness of our platform and the profitability of our relationship for our partners and potential partners;
•our ability to sustain innovation and automation leadership in order to maintain our competitive advantage, which depends on our capacity to invest in research and development to expand the capabilities of our platform, our ability to collaborate with other leading technology companies to develop integrations, and our ability to execute strategic acquisitions and investments in businesses and technologies to drive our product and market expansion; and
•our ability to continue to grow our business over the long term, which depends on our ability to invest in scaling across all organizational functions and domestic and international operations.
For further discussion of our business, our platform, and our growth strategies, refer to Part I, Item 1. Business of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Fiscal Year 2025 Highlights
•Revenue of $1,429.7 million increased 9% year-over-year.
•ARR of $1,666.1 million increased 14% year-over-year.
•Gross margin was 83% for fiscal year 2025, compared to 85% for fiscal year 2024.
•Cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, and marketable securities were $1,724.1 million as of January 31, 2025, compared to $1,880.3 million as of January 31, 2024.
Macroeconomic Environment
As a corporation with a global presence, we are subject to risks and uncertainties caused by significant events with macroeconomic impacts, including, but not limited to, the impact of changes in geopolitical relationships, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, monetary and trade policy changes, government efficiency initiatives, and foreign currency fluctuations. Additionally, these macroeconomic impacts have generally disrupted the operations of our customers, prospective customers, and partners.
Internationally, we price our platform in currencies that may not be the functional currency. Accordingly, the heightened volatility of global markets has exposed us and will continue to expose us to foreign currency fluctuations, which may impact demand for our platform, our near-term results, comparison of results to prior periods, and our ability to predict future results.
Further, cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities represent a significant portion of our total assets; as such, liquidity concerns in the financial services industry may have an effect on our business, financial conditions, and results of operations. Additionally, the return on our cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities is sensitive to changes in interest rates. Volatility in the interest rate environment may impact the amount of interest and other income reported on our consolidated statements of operations, the comparability of these amounts to prior periods, and our ability to predict future profitability.
We continuously monitor the direct and indirect impacts of these circumstances on our business and financial results, as well as the overall global economy and geopolitical landscape.
Workforce Restructuring
On June 24, 2022, our board of directors approved the Fiscal Year 2023 Workforce Restructuring to manage our operating expenses by reducing our global workforce by approximately 5%. The workforce reduction aimed to simplify our go-to-market approach and improve sales productivity. In connection with these workforce reductions, we also ceased use of our office in Brooklyn, NY. On November 10, 2022, our board of directors approved further restructuring actions to reduce our global workforce across functions by an additional 6%. The Fiscal Year 2023 Workforce Restructuring was completed during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024.
On July 8, 2024, our board of directors approved the Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring to reshape the organization by streamlining our structure, particularly in operational and corporate functions, to better prioritize our go-to-market investments and focus our research and development investments on AI and driving innovation across our platform. The Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring is substantially completed, with any remaining actions now expected to be completed by end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2026.
Refer to Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies-Workforce Restructuring included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
We derive revenue from the sale of: (1) software licenses for use of our proprietary software and related maintenance and support; (2) the right to access certain software products we host (i.e., SaaS); and (3) professional services.
We have a unified commercial offering for software products with both on-premises and cloud deployment options that allows customers the choice of either deployment option throughout the term of the contract. These Flex Offerings are comprised of three types of performance obligations: term license, maintenance and support, and SaaS.
Licenses
Our term licenses (typically sold as a portion of Flex Offerings) provide customers the right to use software for a specified period of time. Revenue for licenses is recognized at the point in time at which the customer is able to use and benefit from the software, which is generally upon delivery to the customer or upon commencement of the renewal term. As licenses revenue is recognized at a point in time, any shift in license start dates or duration will have a direct impact on our licenses revenue.
Subscription Services
We generate subscription services revenue through the provision of: (1) maintenance and support services, which include technical support and unspecified updates and upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis for our licenses, and (2) SaaS products (typically sold as a portion of Flex Offerings). Maintenance and support and SaaS
products represent stand-ready obligations for which revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangements.
Professional Services and Other
Professional services and other revenue consists of fees associated with professional services for process automation, customer education, and training services. Our professional services contracts are structured on a time and materials or fixed price basis, and the related revenue is recognized as the services are rendered.
Cost of Revenue
Licenses
Cost of licenses revenue consists of all direct costs to deliver our licenses to customers, amortization of software development costs related to our licenses, and amortization of acquired developed technology.
Subscription Services
Cost of subscription services revenue primarily consists of personnel-related expenses of our customer support and technical support teams, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefit costs. Cost of subscription services revenue also includes third-party consulting services, hosting costs related to our SaaS products, amortization of acquired developed technology and capitalized software development costs related to SaaS products, depreciation, and allocated overhead. Overhead is allocated based on applicable headcount. We recognize these expenses as they are incurred. We expect cost of subscription services revenue to continue to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future as our SaaS business grows. In the future, we expect further expansion of our cloud-based deployments. As more of our customer base deploys our products via SaaS, we expect our gross margin to be impacted by increased hosting fees and cloud infrastructure costs.
Professional Services and Other
Cost of professional services and other revenue primarily consists of personnel-related expenses of our professional services team, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefit costs. Cost of professional services and other revenue also includes expenses related to subcontracted third-party services, depreciation, and allocated overhead. We recognize these expenses as they are incurred. We expect cost of professional services and other revenue to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future.
Operating Expenses
Our operating expenses consist of sales and marketing, research and development, and general and administrative expenses. Personnel-related expenses are the most significant component of operating expenses and consist of salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefit costs. Operating expenses also include allocated overhead.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses associated with our sales and marketing teams and related sales support teams, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefit costs. Sales and marketing expenses also include sales and partner commissions, marketing event costs, advertising costs, travel, trade shows, other marketing materials, and allocated overhead. We expect that over the longer term our sales and marketing expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenue, although this percentage may fluctuate from period to period due to timing and extent of expenses.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefits costs for our research and development employees, and allocated overhead. Research and development costs are expensed as incurred, with the exception of certain software development costs which are eligible for capitalization. We expect that our research and development expenses will increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future as we continue to invest in efforts
to develop new technology and enhance the functionality and capabilities of our existing products and platform infrastructure. Our research and development expenses may fluctuate as a percentage of revenue from period to period due to the timing and extent of expenses.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefits costs associated with our finance, legal, human resources, compliance, and other administrative teams, as well as accounting and legal professional services fees, other corporate-related expenses, and allocated overhead. We expect that over the longer term our general and administrative expenses will decrease as a percentage of revenue, although this percentage may fluctuate from period to period due to timing and extent of expenses.
Interest Income
Interest income consists of interest earned on our cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities.
Other Income, Net
Other income, net primarily consists of foreign exchange gains and losses. Other income, net also includes accretion of discounts and premiums on marketable securities.
(Benefit From) Provision For Income Taxes
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes consists of U.S. federal and state income taxes and income taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We currently maintain a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state and Romania DTAs, as we have concluded as of January 31, 2025 that it is more likely than not that these DTAs will not be realized. Our effective tax rate is affected by tax rates in foreign jurisdictions and the relative amounts of income we earn in those jurisdictions, as well as by non-deductible expenses as permanent differences, and by changes in our valuation allowances.
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth selected consolidated statement of operations data for each of the periods indicated (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Revenue:
Licenses $ 587,162 $ 621,392
Subscription services 801,947 649,918
Professional services and other 40,555 36,762
Total revenue 1,429,664 1,308,072
Cost of revenue:
Licenses (1)
8,565 10,469
Subscription services (1)(2)(3)(4)
167,630 111,922
Professional services and other (2)(3)(4)
70,747 73,533
Total cost of revenue 246,942 195,924
Gross profit 1,182,722 1,112,148
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing(1)(2)(3)(4)
738,493 713,130
Research and development(2)(3)(4)
380,682 332,101
General and administrative(1)(2)(3)(4)
226,116 231,637
Total operating expenses 1,345,291 1,276,868
Operating loss (162,569) (164,720)
Interest income 49,422 57,130
Other income, net 35,047 31,775
Loss before income taxes (78,100) (75,815)
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes
(4,406) 14,068
Net loss $ (73,694) $ (89,883)
(1) Includes amortization of acquired intangible assets as follows (in thousands): Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Cost of licenses revenue $ 2,747 $ 3,371
Cost of subscription services revenue 2,382 2,359
Sales and marketing 1,428 2,706
General and administrative 154 164
Total amortization of acquired intangible assets $ 6,711 $ 8,600
(2) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows (in thousands): Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Cost of subscription services revenue $ 19,401 $ 14,750
Cost of professional services and other revenue 11,386 10,958
Sales and marketing 134,646 144,863
Research and development 132,757 117,965
General and administrative 59,961 83,419
Total stock-based compensation expense $ 358,151 $ 371,955
(3) Includes employer payroll tax expense related to employee equity transactions as follows (in thousands): Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Cost of subscription services revenue $ 448 $ 434
Cost of professional services and other revenue 188 327
Sales and marketing 3,069 4,176
Research and development 2,188 3,027
General and administrative 1,106 1,924
Total employer payroll tax expense related to employee equity transactions
$ 6,999 $ 9,888
(4) Includes restructuring expense as follows (in thousands): Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Cost of subscription services revenue $ 2,745 $ 114
Cost of professional services and other revenue 105 -
Sales and marketing 15,452 1,376
Research and development 3,058 387
General and administrative 3,366 749
Total restructuring expense $ 24,726 $ 2,626
The following table sets forth our consolidated statement of operations data expressed as a percentage of revenue for the periods indicated:
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Revenue:
Licenses 41 % 47 %
Subscription services 56 % 50 %
Professional services and other 3 % 3 %
Total revenue 100 % 100 %
Cost of revenue:
Licenses - % 1 %
Subscription services 12 % 8 %
Professional services and other 5 % 6 %
Total cost of revenue 17 % 15 %
Gross profit 83 % 85 %
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing 52 % 55 %
Research and development 27 % 25 %
General and administrative 15 % 18 %
Total operating expenses 94 % 98 %
Operating loss (11) % (13) %
Interest income 3 % 4 %
Other income, net 3 % 3 %
Loss before income taxes (5) % (6) %
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes
- % 1 %
Net loss (5) % (7) %
Comparison of Fiscal Year 2025 and Fiscal Year 2024
Revenue
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
Licenses $ 587,162 $ 621,392 $ (34,230) (6) %
Subscription services 801,947 649,918 152,029 23 %
Professional services and other 40,555 36,762 3,793 10 %
Total revenue $ 1,429,664 $ 1,308,072 $ 121,592 9 %
Total revenue increased by $121.6 million, or 9%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to a $152.0 million increase in subscription services revenue partially offset by a $34.2 million decrease in licenses revenue, related in part to the transition to our Flex Offerings. As we continued to expand our sales efforts in the U.S. and internationally, our revenue increased across all regions. Of the growth in total revenue, 24% was attributable to new customers and 76% was attributable to existing customers. Subscription services revenue is recognized ratably over the subscription term; therefore, the increase in subscription services revenue is driven both by sales in prior periods for which we continue to provide maintenance and support and SaaS and by new sales in the current period.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
Licenses $ 8,565 $ 10,469 $ (1,904) (18) %
Subscription services 167,630 111,922 55,708 50 %
Professional services and other 70,747 73,533 (2,786) (4) %
Total cost of revenue $ 246,942 $ 195,924 $ 51,018 26 %
Gross margin 83 % 85 %
Total cost of revenue increased by $51.0 million, or 26%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to a $55.7 million increase in cost of subscription services revenue, partially offset by a $2.8 million decrease in cost of professional services and other revenue. The increase in cost of subscription services revenue was primarily driven by a $25.1 million increase in third-party hosting and software services costs as a result of increased usage of our subscription services and a $23.1 million increase in personnel-related expenses, which included a $12.4 million increase in salary-related and bonus expenses associated with both increased average headcount and merit increases, a $4.7 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, a $3.1 million aggregate increase in employee insurance costs and employer payroll tax expense, and a $2.6 million increase in employee termination benefits related to our Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring. Cost of subscription services revenue was also impacted by a $6.9 million increase in costs associated with the use of third-party vendors. The decrease in cost of professional services and other revenue was primarily driven by a $3.8 million decrease in personnel-related expenses, largely related to lower salary-related and bonus expenses, partially offset by a $1.5 million increase in costs associated with the use of third-party subcontractors to deliver professional services to our customers.
Our gross margin decreased to 83% for fiscal year 2025 compared to 85% for fiscal year 2024, due to decrease in the proportion of higher-margin license revenue and the aforementioned increase in cost of subscription services revenue driven by increased hosting and personnel costs.
Operating Expenses
Sales and Marketing
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
Sales and marketing $ 738,493 $ 713,130 $ 25,363 4 %
Percentage of revenue 52 % 55 %
Sales and marketing expense increased by $25.4 million, or 4%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. This increase was primarily attributable to a $15.0 million increase in personnel-related expenses, which included a $14.1 million increase in employee termination benefits related to our Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring, a $9.1 million increase in salary-related and bonus expenses, a $2.5 million aggregate increase in employee insurance costs and employer payroll taxes, and a $0.5 million increase in general employee severance, partially offset by a $10.2 million decrease in stock-based compensation expense and a $1.1 million decrease in employer payroll tax expense related to employee equity transactions. Sales and marketing was also impacted by a $10.7 million increase in sales commissions as a result of higher amortization of capitalized contract acquisition costs and a $4.7 million increase in marketing expenses largely related to our Forward VII user conference. These increases were partially offset by a $2.8 million decrease in depreciation and amortization expense and a $1.1 million decrease in sales-related software expenses.
Research and Development
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
Research and development $ 380,682 $ 332,101 $ 48,581 15 %
Percentage of revenue 27 % 25 %
Research and development expense increased by $48.6 million, or 15%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. The increase was primarily attributable to a $26.1 million increase in personnel-related costs, which included a $14.8 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, an $8.5 million increase in salary-related and bonus expenses, and a $2.7 million increase in employee termination benefits related to our Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring. Research and development expense was also impacted by an $18.7 million increase in hosting and software services costs, a $1.7 million increase in third-party consulting fees, and a $1.6 million increase in rent expense.
General and Administrative
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
General and administrative $ 226,116 $ 231,637 $ (5,521) (2) %
Percentage of revenue 15 % 18 %
General and administrative expense decreased by $5.5 million, or 2%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. This decrease was primarily attributable to a $19.7 million decrease in personnel-related expenses, which included a $23.5 million decrease in stock-based compensation expense and a $0.8 million decrease in employer payroll tax expense related to employee equity transactions, partially offset by a $2.6 million increase in employee termination benefits related to our Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring and a $1.9 million increase in employee insurance costs. General and administrative expense was also impacted an $11.1 million increase in software service and implementation costs, a $2.7 million increase due to a credit loss recovery recorded in the prior comparable period, a $2.3 million increase in charitable donations mainly driven by the increased fair value of our Class A common shares contributed to a donor-advised fund in the current year, and a $1.9 million increase in third-party consulting fees, partially offset by a $3.9 million decrease in commercial insurance costs.
Interest Income
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
Interest income $ 49,422 $ 57,130 $ (7,708) (13) %
Percentage of revenue 3 % 4 %
Interest income decreased by $7.7 million, or 13%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024 as a result of a period-over-period decrease in our aggregate balance of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, as well as decreased interest rates.
Other Income, Net
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
Other income, net $ 35,047 $ 31,775 $ 3,272 10 %
Percentage of revenue 3 % 3 %
Other income, net increased by $3.3 million, or 10%, for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, primarily due to a $6.6 million increase in foreign currency transaction gains and a $1.9 million increase in accretion of discounts on marketable securities, partially offset by a $3.9 million decrease in legal expense related to shareholder litigation and a $1.6 million decrease in sublease income.
(Benefit From) Provision For Income Taxes
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 Change % Change
(dollars in thousands)
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes $ (4,406) $ 14,068 $ (18,474) NM(1)
Percentage of revenue 0 % 1 %
(1) Not meaningful
Provision for income taxes decreased by $18.5 million for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024, mainly driven by the tax benefit related to release of valuation allowance associated with our U.K. DTA, partially offset by tax expenses recognized related to the changing of our intent with respect to permanent reinvestment of foreign earnings.
Key Performance Metric
We monitor ARR to help us measure and evaluate the effectiveness of our operations.
ARR is the key performance metric we use in managing our business because it illustrates our ability to acquire new subscription customers and to maintain and expand our relationships with existing subscription customers. We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution SKU from subscription licenses and maintenance and support obligations assuming no increases or reductions in customers' subscriptions. ARR does not include the costs we may incur to obtain such subscription licenses or provide such maintenance and support. ARR also does not reflect nonrecurring rebates payable to partners (upon establishing sufficient history of their nonrecurring nature), the impact of nonrecurring incentives (such as one-time discounts provided under sales promotional programs), and any actual or anticipated reductions in invoiced value due to contract non-renewals or service cancellations other than for certain reserves (for example those for credit losses or disputed amounts). At January 31, 2025 and 2024, our ARR was $1,666.1 million and $1,463.7 million, respectively, representing a growth rate of 14%. Approximately 21% of this growth rate was due to new customers and 79% of this growth rate was due to existing customers. Our dollar-based net retention rate, which represents the net expansion of ARR from existing customers over the preceding 12 months, was 110% and 119% as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We calculate dollar-based net retention rate as of a period end by starting with Prior Period ARR, the ARR from the
cohort of all customers as of 12 months prior to such period end. We then calculate Current Period ARR, the ARR from these same customers as of the current period end. Current Period ARR includes any expansion and is net of contraction or attrition over the last 12 months, but does not include ARR from new customers in the current period. We then divide the total Current Period ARR by the total Prior Period ARR to arrive at the point-in-time dollar-based net retention rate.
Our ARR may fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including customers’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our platform, pricing, competitive offerings, economic conditions, overall changes in our customers’ spending levels, and our ability to successfully execute on our strategic goals. ARR should be viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue as ARR is an operating metric and is not intended to be combined with or to replace these items. For clarity, we use annualized invoiced amounts per solution SKU rather than revenue calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP to calculate our ARR. Our invoiced amounts are not matched to transfer of control of the performance obligations associated with the underlying subscription licenses and maintenance and support obligations. This can result in timing differences between our U.S. GAAP revenue and ARR calculations. Generally speaking, our ARR calculation simply takes our invoiced amounts per solution SKU under a subscription license or maintenance agreement as of the end of an invoiced period and divides that amount by the corresponding term and multiplies by 365 days to derive the annualized renewal value. In contrast, for our revenue calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP, subscription licenses revenue derived from the sale of term-based licenses hosted on-premises is recognized at the point in time when the customer is able to use and benefit from our software, which is generally upon delivery to the customer or upon the commencement of the renewal term, and maintenance, support, and SaaS revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement. ARR is not a forecast of future revenue. Unlike ARR, revenue is impacted by contract start and end dates and duration. The timing of recognition of ARR is determined by contract billing structure, whereas billing structure will neither accelerate nor delay recognition of future revenue. For example, in a multi-year contract invoiced upfront, ARR is the annualized invoiced amount per solution SKU related to the final year of the contract assuming no reserve is applied, whereas revenue is determined by total contract value and timing of satisfaction of the underlying performance obligations. ARR does not include invoiced amounts associated with perpetual licenses or professional services. Investors should not place undue reliance on ARR as an indicator of our future or expected results. Moreover, our presentation of ARR may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies and may not be comparable to such other metrics. For further information, see the section titled “Risk Factors-Risks Related to Our Business, Products, Operations, and Industry" included in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
A summary of ARR-related data at January 31, 2025 and 2024 is as follows:
At January 31,
2025 2024
(dollars in thousands)
ARR
$ 1,666,136 $ 1,463,698
Incremental ARR (1)
$ 202,438 $ 259,853
Customers with ARR ≥ $1 million:
Number of customers 317 288
Percent of fiscal year revenue 51 % 52 %
Customers with ARR ≥ $100 thousand:
Number of customers 2,292 2,054
Percent of fiscal year revenue 87 % 86 %
Dollar-based net retention rate 110 % 119 %
(1) For the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have financed operations since our inception primarily through customer payments and net proceeds from sales of equity securities. Our principal uses of cash in recent periods have been to fund our operations, invest in capital expenditures, engage in various business acquisitions, and, more recently, repurchase shares of our Class A common stock. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents, and
marketable securities totaling $1,723.6 million and $1,879.8 million, respectively, and we had an accumulated deficit of $1,987.9 million and $1,914.2 million, respectively. During the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025 and 2024, we reported net losses of $73.7 million and $89.9 million, respectively, and net cash provided by operations of $320.6 million and $299.1 million, respectively.
In October 2020, we entered into the Credit Facility with an available borrowing capacity of $200.0 million. We did not borrow under the Credit Facility at any time, and it was terminated in September 2023, shortly prior to its scheduled maturity date. Refer to Note 10, Credit Facility for further details.
Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including our revenue growth rate, sales of our products and services, license renewal activity, the timing and the amount of cash received from customers, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the timing and extent of spending to support development efforts, the introduction of new and enhanced products, the continuing market adoption of our products, expenses associated with international expansion, the timing and extent of capital expenditures to invest in existing and new office spaces, and the timing and extent of stock repurchases. We may in the future enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products, and technologies. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that we require additional financing, we may not be able to raise such financing on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to expand our operations and invest in continued innovation, we may not be able to compete successfully, which would harm our business, operations and financial condition.
We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, and payments from customers will be sufficient to fund our anticipated cash requirements for the next twelve months and the long term.
Stock Repurchase Program
On September 1, 2023, our board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program, pursuant to which we may repurchase from time to time up to $500.0 million of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock. On August 30, 2024, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of an additional $500.0 million of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock. Refer to Note 12, Stockholders' Equity-Stock Repurchase Program for further details.
Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods presented:
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
(dollars in thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities(1)
$ 320,565 $ 299,082
Net cash used in investing activities (45,503) (439,569)
Net cash used in financing activities (450,515) (196,895)
(1) Inclusive of:
Cash paid for employer payroll taxes related to employee equity transactions $ (6,907) $ (10,483)
Net receipts (payments) of employee tax withholdings on stock option exercises
3 (980)
Cash paid for restructuring costs (15,283) (6,180)
Operating Activities
Our largest source of operating cash is cash generation from sales to our customers. Our primary uses of cash from operating activities are for personnel-related expenses, direct costs to deliver licenses and provide subscription and professional services, and marketing expenses.
Net cash provided by operating activities for fiscal year 2025 of $320.6 million was driven by cash collections from our customers, which were approximately 7% higher than in the prior year, and interest income on our marketable securities. These cash inflows were partially offset by cash payments for operating expenditures, primarily associated with the compensation of our teams, including fiscal year 2024 bonuses paid in the first quarter
of fiscal year 2025 and employer payroll taxes related to employee equity transactions. Other cash operating expenditures included payments related to our Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring, and payments for professional service, software and office rent.
Net cash provided by operating activities for fiscal year 2024 of $299.1 million was driven by cash collections from our customers and interest income on our marketable securities, partially offset by cash payments for operating expenditures, primarily associated with the compensation of our teams, including fiscal year 2023 bonuses paid in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 and employer payroll taxes related to employee equity transactions. Other cash operating expenditures included payments related to our Fiscal Year 2023 Workforce Restructuring, which was concluded during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, and payments for professional services, software, and office rent.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities for fiscal year 2025 of $45.5 million was primarily driven by a $35.8 million investment in the H company and $14.9 million in capital expenditures, partially offset by $5.2 million in net maturities of marketable securities.
Net cash used in investing activities for fiscal year 2024 of $439.6 million was primarily driven by $435.0 million in net purchases of marketable securities and $7.3 million in capital expenditures.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities for fiscal year 2025 of $450.5 million was primarily driven by $390.8 million in repurchases of Class A common stock under our stock repurchase program, $77.9 million in payments of tax withholdings on net settlement of equity awards, and $5.6 million loan note payment on the second anniversary of the acquisition of Re:infer, partially offset by $15.6 million in proceeds from ESPP contributions and $8.0 million in proceeds from stock option exercises.
Net cash used in financing activities for fiscal year 2024 of $196.9 million was primarily driven by $112.1 million in payments of tax withholdings on net settlement of equity awards, $102.6 million in repurchases of Class A common stock under our stock repurchase program, and $5.9 million loan note payment on the first anniversary of the acquisition of Re:infer, partially offset by $17.6 million in proceeds from ESPP contributions and $6.7 million in proceeds from stock option exercises.
Material Cash Requirements
Our material cash requirements predominantly relate to working capital requirements, including employee compensation and payment of employee tax withholdings on net settlement of equity awards, and material contractual obligations, including leases and purchase commitments.
As of January 31, 2025, accrued compensation and benefits of $112.4 million are included in current liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet. Refer to Note 9, Consolidated Balance Sheet Components-Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities for details of additional short-term payroll-related obligations included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities as of January 31, 2025.
The following table summarizes the aggregate effect that our material contractual obligations as of January 31, 2025 are expected to have on our cash flows in the periods indicated (in thousands):
Payments Due by Period
Total Less Than
1 Year 1-3 Years 3-5 Years More Than
5 Years
(dollars in thousands)
Operating lease commitments(1)
$ 111,886 $ 8,481 $ 27,837 $ 18,688 $ 56,880
Purchase commitments 170,168 78,613 89,181 2,374 -
Total contractual obligations $ 282,054 $ 87,094 $ 117,018 $ 21,062 $ 56,880
(1) Inclusive of $0.2 million of commitments related to operating leases which have not yet commenced.
The amounts in the table above are associated with agreements that are enforceable and legally binding. Obligations under contracts that we can cancel without a significant penalty are not included in the table above.
Refer to Note 8, Operating Leases for more detailed information regarding timing of future lease payments, and to Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies-Non-Cancelable Purchase Commitments for more detailed information regarding timing of purchase commitments.
Additionally, our stock repurchase program may represent a material use of cash depending upon the number of shares repurchased, which is ultimately discretionary. As of January 31, 2025, approximately $507.4 million remained of the $1,000.0 million authorized by our board of directors. The current authorization may be suspended or discontinued at any time and does not have a specified expiration date. Refer to Note 12, Stockholders' Equity-Stock Repurchase Program for further details.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and amounts of revenue and expenses reported during the period. Our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, and we evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis. The following are the accounting estimates that we believe have the most significant impact on our consolidated financial statements.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. ASC 606 requires recognition of revenue when control of promised goods or services is transferred to customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to receive in exchange for those goods or services. Revenue recognition is inherently judgmental, particularly for complex arrangements that include multiple performance obligations, which are common for us. Our most significant judgment relates to allocation of the transaction price, specifically determining the SSP for each performance obligation, which impacts the pattern and timing of revenue recognition.
At the inception of a contract with a customer, we assess the goods or services promised to identify distinct performance obligations. The distinct performance obligations identified in our typical contracts include, but are not limited to, software licenses, SaaS, maintenance and support, and professional services. The pattern and timing of revenue recognition for each of these performance obligations varies. Specifically, revenue from licenses is recognized at the point in time at which the customer is able to use and benefit from the software, which is generally upon delivery to the customer or upon commencement of the renewal term; revenue from SaaS and maintenance and support services is recognized ratably over the contract term; and revenue from professional services is recognized over time as the services are performed.
Most of our contracts contain multiple of these performance obligations. In such arrangements, the transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations on a relative SSP basis. Since the performance obligations have different revenue recognition models, SSP estimates directly affect the timing and amount of revenue recognized during a particular period. For example, if the SSP of a license delivered in one period is greater than the SSP of professional services that are sold with that license but delivered in future periods, a greater portion of the transaction price will be recognized at contract inception in the current period versus over time as the services are performed in later periods.
Whenever possible, we allocate the transaction price based on observable SSP, which is the price of the same good or service in standalone sales to similar customers in similar circumstances. If observable SSP is not available, we estimate the SSP using data that may include historical prices, discounting practices, list prices, cost data, and other observable inputs. We may have more than one SSP for individual performance obligations when our data population indicates that pricing practices vary by class of customer (for example, based on the customer’s geographic region). We update our SSPs at least annually.
For further information about our revenue recognition, refer to Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies-Revenue Recognition and Note 3, Revenue Recognition, included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Income Taxes
We are subject to income taxes in the U.S and in a number of foreign jurisdictions. We apply significant judgment in determining our provision for (benefit from) income taxes, particularly with regard to assessment of DTAs and evaluation of tax positions.
Pursuant to ASC 740, Income Taxes, we account for income taxes using the asset and liability method, whereby DTAs and DTLs are recognized to represent the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and income tax bases of assets and liabilities, and for NOL and tax credit carryforwards. DTAs and DTLs are measured using the currently enacted tax rates and laws that are expected to apply in the years in which we expect to realize or settle them. In the case of DTAs, we regularly assess the realizability of future associated tax benefits by considering both positive and negative evidence, such as the adequacy of expected future taxable income on a jurisdictional basis (including forecasted income and whether a sustained trend of profitability exists historically), any carryforward periods available, and prudent and feasible tax planning strategies. The evaluation of this evidence requires judgment. If we determine that it is more likely than not that all or a portion of a DTA will not be realized in the future, a valuation allowance is provided. If and when sufficient positive evidence becomes available to indicate that it is more likely than not at all or a portion of a DTA will be realized, we may release all or a portion of a valuation allowance accordingly. For example, during fiscal year 2025, based on the available positive and negative evidence including the amount of taxable income in the U.K. in recent years and our expectations of future profits in the U.K., we determined it to be more likely than not that our U.K. DTA is realizable and released the $24.7 million valuation allowance associated with the U.K. DTA. However, we continue to maintain full valuation allowances against our U.S. and Romania DTAs because we believe that it is more likely than not that these DTAs will not be realized, with our valuation allowances totaling $406.3 million as of January 31, 2025. We may release some or all of these valuation allowances in future periods if objective negative evidence of cumulative losses is no longer present and if positive evidence of sustained profitability is established to support the realization of the related DTAs. Such release would result in a decrease in the provision for income taxes in the period of the release.
Similarly, significant judgement is required in evaluating our tax positions. In the ordinary course of business, there exist many transactions and calculations for which the ultimate tax settlement is uncertain. ASC 740 prescribes a two-step approach to recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions: (1) evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon audit, based on the technical merits of the tax position, and including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any; and (2) measure the tax benefit as the largest amount which is more likely than not of being realized and effectively settled. We consider a number of factors when evaluating tax positions and estimating tax benefits, including changes in facts and circumstances, changes in tax law, tax audit status, and communications with tax authorities. Any changes in the recognition or measurement of uncertain tax positions could result in material increases or decreases in our provision for income taxes in the period in which the change is made. In particular, if a tax position is not sustained upon audit and we are required to pay amounts in excess of the associated accrual, or if no accrual has been made, our provision for income taxes will increase.
For further information about our income taxes, including DTAs and associated valuation allowances and tax positions, refer to Note 14. Income Taxes, included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies-Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements and -Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements, included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
We are exposed to market risk 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 principally the result of fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates.
Interest Rate Risk
As of January 31, 2025, we had $879.2 million of cash and cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash in banks, bank deposits, and money market accounts. In addition, we had $844.4 million of marketable securities, consisting primarily of treasury bills and U.S. government securities, corporate bonds, and commercial paper. Such interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. The primary objectives of our investment activities are the preservation of capital, the fulfillment of liquidity needs, and the fiduciary control of cash. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. The effect of a hypothetical 10% change in interest rates would not have had a material impact on our consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
The functional currency of our non-U.S. subsidiaries is the local currency. Asset and liability balances denominated in non-U.S. dollar currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using period-end exchange rates, while translation of revenue and expenses is based on average monthly rates. Translation adjustments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), and transaction gains and losses are recorded in other income, net on our consolidated financial statements. We have from time to time used foreign currency forward contracts to reduce our potential exposure to currency fluctuations, but did not have foreign currency forward contracts during fiscal year 2025, 2024, or 2023. If we are not able to successfully mitigate the risks associated with currency fluctuations, our results of operations could be adversely affected. The estimated translation impact to our consolidated financial statements of a hypothetical 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates would amount to $25.2 million for fiscal year 2025. For fiscal year 2025, approximately 52% of our revenue and approximately 37% of our expenses were denominated in non-U.S. dollar currencies, and we recognized net foreign currency transaction gains of $6.9 million.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID Number 185)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors UiPath, Inc.:
Opinions on the Consolidated Financial Statements and Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of UiPath, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended January 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended January 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2025 based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
Basis for Opinions
The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, 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 consolidated financial statements and an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated 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 consolidated 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 consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
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.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters 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 matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Revenue Recognition - Assessment of Terms and Conditions in Certain Contracts
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company derives revenue primarily from term licenses, maintenance and support services, SaaS products, and professional services. For contracts with multiple performance obligations, management allocates the transaction price of the contract to each performance obligation and recognizes revenue when, or as, a performance obligation is satisfied. Management applies judgment in identifying and evaluating any terms and conditions in contracts that may impact revenue recognition. For the year ended January 31, 2025, the Company recorded revenue of $1.43 billion.
We identified the assessment of terms and conditions in certain contracts as a critical audit matter. Specifically, complex auditor judgement was required in assessing the Company’s identification and evaluation of terms and conditions in certain contracts because of the complex accounting guidance, primarily related to the sale of term licenses.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls within the related revenue recognition process, including a control related to the identification and evaluation of terms and conditions in certain contracts that impact revenue recognition. For a selection of contracts, we assessed the terms and conditions in the contracts by examining the contracts and evaluating management’s determination of the impact of those terms and conditions on revenue recognition. For each of these contracts selected, we also assessed the recorded revenue by determining the revenue to be recorded in the current period using the terms and conditions in the underlying contract and comparing it to the Company’s recorded balances.
/s/ KPMG LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2022.
New York, New York
March 24, 2025
UiPath, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Amounts in thousands except per share data
As of January 31,
2025 2024
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 879,196 $ 1,061,678
Restricted cash 438 438
Marketable securities 750,322 818,145
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of $1,642 and $1,119, respectively
451,131 436,296
Contract assets 88,735 84,197
Deferred contract acquisition costs 82,461 74,678
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 86,276 104,980
Total current assets 2,338,559 2,580,412
Marketable securities, non-current 94,113 -
Contract assets, non-current 3,447 6,214
Deferred contract acquisition costs, non-current 139,341 154,317
Property and equipment, net 32,740 23,982
Operating lease right-of-use assets 66,500 56,072
Intangible assets, net 7,905 14,704
Goodwill 87,304 89,026
Deferred tax assets 27,963 4,678
Other assets, non-current 67,398 25,353
Total assets $ 2,865,270 $ 2,954,758
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities
Accounts payable $ 33,178 $ 3,447
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 83,923 83,997
Accrued compensation and employee benefits 112,355 137,442
Deferred revenue 569,464 486,805
Total current liabilities 798,920 711,691
Deferred revenue, non-current 135,843 161,027
Operating lease liabilities, non-current 74,230 58,713
Other liabilities, non-current 10,515 7,213
Total liabilities 1,019,508 938,644
Commitments and contingencies (Note 11)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.00001 par value per share, 20,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding
- -
Class A common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, 2,000,000 shares authorized; 508,680 and 492,660 shares issued, respectively; 471,059 and 486,820 shares outstanding, respectively
5 5
Class B common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, 115,741 shares authorized; 82,453 shares issued and outstanding
1 1
Treasury stock, at cost, 37,621 shares and 5,840, respectively
(494,779) (102,615)
Additional paid-in capital 4,333,300 4,024,079
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income (4,890) 8,825
Accumulated deficit (1,987,875) (1,914,181)
Total stockholders’ equity 1,845,762 2,016,114
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $ 2,865,270 $ 2,954,758
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
UiPath, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Amounts in thousands except per share data
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Revenue:
Licenses $ 587,162 $ 621,392 $ 497,836
Subscription services 801,947 649,918 508,823
Professional services and other 40,555 36,762 51,922
Total revenue 1,429,664 1,308,072 1,058,581
Cost of revenue:
Licenses 8,565 10,469 10,421
Subscription services 167,630 111,922 87,366
Professional services and other 70,747 73,533 82,264
Total cost of revenue 246,942 195,924 180,051
Gross profit 1,182,722 1,112,148 878,530
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing 738,493 713,130 701,558
Research and development 380,682 332,101 285,750
General and administrative 226,116 231,637 239,505
Total operating expenses 1,345,291 1,276,868 1,226,813
Operating loss (162,569) (164,720) (348,283)
Interest income 49,422 57,130 27,955
Other income, net 35,047 31,775 2,767
Loss before income taxes (78,100) (75,815) (317,561)
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes
(4,406) 14,068 10,791
Net loss $ (73,694) $ (89,883) $ (328,352)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted $ (0.13) $ (0.16) $ (0.60)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share, basic and diluted 559,933 563,855 548,022
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
UiPath, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
Amounts in thousands
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Net loss $ (73,694) $ (89,883) $ (328,352)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Unrealized (loss) gain on available-for-sale marketable securities, net (272) 519 (284)
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net
(13,443) 694 (3,003)
Other comprehensive (loss) income, net (13,715) 1,213 (3,287)
Comprehensive loss $ (87,409) $ (88,670) $ (331,639)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
UiPath, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
Amounts in thousands
Common stock
Treasury stock
Additional paid-in capital Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) Accumulated deficit Total stockholders’ equity
Class A Class B
Shares Amount Shares Amount Shares Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount
Balance as of January 31, 2022 458,773 $ 4 82,453 $ 1 - $ - $ 3,406,959 $ 10,899 $ (1,495,946) $ 1,921,917
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options 4,770 - - - - - 8,245 - - 8,245
Vesting of early exercised stock options - - - - - - 1,357 - - 1,357
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units 13,644 1 - - - - - - - 1
Tax withholdings on settlement of restricted stock units (4,646) - - - - - (75,181) - - (75,181)
Charitable donation of Class A common stock 300 - - - - - 5,499 - - 5,499
Shares issued in connection with business acquisition 570 - - - - - 2,965 - - 2,965
Issuance of common stock under the employee stock purchase plan 1,190 - - - - - 15,804 - - 15,804
Repurchase of unvested early exercised stock options (441) - - - - - - - - -
Stock-based compensation - - - - - - 371,190 - - 371,190
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax - - - - - - - (3,287) - (3,287)
Net loss - - - - - - - - (328,352) (328,352)
Balance as of January 31, 2023 474,160 $ 5 82,453 $ 1 - $ - $ 3,736,838 $ 7,612 $ (1,824,298) $ 1,920,158
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options 5,221 - - - - - 6,728 - - 6,728
Vesting of early exercised stock options - - - - - - 2 - - 2
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units 17,695 - - - - - - - - -
Tax withholdings on settlement of restricted stock units (6,061) - - - - - (113,162) - - (113,162)
Charitable donation of Class A common stock 281 - - - - - 4,215 - - 4,215
Repurchase of Class A common stock - - - - (5,840) (102,615) - - - (102,615)
Issuance of common stock under the employee stock purchase plan 1,364 - - - - - 17,313 - - 17,313
Stock-based compensation - - - - - - 372,145 - - 372,145
Other comprehensive income, net of tax - - - - - - - 1,213 - 1,213
Net loss - - - - - - - - (89,883) (89,883)
Balance as of January 31, 2024 492,660 $ 5 82,453 $ 1 (5,840) $ (102,615) $ 4,024,079 $ 8,825 $ (1,914,181) $ 2,016,114
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options 4,002 - - - - - 8,032 - - 8,032
Vesting of early exercised stock options - - - - - - 2 - - 2
Issuance of common stock upon settlement of restricted stock units 15,357 - - - - - - - - -
Tax withholdings on settlement of restricted stock units (5,170) - - - - - (79,299) - - (79,299)
Charitable donation of Class A common stock 281 - - - - - 6,564 - - 6,564
Repurchase of Class A common stock - - - - (31,781) (392,164) - - - (392,164)
Issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan 1,550 - - - - - 15,708 - - 15,708
Stock-based compensation - - - - - - 358,214 - - 358,214
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax - - - - - - - (13,715) - (13,715)
Net loss - - - - - - - - (73,694) (73,694)
Balance as of January 31, 2025 508,680 $ 5 82,453 $ 1 (37,621) $ (494,779) $ 4,333,300 $ (4,890) $ (1,987,875) $ 1,845,762
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
UiPath, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Amounts in thousands
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss $ (73,694) $ (89,883) $ (328,352)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 17,232 22,597 18,723
Amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs 92,089 75,471 59,826
Net accretion on marketable securities
(31,778) (28,246) (1,782)
Stock-based compensation expense 358,151 371,955 369,840
Charitable donation of Class A common stock 6,564 4,215 5,499
Non-cash operating lease expense 15,899 13,047 11,675
Abandonment and impairment charges - - 2,881
(Benefit from) provision for deferred income taxes
(19,794) 554 861
Other non-cash credits, net (2,332) (3,700) (2,465)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable (22,173) (64,217) (123,783)
Contract assets (3,991) (14,694) (185)
Deferred contract acquisition costs (89,157) (118,833) (118,909)
Prepaid expenses and other assets 7,065 4,222 (59,810)
Accounts payable 27,856 (5,052) (1,571)
Accrued expenses and other liabilities 9,235 11,804 (14,954)
Accrued compensation and employee benefits (23,428) (4,039) 15,086
Operating lease liabilities, net (15,527) (13,590) (3,307)
Deferred revenue 68,348 137,471 160,746
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 320,565 299,082 (9,981)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of marketable securities (1,470,355) (1,485,965) (388,409)
Maturities of marketable securities 1,475,584 1,050,984 151,426
Purchases of property and equipment (14,923) (7,342) (23,815)
Payments related to business acquisitions, net of cash acquired - - (29,542)
Purchases of investments
(35,809) - -
Other investing, net - 2,754 1,197
Net cash used in investing activities (45,503) (439,569) (289,143)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Repurchases of Class A common stock (390,751) (102,615) -
Proceeds from exercise of stock options 8,032 6,740 8,388
Payments of tax withholdings on net settlement of equity awards (77,930) (112,067) (73,095)
Net receipts (payments) of tax withholdings on sell-to-cover equity award transactions 99 (645) (9,480)
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan contributions 15,605 17,555 15,011
Payment of deferred consideration related to business acquisition (5,570) (5,863) -
Repurchase of unvested early exercised stock options - - (1,493)
Net cash used in financing activities (450,515) (196,895) (60,669)
Effect of exchange rate changes (7,029) (2,621) (6,811)
Net decrease in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash (182,482) (340,003) (366,604)
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period 1,062,116 1,402,119 1,768,723
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period $ 879,634 $ 1,062,116 $ 1,402,119
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Cash paid for interest $ 309 $ 563 $ 651
Cash paid for income taxes 16,709 10,822 20,999
Supplemental disclosures of non-cash investing and financing activity:
Value of shares issued in payment of business acquisitions - - 2,965
Loan notes issued in connection with business acquisitions - - 11,433
Reduction in accrued expenses and other liabilities for vesting of early exercised stock options 2 2 1,357
Tax withholdings on net settlement of restricted stock units, accrued but not yet paid 4,674 3,354 2,213
Purchases of property and equipment included in accounts payable 2,897 511 1,056
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
1 Organization and Description of Business
UiPath, Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) was incorporated in Delaware in June 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Our AI-powered UiPath Platform™ offers a robust set of capabilities that allows our customers to discover opportunities for automation, automate using a digital workforce that seamlessly collaborates with humans, and operate a mission critical automation program at scale.
We have legal presence in 31 countries, with our principal operations in the U.S., Romania, and Japan.
2 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and include the financial statements of UiPath, Inc. and its subsidiaries in which we hold a controlling financial interest. Intercompany transactions and accounts have been eliminated in consolidation.
Fiscal Year
Our fiscal year ends on January 31. References to fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 refer to the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts of assets and liabilities at the balance sheet date and the amounts of revenue and expenses reported during the period. We evaluate estimates based on historical and anticipated results, trends, and various other assumptions. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, certain aspects of revenue recognition, expected period of benefit for deferred contract acquisition costs, allowance for credit losses, fair value of financial assets and liabilities, fair value of acquired assets and assumed liabilities, useful lives of long-lived assets, capitalized software development and internal-use software costs, carrying value of operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities, incremental borrowing rates for operating leases, amount of stock-based compensation expense, timing and amount of contingencies, costs related to our restructuring actions, uncertain tax positions, and valuation allowance for deferred income taxes. Actual results could differ from these estimates and assumptions.
Foreign Currency
The functional currency of our non-U.S. subsidiaries is the local currency. Asset and liability balances denominated in non-U.S. dollar currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using period-end exchange rates, while revenue and expenses are translated using the average monthly exchange rates. Differences are included in stockholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income. Financial assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are recorded at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction and subsequent gains and losses related to changes in the foreign currency are included in other income, net in the consolidated statements of operations. For fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, we recognized foreign currency transaction gains (losses) of $6.9 million, $0.3 million, and $(0.5) million, respectively.
Derivative Financial Instruments
From time to time, we use derivative financial instruments, such as foreign currency forward contracts, to manage foreign currency exposures. We account for our derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities and carry them at fair value. These foreign currency contracts are not designated and do not qualify as hedging
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
instruments, as defined by ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging. We did not have foreign currency forward contracts during fiscal year 2025, 2024, or 2023.
Concentration of Risks
Financial instruments that potentially subject us to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, and accounts receivable.
We maintain our cash balance at financial institutions that management believes are high-credit, quality financial institutions, where deposits, at times, exceed FDIC limits. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, 86% and 91%, respectively, of our cash and cash equivalents were concentrated in the U.S., EU countries, and Japan.
The selection of investments in marketable securities is governed by our investment policy. The policy aims to emphasize principles of safety and liquidity, with the overall objective of earning an attractive rate of return while limiting exposure to risk of loss and avoiding inappropriate concentrations. We use this policy to guide our investment decisions as it stipulates, among other things, a list of eligible investment types, minimum ratings and other restrictions for each type, and overall portfolio composition constraints.
With regard to accounts receivable, we extend differing levels of credit to customers based on creditworthiness, do not require collateral deposits, and when necessary maintain an allowance for potential credit losses based upon the expected collectability of accounts receivable. We manage credit risk related to our customers by performing periodic evaluations of creditworthiness and applying other credit risk monitoring procedures. Significant customers are those that represent 10% or more of our total revenue for the period or accounts receivable at the balance sheet date. For fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, no single customer accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, no single customer accounted for 10% or more of our accounts receivable.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
We utilize valuation techniques that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs to the extent possible. We determine fair value based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability in the principal or most advantageous market. When considering market participant assumptions in fair value measurements, the fair value hierarchy distinguishes between observable and unobservable inputs, which are categorized in one of the following levels:
Level 1-Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that we can access at the measurement date.
Level 2-Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, such as:
•quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets;
•quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active; or
•inputs other than quoted prices that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.
Level 2 inputs must be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability.
Level 3-Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value.
Financial instruments consist of cash equivalents, marketable securities and other investments, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. Marketable securities and other investments are recorded at fair value. Cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable are recorded at their carrying value, which approximates fair value due to the short time to the expected receipt or payment date.
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Cash and Cash Equivalents
We consider all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturity dates of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Marketable Securities
Our marketable securities consist primarily of treasury bills and U.S. government securities, corporate bonds, and commercial paper with original maturity dates of more than three months from the date of purchase. We determine the appropriate classification of our marketable securities at the time of purchase and reevaluate such designation at each balance sheet date. We have classified and accounted for our marketable securities as available-for-sale securities based on our intentions with regard to these instruments, and we classify them as current or non-current assets in the consolidated balance sheets based on their stated maturity dates.
The fair value of available-for-sale marketable securities is remeasured each reporting period. Any premiums and discounts are amortized or accreted over the life of the related available-for-sale security as an adjustment to yield. Interest income is recognized when earned. Unrealized gains and losses on marketable securities are reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income on the consolidated balance sheets until realized.
We evaluate an available-for-sale debt security for impairment if the estimated fair value is below its amortized cost basis. We consider our intent to sell the security or whether it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell the security before recovery of its amortized basis. If either of these conditions exist, the debt security’s amortized cost basis is written down to fair value, with the change recognized in other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements of operations. If neither of these conditions are present, we evaluate whether unrealized losses have resulted from a credit loss or other factors. To determine whether a decline in value is related to credit loss, we evaluate, among other factors, the extent to which the fair value is less than the amortized cost basis and any adverse conditions specifically related to an issuer of a security or its industry. Credit-related unrealized losses are recognized as an allowance on the consolidated balance sheets with a corresponding charge to other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements of operations. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024 we did not record any allowance for credit losses related to our available-for-sale marketable securities, and we did not record any impairments related to these securities in fiscal year 2025, 2024, or 2023.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Credit Losses
Accounts receivable consist of amounts billed and currently due from customers, which are subject to collection risk. Our accounts receivable are reduced by an allowance for credit losses. This allowance contemplates estimated losses resulting from the inability of our customers to make required payments. It is an estimate and is regularly evaluated for adequacy by taking into consideration a combination of factors such as historical write-off experience, credit quality of the customer, age of the receivable balance, current economic conditions and forecasts of future economic conditions, and projections of future collections. We write off accounts receivable when they are determined to be uncollectible. The allowance for credit losses was $1.6 million and $1.1 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Credit loss expense (recovery) was $2.0 million, $(1.6) million, and $1.2 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment are recorded at historical cost, less accumulated depreciation. Property and equipment are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Useful lives by asset category are as follows:
Asset Category Estimated Useful Life
Computer and equipment 1 to 2 years
Furniture and fixtures 2 to 9 years
Leasehold improvements Shorter of remaining lease term or estimated useful life
(1 to 13 years)
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Internal-Use Software
Pursuant to ASC 350-40, Internal Use Software, we capitalize costs incurred to implement cloud computing arrangements that are service contracts and costs incurred to develop internal-use software, which has historically included our SaaS products. ASC 350-40 prescribes capitalization of costs incurred during the application development stage, costs incurred to develop or obtain software that allows for access to or conversion of old data by new systems, and costs incurred in connection with upgrades and enhancements to internal-use software if it is probable that such expenditures will result in additional functionality. These capitalized costs exclude training costs, project management costs, and data migration costs. We evaluate our long-lived assets, including these capitalized costs, for indicators of possible impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of an asset or asset group may not be recoverable.
Beginning in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022, we began to broadly market on-premises versions of certain of our SaaS products, thereby establishing a pattern of marketing internal-use software and a rebuttable presumption that we intend to market any SaaS products we develop. As a result, our ongoing and future SaaS projects must be accounted for under ASC 985-20, Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed, which is discussed below under "Software Development Costs."
Costs previously capitalized under ASC 350-40 in connection with development of our SaaS products are amortized on a straight-line basis over the product’s estimated useful life of five years and such amortization is included in cost of subscription services revenue on the consolidated statements of operations. Capitalized costs include salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation charges for employees that are directly involved in developing our SaaS products. These capitalized costs are included in other assets, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Gross capitalized internal-use software development costs were $7.4 million and $7.5 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Amortization expense was $1.3 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023. Accumulated amortization was $5.5 million and $4.3 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Capitalized costs related to the implementation of cloud computing arrangements that are service contracts are amortized on a straight-line basis over the terms of the associated hosting arrangements and such amortization is included in operating expenses in the same line item on the consolidated statements of operations as the associated hosting arrangement fees. These gross capitalized costs were $12.1 million and $2.7 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and are recorded in other assets, non-current on our consolidated balance sheets. Related amortization expense was $0.3 million, none, and $1.0 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. Accumulated amortization was $2.4 million and $2.2 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Software Development Costs
We account for costs incurred to develop software to be licensed in accordance with ASC 985-20, Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed. These costs include internal development costs and license fees paid to third parties for their software that is integrated into our products. Beginning in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022, we also account for costs incurred to develop our SaaS products in accordance with ASC 985-20. This guidance requires that all costs to establish technological feasibility be expensed as they are incurred. Technological feasibility is established when the working model is complete. Costs incurred subsequent to establishing technological feasibility are capitalized until the product is available for general release to customers, at which point they are amortized on a product-by-product basis. Management evaluates the useful life of these assets on an annual basis and tests for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances occur that could impact their recoverability.
Our internal development costs are amortized over the estimated useful life of the software, which is five years, on a straight-line basis, and such amortization is included in cost of licenses revenue or cost of subscription services revenue in the consolidated statements of operations based on the nature of the underlying product. Capitalized costs include salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation charges for employees that are directly involved in developing our products. Capitalized costs are included in other assets, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Gross capitalized software development costs were $4.2 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024. Related amortization expense was $0.8 million, $0.9 million, and $0.9 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023,
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
respectively. Accumulated amortization was $3.7 million and $3.0 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Capitalized license fees paid to third parties are amortized over the license term at the greater of a straight-line or a consumption basis and such amortization is included in cost of licenses revenue or cost of subscription services revenue in the consolidated statements of operations based on the nature of the underlying third-party product. Capitalized costs are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and other assets, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Capitalized license fees were $2.7 million and $4.2 million as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Related amortization expense was $7.7 million, $8.4 million, and $7.3 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Leases
We determine if an arrangement contains a lease at inception based on whether there is an identified asset and whether we control the use of the identified asset throughout the period of use. We classify leases as either financing or operating leases. We do not have any financing leases.
Operating lease liabilities represent our obligation to make payments arising from a lease. Operating lease liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of future lease payments over the lease term. The present value of lease payments is discounted based on our incremental borrowing rate unless the rate implicit in the lease is readily determinable, which generally is not the case. We estimate our incremental borrowing rate based on information available at the lease commencement date for collateralized borrowings with a similar term, amount, borrower creditworthiness, and economic environment.
Operating lease ROU assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term. Our operating lease ROU assets are measured based on the corresponding operating lease liability adjusted for (1) payments made to the lessor at or before the commencement date, (2) initial direct costs incurred, and (3) tenant incentives under the lease.
Options to renew or terminate the lease are recognized as part of our operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities when it is reasonably certain the options will be exercised.
We have elected to not separate lease and non-lease components for any leases within our existing classes of assets. Operating lease expense for fixed lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Variable lease payments for real estate taxes, insurance, maintenance, and utilities, which are generally based on our pro-rata share of the total property, are expensed as incurred and are not included in the measurement of the operating lease ROU assets or operating lease liabilities. In addition, we do not recognize ROU assets and lease liabilities for short-term leases which have a lease term of 12 months or less and do not include an option to purchase the underlying asset that we are reasonably certain to exercise. Lease cost for short-term leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Business Acquisitions
Assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination are recorded at their respective fair values at the date of the acquisition in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations (with the exception of contract assets and contract liabilities, which are measured according to ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, discussed under the heading "Revenue Recognition," below). Determination of the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed relies on management judgments and often involves the use of estimates and assumptions, including but not limited to assumptions about future cash inflows and outflows, discount rates, and lives of intangible and other assets. Any excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net assets acquired is recognized as goodwill.
During the one-year measurement period following an acquisition, we may record adjustments to the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period, subsequent adjustments, if any, are recorded in our consolidated statements of operations.
Acquisition costs, such as legal and consulting fees, are expensed as incurred.
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Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price in a business acquisition over the fair value of the net assets acquired and is not amortized. We test goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level at least annually in November and may test more frequently when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable.
At the time of testing, if we determine that it is more likely than not that the estimated fair value of our single reporting unit is less than its carrying value, a quantitative assessment is performed by comparing the fair value of the reporting unit with its carrying value. In order to make this determination, we may make an initial assessment of qualitative factors, or may proceed directly to the quantitative impairment test. There were no impairment charges to goodwill during fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023.
Acquired intangible assets consist primarily of developed technology and customer relationships resulting from our business acquisitions. Intangible assets are recorded at fair value on the date of acquisition and are amortized over their estimated useful lives.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
We evaluate our long-lived assets for indicators of possible impairment when events or changes in circumstances suggest that the carrying amount of an asset or asset group may not be recoverable. We assess recoverability by comparing the carrying amount of such asset or asset group to the net undiscounted future cash flows we expect the asset or asset group to generate. If the carrying amount of an asset or asset group exceeds the related undiscounted cash flows, it is considered to be impaired and an impairment charge is recognized for the amount by which the carrying value of the asset or asset group exceeds its fair value.
There were no events or changes in circumstances during fiscal year 2025, 2024, or 2023 which indicated potential impairment of our long-lived assets.
Revenue Recognition
We derive revenue from the sale of: (1) software licenses for on-premises use of our proprietary software and related maintenance and support; (2) the right to access certain software products we host (i.e., SaaS); and (3) professional services. For many of our products that are available both on-premises and via SaaS, we sell a single offering that allows customers the choice of either on-premises or SaaS deployment throughout the term of the contract. These Flex Offerings are comprised of three types of performance obligations: term license, maintenance and support, and SaaS.
In accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, revenue is recognized when or as a customer obtains control of the distinct promised goods and services. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration to which we expect to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve the core principle of ASC 606, we apply the following five steps:
1.Identification of the contract, or contracts, with the customer;
2.Identification of the performance obligations in the contract;
3.Determination of the transaction price;
4.Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and
5.Recognition of the revenue when, or as, a performance obligation is satisfied.
Our significant performance obligations and our application of ASC 606 to each of those performance obligations are discussed in further detail below.
Payment terms and conditions vary by contract type, although terms generally require payment within 30 to 60 days of the invoice date. In certain arrangements, we receive payment from a customer either before or after the performance obligation has been satisfied; however, our contracts do not contain a significant financing component. The primary purpose of our invoicing terms is to provide customers with simplified and predictable ways of purchasing our products and services, not to receive financing from our customers or to provide customers with financing. We apply the practical expedient in ASC 606 and do not evaluate payment terms of one year or less for
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the existence of a significant financing component. Revenue is recorded net of sales tax. We generally do not offer a right of refund in our contracts.
Licenses
Our term licenses (typically sold as a portion of Flex Offerings), provide customers the right to use software for a specified period of time. Revenue for licenses is recognized at the point in time at which the customer is able to use and benefit from the software, which is generally upon delivery to the customer or upon commencement of the renewal term. For licenses revenue, we generally invoice when the license(s) are provided or annually at contract anniversary, which results in a contract asset at contract inception.
Subscription Services
We generate subscription services revenue through the provision of: (1) maintenance and support, which include technical support and unspecified updates and upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis for our licenses, and (2) SaaS products (typically sold as a portion of Flex Offerings).
Maintenance and support represent stand-ready obligations for which revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the arrangements. For maintenance and support, we generally invoice when the associated license(s) are provided or annually at contract anniversary, which results in a contract liability at contract inception.
Customers do not have the contractual right to take possession of the software underlying our SaaS products. Therefore, SaaS products are stand-ready obligations to provide access to our products, and the related revenue is recognized ratably over the contractual term of the arrangement, as control of the services is transferred to the customer. We generally invoice for our SaaS products when the customer is provided access and may begin using the SaaS products or annually at contract anniversary.
Professional Services and Other
Professional services and other revenue consists of fees associated with professional services for process automation, customer education, and training services. Our professional services contracts are structured on a time and materials or fixed price basis, and the related revenue is recognized as the services are rendered. We use a cost-based input method as the measure of progress toward satisfying the performance obligation. For professional services, we invoice as the services are provided, which results in either a contract asset or liability, depending on the timing of the services, or in advance, which results in a contract liability at contract inception.
Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations
Most of our contracts with customers contain multiple performance obligations. The transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations on a relative SSP basis. Whenever possible, we allocate the transaction price based on observable SSP, which is the price of the same good or service in standalone sales to similar customers in similar circumstances. If observable SSP is not available, we estimate the SSP using data that may include historical prices, discounting practices, list prices, cost data, and other observable inputs. Our SSP reflects the amount we would charge for each performance obligation if it were sold separately in standalone sales to similar customers in similar circumstances in similar geographies.
Consideration Payable to Customers
From time to time, we enter into arrangements wherein we sell our products and services to a customer or partner while also making commitments to purchase products or services from that customer or partner or make investments to enable that customer or partner to create or enhance their automation practice. These commitments are treated as consideration payable to a customer, and therefore as a reduction to the transaction price, when it is determined that the payment is not in exchange for a distinct good or service that is priced at fair market value. If the consideration payable includes a variable amount, we estimate the transaction price, including assessing whether the estimate of variable consideration must be constrained.
We also offer certain rebate incentives to our partners which are treated as consideration payable to a customer and therefore accounted for as a reduction to the transaction price of the related revenue arrangements.
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Modifications
We frequently modify contracts to offer customers additional products or services. The additional products and services are generally determined to be distinct from those products or services transferred to the customer before the modification. We evaluate whether the price for the additional products and services reflects the SSP in order to determine the appropriate modification model to apply. If the price reflects SSP, the purchase of additional products and services is accounted for as a separate contract. If the price does not reflect SSP, we account for the modification as the termination of the existing contract and the creation of a new contract.
Contract Balances
Contract assets consist of unbilled accounts receivable related to goods or services that have been transferred to customers but whose payment is contingent upon future performance.
Contract liabilities consist of deferred revenue. Revenue is deferred when we invoice in advance of performance under a contract.
Often, certain performance obligations under a contract will be in a contract asset position while other performance obligations under the same contract are in a contract liability position. Contract assets and liabilities pertaining to the same contract are netted in the consolidated balance sheets.
Deferred Contract Acquisition Costs
We defer sales commissions that are incremental to the acquisition of customer contracts. These costs are recorded as deferred contract acquisition costs on the consolidated balance sheets. We determine whether costs should be deferred based on the terms of our sales compensation and partner incentive plans and whether the commissions are incremental to a customer contract (i.e. would not have occurred absent the customer contract). Under our current sales compensation and certain of our partner incentive plans, commissions for renewals of subscription contracts are not commensurate with the commissions paid on the initial contract.
We allocate deferred contract acquisition costs to performance obligations in proportion to the transaction price allocated to each performance obligation and amortize the costs accordingly. Commissions associated with licenses and license renewals are expensed at the time the corresponding licenses revenue is recognized. Commissions associated with subscription services are capitalized and amortized on a straight-line basis over a period of five years for initial contracts, reflecting our estimate of the expected period that we will benefit from those commissions. We determine the period of benefit by taking into consideration the length of our customer contracts, retention rate, the technology lifecycle, and other factors. Commissions paid on renewal contracts that are associated with subscription services are capitalized and amortized over the renewal term. We apply the practical expedient in ASC 340-40, Other Assets and Deferred Costs to expense costs as incurred for costs to obtain a contract with a customer when the amortization period would have been one year or less.
We periodically review deferred contract acquisition costs to determine whether events or changes in circumstances have occurred that could impact the period of benefit. There were no impairment losses recorded for fiscal year 2025, 2024, or 2023.
Cost of Revenue
Licenses
Cost of licenses revenue consists of all direct costs to deliver our licenses to customers, amortization of software development costs related to our licenses, and amortization of acquired developed technology.
Subscription Services
Cost of subscription services revenue consists of personnel-related expenses of our customer support and technical support teams, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefit costs. Cost of subscription services revenue also includes third-party consulting services, hosting costs related to our SaaS products, amortization of acquired developed technology and capitalized development costs
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related to SaaS products, and allocated overhead. Overhead is allocated to cost of subscription services revenue based on applicable headcount. We recognize these expenses as they are incurred.
Professional Services and Other
Cost of professional services and other revenue primarily consists of personnel-related expenses of our professional services team, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefit costs. Cost of professional services and other revenue also includes subcontracted third-party services and allocated overhead. We recognize these expenses as they are incurred.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses associated with our sales and marketing employees and related sales support teams, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, employee benefit costs, sales and partner commissions, marketing events, advertising costs, travel, trade shows, other marketing materials, and allocated overhead.
Advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included in sales and marketing expenses. Such costs were $45.9 million, $44.3 million, and $41.5 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefits costs, for our research and development employees, and allocated overhead. Research and development expenditures are expensed as incurred.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense, and employee benefits costs, associated with our finance, legal, human resources, compliance, and other administrative employees, as well as accounting and legal professional services fees, other corporate-related expenses, and allocated overhead.
Stock-Based Compensation
We recognize stock-based compensation expense in accordance with the provisions of ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation. ASC 718 requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all stock-based awards made to employees, directors, and non-employees based on the grant date fair value of the awards.
The fair value of each stock option is determined using the Black-Scholes pricing model. The fair value of RSUs and RSAs is determined based on the fair value of our Class A common stock on the grant date. The fair value of PSUs that are dependent on the satisfaction of a performance condition is also determined based on the fair value of our Class A common stock on the grant date. The fair value of ESPP awards is determined using the Black-Scholes pricing model.
Stock-based compensation expense is included in cost of revenue and operating expenses within our consolidated statements of operations based on the expense classification of the individual earning the award.
The fair value of awards with only service-based vesting conditions is recognized as expense over the requisite service period on a straight-line basis.
For PSUs dependent on the satisfaction of a performance condition, compensation expense is recognized only when management believes it is probable that the performance condition will be achieved.
The fair value of ESPP shares is recognized over the relevant offering period on a straight-line basis.
With all award types, we account for forfeitures as they occur.
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Income Taxes
Pursuant to ASC 740, Income Taxes, we account for income taxes using the asset and liability method, whereby DTAs and DTLs are recognized based on temporary differences between the bases used for financial reporting and income tax reporting purposes. Deferred income taxes are provided based on the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect at the time such temporary differences are expected to reverse. A valuation allowance is provided for DTAs if it is more likely than not that we will not realize those tax assets through future operations.
ASC 740 prescribes a two-step approach to recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions: (1) evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any; and (2) measure the tax benefit as the largest amount which is more likely than not of being realized and effectively settled. We consider many factors when evaluating and estimating tax positions and tax benefits, which may require periodic adjustments, and which may not accurately reflect actual outcomes.
We recognize any interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions as a component of (benefit from) provision for income taxes in the consolidated statements of operations.
Net Loss Per Share
Basic and diluted net loss per share is calculated by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Net loss is allocated between Class A and Class B common stock based on the weighted-average shares outstanding for each class. Diluted net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share because potentially dilutive common stock equivalents are anti-dilutive when in a net loss position.
In a period of net income, diluted net income per share would be calculated by giving effect to all potentially dilutive securities outstanding for the period (including unvested RSUs and unexercised stock options under our equity incentive plans, outstanding purchase periods under our ESPP, unvested restricted stock awards and early exercised options subject to repurchase, and returnable common stock issued in connection with business acquisitions) using the treasury stock method.
All potentially dilutive common stock equivalents were anti-dilutive in fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, as we were in a net loss position for these periods.
Segment Information
Our chief operating decision maker, or CODM, is our CEO. (From the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 through the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, our Co-CEOs acted together as CODM.) The CODM reviews financial information at the consolidated level and manages business activities as one operating and reportable segment. Because the assets of our single reportable segment are presented as total assets on our consolidated balance sheets, no other measure of segment assets is regularly provided to the CODM. Net (loss) income, as reported on our consolidated statements of operations, is one of the measures of segment profit or loss used by our CODM to evaluate performance relative to plan, make resource allocation decisions, and monitor profitability trends.
Significant Segment Expenses
Revenue (the sources of which are described under the heading "Revenue Recognition," above) is reduced by significant expenses regularly provided to the CODM, as well as other segment items, to arrive at net loss for the periods presented as follows (in thousands):
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Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Revenue
$ 1,429,664 $ 1,308,072 $ 1,058,581
Significant segment expenses:
Adjusted cost of licenses(1)
5,818 7,098 7,667
Adjusted cost of subscription services(1)(2)(3)(4)
142,654 94,265 73,207
Adjusted cost of professional services and other(2)(3)(4)
59,068 62,248 69,436
Adjusted sales and marketing(1)(2)(3)(4)
583,898 560,009 520,387
Adjusted research and development(2)(3)4)
242,679 210,722 181,018
Adjusted general and administrative(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
154,965 141,166 141,706
Other segment items(6)
361,393 356,909 403,780
Amortization of acquired intangible assets
6,711 8,600 6,896
Interest income
(49,422) (57,130) (27,955)
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes
(4,406) 14,068 10,791
Net loss
$ (73,694) $ (89,883) $ (328,352)
(1) Excludes amortization of acquired intangible assets
(2) Excludes stock-based-compensation
(3) Excludes employer payroll tax on employee equity transactions
(4) Excludes restructuring costs
(5) Excludes charitable donation of Class A common stock
(6) Other segment items include stock-based compensation expense; employer payroll tax expense related to employee equity transactions; restructuring costs; Charitable donation of Class A common stock; and other income, net.
Entity-Wide Disclosures
The following table presents our long-lived assets other than financial instruments, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization, by geographic region (in thousands):
As of January 31,
2025 2024
U.S. $ 183,244 $ 189,227
Romania 86,933 81,740
United Kingdom 75,574 45,445
Netherlands 24,071 27,004
Rest of world 26,449 29,430
Total long-lived assets $ 396,271 $ 372,846
Variable Interest Entity
When we make an initial investment in or establish other variable interests in an entity, we determine whether that entity is considered a VIE, and, if so, whether we are the primary beneficiary of that VIE. The primary beneficiary of a VIE is a party that meets both of the following criteria: (1) it has the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE; and (2) it has the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits that could be potentially significant to the VIE. Periodically, we assess whether any change in our interest in or relationship with the entity affects our determination as to whether the entity is a VIE, and, if so, whether we are the primary beneficiary.
We consolidate any VIE of which we are the primary beneficiary. If we are not the primary beneficiary of a VIE, we account for the investment or other variable interests in that VIE in accordance with the applicable accounting guidance.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. ASU No. 2023-07 is intended to improve reportable segments disclosures requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. We adopted ASU No.
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2023-07 as of January 31, 2025 and have included the relevant disclosures under the heading "Segment Information" above.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. ASU No. 2023-09 will require additional tax disclosures, predominantly related to the effective income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. ASU No. 2023-09 will be effective for us for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of this pronouncement on our consolidated financial statements.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures. ASU No. 2024-03 requires additional disclosure on specific expense categories included in the expense captions presented on the statements of operations, and may be applied prospectively or retrospectively. ASU No. 2024-03 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and for interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of this pronouncement on our consolidated financial statements.
3 Revenue Recognition
Disaggregation of Revenue
The following table summarizes revenue by geographical region (dollars in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Amount Percentage of
Revenue Amount Percentage of
Revenue Amount Percentage of
Revenue
Americas(1)
$ 695,053 49 % $ 631,923 48 % $ 529,060 50 %
Europe, Middle East, and Africa 457,703 32 % 415,915 32 % 301,036 28 %
Asia-Pacific(2)
276,908 19 % 260,234 20 % 228,485 22 %
Total revenue $ 1,429,664 100 % $ 1,308,072 100 % $ 1,058,581 100 %
(1)Revenue from the U.S. represented 44%, 43%, and 46% of our total revenues for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
(2)Revenue from Japan represented 9%, 9%, and 10% of our total revenues for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Contract Balances
Significant changes in our contract assets and deferred revenue balances during the periods presented were as follows (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
Contract Assets 2025 2024
Beginning balance $ 90,411 $ 75,783
Contract assets recognized during the year 88,862 84,180
Amounts transferred to accounts receivable from unbilled accounts receivable presented at the beginning of the year (84,197) (69,260)
Translation adjustments (2,894) (292)
Ending balance $ 92,182 $ 90,411
Contract assets, current $ 88,735 $ 84,197
Contract assets, non-current 3,447 6,214
Total contract assets $ 92,182 $ 90,411
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Year Ended January 31,
Deferred Revenue 2025 2024
Beginning balance $ 647,832 $ 520,031
Additions to deferred revenue during the year 1,410,482 1,364,473
Revenue recognized that was included in deferred revenue at the beginning of the period (486,805) (398,334)
Revenue recognized that was not included in deferred revenue at the beginning of the period (855,330) (828,668)
Translation adjustments (10,872) (9,670)
Ending balance $ 705,307 $ 647,832
Deferred revenue, current $ 569,464 $ 486,805
Deferred revenue, non-current 135,843 161,027
Total deferred revenue $ 705,307 $ 647,832
Remaining Performance Obligations
Our remaining performance obligations are comprised of licenses, subscription services, and professional services not yet delivered. As of January 31, 2025, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations was $1,242.6 million, which consists of $705.3 million of billed consideration and $537.3 million of unbilled consideration. We expect to recognize 65% of our remaining performance obligations as revenue over the next twelve months, and the remainder thereafter.
Deferred Contract Acquisition Costs
Our deferred contract acquisition costs are comprised of sales commissions that represent incremental costs to obtain customer contracts, and are determined based on sales compensation plans. The following table represents a rollforward of our deferred contract acquisition costs (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Beginning balance $ 228,995 $ 187,503
Additions to deferred contract acquisition costs 89,124 118,844
Amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs (92,089) (75,471)
Translation adjustments (4,228) (1,881)
Ending balance $ 221,802 $ 228,995
Deferred contract acquisition costs, current $ 82,461 $ 74,678
Deferred contract acquisition costs, non-current 139,341 154,317
Total deferred contract acquisition costs $ 221,802 $ 228,995
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4 Marketable Securities
The following is a summary of our marketable securities (in thousands):
As of January 31, 2025
Amortized
Cost Gross
Unrealized
Gains Gross
Unrealized
Losses Estimated
Fair Value
Treasury bills and U.S government securities $ 703,740 $ - $ (421) $ 703,319
Corporate bonds 93,989 36 - 94,025
Commercial paper 42,371 20 - 42,391
Yankee bonds
4,707 - (7) 4,700
Total marketable securities $ 844,807 $ 56 $ (428) $ 844,435
As of January 31, 2024
Amortized
Cost Gross
Unrealized
Gains Gross
Unrealized
Losses Estimated
Fair Value
Treasury bills and U.S government securities
$ 641,263 $ 29 $ (100) $ 641,192
Corporate bonds 1,993 - (2) 1,991
Agency bonds 174,990 - (28) 174,962
Total marketable securities $ 818,246 $ 29 $ (130) $ 818,145
As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, $94.1 million and none, respectively, of our marketable securities had remaining contractual maturities of one year or more.
As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, $2.4 million and $3.3 million, respectively, of interest receivable was included in prepaid expenses and other current assets on the consolidated balance sheets. We did not recognize an allowance for credit losses against interest receivable as of January 31, 2025 or 2024.
Unrealized losses during the periods presented are a result of changes in market conditions. We do not believe that any unrealized losses are attributable to credit-related factors based on our evaluation of available evidence. To determine whether a decline in value is related to credit loss, we evaluate, among other factors, the extent to which the fair value is less than the amortized cost basis and any adverse conditions specifically related to an issuer of a security or its industry.
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5 Fair Value Measurement
The following tables present our financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis (in thousands):
As of January 31, 2025
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Total
Financial Assets:
Money market funds $ 311,942 $ - $ - $ 311,942
Total cash equivalents 311,942 - - 311,942
Treasury bills & U.S. government securities 703,319 - - 703,319
Corporate bonds - 94,025 - 94,025
Commercial paper - 42,391 - 42,391
Yankee bonds
- 4,700 - 4,700
Total marketable securities 703,319 141,116 - 844,435
Other investments carried at fair value
- - 11,879 11,879
Total $ 1,015,261 $ 141,116 $ 11,879 $ 1,168,256
As of January 31, 2024
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Total
Financial Assets:
Money market funds $ 509,053 $ - $ - $ 509,053
Total cash equivalents 509,053 - - 509,053
Treasury bills and U.S. government securities 641,192 - - 641,192
Corporate bonds - 1,991 - 1,991
Agency bonds 174,962 - - 174,962
Total marketable securities 816,154 1,991 - 818,145
Total $ 1,325,207 $ 1,991 $ - $ 1,327,198
Our money market funds, treasury bills and U.S. government securities, and agency bonds are classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued based on quoted market prices in active markets. We classify corporate bonds, commercial paper, and Yankee bonds as Level 2 because they are valued using inputs other than quoted prices which are directly or indirectly observable in the market, including readily-available pricing sources for the identical underlying security which may not be actively traded. Other investments carried at fair value, which consist of convertible bonds of private company the H Company purchased during fiscal year 2025, are classified as Level 3 because their valuation relies on unobservable inputs. None of our financial instruments were classified as Level 3 as of January 31, 2024.
6 Business Acquisitions
Fiscal Year 2023 Acquisition
Re:infer
On July 29, 2022, we acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Re:infer, a natural language processing company focused on unstructured documents and communications. Re:infer uses machine learning technology to mine context from communication messages and transform them into actionable data. With this acquisition, we gained technology and an experienced team which we believe will continue to accelerate our technology roadmap, expand the breadth of our AI-powered automation capabilities, and unlock new automation opportunities for our customers. The Re:infer acquisition was accounted for as a business combination.
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The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Re:infer was $44.6 million, consisting of the following:
Cash paid at closing $ 30,117
Fair value of Class A common stock issued at closing (0.2 million shares)
2,965
Loan note paid on first anniversary of closing (July 29, 2023) 5,863
Loan note paid on second anniversary of closing (July 29, 2024) 5,570
Working capital adjustment 66
Total $ 44,581
At closing, we also issued an additional 0.4 million shares of Class A common stock to be released to sellers in equal installments on the first, second, and third anniversaries of the closing date, subject to certain employment-related clawback provisions. The aggregate fair value of these shares totaled $7.6 million and is expensed as compensation for post-acquisition services over the three years following the acquisition date.
The following table summarizes the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the acquisition date (in thousands):
July 29, 2022
Net tangible assets $ 300
Intangible assets 13,100
Goodwill 34,351
Total assets acquired 47,751
Deferred tax liabilities assumed (3,170)
Total $ 44,581
The following table sets forth the identifiable intangible assets acquired and their estimated useful lives as of the date of acquisition:
Fair Value
(in thousands) Estimated Useful Life
(in years)
Developed technology $ 10,000 5.0
Customer relationships 3,100 3.0
Total $ 13,100
The acquisition of Re:infer generated goodwill of $34.4 million representing expected synergies and acquired skilled workforce. None of this goodwill is deductible for tax purposes. We incurred transaction costs in connection with the Re:infer acquisition of $1.1 million, which were included in general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of operations for fiscal year 2023.
7 Intangible Assets and Goodwill
Intangible Assets, Net
Intangible assets, net consisted of the following as of January 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands):
Intangible
Assets, Gross Accumulated
Amortization Intangible
Assets, Net Weighted-Average
Remaining Useful
Life (Years)
Developed technology $ 28,130 $ (21,416) $ 6,714 2.2
Customer relationships 8,183 (7,648) 535 0.5
Trade names and trademarks 271 (271) - 0.0
Other intangibles 1,231 (575) 656 6.4
Total $ 37,815 $ (29,910) $ 7,905
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Intangible assets, net consisted of the following as of January 31, 2024 (dollars in thousands):
Intangible
Assets, Gross Accumulated
Amortization Intangible
Assets, Net Weighted-Average
Remaining Useful
Life (Years)
Developed technology $ 28,807 $ (16,881) $ 11,926 2.8
Customer relationships 8,266 (6,306) 1,960 1.3
Trade names and trademarks 272 (266) 6 0.2
Other intangibles 1,231 (419) 812 7.0
Total $ 38,576 $ (23,872) $ 14,704
We record amortization expense associated with acquired developed technology in cost of licenses revenue and cost of subscription services revenue, trade names and trademarks in sales and marketing expense, customer relationships in sales and marketing expense, and other intangibles in general and administrative expense in the consolidated statements of operations. Amortization of acquired intangible assets was $6.7 million, $8.6 million and $6.9 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Expected future amortization expense related to intangible assets was as follows as of January 31, 2025 (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
Amount
2026 $ 4,053
2027 2,407
2028 1,143
2029 101
2030 62
Thereafter 139
Total $ 7,905
Goodwill
Changes in the carrying amount of goodwill were as follows during the periods presented (in thousands):
Carrying Amount
Balance as of January 31, 2023
$ 88,010
Effect of foreign currency translation 1,016
Balance as of January 31, 2024
89,026
Effect of foreign currency translation (1,722)
Balance as of January 31, 2025
$ 87,304
8 Operating Leases
Our operating leases consist of real estate and vehicles and have remaining lease terms of one year to 13 years. For purposes of calculating operating lease liabilities, lease terms may be deemed to include options to extend the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise those options. Our operating lease arrangements do not contain any material restrictive covenants or residual value guarantees.
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Lease costs are presented below (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Operating lease cost $ 15,899 $ 13,047 $ 11,675
Short-term lease cost 3,722 4,965 5,895
Variable lease cost 2,065 2,142 1,418
Sublease income(1)
- (1,615) (2,129)
Total lease cost $ 21,686 $ 18,539 $ 16,859
(1) Included in other income, net in the consolidated statements of operations
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases is as follows (in thousands):
As of January 31,
2025 2024
Assets:
Operating lease right-of-use assets $ 66,500 $ 56,072
Liabilities:
Operating lease liabilities, current (included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities)
$ 3,587 $ 8,357
Operating lease liabilities, non-current 74,230 58,713
Total operating lease liabilities $ 77,817 $ 67,070
Supplemental cash flow information related to operating leases is as follows for the periods presented (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities $ 16,758 $ 12,907 $ 6,702
Operating lease ROU assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities $ 21,242 $ 12,986 $ 11,511
The following table represents the weighted-average remaining lease term and discount rate for the periods presented:
As of January 31,
2025 2024
Weighted-average remaining lease term (years) 10.1 10.7
Weighted-average discount rate 7.2 % 7.1 %
Future undiscounted lease payments for our operating lease liabilities as of January 31, 2025 were as follows (in thousands):
Amount
Year Ended January 31,
2026 $ 8,420
2027 14,567
2028 13,214
2029 9,808
2030 8,824
Thereafter 56,829
Total operating lease payments 111,662
Less: imputed interest (33,845)
Total operating lease liabilities $ 77,817
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As of January 31, 2025, we had non-cancellable commitments in the amount of $0.2 million related to operating leases of real estate facilities that have not yet commenced.
9 Consolidated Balance Sheet Components
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets
Prepaid expenses and other current assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
As of January 31,
2025 2024
Prepaid expenses and service credits $ 65,334 $ 87,781
Other current assets 20,942 17,199
Prepaid expenses and other current assets $ 86,276 $ 104,980
Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands):
As of January 31,
2025 2024
Computers and equipment $ 23,677 $ 23,767
Leasehold improvements 31,402 21,756
Furniture and fixtures 7,124 6,640
Construction in progress 9,562 4,560
Other 635 632
Property and equipment, gross 72,400 57,355
Less: accumulated depreciation (39,660) (33,373)
Property and equipment, net $ 32,740 $ 23,982
Depreciation expense was $8.1 million, $11.1 million, and $8.6 million for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Other Assets, Non-Current
As of January 31, 2025 and January 31, 2024, other assets, non-current included $24.4 million and $1.5 million, respectively, related to equity investments in private companies without readily determinable fair values. As a measurement alternative, these investments are reported at cost and are assessed periodically to determine whether their carrying value must be adjusted for observable changes in price or indicators of impairment.
As of January 31, 2025, other assets, non-current also included $11.9 million related to private-company convertible bonds, which are carried at fair value. Refer to Note 5, Fair Value Measurement for further information.
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Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):
As of January 31,
2025 2024
Accrued expenses $ 19,810 $ 13,414
Withholding tax from employee equity transactions 4,699 3,277
Employee stock purchase plan withholdings 3,335 3,618
Payroll taxes and other benefits payable 8,258 3,888
Income tax payable 1,632 7,140
Value-added taxes payable 3,640 6,480
Operating lease liabilities, current 3,587 8,357
Deferred consideration for business acquisition, current - 5,570
Rebates payable to partners 13,314 7,289
Cloud infrastructure liabilities(1)
6,685 5,044
Other 18,963 19,920
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities $ 83,923 $ 83,997
(1) Prior period amounts have been expanded to conform to current period presentation
10 Credit Facility
On October 30, 2020 we entered into the Credit Facility, a $200 million senior secured revolving credit facility with a maturity date of October 30, 2023, with HSBC Ventures USA Inc., Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank & Trust Company (successor by purchase to the FDIC as receiver for Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A. (as successor to Silicon Valley Bank)), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Mizuho Bank, LTD. The Credit Facility contained certain customary covenants, including, but not limited to, those relating to additional indebtedness, liens, asset divestitures, and affiliate transactions.
We did not borrow under the Credit Facility at any time. In September 2023, we and the lenders terminated the Credit Facility prior to its original maturity date.
11 Commitments and Contingencies
Letters of Credit
We had a total of $2.6 million in letters of credit outstanding predominantly in favor of certain landlords for office space as of January 31, 2025 and 2024. These letters of credit renew annually and expire on various dates through fiscal year 2027.
Indemnification
In the ordinary course of business, we may provide indemnification of varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, directors, and officers with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, losses arising out of our breach of such agreements, services to be provided by us, or from intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties.
These indemnification provisions may survive termination of the underlying agreement and the potential amount of future payments we could be required to make under these indemnification provisions may not be subject to maximum loss clauses. The maximum potential amount of future payments we could be required to make under these indemnification provisions is indeterminable. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, we have not accrued a liability for these indemnification arrangements because the likelihood of incurring a payment obligation, if any, in connection with these indemnification arrangements was remote.
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Workforce Restructuring
On June 24, 2022, our board of directors approved the Fiscal Year 2023 Workforce Restructuring to manage our operating expenses by reducing our global workforce by approximately 5%. The workforce reduction aimed to simplify our go-to-market approach and improve sales productivity. In connection with these workforce reductions, we also ceased use of our office in Brooklyn, NY. On November 10, 2022, our board of directors approved further restructuring actions to reduce our global workforce across functions by an additional 6%. The Fiscal Year 2023 Workforce Restructuring was completed during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024.
On July 8, 2024, our board of directors approved the Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring to reshape the organization by streamlining our structure, particularly in operational and corporate functions, to better prioritize our go-to-market investments and focus our research and development investments on AI and driving innovation across our platform. The Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring is substantially completed, with any remaining actions now expected to be completed by end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2026.
We incurred $24.7 million and $2.6 million of expense related to restructuring actions in fiscal years 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The following table shows the amounts incurred during fiscal years 2025 and 2024, and the related liability, which is recorded in accrued compensation and employee benefits in the consolidated balance sheets, for restructuring-related costs (in thousands):
Fiscal Year 2025 Workforce Restructuring
Fiscal Year 2023 Workforce Restructuring
Accrued restructuring costs as of January 31, 2023
$ - $ 3,889
Restructuring costs incurred during fiscal year 2024
- 2,626
Amount paid during fiscal year 2024
- (6,180)
Accrued restructuring costs as of January 31, 2024
- 335
Restructuring costs incurred during fiscal year 2025
24,726 -
Amount paid during fiscal year 2025
(14,948) (335)
Accrued restructuring costs as of January 31, 2025
$ 9,778 $ -
The following table presents restructuring charges, consisting primarily of employee termination benefits, incurred for the periods presented by financial statement line item (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Cost of subscription services revenue $ 2,745 $ 114 $ 182
Cost of professional services and other revenue 105 - 710
Sales and marketing 15,452 1,376 19,491
Research and development 3,058 387 494
General and administrative 3,366 749 2,569
Total $ 24,726 $ 2,626 $ 23,446
Defined Contribution Plans
We sponsor retirement plans for qualifying employees, including a 401(k) plan in the U.S. and defined contribution plans in certain other countries, to which we make matching contributions. Our total matching contributions to all defined contribution plans during fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 were $17.1 million, $16.0 million, and $14.5 million, respectively.
Litigation
From time to time, we may be involved in lawsuits, claims, investigations, and proceedings, consisting of intellectual property, commercial, employment, and other matters which arise in the ordinary course of business. In
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accordance with ASC 450, Contingencies, we make a provision for a liability when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated.
UiPath and certain of its officers are currently parties to the following litigation matters:
On September 6, 2023, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against UiPath, then Co-CEO Daniel Dines, and CFO Ashim Gupta, captioned In re UiPath, Inc. Securities Litigation (the "2023 Securities Action"). The initial complaint asserted claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act, and alleged that defendants made material misstatements and omissions, including regarding UiPath’s competitive position and its financial results. On January 26, 2024, the lead plaintiff in the 2023 Securities Action filed an amended complaint, and on March 26, 2024, filed a second amended complaint, which alleges Securities Act claims under Sections 11 and 15 as well as Exchange Act claims under Section 10(b), Rule 10b-5, and Section 20(a). In support of the Securities Act claims, the plaintiff alleges material misstatements and omissions in UiPath’s April 2021 Registration Statement, including regarding UiPath’s competitive position and its financial results. The second amended complaint is purportedly brought on behalf of a putative class of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired UiPath common stock between April 21, 2021 and September 27, 2022. It seeks unspecified monetary damages, costs and attorneys’ fees, and other unspecified relief as the Court deems appropriate. On April 23, 2024, the defendants moved to dismiss the second amended complaint. On November 4, 2024, the Court issued its opinion and order on the motion to dismiss, wherein it dismissed all claims under the Securities Act, but allowed the case to proceed with respect to two statements relating to competition that the plaintiffs allege violated the Exchange Act. On February 28, 2025, plaintiff filed a motion for Class Certification and Appointment of Class Representative and Class Counsel.
On November 30, 2023, a purported shareholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against UiPath, as nominal defendant, and then Co-CEO Daniel Dines, CFO Ashim Gupta, and several of UiPath’s current and former directors. The case was captioned Polilingua Limited v. Daniel Dines, et al. The lawsuit alleged that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties and committed other alleged misconduct in connection with the statements at issue in the 2023 Securities Action and by causing UiPath to repurchase shares at allegedly inflated prices. The plaintiff sought unspecified damages and/or restitution on behalf of UiPath, as well as costs and attorneys’ fees and certain changes to UiPath’s corporate governance and internal controls. Similar cases were filed in the District of Delaware (captioned In re UiPath, Inc. Stockholder Derivative Litigation) and in the Southern District of New York (captioned Ristea v. Botteri, et al.). On November 22, 2024, the In re UiPath, Inc. Stockholder Derivative Litigation case was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice. On January 8, 2025, the Polilingua Limited v. Daniel Dines, et al. case was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice. On February 5, 2025, the Ristea v. Botteri, et al. case was voluntarily dismissed.
On June 20, 2024, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against UiPath, CEO Daniel Dines, former CEO Robert Enslin, and CFO Ashim Gupta. The case was captioned Steiner v. UiPath, et al. The complaint asserted claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act on behalf of a putative class of persons who purchased or acquired UiPath common stock between December 1, 2023 and May 29, 2024, and alleged that defendants made material misstatements and omissions, including regarding the Company's AI-powered Business Automation Platform. The complaint sought unspecified monetary damages, costs and attorneys' fees, and other unspecified relief. On August 6, 2024, a second putative class action was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against UiPath, CEO Daniel Dines, former CEO Robert Enslin, and CFO Ashim Gupta. The case was captioned Brunozzi v. UiPath, et al. The allegations in the Brunozzi complaint were identical to those made in Steiner v. UiPath et al. except that the Brunozzi complaint defines the putative class to include purchasers of UiPath call options and sellers of put options. On September 5, 2024, the Court consolidated the Steiner and Brunozzi cases and appointed Brunozzi as the lead plaintiff. The consolidated action is captioned In re UiPath, Inc. Securities Litigation (the "2024 Securities Action"). On November 22, 2024, the lead plaintiff filed an amended complaint against UiPath, former CEO Robert Enslin, and CFO Ashim Gupta. CEO Daniel Dines is no longer a named defendant in the 2024 Securities Action. The allegations in the amended complaints are substantively similar to the allegations set forth in the complaints previously filed in Steiner and Brunozzi. The amended complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages, costs and attorneys' fees, and other unspecified relief as the Court deems appropriate. On January 21, 2025, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint, and on March 21, 2025, plaintiffs filed their opposition to the motion.
On July 8, 2024, a purported shareholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against UiPath, as nominal defendant, CEO Daniel Dines, former CEO Robert Enslin,
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CFO Ashim Gupta, and UiPath's board of directors. The case is captioned Gera v. UiPath, et al. The lawsuit alleges that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties and committed other alleged misconduct in connection with the statements made during the time period at issue in the 2024 Securities Action, and by allegedly causing UiPath to repurchase shares at allegedly inflated prices. The plaintiff seeks unspecified damages and/or restitution on behalf of UiPath, as well as costs and attorneys' fees and certain changes to UiPath's corporate governance and internal controls. The matter has been stayed pending further action in the 2024 Securities Action.
We have not recorded any accrual related to the aforementioned litigation matters as of January 31, 2025, as we believe a loss in these matters is neither probable nor estimable at this time.
Warranty
We warrant to customers that our platform will operate substantially in accordance with its specifications. Historically, no significant costs have been incurred related to product warranties. Based on such historical experience, the probability of incurring such costs in the future is deemed remote. As such, no accruals for product warranty costs have been made.
Other Matters
Our indirect tax positions are subject to audit in multiple jurisdictions globally, with a key focus on our largest operational territories, including the U.S., Romania, India, and the U.K.
Our Romanian subsidiary was subjected to audits by the ANAF for value-added tax and corporate income tax for the periods January 2020 through January 2022 and January 2018 through January 2022, respectively, which were completed during the first quarter of fiscal year 2025. With regard to the value-added tax audit, an assessment of $14.3 million has been issued. While we paid this assessment during fiscal year 2025, we disagree with the assessment and are in the process of appealing through litigation. The amount of the payment is included in other assets, non-current on our consolidated balance sheets as of January 31, 2025, and we have not recorded any estimated liability related to this litigation as of January 31, 2025, as we believe it is not probable that a material loss will be incurred.
Additionally, our Romanian subsidiary is currently subject to audit for value-added tax for the periods February 2022 through April 2024. While the audit is ongoing, and no official assessment has been issued, we estimate an approximate exposure of $13.0 million. We have not recorded any estimated liability related to this audit as of January 31, 2025, as we believe it is not probable that a material loss will be incurred.
Our Indian subsidiary is currently subject to audit for the goods and services tax for the periods April 2018 through March 2023. While no official assessment has been issued, we estimate an approximate exposure of $18.7 million. We are preparing our responses to the tax authority's requests. We have not recorded any estimated liability related to this audit as of January 31, 2025, as we believe it is not probable that a material loss will be incurred.
For additional information regarding tax audits, refer to Note 14. Income Taxes.
Non-Cancelab le Purchase Obligations
In the normal course of business, we enter into non-cancelable purchase commitments with various parties, mainly for hosting services and software products and services. As of January 31, 2025, we had outstanding non-cancelable purchase obligations with a term of 12 months or longer as follows (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
Amount
2026 $ 78,613
2027 64,251
2028 24,930
2029 2,370
2030 4
Thereafter -
Total $ 170,168
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12 Stockholders' Equity
Common Stock
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes a total of 2.0 billion shares of Class A common stock and 115.7 million shares of Class B common stock.
Each share of Class B common stock will convert automatically into Class A common stock, on a one-to-one basis, upon certain circumstances, including: (1) the sale or transfer of such share of Class B common stock (except under certain circumstances described in the amended and restated certificate of incorporation), (2) a date fixed by the board of directors that is no less than 120 days and no more than 180 days following the date that the number of shares of Class B common stock outstanding is less than 20% of the number of shares of Class B common stock outstanding immediately prior to the completion of the IPO, or (3) six months after the death or incapacity of Daniel Dines. Class A common stock is entitled to one vote per share and Class B common stock is entitled to thirty-five votes per share.
Stock Repurchase Program
On September 1, 2023, our board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program, pursuant to which we may repurchase from time to time up to $500.0 million of our outstanding shares of Class A common stock. This authorization was scheduled to expire on March 1, 2025. On August 30, 2024, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of an additional $500.0 million of our Class A common stock. The current authorization may be suspended or discontinued at any time and does not have a specified expiration date. Repurchases under the program may be effected through open market purchases, privately-negotiated transactions, or otherwise in accordance with applicable federal securities laws, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans and under Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business and market conditions, and alternate uses of capital.
We repurchased 31.8 million shares of our Class A common stock at an average price of $12.30 per share during fiscal year 2025 and 5.8 million shares of our Class A common stock at an average price of $17.57 per share during fiscal year 2024 (inclusive of brokerage commission). For fiscal year 2025, we accrued $1.4 million of related excise tax pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which is included in the cost of treasury stock on our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2025.
Subsequent to January 31, 2025, between February 1, 2025 and March 20, 2025, we repurchased an additional 2.3 million shares of our Class A common stock at an average price of $11.76 per share.
Charitable Donations of Class A Common Stock
We have reserved 2.8 million shares of our Class A common stock to fund our social impact and ESG initiatives. We contributed 0.3 million shares of our Class A common stock during each of fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 to a donor-advised fund in connection with our Pledge 1% commitment. The aggregate fair values of the shares on the respective contribution dates of $6.6 million, $4.2 million, and $5.5 million were recorded within general and administrative expense in the consolidated statements of operations for fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.
Preferred Stock
Our amended and restated our certificate of incorporation authorizes a total of 20.0 million shares of preferred stock.
Dividends
Holders of common stock are entitled to receive dividends whenever funds are legally available and when declared by the board of directors, subject to the priority rights of holders of preferred stock. No dividends have been declared by the board of directors from inception through January 31, 2025.
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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Changes in the components of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows during the periods presented (in thousands):
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Marketable Securities
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Balance as of January 31, 2023 $ 8,231 $ (619) $ 7,612
Other comprehensive income, net of tax 694 519 1,213
Balance as of January 31, 2024 $ 8,925 $ (100) $ 8,825
Other comprehensive loss
(14,012) (272) (14,284)
Tax benefit
569 - 569
Balance as of January 31, 2025 $ (4,518) $ (372) $ (4,890)
13 Equity Incentive Plans and Stock-Based Compensation
2021 Stock Plan
In April 2021, prior to and in connection with the IPO, we adopted the 2021 Plan, which provides for grants of incentive stock options, nonstatutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, RSAs, RSUs, PSUs, and other forms of awards. As of January 31, 2025, we have reserved 202.2 million shares of our Class A common stock to be issued under the 2021 Plan. The number of shares of our Class A common stock reserved for issuance under the 2021 Plan will automatically increase on February 1 of each year for a period of ten years, which began on February 1, 2022 and continues through February 1, 2031, in an amount equal to (1) 5% of the total number of shares of our common stock (both Class A and Class B) outstanding on the preceding January 31, or (2) a lesser number of shares determined by our board of directors no later than the February 1 increase.
Although certain stock options remain outstanding under our prior stock plans, the UiPath, Inc. 2018 Stock Plan and the UiPath, Inc. 2015 Stock Plan, no shares are available for issuance of new awards under these plans.
2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In April 2021, prior to and in connection with the IPO, we adopted the ESPP. As of January 31, 2025, the ESPP authorizes the issuance of 27.2 million shares of our Class A common stock under purchase rights granted to our employees. The number of shares of our Class A common stock reserved for issuance will automatically increase on February 1 of each year for a period of 10 years, which began on February 1, 2022 and continues through February 1, 2031, by the lesser of (1) 1% of the total number of shares of our common stock (both Class A and Class B) outstanding on the preceding January 31; and (2) 15.5 million shares, except that before the date of any such increase, our board of directors may determine that such increase will be less than the amount set forth by (1) and (2) above. The ESPP allows participants to purchase shares at the lesser of (a) 85% of the fair market value our Class A common stock as of the commencement of the offering period, and (b) 85% of the fair market value of our Class A common stock on the corresponding purchase date.
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Outstanding Equity Awards
Stock Options
Stock options granted under the 2021 Plan generally vest over three to four years and expire ten years from the date of grant. Vested stock options generally expire three months after termination of employment. Stock option activity during fiscal year 2025 was as follows:
Options Outstanding
Stock Options (in thousands) Weighted-Average
Exercise Price Weighted-Average
Remaining Contractual
Life (years)
Aggregate Intrinsic
Value (in thousands)
Balance as of January 31, 2024
11,080 $ 3.49 7.8 $ 216,010
Granted 2,738 $ 0.10
Exercised (4,002) $ 2.01
Forfeited (1,881) $ 13.91
Expired - $ -
Balance as of January 31, 2025
7,935 $ 0.60 7.5 $ 108,138
Vested and exercisable as of January 31, 2025
3,017 $ 1.39 5.8 $ 38,695
The weighted-average grant date fair value of stock options granted during fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 was $18.00, $16.84 and $12.23 per share, respectively. The intrinsic value of stock options exercised during fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 was $58.5 million, $93.2 million, and $83.6 million, respectively.
As of January 31, 2025, unrecognized compensation expense associated with unvested stock options granted and outstanding was $78.9 million, to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining period of 1.8 years.
Fair value of each stock option grant was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Expected term (years) 5.7 5.9 5.9
Expected volatility 64.2% 65.2% 60.6%
Risk-free interest rate 4.2% 3.6% 3.5%
Expected dividend yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
During fiscal year 2023, our compensation committee approved modifications to allow acceleration of the service-based vesting condition of certain employee stock options upon termination. These modifications, which were considered improbable-to-probable (Type 3) modifications under ASC 718, resulted in accelerated vesting of 0.3 million shares of Class A common stock subject to outstanding stock options and incremental compensation expense of $2.8 million during fiscal year 2023.
Early Exercised Options
Certain stock option holders have the right to exercise unvested options, subject to a repurchase right held by us at the original exercise price in the event of voluntary or involuntary termination of employment of the option holders, until the options are fully vested. During fiscal years 2025 and 2024, we did not repurchase any unvested early exercised options. During fiscal year 2023, we repurchased 0.4 million unvested early exercised options in the amount of $1.5 million.
Cash proceeds associated with early exercises are recorded within accrued expenses and other current liabilities and other liabilities, non-current in our consolidated balance sheets, depending on the future vesting dates
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of the associated options. Such accrued amounts were not material as of January 31, 2025 and 2024. Proceeds are transferred to additional paid-in capital at the time of option vesting.
Restricted Stock Units
RSUs granted under the 2021 Plan generally vest over three to four years. RSUs are generally forfeited in case of termination of employment or service before the satisfaction of service-based vesting conditions.
RSU activity during fiscal year 2025 was as follows:
RSUs (in thousands) Weighted-Average Grant
Date Fair Value Per Share
Unvested as of January 31, 2024
31,272 $ 19.89
Granted 17,704 $ 17.50
Vested (15,359) $ 20.90
Forfeited (11,168) $ 18.89
Unvested as of January 31, 2025
22,449 $ 17.81
The intrinsic value of RSUs released during fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023 was $234.6 million, $329.6 million, and $228.8 million, respectively.
As of January 31, 2025, unrecognized compensation expense associated with unvested RSUs was approximately $371.2 million, to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining period of 2.0 years.
During fiscal year 2023, our compensation committee approved modifications to allow accelerated vesting of approximately 0.5 million RSUs upon employee terminations. The modifications, which were considered improbable-to-probable (Type 3) modifications under ASC 718, resulted in a net reduction of $7.4 million in the fair value of the modified awards due to the decrease in our stock price between the grant and modification dates.
Performance Stock Units
During fiscal year 2024, we granted approximately 0.1 million PSUs at a grant date fair value of $18.08 per share. The PSUs were subject to performance conditions related to the achievement of certain individual and company targets for fiscal year 2024, which were not met. As a result, the PSUs were cancelled and no expense was recognized.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan Awards
The fair value of ESPP awards was estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Expected term (years) 0.5 0.5 0.5
Expected volatility 63.0% 67.4% 69.0%
Risk-free interest rate 5.15% 5.02% 1.86%
Expected dividend yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
During fiscal year 2025, 1.6 million shares were purchased under the ESPP at a weighted average purchase price of $10.13 per share.
As of January 31, 2025, unrecognized compensation expense related to the ESPP was approximately $2.4 million, to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining period of 0.4 years.
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Stock-Based Compensation Associated with Business Acquisition
At the closing of the acquisition of Re:infer on July 29, 2022, we issued 0.4 million shares of Class A common stock (outside of the 2021 Plan) to be released to certain employee sellers in equal installments on the first, second, and third anniversaries of the closing date, subject to employment-related clawback provisions. As of January 31, 2025, total unrecognized compensation expense related to these shares was $1.3 million, which is to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining period of 0.5 years.
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
Stock-based compensation expense is classified in the consolidated statements of operations as follows (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Cost of subscription services revenue $ 19,401 $ 14,750 $ 11,894
Cost of professional services and other revenue 11,386 10,958 11,855
Sales and marketing 134,646 144,863 154,922
Research and development 132,757 117,965 102,546
General and administrative 59,961 83,419 88,623
Total $ 358,151 $ 371,955 $ 369,840
14 Income Taxes
The U.S. and foreign components of loss before income taxes are as follows for the periods presented (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
U.S. $ (136,507) $ (168,587) $ (273,467)
Foreign 58,407 92,772 (44,094)
Loss before income taxes $ (78,100) $ (75,815) $ (317,561)
The components of the provision for income taxes are as follows for the periods presented (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Current expense (benefit)
Federal $ - $ (106) $ 213
State 586 (166) 493
Foreign 14,802 13,786 9,224
Total current expense 15,388 13,514 9,930
Deferred expense (benefit)
Federal 593 - -
State - - -
Foreign (20,387) 554 861
Total deferred (benefit) expense
$ (19,794) $ 554 $ 861
Total (benefit from) provision for income taxes
$ (4,406) $ 14,068 $ 10,791
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The following is a reconciliation of the statutory federal income tax rate to our effective tax rate for the periods presented:
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Federal statutory income tax rate 21.0 % 21.0 % 21.0 %
Foreign taxes (11.6) (2.0) (2.2)
Non-deductible expenses (9.5) (17.9) (2.1)
Stock-based compensation (25.0) (4.6) (10.8)
Valuation allowance 62.2 (5.7) (12.3)
Research and development credits 14.7 18.9 3.3
Cross border tax law (44.6) (27.4) -
Other, net (1.6) (0.9) (0.3)
Effective income tax rate 5.6 % (18.6) % (3.4) %
Significant components of DTAs and DTLs are as follows as of the periods presented (in thousands):
As of January 31,
2025 2024
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards $ 317,489 $ 344,067
Accruals and reserves 12,643 15,823
Stock-based compensation 6,512 11,888
Deferred revenue 29,376 25,942
Research and development 90,110 103,263
Depreciation and amortization 1,459 587
Lease liabilities 8,255 11,563
Other 6,428 5,602
Total deferred tax assets, gross 472,272 518,735
Less: valuation allowance (406,251) (470,040)
Total deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance 66,021 48,695
Deferred tax liabilities:
Intangible assets (1,431) (2,409)
Foreign exchange (34) (37)
Right-of-use assets
(5,728) (8,957)
Commissions (30,871) (32,747)
Other (3,791) -
Total deferred tax liabilities (41,855) (44,150)
Net deferred tax assets $ 24,166 $ 4,545
Net deferred tax assets $ 27,963 $ 4,678
Net deferred tax liabilities (included in other liabilities, non-current) (3,797) (133)
Net deferred tax assets $ 24,166 $ 4,545
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below details our DTA valuation allowances and the changes therein for the periods presented (in thousands):
Beginning
Balance Additions During the Period Reductions During the Period Ending
Balance
Year ended January 31, 2025
$ 470,040 $ 17,314 $ (81,103) $ 406,251
Year ended January 31, 2024
$ 476,589 $ 5,474 $ (12,023) $ 470,040
For fiscal year 2025, we recorded a net decrease in valuation allowance of $63.8 million, which consists of a valuation allowance release of $24.7 million related to our U.K. entity, based on our reassessment of the amount of the U.K. DTAs that are more likely than not to be realized, and a net decrease of $39.1 million related to a decrease in net DTAs associated with our U.S., Romania, and U.K. entities. For fiscal year 2024, we recorded a net decrease in valuation allowance of $6.5 million, driven by a decrease in Romania and U.K. net DTAs.
The realization of tax benefits of net DTAs is dependent upon future levels of taxable income of an appropriate character in the periods the items are expected to be deductible or taxable. As of January 31, 2025, based on the available positive and negative evidence, including the amount of taxable income in the U.K. in recent years and our expectations of future profits in the U.K., we now believe it is more likely than not that the U.K. DTA is realizable. Therefore, during fiscal year 2025, we released the $24.7 million valuation allowance associated with the U.K. DTA. We continue to maintain full valuation allowances against our U.S. and Romania DTAs as of January 31, 2025 because we believe based on our current evaluations that it is more likely than not that these DTAs will not be realized. We intend to maintain each of these full valuation allowances until sufficient positive evidence exists to support a reversal of, or decrease in, each of the respective valuation allowances.
However, we may release our U.S. or Romania valuation allowances in future periods if objective negative evidence of cumulative losses is no longer present and positive evidence, such as projection of future growth, supports the realization of such DTAs. Release of all or a portion of these valuation allowances would result in a decrease in the provision for income taxes in the period of the release.
As of January 31, 2025, we had U.S. federal NOLs of $645.8 million available to offset future taxable income, all of which can be carried forward indefinitely. As of January 31, 2024 we had U.S. federal NOLs of $827.4 million, all of which could be carried forward indefinitely.
As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, we had state NOLs of $834.6 million and $824.7 million, respectively, which begin expiring in 2026.
As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, we had Romania NOLs of $658.2 million and $549.9 million, respectively, which begin expiring in 2026. As of January 31, 2025 and 2024, we had Japan NOLs of $1.8 million and $6.3 million, respectively, which begin expiring in 2027. Additionally, as of January 31, 2025 and 2024, we had U.K. NOLs of $101.7 million and $118.3 million, respectively, which may be carried forward indefinitely.
Pursuant to Section 382 of the IRC, annual use of our U.S. NOLs may be limited in the event a cumulative change in ownership of more than 50% occurs within a three-year period. We determined that two such ownership changes have occurred. The first resulted in an annual limitation, independent of net unrealized built-in gains, of $0.1 million for our NOLs as of April 24, 2017 but did not result in permanent disallowance of any NOLs. The second resulted in an annual limitation, independent of net unrealized built-in gains, of $29.0 million for our NOLs as of July 9, 2020 but did not result in permanent disallowance of any NOLs.
As of January 31, 2025, we have recorded a deferred tax liability of $3.8 million associated with the undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries that we no longer intend to indefinitely reinvest.
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below details our gross unrecognized tax benefits (excluding penalties and interest) and the changes therein for the periods presented (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024
Beginning unrecognized tax benefits
$ 504 $ 504
Additions for tax positions related to prior years
59,671 -
Ending unrecognized tax benefits
$ 60,175 $ 504
As of January 31, 2025, we had gross unrecognized tax benefits totaling $60.9 million (inclusive of penalties and interest) related to income taxes, of which $1.6 million would impact the effective tax rate if recognized. Of this amount, the total liability pertaining to uncertain tax positions was $0.9 million, excluding interest and penalties. The remainder of the unrecognized tax benefits, which primarily relate to the Romanian corporate income tax audit by ANAF and bilateral transfer pricing negotiations between the U.S. and Romania (described in further detail below), would not affect the effective tax rate because the unrecognized tax benefit is recorded as a reduction in our gross deferred assets, offset by a corresponding reduction in our valuation allowance. As of January 31, 2024, we had gross unrecognized tax benefits of $2.3 million (inclusive of penalties and interest) related to income taxes, which would impact the effective tax rate if recognized. Of this amount, the total liability pertaining to uncertain tax positions was $0.5 million, excluding interest and penalties. Our policy is to recognize interest and penalties associated with tax matters as part of the income tax provision. During fiscal year 2025, the penalties and interest recorded related to uncertain tax positions was not material.
Our tax positions are subject to income tax audits in multiple tax jurisdictions globally. Our estimate of the potential outcome of any uncertain tax position is subject to management's assessment of the relevant risks, facts, and circumstances existing at that time. We believe that we have provided adequate reserves for our income tax uncertainties in all open tax years. However, our future results may include adjustments to estimates in the period the audits are settled, which may impact our effective tax rate. Currently, our India subsidiary is appealing the corporate income tax assessment of $2.1 million for the audit period of April 2019 through March 2021. It also has an open corporate income tax audit for the period from January 2018 through January 2022. During fiscal year 2025, the Romanian ANAF completed a corporate income tax audit for the period from January 2018 through January 2022. Certain deductions have been disallowed, resulting in a proposed reduction of NOLs of approximately $66.7 million. We are appealing $64.3 million of the disallowance through litigation, $25.4 million of which we believe more likely than not will not be sustained. As a result, as of January 31, 2025, the Romania DTA and the corresponding valuation allowance has been reduced by $25.4 million.
In addition, we have engaged in two bilateral transfer pricing negotiations for our transfer pricing model, one between the U.S and Romania, and one between Japan and Romania. These negotiations are still underway, and the authorities are in the process of determining the cost sharing allocations between the respective countries, and the ultimate outcomes remain uncertain. However, after evaluating recent developments in the transfer pricing negotiation between the U.S. and Romania, in anticipation of the agreement, during fiscal year 2025, we recorded a $33.8 million decrease in the U.S. DTA and the corresponding valuation allowance, representing the unrecognized tax benefit related to the U.S.-Romania bilateral advance pricing agreement. We also recorded a $16.0 million increase in the Romania DTA and its related valuation allowance. These amounts represent our best estimate of the tax expense associated with the proposed transfer pricing arrangements and their related effects.
We file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction, various state jurisdictions, and various international jurisdictions. Tax years 2021 and forward generally remain open for examination for federal and state tax purposes. Tax years 2018 and forward generally remain open for examination for foreign tax purposes. To the extent utilized in future years’ tax returns, NOLs at January 31, 2025 and 2024 will remain subject to examination until the respective tax year is closed.
On December 20, 2021, the OECD published the Pillar Two Model Rules defining the global minimum tax, which calls for 15% global minimum tax for multinational enterprises with an annual revenue above €750.0 million. The OECD has since issued administrative guidance providing transition and safe harbor rules around the implementation of the Pillar Two global minimum tax. As of January 31, 2025, various countries, including EU, U.K., Japan, and Australia, have implemented the Pillar Two rules to varying degrees. We assessed and concluded that
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
the Pillar Two Model Rules do not have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025. We will continue to monitor developments and evaluate potential impact on future periods.
15 Net Loss Per Share
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share for the periods presented (in thousands except per share amounts):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A Class B
Numerator:
Net loss $ (62,842) $ (10,852) $ (76,739) $ (13,144) $ (278,950) $ (49,402)
Denominator:
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share, basic and diluted
477,480 82,453 481,402 82,453 465,569 82,453
Net loss per share, basic and diluted
$ (0.13) $ (0.13) $ (0.16) $ (0.16) $ (0.60) $ (0.60)
Anti-dilutive common stock equivalents excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share were as follows (in thousands):
Year Ended January 31,
2025 2024 2023
Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A Class B
Unvested RSUs 30,239 - 36,878 - 31,427 -
Outstanding stock options 10,171 - 13,247 - 13,967 -
Shares subject to repurchase from RSAs and early exercised stock options 12 - 52 - 284 -
Shares issuable under ESPP 783 - 705 - 828 -
Returnable shares issued in connection with business acquisition 204 - 349 - 219 -
Total 41,409 - 51,231 - 46,725 -
16 Related Party Transactions
Beginning in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, we have at times made use of an aircraft which is owned by Daniel Dines, our co-founder and CEO, through a special purpose LLC and which is operated by a third-party aircraft management company. Mr. Dines, through this special purpose LLC, obtained financing for the aircraft and bears all associated operating, personnel, and maintenance costs for the aircraft. We determined at the inception of this arrangement that the LLC is a VIE of which we are not the primary beneficiary; accordingly, we do not consolidate it in our consolidated financial statements.
We did not incur any expense related to the use of the aircraft in fiscal year 2025 or 2024. In fiscal year 2023, we incurred expenses of $1.9 million in connection with our business use of the aircraft.
UiPath, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
17 Subsequent Events
On March 7, 2025, we acquired all outstanding equity of Peak AI Limited ("Peak"), a U.K.-based software company, for approximately $65 million, consisting of a combination of up-front and contingent cash payments and stock-based compensation. Peak's AI platform provides pricing and inventory intelligence to customers in manufacturing and retail

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. In addition, they are designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Pursuant to in Rules 13(a)-13(e) and 15(d)-15(e) under the Exchange Act, our management, under the supervision and with the participation of our CEO and CFO, performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on such evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level as of January 31, 2025.
Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishment and maintenance of adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our CEO and CFO, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financing reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Under the supervision and with the participation of our CEO and CFO, and under the oversight of our board of directors, our management performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, based on the criteria set forth in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on such evaluation, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of January 31, 2025.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2025 has been audited by KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in its report which is included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
During the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2025 no change in internal control over financial reporting was identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and Rule 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures
Our management, including our CEO and CFO, believes that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and are effective at a reasonable assurance level. However, any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can only provide reasonable, not absolute, assurance that its objectives will be met. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting, including resource constraints, errors in judgment, and the possibility that controls and procedures will be circumvented by collusion, by management override, or by mistake. Additionally, the design of any control system is based in part on management assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that the system will succeed in achieving its objectives under all potential future scenarios. As a result of these limitations, our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting will prevent all potential errors or fraud or detect all potential misstatements due to error or fraud.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information
During the three months ended January 31, 2025, our directors and officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) adopted or terminated the contracts, instructions, or written plans for the purchase or sale of our securities as follows:
•On December 20, 2024, Ice Vulcan Holding Limited, an entity controlled by Daniel Dines, our CEO, founder, and Chairman, adopted a trading plan intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act to sell up to 5,000,000 shares of our Class A common stock, through October 16, 2025, subject to limit prices.
•On January 8, 2025, Ashim Gupta, our CFO and COO, and a family trust, adopted a trading plan intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act to sell up to 587,503 shares of our Class A common stock, including up to 230,129 shares of our Class A common stock subject to RSUs previously granted to Mr. Gupta that will vest and be released to Mr. Gupta on or prior to July 1, 2025, through July 31, 2025, subject to limit prices. The actual number of shares underlying 230,129 RSUs that will be released to Mr. Gupta and may be sold under the Rule 10b5-1 trading plan will be net of the number of shares withheld to satisfy tax withholding obligations arising from the vesting of such shares and is not determinable at this time.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the definitive Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the SEC no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended January 31, 2025.
We have adopted a Code of Conduct that applies to all employees, including executive officers, and to directors. The Code of Conduct is available on our website at uipath.com (https://ir.uipath.com/governance/governance-documents). If we ever were to amend or waive any provision of our Code of Conduct that applies to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or any person performing similar functions, or to any of our directors or other executive officers, we intend to satisfy our disclosure obligations, if any, with respect to any such waiver or amendment by posting such information on our website set forth above rather than by filing a Current Report on Form 8-K.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the definitive Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the SEC no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended January 31, 2025.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the definitive Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the SEC no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended January 31, 2025.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, and Director Independence
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the definitive Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the SEC no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended January 31, 2025.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the definitive Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the SEC no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended January 31, 2025.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a) The following documents are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:
(1) Consolidated Financial Statements
The consolidated financial statements are filed as a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K under Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
(2) Financial Statement Schedules
The financial statement schedules are omitted because they are either not applicable or because the information required is presented in the financial statements and notes thereto under Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
(3) Exhibit Index
The exhibits listed below are filed, furnished, or incorporated by reference as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Exhibit
Number Description
Form File No. Exhibit Filing Date Filed Herewith
3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of UiPath, Inc.
8-K 001-40348 3.1 04/28/2021
3.2 Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of UiPath, Inc.
8-K 001-40348 3.2 03/10/2023
3.3 Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of UiPath, Inc., marked to show amendments effective as of March 7, 2023
10-K 001-40348 3.3 03/24/2023
4.1 Form of Class A Common Stock Certificate
S-1/A 333-254738 4.1 04/19/2021
4.2 Description of Securities
10-K 001-40348 4.2 04/04/2022
10.1 Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement, dated February 1, 2021
S-1 333-254738 10.1 03/26/2021
10.2† UiPath, Inc. 2015 Stock Plan
S-1 333-254738 10.2 03/26/2021
10.3† Forms of Stock Option Grant Notices and Agreements under the UiPath, Inc. 2015 Stock Plan
S-1 333-254738 10.3 03/26/2021
10.4† UiPath, Inc. 2018 Stock Plan
S-1 333-254738 10.4 03/26/2021
10.5† Forms of Stock Option Grant Notices and Agreements under the UiPath, Inc. 2018 Stock Plan
S-1 333-254738 10.5 03/26/2021
10.6† Form of Restricted Stock Award Grant Notice under the UiPath, Inc. 2018 Stock Plan
S-1 333-254738 10.6 03/26/2021
10.7† Forms of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notices and Agreements under the UiPath, Inc. 2018 Stock Plan
S-1 333-254738 10.7 03/26/2021
10.8† UiPath, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan
S-1/A 333-254738 10.8 04/12/2021
10.9† Forms of Grant Notice and Stock Option Agreement under the UiPath, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan
S-1/A 333-254738 10.9 04/12/2021
10.10† Forms of Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Award Agreement under the UiPath, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan
S-1/A 333-254738 10.10 04/12/2021
10.11† UiPath, Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
S-1/A 333-254738 10.11 04/12/2021
10.12† Form of Indemnity Agreement entered into by and between UiPath, Inc. and each director and executive officer
S-1 333-254738 10.12 03/26/2021
10.13† Offer Letter, by and between UiPath, Inc. and Daniel Dines, dated February 18, 2021
S-1 333-254738 10.13 03/26/2021
10.14† Offer Letter, by and between UiPath, Inc. and Ashim Gupta, dated September 5, 2024
X
10.15† Offer Letter, by and between UiPath, Inc. and Brad Brubaker, dated February 16, 2021
S-1 333-254738 10.15 03/26/2021
10.16
Senior Secured Credit Facilities Credit Agreement, by and among UiPath, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank, HSBC Ventures USA Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Mizuho Bank, LTD., dated October 30, 2020
S-1 333-254738 10.19 03/26/2021
10.17†
Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy
X
10.18++
Lease Agreement dated as of September 24, 2021 between UiPath, Inc. and One Vanderbilt Owner LLC
10-Q 001-40348 10.1 12/10/2021
UiPath, Inc. Insider Trading Policy
X
21.1 List of Subsidiaries of UiPath, Inc.
X
23.1 Consent of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
X
24.1 Power of attorney (incorporated by reference to the signature page of this Annual Report on Form 10-K)
X
31.1 Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
X
31.2 Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
X
32.1^ Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
X
32.2^ Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
X
UiPath, Inc. Incentive Compensation Recoupment Policy
10-K
001-40348 97
03/27/2024
101.SCH XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
† Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
++ Pursuant to Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, certain portions of this exhibit have been redacted.
^ The certifications furnished in Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 hereto are deemed to accompany this Annual Report on Form 10-K and are not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, nor shall they be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.