EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1785424
Filing Year: 2025
Filename: 1785424_10-K_2025_0001628280-25-015331.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business
Company Overview
We are a technology driven lease-to-own ("LTO") platform that integrates with omnichannel retailers and
e-commerce platforms to power the purchasing of everyday durable goods by underserved U.S. nonprime customers. We were founded and incorporated in Delaware in 2012. We primarily operate within the virtual LTO market, which is estimated to have a total addressable market opportunity of $50 - $60 billion. We operate exclusively in the U.S. and our platform is available for use by consumers in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Based on our 2024 gross originations, we believe that we currently capture less than 1% market share.
A lease-to-own transaction is a flexible alternative for consumers to obtain and enjoy merchandise with no long-term obligation. Goods are leased in exchange for a weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly or monthly payment, and customers have the option to purchase or return the items at any point during the duration of the lease-purchase agreement. These goods are available immediately to our customers upon the consummation of their lease-purchase agreement with Katapult. Our LTO platform offers consumers, particularly those with nonprime credit, an alternative path to ownership compared with traditional financing, which may not be accessible to them due to credit or other financial constraints. Many durable goods are eligible for lease-to-own, including home furnishings, automotive goods, computers, electronics, and appliances, among others.
We are mission-driven and focused on providing underserved, nonprime consumers, with a simple, quick, transparent and fair pathway to acquiring the durable goods they need, when they need them. We believe that seeing the good in people is good for business, humanizing the way underserved, non-prime customers are able to acquire the durable goods they need with payment solutions based on fairness and dignity. By valuing the potential in individual consumers and treating them with the dignity they deserve, we believe we are creating a more inclusive economy that can better meet the needs of nonprime consumers.
For customers, our process is built to be simple, fast, and transparent. Our platform is based on a quick three-step application and a fully automated approval process that generates a decision in five seconds or less. Our terms are flexible and transparent and we never charge our customers late fees. Katapult’s lease-to-own platform is differentiated from traditional installment loans, credit cards, and buy now, pay later options and we believe it can meet the needs of nonprime consumers in a way that traditional options cannot. Customers benefit from no long-term obligations, the flexibility to terminate their lease at any time without penalty, and they are only responsible for any outstanding balance up to the return date. Payment plans are convenient and tailored to suit individual needs. Our flexible terms include renewal periods of varying durations, including 12- and 18-months, and we also offer special pricing for early lease-purchase options (buyouts) within 90 days. In addition, based on our commitment to fairness and our customer-centric approach, Katapult does not increase the cash price of leased items and does not charge late or non-sufficient funds fees ("NSF fees"). We believe these principles distinguish our offering from many of our competitors. We believe we provide an affordable path to leasing or purchasing the durable goods that non-prime customers need at a total cost of ownership that is lower than many competing lease-to-own products or other financing options that are available to them.
For merchants, our LTO solution provides access to a new customer base that historically has not qualified for traditional prime financing. By helping merchants reach this customer segment, we believe we deliver incremental sales to merchants and lower their customer acquisition costs. Ultimately, we believe merchants that work with us and reach this underserved customer segment see higher retail conversion and greater marketing spend efficiency.
Currently, we offer four channels by which consumers can access our platform, and these products are our primary customer acquisition channels. These options are: direct integration, waterfall integration, mobile app and text-to-checkout. Some merchants can be accessed through more than one of our four acquisition channels. A direct integration is when we integrate with a merchant's digital point of sale ("POS") system to facilitate online transactions via Application Programming Interfaces or through third-party plug-ins such as Shopify, Magento and
BigCommerce, among others. This option allows consumers to select a Katapult lease transaction as their method of payment at checkout. Our waterfall integration product allows us to partner with waterfall financing platforms. In a waterfall transaction, the potential customer completes a credit application, which then flows from the prime lender to other financing and lease-purchase options automatically. If our lease offer is the best match for the potential customer credit profile it will be presented to the consumer at the point of sale. If the consumer decides to accept our offer, they can utilize a Katapult lease to pay for their durable goods purchase at checkout. Both our direct and waterfall options involve some integration support from direct merchant partners.We refer to merchants with whom we have a contractual arrangement to provide either a direct integration or a waterfall integration as “direct merchants”.
In late 2022, we launched the Katapult mobile app, which includes a feature called Katapult PayTR ("KPay") that allows consumers to leverage our virtual credit card technology to shop with a variety of durable goods merchants featured in our app marketplace. This option does not require integration support from merchants and the consumer interaction begins and ends in the Katapult app. With the launch of this feature, customers can start and complete lease originations within our ecosystem. This functionality has allowed Katapult to create its app marketplace, where customers can go to shop with more than 250 merchants that have either a direct or waterfall integration with Katapult or that are available for checkout via KPay. We refer to merchants that are available for checkout via KPay as “KPay enabled merchants”.
Finally, we also offer an in-store POS integration option called text-to-checkout, which simplifies the in-store leasing experience for consumers while allowing Katapult to retain control of the customer journey and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
(1)The total cost a customer may pay in connection with our lease-purchase transaction depends on certain factors, including, but not limited to: (1) total cost limitations, which vary across states and generally range between 2.0 and 2.75 times, depending on the duration of the renewal periods, the cash price, referred to as the Lease Multiple, (2) the maximum length of the renewal periods (typically 12-18 months), (3) whether the early purchase option is exercised, and (4) whether the customer exercises their right to terminate the lease, without penalty if current, thereby ending additional renewal payment obligations. In general, during the first ninety (90) days, our customers have the ability to purchase the good for the cash price of the item plus 5% and any applicable fees (including initial fees, where applicable) and taxes. After ninety (90) days, but prior to reaching the maximum renewal term, the customer may exercise the purchase option at a discount on the remaining lease renewal payments (typically 55-65% of the remaining renewal payments).
(2)Customers may renew through the maximum term at which point they will have paid approximately two times the cash price to own the item. Customers have the option to terminate the lease at any time with no penalty or further obligation (other than the lease cost already incurred). Upon termination, the customer must return the durable good that had been leased, which can be returned to us or the merchant if within the merchant's return period. Lease-purchase transactions, unlike credit or a loan, are not subject to variable interest rates and do not include finance charges.
Our Strategy
Our strategy supports our mission to enable consumers to get the durable goods they need when they need them and connect retailers with a growing base of engaged and loyal consumers. To achieve this, we are focused on the following initiatives:
•Merchant Engagement: Within this initiative, we are focused on building new, and retaining existing, relationships with merchants and waterfall finance companies by continuing to enhance our innovative integrated products. We believe we have significant opportunity to grow gross origination volumes by increasing our transaction volume with merchants we currently work with and others that have yet to adopt our solution.
•Consumer Engagement: We are focused on using our app marketplace and disciplined marketing strategies to increase engagement with existing and potential customers, and grow our conversion and repeat purchase rates. Our app marketplace allows consumers to originate leases with merchants through direct or waterfall integrations on merchant websites or within the Katapult marketplace using KPay. Since we launched the app in late 2022, transactions that were completed using KPay have grown to represent 32% of our total gross originations for the year ended December 31, 2024. Approximately 54% of our 2024 gross originations started with an interaction in our mobile app, whereby the customer checked out either through Kpay or a waterfall transaction. We intend to continue to thoughtfully expand the breadth of merchants available in our marketplace as we continue to transform our Katapult app marketplace into a shopping destination. We believe this will allow us to grow gross originations even if merchants are not able to immediately integrate our LTO solution into their payment flows.
•Partnerships: We intend to enter new partnerships that deliver new customers, increase brand awareness and customer loyalty and enhance our product offering while requiring minimal technical investment. We believe we can leverage our technology to help partners monetize their customer bases and help Katapult grow gross originations and revenue.
•Unlock the power of our financial model: We are focused on maintaining fiscal discipline that enables us to invest in our growth opportunities while generating profitable growth. We do not incur costs associated with buying, storing and shipping inventory, which eliminates inventory risk. Over time as transaction volume grows, we are positioned to achieve operating leverage because our model is primarily driven by a technology platform that does not require significant increases in operating overhead to support sales growth. As we achieve revenue growth, we believe we can maintain and create operational efficiencies that will allow us to expand our operating margins, enhance profitability and grow cash and cash equivalents.
Operating Segments
We have one operating segment under which we report our total financial and operating performance.
Operations
We believe our LTO offerings are distinguished by the following core capabilities:
•Advanced underwriting. Katapult’s proprietary technology enables frictionless underwriting with minimal customer inputs (seven required fields) and real-time decision-making (five seconds or less). There are no credit checks or requirements for bank account or payroll data.
Our proprietary, end-to-end technology platform has been designed and built to handle high volumes of data from e-commerce transactions. The system is non-FICO based, relying on internally developed scoring and analytics to identify appropriate customers for our LTO offering. Our behavioral learning-based risk models are designed to effectively price risk and provide customized recommendations. The platform considers data beyond traditional credit scores, such as lease history, behavioral biometrics and mobile device information to predict repayment ability, and leverages this with real-time response data
•Market-leading customer experience and service. Our customer experience is grounded in transparency, respect and fairness. We have built a large and growing customer base of engaged and loyal customers who value the LTO product we offer and the way we treat our customers. We believe our customer-centric model fosters trust and customer retention. We offer hardship programs, flexible repayment options and fair terms to meet the needs of customers throughout the US. Our net promoter score ("NPS") and our repeat purchase rate, defined as the percentage of in-quarter originations from existing customers were 58 and 61.5% respectively, as of December 31, 2024. NPS is a score that measures the likelihood of users to recommend a company’s products or services to others, and ranges from a low of negative 100 to high of positive 100, and benchmark scores can vary significantly by industry. A score greater than zero represents a company having more promoters than detractors.
•Proprietary technology that powers our scalable platform. Technology is at the core of everything we do - from simplifying the customer experience, to driving repeat transactions, to launching innovative new products that benefit our merchants and customers, to managing risk. We are an e-commerce solution for customers and we believe we are the only non-prime customer lease-purchase platform focused on e-commerce. We offer a fully-digital, seamless and differentiated platform driven by proprietary technology and risk models that have been developed over several years. We utilize modern, cutting-edge technology including sophisticated behavioral machine learning models and cloud-based computing designed to offer a seamless digital customer experience on the front end as well as continually evolving real-time decision engine on the back end.
Our proprietary technology drives the Katapult app and Katapult Pay by giving us the unique ability to quickly and reliably differentiate between leasable and non-leasable items in a customer's cart without a direct or waterfall integration with a merchant.
Our technology also creates many benefits for our merchant-partners. The process to integrate our direct and waterfall options is quick and easy and can be completed within as few as two days. In addition, we provide merchants with insightful analytics that help them understand payment activities and performance associated with non-prime applications. The platform also offers other key insights into customers’ shopping habits to help merchants optimize customer conversion and customer acquisition costs.
Our technology platform supports our advanced underwriting as well as our integration capabilities, decisioning, payment collection and other Katapult systems that allow us to achieve operational efficiencies and that we believe will drive economies of scale as we continue to grow.
•Marketing focused on enhancing the lifetime value of our customer base. As we continue to focus on growing our customer base, we have begun to strategically invest in marketing campaigns and initiatives. Currently, we promote our product primarily through digital marketing channels. Our efforts are focused on driving more traffic to the Katapult app, which we believe we can convert to new lease transactions. Our campaign content focuses on the strength of our product offering, including its ease-of-use, convenience and transparency, as well as our competitive pricing and access to a variety of durable goods sold by leading retailers. We believe there is a large untapped consumer base that could benefit from our LTO offering but are unfamiliar with our brand. Based on this we expect to continue scaling our marketing strategy while monitoring the return-on-investment (ROI) of our spending. We will do this by testing and learning from marketing campaigns before scaling our investment.
Our largest merchant partner is Wayfair, Inc. ("Wayfair"). We have an agreement with Wayfair Inc., dated November 24, 2020, (the "Wayfair Agreement") whereby we provide Wayfair customers with lease-purchase options for certain Wayfair products directly on Wayfair’s customer website. Wayfair(1) represented 36% and 49% of our gross originations for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively through the Wayfair Agreement. The Wayfair Agreement continues for successive two-year terms and may be terminated by either party at any time and for any reason provided that the terminating party provides written notice sixty days prior to the date of termination. The Wayfair Agreement does not prohibit Wayfair from offering lease-to-own options from our competitors. The Wayfair Agreement allows us to benefit from Wayfair’s broad range of product offerings and market ourselves to a larger audience of customers who may seek alternative payment options.
As of December 31, 2024, we have integrated our leasing solution with more than 250 merchants and we offer customers the ability to shop with more than 30 merchants through our Katapult marketplace powered by Katapult Pay. Our top ten merchants in the aggregate represented approximately 78% and 81% of our total gross originations for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
(1) Wayfair gross originations exclude transactions through Katapult Pay and only include transactions directly through Wayfair's waterfall platform.
Industry Overview and Competition
According to a 2024 report from the Financial Health Network ("FHN") approximately 70% of Americans consider themselves to be either financially vulnerable or financially coping. These measurements are based on responses to eight financial health survey questions. A numerical value is assigned to each of the possible responses of the eight financial health survey questions. The responses to these questions are used to calculate a FinHealth Score, which ranges from 0 to 100. Those with scores between 0 and 39 are considered “Financially Vulnerable,” consumers and those with scores ranging between 40 and 79 are defined as “Financially Coping.”
In this same FHN report, 53% report that their spending is higher than their income and only 44% report having enough savings to cover 3 or more months of living expenses. In addition, only 29% report having a prime credit score. The lease-to-own industry provides this large base of underserved consumers with an opportunity to economically acquire durable goods that they may not have otherwise had the resources to obtain.
We compete with national, regional and local operators of LTO stores, virtual LTO companies, traditional and e-commerce retailers (including many that offer layaway programs and/or installment payment options), traditional and online sellers of new and used merchandise, and various types of consumer finance companies that may enable consumers to shop at traditional or online retailers, as well as with rental stores that do not offer their consumers a purchase option.
Seasonality
We experience seasonal fluctuations in our revenue as a result of consumer spending patterns. Historically, our revenue is moderately seasonal and strongest during the first quarter. This is primarily due to historically higher gross originations during the fourth quarter holiday season. Our first quarter revenue is also impacted by the receipt of our customers in the first quarter of federal and state income tax refunds which historically has led to our customers more frequently exercising the early purchase option on their existing lease agreements or purchasing durable goods during the first quarter of the year. Adverse events that occur during these months could have a disproportionate effect on our financial results for the year.
Employees and Human Capital Resources
At Katapult, our people are our most valuable resource and critical to our success. We believe in an open and collaborative work environment which drives employee accountability and ownership in their performance and development. Our executive management team creates a culture and environment focused on high employee engagement and performance. The Compensation Committee of our board of directors is engaged in the oversight of our employees and compensation practices, and receives regular updates from management on progress and developments, and our executive management team and the Compensation Committee receive regular reports on progress against our people goals.
As of December 31, 2024, we had 94 employees located in the United States. We also engage consultants and contractors to supplement our permanent workforce. We have never experienced any work stoppages and maintain good working relationships with our employees. None of our employees are subject to a collective bargaining agreement or are represented by a labor union at this time.
Our proprietary technology platform is essential to our core operations. In order to build these proprietary, innovative and secure products, we place a significant emphasis on identifying and employing talented and driven technology-focused professionals and engineers.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits to attract and retain top talent. Our total compensation packages generally include market-competitive salary, bonus, sales commissions and equity awards. As a remote-first company, we are able to attract highly skilled and experienced employees from a broad geographic landscape and offer market competitive compensation packages. At least annually, we review our compensation practices internally and with the assistance of a third-party compensation consultant.
Regulatory
Government Regulation
Our operations are governed by the requirements of numerous federal and state laws, and by the agencies that interpret and enforce those laws. This summary is not intended to be a complete summary of the laws referred to below or of all the laws regulating our operations.
There are currently 46 states, plus the District of Columbia, that have enacted lease-purchase statutes which set forth core requirements for our personal property lease-purchase transactions. These laws dictate our obligations with regard to consumer disclosures, pricing maximums, fees, and marketing, among other requirements. These laws may change, or the agencies charged with overseeing these laws may issue future guidance on the interpretation of these laws that is new, unforeseen, or otherwise conflicts with our current practices. Violations of these state lease-purchase laws can result in material penalties. We are unable to predict the nature or effect on our operations or earnings of unknown future legislation, regulations, agency interpretations and guidance, or judicial or administrative decisions concerning the laws governing our operations, and there can be no assurance that future laws, regulations, interpretations or decisions will not have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and earnings.
We are also required to be licensed in certain states in order to engage in lease-purchase transactions. While we hold required licenses, such licensing requirements could unexpectedly change which in turn could impact our results of operations, financial condition and earnings.
Regarding federal law, at the present time, no federal law specifically regulates the core lease-purchase transaction offered by us. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) does not regulate leases with terms of less than 90 days. Katapult’s lease-purchase transactions carry terms of, at most, month-to-month, and therefore are less than 90 days, such that the transactions do not fall within the transactions specifically covered by Dodd-Frank. These issues notwithstanding, various aspects of our business are governed by federal laws and regulations. For example, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) oversees business practices that are unfair, deceptive or fraudulent to consumers, including within the lease-purchase industry. As such, we seek to ensure that we comply with FTC rules and regulations relating to our operations and we pursue compliance management practices to do so; however, any violation of such rules or regulations could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations, financial condition and earnings.
Also, state and federal regulatory authorities, including state attorneys general offices, state agencies such as the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and the FTC, are increasingly focused on the consumer financial marketplace and personal property leasing, generally. At any time, these agencies could initiate new investigations or otherwise take action that could result in significant adverse changes in the regulatory landscape for the lease-purchase industry in which we operate. We cannot predict whether any state attorneys general, state consumer protection agency, or federal regulatory agency will direct investigations or regulatory initiatives towards us or our industry in the future, or what the impact of any such future action(s) might be.
In the ordinary course of our business, we collect, store, transfer and otherwise process personal data, including sensitive personal data. Accordingly, we are, or may become, subject to numerous data privacy and security obligations, including federal, state, local, and foreign laws, regulations, rules, guidance and standards related to data privacy and security. Such obligations may include, without limitation, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively “CCPA”).
The CCPA is an example of the increasingly stringent and evolving regulatory frameworks related to personal data processing that may increase our compliance obligations and exposure for any noncompliance. The CCPA imposes obligations on covered businesses to provide certain disclosures related to a business’s collection, use and disclosure of personal data and gives California residents the right to, among other things, request disclosure of personal data collected about them and whether that data has been sold to others, request deletion of personal data (subject to certain exceptions), opt out of the sale of their personal data and not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. The CCPA provides for civil penalties and a private right of action for data breaches which may include an award of statutory damages. A number of other U.S. states also have enacted, or are considering enacting, comprehensive data privacy laws that share similarities with the CCPA. Certain state laws and regulations may be more stringent, broader in scope, or offer greater individual rights, with respect to personal information than federal or other state laws and regulations, and such laws and regulations may differ from each other, which may complicate compliance efforts and increase compliance costs. There are also discussions in Congress, from time-to-time, of new federal data privacy and security laws to which we may become subject if they are enacted. In addition, laws in all 50 U.S. states generally require businesses to provide notice under certain circumstances to consumers whose personal data has been disclosed as a result of a data breach. These laws are not consistent, and compliance in the event of a widespread data breach is difficult and may be costly. Furthermore, U.S. federal and state consumer protection laws require us to publish statements that accurately and fairly describe how we handle personal data and choices individuals may have about the way we handle their personal data.
As a company, we seek to ensure that all employees act in a legal, ethical and dignified manner and carry out the Company’s business consistent with such standards and consistent with the laws discussed above. See the section titled “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information about the laws and regulations to which we are, or may become subject and about the risks to our business associated with such laws and regulations.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property and proprietary rights are important to the success of our business. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws in the United States, as well as license agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements, and other contractual protections, to establish and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, including our proprietary technology, software, know-how, and brand. However, these laws, agreements, and procedures provide only limited protection. As of December 31, 2024, we have one non-provisional patent application filed covering our Katapult Pay technology and we own three registered trademarks.
Although we take steps to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, we cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will be sufficient or effective to prevent the unauthorized access, use, copying, reverse engineering, infringement, misappropriation or other violation of our intellectual property and proprietary technology and information, including by third parties who may use our intellectual property or proprietary technology or information to develop services that compete with ours.
See the section titled “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a more comprehensive description of risks related to our intellectual property and proprietary rights.
Corporate Information
Our principal executive offices are located at Katapult Holdings, Inc., 5360 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX 75024, and Katapult’s telephone number is (833) 528-2785. Our website address is www.katapult.com. Information contained on or accessible through our website is not a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the inclusion of our website address in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is an inactive textual reference only.
Available Information
We make available on our website, free of charge, our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). We also make available on our website our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, our corporate governance principles, and the charters for the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of our board of directors. The SEC maintains an internet site, www.sec.gov, containing reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers, including us, that file electronically with the SEC.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Our business is subject to a number of risks of which you should be aware before making a decision to invest in our securities. The summarized risks described below are not the only risks that we face. The following summarized risks as well as risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, earnings per share, cash flow or the trading price of our common stock. These summarized risks include, among others, the following:
Risks Related to Our Business, Strategy and Growth
•A meaningful percentage of our gross originations are concentrated with a single merchant, and any deterioration in the business of, or in our relationship with this merchant or any other key merchant relationship or partner could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects.
•If we are unable to attract additional direct merchants and retain and grow our relationships with our existing direct merchants, our results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
•Unexpected changes to consumer behavior could cause our proprietary algorithms and decisioning tools used in approving customers to no longer be indicative of our customer's ability to perform.
•Our success depends on the effective implementation and continued execution of our strategies.
•If we fail to maintain customer satisfaction and trust in our brand, our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
•If we are unable to attract new customers and retain and grow our relationships with our existing customers, or if attracting or retaining customers is not cost-efficient, our results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
•Our estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the market in which we compete achieves its forecasted growth, our business could fail to grow at similar rates, if at all.
•The success and growth of our business depends upon our ability to continuously innovate and develop new products and technologies.
Risks Related to Our Indebtedness
•We have substantial indebtedness, which may reduce our capability to withstand adverse developments or business conditions.
•We may not be able to refinance our indebtedness on favorable terms, or at all. Our inability to refinance our indebtedness would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.
•The Credit Agreement governing the total aggregate indebtedness under the Term Loan and Credit Facility includes restrictive covenants and financial maintenance covenants, which could restrict our operations or ability to pursue growth strategies or initiatives, including potential mergers and acquisitions opportunities. Failure to comply with these covenants could result in an acceleration of repayment of the indebtedness under the Credit Agreement, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•A Change of Control as defined by our Credit Agreement could accelerate our obligation to pay our outstanding indebtedness, and we may not have sufficient liquid assets at that time to repay these amounts.
Financial Risks Related to Our Business
•We have a history of operating losses and may not be profitable in the future.
•We rely on card issuers and payment processors. If we fail to comply with the applicable requirements of Visa, Mastercard or other payment processors, those payment processors could seek to fine us, suspend us or terminate our registrations which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Risks Related to Our Technology and Our Platform
•Real or perceived software errors, failures, bugs, defects, or outages could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
•Our results depend on continued integration and support of our platforms, including our direct and/or waterfall integration technologies, by our merchant partners.
•We rely on KPay enabled merchants to allow access to their stores through our mobile app and our desktop and mobile websites.
•We are subject to stringent and changing laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations related to data privacy and security, which could increase the cost of doing business, compliance risks and potential liability and otherwise negatively affect our operating results and business regulations.
•Any significant disruption in, or errors in, service on our platform or relating to vendors, including events beyond our control, could prevent us from processing transactions on our platform or posting payments and have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
•Data security breaches or other security incidents with respect to our information technology systems, networks or data, or those of third parties upon which we rely, could result in adverse consequences, including but not limited to regulatory investigations, litigation, fines and penalties, disruption of our business operations, reputational harm, loss of revenue or profits, and loss of customers.
•Failure to adequately obtain, maintain, protect, defend and enforce our intellectual property and proprietary rights could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
Legal and Compliance Risks
•We are subject to sales, income and other taxes, which can be difficult and complex to calculate due to the nature of our businesses. A failure to correctly calculate and pay such taxes, or an unfavorable outcome on uncertain tax positions we may record from time to time, may result in substantial tax liabilities and a material adverse effect on several aspects of our performance.
•If we fail to establish and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, our ability to accurately and timely report our financial results could be adversely affected.
•We have previously identified control deficiencies that in the aggregate constituted material weaknesses.
•We face risks related to the restatement of our previously issued consolidated financial statements and financial information as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as well as for the interim financial periods for 2022 and 2023, which may adversely impact our business.
•Delayed filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K has made us currently ineligible to use certain registration statements to register the offer and sale of securities, which could adversely affect our ability to raise future capital or complete acquisitions.
•We have previously fallen out of compliance with Nasdaq’s requirements for continued listing, and any future failure to comply with Nasdaq’s listing requirements could result in our common stock being delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market, which could have a material adverse effect on us and our stockholders.
•Changes to tax laws or exposure to additional tax liabilities may have a negative impact on our operating results.
•We are subject to legal proceedings from time to time which seek material damages or otherwise may have a material adverse effect on our business.
Operational Risks Related to Our Business
•Uncertain market and economic conditions have had, and may in the future have, serious adverse consequences on our business, financial condition and share price.
•Failure to effectively manage our costs could have a material adverse effect on our profitability.
•Misconduct and errors by our employees, vendors, and service providers could harm our business and reputation.
•Our business depends on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees.
A description of the risks and uncertainties associated with our business is set forth below. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including Part II, Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business. If any of the risks actually occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline.
Risks Related to Our Business, Strategy and Growth
A meaningful percentage of our gross originations are concentrated with a single merchant, and any deterioration in the business of, or in our relationship with, this merchant or any other key merchant relationship or partner could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
We depend on continued relationships with Wayfair and other key merchants. Our top merchant, Wayfair, represented approximately 36% and 49% of our gross originations (which we define as the retail price of the merchandise associated with lease-purchase agreements entered into and do not represent revenue earned) for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Gross originations from Wayfair exclude transactions through Katapult Pay and only include transactions directly through the Wayfair waterfall platform. Our top ten direct merchants, which are merchants with whom we have a direct contractual arrangement, in the aggregate represented approximately 54% and 67% of our gross originations for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The loss of any of our significant merchant partners, and in particular the loss of Wayfair, would materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects. In addition, a material modification in the merchant agreement with Wayfair or another significant merchant or changes in the prominence of our solution on a significant merchant’s website or prioritization of our solution in a significant merchant’s waterfall could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
There can be no guarantee that these direct merchant relationships will continue or, if they do continue, that these relationships will continue to be successful. There is a risk that we may lose merchants for a variety of reasons, including a failure to meet key contractual or commercial requirements, or if merchants shift to in-house solutions (including providing a service competitive to us) or competitor providers.
If our relationship with Wayfair or another key merchant deteriorates, they choose to no longer partner with us, or choose to partner with a competitor, or their business is negatively impacted by one or more factors, our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects will be materially and adversely affected.
The concentration of a significant portion of our business and transaction volume with a single merchant or a limited number of merchants exposes us disproportionately to events, circumstances, or risks affecting such single merchant, such as Wayfair, or our other key merchants. For example, supply chain issues have in the past and may in the future negatively impact the sales of many of our merchants which in turn has contributed to a decline in our gross origination volume during the applicable periods. If our key merchant partners, in particular Wayfair, are unable to acquire new customers or retain existing customers or are otherwise negatively impacted by the macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions, our results of operations, financial condition and prospects will be negatively impacted.
We also depend on continued relationships with key partners that assist in obtaining and maintaining our relationships with merchants. There is a risk that e-commerce platforms with which we partner (such as Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and Magneto) may limit or prevent Katapult from being offered as a payment option at checkout. We also face the risk that our key partners could become competitors of our business.
If we are unable to attract additional direct merchants and retain and grow our relationships with our existing direct merchants, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
Our strategy to grow gross originations partially depends on our ability to maintain and grow our relationships with current direct merchants, and to attract select new direct merchants that will stimulate consumer demand on our platform. The attractiveness of our platform to merchants depends on, among other things, our brand and reputation, our ability to sustain our value proposition to merchants for consumer acquisition, the attractiveness of our platform to merchants, the services, products and consumer decision standards offered by our competitors, and our ability to perform under, and maintain, our merchant agreements.
The success of our business is dependent on customers making payments on their leases when due and other factors affecting consumer spending and default behavior that are not under our control.
We generate substantially all of our revenue through payments on leases we provide to customers to obtain the merchandise of our merchants and we bear the risk of non-payment or late payments by our customers. As such, the success of our business is dependent on customers making payments on their leases when due. We primarily provide leases to non-prime customers who do not have sufficient cash or credit to obtain durable goods. The ability of these customers to make payments to us when due may be impacted by a variety of factors, such as loss of employment, deteriorating economic conditions and other factors including but not limited to disposable consumer income, inflation, consumer confidence in future economic conditions and political conditions, and consumer perceptions of personal well-being and security. Unfavorable changes in factors listed above could reduce demand for our products and services resulting in lower revenue and negatively impacting our business and our financial results. In addition to reducing demand for our products, these factors may unfavorably impact our customers' ability or willingness to make lease payments in a timely manner or at all, resulting in increased customer payment delinquencies and lease merchandise write-offs and decreased gross margins, which could also materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Unexpected changes to consumer behavior could cause our proprietary algorithms and decisioning tools used in approving customers to no longer be indicative of our customer's ability to perform.
We believe our proprietary lease decisioning processes to be a key to the success of our business. The decisioning processes assume behavior and attributes observed for prior customers, among other factors, are indicative of performance by our future customers. Unexpected changes in consumer behavior caused by changing economic conditions and other factors may mean that our decisioning tools may not function as intended. As a result, we may approve customers that are not able to perform, which would lead to increased customer payment delinquencies, increased lease merchandise write-offs and decreased gross margins. When there are unexpected changes to consumer behavior, our decisioning process typically requires more frequent adjustments and the application of management analysis of the interpretation and adjustment of the results produced by our decisioning tools. If there is a challenging macro environment, we may need to make more frequent adjustments to our decisioning process in the near term. If our decisioning tools are unable to accurately predict and respond to changes to consumer behaviors as a result of general economic or other factors, our ability to manage risk and avoid charge-offs may be negatively affected, which may result in insufficient reserves and materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
Our success depends on the effective implementation and continued execution of our strategies.
We are focused on our mission to provide innovative lease financing solutions to non-prime customers and to enable essential transactions at the merchant point of sale.
Growth of our business, including through the launch of new product offerings, requires us to invest in or expand our customer data and technology capabilities, engage and retain experienced management, and otherwise incur additional costs. For example, since we launched the app in late 2022, transactions that were completed using KPay
have grown to represent 32% of our total gross originations for the year ended December 31, 2024. Approximately 54% of our 2024 gross originations started with an interaction in our mobile app.
However, these product enhancements may not continue to generate the additional consumer and merchant engagement with our offerings that we expect. If these or other strategic initiatives are not successful longer-term, our competitiveness as well as our business and financial results may be materially and adversely affected. Our inability to address these concerns or otherwise to achieve targeted results associated with our initiatives could adversely affect our results of operations, or negatively impact our ability to successfully execute future strategies, which may result in an adverse impact on our business and financial results.
If we fail to maintain customer satisfaction and trust in our brand, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
We provide a lease-to-own financing option for qualified customers seeking to obtain durable goods from omnichannel and e-commerce merchants. If customers do not trust our brand or do not have a positive experience, they will not use our services. Consequently, our ability to retain customers and attract repeat business is highly dependent on our reputation among our existing customers and merchants. Any failure to maintain a consistently high level of customer service, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality customer service, would adversely affect our reputation and the number of positive customer referrals that we receive and the number of new and repeat customers. As a result, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
If we are unable to attract new customers and retain and grow our relationships with our existing customers, or if attracting or retaining customers is not cost-efficient, our results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
Our continued success depends on our ability to generate repeat use and increased gross originations from existing customers and to attract new consumers to our platform. Our ability to retain and grow our relationships with our customers depends on the willingness of customers to use our products and services, including our mobile app and Katapult Pay. The attractiveness of our Katapult App to consumers depends upon, among other things, the number and variety of our merchants and the mix of products and services available through our platform, our brand and reputation, customer experience and satisfaction, trust and perception of the value we provide, technological innovation, and the services, products and customer decisioning standards offered by our competitors. If we fail to attract new customers to our platform, products and services, or if we do not continually expand usage, repeat customers and gross originations, our results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
We operate in a highly competitive industry, and our inability to compete successfully would materially and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
We operate in a highly competitive industry. We face competition from a variety of businesses and new market entrants, including competitors with lease-to-own products for e-commerce goods and other types of digital payment platforms. We face competition from virtual lease-to-own companies, e-commerce retailers (including those that offer layaway programs, title or installment lending or buy now, pay later programs), online sellers of used merchandise, and various types of consumer finance companies that may enable our customers to shop at online retailers, as well as with online rental stores that do not offer their customers a purchase option. These competitors may have significantly greater financial and operating resources, greater name recognition and more developed products and services, which may allow them to grow faster. Greater name recognition, or better public perception of a competitor’s reputation, may help the competitor take market share. Some competitors may be willing to offer competing products on an unprofitable basis (or may have looser decisioning standards or be willing to relax their decisioning standards) in an effort to gain market share, which could compel us to match their pricing strategy or lose business. Moreover, prime lenders may loosen their underwriting standards and provide credit to non-prime consumers, which would impact our gross origination as well as the credit quality of our customers and our business and results of operations. In addition, some of our competitors may be willing to lease certain types of products that
we will not agree to lease, enter into customer leases that have services, as opposed to goods, as a significant portion of the lease value, or engage in other practices related to pricing, compliance, and other areas that we will not, in an effort to gain market share. Our business relies heavily on relationships with our merchants. Competitors undertaking these tactics could cause our merchants to cease to offer Katapult products in favor of our competitors, or to offer our product and the products of our competitors simultaneously, which could slow growth in our business and limit or reduce profitability. Merchants could also develop their own in-house product that competes with our product. Furthermore, virtual lease-to-own competitors may deploy different business models, such as direct-to-consumer strategies, that forego reliance on merchant relationships that may prove to be more successful.
Our estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the market in which we compete achieves its forecasted growth, our business could fail to grow at similar rates, if at all.
Our market opportunity estimates, including the size of the virtual lease-to-own market, and expectations about market growth are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate, including our expectation with respect to the retail environment for home furnishings and other categories offered by our top merchant partners. Even if the markets in which we compete meet our size estimates and growth expectations, our business could fail to grow for a variety of reasons, which could adversely affect our results of operations.
We rely on the accuracy of third-party data, and inaccuracies in such data could adversely impact our approval process.
We use data from third parties as part of our proprietary risk model to assess whether a customer qualifies for one of our lease-purchase options. We are reliant on these third parties to ensure that the data they provide is accurate. Inaccurate data could cause us to not approve transactions that otherwise would have been approved, or instead, approve transactions that would have otherwise been denied and may lead to a higher incidence of bad debts and could have an adverse impact on our results of operations and financial condition.
The success and growth of our business depends upon our ability to continuously innovate and develop new products and technologies.
Our solution is a technology-driven platform that relies on innovation to remain competitive. The process of developing new technologies and products is complex, and we build our own technology, using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning ("AI/ML"), cloud-based technologies, and other tools to differentiate our products and technologies. See “-We utilize AI/ML, which could expose us to liability or adversely affect our business” in “Risks Related to Our Technology and Our Platform” for more information. In addition, our dedication to incorporating technological advancements into our platform requires significant financial and personnel resources. In addition, our investment of resources to develop new products and technologies and make changes or updates to our platform may be insufficient. Our development efforts for these initiatives could divert capital and other resources from other growth initiatives important to our business. In addition, the product and technological enhancements that we introduce may not function as we intend, or may not generate the benefits that we expect. We operate in an industry experiencing rapid technological change and frequent product introductions. We may not be able to make technological improvements as quickly as demanded by our customers and merchants, which could harm our ability to attract customers and merchants. In addition, we may not be able to effectively implement new technology-driven products and services as quickly as competitors or be successful in marketing these products and services to customers and merchants. If we are unable to successfully and timely innovate and continue to deliver a superior merchant and customer experience, the demand for our products and technologies may decrease and our growth, business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects could be materially and adversely affected.
Our failure to accurately predict the demand or growth of our new products and technologies also could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects. New products and technologies are inherently risky, due to, among other things, risks associated with: the product or technology not working, or not working as expected; customer and merchant acceptance; technological outages or failures; and the failure to meet customer and merchant expectations. As a result of these risks, we could experience increased
claims, reputational damage, or other adverse effects, which could be material. The profile of potential customers using our new products and technologies also may not be as attractive as the profile of the customers that we currently serve, which may lead to higher levels of delinquencies or defaults than we have historically experienced. Additionally, we can provide no assurance that we will be able to develop, commercially market, and achieve acceptance of our new products and technologies. Failure to accurately predict demand or growth with respect to our new products and technologies could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
To the extent that we seek to grow through future acquisitions, or other strategic investments or alliances, we may not be able to do so effectively.
We may in the future seek to grow our business by exploring potential acquisitions or other strategic investments or alliances. We may not be successful in identifying businesses or opportunities that meet our acquisition or expansion criteria. In addition, even if a potential acquisition target or other strategic investment is identified, we may not be successful in completing such acquisition or integrating such new business or other investment. We may face significant competition for acquisition and other strategic investment opportunities from other well-capitalized companies, many of which have greater financial resources and greater access to debt and equity capital to secure and complete acquisitions or other strategic investments, than we do. As a result of such competition, we may be unable to acquire certain assets or businesses, or take advantage of other strategic investment opportunities that we deem attractive; the purchase price for a given strategic opportunity may be significantly elevated; or certain other terms or circumstances may be substantially more onerous.
There is no assurance that we will be able to manage our growth effectively, and any failure to do so could adversely affect our ability to generate revenue and control our expenses. Furthermore, we may be responsible for any legacy liabilities of businesses we acquire or be subject to additional liability in connection with other strategic investments. The existence or amount of these liabilities may not be known at the time of acquisition, or other strategic investment, and may have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Risks Related to Our Indebtedness
We have substantial indebtedness, which may reduce our capability to withstand adverse developments or business conditions.
We have incurred substantial indebtedness. As of December 31, 2024, the total aggregate indebtedness under the senior secured Term Loan and RLOC of Katapult SPV-1 LLC (the “Borrower”) was approximately $114.5 million of principal outstanding with Midtown Madison Management LLC, as agent for various funds of Atalaya Capital Management (the "Lender"). On March 6, 2023, in connection with the 15th amendment of our Credit Agreement, we refinanced our indebtedness with the Lender and repaid $25.0 million of principal on our outstanding term loan. On November 21, 2024, in connection with the 17th amendment of our Credit Agreement, the total facility amount increased from $75 million to $100 million. We, together with our wholly-owned subsidiary, Katapult Group, Inc., have guaranteed the obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement. Our payments on our outstanding indebtedness are significant in relation to our revenue and cash flow, which exposes us to significant risk in the event of downturns in our business (whether through competitive pressures or otherwise), our industry or the economy generally, since our cash flows would decrease but our required payments under our indebtedness would not. Economic downturns may impact our ability to comply with the covenants and restrictions in our Credit Agreement and to make payments on our indebtedness as they become due.
Our overall leverage and the terms of our Credit Agreement could also:
•make it more difficult for us to satisfy obligations;
•limit our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures or acquisitions;
•limit our ability to service our indebtedness;
•limit our ability to adapt to changing market conditions;
•restrict us from making strategic acquisitions or cause us to make non-strategic divestitures;
•require us to dedicate a significant portion of our cash flow from operations to paying the principal and interest on our indebtedness, thereby limiting our ability to reach profitability and the availability of our cash flow to fund future capital expenditures, working capital and other corporate purposes;
•limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and in our industry generally; and
•place us at a competitive disadvantage compared with competitors that have a less significant debt burden.
In addition, the Credit Agreement, secured by a pledge over all of the assets of the Borrower is guaranteed by us and our wholly-owned subsidiary, Katapult Group, Inc., which in turn is secured by a pledge over all of our assets and the assets of Katapult Group, Inc.
We may not be able to refinance our indebtedness on favorable terms, or at all. Our inability to refinance our indebtedness would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.
Our indebtedness matures on June 4, 2025. We are currently negotiating the refinancing of our indebtedness which may include extending the maturity date of the RLOC and Term Loan. Our ability to refinance indebtedness will depend in part on our operating and financial performance, which, in turn, is subject to prevailing economic conditions and to financial, business, legislative, regulatory and other factors beyond our control. In addition, prevailing interest rates or other factors at the time of refinancing could increase our interest expense. A refinancing of our indebtedness could also require us to comply with more onerous covenants and further restrict our business operations. Our inability to refinance our indebtedness or to do so upon attractive terms could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.
The Credit Agreement governing the Term Loan and Credit Facility includes restrictive covenants and financial maintenance covenants, which could restrict our operations or ability to pursue growth strategies or initiatives, including potential mergers and acquisitions opportunities. Failure to comply with these covenants could result in an acceleration of repayment of the indebtedness under the Credit Agreement, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and customary affirmative and negative covenants that restrict some of our activities. The negative covenants limit our ability to: incur additional indebtedness; pay dividends, redeem stock or make other distributions; amend our material agreements; make investments; create liens; transfer or sell the collateral for the Credit Agreement; make negative pledges; consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets; and enter into certain transactions with affiliates. Non-scheduled repayments of certain amounts under the Credit Agreement are subject to prepayment penalties, which would limit our ability to pay or refinance the Credit Agreement. Our ability to meet these covenants could be affected by events beyond our control, and we may be unable to satisfy them which would prevent us from pursuing certain growth strategies or initiatives due to this limitation. These or other limitations could decrease our operating flexibility and our ability to achieve our operating objectives. The Credit Agreement contains certain financial covenants. In particular, as of the end of each month, (1) we must maintain certain minimum Adjusted EBITDA levels and certain minimum Tangible Net Worth representing our total assets less certain capital expenses, prepaid expenses, intangible assets and total liabilities and (2) our Total Advance Rate (as defined in the Credit Agreement) may not exceed certain thresholds. We must also maintain minimum liquidity of at least $10.0 million in unrestricted cash and cash equivalents as of any date of determination. These financial covenants are restrictive and failure to comply with these covenants would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We have been in the past and may in the future be unable to comply with our financial covenants. In such event, if we are unable to negotiate with our Lender for a waiver or dispensation under the agreement, we would not be able to borrow under the Credit Agreement and our Lender would have the right to terminate the loan commitments under the Credit Agreement and accelerate repayment of all obligations under the Credit Agreement that would become due and payable immediately, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial position. If we do not have sufficient liquid assets to repay amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement, the Lender has the right to foreclose their liens against all of our assets and take possession and sell any such assets to reduce any such obligations.
A Change of Control as defined by our Credit Agreement could accelerate our obligation to pay our outstanding indebtedness, and we may not have sufficient liquid assets at that time to repay these amounts.
Under our Credit Agreement, all of the outstanding loans are required to be prepaid in full (together with accrued and unpaid interest and prepayment premium) and the revolving line of credit ("RLOC") will terminate if a Change of Control (as defined in the Credit Agreement) occurs that is not approved by the Lender. A Change of Control includes the occurrence of the following: (i) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire (such right, an “option right”), whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the equity securities of Katapult Holdings, Inc. entitled to vote for members of the board of directors (on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right), and (ii) certain changes in the composition of our board of directors occurs during a twenty-four month period which were not recommended or approved by at least a majority of directors who were directors at the beginning of such twenty-four month period.
In connection with the 15th amendment of our Credit Agreement, we repaid $25.0 million of principal on our outstanding Term Loan. As of December 31, 2024, we had $82.8 million of principal outstanding under the RLOC. In addition, we had borrowings under our Term Loan of $31.8 million (including capitalized PIK interest) as of December 31, 2024.
If any specified Change of Control occurs and the Lender accelerates these obligations, we may not have sufficient liquid assets to repay amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement.
Financial Risks Related to Our Business
We have a history of operating losses and may not be profitable in the future.
We incurred a net loss of $25.9 million and $36.7 million during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As of December 31, 2024, our accumulated deficit was approximately $148.5 million. While our operating expenses decreased for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the prior year, we may need to further increase our operating expenses in the future in order to continue growing our business, attracting customers, merchants and funding sources, and further enhancing and developing our products and platforms. As we expand our offerings to additional markets, our offerings in these markets may be less profitable than the markets in which we currently operate. These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently to offset these higher expenses. We may incur net losses in the future and may not be profitable on a quarterly or annual basis.
Our ability to timely raise capital in the future may be limited, or may be unavailable on acceptable terms, if at all.
The failure to raise capital when needed could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. Debt or equity issued to raise additional capital may reduce the value of our common stock. We cannot be certain when or if the operations of our business will generate sufficient cash to fund our ongoing operations or the growth of our business. We intend to make investments to support and grow our business and may require additional funds to respond to business challenges, including the need to develop or enhance our technology, expand our sales and marketing efforts or develop new products. Additional financing may not be available on favorable terms, if at all. If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to invest in future growth opportunities, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. If we incur additional debt, the debt holders could have rights senior to holders of our common stock and/or existing debt to make claims on our assets. The terms of any additional debt could have covenants which restrict our operations, including our ability to pay dividends on our common stock, take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, or make capital expenditures. If we issue additional equity securities, stockholders will experience dilution, and the new equity securities could have rights senior to those of our common stock including liquidation or other preferences. Because the decision to issue securities in the future offering 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, stockholders will bear the risk of future issuances of debt or equity securities reducing the value of their common stock and diluting their interest.
Our revenue and operating results may fluctuate, which could result in a decline in our profitability and make it more difficult for us to grow our business.
Our revenue and operating results have varied, and may in the future vary, from quarter to quarter and by season. Periods of decline have resulted, and could in the future result, in an overall decline in profitability and make it more difficult for us to make payments on our indebtedness and grow our business. We expect our quarterly results to fluctuate in the future due to a number of factors, including general economic conditions in the markets where we operate, and customer spending patterns, including the impact of holiday and seasonal sales and tax refunds.
Any significant disruption or errors relating to our loan providers and loan processor, could delay the processing of transactions on our platform or cause temporary fluctuations in cash use and have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Pursuant to our Credit Agreement, we are required to use a designated loan processor to validate customer purchases for funding our RLOC and, thus, in the operation of our platform. The performance and accuracy of said loan processor is essential to our operations and is critical to ensuring that loans are appropriately and timely funded. We rely on the designated loan processor to ensure their systems, internal procedures, verification processes and facilities are protected against service interruptions, power or telecommunications failures, criminal acts, and similar events. We may be harmed if there is a delay, disruption, or error in loan validation. Further, if our arrangements with the designated loan processor is terminated, or if there is a lapse in service due to errors, we could experience interruptions in the provision of our leases. We may also experience increased costs and difficulties in funding leases or finding replacement loan providers or processors on commercially reasonable terms, on a timely basis, or at all.
In addition, in the event of error or interruption, we may be required to use cash to cover for any losses or uncovered leases that might occur, albeit temporarily. This could reduce our available cash or cause reputational harm, any of which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
In December 2023, the processor for our loan provider experienced a timing error in their validation processes. We alerted them to the error, temporarily covering the approved leases with our cash and the issue was resolved in January 2024. Both our loan provider and processor have since instituted changes to correct against similar interruptions in service, but there can be no assurance that a similar error will not occur in the future.
We rely on card issuers and payment processors. If we fail to comply with the applicable requirements of Visa, Mastercard or other payment processors, those payment processors could seek to fine us, suspend us or terminate our registrations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
We rely on card issuers and payment processors, and must pay a fee for this service. From time to time, payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard may increase the interchange fees that they charge for each transaction using one of their cards. The payment processors routinely update and modify their requirements. Changes in the requirements, including changes to risk management and collateral requirements, may impact our ongoing cost of doing business and we may not, in every circumstance, be able to pass through such costs to our merchants or associated participants. Furthermore, if we do not comply with the payment processors’ requirements (e.g., their rules, bylaws, and charter documentation), the payment processors could seek to fine us, suspend us or terminate our registrations that allow us to process transactions on their networks. The termination of our registration due to failure to comply with the applicable requirements of our payment processors, or any changes in the payment processors’ rules that would impair our registration, could require us to stop utilizing payment services from our payment processors, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards and certain other tax attributes may be limited.
Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change", generally defined as a greater than 50.0% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards and other pre-change tax attributes, such as research tax credits, to offset its post-change income may be limited or potentially significantly deferred compared to such ability in the absence of an “ownership change”. The completion of the merger of FinServ and Legacy Katapult and related transactions may have triggered an “ownership change” limitation. We have not completed a formal study to determine if any “ownership changes” within the meaning of IRC Section 382 have occurred. If “ownership changes” within the meaning of Section 382 of the Code have occurred, and if we earn net taxable income, our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and other tax credits generated since inception to offset U.S. federal taxable income may be subject to limitations, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us and could require us to pay U.S. federal income taxes earlier than would be required if such limitations were not in effect. Similar rules and limitations may apply for state income tax purposes.
Risks Related to Our Technology and Our Platform
We utilize AI/ML, which could expose us to liability or adversely affect our business.
We use AI/ML in many aspects of our business. In particular, we use AI/ML to create models which provide data to assist in key aspects of our business, including fraud analysis, credit risk analysis, and product personalization. There are significant risks involved in utilizing AI/ML and no assurance can be provided that our use of such AI/ML will enhance our products or services or produce the intended results. The AI/ML models that we use are trained using various data sets. If the AI/ML models are incorrectly designed, the data we use to train them is incomplete, inadequate, or biased in some way, or we do not have sufficient rights to use the data on which our AI/ML models rely, the performance of our products, services, and business, as well as our reputation, could suffer or we could incur liability through the violation of laws and regulations, third-party intellectual property, privacy, or other rights, or contracts to which we are a party. AI/ML can present ethical issues and may subject us to new or heightened legal, regulatory, ethical, or other challenges; and inappropriate or controversial data practices by developers and end-users, or other factors adversely affecting public opinion of AI/ML, could impair the acceptance of AI/ML solutions, including those incorporated in our products and services. If the AI/ML tools that we use are deficient, inaccurate or controversial, we could incur operational inefficiencies, competitive harm, legal liability, brand or reputational harm, or other adverse impacts on our business and financial results.
In addition, regulation of AI/ML is rapidly evolving worldwide as legislators and regulators are increasingly focused on these powerful emerging technologies. The technologies underlying AI/ML and its uses are subject to a variety of
laws and regulations, including intellectual property, data privacy and security, consumer protection, competition, and equal opportunity laws, and are expected to be subject to increased regulation and new laws or new applications of existing laws and regulations. AI/ML is the subject of ongoing review by various U.S. governmental and regulatory agencies, and various U.S. states and other foreign jurisdictions are applying, or are considering applying, their platform moderation, cybersecurity, and data protection laws and regulations to AI/ML or are considering general legal frameworks for AI/ML. We may not be able to anticipate how to respond to these rapidly evolving frameworks, and we may need to expend resources to adjust our operations or offerings in certain jurisdictions if the legal frameworks are inconsistent across jurisdictions. Furthermore, because AI/ML technology itself is highly complex and rapidly developing, it is not possible to predict all of the legal, operational or technological risks that may arise relating to the use of AI/ML.
Real or perceived software errors, failures, bugs, defects, or outages could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Our platform and our internal systems rely on software that is highly technical and complex. In addition, our platform and our internal systems depend on the ability of such software to store, retrieve, manage and otherwise process immense amounts of data, including personal data. As a result, undetected errors, failures, bugs, or defects may be present in such software or occur in the future in such software, including open source software and other software we license in from third parties, especially when updates or new products or services are released.
Any real or perceived errors, failures, bugs, defects, or outages in such software could result in outages or degraded quality of service on our platform or errors in our financial reporting or charges to our customers that could adversely impact our business (including through causing us not to meet contractually required service levels), as well as negative publicity, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our products and services, and harm to our brand or weakening of our competitive position. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, to expend significant additional resources in order to correct the error, failure, bug or defect. Any real or perceived errors, failures, bugs, defects, or outages in the software we rely on could also subject us to liability claims, result in data security breaches or other security incidents, impair our ability to attract new customers, retain existing customers, or expand their use of our products and services, which would adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Our results depend on continued integration and support of our platforms, including our integration with direct merchants.
We depend on our merchant partners, which generally accept most major credit cards and other forms of payment, to present our platform as a payment option and to integrate our platform into their website or in their store, such as by featuring our platform on their websites or in their stores and at checkout. The failure by our merchants to effectively present, integrate, and support our platform, or to effectively explain lease-to-own transactions to potential customers, would have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
In addition, as a result of user interface or design choices, a direct merchant could modify how our platform is presented as a payment option, including adjustment of the priority of positioning. The presentation and positioning of our platform by a direct merchant is up to the discretion of the merchant. A direct/waterfall may choose to position a competitor ahead of us, reduce the prominence or positioning of our platform, or remove our platform as a payment option. We may not have visibility that a change has been made until after the fact. Any change in our presentation or positioning with a direct merchant could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
We rely on KPay enabled merchants to allow access to their stores through our mobile app and our desktop and mobile websites.
We depend on KPay enabled merchants to continue to allow our customers to utilize our platform, including our websites and mobile app, to access and buy goods at their stores. As a result, there can be no assurance that we will
be able to continue to offer our customers access to any particular KPay enabled merchant. The loss of our ability to offer our customers access to KPay enabled merchants would have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
We are subject to stringent and changing laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations related to data privacy and security, which could increase the cost of doing business, compliance risks and potential liability and otherwise negatively affect our operating results and business regulations.
In the ordinary course of business, we collect, receive, store, generate, use, transfer, disclose, make accessible, protect, secure, dispose of, transmit, share and otherwise process a wide variety of data and information, including personal data and sensitive personal data, proprietary and confidential business data, trade secrets, and intellectual property. For example, we process the personal data, including sensitive personal data, of customers, including Social Security numbers. We are subject to numerous data privacy and security obligations, such as various laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations that govern the processing of personal data by us or by third parties on our behalf.
In the United States, federal, state, and local governments have enacted numerous data privacy and security laws, regulations and rules including data breach notification laws, personal data privacy laws, and consumer protection laws. For example, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) imposes specific requirements relating to marketing to individuals using technology such as telephones, mobile devices, and text messages. TCPA violations can result in significant financial penalties, including penalties or criminal fines imposed by the Federal Communications Commission or fines of up to $1,500 per violation imposed through private litigation or by state authorities. Class action suits are the most common method for private enforcement. We are also subject to the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of the FTC, which regulates unfair or deceptive acts or practices, including with respect to data privacy and security. Moreover, the United States Congress has recently considered, and is currently considering, various proposals for more comprehensive data privacy and security legislation, to which we may be subject if passed.
Data privacy and security are also areas of increasing state legislative focus and we are, or may in the future become, subject to various state laws and regulations regarding data privacy and security. For example, the CCPA broadly defines personal information, gives California residents expanded privacy rights and protections, and provides for civil penalties for violations and a private right of action for certain data breaches. The CCPA is indicative of a trend towards greater state-level regulation of data privacy and security in the U.S. A number of other states have enacted, or are considering enacting, comprehensive data privacy laws that share similarities with the CCPA. In addition, laws in all 50 U.S. states generally require businesses to provide notice under certain circumstances to customers whose personal data has been disclosed as a result of a data breach. For additional information on data privacy and security laws, regulations and rules we are, or may in the future become, subject to, see the section titled “Business-Government Regulation.”
In addition, privacy advocates and industry groups have proposed, and may propose, data privacy and security standards with which we are legally or contractually bound to comply. For example, we may also be subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI DSS”), which requires companies that process payment card data to adopt certain measures to ensure the security of cardholder information, including using and maintaining firewalls, adopting proper password protections for certain devices and software, and restricting data access. Noncompliance with PCI-DSS can result in significant penalties or liability, litigation, loss of access to major payment card systems, damage to our reputation, and revenue losses. We may also rely on vendors to process payment card data, and those vendors may be subject to PCI DSS, and our business may be negatively affected if our vendors are fined or suffer other consequences as a result of PCI DSS noncompliance.
We also make public statements about our use and disclosure of personal data through our privacy policies, information on our website and press statements. Although we endeavor to comply with our public statements and documentation, we may at times fail to do so or be alleged to have failed to do so. The publication of our privacy policies and other statements that provide promises and assurances about data privacy and security can subject us to potential government or legal action if they are found to be deceptive, unfair or misrepresentative of our actual practices. Any concerns about our data privacy and security practices, even if unfounded, could damage our reputation and adversely affect our business.
Increasingly, some aspects of our business may be reliant on our ability to have our products and services be accepted by or compatible with a third-party platform, and any inability to do so could negatively impact our business. As a result, we may be required to change the way we market our products. Any of these developments could impair our ability to reach new or existing customers or otherwise negatively affect our operations. In addition, the CCPA grants California residents the right to opt-out of a business's sharing of their personal information for targeted advertising purposes.
Our obligations related to data privacy and security are quickly changing in an increasingly stringent fashion, creating some uncertainty as to the effective future legal framework. Additionally, these obligations may be subject to differing applications and interpretations, which may be inconsistent or conflict among jurisdictions. Preparing for and complying with these obligations requires significant resources and may necessitate changes to our information technologies, systems, and practices and to those of any third parties that process personal data on our behalf. In addition, these obligations may require us to change our business model. 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.
Although we endeavor to comply with all applicable data privacy and security laws, regulations, rules, standards, and contractual obligations, we may at times fail (or be perceived to have failed) to do so. Moreover, despite our efforts, our personnel or third parties upon whom we rely 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 service provider to comply with applicable laws, regulations, rules, standards and 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 fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences. These consequences may include, but are not limited to, government enforcement actions (e.g., investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections, and similar); litigation (including class claims; damages); additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; bans on processing personal data; and orders to destroy or not use personal data.
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; 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 revision or restructuring of our operations.
Any significant disruption in, or errors in, service on our platform or relating to vendors, including events beyond our control, could prevent us from processing transactions on our platform or posting payments and have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
We use vendors, such as our cloud computing web services provider, virtual card processing companies, and third-party software providers, in the operation of our platform. The satisfactory performance, reliability, and availability of our technology and our underlying network and infrastructure are critical to our operations and reputation and the ability of our platform to attract new and retain existing merchants and customers. For example, Katapult Pay utilizes a third-party payment processor, the interruption of which could cause a decrease in the performance, reliability and availability of Katapult Pay.
In addition, via Katapult Pay, certain leases are originated by our issuing bank partner and then disbursed to merchants via single-use virtual cards facilitated through our partnership with an issuer processor. This issuer processor issues single-use virtual cards through Sutton Bank, its issuing bank partner, which allow leases facilitated through our platform to be processed over the card network. Such leases facilitated through our platform can be used at merchants where we are not integrated at checkout, allowing consumers to complete purchases with virtual cards just as they would with a standard credit or debit card. In the event that our issuer processor or the issuing bank partner become unable or unwilling to facilitate the disbursements to merchants and we are unable to reach an agreement with another third-party partner, such loans would no longer be able to be facilitated through our Katapult Pay platform.
We also rely on these vendors to protect their systems, networks and facilities against damage or service interruptions from natural disasters, power or telecommunications failures, air quality issues, environmental conditions, computer viruses, cyber-attacks or other attempts to harm these systems, data security breaches or other security incidents, criminal acts, and similar events. If our arrangement with a vendor is terminated or if there is a lapse of service or damage to its systems, networks or facilities, we could experience interruptions in our ability to operate our platform. We also may experience increased costs and difficulties in replacing that vendor and replacement services may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, on a timely basis, or at all. Any interruptions or delays in our platform availability, whether as a result of a failure to perform on the part of a vendor, any damage to one of our vendor’s systems, networks or facilities, the termination of any of our third-party vendor agreements, software bugs or failures, our or our vendor’s error, natural disasters, terrorism, other man-made problems, or data security breaches or other security incidents, whether accidental or willful, or other factors, could harm our relationships with our merchants and customers and also harm our reputation.
In addition, we source certain information from third parties. For example, our risk scoring model is based on algorithms that evaluate a number of factors and currently depend on sourcing certain information from third parties. In the event that any third-party from which we source information experiences a service disruption, whether as a result of maintenance, software bugs or failures, natural disasters, terrorism, other man-made problems, or data security breaches or other security incidents whether accidental or willful, or other factors, the ability to score and decision lease-to-own applications through our platform may be adversely impacted. Additionally, there may be errors contained in the information provided by third parties. This may result in the inability to approve otherwise qualified applicants through our platform, which may adversely impact our business by negatively impacting our reputation and reducing our transaction volume.
To the extent we use or are dependent on any particular third-party data, technology, or software, we may also be harmed if such data, technology, or software becomes non-compliant with existing laws, regulations, rules or standards, becomes subject to third-party claims of intellectual property infringement, misappropriation, or other violation, or malfunctions or functions in a way we did not anticipate. Any loss of the right to use any of this data, technology, or software could result in delays in the provisioning of our products and services until equivalent or replacement data, technology, or software is either developed by us, or, if available, is identified, obtained, and integrated, and there is no guarantee that we would be successful in developing, identifying, obtaining, or integrating equivalent or similar data, technology, or software, which could result in the loss or limiting of our products, services, or features available in our products or services.
In addition, in the event of damage or interruption, our insurance policies may not adequately compensate us for any losses that we may incur. Our disaster recovery plan has not been tested under actual disaster conditions, and we may not have sufficient capacity to recover all data and services in the event of an outage. These factors could prevent us from processing transactions or posting payments on our platform, damage our brand and reputation, divert the attention of our employees, reduce our revenue, subject us to liability, and cause customers or merchants to abandon our platform, any of which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
If major mobile application distribution channels change their standard terms and conditions in a manner that is detrimental to us, or suspend or terminate their existing relationship with us, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.
We currently cooperate with Apple’s app store and major PRC-based Android app store to distribute the Katapult app to users. As such, the promotion, distribution and operation of our application are subject to such distribution platforms’ standard terms and policies for application developers, which are subject to the interpretation of, and frequent changes by, these distribution channels. If these third-party distribution platforms change their terms and conditions in a manner that is detrimental to us, or refuse to distribute our application, or if any other major distribution channel with which we would like to seek collaboration refuses to collaborate with us in the future on commercially favorable terms, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.
Data security breaches or other security incidents with respect to our information technology systems, networks or data, or those of third parties upon which we rely, could result in adverse consequences, 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, and loss of customers.
Cyber-attacks, malicious internet-based activity, and online and offline fraud are prevalent and continue to increase. These threats are becoming increasingly difficult to detect. These threats come from a variety of sources, including traditional computer “hackers,” threat actors, personnel (such as through theft or misuse), sophisticated nation states, and nation-state-supported actors. Some actors now engage and are expected to continue to engage in cyber-attacks, including without limitation nation-state actors for geopolitical reasons and in conjunction with military conflicts and defense activities. During times of war and other major conflicts, we and the third parties upon which we rely may be vulnerable to a heightened risk of these attacks, including cyber-attacks, that could materially disrupt our systems, networks and operations, supply chain, and ability to produce, sell and distribute our goods and services. The automated nature of our business and our reliance on digital technologies may make us an attractive target for, and potentially vulnerable to cyber-attacks. We and the third parties upon which we rely may be subject to a variety of evolving threats, including but not limited to: computer malware (including as a result of advanced persistent threat intrusions), malicious code (such as viruses and worms), social engineering (including phishing attacks), ransomware attacks, denial-of-service attacks (such as credential stuffing), personnel misconduct or error, supply-chain attacks, software bugs, server malfunctions, software or hardware failures, loss of data or other information technology assets, adware, telecommunication failures, earthquakes, fires, floods, and other similar threats.
Ransomware attacks, including by organized criminal threat actors, nation-states, and nation-state-supported actors, are becoming increasingly prevalent and severe and can lead to significant interruptions in our operations, loss of data and income, reputational harm, and diversion of funds. 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. Similarly, 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 or that they do not contain exploitable defects or bugs that could result in a breach of or disruption to our information technology systems and networks (including our products or services) or the third-party information technology systems and networks that support us and our services. We are incorporated into the supply chain of a large number of companies worldwide and, as a result, if our products are compromised, a significant number of companies 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.
Cybersecurity risks may be heightened as a result of ongoing military conflicts such as military conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the related sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries or the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. Furthermore, future or past business transactions (such as acquisitions or integrations) could expose us to additional cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, as our systems and networks could be negatively affected by vulnerabilities present in acquired or integrated entities’ systems, networks and technologies.
Any of the above identified or similar threats could cause a data security breach or other security incident. A data security breach or other security incident could result in unauthorized, unlawful, or accidental acquisition, modification, destruction, loss, alteration, encryption, disclosure, transfer, use or other processing of, or access to our, our customers’, our vendors’ or our merchants’ confidential, proprietary, personal or other information. A data security breach or other security incident could disrupt our ability (and that of third parties upon whom we rely) to provide our platform, products, or services. We may expend significant resources in connection with investigating, mitigating or remediating, or modifying our business activities to protect against, actual or perceived data security breaches or other security incidents. Certain data privacy and security obligations may require us to implement and maintain specific security measures, as well as maintain industry-standard or reasonable security measures to protect our information technology systems and networks which contain confidential, proprietary, personal and other information.
While we have implemented security measures designed to protect against data security breaches and other security incidents, there can be no assurance that these measures will be effective. We may be unable in the future to detect vulnerabilities in our information technology systems and networks (including our products or services) because such threats and techniques change frequently, are often sophisticated in nature, may not be detected until after a security incident has occurred, and may see their frequency increased and effectiveness enhanced, by the use of AI/ML. Despite our efforts to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, if any, in our information technology systems and networks(including our products or services), our efforts may not be successful. Further, we may experience delays in developing and deploying remedial measures designed to address any such identified vulnerabilities.
We rely upon third-party service providers and technologies to operate critical business systems to process confidential, proprietary, personal and other information in a variety of contexts, including, without limitation, third-party providers of cloud-based infrastructure, virtual card processing, encryption and authentication technology, employee email, and other functions. We may share or receive confidential, proprietary, personal or other information with or from third parties. 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. Due to applicable laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations, we may be held responsible for data security breaches or other security incidents attributed to our third-party service providers as they relate to the information we share with them.
Any actual or perceived failure to comply with legal and regulatory requirements applicable to us, including those relating to data privacy and security, or any failure to protect the information that we collect from our customers and merchants, including personal information, from cyber-attacks, data security breaches or other security incidents, or any such actual or perceived failure by our originating bank partners, may result in, among other things, revocation of required licenses or registrations, loss of approved status, private litigation, regulatory or governmental investigations, administrative enforcement actions, sanctions, civil and criminal liability, and constraints on our ability to continue to operate.
Applicable data privacy and security laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations may require us to notify relevant stakeholders of data security breaches and other security incidents. Such disclosures are costly, and the disclosure or the failure to comply with such requirements could lead to adverse consequences. If we (or a third party upon whom we rely) experience, or are perceived to have experienced, a data security breach or other security incident, or fail to make adequate or timely disclosures to the public, regulators or law enforcement agencies following any such event, we may experience adverse consequences. These consequences may include: interruptions
to our operations (including availability of data), violation of applicable data privacy and security laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations; litigation (including class claims), damages, an obligation to notify regulators and affected individuals, the triggering of indemnification and other contractual obligations, government enforcement actions (for example, investigations, fines, penalties, audits, and inspections); additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; restrictions on processing personal and other sensitive data; negative publicity; reputational damage; loss of customers and ecosystem partners; monetary fund diversions; financial loss; and other similar harms. Additionally, our originating bank partners also operate in a highly regulated environment, and many laws and regulations that apply directly to our originating bank partners are indirectly applicable to us through our arrangements with our originating bank partners. Our contracts may not contain limitations of liability, and even where 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. 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 data 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.
While we take precautions to prevent customer identity fraud, it is possible that identity fraud may still occur or has occurred, which may adversely affect the performance of the lease-to-own transactions facilitated through our platform.
There is risk of fraudulent activity associated with our platform, customers, and third parties handling customer information. Our resources, technologies, and fraud prevention tools may be insufficient to accurately detect and prevent fraud. We bear the risk of loss for lease-to-own transactions facilitated through our platform. The level of fraud related charge-offs on the lease-to-own transactions facilitated through our platform could be adversely affected if fraudulent activity were to significantly increase.
We bear the risk of customer fraud in a transaction involving us, a customer, and a merchant, and we generally have no recourse to the merchant to collect the amount owed by the customer. Significant amounts of fraudulent cancellations or chargebacks and the potential cost of remediation could adversely affect our business or financial condition. High profile fraudulent activity or significant increases in fraudulent activity could also lead to regulatory intervention, negative publicity, and the erosion of trust from our customers and merchants, and could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, prospects, and cash flows.
Failure to adequately obtain, maintain, protect, defend and enforce our intellectual property and proprietary rights could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our business depends on intellectual property and proprietary technology and information, the protection of which is crucial to the success of our business. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws in the United States, as well as license agreements, confidentiality procedures, non-disclosure agreements, and other contractual protections, to establish and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, including our proprietary technology, software, know-how, and brand.
Although we take steps to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, we cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will be sufficient or effective to prevent the unauthorized access, use, copying, reverse engineering, infringement, misappropriation or other violation of our intellectual property and proprietary technology and information, including by third parties who may use our intellectual property or proprietary technology or information to develop services that compete with ours. We may not be able to register or enforce all of our trademarks and any of our trademarks or other intellectual property rights may be challenged by others.
Further, we license certain technology, software, data and other intellectual property from third parties that are important to our business. Our business may suffer if any current or future licenses or other grants of rights to us terminate, if the licensors (or other applicable counterparties) fail to abide by the terms of the license or other applicable agreement, if the licensors fail to enforce the licensed intellectual property against infringing third parties or if the licensed intellectual property rights are found to be invalid or unenforceable.
We have in the past, and may in the future, be accused of infringing intellectual property rights of third parties which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Third parties may claim that the technology used in the operation of our business infringes upon their intellectual property rights. For example, on September 30, 2024, FlexShopper filed a complaint against us in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division. The complaint alleges infringement of certain patents referenced in the complaint, and seeks, among other relief, injunctive relief and monetary damages (including attorneys’ fees) and we cannot be certain of the ultimate outcome of these legal proceedings. If FlexShopper prevails in this ongoing litigation, we could be enjoined or be ordered to pay significant damages, either of which would have a material and adverse impact on our business. Even if we ultimately prevail in the FlexShopper litigation or other such litigation, this type of litigation is time-consuming and costly to defend, resulting in the diversion of significant operational resources and potential changes to our business model. Our involvement in intellectual property disputes and any failure to adequately protect our intellectual property rights may cause our business, operating results and financial condition to suffer. In addition, during the course of this kind 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 common stock.
The possibility of intellectual property claims against us increases as we continue to grow. Such claims, with or without merit, may result in our expenditure of significant financial and management resources, injunctions against us or payment of damages. We may need to obtain licenses from third parties who allege that we have infringed their rights, but such licenses may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. Even if a license is available, we could be required to pay significant royalties, which would increase our operating expenses. As a result, we may be required to develop alternative non-infringing technology, which could require significant effort and expense. These risks have been amplified by the increase in third parties whose sole or primary business is to assert such claims.
The outcome of any claims, investigations and proceedings is inherently uncertain, and in any event, defending against these claims could be both costly and time-consuming and could significantly divert the efforts and resources of our management and other personnel. An adverse determination in any such litigation or proceedings could cause us to pay damages, as well as legal and other costs, limit our ability to conduct business or require us to change the manner in which we operate.
Legal and Compliance Risks
Our business is subject to the requirements of various federal, state and local laws and regulations, which can require significant compliance costs and expose us to government investigations, significant additional costs, fines or other monetary penalties or settlements, and compliance-related burdens.
Our business is subject to extensive federal, state and local laws and regulations and an increased risk of regulatory actions as a result of the highly regulated nature of our industry and the focus of state and federal enforcement agencies on the lease-to-own industry in particular. Any adverse change in applicable laws or regulations, the passage of unfavorable new laws or regulations, or the manner in which any applicable laws and regulations are interpreted or enforced could dictate changes to our business practices that may be materially adverse to the Company. Further, our transactions are subject to various federal and state laws and regulations which may result in significant compliance costs as well as expose us to litigation. In particular, our rental-purchase transactions and the customer-facing operations related thereto, such as collections and marketing, are subject to various other federal, state and/or local consumer protection laws. These laws, as well as the rental-purchase statutes under which we operate, provide various remedies in connection with violations, including restitution and other monetary penalties and sanctions which in certain circumstances can be significant.
We cannot determine with any degree of certainty whether any new laws or regulations will be enacted, or whether government agencies will initiate new or different interpretations of existing laws. The impact of new laws and
regulations, or modifications by regulators concerning the interpretation or enforcement of existing laws, on our business is not known; however, any such changes could materially and adversely impact our business.
The laws and regulations applicable to our operations are subject to agency, administrative and/or judicial interpretation. Some of these laws and regulations have been enacted only recently and/or may not yet have been interpreted or may be interpreted infrequently. As a result of non-existent or sparse interpretations, ambiguities in these laws and regulations may create uncertainty with respect to the requirements of any applicable laws and regulations. Any ambiguity under a law or regulation to which we are subject may lead to regulatory investigations, governmental enforcement actions and private causes of action, such as class action lawsuits, with respect to our compliance with such laws or regulations.
Federal and state agencies have increased their focus on consumer financial products and services. State law enforcement agencies and regulators appear to have increased their scrutiny of entities operating within the personal property rental-purchase, or “lease-to-own”, industry. For example, in July 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a case in federal district court in Utah again Snap Finance alleging, in summary, that certain rent-to-own transactions were credit transactions falling under federal law. Further, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) has issued subpoenas and is conducting investigations into practices of entities operating within the personal property rental-purchase industry. Similarly, state attorneys general also appear to have increased their scrutiny of the industry. As of the date of this filing, the Company has not received investigatory demands from California DFPI or state attorneys general. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will not be included in future actions of the same or similar nature and, if it is, that it would not lead to an enforcement action, consent order, or substantial costs, including legal fees, fines, penalties, and remediation expenses.
For information on data privacy and security laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations we are, or may in the future become, subject to, and the associated risks to our business, see the section titled “Risk Factors-Risks Related to Our Technology and Our Platform-We are subject to stringent and changing laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations related to data privacy and security, which could increase the cost of doing business, compliance risks and potential liability and otherwise negatively affect our operating results and business.”
We are subject to sales, income and other taxes, which can be difficult and complex to calculate due to the nature of our businesses. A failure to correctly calculate and pay such taxes, or an unfavorable outcome on uncertain tax positions we may record from time to time, may result in substantial tax liabilities and a material adverse effect on several aspects of our performance.
The application of indirect taxes, such as sales tax, continues to be a complex and evolving issue, particularly with respect to the lease-to-own industry generally and our virtual lease-to-own business more specifically. Many of the fundamental statutes and regulations that impose these taxes were established before the growth of the lease-to-own industry and e-commerce and, therefore, in many cases it is not clear how existing statutes apply to our business. In addition, governments are increasingly looking for ways to increase revenues, which has resulted in discussions about tax reform and other legislative action to increase tax revenues, including through indirect taxes. This also may result in other adverse changes in or interpretations of existing sales, income and other tax regulations. Further, we may fail to allocate sales tax correctly which could result in over-reporting or under-reporting revenue and sales tax expense.
Our auditors have issued a going concern opinion, and we will not be able to achieve our objectives and will have to cease operations if we cannot refinance our indebtedness and adequately fund our operations.
We believe that we will not have sufficient cash available to pay off our existing indebtedness upon maturity. As a result, our auditors issued a going concern opinion in connection with the audit of our financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, which means that there is substantial doubt that we can continue as an ongoing business for the next 12 months. The inclusion of an explanatory paragraph in the audit opinion regarding substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern and our lack of cash resources may materially
adversely affect our share price and our ability to raise new capital or to enter into critical contractual relationships with third parties.
While we intend to refinance our indebtedness, there can be no assurance that we will be able to secure such financing or adequately fund our operations, and we may be forced to liquidate our assets or discontinue our operations. The values we receive for our assets in liquidation or dissolution could be significantly lower than the values reflected in our financial statements. Our financial statements do not include any adjustments to the amounts and classifications of assets and liabilities that might be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going concern. If we cannot continue as a going concern, our stockholders would likely lose most, if not all, of their investment in us.
If we fail to establish and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, our ability to accurately and timely report our financial results could be adversely affected.
We are required to comply with a variety of reporting, accounting and other rules and regulations. As a public reporting company subject to the rules and regulations established from time to time by the SEC and Nasdaq, we are required to, among other things, establish and periodically evaluate procedures with respect to our disclosure controls and procedures. In addition, as a public company, we are required to document and test our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 so that our management can certify, on an annual basis, that our internal control over financial reporting is effective. As such, we maintain a system of internal control over financial reporting, but there are limitations inherent in internal control systems. A control system can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. In addition, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and the benefit of controls must be appropriate relative to their costs. Furthermore, compliance with existing requirements is expensive and we may need to implement additional finance and accounting and other systems, procedures and controls to satisfy our reporting requirements. If our internal control over financial reporting is determined to be ineffective, such failure could cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, negatively affect the market price of our common stock, subject us to regulatory investigations and penalties, and adversely impact our business and financial condition.
We previously identified control deficiencies that in the aggregate constituted material weaknesses, for which we implemented certain remediation measures. This remediation is now complete. However, we may identify additional material weaknesses in the future that may cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations or result in material misstatements of our financial statements. If we fail to remediate any material weaknesses or if we otherwise fail to establish and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, our ability to accurately and timely report our financial results could be adversely affected.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Our control deficiencies related to (1) an insufficient number of personnel with an appropriate level of generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") knowledge and experience to create the proper control environment for effective internal control over financial reporting and to ensure that oversight processes and procedures in applying nuanced guidance to complex accounting transactions for financial reporting are adequate, and (2) a lack of controls in place to review journal entries and account reconciliations, reconcile journal entries to underlying support and evaluate if journal entries are in compliance with GAAP before the entries are manually posted, were initially identified in 2020 and in the aggregate constituted material weaknesses. In connection with the audit of our financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, our independent registered public accounting firm noted these control deficiencies in the design and implementation of our internal control over financial reporting.
Additional control issues were discovered during the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, which resulted in material misstatements of our revenue and sales tax payable in certain prior periods. As a result, we determined that our previously issued financial statements included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and the relevant quarterly periods and filings discussed below in the risk factor “-We face risks related to the restatement of our previously issued consolidated financial statements and financial information as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as well as for the interim financial periods for 2022 and 2023, which may adversely impact our business” should no longer be relied upon and have been restated.
We subsequently designed and implemented controls to remediate the material weaknesses, including controls to ensure journal entries and reconciliations are reviewed by the appropriate person with the necessary knowledge of U.S. GAAP to ensure reconciliations have been properly performed, reconciliations and journal entries have appropriate supporting documentation, and journal entries are properly recorded. Although management has determined that we have remediated such material weaknesses as of December 31, 2024, there can be no assurance that the measures that we have taken or will take will be entirely sufficient to prevent additional material weaknesses from occurring in the future or that we will not experience deficiencies in our internal controls and procedures.
If we are not able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or if we or our independent registered public accounting firm identify deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses, we could fail to meet our reporting obligations or they could result in material misstatements of our financial statements, and we could also be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources. Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results, and cause a decline in the price of our common stock.
We face risks related to the restatement of our previously issued consolidated financial statements and financial information as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as well as for the interim financial periods for 2022 and 2023, which may adversely impact our business.
As described in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 2, 2024, during the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, we determined that due to the adjustment required to rental revenue and sales tax payable included in accrued liabilities, our previously issued financial statements described below were materially misstated.
As a result of the above, we determined that our previously issued financial statements included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods within that year, as well as the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods within the year ended December 31, 2023 should no longer be relied upon and have been restated.
As a result of the restatement, we are subject to a number of additional risks and uncertainties which may affect investor confidence in the accuracy of our financial disclosures and may raise reputational issues for our business. We may discover additional errors and our financial statements remain subject to the risk of future restatement. We are also at risk of potential litigation or other disputes which may include, among others, claims invoking the federal
and state securities laws, or other claims arising from the restatement. As of the date of this Annual Report, we are not aware of any such disputes arising out of the restatement.
We cannot ensure that all of the risks described above will be eliminated or that general reputational harm will not be caused due to the restatement. If one or more of the foregoing risks or challenges persist, our business, operations and financial condition are likely to be materially and adversely affected.
Delayed filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K has made us currently ineligible to use certain registration statements to register the offer and sale of securities, which could adversely affect our ability to raise future capital or complete acquisitions.
Because we were unable to file our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 with the SEC on a timely basis, we will not be eligible to register the offer and sale of our securities using a registration statement on Form S-3 until we have timely filed all periodic reports required under the Exchange Act for one year. Should we wish to register the offer and sale of our securities to the public prior to the time we are eligible to use Form S-3, we would be required to file a registration statement on Form S-1 and have it reviewed and declared effective by the SEC. Doing so would likely take significantly longer than filing a registration statement on Form S-3 and increase our transaction costs, making it more difficult to execute any such transaction successfully and potentially harming our financial condition. We will regain eligibility to register securities using a registration statement on Form S-3 beginning on June 1, 2025.
Furthermore, under SEC regulations, our failure to timely file our periodic reports with the SEC resulted in the suspension of the availability of our Form S-8 for issuances of shares underlying equity awards subject to these plans. With the filing of our Form 10-K on April 24, 2024, we regained compliance and our ability to use Form S-8. Although we are currently in compliance, we could fail to comply with these requirements again in the future, in which case we would lose our ability to use Form S-8 and our employees would not be permitted to exercise any outstanding options for unrestricted shares of our common stock and we would be unable to grant other equity awards under our Form S-8 until such time that we are deemed to have filed all reports and other materials required to be filed under the Exchange Act following any such future failure to timely file.
We have previously fallen out of compliance with Nasdaq’s requirements for continued listing, and any future failure to comply with Nasdaq’s listing requirements could result in our common stock being delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market, which could have a material adverse effect on us and our stockholders.
We have previously received deficiency letters from Nasdaq indicating that we were not in compliance with Nasdaq continued listing standards. Although we have resolved these deficiencies and are currently in compliance with Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements, we could fail to comply with these requirements again in the future. In that case, we would receive additional deficiency letters from Nasdaq and our common stock could be delisted from trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, which could severely limit the liquidity of our common stock and materially adversely affect the price of our common stock. In the event our common stock is delisted from Nasdaq, such a delisting would likely have a negative effect on the price of our securities, including our common stock, and would impair your ability to sell or purchase our securities when you wish to do so. In addition, in the event of a delisting, we can provide no assurance that any action taken by us to restore compliance with listing requirements would allow any of our securities to become listed again, stabilize the market price or improve the liquidity of our securities or prevent future non-compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements.
If Nasdaq delists our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect our securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market. If this were to occur, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including:
•a limited availability of market quotations for our securities;
•reduced liquidity for our securities;
•a determination that our common stock is a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our common stock to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;
•a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and
•a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.
The National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, which is a federal statute, prevents or preempts the states from regulating the sale of certain securities, which are referred to as “covered securities.” Since our common stock and public warrants are listed on the Nasdaq, they are covered securities. Although the states are preempted from regulating the sale of its securities, the federal statute does allow the states to investigate companies if there is a suspicion of fraud, and, if there is a finding of fraudulent activity, then the states can regulate or bar the sale of covered securities in a particular case. If we are no longer listed on the Nasdaq, our securities would not be covered securities and it would be subject to regulation in each state in which it offers its securities, including in connection with the initial business combination.
Changes to tax laws or exposure to additional tax liabilities may have a negative impact on our operating results.
Continued developments in U.S. tax reform and changes to tax laws and rates in other jurisdictions where we do business could adversely affect our results of operations and cash flows. It is also possible that provisions of U.S. tax reform could be subsequently amended in a way that is adverse to us.
In addition, we may undergo tax audits in various jurisdictions in which we operate. Although we believe that our income tax provisions and accruals are reasonable and in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and that we prepare our tax filings in accordance with all applicable tax laws, the final determination with respect to any tax audits and any related litigation, could be materially different from our historical income tax provisions and accruals. The results of a tax audit or litigation could materially affect our operating results and cash flows in the periods for which that determination is made. In addition, future period net income may be adversely impacted by litigation costs, settlements, penalties and interest assessments.
We are subject to legal proceedings and claims from time to time that may seek material damages or otherwise may have a material adverse effect on our business.
We are subject to legal proceedings and claims from time to time that may seek material damages or otherwise may have a material adverse effect on our business. See "Commitments and Contingencies” in Note 10 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information. The costs we incur in defending ourselves or associated with settling any of these proceedings, as well as a material final judgment or decree against us, could materially adversely affect our financial condition by requiring the payment of the settlement amount, a judgment or the posting of a bond and/or such matters could otherwise materially and adversely impact our business, including resulting in additional dilution if we are obligated to issue shares to settle all or a portion of such legal proceedings.
In addition, others in our industry have defended class action lawsuits alleging various regulatory violations and have paid material amounts to settle such claims. If we are named in any such class action lawsuits or other legal proceedings, significant settlement amounts or final judgments could materially and adversely affect our liquidity and capital resources.
To attempt to limit costly and lengthy customer, employee and other litigation, including class actions, we require our customers and employees to sign arbitration agreements, including class action waivers. In addition to opt-out provisions contained in such agreements, recent judicial and regulatory actions have attempted to restrict or eliminate the enforceability of such agreements and waivers. If we are not permitted to use arbitration agreements and/or class action waivers, or if the enforceability of such agreements and waivers is restricted or eliminated, we could incur increased costs to resolve legal actions brought by customers, employees and others, as we would be forced to participate in more expensive and lengthy dispute resolution processes.
Operational Risks Related to Our Business
Uncertain market and economic conditions have had, and may in the future have, serious adverse consequences on our business, financial condition and share price.
The global economy, including credit and financial markets, has experienced extreme volatility and disruptions, including severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, increases in unemployment rates, increases in inflation rates, higher interest rates and uncertainty about economic stability. For example, the ongoing military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East have had, and are expected to continue to have, global economic consequences. Any such volatility and disruptions may have adverse consequences on us or the third parties on whom we rely. If the equity and credit markets deteriorate, including as a result of political unrest or war, it may make any necessary debt or equity financing more difficult to obtain in a timely manner or on favorable terms, more costly or more dilutive. Increased inflation rates can adversely affect us by increasing our costs, including labor and employee benefit costs. In addition, higher inflation could also adversely affect discretionary spending for non-prime customers, which could reduce demand for our products and services. Any significant increases in inflation and related increase in interest rates could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Failure to effectively manage our costs could have a material adverse effect on our profitability.
Certain elements of our cost structure are largely fixed in nature. Consumer spending remains uncertain, which makes it more challenging for us to maintain or increase our operating margins. The competitive environment in our industry and increasing price transparency means that the focus on achieving efficient operations is greater than ever. As a result, we must continuously focus on managing our cost structure. Failure to manage our overall cost of operations, labor and benefit rates, advertising and marketing expenses, operating leases, data costs, payment processing costs, cost of capital, or indirect spending could materially adversely affect our profitability.
Negative publicity about us or our industry could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Negative publicity about us or our industry, including the transparency, fairness, user experience, quality, and reliability of our platform or lease-to-own platforms in general, effectiveness of our risk model, our ability to effectively manage and resolve complaints, our data privacy and security practices, litigation, regulatory activity, misconduct by our employees, funding sources, service providers, or others in our industry, the experience of customers and investors with our platform or services or lease-to-own platforms in general, even if inaccurate, could adversely affect our reputation and the confidence in, and the use of, our platform, which could harm our reputation and cause disruptions to our platform. For instance, in October 2020, a data breach broker purported to offer customer records from a number of companies, including us, for sale on a hacker forum. Although we determined with third party firms and our internal team that the compromised data did not include confidential proprietary or personal data, we cannot guarantee that this publicity or any similar publicity in the future will not have a negative effect on our business or reputation. Any such reputational harm could further affect the behavior of customers, including their willingness to utilize lease-to-own programs through our platform or to make payments on their leases. As a result, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects would be materially and adversely affected.
Misconduct and errors by our employees, vendors, and service providers could harm our business and reputation.
We are exposed to many types of operational risk, including the risk of misconduct and errors by our employees, vendors, and other service providers. Our business depends on our employees, vendors, and service providers to process a large number of increasingly complex transactions, including transactions that involve significant dollar amounts and lease-to-own transactions that involve the use and disclosure of personally identifiable information and business information. We could be adversely affected if transactions were redirected, misappropriated, or otherwise improperly executed, personal and business information was disclosed to unintended recipients, or an operational breakdown or failure in the processing of other transactions occurred, whether as a result of human error, a purposeful sabotage or a fraudulent manipulation of our operations or systems. In addition, the manner in which we store and use certain personal data and interact with customers and merchants through our platform is governed by various federal and state laws. If any of our employees, vendors, or service providers take, convert, or misuse funds, documents, or data, or fail to follow protocol when interacting with customers and merchants, we could be liable for damages and subject to regulatory actions and penalties. We could also be perceived to have facilitated or participated in the illegal misappropriation of funds, documents, or data, or the failure to follow protocol, and therefore be subject to civil or criminal liability. For example, our operations are subject to certain laws generally prohibiting companies and their intermediaries from making improper payments to government officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and similar anti-bribery laws in other jurisdictions. Violations by our employees, contractors or agents of policies and procedures we have implemented to ensure compliance with these laws could subject us to civil or criminal investigations in the U.S. and in other jurisdictions, could lead to substantial civil and criminal, monetary and non-monetary penalties, and related shareholder lawsuits, could cause us to incur significant legal fees, and could damage our reputation. It is not always possible to identify and deter misconduct or errors by employees, vendors, or service providers, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses. Any of these occurrences could result in our diminished ability to operate our business, potential liability to customers and merchants, inability to attract future customers and merchants, reputational damage, regulatory intervention, and financial harm, which could negatively impact our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
The loss of the services of any of our leadership team could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
The experience of our leadership team are valuable assets to us. Our leadership team has significant experience in the financial technology industry and would be difficult to replace. Competition for senior executives in our industry is intense, and we may not be able to attract and retain qualified personnel to replace or succeed any of our leaders. Failure to retain or recruit leadership team members could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
Our business depends on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees.
Our future success depends on our ability to identify, hire, develop, motivate, and retain highly qualified personnel for all areas of our organization, in particular, a highly experienced sales force, data scientists, and engineers. Competition for these types of highly skilled employees, is extremely intense. Trained and experienced personnel are in high demand and may be in short supply. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced employees have greater resources than we do and may be able to offer more attractive terms of employment. In addition, we invest significant time and expense in training our employees, which increases their value to competitors that may seek to recruit them. We may not be able to attract, develop, and maintain the skilled workforce necessary to operate our business, and labor expenses may increase as a result of a shortage in the supply of qualified personnel. If we are unable to maintain and build our highly experienced sales force, or are unable to continue to attract experienced engineering and technology personnel, as well as other qualified employees, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects could be materially and adversely affected.
Additional Risks Relating to Ownership of Company Securities
The price of our securities may change significantly in the future and stockholders could lose all or part of their investment as a result.
The trading price of our common stock and public warrants is likely to be volatile and the trading price of our securities have experienced extreme volatility and a significant decline. The securities markets have experienced significant volatility as macroeconomic conditions, such as high inflation and the ongoing geopolitical conflicts including those between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East. Market volatility, as well as general economic, market, or political conditions, could reduce the market price of shares of our common stock regardless of our operating performance. Our operating results have been below and could continue to be below the expectations of public market analysts and investors due to a number of potential factors, including:
•results of operations that vary from the expectations of securities analysts and investors;
•results of operations that vary from those of our competitors;
•factors affecting consumer spending that are not under our control;
•changes in expectations as to our future financial performance, including financial estimates and investment recommendations by securities analysts and investors;
•declines in the market prices of stocks generally;
•strategic actions by us or our competitors;
•announcements by us or our competitors of significant contracts, acquisitions, joint ventures, other strategic relationships or capital commitments;
•any significant change in our management;
•changes in general economic or market conditions or trends in our industry or markets;
•changes in business or regulatory conditions, including new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business;
•future sales of our common stock or other securities;
•investor perceptions or the investment opportunity associated with our common stock relative to other investment alternatives;
•the public’s response to press releases or other public announcements by us or third parties, including our filings with the SEC;
•litigation involving us, our industry, or both, or investigations by regulators into our operations or those of our competitors;
•guidance, if any, that we provide to the public, any changes in this guidance or our failure to meet this guidance;
•the development and sustainability of an active trading market for our stock;
•actions by institutional or activist stockholders;
•changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations or principles; and
•other events or factors, including those resulting from natural disasters, geopolitical conflict (including the conflict involving Russia and Ukraine and the conflicts in the Middle East), pandemics (including COVID-19), acts of terrorism or responses to these events.
These broad market and industry fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance. In addition, price volatility may be greater if the public float and trading volume of our common stock or public warrants is low.
We will continue to incur significant costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management will continue to devote substantial time to managing new compliance initiatives.
As a public company, we will continue to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company, and these expenses may increase now that we are no longer an emerging growth company, as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the listing requirements of Nasdaq and other applicable
securities rules and regulations impose various requirements on public companies. Our management and other personnel will need to continue to devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives. The increased costs will impact our financial position. These rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance and we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits, higher retention levels, or incur substantially higher costs to maintain the same or similar coverage. We cannot predict or estimate the amount or timing of additional costs we may incur to respond to these requirements.
Because there are no current plans to pay cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future, you may not receive any return on investment unless you sell your common stock for a price greater than that which you paid for it.
We intend to retain future earnings, if any, for future operations, expansion and debt repayment and there are no current plans to pay any cash dividends for the foreseeable future. The declaration, amount and payment of any future dividends on shares of our common stock will be at the sole discretion of our board of directors. Our board of directors may take into account general and economic conditions, our financial condition and results of operations, our available cash and current and anticipated cash needs, capital requirements, contractual, legal, tax, and regulatory restrictions, implications on the payment of dividends by us to our stockholders or by its subsidiaries to it and such other factors as our board of directors may deem relevant. In addition, our ability to pay dividends is limited by covenants of our existing and outstanding indebtedness and may be limited by covenants of any future indebtedness that we incur. As a result, you may not receive any return on an investment in our common stock unless you sell our common stock for a price greater than that which you paid for it.
If securities analysts do not publish research or reports about our business or if they downgrade our stock or our sector, our stock price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our common stock will rely in part on the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about us or our business. We will not control these analysts. In addition, some financial analysts may have limited expertise with our model and operations. Furthermore, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our stock or industry, or the stock of any of our competitors, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, the price of our stock could decline. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of us or fails to publish reports on it regularly, we could lose visibility in the market, which in turn could cause its stock price or trading volume to decline.
Future sales, or potential future sales, by us or our stockholders in the public market could cause the market price for our common stock to decline.
The sale of shares of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales could occur, could harm the prevailing market price of shares of our common stock. These sales, or the possibility that these sales may occur, also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that it deems appropriate.
Common stock reserved for future issuance under our equity incentive plans will become eligible for sale in the public market once those shares are issued, subject to provisions relating to various vesting agreements, lock-up agreements and, in some cases, limitations on volume and manner of sale applicable to affiliates under Rule 144, as applicable. As of December 31, 2024, the aggregate number of shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2021 equity incentive plan was 639,467, which consists of (1) initial reserve under our 2021 equity incentive plan of 357,286, (2) on June 6, 2023, our 2021 equity incentive plan was amended to increase the authorized shares of common stock reserved for issuance by 160,000, (3) on January 1, 2024, 122,181 shares of common stock were authorized for issuance in accordance with the amended plan. As of December 31, 2024, there were 120,532 shares of common stock available for future issuance under our 2021 equity incentive plan.
In the future, we may also issue securities in connection with investments or acquisitions. The amount of shares of common stock issued in connection with an investment or acquisition could constitute a material portion of our then-
outstanding shares of common stock. Any issuance of additional securities in connection with investments or acquisitions may result in additional dilution to our stockholders.
Warrants are exercisable for our common stock, which would increase the number of shares eligible for future resale in the public market and result in dilution to our existing stockholders.
As of December 31, 2024, we had outstanding warrants to purchase an aggregate of 673,300 shares of our common stock. The warrant agreement, dated as of October 31, 2019, between the Company and FinServ Acquisition Corp. entitles each warrant holder thereof to purchase 1/25th of a share of our common stock at a price of $287.50 per whole share, subject to adjustment. Warrants may be exercised only for a whole number of shares of common stock. In addition, on March 6, 2023, in connection with the 15th amendment of our Credit Agreement, we issued a warrant to purchase up to 80,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share, which vested on September 6, 2023. On December 5, 2023, we issued a warrant to purchase an additional 80,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share which vested on March 6, 2024. To the extent such warrants are exercised, additional shares of our common stock will be issued, which will result in dilution to the then existing holders of our common stock and increase the number of shares eligible for resale in the public market. Sales of substantial numbers of such shares in the public market could adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
We will likely incur increased costs and devote additional management time to public company reporting and compliance obligations as a result of exiting “emerging growth company” status.
We no longer qualify as an emerging growth company under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (our eligibility to qualify as an emerging growth company ended on December 31, 2024). While we were an emerging growth company, we were able to take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding nonbinding advisory votes on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
Now that we have exited emerging growth company status and we are no longer eligible to take advantage of the corresponding exemptions, we expect our management and other personnel to devote more time and the Company to incur additional costs to comply with the more stringent reporting requirements applicable to companies that are not emerging growth companies. We expect that compliance with these requirements will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time consuming and costly. We cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur as a result of our exit from emerging growth company status, or the timing of the incurrence of such costs. Further, in the event that in the future we were to no longer be eligible to qualify as a “smaller reporting company,” and/or if we become subject to the requirements applicable to accelerated filers or large accelerated filers, including complying with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, our compliance burdens and expenses will further increase. In addition, and as a general matter, we expect the foregoing public company rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to ensure that we comply with all of these requirements and to keep pace with new regulations, otherwise we may fall out of compliance and risk becoming subject to litigation or being delisted, among other potential consequences.
Anti-takeover provisions in our organizational documents could delay or prevent a change of control.
Certain provisions of our Amended and Restated Charter and Amended and Restated Bylaws have an anti-takeover effect and may delay, defer or prevent a merger, acquisition, tender offer, takeover attempt or other change of control transaction that a stockholder might consider in its best interest, including those attempts that might result in a premium over the market price for the shares held by our stockholders.
These provisions provide for, among other things:
•the ability of our board of directors to issue one or more series of preferred stock;
•advance notice for nominations of directors by stockholders and for stockholders to include matters to be considered at our annual meetings;
•certain limitations on convening special stockholder meetings;
•limiting the ability of stockholders to act by written consent; and
•our board of directors have the express authority to make, alter or repeal our Amended and Restated Bylaws.
These anti-takeover provisions could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us, even if the third party’s offer may be considered beneficial by many of our stockholders. As a result, our stockholders may be limited in their ability to obtain a premium for their shares. These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for you and other stockholders to elect directors of your choosing and to cause us to take other corporate actions you desire.
Our Amended and Restated Charter designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or stockholders.
Our Amended and Restated Charter provides that, subject to limited exceptions, any (1) derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of us, (2) action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, stockholder or employee to us or our stockholders, (3) action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our Amended and Restated Charter or our Amended and Restated Bylaws, or (4) action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be exclusively brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction thereof, another state or federal court located within the State of Delaware. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of our Amended and Restated Charter described above. This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or its directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees. Alternatively, if a court were to find these provisions of our Amended and Restated Charter inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our business and financial condition.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties
Our principal executive office is located in Plano, Texas, consisting of approximately 4,300 square feet. The lease expires on June 30, 2031, subject to our option to extend for five years. Our New York, New York office consists of approximately 4,000 square feet of leased office space under a lease that expires in June 2025. We believe that our facilities are adequate to meet our needs and future growth can be accommodated by leasing alternative or additional space if needed.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
From time to time we may become involved in various legal proceedings. Refer to Note 10, Commitments and Contingencies, included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a description of current legal proceedings.

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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
Prior to the closing of the merger, FinServ’s units, shares of Class A common stock and warrants were publicly traded on the Nasdaq . On June 10, 2021, our common stock and warrants began trading on the Nasdaq under the symbols KPLT and KPLTW, respectively. We no longer have any outstanding units.
Holders of Record
As of March 24, 2025, there were 147 holders of record of our common stock and the closing price of our common stock was $13.49 as reported on the Nasdaq and there were 17 holders of record of our warrants and the closing price of our Public Warrants was $0.01 as reported on the Nasdaq. The actual number of stockholders and warrant holders is greater than this number of record holders, and includes stockholders and warrant holders who are beneficial owners, but whose shares are held in street name by brokers and other nominees. This number of holders of record also does not include stockholders and warrant holders whose shares or warrants may be held in trust by other entities.
Dividend Policy
We have not paid any cash dividends on our common stock to date. We may retain future earnings, if any, for future operations, expansion and debt repayment and have no current plans to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. In addition, our ability to pay dividends may be limited by covenants of any existing and future outstanding indebtedness we or our subsidiaries incur. We do not anticipate declaring any cash dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities
During the year ended December 31, 2024, we issued the following unregistered securities:
•On October 24, 2024, we issued 167,797 shares of our common stock in connection with the settlement of a putative class action lawsuit, captioned Saunders v. Einbinder, et al., against directors and officers of FinServ Acquisition Corp. and FinServ Holdings LLC filed in 2022 in the Delaware Court of Chancery. We issued the shares without registration in reliance upon Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act.
•On December 20, 2024, we issued 43,839 shares of our common stock in connection with the settlement of a putative class action lawsuit, captioned McIntosh v. Katapult Holdings, Inc., et al, filed in 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. We issued the shares without registration in reliance upon Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
None.

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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
Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this section to “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company”, or “Katapult” refer to Katapult Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors,” and “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our audited financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. All dollar amounts are in thousands, unless otherwise specified.
OVERVIEW
We are a technology driven lease-to-own platform that integrates with omnichannel retailers and e-commerce platforms to power the purchasing of everyday durable goods for underserved U.S. non-prime consumers. Our POS integrations and innovative mobile app, featuring Katapult Pay, makes it easier for U.S. non-prime consumers unable to access traditional financing to spend responsibility and with confidence, easier for merchants to convert sales and grow, and easier for commerce to thrive.
Key Performance Metrics
We regularly review several metrics, including the following U.S. GAAP and non-GAAP key metrics, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions, which may also be useful to an investor.
Gross Originations
We measure gross originations to assess the growth trajectory and overall size of our lease portfolio. We define gross originations as the retail price of the merchandise associated with lease-purchase agreements entered into during the period through our platform. Gross originations do not represent revenue earned but are a leading indicator of forecasted revenue. Revenue is recognized over a period of time subsequent to the gross origination (on average over 8 months). Revenue from gross originations have historically reached approximately 70-75% of total revenue within two quarters from when the originations occurred. We believe this is a useful operating metric for investors to use in assessing the volume of transactions that take place on our platform.
The following tables present gross originations for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
Year Ended December 31, Change
2024 2023 $ %
Gross Originations $ 237,311 $ 226,553 $ 10,758 4.7 %
Gross originations from Wayfair represented 36% and 49% of gross originations for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Gross originations from Wayfair exclude transactions through Katapult Pay and only include transactions directly through the Wayfair waterfall platform.
Katapult Pay represented 32% and 19% of gross originations during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Total Revenue
Total revenue represents the sum of rental revenue and other revenue. We record rental revenue in accordance with ASC 842, with revenue being recorded when earned and cash is collected. Other revenue is recorded in accordance with ASC 606, with revenue being recorded as performance obligations are satisfied. See “-Results of Operations" section below for total revenue amounts.
Gross Profit
Gross profit represents total revenue less cost of revenue, and is a measure presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. See “-Results of Operations” section below for gross profit amounts.
Adjusted Gross Profit
Adjusted gross profit is a non-GAAP measure utilized by management representing gross profit less variable operating expenses, which are servicing costs and underwriting fees. We believe that adjusted gross profit provides a meaningful understanding of profitability when variable lease origination costs are included. See “-Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for a reconciliation of gross profit to adjusted gross profit.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that is defined as net income/loss before interest expense and other fees, interest income, change in fair value of warrant liability, provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization on property and equipment and capitalized software, impairment of leased assets, loss on partial extinguishment of debt, stock-based compensation expense and net litigation settlement expenses. We believe that adjusted EBITDA provides a meaningful understanding of our operating performance. See “-Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP measure utilized by management, to net loss.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Year Ended December 31, 2024 compared to Year Ended December 31, 2023:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023 $ %
Revenue
Rental revenue $ 243,978 $ 218,347 $ 25,631 11.7 %
Other revenue 3,216 3,241 (25) (0.8 %)
Total revenue 247,194 221,588 25,606 11.6 %
Cost of revenue 201,423 179,881 21,542 12.0 %
Gross profit 45,771 41,707 4,064 9.7 %
Operating expenses:
Servicing costs 4,589 4,311 278 6.4 %
Underwriting fees 2,304 1,919 385 20.1 %
Professional and consulting fees 5,201 6,694 (1,493) (22.3 %)
Technology and data analytics 7,170 6,905 265 3.8 %
Compensation costs 20,076 22,732 (2,656) (11.7 %)
General and administrative 10,866 10,938 (72) (0.7 %)
Litigation settlement 3,666 7,000 (3,334) (47.6 %)
Total operating expenses 53,872 60,499 (6,627) (11.0 %)
Loss from operations (8,101) (18,792) 10,691 (56.9 %)
Loss on partial extinguishment of debt - (2,391) 2,391 (100.0 %)
Interest expense and other fees (18,851) (17,822) (1,029) 5.8 %
Interest income 1,163 1,697 (534) (31.5 %)
Change in fair value of warrant liability 17 807 (790) (97.9 %)
Loss before income taxes (25,772) (36,501) 10,729 (29.4 %)
Provision for income taxes (143) (165) 22 (13.3 %)
Net loss $ (25,915) $ (36,666) $ 10,751 (29.3 %)
Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic and diluted 4,347 4,088 259 6.3 %
Net loss per common share - basic and diluted $ (5.96) $ (8.97) $ 3.01 (33.6 %)
Revenue
Total revenue is comprised of rental revenue and other revenue. Rental revenue is recognized in the period it is earned and cash is collected. Other revenue consists primarily of the sale of property held for lease (and lease agreements) to third parties and other immaterial sources of income from third party relationships, and is recognized as performance obligations are satisfied.
The increase in total revenue of $25.6 million, or 11.6%, during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the same period in 2023 was primarily a result of gross origination growth becoming more efficient and healthy customer collections. We saw gross origination growth in 2024 primarily as a result of our mobile app featuring Katapult Pay, which we launched in the third quarter of 2022 and growth from our direct merchants. Write-offs as a percentage of total revenue was 9.2% and 9.2% during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the same period in 2023 and remains within our 8% to 10% target range. The provision for write-offs represents estimated losses based on historical results. Actual write-offs may differ from this estimate.
We experience moderate seasonal fluctuations in our revenue as a result of consumer spending patterns. Historically, our revenue is strongest during the first quarter primarily due to higher gross originations during the fourth quarter holiday season. Our first quarter revenue is also impacted by the federal and state income tax refunds that our customers receive in the first quarter which, in the past, has led to our customers more frequently exercising the early purchase option on their lease agreements. Adverse events that occur could have a disproportionate effect on our financial results throughout the year.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue consists primarily of depreciation expense related to property held for lease, accelerated depreciation for impairment of property held for lease, accelerated depreciation of early lease-purchase options (buyouts), payment processing fees, and other costs associated with offering lease-purchase transactions to customers.
The increase in cost of revenue of $21.5 million, or 12.0%, during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the same period in 2023 was a result of higher gross origination growth and capitalized property held for lease. The increase in property held for lease and historical lease portfolio collection patterns impact the associated depreciation expense, which includes accelerated depreciation for early lease-purchase options (buyouts), and accelerated depreciation for impairment charges related to property held for lease.
Gross Profit
The increase in gross profit of $4.1 million, or 9.7%, during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the same period in 2023 was due primarily to higher gross originations year-over-year, healthy customer collections.
Operating Expenses
Operating expenses primarily consist of servicing costs, underwriting fees, professional and consulting fees, technology and data analytics expense, compensation costs, general and administrative expense and litigation settlement expenses. Servicing costs include permanent and temporary call center support. Underwriting fees primarily consist of data costs related to inputs from customer underwriting models. Professional and consulting fees include corporate legal and accounting costs. Technology and data analytics expense includes technology costs and salaries and benefits for computer programming and data analytics employees that support our underlying technology and proprietary risk model algorithms. Compensation costs consist primarily of payroll and related costs and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expenses include insurance, occupancy costs, travel and entertainment, and other general overhead costs, including depreciation and amortization related to office equipment and software. Litigation settlement expenses consists of agreed upon settlement amounts that are probable and estimable and associated legal fees.
The decrease in total operating expenses of $6.6 million, or 11.0% during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the same period in 2023 was primarily due to a decrease of $3.3 million in litigation settlement costs and a decrease of $2.7 million in compensation costs for the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the same period in 2023.
The decrease in litigation costs is due to $7.0 million incurred in 2023 as a result of the shareholder litigation settlement partially offset by approximately $3.3 million of costs incurred for the year ended December 31, 2024 related to the Daiwa Corporate Advisory LLC ("DCA") litigation settlement and legal fees. See Note 10 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included within Part II, Item 8 contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more details.
The decrease in compensation costs is mainly driven by a decrease in stock-based compensation related to a decline in the fair value of the stock awards granted in 2024 as compared to 2023, based on the Company's stock price on the dates of grant.
Interest Expense and Other Fees.
The increase in interest expense and other fees during the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to 2023 was primarily due to an increase in the average outstanding principal amount under the RLOC period over period.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to gross profit and net loss, which are measures presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we believe that adjusted gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net loss and fixed cash operating expenses provide relevant and useful information which is widely used by analysts, investors, and competitors in our industry in assessing performance. Adjusted gross profit, Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net loss and fixed cash operating expenses are supplemental measures of our performance that are neither required by nor presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Adjusted gross profit, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net loss should not be considered as substitutes for U.S. GAAP metrics such as gross profit, operating loss, net loss, or any other performance measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP and may not be comparable to similar measures used by other companies.
Adjusted gross profit, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net loss are useful to an investor in evaluating our performance because these measures:
•Are widely used to measure a company’s operating performance;
•Are financial measurements that are used by rating agencies, lenders and other parties to evaluate our credit worthiness; and
•Are considered by our management for various purposes, including as measures of performance and as a basis for strategic planning and forecasting.
Adjusted Gross Profit
Adjusted gross profit represents gross profit less variable operating expenses related to lease originations, which are servicing costs and underwriting fees. We believe that adjusted gross profit provides a meaningful understanding of one aspect of our performance specifically attributable to total revenue and the variable costs associated with total revenue. The reconciliations of gross profit to adjusted gross profit for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Total revenue $ 247,194 $ 221,588
Cost of revenue 201,423 179,881
Gross profit 45,771 41,707
Less:
Servicing costs 4,589 4,311
Underwriting fees 2,304 1,919
Adjusted gross profit $ 38,878 $ 35,477
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that is defined as net loss before interest expense and other fees, interest income, change in fair value of warrants, provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization on property and equipment and capitalized software, provision for impairment of leased assets, loss on partial extinguishment of debt, stock-based compensation expense, and litigation settlement and other related expenses, net. We believe that adjusted EBITDA provides a meaningful understanding of our operating performance.
The reconciliations of net loss to adjusted EBITDA for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Net loss $ (25,915) $ (36,666)
Add back:
Interest expense and other fees 18,851 17,822
Interest income (1,163) (1,697)
Change in fair value of warrants (17) (807)
Provision for income taxes 143 165
Depreciation and amortization on property and equipment and capitalized software 1,219 1,133
Provision for impairment of leased assets 2,227 1,727
Loss on partial extinguishment of debt - 2,391
Stock-based compensation expense 5,759 7,034
Litigation settlement and other related expenses, net 3,666 7,000
Adjusted EBITDA $ 4,770 $ (1,898)
Adjusted Net Loss
Adjusted net loss is a non-GAAP financial measure that is defined as net loss before change in fair value of warrants, stock-based compensation expense, and litigation settlement and other related expenses, net. The reconciliations of net loss to adjusted net loss for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Net loss $ (25,915) $ (36,666)
Add back:
Change in fair value of warrants (17) (807)
Stock-based compensation expense 5,759 7,034
Litigation settlement and other related expenses, net 3,666 7,000
Adjusted net loss $ (16,507) $ (16,507) $ (23,439)
Fixed Cash Operating Expenses
Fixed cash operating expenses is a non-GAAP measure that is defined as operating expenses less depreciation and amortization on property and equipment and capitalized software, stock-based compensation expense, litigation settlement and other related expenses, net and variable lease costs such as servicing costs and underwriting fees. We believe fixed cash operating expenses illustrates our controllable ongoing expenses.
The reconciliations of operating expenses to fixed cash operating expenses for the years ended ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Operating expenses
$ 53,872 $ 60,499
Less:
Depreciation and amortization on property and equipment and capitalized software 1,219 1,133
Stock-based compensation expense
5,759 7,034
Servicing costs 4,589 4,311
Underwriting fees 2,304 1,919
Litigation settlement and other related expenses, net 3,666 7,000
Fixed cash operating expenses $ 36,335 $ 39,102
LIQUIDITY, CAPITAL RESOURCES & GOING CONCERN (dollars in thousands)
The Company’s financing generally consists of cash from leases and borrowings under the RLOC, which is fully collateralized by the Company’s assets. As of March 24, 2025, the Company had a combined principal balance outstanding of $108.8 million under the RLOC and term loan, both of which mature within 12 months of the date that these financial statements are issued. Both loans were previously refinanced on March 6, 2023 to extend the maturity date from December 4, 2023 to June 4, 2025.
As of March 24, 2025, the Company had total cash on hand of $14.5 million, including $7.3 million of unrestricted cash. The Company anticipates that it will not have sufficient cash available to repay the loans at maturity and is currently seeking to refinance the loans prior to maturity in June 2025, which raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
Management plans to address this uncertainty by refinancing the loans. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities, as the Company intends to refinance the loans prior to the maturity on June 4, 2025. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to secure such financing prior to that date or at all.
Restricted cash consists primarily of customer lease payments received in a collection account pending release by the Company's lender. Restrictions are released on a weekly basis pursuant to completion of waterfall and borrowing base requirements.
Our revenue and operating results depend significantly on gross originations, which is defined as the retail price of the merchandise associated with lease-purchase agreements entered into during the period. Gross originations are a
leading indicator of potential revenue streams. Revenue is recognized over a period of time subsequent to the gross origination date (on average over 8 months).
The following table presents cash used in operating, investing, and financing activities during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period $ 28,811 $ 69,841
Net cash provided by (used in):
Operating activities (32,569) (17,414)
Investing activities (1,303) (974)
Financing activities 21,613 (22,642)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period
$ 16,552 $ 28,811
The increase in cash used in operating activities of $15.2 million in 2024 compared to 2023 is primarily driven by sales tax payments of approximately $5.9 million and litigation payments of $5.0 million.
The increase in cash used in investing activities of $0.3 million in 2024 compared to 2023 is primarily due to an increase in capitalized software additions.
The change in cash from financing activities of $44.3 million in 2024 compared to 2023 is primarily due to the $25.0 million repayment on the Term Loan in 2023 and an increase in net proceeds from the RLOC of $19.3 million in 2024.
Financing Arrangements
Senior Secured Term Loan and RLOC
On May 14, 2019, Katapult SPV-1 LLC, as borrower (the “Borrower”), and Katapult Group, Inc. (f/k/a Cognical, Inc.) entered into a Credit Agreement with Midtown Madison Management, LLC as agent for various funds of Atalaya Capital Management (“Atalaya”), for a RLOC. As of September 30, 2024, Atalaya was acquired by Blue Owl Capital Inc. The RLOC had a commitment of $125 million that the lenders had the right to increase to $250 million. Total outstanding principal under the RLOC was $82.8 million and $60.7 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. In December 2023, our third-party loan processor experienced a timing error in their validation processes. We alerted them to the error, temporarily covering the approved leases with $9.6 million of our cash and the issue was resolved in January 2024. Excluding this payment delay, as of December 31, 2023, our outstanding debt under the RLOC would have been $70.4 million, as the RLOC has a 90% advance rate on eligible accounts receivable.
In addition, in connection with a prior amendment to the Credit Agreement entered into on December 4, 2020, Atalaya also provided us with a senior secured term loan (the “Term Loan”) commitment of up to $50 million. We drew down the full $50 million of the Term Loan on December 4, 2020. The Term Loan bore interest at London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") plus 8.0% (with a 1% LIBOR floor) and an additional 3% interest per annum accrued to the principal balance as PIK interest.
The Credit Agreement contains certain financial covenants including minimum Adjusted EBITDA levels, minimum tangible net worth, minimum liquidity and compliance with a total advance rate, which were amended in connection with the amendment in March 2023.
The Credit Agreement is also subject to certain negative and affirmative covenants. The negative covenants limit our ability to: incur additional indebtedness; pay dividends, redeem stock or make other distributions; amend our
material agreements; make investments; create liens; transfer or sell the collateral under the Credit Agreement; make negative pledges; consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets; and enter into certain transactions with affiliates. Early repayments of certain amounts under the Term Loan are subject to prepayment penalties.
On March 6, 2023, we entered into the 15th amendment to the Credit Agreement. As part of the amendment, the maturity date of the RLOC and Term Loan was extended from December 4, 2023 to June 4, 2025 and the commitments under the RLOC were reduced to $75 million from $125 million. The spread on the RLOC was increased to 8.5% from 7.5% while the spread on the Term Loan remained at 8%. Additionally, effective April 1, 2023, the benchmark rate for RLOC and Term Loan was changed from LIBOR to Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR"), subject in each case to a 3% floor plus applicable credit adjustment spread, which is fixed at 0.10%. Additionally, the interest rate for PIK interest on the Term Loan is (A) if Liquidity (as defined in the Credit Agreement) is greater than $25 million, 4.5% and (B) if Liquidity is less than $25 million, to 6%.
In connection with the 15th Amendment, we repaid $25 million of outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan and issued a warrant to purchase up to 80,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share, which vested on September 6, 2023. On December 5, 2023, we issued a warrant to purchase an additional 80,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share which are vested. Total outstanding principal and PIK interest under the Term Loan was $31.8 million at December 31, 2024.
On April 24, 2024, we entered into the Limited Waiver and 16th Amendment to the Credit Agreement with the Lender (the "16th Amendment"). Pursuant to the 16th Amendment, the Lender granted us a waiver of any Specified Defaults (as defined in the 16th Amendment) related to the accounting errors that led to the restatement of our financial statements for all reporting periods prior to the date of the amendment. In addition, the 16th Amendment also updated certain financial covenants each as defined in the 16th Amendment, including Minimum Adjusted EBITDA (Trailing 3 Months), Minimum Adjusted EBITDA (YTD) and Minimum Tangible Net Worth.
On November 21, 2024, we entered into the 17th Amendment to the Credit Agreement with the Lender (the "17th Amendment"). Pursuant to such 17th Amendment, commitments under the RLOC were increased to $90 million from $75 million to primarily provide funding for leases as well as general corporate needs. Additionally, the Lender may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Lender, provide up to $10 million (the “Uncommitted Amount”) in Revolving Advances, in excess of the Revolving Loan Commitment, following a request from the Borrowers from time to time and subject to the other terms and conditions set forth within the agreement.
On February 20, 2025, the Company entered into the 18th amendment to the Credit Agreement with the Lender (“the 18th amendment”). As part of the 18th amendment, certain financial covenants, including the Minimum Liquidity and Total Advance rate were updated in addition to waiving any Default or Event of Default arising from any Borrowing Base Certificate delivered prior to February 20, 2025.
For additional information on our loan obligations, see Note 6 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included within Part II, Item 8 contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Pledge and Guaranty
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2019, between Katapult Group, Inc. (f/k/a Cognical, Inc.) and Midtown Madison Management, LLC, Katapult Group, Inc. pledged and granted a first priority security interest in all equity interests of the Borrower and any investment property and general intangibles evidenced by or related to such membership interests. Pursuant to the Corporate Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of December 4, 2020, by and among Katapult Group, Inc., Legacy Katapult and Midtown Madison Management, LLC, Katapult and Katapult Group, Inc. have granted a first priority security interest in all of their respective assets and Katapult and Katapult Group, Inc. guarantee payment of all obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
Refer to the descriptions of our material cash commitments, financing arrangements, and contractual obligations outlined below within the following notes to our consolidated financial statements.
See “Note 6. Debt & Liquidity” for future payments on the Company's debt facility, including outstanding borrowings and the applicable interest rate.
See “Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies” for litigation related liabilities and timing of expected future payments.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The preparation of our financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. We review our estimates on an ongoing basis and make judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities based on a number of factors. These factors include historical experience and assumptions made by management that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Although management believes that the judgment applied in the preparation of estimates is reasonable based on the circumstances and information known at the time, actual results could differ materially from the estimates based on the assumptions used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements. This section summarizes the critical accounting policies and the related judgments involved in their application.
For further information, see Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included within Part II, Item 8 contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Rental Revenue Recognition
Lease-purchase agreements, which comprise the majority of total revenue, fall within the scope of ASC 842, Leases under lessor accounting and revenue is recognized in the period it is earned and cash is collected. Property held for lease is leased to customers pursuant to lease-purchase agreements with an initial term: typically one week, two weeks, or one month, with non-refundable lease payments. Generally, the customer has the right to acquire title either through a 90-day promotional pricing option, an early lease-purchase option (buyout), or by completing all lease renewal payments, generally over 12 or 18 months. On any current lease, customers have the option to terminate the agreement at any time without penalty, in accordance with the lease term. Amounts received from customers who elect early lease-purchase options (buyouts) are included in rental revenue. Lease payments received prior to their due dates are deferred and recorded as unearned revenue and are recognized as rental revenue in the period in which the revenue is earned. Rental revenue also includes an initial agreed-upon amount for executing customer lease-purchase agreements. Payments are received upon submission of the applications and execution of the lease-purchase agreements. Services are considered to be rendered and revenue earned over the lease term.
Revenues from leases that originated from merchants with a direct or waterfall integration are generally recorded net of sales taxes as sales tax is collected from each customer's lease payment and a sales tax payable is recorded for remittance to the respective state. For Katapult Pay transactions, all sales tax is paid by the Company upon purchase of the goods and is recorded in the cost basis of the capitalized property held for lease. Revenue is recognized for leases originating through Katapult Pay in the period it is earned and cash is collected.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes under the asset and liability method pursuant to ASC 740, Income Taxes. Under this method, we recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is recorded for deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized based on all available positive and negative evidence. The determination of whether a deferred tax asset will be realizable is a highly subjective decision based upon estimated future taxable income and could vary from actual results. We recognize a tax benefit only if it is more likely than not the tax position will be sustained on examination by the local taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the consolidated financial statements from such positions are then measured based on the largest benefit greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement with the related tax authority. The changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. We record interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in the provision for income taxes.
Property Held for Lease, Net of Accumulated Depreciation and Impairment
Property held for lease consists of furniture, mattresses, customer electronics, appliances, and other durable goods offered for lease-purchase in the normal course of business. Such property is provided to customers pursuant to a lease-purchase agreement with a minimum lease term; typically one week, two weeks, or one month. The renewal periods of the leases typically extend the duration to 12 or 18 months. Customers may terminate a lease agreement at any time without penalty. The average customer continues to lease the property for approximately 8 months because the customer either exercises the early lease-purchase option (buyout) or terminates the lease- purchase agreement prior to the end of the typical 12 or 18 month renewal periods. As a result, property held for lease is classified as a current asset on the consolidated balance sheets.
Property held for lease is recorded at cost, excluding shipping costs, and is carried at net book value. Depreciation for property held for lease is determined using the income forecasting method and is included within cost of revenue. The Company’s income forecasting method evaluates the patterns of the Company’s historical property held for lease portfolio to apply depreciation rates to the Company’s current property held for lease portfolio. Property held for lease is depreciated in the proportion of expected rents received to total expected rents received based on the Company’s historical data of lease performance. The utilization of rental merchandise occurs during periods of rental and directly coincides with the pattern of rental revenue receipts over the rental purchase agreement period. The Company also considers other qualitative factors, such as current and forecasted customer payment trends, and other risk-based factors as a component of its forecasting methodology.
The Company applies its depreciation to property held for lease as follows: (1) typical depreciation based on historical patterns of customer payments when an item is leased for the full lease duration; (2) accelerated depreciation for impaired leases, based on historical patterns of lease impairment, and (3) accelerated depreciation for leases where an early purchase option (buyout) is exercised, based on historical patterns of lease buyouts.
The Company periodically evaluates fully depreciated property held for lease, net and when it is determined there is no future economic benefit, the cost of the assets are written off and the related accumulated depreciation is reversed.
There are uncertainties involved when recognizing expenses related to property held for lease due to the subjective nature of the income forecasting method and depreciation method, which could vary from actual results.
Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included within Part II, Item 8 contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of accounting pronouncements recently adopted and recently issued accounting pronouncements not yet adopted and their potential impact to our consolidated financial statements.
Smaller Reporting Company
As of December 31, 2024, we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in the Exchange Act. We may take advantage of certain of the scaled disclosures available to smaller reporting companies and will be able to take advantage of these scaled disclosures for so long as our voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates is less than $250 million measured on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter, or our annual revenue is less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year and our voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates is less than $700 million measured on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk (dollars in thousands)
We are exposed to a variety of market and other risks, including the effects of changes in interest rates, and inflation, as well as risks to the availability of funding sources and other risks. Our investments are exposed to market risk due to a fluctuation in interest rates, which may affect our interest income and the fair market value of our investments.
Interest Rate Risk
The market risk inherent in our financial instruments and our financial position represents the potential loss arising from adverse changes in interest rates. We manage our interest rate risk based on an ongoing assessment of trends in interest rates and economic developments, giving consideration to possible effects on both total return and reported earnings. As a result of such assessment, we may enter into swap contracts or other interest rate protection agreements from time to time to mitigate this risk.
In connection with the 15th amendment to the Credit Agreement, the spread on the RLOC was increased from 7.5% to 8.5% per annum. As of December 31, 2024, the interest rate on our RLOC was 13.1%.
Our Term Loan is a variable rate loan that accrues interest at a variable rate of interest based on SOFR, subject to a 3% floor, plus 8% per annum. The spread was unchanged in connection with the 15th amendment to the Credit Agreement. As of December 31, 2024, the interest rate on our Term Loan was 18.6%, which includes 6.0% PIK interest. PIK interest was 4.5% through November 2024, and increased to 6.0% in December 2024 due to liquidity falling below $25 million. Further discussion is included in Note 6, Debt & Liquidity.
The effect of a hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in interest rates would not have had a material impact on the fair market value of our investments as of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023. A 100 basis point change in interest rates would cause our RLOC and Term Loan annual interest expense to change by approximately $0.8 million and $0.3 million, respectively.
Inflation Risk
Although we believe that inflation has indirectly impacted our business by negatively impacting consumer spending and the sales of our key merchants, we do not believe that inflation has directly had, or currently directly has, a material effect on our results of operations or financial condition.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
The Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and related Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, Stockholders’ Deficit and Cash Flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, together with the reports of our independent registered public accounting firms, are incorporated herein by reference.
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Board of Directors and Shareholders
Katapult Holdings, Inc.
Opinion on the financial statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Katapult Holdings, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Going concern
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements, the impending maturity of the Company’s term loan and credit facility raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 6. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Basis for opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements 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 audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits 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. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical audit matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the 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 matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Depreciation and impairment of property held for lease
As described further in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company recorded $139.4 million of depreciation expense for property held for lease, $29.1 million of depreciation for early lease purchase options (buyouts), and $24.9 million of depreciation for impaired leases for the year ended December 31, 2024. As described further in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statement, depreciation for property held for lease is an estimate that is determined by the Company using an income forecasting method, where the property held for lease is depreciated in the proportion of expected rents received to expected total rents to be received. The Company also provisions for future impairment on leases, which is an estimate that is determined by the Company based on its expectation of leases that will default prior to the completion of the full lease term. The Company’s expectations are developed based on its historical patterns of customer payments when an item is leased for the full lease duration, historical patterns of lease impairment, and historical patterns of lease buyouts. We identified depreciation and impairment of property held for lease as a critical audit matter.
The principal consideration for our determination that depreciation and impairment of property held for lease is a critical audit matter is that management’s model used to determine expectations of customer payments, lease impairments, and lease buyouts required complex auditor judgment in evaluating the reasonableness of depreciation and impairment of properly held for lease.
Our audit procedures related to depreciation and impairment of property held for lease included the following, among others:
•We tested historical customer payments, buyouts, and lease impairments data for completeness and accuracy.
•We tested the existence of the leased property by vouching the cost basis of the leased property to bank statements and through review of a selection of customer lease contracts.
•We analyzed the historical customer payments, buyouts, and lease impairments data in evaluating the reasonableness of the Company’s recorded estimate of depreciation and impairment of property held for lease.
/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 28, 2025
KATAPULT HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
December 31,
2024 2023
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,465 $ 21,408
Restricted cash 13,087 7,403
Property held for lease, net of accumulated depreciation and impairment (Note 3) 67,085 59,335
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 6,731 4,491
Litigation insurance reimbursement receivable (Note 10) - 5,000
Total current assets 90,368 97,637
Property and equipment, net 253 327
Security deposits 91 91
Capitalized software and intangible assets, net (Note 4) 2,076 1,919
Right-of-use assets, non-current 383 888
Total assets $ 93,171 $ 100,862
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 1,491 $ 903
Accrued liabilities (Note 5) 17,372 24,146
Accrued litigation settlement (Note 10) 2,199 12,000
Unearned revenue 4,823 4,949
Revolving line of credit, net (Note 6) 82,582 -
Term loan, net, current (Note 6) 30,047 -
Lease liabilities 179 297
Total current liabilities 138,693 42,295
Revolving line of credit, net (Note 6) - 60,347
Term loan, net, non-current (Note 6) - 25,503
Other liabilities 828 95
Lease liabilities, non-current 444 614
Total liabilities 139,965 128,854
Commitments and contingencies (Note 10)
STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
Common stock, $.0001 par value-- 250,000,000 shares authorized; 4,446,540 and 4,072,713 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively
- -
Additional paid-in capital 101,657 94,544
Accumulated deficit (148,451) (122,536)
Total stockholders' deficit (46,794) (27,992)
Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit $ 93,171 $ 100,862
See accompanying notes.
KATAPULT HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Years Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Revenue
Rental revenue $ 243,978 $ 218,347
Other revenue 3,216 3,241
Total revenue 247,194 221,588
Cost of revenue 201,423 179,881
Gross profit 45,771 41,707
Operating expenses:
Servicing costs 4,589 4,311
Underwriting fees 2,304 1,919
Professional and consulting fees 5,201 6,694
Technology and data analytics 7,170 6,905
Compensation costs 20,076 22,732
General and administrative 10,866 10,938
Litigation settlement, net 3,666 7,000
Total operating expenses 53,872 60,499
Loss from operations (8,101) (18,792)
Loss on partial extinguishment of debt - (2,391)
Interest expense and other fees (18,851) (17,822)
Interest income 1,163 1,697
Change in fair value of warrant liability 17 807
Loss before income taxes (25,772) (36,501)
Provision for income taxes
(143) (165)
Net loss $ (25,915) $ (36,666)
Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic and diluted 4,347 4,088
Net loss per common share - basic and diluted $ (5.96) $ (8.97)
See accompanying notes.
KATAPULT HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
(amounts in thousands)
Common Stock Additional
Paid-in
Capital Accumulated
Deficit Total
Stockholders'
Deficit
Shares Amount
Balances at December 31, 2022 3,944 - 83,804 (85,870) (2,066)
Issuance of warrants in connection with Credit Agreement amendment - - 4,060 - 4,060
Stock options exercised - - 1 - 1
Vesting of restricted stock units 118 - - - -
Repurchases of restricted stock for payroll tax withholding (24) - (355) - (355)
Stock-based compensation expense - - 7,034 - 7,034
Adjustment due to the rounding impact from the Reverse Stock Split in lieu of issuing fractional shares 36 - - - -
Net loss - - - (36,666) (36,666)
Balances at December 31, 2023 4,074 - 94,544 (122,536) (27,992)
Stock options exercised 45 - 211 - 211
Vesting of restricted stock units 163 - - - -
Repurchases of restricted stock for payroll tax withholding (47) - (613) - (613)
Stock-based compensation expense - - 5,759 - 5,759
Issuance of shares due to litigation settlement 212 - 1,756 - 1,756
Net loss - - - (25,915) (25,915)
Balances at December 31, 2024 4,447 $ - $ 101,657 $ (148,451) $ (46,794)
See accompanying notes.
KATAPULT HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(dollars in thousands)
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss $ (25,915) $ (36,666)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 140,636 126,533
Depreciation for early lease purchase options (buyouts) 29,061 25,784
Depreciation for impaired leases 24,962 22,019
Change in fair value of warrants and other non-cash items (256) (807)
Stock-based compensation 5,759 7,034
Loss on partial extinguishment of debt - 2,391
Amortization of debt discount 3,104 2,760
Amortization of debt issuance costs, net 220 277
Accrued PIK interest expense 1,440 1,555
Amortization of right-of-use assets 318 355
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Property held for lease (201,189) (183,695)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets (2,053) 3,610
Litigation insurance reimbursement receivable 5,000 (5,000)
Accounts payable 588 (361)
Accrued liabilities (6,775) 4,419
Accrued litigation settlement (7,055) 12,000
Lease liabilities (288) (387)
Unearned revenues (126) 765
Net cash used in operating activities (32,569) (17,414)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment (54) (20)
Additions to capitalized software (1,249) (954)
Net cash used in investing activities (1,303) (974)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from revolving line of credit 34,421 14,297
Principal repayments on revolving line of credit (12,406) (11,551)
Principal repayment on term loan - (25,000)
Payments of deferred financing costs - (34)
Repurchases of restricted stock (613) (355)
Proceeds from exercise of stock options 211 1
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 21,613 (22,642)
Net (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (12,259) (41,030)
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period 28,811 69,841
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period $ 16,552 $ 28,811
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
Cash paid for interest $ 13,709 $ 13,014
Cash paid for income taxes $ 270 $ 206
Deferred financing costs included in accrued liabilities $ - $ 481
Issuance of warrants to purchase common stock in connection with debt refinancing $ - $ 4,060
Issuance of common stock in connection with litigation settlements $ 1,756 $ -
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities $ - $ 471
Cash paid for operating leases $ 359 $ 513
See accompanying notes.
KATAPULT HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
1.DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Business- Katapult Holdings, Inc.(“Katapult” or the “Company”) is a technology driven lease-to-own platform that integrates with omnichannel retailers and e-commerce platforms to power the purchasing of everyday durable goods for underserved U.S. non-prime consumers. Through the Company's POS integrations and innovative mobile app featuring Katapult Pay, consumers who may be unable to access traditional financing can shop a growing network of merchants.
The Company experiences moderate seasonal fluctuations in our revenue as a result of consumer spending patterns. Historically, our revenue is strongest during the first quarter primarily due to higher gross originations during the fourth quarter holiday season. Our first quarter revenue is also impacted by the federal and state income tax refunds that our customers receive, which in the past, has led to our customers more frequently exercising the early purchase option on their lease agreements. Adverse events that occur could have a disproportionate effect on our financial results throughout the year.
Subsidiaries- The consolidated financial statements of Katapult Holdings, Inc. includes the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries Katapult Intermediate Holdings LLC (formerly known as Keys Merger Sub 2, LLC), a Delaware limited liability company formed in December 2020, Katapult Group, Inc. (formerly known as Cognical, Inc.), a Delaware corporation incorporated in March 2012, and Katapult SPV-1 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company formed in March 2019. Legacy Katapult was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 2016. Katapult Group originates all of the Company's lease agreements with customers.
Basis of Presentation- The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Katapult Holdings, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, of a normal recurring nature, considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included in these consolidated financial statements. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had no items of other comprehensive income. Accordingly, net loss equals comprehensive loss.
2.SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Use of Estimates- The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of income and expense during the reporting periods. The most significant estimates relate to property held for lease and the related depreciation method, impairments, and the valuation allowance associated with deferred tax assets. Management evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and other risk-based factors. Changes in estimates are reflected in reported amounts in the period in which they become known. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Segment Information- The Company is a single segment business, which provides lease payment options to consumers to obtain durable goods from omnichannel and e-commerce partners. The Company has one business activity and there are no segment managers who are held accountable for operations, operating results and plans for components below the consolidated unit level. Accordingly, the Company has one operating segment, and therefore, one reportable segment.
Concentration of Credit Risk- The Company's concentration of credit risk consists primarily of cash. A portion of the Company’s cash balances exceed those that are federally insured. To date, the Company has not recognized any losses caused by uninsured balances.
Significant customers are those which represent more than 10% of the Company’s total revenue or gross accounts receivable balance at each balance sheet date. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company did not have any customers that accounted for 10% or more of outstanding gross accounts receivable or total revenue during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. Customer leases with the Company's largest merchant, Wayfair Inc., represented more than 10% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
KATAPULT HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
Cash and Cash Equivalents- As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, cash consists primarily of checking and savings deposits. The Company holds certain cash equivalents, which consist of highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase.
Restricted Cash- The Company classifies all cash whose use is limited by contractual provisions as restricted cash. Restricted cash as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 consists primarily of customer lease payments received into a collection account pending release by the Company's lender. Restrictions are released on a weekly basis pursuant to completion of waterfall and borrowing base requirements. All of the Company’s restricted cash is classified as current due to its short-term nature.
The reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash is as follows:
December 31,
2024 2023
Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,465 $ 21,408
Restricted cash 13,087 7,403
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $ 16,552 $ 28,811
Property Held for Lease, Net of Accumulated Depreciation and Impairment- Property held for lease consists of furniture, mattresses, customer electronics, appliances, and other durable goods offered for lease-purchase in the normal course of business. Such property is provided to customers pursuant to a lease-purchase agreement with a minimum lease term; typically one week, two weeks, or one month. The renewal periods of the initial lease term of the agreement are typically 12 or 18 months. Customers may terminate a lease agreement at any time without penalty. The average customer continues to lease the property for approximately 8 months because the customer either exercises the early lease-purchase option (buyout) or terminates the lease-purchase agreement prior to the end of the 12 or 18 month renewal periods. As a result, property held for lease is classified as a current asset on the consolidated balance sheets.
Property held for lease is recorded at cost, excluding shipping costs, and is carried at net book value. Depreciation for property held for lease is determined using the income forecasting method and is included within cost of revenue. The Company’s income forecasting method evaluates the patterns of the Company’s historical property held for lease portfolio to apply depreciation rates to the Company’s current property held for lease portfolio. Property held for lease is depreciated in the proportion of expected rents received to total expected rents to be received based on the Company’s historical data of lease performance. The utilization of rental merchandise occurs during periods of rental and directly coincides with the pattern of rental revenue receipts over the rental purchase agreement period. The Company also considers other qualitative factors, such as current and forecasted customer payment trends, and other risk-based factors as a component of its forecasting methodology.
The Company provides for impairment for the undepreciated balance of the property held for lease assuming no salvage value with a corresponding charge to cost of revenue. The provision for write-offs represents estimated losses based on historical results, which are incurred but not yet identified. Actual write-offs may differ from this estimate.
The Company applies its depreciation to property held for lease as follows: (1) typical depreciation based on historical patterns of customer payments when an item is leased for the full lease duration; (2) accelerated depreciation for impaired leases, based on historical patterns of lease impairment, and (3) accelerated depreciation for leases where an early purchase option (buyout) is exercised, based on historical patterns of lease buyouts.
The Company accelerates depreciation equal to the undepreciated net book value of property buyouts as buyouts occur with a corresponding charge to cost of revenue based on historical trends, such that the recorded amount closely approximates current actual buyouts during the period. The Company periodically evaluates fully depreciated property held for lease, net and when it is determined there is no future economic benefit, the cost of the assets are written off and the related accumulated depreciation is reversed.
There are uncertainties involved when recognizing expenses related to property held for lease due to the subjective nature of the income forecasting method and depreciation method, which could vary from actual results.
Capitalized Software-The Company capitalizes certain development costs incurred in connection with its internal use software. Costs incurred in the preliminary stages of development are expensed as incurred. Capitalization of costs begins when the preliminary project stage is completed, and it is probable that the project will be completed and used for its intended
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
function. Once an application has reached the development stage, internal and external costs, if direct and incremental, are capitalized until the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use. Capitalization ceases upon completion of all substantial testing. The Company also capitalizes costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditures will result in additional features and functionality. Maintenance costs are expensed as incurred. Internal use software is amortized on a straight-line basis over its estimated useful life, generally three years. Capitalized software cost is included within the capitalized software and intangible assets, net line item of our consolidated balance sheets. Amortization of capitalized software is included in general and administrative expenses in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Debt Issuance Costs- Costs incurred in connection with the issuance of the Company’s revolving line of credit (“RLOC”) and senior secured term loan ("Term Loan") have been recorded as a direct reduction against the debt and amortized over the life of the associated debt as a component of interest expense. The amortization of the Term Loan issuance costs utilizes the effective interest method, and the amortization of the RLOC debt issuance costs utilizes the straight-line method, which is not materially different compared to the effective interest method. The amortization of debt issuance costs is recorded and included in interest expense and other fees in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Rental Revenue- Lease-purchase agreements, which comprise the majority of total revenue, fall within the scope of ASC 842, Leases under lessor accounting and revenue is recognized in the period it is earned and cash is collected. Property held for lease is leased to customers pursuant to lease-purchase agreements with an initial term: typically one week, two weeks, or one month, with non-refundable lease payments. Generally, the customer has the right to acquire title either through a 90-day promotional pricing option, an early lease-purchase option (buyout), or by completing all lease renewal payments, generally over 12 or 18 months. On any current lease, customers have the option to terminate the agreement at any time without penalty, in accordance with the lease term. Amounts received from customers who elect early lease-purchase options (buyouts) are included in rental revenue. Lease payments received prior to their due dates are deferred and recorded as unearned revenue and are recognized as rental revenue in the period in which the revenue is earned. Rental revenue also includes an initial agreed-upon amount for executing customer lease-purchase agreements. Payments are received upon submission of the applications and execution of the lease-purchase agreements. Services are considered to be rendered and revenue earned over the lease term.
Revenues from leases that originated from merchants with a direct or waterfall integration are generally recorded net of sales taxes as sales tax is collected from each customer's lease payment and a sales tax payable is recorded for remittance to the respective state. For Katapult Pay transactions, all sales tax is paid by the Company upon purchase of the goods and is recorded in the cost basis of the capitalized property held for lease. Revenue is recognized for leases originating through Katapult Pay in the period it is earned and cash is collected.
Other Revenue- Other revenue consists primarily of the sale of property held for lease (and lease agreements) to third parties and other immaterial sources of income from third party relationships. The sale of property held for lease is considered recurring and ordinary in nature to the Company’s business, and as such, these sales are accounted for within the scope of ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The payment terms require a fixed amount paid upfront by the third-party buyer based on a negotiated percentage of the collectible value of the unpaid balance of the delinquent leases being sold and is not subject to future adjustments or recourse provisions.. Revenue from such sales is recognized at the point in time when control of the remaining unpaid delinquent lease balances and lease agreements are transferred to the third party buyer, which occurs upon execution of the sale agreement and receipt of consideration. Other revenue of $3.2 million and $3.2 million was recognized for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Stock-Based Compensation- In accordance with ASC 718, compensation expense related to stock-based awards are measured and recorded based on the fair value of those awards as determined on the date of the grant. The Company recognizes stock-based compensation expense over the requisite service period of the individual grant, generally equal to the vesting period and uses the straight-line method to recognize stock-based compensation. The Company historically used the Black-Scholes-Merton (“Black-Scholes”) option-pricing model to determine the estimated fair value of stock option awards. The Black-Scholes option-pricing model requires estimates of highly subjective assumptions, which affect the fair value of each stock option. The Company has not issued any stock options during the years ended December 31, 2024 or December 31, 2023. Forfeitures are accounted for as they are incurred.
Income Taxes- The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method pursuant to ASC 740, Income Taxes. Under this method, the Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in our consolidated financial statements. Under this method, the Company determines deferred tax assets and liabilities on the basis of the differences between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
liabilities by using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.
The Company recognizes deferred tax assets to the extent that these assets are more likely than not to be realized. In making such a determination, the Company considers all available positive and negative evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, tax-planning strategies, and results of recent operations. If the Company determines that the Company would be able to realize deferred tax assets in the future in excess of their net recorded amount, the Company would make an adjustment to the deferred tax asset valuation allowance, which would reduce the provision for income taxes.
The Company records uncertain tax positions in accordance with ASC 740 on the basis of a two-step process in which (1) the Company determines whether it is more likely than not that the tax positions will be sustained on the basis of the technical merits of the position and (2) for those tax positions that meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company recognizes the largest amount of tax benefit that is more than 50 percent likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement with the related tax authority.
The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in the income tax expense line in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, no accrued interest or penalties are included on the related tax liability line in the consolidated balance sheets.
Net Loss Per Share- The Company calculates basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders using the two-class method required for companies with participating securities.
Under the two-class method, basic net loss per share available to stockholders is calculated by dividing the net loss available to stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted net loss per share available to stockholders is computed by giving effect to all potentially dilutive common stock equivalents outstanding for the period. In periods in which the Company reports a net loss available to stockholders, diluted net loss per share available to stockholders would be the same as basic net loss per share available to stockholders, since dilutive common shares are not assumed to have been issued if their effect is anti-dilutive. The Company reported net loss available to common shareholders during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Fair Value Measurements- Certain assets and liabilities are required to be carried at fair value in accordance with GAAP. Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.
The Company uses a three-level hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value. This hierarchy requires entities to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. Financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value are to be classified and disclosed in one of the following three levels of the fair value hierarchy, of which the first two are considered observable and the last is considered unobservable:
Level 1-Inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.
Level 2-Inputs are observable, unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, unadjusted quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the related assets or liabilities.
Level 3-Inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.
The level in the fair value hierarchy within which a fair value measurement in its entirety falls is based on the lowest-level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety.
Advertising- The Company expenses advertising costs as incurred. Total advertising costs were $0.5 million and $0.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and are classified within operating expenses in the consolidated statements of earnings.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements-In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, which requires public entities to disclose information about the
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
reportable segments’ significant expenses on an interim and annual basis to enable investors to develop more decision-useful financial analyses. ASU 2023-07 was adopted during the fourth quarter of 2024. Refer to Note 12, Segment Reporting.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted- In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. This ASU will improve the transparency of income tax disclosures by requiring (1) consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the rate reconciliation and (2) income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. This update is effective for public entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024 with early adoption permitted for annual financial statements that have not yet been issued or made available for issuance. The Company is evaluating the impact of this ASU.
In November 2024, the FASB issues ASU 2024-03, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, requiring public entities to disclose additional information about specific expense categories in the notes to the financial statements on an interim and annual basis. This update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The Company is evaluating the impact of adopting ASU 2024-03.
3.PROPERTY HELD FOR LEASE, NET OF ACCUMULATED DEPRECIATION AND IMPAIRMENT
Property held for lease, net of accumulated depreciation and impairment consists of the following:
December 31,
2024 2023
Property held for lease $ 300,603 $ 290,808
Less: accumulated depreciation and impairment (233,518) (231,473)
Property held for lease, net $ 67,085 $ 59,335
The table below details the cost of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
December 31,
2024 2023
Depreciation expense for property held for lease over the lease term
$ 139,416 $ 125,401
Depreciation for early lease purchase options (buyouts) 29,061 25,784
Depreciation for impaired leases 24,962 22,019
Other (1)
7,984 6,677
Total cost of revenue $ 201,423 $ 179,881
(1) Other consists mainly of payment processing fees, incentives and other lease related costs.
4.CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET
Capitalized software and intangible assets, net consists of the following:
December 31,
2024 2023
Capitalized software $ 4,794 $ 3,545
Domain name 16 16
4,810 3,561
Less: accumulated amortization (2,734) (1,642)
Capitalized software and intangible assets, net $ 2,076 $ 1,919
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
Amortization expense for capitalized software and intangible assets of $1,092 and $882 was recognized for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which is included in general and administrative expenses in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The following table summarizes estimated future amortization expense of capitalized software, exclusive of software not yet placed in service, as of December 31, 2024:
Year Future Amortization Expense of Capitalized Software
2025 864
2026 548
2027 238
$ 1,650
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, $410 and $581 of capitalized software was not yet placed in service, respectively and such amounts are excluded from the table above.
5.ACCRUED LIABILITIES
Accrued liabilities consists of the following:
December 31,
2024 2023
Bonus accrual $ 4,205 $ 4,183
Sales tax payable 8,608 14,527
Unfunded lease payable 2,447 3,578
Interest payable 248 140
Other accrued liabilities 1,864 1,718
Total accrued liabilities $ 17,372 $ 24,146
6.DEBT, LIQUIDITY & GOING CONCERN
On March 6, 2023, the Company entered into the 15th amendment to the loan and security agreement (as amended, the “15th Amendment” to the “Credit Agreement”) with Midtown Madison Management LLC, as agent for various funds of Atalaya Capital Management (the "Lender"). As of September 30, 2024, Atalaya was acquired by Blue Owl Capital Inc. As part of the amendment, the maturity date of the RLOC and the Term Loan was extended to June 4, 2025 and the commitments under the RLOC were reduced to $75 million from $125 million. The interest rate for interest paid-in-kind (“PIK”) on the Term Loan (as defined in the 15th Amendment) is (A) if Liquidity is greater than $25 million, 4.5% or (B) if Liquidity is less than $25 million, 6%.The spread on the RLOC was increased to 8.5% from 7.5%, while the spread on the Term Loan remained at 8.0%. Additionally, effective April 1, 2023, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) replaced the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), plus a 0.10% credit adjustment spread, for both the RLOC and the Term Loan’s benchmark rate for interest rate calculations. As of December 31, 2024, the interest rates for the RLOC and Term Loan were 13.1% and 18.6%, respectively, (which includes the 6% interest rate applicable to PIK with respect to the Term Loan).
In connection with the 15th Amendment, the Company repaid $25 million of outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan and issued a warrant to purchase up to 80,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share, which vested on September 6, 2023. On December 5, 2023, the Company issued a warrant to purchase an additional 80,000 shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share which vested on March 5, 2024. In conjunction with the 15th Amendment, the Company incurred a loss on partial extinguishment of debt of $2.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2023. The loss on partial extinguishment of debt is attributed to the derecognition of a proportionate amount of the unamortized debt discount, a result of repaying the $25 million of outstanding principal on the Term Loan.
In addition, the 15th Amendment also updated certain financial covenants each as defined in the 15th Amendment, including the Minimum Adjusted EBITDA levels, Minimum Tangible Net Worth, Minimum Liquidity and compliance with a Total Advance Rate.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
On April 24, 2024, the Company entered into the Limited Waiver and 16th Amendment to the Credit Agreement with the Lender (the "16th Amendment"). Pursuant to such 16th Amendment, the Lender granted the Company a waiver of any Specified Defaults (as defined in the 16th Amendment) related to the accounting errors that led to the restatement of the Company’s financial statements for all reporting periods prior to the date of the amendment. In addition, the 16th Amendment also updated certain financial covenants each as defined in the 16th Amendment, including Minimum Adjusted EBITDA (Trailing 3 Months), Minimum Adjusted EBITDA (YTD) and Minimum Tangible Net Worth.
On November 21, 2024, the Company entered into the 17th Amendment to the Credit Agreement with the Lender (the "17th Amendment"). Commitments under the RLOC were increased to $90 million from $75 million to primarily provide funding for leases as well as general corporate needs. Additionally, the Lender may provide up to $10 million (the “Uncommitted Amount”) in Revolving Advances, in excess of the Revolving Loan Commitment, following a request from the Borrowers and subject to the other terms and conditions set forth within the agreement.
A reconciliation of the outstanding principal to the carrying amount of the RLOC is as follows:
December 31,
2024 2023
Principal balance $ 82,758 $ 60,744
Less: Unamortized issuance costs (176) (397)
Total carrying amount $ 82,582 $ 60,347
The issuance costs are amortized over the life of the RLOC and included in interest expense and other fees in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
A reconciliation of the outstanding principal to the carrying amount of the Term Loan is as follows:
December 31,
2024 2023
Principal balance $ 25,000 $ 25,000
PIK 6,780 5,340
Less: Unamortized debt discount and issuance costs (1,733) (4,837)
Total carrying amount $ 30,047 $ 25,503
Amortization expense related to the Term Loan discount and issuance costs of $3.1 million and $2.8 million was recorded for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs is included in interest expense and other fees in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The RLOC and Term Loan are also subject to certain customary representations, affirmative covenants, which consist of maintaining lease performance metrics, financial ratios related to operating results, and lease delinquency ratios, along with customary negative covenants.
As noted above, the RLOC and Term Loan maturity dates were June 4, 2025. Due to the maturity date being less than one year from the balance sheet date of December 31, 2024, debt is classified as a current liability in the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024.
Liquidity & Going Concern
The Company’s financing generally consists of cash from leases and borrowings under the RLOC, which is fully collateralized by the Company’s assets. As of March 24, 2025, the Company had a combined principal balance outstanding of $108.8 million under the RLOC and term loan, both of which mature within 12 months of the date that these financial statements are issued. Both loans were previously refinanced on March 6, 2023 to extend the maturity date from December 4, 2023 to June 4, 2025.
As of March 24, 2025, the Company had total cash on hand of $14.5 million, including $7.3 million of unrestricted cash. The Company anticipates that it will not have sufficient cash available to repay the loans at maturity and is currently seeking to
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refinance the loans prior to maturity in June 2025, which raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
Management plans to address this uncertainty by refinancing the loans. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities, as the Company intends to refinance the loans prior to the maturity on June 4, 2025. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to secure such financing prior to that date or at all.
7.STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
As of December 31, 2024, the Company has two stock incentive plans, the Cognical Holdings, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan, (the “2014 Plan”) and the Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan, (the “2021 Plan”).
2014 Plan
In accordance with the 2014 Plan, the board of directors could grant equity awards to officers, employees, directors and consultants for common stock. The 2014 Plan has specific vesting for each stock option grant allowing vesting of the options over one to four years. No equity awards have been granted under the 2014 Plan since October 2020 and no new equity awards are expected to be granted under the 2014 Plan.
Stock Options
A summary of the status of the stock options under the 2014 Plan as of December 31, 2024, and changes during the year is presented below:
Number of
Shares Weighted- Average
Exercise Price Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual Term
(In Years) Aggregate
Intrinsic Value
Balance - December 31, 2023 322,405 $ 7.30 5.3 $ 1,539
Granted - -
Exercised (44,473) 4.75
Forfeited - -
Expired (21,243) 16.77
Balance - December 31, 2024 256,689 $ 6.96 4.4 $ 415
The total intrinsic value of stock options exercised during the year ended December 31, 2024 was $0.3 million.
2021 Plan
On June 9, 2021, the approved 2021 Plan became effective.
In accordance with the 2021 Plan, directors may issue equity awards, including restricted stock awards (“RSA”), restricted stock unit awards (“RSU”) and stock options to officers, employees, directors and consultants to purchase common stock. The awards granted are subject to either service-based and/or performance-based vesting conditions. Restricted stock units (“RSUs”) are equity awards granted to employees that entitle the holder to shares of common stock when the awards vest. RSUs are measured based on the fair value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. Awards granted under the 2021 Plan generally vest over one to four years. As of December 31, 2024, the total number of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2021 Plan is 639,467.
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
The following tables summarizes the Company’s RSA activity under the 2021 Plan during the year ended December 31, 2024:
Stock Options Restricted Stock Units
Number of Options Weighted- Average Exercise Price Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (In Years) Aggregate Intrinsic Value Shares Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value
Balance - December 31, 2023 13,865 $ 261.25 7.5 $ - 278,290 $ 34.05
Granted - - 181,270 15.75
Exercised / Vested - - (164,944) 32.93
Forfeited - - (29,804) 28.67
Balance - December 31, 2024 13,865 $ 261.25 6.5 $ - 264,812 $ 22.83
Stock-Based Compensation Expense-Stock-based compensation expense of $5.8 million and $7.0 million was recognized for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Stock-based compensation expense is included in operating expenses in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
As of December 31, 2024, there was $4.5 million of unrecognized compensation costs. This amount is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.5 years. The total fair value of vested RSUs as of their respective vesting dates was $2.4 million.
Shares Available For Future Issuance-At December 31, 2024, there were 120,532 shares available for issuance by the Company under the 2021 Plan.
8.INCOME TAXES
The Company recorded a federal income tax loss fully related to its U.S.-based jurisdictions for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As a full valuation allowance is recorded against all of the deferred tax assets, the Company did not record a federal provision for income tax or benefits during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The provision for income taxes for the year ended December 31, 2024 relates primarily to state income taxes.
A reconciliation of the Company's statutory income tax rate to the Company's effective income tax rate is as follows:
Years Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Federal statutory rate 21.0 % 21.0 %
Effect of:
State taxes, net of federal tax benefit (4.0 %) 6.3 %
Change in valuation allowance (17.6 %) (24.4 %)
Warrant remeasurement - % 0.5 %
Stock compensation (1.7 %) (3.6 %)
Permanent differences (0.8 %) (0.2 %)
Other, net 2.5 % - %
Effective tax rate (0.6 %) (0.4 %)
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
The components of deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:
December 31,
2024 2023
Deferred tax assets:
Accruals and reserves $ 1,811 $ 3,309
Federal, state and local net operating loss carryforwards 30,814 32,441
Stock compensation 1,183 914
Section 163(j) interest carryforward 11,281 8,747
Lease liabilities 158 231
Total deferred tax asset before valuation allowance 45,247 45,642
Valuation allowance (44,495) (39,968)
Deferred tax asset - net of valuation allowance 752 5,674
Deferred tax liabilities:
Right-of-use assets (144) (224)
Depreciation & amortization (608) (5,450)
Total deferred tax liabilities (752) (5,674)
Net deferred tax asset (liability) $ - $ -
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had a U.S. federal net operating loss carryforward of $124.8 million and $134.1 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company has state net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards of $91.0 million and $94.1 million, respectively. Of the $124.8 million of Federal NOL carryforwards, $22.6 million begins to expire in 2033 and $102.2 million may be carried forward indefinitely. The state net operating loss carryforwards begin to expire in 2025.
Future realization of the tax benefits of existing temporary differences and net operating loss carryforwards ultimately depends on the existence of sufficient taxable income within the carryforward period. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company performed an evaluation to determine whether a valuation allowance was needed. The Company considered all available evidence, both positive and negative, which included the results of operations for the current and preceding years. The Company determined that it was not possible to reasonably quantify future taxable income and determined that it is more likely than not that all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Accordingly, the Company maintained a full valuation allowance as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Under Internal Revenue Code Section 382, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change NOL carryforwards and other pre-change tax attributes to offset its post-change income may be limited. The Company conducted a high level ownership analysis under IRC Section 382 based upon publicly available information as of December 31, 2024 and determined that there was an ownership change in relation to the De-SPAC transaction on June 6, 2021. This ownership change generates a limit on the pre-change tax attributes, though this limit has not resulted in any NOL or other tax attributes being written off, as the limit far exceeds the Company's projected near term utilization. There has likely been no additional ownership change since the De-SPAC transaction, but the Company will continue to monitor moving forward as any additional change could result in a further limitation on the utilization of the Company's tax attributes..
The calculation of our tax liabilities involves dealing with uncertainties in the application of complex tax laws and regulations for both federal taxes and the many states in which we operate or do business in. ASC 740 states that a tax benefit from an uncertain tax position may be recognized when it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination, including resolutions of any related appeals or litigation processes, on the basis of the technical merits.
We record uncertain tax positions as liabilities in accordance with ASC 740 and adjust these liabilities when our judgment changes as a result of the evaluation of new information not previously available. Because of the complexity of some of these uncertainties, the ultimate resolution may result in a payment that is materially different from our current estimate of the unrecognized tax benefit liabilities. These differences will be reflected as increases or decreases to income tax expense in the period in which new information is available. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, we have not recorded any uncertain tax positions in our financial statements.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
We recognize interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits on the income tax expense line in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, no accrued interest or penalties are included on the related tax liability line in the consolidated balance sheet.
The Company files tax returns as prescribed by the tax laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates. In the normal course of business, the Company is subject to examination by federal and state jurisdictions, where applicable. There are currently no pending tax examinations. The Company's tax years are still open under statute from December 31, 2021, to the present.
9.NET LOSS PER SHARE
As discussed in Note 6, on March 6, 2023, in connection with the 15th amendment to the Credit Agreement, the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to 80,000 shares of the Company common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share, which vested on September 6, 2023. On December 5, 2023, the Company issued a warrant to purchase an additional 80,000 shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $0.25 per share which is vested. The warrants are considered exercisable for 160,000 shares for little to no consideration and the shares are therefore included in basic shares outstanding at their issuance date.
The Company’s potentially dilutive securities, which include unvested RSUs, stock options to purchase common stock and warrants to purchase common stock, have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share for certain periods, as the effect would be antidilutive. Therefore, the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding used to calculate both basic and diluted net loss per share is the same in periods of a net loss. The Company excluded the following potential common shares, presented based on amounts outstanding at each period end, from the computation of diluted net loss per share for the periods indicated because including them would have had an anti-dilutive effect:
Year Ended December 31,
2024 2023
Public warrants 500,000 500,000
Private warrants 13,300 13,300
Stock options 270,554 336,270
Unvested restricted stock units 264,812 278,290
Total common stock equivalents 1,048,666 1,127,860
10.COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Litigation risk- From time to time, the Company may become involved in various legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business. Management is of the opinion that the ultimate liability, if any, from these actions will not have a material effect on its financial condition or results of operations. The Company is not currently aware of any indemnification or other claims, except as discussed below and has accrued liabilities related to such obligations in the consolidated financial statements when estimable and probable, as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Except as set forth below, the Company and its subsidiaries are not a party to, and their properties are not the subject of, any known material pending legal proceedings.
DCA Litigation
On April 9, 2021, Daiwa Corporate Advisory LLC (“DCA”), filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County. The complaint related to an April 11, 2018 letter agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) entered into by DCA and Legacy Katapult.
On October 7, 2024, the Company reached a settlement with DCA to resolve any and all disputes that exist between the two parties for total consideration of $3.0 million with half paid on October 11, 2024 and the remainder paid over the next two years. On October 14, 2024, the case was formally discontinued, with prejudice. The Company recognized $0.75 million in estimated loss in accrued litigation settlement liability for the payments that are due within one year from December 31, 2024 and $0.75 million in other liabilities for the installment payments that are due after December 31, 2025 in its consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024. The Company recognized $3.0 million in operating expenses in its consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
Shareholder Litigation
On August 27, 2021, a putative class action lawsuit, captioned McIntosh v. Katapult Holdings, Inc., et al, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “New York Action”).
On August 25, 2022, a purported Company stockholder filed a putative class action lawsuit, captioned Saunders v. Einbinder, et al., against directors and officers of FinServ Acquisition Corp. (“FinServ”) and FinServ Holdings LLC in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Delaware Action”).
In December 2023, the Company and the plaintiffs in both the New York and Delaware class action lawsuits entered into mediation in an attempt to resolve the pending litigation. After several rounds of mediated discussions, all parties have accepted the mediator's recommendation to settle the class action lawsuits. Although the settlement negotiations are ongoing, given the status of the settlement discussions, we were required under U.S. GAAP to record a liability related to the potential settlement. Accordingly, the Company recorded a contingent liability of $12,000 in accrued litigation settlement in current liabilities in its consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2023. The Company also recorded a $5,000 litigation insurance reimbursement receivable in current assets in its consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2023, which the insurer agreed to pay. The Company recorded a $7,000 litigation expense, net in its consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2023, which is net of the $5,000 litigation insurance reimbursement.
On May 20, 2024, the Company reached an agreement in principle to settle the New York Action and Delaware Action for total consideration of $12.0 million, comprised of: (1) a cash component of $8.5 million of which $5,000 was paid by the insurer; and (2) an additional component of $3.5 million comprised of the Company’s common stock (the “Settlement Shares”) and/or cash. On July 3, 2024, the parties executed Stipulations of Settlement. In agreeing to settle, neither the Company nor any of the individual defendants made any admission of liability.
Pursuant to the settlement, on August 7, 2024, the Company paid $1.725 million into an escrow account for the Delaware plaintiffs. On October 10, 2024, the Delaware Court of Chancery approved the settlement of the Delaware Action, dismissing all claims asserted with prejudice. At that time, the Company determined the number of Settlement Shares for the Delaware Action (the “Delaware Settlement Shares”) is 275,845 shares which was calculated by dividing $2.8 million by the volume-weighted average per share price (“VWAP”) of the Company’s common stock for the ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately preceding the hearing held on October 10, 2024 for the final approval for the Delaware Action (the “Delaware Settlement Hearing VWAP”). 167,797 of the Delaware Settlement Shares were released to the Delaware plaintiffs on October 24, 2024. 108,048 of the Delaware Settlement Shares are considered the “Delaware Excess Settlement Shares.” The Company may either deliver the Delaware Excess Settlement Shares or pay in cash the full value of the Delaware Excess Settlement Shares, calculated by multiplying the number of Delaware Excess Settlement Shares by the Delaware Settlement Hearing VWAP. The Delaware Excess Settlement Shares or cash are due in two equal installments to be made on April 10, 2025 and October 10, 2025.
Pursuant to the settlement, on August 20, 2024, the Company paid $1.775 million into an escrow account for the New York plaintiffs. On December 13, 2024, the District Court of the Southern District of New York approved the settlement of the New York Action, dismissing all claims asserted with prejudice. At that time, the Company determined the number of Settlement Shares for the New York Action (the “New York Settlement Shares”) is 103,424 shares which was calculated by dividing $0.725 million by the VWAP of the Company’s common stock for the ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately preceding the hearing held on December 13, 2024 for the final approval for the New York Action (the “New York Settlement Hearing VWAP”). 43,839 of the New York Settlement Shares were released to the New York plaintiffs on December 20, 2024. 59,585 of the New York Settlement Shares are considered the “New York Excess Settlement Shares.” The Company may either deliver the New York Excess Settlement Shares or pay in cash the full value of the New York Excess Settlement Shares, calculated by multiplying the number of New York Excess Settlement Shares by the New York Settlement Hearing VWAP. The New York Excess Settlement Shares or cash are due in two equal installments to be made on June 13, 2025 and December 13, 2025.
The Company recognized $1.45 million in estimated loss in accrued litigation settlement liability for the payments that are due within one year from December 31, 2024.
FlexShopper Litigation
On September 30, 2024, FlexShopper, Inc. (“FlexShopper”) filed a complaint against Katapult in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. The complaint alleges patent infringement and seeks an injunction as well as
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damages for alleged lost profits and willfulness. On December 20, 2024, the Company filed a Motion to Dismiss all claims. The Company has not recorded any loss contingencies associated with this litigation as loss is not probable and the amount is not reasonably estimable as of December 31, 2024. The Company intends to vigorously defend this case.
11.FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash, accounts payable, accrued expenses, warrant liability, the RLOC, and the Term Loan. The Company believes that the carrying amounts of its financial instruments including cash, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair values due to the short-term maturities of these instruments. The consolidated financial statements also include level 3 fair value measurements of private common stock warrants. The Company uses a third-party valuation firm to determine the fair value of certain of the Company’s financial instruments.
RLOC and Term Loan
December 31, 2024 December 31, 2023
Carrying amount Fair value Carrying amount Fair value
RLOC $ 82,582 $ 84,422 $ 60,347 $ 64,631
Term Loan 30,047 33,151 25,503 33,900
$ 112,629 $ 117,573 $ 85,850 $ 98,531
The estimated fair values of the Company’s RLOC and Term Loan were determined using Level 2 inputs based on an estimated credit rating for the Company and the trading value of debt for similar debt instruments with similar credit ratings.
Warrant Liability
Warrant liability - Public (Level 1) & Private Warrants (Level 3)
Fair Value Measurement Using
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Balance at December 31, 2023
$ 93 $ - $ 2 $ 95
Change in fair value
(17) - - (17)
Balance at December 31, 2024
$ 76 $ - $ 2 $ 78
During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, there were no transfers between Level 1 and Level 2, nor into or out of Level 3.
12.SEGMENT REPORTING
The Company is a U.S. domiciled business, with operations in 46 states and the District of Columbia, providing lease payment options to consumers to obtain durable goods from omnichannel and e-commerce partners. The Company has one business activity and there are no segment managers who are held accountable for operations, operating results and plans for components below the consolidated unit level. Accordingly, the Company has one operating segment, and therefore, one reportable segment. A significant portion of the Company’s transaction volume is with a limited number of merchants, including most significantly, Wayfair Inc. Customer leases from property held for lease purchased at Wayfair accounts for more than 10% of the Company's revenue. The accounting policies for this segment are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies and the measure of segment assets is reported on the consolidated balance sheet as total assets.
ASU 2023-07 Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures requires the Company to disclose information about the reportable segments’ significant revenues and expenses reviewed by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”). The Company’s CODM is the chief executive officer, Orlando Zayas. The CODM manages the business activities on a consolidated basis and measures the profitability of the Company's single reporting segment using net loss, a measure that is also reported on the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Net loss is used by the CODM to evaluate results and is considered in determining capital allocation. The CODM considers net loss to evaluate the performance of assets in deciding where to invest into the business, such as in areas such as technology, resources, or other growth initiatives. Net loss is also used to monitor budget versus actual results.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
The significant segment expenses reviewed by the CODM include cost of revenue, interest expense on the RLOC and term loan, and other operating expenses. Cost of revenue is primarily comprised of depreciation expense on property held for lease, including impairment expense and accelerated depreciation on early lease-purchase options (buyouts) and other variable expenses such as call center fees. Operating expenses include general and administrative expenses, underwriting, processing fees, stock compensation and other depreciation. There are no other segment items.
Revenues from external customers, cost of revenue, interest income, and income tax expense/benefit can be found in the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Accumulated depreciation and impairment in included in Note 3, Property Held for Lease, Net of Accumulated Depreciation and Impairment. Significant noncash items other than depreciation and amortization expense are included in the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Interest expense on the RLOC and term loan was $18.9 million and $17.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
13.SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
The Company evaluated subsequent events through the date the consolidated financial statements were issued, for events requiring adjustment to or disclosure in these consolidated financial statements. Except as discussed below, there are no events that require adjustment to or disclosure in these consolidated financial statements.
On February 20, 2025, the Company entered into the 18th amendment to the loan and security agreement with the Lender (“the 18th amendment”). As part of the amendment, certain financial covenants, including the Minimum Liquidity and Total Advance rate were updated in addition to waiving any Default or Event of Default arising from any Borrowing Base Certificate delivered prior to February 20, 2025.

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

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that 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. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in Company reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2024. Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) were effective as of December 31, 2024.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f) of the Exchange Act. 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.
Our management, under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024. In making this assessment, management used the framework established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO. Based on this assessment, management has concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2024. Management reviewed the results of its assessment with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Remediation of a Prior Material Weaknesses
As previously disclosed in Item 9A. Control and Procedures in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, our independent registered public accounting firm identified deficiencies in the design and implementation of our internal control over financial reporting that constituted material weaknesses. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
To address the material weaknesses previously reported, we implemented the following measures:
•Hired more experienced accounting and auditing personnel including key hires such as the Chief Accounting Officer and the Vice President of Internal Audit and brought the internal audit function in-house;
•Implemented processes and controls to ensure that journal entries and reconciliations are prepared and reviewed by the appropriate person with the necessary U.S. GAAP knowledge; and
•Improved documentation of accounting policies and procedures
We completed the documentation and testing of the corrective actions describe above and, as of December 31, 2024, we determined that the remediation measures implemented are sufficient to conclude that the previously disclosed material weaknesses have been remediated as of December 31, 2024.
Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
This Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm due to an exemption as a smaller reporting company and non-accelerated filer with a public float of less than $75 million as of June 30, 2024.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Except as disclosed above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the year ended December 31, 2024 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information
During the year ended December 31, 2024, none of our directors or executive officers adopted, modified or terminated any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of Company securities that was intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement.”

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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 our Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owner and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
Part IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a) Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules
The following documents are filed as a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Grant Thornton, Chicago, IL, PCAOB ID: 248)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
All other schedules for which provision is made in the applicable accounting regulations of the SEC are not required under the related instructions, or are inapplicable, and therefore have been omitted.
(b) Exhibits
Exhibit
Number Description
2.1†
Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 18, 2020, by and among FinServ Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation, Keys Merger Sub 1, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Keys Merger Sub 2, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Katapult Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Orlando Zayas, in his capacity as the representative of all Pre-Closing Holders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 21, 2020).
3.1
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated June 9, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 15, 2021).
3.2
Second Amended and Restated By Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 28, 2023).
4.1
Form of Common Stock Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 15, 2021).
4.2
Form of Warrant Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 15, 2021).
4.3
Warrant Agreement, dated October 31, 2019, by and between FinServ Acquisition Corp. and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Current Report on Form 8-K of FinServ Acquisition Corp. filed on November 6, 2019).
4.4
Description of the Registrant’s Securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.1
Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated June 9, 2021, by and among the Company and certain stockholders of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of the Company’s Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 15, 2021).
10.2
Form of Subscription Agreement, dated as of December 18, 2020, by and between the Company and the Subscriber party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company’s Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 21, 2020).
10.3†
Provider Agreement, dated November 24, 2020, by and between Wayfair LLC and Katapult Group, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of FinServ Acquisition Corp. filed with the SEC on May 5, 2021).
10.4#
Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated May 4, 2021, by and between Katapult Holdings, Inc. and Orlando Zayas (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of FinServ Acquisition Corp. filed with the SEC on May 5, 2021).
10.5#
Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated May 4, 2021, by and between Katapult Holdings, Inc. and Derek Medlin (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of FinServ Acquisition Corp. filed with the SEC on May 5, 2021).
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
10.6#
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, by and between the Company and Chandra Chopra dated as of September 3, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.7#
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, by and between the Katapult Holdings, Inc. and Fangqui Sun dated as of September 3, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.8#
Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between the Company and its directors and officers (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Company's Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 15, 2021).
10.9#
Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on August 16, 2021).
10.10#
Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan Amendment No. 1 (incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registration Statement’ Proxy Statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 25, 2023).
10.11#
Forms of Stock Option Grant Notice and Stock Option Agreement under the Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on August 16, 2021).
10.12#
Form of Executive Officer Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Unit Award Agreement under the Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.13#
Form of Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice (Initial Award) under the Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.14#
Form of Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice (Annual Award) under the Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023).
10.15#
Form of Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Katapult Holdings, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.16#
Cognical, Inc. 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on August 16, 2021).
10.17#
Forms of Stock Option Grant Notice and Stock Option Agreement under 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on August 16, 2021).
10.18#
Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, as amended as of January 6, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023).
10.19#
Non-Employee Directors Deferred Compensation Plan, effective March 31, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22 to the Company's Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to the S-1, filed with the SEC on April 6, 2022).
10.20#
Employment Agreement by and between Katapult Holdings, Inc. and Nancy Walsh dated as of February 27, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K/A filed with the SEC on March 1, 2023).
10.21#
First Amendment to Employment Agreement by and between Katapult Holdings, Inc. and Nancy Walsh dated as of May 21, 2024 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 24, 2024).
10.22
Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2019, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Cognical, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.23
First Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of June 14, 2019, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Cognical, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.24
Second Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2019, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Cognical, Inc., and Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
10.25
Third Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2019, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Cognical, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.26
Fourth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2019, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Cognical, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.27
Fifth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of March 31, 2020, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.25 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.28
Sixth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated April 29, 2020, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.26 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.29
Seventh Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of May 6, 2020, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.30
Eighth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2020, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.28 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.31
Ninth Amendment and Joinder to Loan and Security Agreement and Consent, dated as of December 4, 2020, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of FinServ Acquisition Corp filed with the SEC on April 2, 2021).
10.32
Tenth Amendment and Joinder to Loan and Security Agreement and Consent, dated as of January 13, 2021, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of FinServ Acquisition Corp. filed with the SEC on April 2, 2021).
10.33
Eleventh Amendment and Joinder to Loan and Security Agreement and Consent, dated as of July 1, 2021, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.34
Twelfth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2021, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of Katapult Holdings, Inc. filed with the SEC on December 17, 2021).
10.35
Thirteenth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2022, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.33 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.36
Fourteenth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2022, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company's Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on May 10, 2022).
10.37†
Fifteenth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of March 6, 2023, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.38 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023).
10.38
Limited Waiver and Sixteenth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of April 23, 2024, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., Midtown Madison Management LLC and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.43 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on April 24, 2024).
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
10.39
Seventeenth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2024, by and among Katapult SPV-1 LLC, Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc., and Midtown Madison Management LLC, as administrative, payment and collateral agent and lender, and the lenders party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 26, 2024).
10.40
Warrant to Purchase Stock, dated as of March 6, 2023, issued by Katapult Holdings, Inc., to Midtown Madison Management LLC as holder (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10,39 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023).
10.41
Revolving Note, dated as of March 6, 2023, issued by Katapult SPV-1 LLC to Midtown Madison Management LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.40 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023).
10.42
Amended and Restated Revolving Note, dated as of March 6, 2023, issued by Katapult SPV-1 LLC to Midtown Madison Management LLC as holder (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.41 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023).
10.43
Pledge Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2019, by and between Cognical, Inc. and Midtown Madison Management LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.34 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.44
Indemnity Guaranty, dated as of May 14, 2019, by and among Cognical, Inc., Cognical Holdings, Inc. and Midtown Madison Management LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.35 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
10.45
Corporate Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of December 4, 2020, by and among Katapult Group, Inc., Katapult Holdings, Inc. and Midtown Madison Management LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.36 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2022).
19.1*
Insider Trading Policies
21.1
Subsidiaries of Registrant (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 21.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 of Katapult Holdings, Inc. filed with the SEC on June 30, 2021).
23.1*
Consent of Grant Thornton.
24.1*
Power of Attorney (included in the signature page hereof).
31.1*
Certification of Principal 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.
31.2*
Certification of Principal 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.
32.1+
Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2+
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
97.1
Katapult Holdings, Inc. Compensation Recoupment Policy, dated November 3, 2023 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 97 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on April 24, 2024).
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(dollars in thousands, except per share data)
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