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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
PMI grants equity awards primarily through the Company’s 2025 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2025 Plan”), which was approved by the Board on April 7, 2025, and was approved by a majority of the Company’s stockholders on April 25, 2025. As a result of the Board and stockholders’ respective approvals, the Company’s 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the “2015 Plan”) was terminated, replaced and superseded by the 2025 Plan, except that any grants awarded under the 2015 Plan will remain in effect pursuant to their terms.
The 2025 Plan provides for grants in the form of incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, and unrestricted stock. The maximum number of shares of common stock which may be issued under the 2025 Plan as of the date of the Board’s approval is 6,344,184 shares of common stock, plus any shares of common stock returned to the 2025 Plan (which, together with the 6,344,184 shares, may not exceed 91,417,252 shares of common stock). Under the 2025 Plan, incentive stock options may be granted solely to the Company’s employees, including its officers. Awards other than incentive stock options may be granted to the Company’s directors, consultants or employees, including its officers. The 2025 Plan is administered by the Board, which in turn has delegated
authority to administer the plans to the Compensation Committee of the Board. The 2025 Plan will remain in effect through April 7, 2035, unless sooner terminated under the terms of the 2025 Plan.
Stock Option Activity
Stock option activity under the 2005 Plan and 2015 Plan is summarized for the year ended December 31, 2025 below:
 
Options
Issued and
Outstanding
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
Weighted-Average
Contractual Term
(in years)
Aggregate intrinsic value1
(in thousands)
Balance as of January 1, 202583,441,624 $0.16 4.98$36,174 
     Options granted5,468,950 $0.63  
     Options exercised (737,326)$0.06  
     Options forfeited(10,793,022)$0.35  
     Option expirations(493,645)$0.02 
Balance as of December 31, 202576,886,581 $0.17 3.94$46,042 
Options vested and expected to vest as of December 31, 202574,113,744 $0.17 3.94$45,314 
Options vested and exercisable at December 31, 202567,651,143 $0.13 3.29$43,617 
1. Aggregate intrinsic value represents the excess of the fair value of our Common Stock as of December 31, 2025 over the exercise price of the outstanding in-the-money options.

Additional information pertaining to PMI's Common Stock option activities is as follows:
Year ended December 31,
202520242023
Weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted (per share)$0.39 $0.23 $0.21 
Other Information Regarding Stock Options
The fair value of options granted to employees is estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. This valuation model for stock-based compensation expense requires PMI to make assumptions and judgments about the variables used in the calculation, including the fair value of PMI’s Common Stock, the expected term (the period of time that the options granted are expected to be outstanding), the volatility of PMI’s Common Stock, a risk-free interest rate, and expected dividends. Given the absence of a publicly traded market, the Company considered numerous objective and subjective factors to determine the fair value of PMI’s Common Stock at each grant date. These factors included, but were not limited to: (i) contemporaneous valuations of Common Stock performed by unrelated third-party specialists, (ii) the prices for PMI’s preferred stock sold to outside investors, (iii) the rights, preferences and privileges of PMI’s preferred stock relative to PMI’s Common Stock; (iv) the lack of marketability of PMI’s Common Stock, (v) developments in the business, (vi) secondary transactions of PMI’s common and preferred shares, and (vii) the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a merger or acquisition of Prosper, given prevailing market conditions. As PMI’s stock is not publicly traded, volatility for stock options is based on an average of the historical volatilities of the Common Stock of several entities with characteristics similar to those of PMI. The expected term assumptions were determined based on the vesting terms, exercise terms and contractual lives of the options using the simplified method. The risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant for periods corresponding with the expected life of the option. PMI uses an expected dividend yield of zero as it does not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future.
PMI also estimates forfeitures of unvested stock options. Expected forfeitures are based on the Company’s historical experience. To the extent actual forfeitures differ from the estimates, the difference will be recorded as a cumulative adjustment in the period estimates are revised. No compensation cost is recorded for options that do not vest.
The fair value of PMI’s stock option awards granted during the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 was estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes model with the following weighted average assumptions:
December 31,
 202520242023
Volatility of common stock65.27 %66.08 %66.63 %
Risk-free interest rate3.95 %4.14 %3.55 %
Expected life6.0 years6.0 years6.0 years
Dividend yield— %— %— %
PMI did not grant any performance-based options in 2025, 2024, or 2023.
Restricted Stock Unit Activity
For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, PMI did not grant any RSUs.
The following table summarizes the number of PMI’s RSU activity for the year ended December 31, 2025:
 Number of SharesWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 20252,560,133 $1.03 
Forfeited(500)$2.14 
Unvested at December 31, 20252,559,633 $1.03 
Stock-Based Compensation
The following table presents the amount of stock-based compensation related to stock-based awards granted to employees recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations for the periods presented (in thousands):
 Years Ended December 31,
 202520242023
Origination and Servicing$109 $86 $83 
Sales and Marketing68 446 304 
General and Administrative1,130 1,084 1,188 
Total Stock-Based Compensation$1,307 $1,616 $1,575 
For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, Prosper capitalized $0.3 million, $0.3 million and $0.2 million, respectively, of stock-based compensation as internal use software and website development costs. As of December 31, 2025, the unamortized stock-based compensation expense adjusted for forfeiture estimates related to Prosper's employees’ unvested stock-based awards was approximately $1.7 million, which will be recognized over a remaining weighted-average vesting period of approximately 2.6 years.