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Jun. 30, 2025 | |
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INVESTMENTS | 3. INVESTMENTS In April 2025, the Company entered into a Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Kintsugi AI, Inc. (“Kintsugi”), a San Francisco-based, AI startup focused on automating sales tax compliance for small and mid-size businesses (the “Kintsugi Investment”). The Company completed the Kintsugi Investment with the goal of expanding use of AI in its tax software solutions to deliver new innovations to customers. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company purchased 1,568 preferred shares (the “Preferred Stock”) for aggregate consideration of approximately $15,000 (the “Purchase Price”), representing approximately 10% of the fully diluted shares outstanding of Kintsugi on an “as converted” basis, and received a warrant to purchase 320 shares of Kintsugi’s Class A common stock at a price of $0.01 per share (the “Warrant”). The Warrant will vest subject to Kintsugi failing to achieve a certain annualized recurring monthly revenue threshold as of January 15, 2026. The Company and Kintsugi also entered into a license and intellectual property sharing arrangement (the “License Agreement”) providing for, among other things, the Company’s use of and collaboration with respect to certain of Kintsugi’s intellectual property. Additionally, the Company has designated one member to Kintsugi’s board of directors. In accordance with ASC 805-50-30-3, the Company allocated the full Purchase Price to the value of the Preferred Stock as the fair value of both the Warrant and the License Agreement were determined to be nil. The Company classified the Preferred Stock as an equity security under ASC 321, Investments – Equity Securities. As Kintsugi is a privately held company without a readily determinable fair value, the Preferred Stock qualifies for the measurement alternative under ASC 321 and is measured at cost, less impairment, subject to upward and downward adjustments resulting from observable price changes for identical or similar investments of the same issuer. These adjustments require quantitative assessments of the fair value, which may require the use of unobservable inputs, which management considers to be Level 3 measurements under the fair value hierarchy. The Company performs a qualitative assessment each reporting period to identify indicators of impairment. No observable price change or impairment adjustments have been recorded for the three or six months ended June 30, 2025. The $15,000 carrying value of the Kintsugi Investment is presented in the long-term investment line in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The fair value of the Warrant was determined by third-party valuation specialists using a Monte Carlo simulation in a risk-neutral framework calibrated to management’s revenue forecasts. The following assumptions were used: expected revenue volatility of 24.5%, equity volatility of 75.0%, a revenue discount rate of 7.2%, and expected term of 0.8 years. Total transaction costs associated with the Kintsugi Investment are recorded in other operating expense (income), net in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) and amounts are not material. |