This annual report on Form 10-K (this “Report”) contains statements that are considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and its rules and regulations (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and its rules and regulations (the “Exchange Act”). These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the plans, objectives, expectations and intentions of Oblong, Inc. (“Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company”). All statements other than statements of current or historical fact contained in this Report, including statements regarding Oblong’s future financial position, business strategy, budgets, projected costs and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” and similar expressions, as they relate to Oblong, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on Oblong’s current plans, and Oblong’s actual future activities and results of operations may be materially different from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. Any or all of the forward-looking statements in this Report may turn out to be inaccurate. Oblong has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that it believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. The forward-looking statements can be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. There are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other factors that are discussed in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” and/or listed below. Oblong undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events occurring after the date hereof. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Oblong or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained in this Report. Forward-looking statements in this Report include, among other things: our ability to meet commercial commitments; our expectations and estimates relating to customer attrition, demand for our product offerings, sales cycles, future revenues, expenses, capital expenditures and cash flows; our expectations relating to the timeline to launch our new subscription-based software offerings; our ability to launch new product offerings; evolution of our customer solutions and our service platforms; our ability to fund operations and continue as a going concern; expectations regarding adjustments to our cost of revenue and other operating expenses; our ability to finance investments in product development and sales and marketing; matters related to our integration with Oblong Industries, Inc., and any benefits thereof; our ability to raise capital through sales of additional equity or debt securities and/or loans from financial institutions; our beliefs about employee relations; our beliefs about the ongoing performance and success of our Managed Service business; statements relating to market need and evolution of the industry, our solutions and our service platforms; our beliefs about the service offerings of our competitors and our ability to differentiate Oblong’s services; adequacy of our internal controls; statements regarding our information systems and our ability to protect and prevent security breaches; expectations relating to additional patent protection; and beliefs about the strength of our intellectual property, including patents. For additional information regarding known material factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our projected results, please see “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those summarized below:
•our management’s ability to execute its plans, strategies and objectives for future operations.
RISK FACTORS SUMMARY
The following is a summary of the principal risk factors that make an investment in our company speculative or risky, all of which are further described below in the section titled “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Report. This summary should be read in conjunction with the “Risk Factors” section and should not be relied upon as an exhaustive summary of the material risks facing our business.
Risks related to our business:
•Our Managed Services business experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years and may continue to experience further revenue decline in future periods;
•Our transition to a subscription-based business model for our Mezzanine™ product offerings may result in, a compression to our top line results, and if we fail to successfully manage the transition, our revenue, business, operating results and free cash flow may be adversely affected;
•Revenue growth and increase in the market share of our current product offerings depends on successful adoption of our Mezzanine™ product offerings with our channel partners, which requires sufficient sales, marketing and product development funding;
•We have a history of substantial net operating losses and we may incur future net losses;
•Our business activities may require additional financing that might not be obtainable on acceptable terms, if at all, which could have a material adverse effect on its financial condition, liquidity and its ability to operate as a going concern in the future;
•If we fail to achieve broad market acceptance on a timely basis, we will not be able to compete effectively, and we will likely experience continued declines in revenue and lower gross margins;
•We depend upon the development of new products and services, and enhancements to existing products and services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customer’s changing needs, our operating result may suffer;
•Our success depends on our ability to recruit and retain adequate engineering talent;
•Our success is highly dependent on the evolution of our overall market and on general economic conditions;
•Changes in industry structure and market conditions could lead to charges related to discontinuances of certain of our products or businesses, asset impairments and workforce reductions or restructurings;
•The markets in which we compete are intensely competitive, which could adversely affect our achievement of revenue growth;
•Industry consolidation may lead to increased competition and may harm our operating results;
•We rely on a limited number of customers for a significant portion of our revenue, and the loss of any one of those customers, or several of our smaller customers, could materially harm our business;
•There is limited market awareness of our services;
•If we do not effectively compose, structure and compensate our sales force to focus on the end customers and activities that will primarily drive our growth strategy, our business will be adversely affected;
•Our ability to sell our solutions is dependent in part on ease of use and the quality of our technical support, and any failure to offer high-quality technical support would harm our business, operating results and financial condition;
•A significant portion of our sales are through distribution channels including both System and audio visual (“AV”) integrators which have been difficult to project and, particularly volatile during the pandemic. Weakness in orders from our distribution channels may harm our operating results and financial condition;
•Inventory management relating to our sales to our two-tier distribution channel is complex, and excess inventory may harm our gross margins;
•Supply chain issues, including financial problems of contract manufacturers or component suppliers, or a shortage of adequate component supply or manufacturing capacity that increase our costs or cause a delay in our ability to fulfill orders, could have an adverse impact on our business and operating results, and our failure to estimate customer demand properly may result in excess or obsolete component supply, which could adversely affect our gross margins;
•Over the long term we intend to invest in engineering, sales, service and marketing activities, and in key priority and growth areas, and these investments may achieve delayed, or lower than expected, benefits which could harm our operating results; •We have made and may continue to make acquisitions that could disrupt our operations and harm our operating results; and
•A number of our solutions incorporate software provided under open source licenses which may restrict or impose certain obligations on how we use or distribute our solutions or subject us to various risks and challenges, which could result in increased development expenses, delays or disruptions to the release or distribution of those solutions, inability to protect our intellectual property rights and increased competition.
Risks to Owning Our Common Stock
•Our stock price has fluctuated in the past, has recently been volatile and may be volatile in the future, and as a result, investors in our common stock could incur substantial losses;
•Penny stock regulations may impose certain restrictions on the marketability of our securities;
•Future operating results may vary from quarter to quarter, and we may fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts and investors at any given time;
•We will need to raise additional capital by issuing securities or debt, which may cause significant dilution to our stockholders and restrict our operations, and
•We could fail to satisfy the standards to maintain our listing on a stock exchange.
PART I
Item 1. Business
Overview
Oblong, Inc. (“Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company”) was formed as a Delaware corporation in May 2000 and isWe are a provider of patented multi-stream collaboration technologiesproducts and managed services for video collaboration and network applications. Prior to March 6, 2020, Oblong, Inc. was named Glowpoint, Inc. (“Glowpoint”).solutions.
On October 1, 2019, the Company closed an acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interests of Oblong Industries, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation founded in 2006 (“Oblong Industries”), pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”), dated September 12, 2019, by and among the Company, Oblong Industries and Glowpoint Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, among other things, Merger Sub merged with and into Oblong Industries, with Oblong Industries surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). See further discussion of the Merger in Note 3 - Oblong Industries Acquisition to our consolidated financial statements attached hereto. At the closing of the Merger, the outstanding equity interests of Oblong Industries were exchanged for (i) 1,736,626 shares of the Company’s 6.0% Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series D Preferred Stock”) and (ii) options to acquire approximately 107,845 shares of our Common Stock at a volume weighted average exercise price of $4.92 per share. Each share of Series D Preferred Stock is automatically convertible into a number of shares of our Common Stock equal to the accrued value of the share (initially $28.50), plus any accrued dividends thereon, divided by the Conversion Price (initially $2.85 per share, subject to specified adjustments) upon the receipt of all required authorizations and approval of a new listing application for the combined organization from the NYSE American. On March 6, 2020, Glowpoint changed its name to Oblong, Inc. In this Report, we use the terms “Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company” to refer to (i) Oblong (formerly Glowpoint), for periods prior to the closing of the Merger, and (ii) the “combined organization” of Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) and Oblong Industries for periods after the closing of the Merger. For purposes of segment reporting, we refer to the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business as “Glowpoint” herein, and to the Oblong Industries business as “Oblong Industries” herein.
On October 1, 2019, the Company entered into a Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the investors party thereto, who, prior to the closing of the Merger, were stockholders of Oblong Industries (the “Purchasers”), relating to the offer and sale by the Company in a private placement (the “Offering”) of up to 131,579 shares of its 6.0% Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series E Preferred Stock”) at a price of $28.50 per share. At an initial closing on October 1, 2019 and a subsequent closing on December 18, 2019, the Company sold, and the Purchasers purchased, a total of 131,579 shares of Series E Preferred Stock for net proceeds of approximately $3,750,000. Each share of Series E Preferred Stock is automatically convertible into a number of shares of our Common Stock equal to the accrued value of the share (initially $28.50), plus any accrued dividends thereon, divided by the Conversion Price (initially $2.85 per share, subject to specified adjustments) upon the receipt of all required authorizations and approval of a new listing application for the combined organization from the NYSE American.
Each share of Series D and Series E Preferred Stock is entitled to receive an annual dividend equal to 6.0% of its then-existing Accrued Value per annum, commencing on the first anniversary of the issuance of such stock (or October 1, 2020 for the Series D Preferred Stock or October 1, 2020 or December 18, 2020, as applicable, for the Series E Preferred Stock). Prior to this date no dividends will accrue on such stock. Dividends are cumulative and accrue daily in arrears. If the Company’s Board of Directors does not declare any applicable dividend payment in cash, the Accrued Value of the Series D or Series E Preferred Stock, as applicable, will be increased by the amount of such dividend payment. As of December 31, 2019, no dividends have been accrued.
If the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock had been converted to common stock as of December 31, 2019, 17,349,010 and 1,315,790 shares of common stock would have been issued for the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock, respectively, which would have increased our outstanding shares of common stock from 5,161,500 to 23,826,300. Both the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock remain outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and as of the filing of this Report. The Company intends to file a new listing application with the NYSE American as soon as possible upon satisfying the exchange’s initial listing standards. Among other requirements, these standards require the Company to have at least $15 million of non-affiliate public float, which, under the Company’s current financial situation, may be difficult or impossible for the Company to satisfy.
Since the closing of the Merger on October 1, 2019, we have been focused on the integration of the former businesses of Glowpoint and Oblong Industries into a combined organization. We expect to continue operating Glowpoint’s former business in the future as part of our combined organization; however, we expect to focus the majority of our future investments in product development and sales and marketing on our efforts to grow revenue from Oblong Industries’ products and service offerings as described below. We believe there is a substantial market opportunity for Oblong Industries’ product offerings and services as discussed further below. Glowpoint’s former business experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years, with revenue of $14.8 million, $12.6 million and $9.7 million in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. These revenue declines are primarily due to net attrition of customers and lower demand for Glowpoint’s services given the competitive environment and pressure on pricing that exists in its industry. The Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019 included in this Report only reflect Oblong Industries’ financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019 since the Merger closed on October 1, 2019. Oblong Industries generated $3.2 million of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2019; therefore, total reported revenue for the combined organization was $12.8 million for calendar year 2019. As shown in the table below, the combined organization’s total revenue for calendar years 2019 and 2018 on a pro forma basis (as if the acquisition of Oblong Industries had occurred on January 1, 2018), were $25.6 million and $29.8 million, respectively.
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| | Year Ended December 31,
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| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Revenue | | | |
| Glowpoint | $ | 9,660 |
| | $ | 12,557 |
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| Oblong Industries | 15,926 |
| | 17,249 |
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| Pro forma revenue | $ | 25,586 |
| | $ | 29,806 |
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Our Products and Services
Oblong Industries
Mezzanine™ Product Offerings
Our flagship product is called Mezzanine™, a family of turn-key products that enable dynamic and immersive visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations.Mezzanine™ allows multiple people to share, control and arrange content simultaneously, from any location, enabling all participants to see the same content in its entirety at the same time in identical formats, resulting in dramatic enhancements to both in-room and virtual videoconference presentations. Applications include video telepresence, laptop and application sharing, whiteboard sharing and slides. Spatial input allows content to be spread across screens, spanning different walls, scalable to an arbitrary number of displays and interaction with our proprietary wand device. Mezzanine™ substantially enhances day-to-day virtual meetings with technology that accelerates decision making, improves communication, and increases productivity. Mezzanine™ scales up to support the most immersive and commanding innovation centers; across to link labs, conference spaces, and situation rooms; and down for the smallest work groups. Mezzanine’s digital collaboration platform can be sold as delivered systems in various configurations for small teams to total immersion experiences. The family includes the 200 Series (two display screen), 300 Series (three screen), and 600 Series (six screen) and 650 Series (arbitrarily scalable with additional corkboard displays).
See “Market Need--Oblong Industries” below for further discussion of our Mezzanine product offerings.
Advanced Technology Group Professional Services
The Advanced Technology group of Oblong Industries delivers innovative architectural scale spatial computing solutions for customers implementing Executive Briefing Centers, Command Centers, Television studios and Virtual Wargaming environments.
Oblong (formerly Glowpoint)
Managed Services for Video Collaboration
Our services are designed to provide a comprehensive suite of automated and concierge applications to simplify the user experience and expedite the adoption of video as the primary means of collaboration. Our customers include Fortune 1000
companies, along with small and medium enterprises in a variety of industries. We market our services globally through a multi-channel sales approach that includes direct sales and channel partners.
We provide a wide range of video collaboration services, from automated to orchestrated, to address the spectrum of user experience and business applications, in an effort to drive adoption of video throughout the enterprise. We deliver our services through a hybrid service platform or as a service layer on top of our customers’ video infrastructure. We provide our customers with the following suite of services to meet their videoconferencing needs:
Managed Videoconferencingis a “high-touch” concierge-based offering where we set up and manage customer videoconferences. We offer managed videoconferencing both as a cloud-based service, with videoconferences hosted in the Glowpoint Cloud, as described under “Intellectual Property” below, and as an on-premise solution leveraging the customer’s existing video infrastructure. Managed videoconferencing is available globally and works effectively across multiple networks and video devices, including desktop and mobile devices. Despite a trend to move toward “self-service” videoconferencing, many of our customers remain reliant on our scheduling, event support and conference management services. Our managed videoconferencing services are offered to our customers on either a usage basis or on a monthly subscription. These services include call scheduling and launching, and videoconference monitoring, support and reporting.
JoinMyVideo™ is an on-demand video meeting room (“VMR”) service that allows users to join from web browsers, desktops, mobile apps, and commonly used videoconferencing systems. We believe our JoinMyVideo™ service meets customers’ needs to use video communications in a mobile environment, as further discussed under “Market Need” below. With JoinMyVideo™, users are able to manage the participants in the video meeting, allowing up to 24 participants to join the meeting. JoinMyVideo™ is a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution, so the customer has no infrastructure to buy and maintain. JoinMyVideo™ is offered to our customers on a monthly subscription basis.
Hybrid Videoconferencing helps enterprises migrate from managed videoconferencing to VMRs by bringing together attributes of both services. Users can schedule their VMR, add endpoints, and send invitations to participants through an online portal. At the scheduled time, the VMR is launched, connecting the scheduled endpoints and allowing self-service users to join from video systems and desktop and mobile video apps. We believe our Hybrid Videoconferencing service merges these connection capabilities and therefore accommodates all types of users and meetings.
Video Meeting Suites provide remote access to videoconferencing for everyday business meetings and events, allowing our customers to conduct meetings and events in over 4,000 physical meeting suites across 1,300 cities without investing in video devices or infrastructure. We have partnered with the owners of these videoconference centers and arrange for our customers to hold videoconferences at convenient locations across the world based on customers’ needs. Our primary service includes the scheduling and management of a highly orchestrated business-class meeting for a professional meeting experience. As part of the extended offering beyond the physical office suite, we also enable participants who elect to use a mobile device to join a video conference from anywhere in the world. These services are largely usage-based. We also offer our customers monthly subscription rates based on a fixed number of concurrent users.
Webcastingevents enable our customers to stream live video feeds to up to thousands of viewers through their browsers and mobile devices. Enterprises often use this service on a quarterly basis for earnings calls and town hall events.
Remote Service Management
Our Remote Service Management provides an overlay to enterprise information technology (“IT”) and channel partner support organizations and provides 24/7 support and management of customer video environments. Our services are designed to align with a globally recognized set of best practices, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (“ITIL”), to standardize processes and communicate through a consistent set of terms with our customers and partners. We leverage an IT service management (“ITSM”) provider, ServiceNow Inc., to systematically provide Remote Service Management, as well as enable us to integrate with an enterprise’s systems and workflows.
We offer, on a monthly subscription basis, three tiers of Remote Service Management options, ranging from automated monitoring to end-to-end management to complement the needs of IT support organizations, as described below:
Resolve - Total Supportis our most comprehensive managementsell maintenance and support service and targets enterprises that wantcontracts related to completely offload day-to-day operations of their video environment to Glowpoint. We provide the following services: 24x7 support desk, incident/problem/change management, site certifications, and service level agreements.Mezzanine™.
Helpdeskprovides level 1 support and allows enterprise IT to scale and expand the reach of support to end users. We
complement the existing staff by taking the initial service request from the end users and providing incident management. We provide services for 24x7 support desk and incident management.
Proactive Monitoring is a remote and automated monitoring service that detects events and alerts customers’ IT when a service impacting event is discovered. The service is provided in conjunction with either Resolve - Total Support or Helpdesk. We provide event management (24/7 monitoring of our customers’ infrastructure and endpoints with email alerts when events are detected) and automated video room sweeps (our custom developed service accesses our customers’ endpoints every night, measures audio & video quality, and verifies firmware).
Network Services
Our network services provide our customers around the world with network solutions that ensure reliable, high-quality and secure traffic of video, data and internet. Network services are offered to our customers on a monthly subscription basis. Our network services business carries variable costs associated with the purchasing and reselling of this connectivity. We offer our customers the following networking solutions that can be tailored to each customer’s needs:
Cloud Connect: Video™: Allows our customers to outsource the management of their video traffic to us and provides the customer’s office locations with a secure, dedicated video network connection to the Glowpoint Cloud for video communications.
Cloud Connect: Converge™: Provides customized Multiprotocol Label Switching (“MPLS”) solutions for customers who require a converged network. A converged network is an efficient network solution that combines the customer’s voice, video, data, and Internet traffic over one or more common access circuits. We fully manage and prioritize traffic to ensure that video and other business critical applications run smoothly.
Cloud Connect: Cross Connect™: Allows the customer to leverage their existing carrier for the extension of a Layer 2 private line to our data center.
Professional and Other Services
Our professional services include onsite support, or dispatch, as well as configuration or customization of equipment or software on behalf of a customer. On a limited basis, we also resell video equipment to our customers.
Sales and Marketing
Both Glowpoint and Oblong Industries have historically sold through both direct sales and indirect sales channels. During the past several years, Glowpoint had limited resources to invest in sales and marketing and primarily relied on channel partners for demand generation. During 2019, Glowpoint had one employee engaged in sales and marketing. Glowpoint reduced sales and marketing expenses in recent years in order to reduce expenses and improve cash flow from operations. Oblong Industries had 19 employees engaged in sales and marketing activities at December 31, 2019.
In June 2019, Oblong Industries entered into a sales channel partner agreement with Cisco Systems Inc. As a result, the family of Mezzanine™ product offerings became available globally on the Cisco Global Price List as a part of the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program. This program allows Cisco’s customers and channel partners to purchase Mezzanine™ through Cisco’s Global Price List to streamline the ordering process. We anticipate our investments in sales and marketing throughout 2020 will primarily focus on further developing our core channel partner relationships.
Market Need
Oblong Industries
Today, ideation and content collaboration are gaining growing importance in both physical and virtual meeting environments to support collective brainstorming and expedite decision making. Visualization of ideas happenscan happen more naturally when people expand the collaborative canvas from sharing a single content stream among many participants to empowering an entire team, such as through our Mezzanine™ multistreammulti-stream solutions. While historically focused on in-room collaboration, the need for next-generation virtual collaboration solutions is on the rise, attributed to the confluence of several key trends that influence the way individuals collaborate. Key capabilities and features of our Mezzanine Series™ include:
•Share Work With Others. Easily present work by plugging in or sharing wirelessly with the MezzanineMezzanine™ app. Share up to 10 connected devices including laptops, in-room PCs, and digital media players. Upload images and slides to present and explore content alongside live video streams.
•Capture Ideas Instantly. Save snapshots of on-screen content to make sure good ideas don’t get lost. Annotate content in the Mezzanine™ app and share your thoughts with others. Download meeting materials to reference or share after the meeting.
•Visualize Your Options and Outcomes. Mezzanine™ content spans multiple displays so all the information you needneeded is in sight and on hand. Share more content, see more detail, and improve your visual storytelling. Arrange content for side-by-side comparisons and cross-referencing.
•Unite Distributed Teams. Connect teams and get everyone on the same page. Meeting participants share the same visual workspace so they can perform like they are in the same room. Everyone in every location can add content and steer the conversation, so teams are motivatedincreasing opportunity and motivation to participate.
•Connect with Ease. Mezzanine™ works seamlessly with your existing video conferencing and collaboration solutions so teams can join meetings with the tools they use every day. Integration with Cisco and Polycom systems simplify connecting rooms with voice, video, and content.
•Orchestrate Your Content. Place content anywhere in the room from anywhere in the room with Mezzanine’sMezzanine™’s award-winning wands. Gestural interaction makes it easy to move and highlight content to focus the attention of the team.
KeyWe believe key drivers for demand include:
•rapid growth of cloud-based unified communications (UC) services adoption and continuously increasing collaborative intensity in workplaces;
•accelerating demand for low-cost video conferencing options such as USB conference room cameras and audio/video soundbars;
•rising appetite among end-user organizations for content sharing as well as content collaboration capabilities including ideation, annotation, illustration, and coediting;
•convergence of audio, video and content collaboration (as opposed to siloed applications and platforms) to improve employee productivity;
•significant growth in the number of huddle rooms and flexible meeting spaces worldwide;
•preference for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) screen share in meeting spaces; and
•growing number of distributed and remote workers.
Today’s knowledge workers are seeking optimal meeting spaces - both in and out of the office - that foster creativity, agility, innovation, and engagement. The trend towards ad-hoc and small group meetings has led to the creation of the huddle room concept, where workers can meet in a disruption-free setting. Globally, there are over 90 million meeting spaces, 33 million of which are huddle spaces. However, it is estimated that fewer than 5 percent of these spaces are truly ‘full spectrum’ collaboration enabled. Further, the penetration of stand-alone content sharing applications is significantly less than video penetration in large and huddle-sized meeting rooms. While pre-pandemic momentum suggested end-users were beginning to embrace simple, easy to install, intuitive, and affordable collaboration solutions that integrate with cloud-based collaboration software services, we believe as businesses begin to reopen there will be significant demand for higher forms of engagement that combines robust video conferencing with enhanced content sharing as users adapt to more flexible workplace alternatives. This combination focuses on allaying customer apprehension with regards to how to cost-effectively pursue an expanded collaboration strategy without replacing their existing investments.
TransformingWe believe there is a substantial market opportunity for our Business Model
WeMezzanine™ product offerings, and we are in the process of transforming our offerings to meet the evolving needs of our customers. As part of the transformation of our business, we are evolving certain aspects of our model by designing and developing software to include subscription-based
offerings. Historically, our technologycustomers have used Mezzanine™ products and services have been developed and consumed in conventional commercial real estate spaces such as conference rooms. AsWe are currently designing and developing software offerings for our core collaboration products, evolve, we expect to add more contemporary software features along with expanded accessibility beyond commercial spaces through both hybrid and SaaS offerings. Forsoftware-as-a-service (“SaaS”) solutions delivered in the cloud.
Managed Services for Video Collaboration
We provide a discussionrange of managed services for video collaboration, from automated to orchestrated, to simplify the risks associated withuser experience in an effort to drive adoption of video collaboration throughout our strategy, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” including the risk factor entitled “We depend upon the development of new products andcustomers’ enterprise. We deliver our services and enhancements to existing products and services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customers’ changing needs, our operating results may suffer.”
Oblong (formerly Glowpoint)
As enterprise and mid-market businesses, suchthrough a hybrid service platform or as manya service layer on top of our customers’ video infrastructure. We provide our customers increasingly seekwith the following services to improvemeet their videoconferencing needs:
•Managed Videoconferencingis a “high-touch” concierge-based offering where we set up and manage customer experience through the quality of communicationvideoconferences. Our managed videoconferencing services they are confronted with several industry trends presenting emergingoffered to our customers on either a usage basis or on a monthly subscription. These services include call scheduling and varied challenges. We believe the most forceful among these trends are:launching, and videoconference monitoring, support and reporting.
increasing mobility of the workforce;
shifting priorities of business decision makers, including•Remote Service Managementprovides an increased preference for cloud delivery of applications, software-defined networking,overlay to enterprise information technology (“IT”) and channel partner support organizations and provides 24/7 support and management of multiple and varied devices; and
the rise of multi-channel customer service involving multiple modes of communications.
Revenue attributable to Glowpoint’s core and legacy product lines and services has declined. We have worked to migrate customers from legacy products, such as managed videoconferencing and video meeting suites, to more automated/software-based solutions. As a result of a growing market trend around cloud consumption preferences, more customers are exploring cost-effective software-based services for procuring technology. As this trend continues, the Company has remained focused on investing in future results by implementing cost savings programs designed to streamline its operations and eliminate overlapping processes and expenses. These cost savings programs have included: (i) reducing headcount, (ii) closing office space, (iii) eliminating other real estate costs and infrastructure associated with unused or under-utilized facilities, (iv) relocating certain job functions to lower cost geographies, including service delivery, customer care, research and development, human resources and finance, and (v) implementing reductions in cost of revenue associated with external service providers.
Many enterprises have become dependent on video communications for increased productivity and reduced operating costs, thus making video communications part of their core business practices. With the technology advancements over the past few years, including browser-based and mobile video, the options for video collaboration solutions andenvironments. Our services are greater than ever before. The growing combinations of hardware, software, and networks challenge enterprise IT organizations with finding the right fit for their business objectives. Enterprises must consider and account for implementation and integration, user adoption, analytics, management and support, and maintaining a return on investment with the existing technology deployment while preventing technology obsolescence. As a result, businesses are increasingly seeking an outsourced partner for managed services and hosted, cloud-based infrastructure to mitigate risk, reduce operational costs, and increase user satisfaction by delivering a higher caliber support level to their business.
We believe that many companies cannot fully support quality video communications on their existing infrastructure and networks. Enterprises have reduced or curtailed investments in immersive telepresence (“ITP”) videoconferencing systems, now preferring cloud-based solutions and personal or smaller group video systems. Enabling video on desktops and increased mobility remains a primary enterprise objective. As demand for ITP systems and related services decreases, and the demand for mobility and personal video services increases, we will seek to evolve our solutionsdesigned to align with a globally recognized set of best practices, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (“ITIL”), to standardize processes and attemptcommunicate through a consistent set of terms with our customers and partners. We offer, on a monthly subscription basis, three tiers of Remote Service Management options, ranging from remote proactive automated monitoring to satisfy this market demand.end-to-end management to complement the needs of IT support organizations (including 24x7 support desk, incident/problem/change management, site certifications, and service level agreements).
Managed Services for Network
We provide enterprisesour customers with network solutions that ensure reliable, high-quality and secure traffic of video, data and internet. Network services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis. Our network services business carries variable costs associated with the abilitypurchasing and reselling of this connectivity. We offer our customers the following networking solutions that can be tailored to simplifyeach customer’s needs:
•Cloud Connect: Video™: Allows our customers to outsource the management of their video experience, which increases adoptiontraffic to us and user participation. Our uniqueprovides the customer’s office locations with a secure, dedicated video network connection to the Oblong Cloud for video communications.
•Cloud Connect: Converge™: Provides customized Multiprotocol Label Switching (“MPLS”) solutions for customers who require a converged network. A converged network is an efficient network solution that combines the customer’s voice, video, data, and Internet traffic over one or more common access circuits. We fully manage and prioritize traffic to ensure that video and other business critical applications run smoothly.
•Cloud Connect: Cross Connect™: Allows the customer to leverage their existing carrier for the extension of a Layer 2 private line to our data center.
Sales and Marketing
We use a variety of marketing, sales, and support activities to generate and cultivate ongoing customer demand for our product offerings and managed services. We have a team of direct sales representatives and sales engineers.We sell globally through both direct customer sales and channel partners.
Customers
We have a diverse customer base including Fortune 1000 companies, along with small and medium enterprises across a wide range of video collaborationindustries including aerospace, consulting, executive search, broadcast media, legal, insurance, technology, financial services, is intendededucation, healthcare, real estate, retail, construction, hospitality, and government, among others. We seek to provide a service for every userestablish and meeting type within the enterprise. We believemaintain long-term relationships with our ITSM platform delivers the right tools, automation, and analytics to partners to enable a successful video deployment.customers.
Competition
Oblong Industries
The market for communication and collaboration technology services is competitive and rapidly changing. Certain features of our current Mezzanine™ series compete in the communication and collaboration technologies market with products offered by Cisco Webex, Zoom, LogMeIn, GoToMeeting, along with bundled productivity solutions providers who offer limited content
sharing capabilities such as Microsoft Teams, and Google G Suite. In the rapidly evolving “Ideation” market, certain elements of our application compete with Microsoft, Google, InFocus, Bluescape, Mersive, Barco, Nureva and Prysm.
We believe we compete favorably based on our unique method of maximizing content sharing beyond the legacy user experience, functionality, integration into existing hardware environments and total cost of ownership relative to comparable products.
Oblong (formerly Glowpoint)
With respect to our video collaboration services, we primarily compete with managed services companies, videoconferencing equipment resellers and telecommunication providers, including BT Conferencing, AT&T, Verizon, LogMeIn, Yorktel, ConvergeOne, Whitlock and AVI-SPL. We also compete with companies that offer hosted videoconference bridging solutions, including Blue Jeans Networks, Vidyo and Zoom. Lastly, the technology and software providers, including Cisco, LifeSize, Microsoft (Skype for Business and Teams) and Polycom, are delivering competitive cloud-based videoconferencing and calling services. With respect to our network services, we primarily compete with telecommunications carriers, including British Telecom, AT&T, Verizon and Telus. Our competitors offer services similar to ours both on a bundled and un-bundled basis, creating a highly competitive environment with pressure on pricing of such services. Competitor solutions also create opportunities for integration and support services for Glowpoint.
We believe we differentiate ourselves based on our full suite of cloud and managed video collaboration services in combination with the ITSM platform for support automation. We believe our services are unique based on our intellectual property, user interfaces and capabilities that we have built over the years.
Customers
Oblong Industries
Customers and Markets
Many factors influence the collaboration requirements of our customers. These include the size of the organization, number and types of technology systems, geographic location, and business applications deployed throughout the customer’s network. Our customer base is not limited to any specific industry, geography, or market segment.
A significant portion of our products and services are sold through our distribution channels, and the remainder is sold through direct sales. Our customers primarily operatedistribution channels include systems integrators, channel partners, other resellers, and distributors.
Sales to these service providers have been characterized by large and sporadic purchases, in addition to longer sales cycles. Product orders by the service providers decreased during 2021. Historically, we have seen fluctuations in our gross margins based on changes in the following markets: enterprise, commercial, and public sector.
Enterprise
Enterprise businesses are large regional, national, or global organizations with multiple locations or branch offices and typically employ 1,000 or more employees. Many enterprise businesses have unique collaboration needs within a multivendor environment. We offer service and support packages and sell these products primarily through a network of third-party application, technology vendors and channel partners.
Commercial
We define commercial businesses as organizations which typically have fewer than 1,000 employees. We sell to the larger, or midmarket, customers within the commercial market through a combinationbalance of our direct sales force and channel partners. These customers typically require the latest advanced technologies that our enterprise customers demand, but with less complexity.distribution channels.
Public Sector
Public sector entities include federal governments, state and local governments, as well as educational institution customers. Many public sector entities have specialized access requirements for collaboration services within a multi-vendor environment. We sell to public sector entities primarily through a network of third-party application, technology vendors, and channel partners.
Oblong (formerly Glowpoint)
Our customers include Fortune 1000 companies, along with small and medium enterprises across a wide range of industries including consulting, executive search, broadcast media, legal, finance, insurance and technology. Major customers are defined as direct customers or channel partners that account for more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue.
For the year ended December 31, 2019, two2021, one major customerscustomer accounted for 20% and 18%, respectively,approximately 34.7% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue. For the year ended December 31, 2018, the same2020, two major customers each accounted for 25% and 21%approximately 17.0%, respectively, of the Company’s total consolidated revenue. Any reduction
Competition
The market for communication and collaboration technology services is competitive and rapidly changing. Certain features of our current Mezzanine™ product offerings compete in the usecommunication and collaboration technologies market with products offered by Cisco WebEx, Zoom, LogMeIn, GoToMeeting, along with bundled productivity solutions providers who offer limited content sharing capabilities such as Microsoft Teams, and Google G Suite. In the rapidly evolving “Ideation” market, certain elements of our application compete with Microsoft, Google, InFocus, Bluescape, Mersive, Barco, Nureva and Prysm.
With respect to our managed services orfor video collaboration, we primarily compete with managed services companies, videoconferencing equipment resellers and telecommunication providers, including BT Conferencing, AT&T, Verizon, LogMeIn, Yorktel, ConvergeOne, Whitlock and AVI-SPL. We also compete with companies that offer hosted videoconference bridging solutions, including Blue Jeans, Vidyo and Zoom. Lastly, the business failure by onetechnology and software providers, including Cisco, LifeSize, Microsoft, and Polycom, are delivering competitive cloud-based videoconferencing and calling services. With the technology advancements over the past few years, including browser-based and mobile video, the options for video collaboration solutions and services are greater than ever before. With respect to our managed services for network, we primarily compete with telecommunications carriers, including British Telecom, AT&T, Verizon and Telus. Our competitors offer services similar to ours both on a bundled and unbundled basis, creating a highly competitive environment with pressure on pricing of such services. Revenue attributable to our majormanaged services described above has declined in recent years primarily due to loss of customers and/or wholesale channel partners could have a material adverse effect onto competition. We expect this trend to continue in the future for our business and results of operations.managed services business.
Intellectual Property
Oblong Industries
Oblong Industries’The core technology platform for Mezzanine™ is called g-speak. It enables applications to be developed that run across multiple screens and multiple devices. Our customers use the platform to solve big data problems, to collaborate more effectively, and to go from viewing pixels on a single screen to interacting with pixels on every screen. Oblong IndustriesWe have invested significant resources in developing intellectual property surrounding this technology, resulting in 8269 issued patents (51(56 in the United States and 3113 across Europe, China, Japan, Korea and India) and 128 pending patents (including 107 in the United States). These patents are mainly related to spatial computing, distributed applications and 3D input devices. We expect our issued patents to expire between 2027 and 2038.
Oblong (formerly Glowpoint)
We have invested in research and development, engineering and application development in the process of building our managed service and cloud platforms. Some of this development has led to issued patents, as described below, along with ongoing recognition in the industry as having unique tools and applications to enable our video applications.
Glowpoint Cloud Conferencing
The Glowpoint Cloud is based on a Service Oriented Architecture framework that enables us to create unique unified communication service offerings. Our cloud-based-video services can be delivered as a software and infrastructure service in a hosted environment or can support a hybrid mix of public and private clouds.
Videoconferencing has traditionally presented challenges for the user by presenting a complex maze of systems and networks that must be navigated and closely managed. Although most of the business-quality video systems today are “standards-based,” there are inherent interoperability problems between different vendors’ video equipment, resulting in communication islands. Our suite of cloud and managed services for video servicescollaboration can be accessed and utilized by customers regardless of their technology or network. Customers who purchase a Cisco, Polycom, Avaya, or LifeSize (Logitech) system, or use certain other third-party video communications software such as Microsoft, (Skype for Business), WebEx or WebRTC, may all take advantage of the Glowpoint Cloudour services regardless of their choice of network. We have built the Glowpoint Cloud toOur services support all standard video signaling protocols, including SIP, H.323 and Integrated Services Digital Network (“ISDN”) using infrastructure from a variety of manufacturers.
The Glowpoint Cloud combines years of best practices, experience and technology development into a video collaboration platform that provides instant connectivity, self-serve and managed help desk resources, and the ease of use that makes video collaboration seamless and effortless. Beyond the technology and applications, the Glowpoint Cloud is built around security protocols to enable enterprises and organizations of any size to communicate with other desired video users in a secure, high-quality and reliable fashion.
Video Service Platform
Our Video Service Platform provides enterprise customers with a cloud-based system for managing video collaboration. The Video Service Platform, which leverages technology from an industry leading ITSM provider, ServiceNow Inc., is available to our channel partners and enterprise customers. The Video Service Platform’s scalability and multi-tenant design allows us and our channel partners to seamlessly activate existing and new enterprise customers. It is completely web-based and accessible from any web-enabled device. The Video Service Platform automates and streamlines critical functions and workflows needed by IT organizations for managing enterprise video collaboration environments, including incident management, change management, and reporting/analytics for continuous improvement. Other benefits provided to enterprise IT organizations include:
Better transparency into the performance of the enterprise collaboration environment via business intelligence metrics, reporting and management dashboards;
Greater scale with self-service support, giving end users an easy interface for submitting/tracking tickets;
Deeper expertise for managing video collaboration with access to our Remote Service Management services and knowledge base;
More efficiencies gained by automating manual tasks and workflows including escalations, updates/notifications, and provisioning; and
Access to ITIL.
Patents
The development of our “video as a service” applications and network architecture has resulted in a significant amount of proprietary information and technology. We currently hold 6 patents issued in the U.S. related to real-time metering and billing for video calls, intelligent call routing, and a live video operator assistance feature, which we expect to expire between 2024 and 2031. We believe that our patented proprietary technology provides an important barrier for competitors’ potential offerings of similar video communications services.
Research and Development
The Company incurred research and development expenses during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 of $2,023,000 in 2019$2.9 million and $921,000 in 2018$3.7 million, respectively, related to the development of features and enhancements to our existing services. This increase was attributable to the inclusion of research and development expenses for Oblong Industries effective October 1, 2019.Mezzanine™ product offerings.
Employees
As of December 31, 2019,2021, we had 9949 total employees including 47 full-time employees. Of these Our human capital resources objectives include, as applicable, identifying, recruiting, retaining, incentivizing and integrating our existing and new
employees, 37 are involved in customer supportadvisors and operations, 25 in engineeringconsultants. Our compensation program is designed to attract, retain, and development, 20 in salesmotivate highly qualified employees and marketing,executives and 17 in corporate functions. Noneis comprised of oura mix of competitive base salary, bonus and equity compensation awards, as well as other employee benefits. Our employees are representednot covered by a labor union. We believe thatcollective bargaining agreement, and we consider our relations with our employees to be good. We are good.committed to diversity and inclusion as well as equitable pay within our workforce. In addition, the health and safety of our employees, customers and communities are of primary concern to us. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have taken significant steps to protect our workforce, including but not limited to, working remotely, and implementing social distancing protocols consistent with guidelines issued by federal, state, and local law.
Corporate History
Oblong, Inc. was formed as a Delaware corporation in May 2000.Prior to March 6, 2020, Oblong, Inc. was named Glowpoint, Inc. (“Glowpoint”). On October 1, 2019, the Company closed an acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interests of Oblong Industries, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation founded in 2006 (“Oblong Industries”), pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, among other things, Oblong Industries became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). On March 6, 2020, Glowpoint changed its name to Oblong, Inc.
Available Information
We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. The Exchange Act requires us to file periodic reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Copies of these periodic reports, proxy statements and other information can be read and copied on official business days during the hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information that we file electronically with the SEC.
In addition, we make available, free of charge, on our Internet website, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to these reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file this material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. You may review these documents on our website at www.oblong.com by accessing the investor relations section. Our website and the information contained on or connected to our website is not incorporated by reference herein, and our web address is included as an inactive textual reference only.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Our business faces numerous risks, including those set forth below and those described elsewhere in this Report or in our other filings with the SEC. The risks described below are not the only risks that we face, nor are they necessarily listed in order of significance. Other risks and uncertainties may also affect our business. Any of these risks may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flow. When making an investment decision with respect to our common stock, you should also refer to the other information contained or incorporated by reference in this Report, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes.
Risks Related to Our Business
We haveOur Managed Services business experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years and may continue to experience further revenue decline in future periods.
Both Glowpoint and Oblong Industries haveOur Managed Services business has experienced declines in revenue for the last several years. We believe that these revenue declines are primarily due to net attrition of customers and lower demand for ourthese services given the competitive environment and pressure on pricing that exists in our industry. During
Our transition to a subscription-based business model for our Mezzanine™ product offerings may result in a compression to our top line results, and if we fail to successfully manage the past several years, Glowpoint had limitedtransition, our revenue, business, operating results and free cash flow may be adversely affected. We are currently transitioning to a subscription-based business model and may undergo additional business model changes in the future in order to adapt to changing market demands. Our transition to a subscription-based business model entails significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to complete the transition to a subscription-based business model, or manage the transition successfully and in a timely manner. If we do not complete the transition, or if we fail to manage the transition successfully and in a timely manner, our revenue, business and operating results may be adversely affected. Moreover, we may not realize all of the anticipated benefits of the subscription transition, even if we successfully complete the transition. The transition to a subscription-based business model also means that our historical results, especially those achieved before we began the transition, may not be indicative of our future results.
Regardless of how we manage the transition, our total billings and revenue may be adversely impacted by the transition, particularly when compared to historical periods. Revenue associated with certain SaaS subscription purchases will be recognized ratably over the term of the subscription, resulting in less upfront revenue as compared to our historical revenue from previous product offerings (representing a one-time product sale that consisted of hardware and software). If we are unable to increase the volume of our subscription-based sales in any given period to make up for the lower total dollar value of certain subscription-based sales, our total billings and revenue for such period will be negatively impacted. These factors may also make it difficult to increase our revenue in a given period through additional sales in the same period.
In addition, due to the generally shorter terms of subscription-based licenses, maintaining high customer renewal rates and minimizing customer churn will become increasingly important. Our subscription customers will have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our solutions after the expiration of the subscription term, and may decide not to renew their subscriptions, or to renew only for a portion of our solutions or on pricing terms that are less favorable to us. Our customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their level of satisfaction with our solutions, their ability to continue their operations and spending levels, the pricing of our solutions and the availability of competing solutions at the time of renewal or hardware refresh. We anticipate that our subscription-based model will require us to dedicate additional resources toward educating our existing and potential customers as to investthe benefits of the subscription model and our solutions generally, and to re-train our seasoned sales employees on selling subscription-based licenses in product developmentorder to maintain and increase their productivity. As a result, our sales and marketing costs may increase.
In addition, we have adjusted, and may in orderthe future need to reversefurther adjust, our go-to-market cost structure, particularly as it relates to how we structure, effect, and compensate our sales teams, including for renewal transactions, to become more efficient as we transition to the Company’ssubscription-based business model. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions for our solutions, demand pricing or other concessions prior to renewal, or if our renewal rates fluctuate or decline, our total billings and revenue trends. Withwill fluctuate or decline, and our business and financial results will be negatively affected.
Additional risks associated with our transition to a subscription-based business model include, but are not limited to:
•if current or prospective end customers prefer our historical product offerings, adoption of our subscription-based model may not meet our expectations, or may take longer to achieve than anticipated;
•potential confusion of or creation of concerns among current or prospective end customers and channel partners, including concerns regarding changes to our pricing models;
•we may be unsuccessful in implementing or maintaining subscription-based pricing models, or we may select a pricing model that is not optimal and could negatively affect adoption, renewal rates and our business results;
•our end customers may shift purchases to our lower priced subscription offerings, which could negatively affect our overall financial results;
•when purchasing multi-year term-based subscription licenses we may see an increase in the acquisitionnumber of Oblong Industries,customers who choose to pay for only the first year of the applicable term upfront, which would negatively impact our operating and free cash flows, potentially significantly, and as a result we may need to raise additional capital which we may not be able to do on terms favorable or acceptable to us, or at all;
•our relationships with existing channel partners that are accustomed to selling our existing products may be damaged, and we may be required to dedicate additional time and resources to educate our channel partners about our transition, each of which may negatively affect our business and financial results;
•our sales employees may offer increased discounts and, if we are unable to monitor, prevent and manage such discounting behavior successfully and in a timely manner, our business and financial results will be negatively affected;
•if we are unsuccessful in adjusting our go-to-market cost structure, or in doing so in a timely or cost-effective manner, we may incur sales compensation costs at a higher than expected sales compensation costs, particularly if the pace of our subscription transition is faster than anticipated;
•we may face additional and/or different financial reporting obligations, which could increase the costs associated with our financial reporting and investor relations activities;
•investors, industry and financial analysts may have difficulty understanding the shift in our business model, resulting in changes in analysts’ financial estimates or failure to meet investor expectations.
Finally, there are many risks or uncertainties that may remain unknown to us until we have gathered more information as part of the transition. If we fail to anticipate these unknowns, whether due to a lack of information, precedent or otherwise, or if we fail to properly manage expected risks and/or execute on our transition to a subscription-based business model, our business and operating results, and our ability to accurately forecast our future operating results, may be adversely affected.
If we fail to successfully execute on our plan to sell more cloud services, which would be sold on a subscription basis over certain contract periods, our results of operations could be adversely affected. We anticipate selling our products and services as cloud-based offerings—which include offerings hosted on public cloud infrastructure—on a subscription basis over certain contract periods. This shift will require a considerable investment of resources and will continue to divert resources and increase costs, especially in cost of license and other revenues, in any given period. We have also made, and intend to continue to make, investments in the supporting infrastructure for such cloud-based offerings that we host, and may not recoup the costs of such investments. Such investments of resources may also not improve our long-term growth and results of operations. Further, the increase in some costs associated with our cloud-based services may be difficult to predict over time, especially in light of our lack of historical experience with the costs of delivering cloud-based versions of our solutions.
This plan presents a number of risks to us including, but not limited to, the following:
•arrangements entered into on a ratable subscription basis may delay when we can recognize revenue, even when compared to similar term-based subscription sales, and can require up-front costs, which may be significant;
•since revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the customer agreement, any decrease in customer purchases of our ratable subscription-based products and services will not be fully reflected in our operating results until future periods. This will also make it difficult for us to increase our revenue through additional ratable subscription sales in any given period;
•cloud-based ratable subscription arrangements are generally under short-term agreements. Accordingly, our customers generally have no long-term obligation to us and may cancel their subscription at any time, even if our customers are satisfied with our cloud-based subscription products; and
•there is no assurance that the cloud-based solutions we offer on a ratable subscription basis, including new products that we may introduce, will receive broad marketplace acceptance.
If we fail to properly execute on our plan to sell more of our products and services as cloud-based offerings on a ratable subscription basis, our business and operating results may be adversely affected, and the price of our common stock may decline.
Revenue growth and increase in the market share of our current product offerings depends on successful adoption of our Mezzanine™ product offerings with our channel partners, which requires sufficient sales, marketing and product development funding. Our goal is to grow revenue from an increase in adoption of Oblong Industries’our product offerings. If we cannot successfully gain adoption of our MezzanineMezzanine™ product offering in the Cisco partnerofferings through direct sales or our channel or through other channels,partners, we may not be able to grow revenue and/or increase the market share of our products. We cannot assure you that we will have sufficient funds available to invest in sales and marketing and continued product development in order to achieve revenue growth.
We have a history of substantial net operating losses and we may incur future net losses.
Both Glowpoint and Oblong IndustriesWe reported substantial net losses in recent years. We may not be able to achieve revenue growth or profitability or generate positive cash flow on a quarterly or annual basis in the future. If we do not achieve profitability in the future, the value of our common stock may be adversely impacted, and we could have difficulty obtaining capital to continue our operations.
Our business activities may require additional financing that might not be obtainable on acceptable terms, if at all, which could have a material adverse effect on itsour financial condition, liquidity and itsour ability to operate as a going concern in the future.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As shown in the accompanying consolidated financial statements, as of December 31, 2019, we had $4.6 million of cash, an accumulated consolidated deficit of $185.4 million resulting from historical net losses, and $5.6 million of total obligations under the Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) Loan Agreement. In addition, the former Glowpoint business hasWe have experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years with revenue of $14.8 million, $12.6 million and $9.7 million in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.we have incurred net losses.
The SVB Loan Agreement provides that interest-only payments were due through March 31, 2020, after which equal monthly principal and interest payments will be payable in order to fully repay the loan by September 1, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”). Prior to April 1, 2020, SVB (i) indicated its agreement via e-mail to defer the monthly principal payment of $291,500 and a prior deferral fee of $100,000 that were each due on April 1, 2020 and (ii) verbally agreed to defer the monthly principal payment of $291,500 that was due on May 1, 2020, in each case to June 1, 2020. Failure to make these payments will constitute an event of default under the SVB Loan Agreement. However, the Company and SVB are currently in negotiations to restructure the SVB Loan Agreement, though there can be no assurance that the Company and SVB will be able to reach any agreement. In April 2020, we received cash proceeds from a loan for $2,416,600 (the “PPP Loan”) from MidFirst Bank under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) contained within the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The PPP Loan has a term of two years, is unsecured, and is guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The PPP Loan carries a fixed interest rate of one percent (1.0%) per annum, with the first six months of interest deferred. Our capital requirements in the future will continue to depend on numerous factors, including the timing and amount of revenue, for the combined organization, customer renewal rates and the timing of collection of outstanding accounts receivable, in each case particularly as it relates to the combined organization’sour major customers, the expense to deliver services, expense for sales and marketing, expense for research and development, capital expenditures, and the cost involved in protecting intellectual property rights, debt service obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement, the amount of forgiveness of the PPP Loan, if any, and the debt service obligations under the PPP Loan, and expenses required to successfully integrate Glowpoint and Oblong Industries. While our acquisition of Oblong does provide additional revenues to the Company, the cost to further develop and commercialize Oblong’s product offerings is expected to exceed its revenues for the foreseeable future.rights. We expect to achieve certain revenue and cost synergies in connection with combining Glowpoint and Oblong Industries and also expect to reduce the Company’s operating expenses in the future as compared to our annualized operating expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2019. We also expect to continue to invest in product development and sales and marketing expenses with the goal of growing the Company’s revenue in the future. The Company believes that, based on the combined organization’sour current projection of revenue, expenses, capital expenditures, debt service obligations, and cash flows, it will not have sufficient resources to fund its operations for the next twelve months following the filing of this Report. We believe additional capital will be required to fund operations and provide growth capital including investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. To access capital to fund operations or provide growth capital, we will need to restructure the SVB Loan Agreement and raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising necessary capital or that any such offering will be on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are unable to raise additional capital that may be needed on terms acceptable to us, it could have a material
adverse effect on the Company. The factors discussed above
raise substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from these uncertainties.
The SVB Loan Agreement contains restrictions that limit our flexibility in operating our business.
As discussed herein, as of December 31, 2019 and as of the filing of this Report we had $5.6 million of total obligations outstanding under the SVB Loan Agreement. Our obligations under the Loan Agreement are secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets, including accounts receivable, intellectual property, equipment and other personal property. The Loan Agreement contains certain restrictions and covenants, which, among other things, subject to certain exceptions, restrict our ability to dispose of any portion of our business or property, engage in certain material changes to our business, enter into a merger, incur additional debt or make guarantees, make distributions or create liens or other encumbrances, or enter into related party transactions outside of the ordinary course of business. There is no assurance that SVB will provide a waiver to permit any of these actions even if such actions are in the best interests of our stockholders.
The Loan Agreement also contains customary events of default, including failure to pay any principal or interest when due, failure to perform or observe covenants, breaches of representations and warranties, certain cross defaults, certain bankruptcy related events, monetary judgment defaults and a de-listing of the Company from the NYSE American without a listing of its Common Stock on another nationally recognized stock exchange. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, the outstanding obligations may be accelerated and become immediately due and payable.
We may be unable to repay the outstanding principal and accrued interest under the SVB Loan Agreement, in which event SVB could exercise its default remedies under the Loan Agreement.
Our obligations under the Loan Agreement are secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets, including accounts receivable, intellectual property, equipment and other personal property. The Loan Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants and also includes customary events of default, including failure to pay any principal or interest when due, failure to perform or observe covenants, breaches of representations and warranties, certain cross defaults, certain bankruptcy related events, monetary judgments defaults and a de-listing of the Company from the NYSE American without a listing of its Common Stock on another nationally recognized stock exchange. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, a default interest rate of an additional 5.00% per annum may be applied to the outstanding loan balance, and SVB may declare all outstanding obligations immediately due and payable and exercise all of its rights and remedies as set forth in the Loan Agreement and under applicable law. Among other things, the Lenders could attempt to take possession of and sell substantially all of our assets, which would have a material adverse effect on the market value of our common stock.
There is no assurance that we will be able to repay all outstanding principal and accrued interest under the Loan Agreement. In order to attempt to prevent the occurrence of an event of default under the Loan Agreement, we might be required to take actions that might not be in our long-term best interests such as (1) dedicating a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to the payment of principal and accrued interest under the Loan Agreement, thereby reducing funds available to us for other purposes, (2) divesting valuable assets in order to raise funds with which to repay the principal and accrued interest under the Loan Agreement, and (3) delaying capital expenditures, new product candidate initiatives and acquisitions of other businesses. The existence of the Loan Agreement and the obligations under the Loan Agreement might also limit our ability to obtain additional equity or debt funding from third parties.
We received a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program of the CARES Act, and all or a portion of the loan may not be forgivable.
In April 2020, we received a loan for $2,416,600 from MidFirst Bank under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) contained within the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The PPP loan has a term of two years, is unsecured, and is guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The loan carries a fixed interest rate of one percent (1.0%) per annum, with the first six months of interest deferred. Under the CARES Act, we will be eligible to apply for forgiveness of certain loan proceeds used to pay payroll costs, rent, utilities and other qualifying expenses during the eight-week period following receipt of the loan, provided that we maintain our number of employees and compensation within certain parameters during such period. If the conditions outlined in the PPP loan program are adhered to by us, all or part of such loan could be forgiven. However, we cannot provide any assurance that we will be eligible for loan forgiveness or that any amount of the PPP loan will ultimately be forgiven by the SBA. Any forgiven amounts will not be included in our taxable income.
If we fail to achieve broad market acceptance on a timely basis, we will not be able to compete effectively, and we will likely experience continued declines in revenue and lower gross margins.
We operate in a highly competitive, quickly changing environment, and our future success depends on our ability to develop or acquire, and introduce, new products that achieve broad market acceptance. Our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to identify demand trends in the markets in which we operate, and to quickly develop or acquire, and build and sell products that satisfy these demands in a cost-effective manner. In order to differentiate our products from our competitors’ products, we must increase our focus and capital investment in research and development. If our products do not achieve widespread market acceptance, or if we are unsuccessful in capitalizing on market opportunities, our future growth may be slowed and our financial results could be harmed. Also, as the mix of our business increasingly includes new products and services that require additional investment, this shift may adversely impact our margins, at least in the near-term. Successfully predicting demand trends is difficult, and it is very difficult to predict the effect that introducing a new product will have on existing product sales. We will also need to respond effectively to new product announcements by our competitors by quickly introducing competitive products.
In addition, we may not be able to successfully manage integration of any new product lines with our existing products. Selling new product lines in new markets will require our management to learnexplore different strategies in order to be successful. We may be unsuccessful in launching a new product line in new markets whichthat requires management of new suppliers, potential new customers and new business models. Our management may not have the experience of selling in these new markets and we may not be able to grow our business as planned. If we are unable to effectively and successfully further develop these new product lines, we may not be able to achieve our desired sales targets and our gross margins may be adversely affected.
We may experience delays and quality issues in releasing new products, which could result in lower quarterly revenue than expected. In addition, we may experience product introductions that fall short of our projected rates of market adoption. Any future delays in product development and introduction, or product introductions that do not meet broad market acceptance, or unsuccessful launches of new product lines could result in:
•loss of or delay in revenue and loss of market share;
•negative publicity and damage to our reputation and brand;
•a decline in the average selling price of our products; and
•adverse reactions in our sales channels.
Additionally, our level of product gross margins could decline in future periods due to adverse impacts from other factors including:
•Changes in customer, geographic or product mix, including mix of configurations within each product group;
•Introduction of new products, including products with price-performance advantages, and new business models including the transformation of our business to deliver more software and subscription offerings;
•Our ability to reduce production costs;
•Entry into new markets or growth in lower margin markets, including markets with different pricing and cost structures, through acquisitions or internal development;
•Sales discounts;
•Increases in material, labor or other manufacturing-related costs, which could be significant especially during periods of supply constraints such as those impacting the market for memory components;
•Excess inventory, inventory holding charges and obsolescence charges;
•Changes in shipment volume;
•The timing of revenue recognition and revenue deferrals;
•Increased cost (including those caused by tariffs), loss of cost savings or dilution of savings due to changes in component pricing or charges incurred due to inventory holding periods if parts ordering does not correctly anticipate product demand or if the financial health of either contract manufacturers or suppliers deteriorates;
•Lower than expected benefits from value engineering;
•Increased price competition;
•Changes in distribution channels;
•Increased warranty or royalty costs;
•Increased amortization of purchased intangible assets; and
•Our success in executing on our strategy and operating plans.
If we cannot successfully introduce new product lines, either through rapid innovation or acquisition of new products or product lines, we may not be able to maintain or increase the market share of our products. In addition, if we are unable to successfully introduce or acquire new products with higher gross margins, or if we are unable to improve the margins on our existing product lines, our revenue and overall gross margin will likely decline.
Product quality problems could lead to reduced revenue, gross margins and higher net losses.We cannot assure youproduce highly complex products that incorporate leading-edge technology, including both hardware and software. Software typically contains bugs that can unexpectedly interfere with expected operations. There can be no assurance that our present or future products will achieve market acceptance on a sustained basis. In order to achieve market acceptance and achieve future revenue growth, we must introduce new product lines, incorporate new technologies into our existing product lines and design, and develop and successfully commercialize higher performance products in a timely manner. We cannot assure you that itpre-shipment testing programs will be ableadequate to offer newdetect all defects, either ones in individual products or complementaryones that could affect numerous shipments, which might interfere with customer satisfaction, reduce sales opportunities or affect gross margins. From time to time, we have had to replace certain components and provide remediation in response to the discovery of defects or bugs in products that gainwe had shipped. There can be no assurance that such remediation, depending on the product involved, would not have a material impact. An inability to cure a product defect could result in the failure of a product line, temporary or permanent withdrawal from a product or market, acceptance quickly enoughdamage to avoid decreased revenues during currentour reputation, inventory costs or future product introductions or transitions.reengineering expenses, any of which could have a material impact on our revenue, margins and net loss.
We depend upon the development of new products and services, and enhancements to existing products and services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customer’s changing needs, our operating result may suffer.
The markets for our products and services are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and new product and service introductions. Our operating results depend on our ability to develop and introduce new products and services into existing and emerging markets and to reduce the production costs of existing products. If customers do not purchase and/or renew our offerings, our business could be harmed. The process of developing new technology related to market transitions - transitions—such as collaboration, digital transformation, and cloud - cloud—is complex and uncertain, and if we fail to accurately predict customers’ changing needs and emerging technological trends our business could be harmed. We must commit significant resources, including the investments we have been making in our strategic priorities to developing new products and services before knowing whether our investments will result in products and services the market will accept. In particular, if our modeled evolution from on-premises products to hybrid and, ultimately, SaaS consumption of our flagship Mezzanine™ products does not emerge as we believe it will, or if the industry does not evolve as we believe it will, or if our strategy for addressing this evolution is not successful, many of our strategic initiatives and investments may be of no or limited value. Similarly, our business could be harmed if we fail to develop, or fail to develop in a timely fashion, offerings to address other market transitions, or if the offerings addressing these other transitions that ultimately succeed are based on technology, or an approach to technology, different
from ours. In addition, our business could be adversely affected in periods surrounding our new product introductions if customers delay purchasing decisions to qualify or otherwise evaluate new product offerings.
We have also been transforming our business to move from selling individual products and services generally consumed in conventional commercial conference rooms to selling products and services integrated into architectures and solutions, and we are seeking to meet the evolving needs of customers which include offering our products and solutions in the manner in which customers wish to consume them. As a part of this transformation, we continue to make changes to how we are organized and how we build and deliver our technology, including changes in our business models with customers. If our strategy for addressing our customer needs, or the architectures and solutions we develop do not meet those needs, or the changes we are making in how we are organized and how we build and deliver orour technology is incorrect or ineffective, we may not be able to achieve our customer adoption and revenue goals, in connection with which our operating results and financial condition may be negatively affected.
Furthermore, we may not execute successfully on our vision or strategy because of challenges with regard to product planning and timing, technical hurdles that we fail to overcome in a timely fashion, or a lack of appropriate resources. This could result in competitors, some of which may also be our partners, providing those solutions before we do and loss of market share, revenue and earnings. In addition, the growth in demand for technology delivered as a service enables new competitors to enter the market. The success of new products and services depends on several factors, including proper new product and service definition, component costs, timely completion and introduction of these products and services, differentiation of new products and services from those of our competitors, and market acceptance of these products and services. There can be no assurance that we will successfully identify new product and services opportunities, develop and bring new products and services to market in a timely manner, or achieve market acceptance of our products and services or that products, services and technologies developed by others will not render our products, services or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.
HoldersOur success depends on our ability to recruit and retain adequate engineering talent. The market for our products and services are characterized by rapidly changing technology. The pressure to innovate and stay ahead of our Series C Preferred Stock and other preferred securities have certain consent rights that could limit us from taking certain corporate actions, and as a result may adversely affectcompetitors requires an investment in talent. Specifically, competing successfully in this market depends on our business, operating results and stock price.
Holders of our 0% Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series C Preferred Stock”) have certain consent rights with respect to its ability to take certain corporate actions, includingrecruit and retain adequate
engineering talent. Because of the following:
the issuance, authorization or creationcompetitive nature of any class or series of capital stock seniorthis industry, this can prove a challenge. Failure to or on parityrecruit and retain adequate talent could negatively impact our ability to keep up with the Series C Preferred Stock, or any class or series of capital stock junior to the Series C Preferred Stock but with a maturity, redemption or repayment date prior to the date on which any Series C Preferred Stock remains outstanding; andrapidly changing technology.
the entry by the Company into certain “fundamental transactions,” including transactions constituting a change of control of the Company, certain reorganization transactions or a sale of all or substantially all of our assets.
In addition to the foregoing consent rights, holders of our Series C Preferred Stock have the right to participate, pro-rata on the post-conversion basis of its preferred stock, in (i) any purchase rights issued by us pro-rata to the holders of any class of our common stock and (ii) the distribution of securities or other assets made by us to the holders of common stock pursuant to certain fundamental corporate transactions.
Except as required by law or our Certificate of Incorporation, holders of our Series C Preferred Stock have the same voting rights as holders of common stock, voting together as one class on an as-converted basis as if converted at a conversion price of $3.33 per share (note that this conversion price for voting purposes is different than the actual conversion price of $3.00 per share).
Holders of our Series A-2, Series D and Series E Preferred Stock are provided with certain standard consent and voting rights under the Certificates of Designations governing such securities.
The foregoing consent and other rights of the holders of our Preferred Stock could, while such securities are outstanding, limit us from obtaining future financings to withstand a future downturn in our business or the economy in general, or to otherwise conduct necessary corporate activities, and as a result may adversely affect our business, operating results and stock price.
Our success is highly dependent on the evolution of our overall market and on general economic conditions.
The market for collaboration technology and services is evolving rapidly. Although certain industry analysts project significant growth for this market, their projections may not be realized. Our future growth depends on broad acceptance and adoption of collaboration technologies and services. In addition, as we continue to develop new solutions designed to address new market demands, such as our Mezzanine™ product offerings, sales of our solutions will in part depend on capturing new spending in these markets, including cloud services. There can be no assurance that this market will grow, that our offerings will be adopted or that businesses will purchase our collaboration technologies and services. If we are unable to react quickly to changes
in the market, if the market fails to develop or develops more slowly than expected, or if our services do not achieve market acceptance, then we are unlikely to achieve profitability. Additionally, adverse economic conditions may cause a decline in business and consumer spending which could adversely affect our business and financial performance.
WeChanges in industry structure and market conditions could lead to charges related to discontinuances of certain of our products or businesses, asset impairments and workforce reductions or restructurings. In response to changes in industry and market conditions, we may be unablerequired to adequately respondstrategically realign our resources and to consider restructuring, disposing of or otherwise exiting businesses. Any resource realignment, or decision to limit investment in or dispose of or otherwise exit businesses, may result in the recording of special charges, such as inventory and technology-related write-offs, workforce reduction or restructuring costs, charges relating to consolidation of excess facilities, or claims from third parties who were resellers or users of discontinued products. Our estimates with respect to the useful life or ultimate recoverability of our carrying basis of assets, including goodwill and intangible assets, could change as a result of such assessments and decisions. Although in certain instances our supply agreements allow us the option to cancel, reschedule and adjust our requirements based on our business needs prior to firm orders being placed, our loss contingencies may include liabilities for contracts that we cannot cancel with contract manufacturers and suppliers.
The markets in which we compete are intensely competitive, which could adversely affect our achievement of revenue growth. The markets in which we compete are characterized by rapid changes in technology.
The market for our collaborationchange, converging technologies and services is characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequenta migration to collaboration solutions that offer relative advantages. These market factors represent a competitive threat to us. We compete with numerous vendors in each product introductions.category. The introduction of products and services embodying new technology and the emergence of new industry standards may render our existing product and service offerings obsolete and unmarketable if we are unable to adapt to change. A significant factor in our ability to grow and to remain competitive is our ability to successfully introduce new products and services that embody new technology, anticipate and incorporate evolving industry standards and achieve levels of functionality and price acceptable to the market. If our offerings are unable to meet expectations or unable to keep pace with technological changes in the collaboration industry, our offerings could eventually become obsolete. We may be unable to allocate the funds necessary to upgrade our offerings as improvements in collaboration technologies are introduced. In the event that other companies develop more advanced service offerings, our competitive position relative to such companies would be harmed.
We operate in a highly competitive market and manyoverall number of our competitors have greater financial resourcesproviding niche product solutions may increase. Also, the identity and established relationships with major corporate customers.composition of competitors may change as we increase our activity in newer product areas, and in key priority and growth areas. In addition, the growth in demand for technology delivered as a service enables new competitors to enter the market. As we continue to expand globally, we may see new competition in different geographic regions.
The collaboration industry is highly competitive and includes large, well-financed participants. ManySome of theseour competitors compete across many of our product lines, while others are primarily focused in a specific product area. In addition, many of our competitor organizations have substantially greater financial and other resources, including technical and engineering resources, than us,we do, furnish some of the same services provided by us, and have established relationships with major corporate customers that have policies of purchasing directly from them. Our competitors offer services similar both on a bundled and un-bundledunbundled basis, creating a highly competitive environment with pressure on pricing of such services. Barriers to entry are relatively low, and new ventures to create products that do or could compete with our products are regularly formed. We believe that as the demand for collaboration technologies continues to increase, additional competitors, many of which may have greater resources than us, will continue to enter this market. Additionally, as we expand into new markets, we will face competition not only from our existing competitors but also from other competitors, including existing companies with strong technological, marketing and sales positions in those markets.
The principal competitive factors in the markets in which we presently compete and may compete in the future include the ability to sell successful business outcomes; product performance; price; the ability to introduce new products, including providing continuous new customer value and products with price-performance advantages; the ability to reduce production costs; the ability to provide value-added features such as security, reliability and investment protection; conformance to standards; market presence; the ability to provide financing; and disruptive technology shifts and new business models.
Industry consolidation may lead to increased competition and may harm our operating results. There is a continuing trend toward industry consolidation in our markets. We expect this trend to continue as companies attempt to strengthen or hold their market positions in an evolving industry and as companies are acquired or are unable to continue operations. Companies that are strategic alliance partners in some areas of our business may acquire or form alliances with our competitors, thereby reducing their business with us. We believe that industry consolidation may result in stronger competitors that are better able to
compete as sole-source vendors for customers. This could lead to more variability in our operating results and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Furthermore, particularly in the service provider market, rapid consolidation will lead to fewer customers, with the effect that loss of a major customer could have a material impact on results.
We rely on a limited number of customers for a significant portion of our revenue, and the loss of any one of those customers, or several of our smaller customers, could materially harm our business.
A significant portion of our revenue is generated from a limited number of customers. For the year ended December 31, 2019, two2021, one major customerscustomer accounted for 20% and 18%, respectively,34.7% of the Company’s total consolidated revenue. The composition of our significant customers will vary from period to periodperiod-to-period and we expect that most of our revenue will continue, for the foreseeable future, to come from a relatively small number of customers. Consequently, our financial results may fluctuate significantly from period-to-period based on the actions of one or more significant customers. A customer may take actions that affect the Company for reasons that we cannot anticipate or control, such as reasons related to the customer’s financial condition, changes in the customer’s business strategy or operations, changes in technology and the introduction of alternative competing products, or as the result of the perceived quality or cost-effectiveness of our products. Our agreements with these customers may be canceled if we materially breach the agreement or for other reasons outside of our control such as insolvency or financial hardship that may result in a customer filing for bankruptcy court protection against unsecured creditors. In addition, our customers may seek to renegotiate the terms of current agreements or renewals. The loss of or a reduction in sales or anticipated sales to our most significant or several of our smaller customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Any system failures or interruptions may cause loss of customers.
Our success depends, in part, on the seamless, uninterrupted operation of our managed service offerings. As the complexity and volume continue to increase, we will face increasing demands and challenges in managing them. Any prolonged failure of these services or other systems or hardware that cause significant interruptions to our operations could seriously damage our reputation and result in customer attrition and financial loss.
There is limited market awareness of our services.
Our future success will be dependent in significant part on our ability to generate demand for our collaboration technologies and services. To this end, our direct marketing and indirect sales operations must increase market awareness of our service offerings to generate increased revenue. We have limited sales and marketing resources, with 20 employees in sales and marketing as of December 31, 2019, and we have had limited resources and/or cash flow in the last several years for spending on advertising, marketing and additional personnel.resources. Our products and services require a sophisticated sales effort targeted at the senior management of our prospective customers. If we were to hire new employees in sales and marketing, those employees will require training and take time to achieve full productivity. We cannot be certain that our new hires will become as productive as necessary or that we
will be able to hire enough qualified individuals or retain existing employees in the future. In June 2019, Oblong Industries entered into a sales channel partner agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. As a result, the family of Mezzanine™ product offerings became available globally on the Cisco Global Price List as a part of the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program. This program allows Cisco’s customers and channel partners to purchase Mezzanine™ through Cisco’s Global Price List to streamline the ordering process. Given the limited history with sales through this channel, thereThere can be no assurance that we will generate significant sales through the Cisco channel program.program or that our cloud-based products and services will be included in this, or similar, channels. We cannot be certain that we will be successful in our efforts to market and sell our products and services, and, if we are not successful in building market awareness and generating increased sales, future results of operations will be adversely affected.
If we do not effectively compose, structure and compensate our sales force to focus on the end customers and activities that will primarily drive our growth strategy, our business will be adversely affected. As indicated above, our growth is dependent in large part on the success of our sales force and in particular our ability to structure our sales force and sales compensation in a way that aligns with our growth strategy. As part of our efforts to appropriately structure and compensate our sales force such that their incentives are properly aligned with our growth strategy, we have made changes to our sales processes, sales segmentation and leadership structures for our sales teams and may need to make additional changes in the future. Such changes may take longer than anticipated to successfully implement, and we may not be able to realize the full benefits thereof, which may have a material adverse impact on our sales productivity as well as our business and operational results generally. In particular, as indicated above, our growth continues to be substantially dependent on our ability to increase our sales to large enterprises, particularly when those sales result in large orders for our solutions. Competition for sales employees who have the knowledge and experience necessary to effectively penetrate major enterprise accounts is fierce, and we may not be successful in hiring such employees, or hiring them on the timelines we anticipate, which will negatively impact our ability to target and penetrate major enterprise accounts. In addition, we anticipate that the sales cycles associated with major accounts will be longer than our traditional sales cycles, which will increase the time it will take our sales managers to become fully productive. In addition, as our organization continues to focus on major accounts and large deals, the productivity of our traditional sales teams may be impacted.
As we continue with this transition to a subscription-based business model, we expect to adjust the compensation structure of our sales force, particularly as it relates to how we compensate our sales teams for sales of cloud services. These segmentation projects, business model transitions and compensation structure changes may lead to fluctuations in sales productivity that will make it more difficult to accurately project our operating results or plan for future growth. If we are unable to effectively manage these changes or implement new sales structures in a timely manner, or if our decision to segment our sales force is not successful in obtaining large sales of our solutions, our growth and ability to achieve long-term projections may be negatively impacted, and our business and operating results will be adversely affected.
Our ability to sell our solutions is dependent in part on ease of use and the quality of our technical support, and any failure to offer high-quality technical support would harm our business, operating results and financial condition. Once our solutions are deployed, our end customers depend on our support organization to resolve any technical issues relating to our solutions. Furthermore, because of the emerging nature of our solutions, our support organization often provides support for and troubleshoots issues for products of other vendors running on our solutions, even if the issue is unrelated to our solutions. There is no assurance that we can solve issues unrelated to our solutions, or that vendors whose products run on our solutions will not challenge our provision of technical assistance to their products. Our ability to provide effective support is largely dependent on our ability to attract, train and retain personnel who are not only qualified to support our solutions, but also well versed in some of the primary applications and hypervisors that our end customers run on our solutions. Furthermore, as we expand our operations internationally, our support organization will face additional challenges, including those associated with delivering support, training and documentation in languages other than English. In addition, as we continue to expand our product portfolio to include additional solutions our ability to provide high-quality support will become more difficult and will involve more complexity. Any failure to maintain high-quality installation and technical support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could harm our reputation and brand, adversely affect our ability to sell our solutions to existing and prospective end customers, and could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
We rely on third-party software that may be difficult to replace or may not perform adequately.
We integrate third-party licensed software components into our technology infrastructure (e.g., ServiceNow, Inc.) in order to provide our services. This software may not continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or pricing or may fail to continue to be updated to remain competitive. The loss of the right to use this third-party software may increase our expenses or impact the provisioning of our services. The failure of this third-party software could materially impact the performance of our services and may cause material harm to our business or results of operations.
We depend upon our network providers and facilities infrastructure.
Our success depends upon our ability to implement, expand and adapt our network infrastructure and support services to accommodate an increasing amount of video traffic and evolving customer requirements at an acceptable cost. This has required and will continue to require that we enter into agreements with providers of infrastructure capacity, equipment, facilities and support services on an ongoing basis. We cannot ensure that any of these agreements can be obtained on satisfactory terms and conditions. We also anticipate that future expansions and adaptations of our network infrastructure facilities may be necessary in order to respond to growth in the number of customers served.
Our networkA significant portion of our sales are through distribution channels including both system integrators and channel partners (collectively the “Service Providers”) which have been difficult to project and, particularly volatile during the pandemic. Weakness in orders from our distribution channels may harm our operating results and financial condition. Sales to the Service Providers have been characterized by large and sporadic purchases, in addition to longer sales cycles. Product orders by the Service Providers decreased during 2021 and at various times in the past we have experienced significant weakness in product orders from Service Providers. Product orders from the Service Providers could fail, whichcontinue to decline and, as has been the case in the past, such weakness could negatively impact our revenues.
Our successpersist over extended periods of time given fluctuating market conditions. Sales activity in this industry depends upon our abilitythe stage of completion of expanding network infrastructures; the availability of funding; and the extent to deliver reliable, high-speed access to our channels’ and customers’ data centers and upon the ability and willingness of our telecommunications providers to deliver reliable, high-speed telecommunications service through their networks. Our network and facilities, and other networks and facilities providing services to us, are vulnerable to damage, unauthorized access or cessation of operations from human error and tampering, breaches of security, fires, earthquakes, severe storms, power losses, telecommunications failures, software defects, intentional acts of vandalism including computer viruses, and similar events. The occurrence of a natural disaster or other unanticipated problems at the network operations center, key sites at which we locate routers, switches and other computer equipment that make up the backbone of our service offering and hosted infrastructure, or at one or more of our partners’ data centers, could substantially and adversely impact our business. We cannot ensure that we will not experience failures or shutdowns relating to individual facilities or even catastrophic failure of the entire network or hosted infrastructure. Any damage to, or failure of, our systems or service providers couldare affected by regulatory, economic, and business conditions in the country of operations. Weakness in orders from this industry, including as a result of any slowdown in reductions in,capital expenditures by service providers (which may be more prevalent during a global economic downturn, or terminationsperiods of services supplied to our customers, whicheconomic, political or regulatory uncertainty), could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition. Such slowdowns may continue or recur in future periods. Orders from this industry could decline for many reasons other than the competitiveness of our products and services within their respective markets. For example, in the past, many of our Service Providers’ customers have been materially and adversely affected by slowdowns in the general economy, by overcapacity, by changes in the Service Providers’ market, by regulatory developments, and by constraints on capital availability, resulting in business failures and substantial reductions in spending and expansion plans. These conditions have materially harmed our business and operating results in the past, and could affect our business and operating results in any future period. Finally, our Service Providers’ customers typically have longer implementation cycles; require a broader range of operations.services, including design services; demand that vendors take on a larger share of risks; often require acceptance provisions, which can lead to a delay in
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revenue recognition; and expect financing from vendors. All these factors can add further risk to business conducted with Service Providers.
Disruption of or changes in our distribution model could limit or deny us access to their network orharm our sales and margins. If we fail to perform, whichmanage distribution of our products and services properly, or if our Service Providers’ financial condition or operations weaken, our revenue and gross margins could be adversely affected. A significant portion of our products and services are sold through our distribution channels, and the remainder is sold through direct sales. Our distribution channels include systems integrators, channel partners, other resellers, and distributors. Systems integrators and channel partners typically sell directly to end users and often provide system installation, technical support, professional services, and other support services in addition to network equipment sales. Systems integrators also typically integrate our products into an overall solution, and a number of service providers are also systems integrators. Distributors stock inventory and typically sell to systems integrators, channel partners, and other resellers. We refer to sales through distributors as two-tier system of sales to the end customer. If sales through indirect channels increase, this may lead to greater difficulty in forecasting the mix of our products and, to a degree, the timing of orders from our customers.
Historically, we have seen fluctuations in our gross margins based on changes in the balance of our distribution channels. There can be no assurance that changes in the balance of our distribution model in future periods would not have a materialan adverse effect on our business.
We rely upongross margins and profitability. Some factors could result in disruption of or changes in our distribution model, which could harm our sales and margins, including the abilityfollowing: competition with some of our Service Providers, including through our direct sales, which may lead these channel partners to use other suppliers that do not directly sell their own products or otherwise compete with them; some of our Service Providers may demand that we absorb a greater share of the risks that their customers may ask them to bear; some of our Service Providers may have insufficient financial resources and willingness of certain telecommunications carriersmay not be able to withstand changes and other corporationschallenges in business conditions; and revenue from indirect sales could suffer if our distributors’ financial condition or operations weaken. In addition, we depend on our Service Providers globally to provide uscomply with reliable high-speed telecommunications service through their networks. If these telecommunications carriers and other corporations decide notapplicable regulatory requirements. To the extent that they fail to continue to provide service to us through their networks on substantially the same terms and conditions (including, without limitation, price, early termination liability, and installation interval), if at all, it woulddo so, that could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial conditioncondition.
Inventory management relating to our sales to our two-tier distribution channel is complex, and excess inventory may harm our gross margins. We must manage inventory relating to sales to our distributors effectively, because inventory held by them could affect our results of operations. Additionally, manyOur distributors may increase orders during periods of product shortages, cancel orders if their inventory is too high, or delay orders in anticipation of new products. They also may adjust their orders in response to the supply of our service level objectivesproducts and the products of our competitors that are dependent upon satisfactory performance byavailable to them, and in response to seasonal fluctuations in end-user demand. Certain of our telecommunications carriers.distributors generally request business terms that allow them to return a portion of inventory, receive credits for changes in selling price, and participate in various cooperative marketing programs. Inventory management remains an area of focus as we balance the need to maintain strategic inventory levels to ensure competitive lead times against the risk of inventory obsolescence because of rapidly changing technology and customer requirements. When facing component supply-related challenges, we have increased our efforts in procuring components in order to meet customer expectations. If they fail to so perform, itwe ultimately determine that we have excess inventory, we may have a material adverse effect onto reduce our business.
Cybersecurity incidents could disrupt business operations, resultprices and write down inventory, which in the loss of critical and confidential information, and adversely impact our reputation and results of operations.
In the ordinary course of providing video communications services, we transmit sensitive and proprietary information of our customers. We are dependent on the proper function, availability and security of our information systems, including without limitation those systems utilized in our operations. We have undertaken measures to protect the safety and security of our information systems and the data maintained within those systems, and on an annual basis, we test the adequacy of our security measures. As
part of our efforts, we may be required to expend significant capital to protect against the threat of security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by such breaches, including unauthorized access to proprietary customer data stored in our information systems and the introduction of computer malware to our systems. However, there can be no assurance our safety and security measures will detect and prevent security breaches in a timely manner or otherwise prevent damage or interruption of our systems and operations. We may be vulnerable to losses associated with the improper functioning, security breach or unavailability of our information systems. In the event of a cybersecurity incident, our affiliates and customers may seek to hold us liable for any damages, whichturn could result in reputational damage, litigation, or negative publicity, among other negative consequences.lower gross margins.
We may experience material disconnections and/or reductions in the prices of our services and may not be able to replace the loss of revenues.
Historically, we have experienced both significant disconnections of services and also reductions in the prices of our services. We endeavor to obtain long-term commitments from new customers, as well as expand our relationships with current customers. The disconnection of services by our significant customers or by several of our smaller customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Service contract durations and termination liabilities are defined within the terms and conditions of the Company’s agreements with our customers. Termination of services in our existing agreements typically require a minimum of 30 days’ notice and are subject to early termination penalties equal to the amount of accrued and unpaid charges including the remaining term length multiplied by any fixed monthly fees. The standard form of service agreement with us includes an auto-renewal clause at the end of each term if the customer does not choose to terminate service at that time. Certain customers and partners negotiate master agreements with custom termination liabilities that differ from our standard form of service agreement.
Our failure to obtain or maintain the right to use certain intellectual property may negatively affect our business.
Our future success and competitive position depends in part upon our ability to obtain and maintain certain proprietary intellectual property to be used in connection with our services. While we are not currently engaged in any intellectual property litigation, we could become subject to lawsuits in which it is alleged that we have infringed the intellectual property rights of others or we could commence lawsuits against others who we believe are infringing upon our rights. Our involvement in intellectual property litigation could result in significant expense, adversely affecting the development of sales of the challenged product and diverting the efforts of our technical and management personnel, whether or not such litigation is resolved in our favor.
In the event of an adverse outcome as a defendant in any such litigation, we may, among other things, be required to pay substantial damages; cease the development, use or sale of services that infringe upon other patented intellectual property; expend significant resources to develop or acquire non-infringing intellectual property; discontinue the use or incorporation of infringing technology; or obtain licenses to the infringing intellectual property. We cannot ensure that we would be successful in such development or acquisition or that such licenses would be available upon reasonable terms. Any such development, acquisition or license could require the expenditure of substantial time and other resources and could have a negative effect on our business and financial results.
An adverse outcome as plaintiff in any such litigation, in addition to the costs involved, may, among other things, result in the loss of the intellectual property (such as a patent) that was the subject of the lawsuit by a determination of invalidity or unenforceability, significantly increase competition as a result of such determination, and require the payment of penalties resulting from counterclaims by the defendant.
We may not be able to protect the rights to its intellectual property.
Failure to protect our existing intellectual property rights may result in the loss of our exclusivity or the right to use our technologies. If we do not adequately ensure our freedom to use certain technology, we may have to pay others for rights to use their intellectual property, pay damages for infringement or misappropriation and/or be enjoined from using such intellectual property. We rely on patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright law to protect our intellectual property. Some of our intellectual property is not covered by any patent. As we further develop our services and related intellectual property, we expect to seek additional patent protection. Our patent position is subject to complex factual and legal issues that may give rise to uncertainty as to the validity, scope and enforceability of a particular patent. Accordingly, we cannot assure that any of the patents owned by us or other patents that other parties license to us in the future will not be invalidated, circumvented, challenged, rendered unenforceable or licensed to others; any of our pending or future patent applications will be issued with the breadth of claim coverage sought by it, if issued at all; or any patents owned by or licensed to us, although valid, will not be dominated by a patent or patents to others having broader claims. Additionally, effective patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection may be unavailable, limited or not applied for in certain foreign countries.
We also seek to protect our proprietary intellectual property, including intellectual property that may not be patented or patentable, in part by confidentiality agreements. We cannot ensure that these agreements will not be breached, that we will have adequate remedies for any breach or that such persons will not assert rights to intellectual property arising out of these relationships.
We are exposed to the credit and other counterparty risk of our customers in the ordinary course of our business.
Our customers have varying degrees of creditworthiness, and we may not always be able to fully anticipate or detect deterioration in their creditworthiness and overall financial condition, which could expose us to an increased risk of nonpayment under our contracts with them. In the event that a material customer or customers default on their payment obligations to us, discontinue buying services from us or use their buying power with us to reduce its revenue, this could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
Our future plans could be adversely affected if we are unable
Failure to attract or retain and recruit key personnel.
personnel would harm our ability to meet key objectives.We have attracted a highly skilled management team and specialized workforce. Our future success is dependent in part on attractingour ability to attract and retaining qualified managementretain highly skilled technical, managerial, sales and technicalmarketing personnel. Competition for these personnel is intense. Our inability to hire qualified personnel on a timely basis, or the departure of key employees (including Peter Holst, Oblong’sthe Company’s President and CEO) without a suitable replacement therefor could materially and adversely affect our business development and therefore, our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition. Stock incentive plans are designed to reward employees for their long-term contributions and provide incentives for them to remain with us. Volatility or lack of positive performance in our stock price or equity incentive awards, or changes to our overall compensation program, including our stock incentive program, resulting from the management of share dilution and share-based compensation expense or otherwise, may also adversely affect our ability to retain key employees. As a result of one or more of these factors, we may increase our hiring in geographic areas outside the United States, which could subject us to additional geopolitical and exchange rate risk. The loss of services of any of our key personnel; the inability to retain and attract qualified personnel in the future; or delays in hiring required personnel, particularly engineering and sales personnel, could make it difficult to meet key objectives, such as timely and effective product introductions. In addition, companies in our industry whose employees accept positions with competitors frequently claim that competitors have engaged in improper hiring practices. We have received these claims in the past and may receive additional claims to this effect in the future.
Supply chain issues, including financial problems of contract manufacturers or component suppliers, or a shortage of adequate component supply or manufacturing capacity that increase our costs or cause a delay in our ability to fulfill orders, could have an adverse impact on our business and operating results, and our failure to estimate customer demand properly may result in excess or obsolete component supply, which could adversely affect our gross margins. We rely on other companies to supply some components of our Mezzanine™ products and of our network infrastructure and the means to access our network. Certain products and services that we resell and certain components that we require are available only from limited sources. We could be adversely affected if such sources were to become unavailable to us on commercially reasonable terms. We cannot ensure that, on an ongoing basis, we will be able to obtain third-party services cost-effectively and on the scale and within the time frames that we require, if at all. Failure to obtain or to continue to make use of such third-party services would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The fact that we do not own or operate manufacturing facilities and that we are reliant on our supply chain could have an adverse impact on the supply of our products and on our business and operating results. Financial problems of either contract manufacturers or component suppliers, reservation of manufacturing capacity at our contract manufacturers by other companies, and industry consolidation occurring within one or more component supplier markets, such as the semiconductor market, in each case, could either limit supply or increase costs.
A reduction or interruption in supply, including disruptions on our global supply chain as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; a significant increase in the price of one or more components; a failure to adequately authorize procurement of inventory by our contract manufacturers; a failure to appropriately cancel, reschedule or adjust our requirements based on our business needs; or a decrease in demand for our products could materially adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition and could materially damage customer relationships. Furthermore, as a result of binding price or purchase commitments with suppliers, we may be obligated to purchase components at prices that are higher than those available in the current market. In the event that we become committed to purchase components at prices in excess of the current market price when the components are actually used, our gross margins could decrease. We have experienced longer than normal lead times in the past 12 months. In addition, vendors may be under pressure to allocate product to certain customers for business, regulatory or political reasons, and/or demand changes in agreed pricing as a condition of supply. Although we have generally secured additional supply or taken other mitigation actions when significant disruptions have occurred, if similar situations occur in the future or if we are unsuccessful in our mitigation efforts, they could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
Our growth and ability to meet customer demands depend in part on our ability to obtain timely deliveries of parts from our suppliers and contract manufacturers. We have experienced component shortages in the past, including shortages caused by manufacturing process issues, that have affected our operations. We may in the future experience a shortage of certain component parts as a result of our own manufacturing issues, manufacturing issues at our suppliers or contract manufacturers, capacity problems experienced by our suppliers or contract manufacturers including capacity or cost problems resulting from industry consolidation, or strong demand for those parts. Growth in the economy is likely to create greater pressures on us and our suppliers to accurately project overall component demand and component demands within specific product categories and to establish optimal component levels and manufacturing capacity, especially for labor-intensive components, components for which we purchase a substantial portion of the supply, or the re-ramping of manufacturing capacity for highly complex products. During periods of shortages or delays the price of components may increase, or the components may not be available at all, and we may also encounter shortages if we do not accurately anticipate our needs. We may not be able to secure enough
components at reasonable prices or of acceptable quality to build new products in a timely manner in the quantities or configurations needed. Accordingly, our revenue and gross margins could suffer until other sources can be developed.
Our operating results would also be adversely affected if, anticipating greater demand than actually develops, we commit to the purchase of more components than we need, which is more likely to occur in a period of demand uncertainties such as we are currently experiencing. There can be no assurance that we will not encounter these problems in the future. Although in many cases we use standard parts and components for our products, certain components are presently available only from a single source or limited sources, and a global economic downturn and related market uncertainty could negatively impact the availability of components from one or more of these sources, especially during times such as we have recently seen when there are supplier constraints based on labor and other actions taken during economic downturns. We may not be able to diversify sources in a timely manner, which could harm our ability to deliver products to customers and seriously impact present and future sales.
We believe that we may be faced with the following challenges in the future: new markets in which we participate may grow quickly, which may make it difficult to quickly obtain significant component capacity; as we acquire companies and new technologies, we may be dependent on unfamiliar supply chains or relatively small supply partners; and we face competition for certain components that are supply-constrained, from existing competitors, and companies in other markets.
Manufacturing capacity and component supply constraints could continue to be significant issues for us. We purchase components from a variety of suppliers and use several contract manufacturers to provide manufacturing services for our products. During the normal course of business, in order to improve manufacturing lead-time performance and to help ensure adequate component supply, we enter into agreements with contract manufacturers and suppliers that either allow them to procure inventory based upon criteria as defined by us or that establish the parameters defining our requirements. In certain instances, these agreements allow us the option to cancel, reschedule, and adjust our requirements based on our business needs prior to firm orders being placed. When facing component supply-related challenges we have increased our efforts in procuring components in order to meet customer expectations, which in turn contributes to an increase in purchase commitments. Increases in our purchase commitments to shorten lead times could also lead to excess and obsolete inventory charges if the demand for our products is less than our expectations. If we fail to anticipate customer demand properly, an oversupply of parts could result in excess or obsolete components that could adversely affect our gross margins.
Over the long term we intend to invest in engineering, sales, service and marketing activities, and in key priority and growth areas, and these investments may achieve delayed, or lower than expected, benefits which could harm our operating results. While we intend to focus on managing our costs and expenses, over the long term, we also intend to invest in personnel and other resources related to our engineering, sales, service and marketing functions as we realign on and dedicate resources on key priority and growth areas. We are likely to recognize the costs associated with these investments earlier than some of the anticipated benefits, and the return on these investments may be lower, or may develop more slowly, than we expect. If we do not achieve the benefits anticipated from these investments (including if our selection of areas for investment does not play out as we expect), or if the achievement of these benefits is delayed, our operating results may be adversely affected.
We have made and may continue to make acquisitions that could disrupt our operations and harm our operating results. Our growth depends upon market growth, our ability to enhance our existing products, and our ability to introduce new products on a timely basis. We intend to continue to address the need to develop new products and enhance existing products through acquisitions of other companies, product lines, technologies and personnel. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, including the following:
•Difficulties in integrating the operations, systems, technologies, products and personnel of the acquired companies, particularly companies with large and widespread operations and/or complex products
•Diversion of management’s attention from normal daily operations of the business and the challenges of managing larger and more widespread operations resulting from acquisitions
•Potential difficulties in completing projects associated with in-process research and development intangibles
•Difficulties in entering markets in which we have no or limited direct prior experience and where competitors in such markets have stronger market positions
•Initial dependence on unfamiliar supply chains or relatively small supply partners
•Insufficient revenue to offset increased expenses associated with acquisitions; and
•The potential loss of key employees, customers, distributors, vendors and other business partners of the companies we acquire following and continuing after announcement of acquisition plans
Acquisitions may also cause us to:
•Issue common stock that would dilute our current shareholders’ percentage ownership;
•Use a substantial portion of our cash resources, or incur debt;
•Significantly increase our interest expense, leverage and debt service requirements if we incur additional debt to pay for an acquisition;
•Assume liabilities;
•Record goodwill and intangible assets that are subject to impairment testing on a regular basis and potential periodic impairment charges’
•Incur amortization expenses related to certain intangible assets;
•Incur tax expenses related to the effect of acquisitions on our legal structure;
•Incur large write-offs and restructuring and other related expenses; or
•Become subject to intellectual property or other litigation.
Mergers and acquisitions of high-technology companies are inherently risky and subject to many factors outside of our control, and no assurance can be given that our previous or future acquisitions will be successful and will not materially adversely affect our business, operating results or financial condition. Failure to manage and successfully integrate acquisitions could materially harm our business and operating results. Prior acquisitions have resulted in a wide range of outcomes, from successful introduction of new products and technologies to a failure to do so. Even when an acquired company has already developed and marketed products, there can be no assurance that product enhancements will be made in a timely fashion or that pre-acquisition due diligence will have identified all possible issues that might arise with respect to such products. In addition, our effective tax rate for future periods is uncertain and could be impacted by mergers and acquisitions. Risks related to new product development also apply to acquisitions.
If our actual liability for sales and use taxes and federal regulatory fees is different from our accrued liability, it could have a material impact on our financial condition.
Each state has different rules and regulations governing sales and use taxes, and these rules and regulations are subject to varying interpretations that may change over time. We review these rules and regulations periodically and, when we believe our services are subject to sales and use taxes in a particular state, we voluntarily engagesengage state tax authorities in order to determine how to comply with their rules and regulations. Vendors of services, like us, are typically held responsible by taxing authorities for the collection and payment of any applicable sales taxes and federal fees. If one or more taxing authorities determines that taxes should have, but have not, been paid with respect to our services, we may be liable for past taxes in addition to taxes going forward. Liability for past taxes may also include very substantial interest and penalty charges. Our customer contracts provide that our customers must pay all applicable sales taxes and fees. Nevertheless, customers may be reluctant to pay back taxes and may refuse responsibility for interest or penalties associated with those taxes. If we are required to collect and pay back taxes and the associated interest and penalties, and if our customers fail or refuse to reimburse us for all or a portion of these amounts, we will have incurred unplanned expenses that may be substantial. Moreover, imposition of such taxes on our services going forward will effectively increase the cost of such services to our customers and may adversely affect our ability to retain existing customers or to gain new customers in the areas in which such taxes are imposed. We may also become subject to tax audits or similar procedures in states where we already payspay sales and use taxes. The assessment of taxes, interest, and penalties as a result of audits, litigation, or otherwise could be materially adverse to our current and future results of operations and financial condition.
We depend upon suppliersRisks Related to Cybersecurity and have limited sources for some services.Regulations
We relyCyber-attacks, data breaches or malware may disrupt our business operations, result in the loss of critical and confidential information, harm our operating results and financial condition, and damage our reputation; and cyber-attacks or data breaches on other companies to supply some componentsour customers’ networks, or in cloud-based services provided by or enabled by us, could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation or otherwise harm our business.In the ordinary course of providing video communications services, we transmit sensitive and proprietary information of our network infrastructurecustomers. We are dependent on the proper function, availability and security of our information systems, including without limitation those systems utilized in our operations. We have undertaken measures to protect the safety and security of our information systems and the means to accessdata maintained within those systems, and on an annual basis, we test the adequacy of our network. Certainsecurity measures. Despite our implementation of security measures, there can be no assurance our safety and security measures will detect and prevent security breaches in a timely manner or otherwise prevent damage or interruption of our systems and operations. The products and services that we resellsell to customers, and certain components that we require for our networkservers, data centers and the cloud-based solutions on which our data, and data of our customers, suppliers and business partners are available onlystored, are vulnerable to improper functioning, cyber-attacks, data breaches, malware, and similar disruptions from limited sources. Weunauthorized access or tampering by malicious actors or inadvertent error. Any such event could compromise our products, services and networks or those of our customers, and the proprietary information stored on our systems or those of our customers could be adversely affected if such sources wereimproperly accessed, processed, disclosed, lost or stolen, which could subject us to become unavailableliability to our
customers, suppliers, business partners and others, give rise to legal/regulatory action, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition and may cause damage to our reputation. Efforts to limit the ability of malicious actors to disrupt the operations of the Internet or undermine our own security efforts may be costly to implement and meet with resistance, and may not be successful. Breaches of security in our customers’ networks, or in cloud-based services provided by or enabled by us, regardless of whether the breach is attributable to a vulnerability in our products or services, could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation, or otherwise harm our business.
Vulnerabilities and critical security defects, prioritization decisions regarding remedying vulnerabilities or security defects, failure of third party providers to remedy vulnerabilities or security defects, or customers not deploying security releases or deciding not to upgrade products, services or solutions could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation or otherwise harm our business. The products and services we sell to customers, and our cloud-based solutions, inevitably contain vulnerabilities or critical security defects which have not been remedied and cannot be disclosed without compromising security. We may also make prioritization decisions in determining which vulnerabilities or security defects to fix, and the timing of these fixes, which could result in an exploit that compromises security. Customers also need to test security releases before they can be deployed which can delay implementation. In addition, we rely on third-party providers of software and cloud-based service and we cannot control the rate at which they remedy vulnerabilities. Customers may also not deploy a security release, or decide not to upgrade to the latest versions of our products, services or cloud-based solutions containing the release, leaving them vulnerable. Vulnerabilities and critical security defects, prioritization errors in remedying vulnerabilities or security defects, failure of third-party providers to remedy vulnerabilities or security defects, or customers not deploying security releases or deciding not to upgrade products, services or solutions could result in claims of liability against us, damage our reputation or otherwise harm our business.
Our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially harmed by regulatory uncertainty applicable to our products and services. Changes in regulatory requirements applicable to the industries in which we operate, in the United States and in other countries, could materially affect the sales of our products and services. In particular, changes in telecommunications regulations could impact our service provider customers’ purchase of our products and offers, and they could also impact sales of our own regulated offers. In addition, evolving legal requirements restricting or controlling the collection, processing or cross-border transmission of data, including regulation of cloud-based services, could materially affect our customers’ ability to use, and our ability to sell, our products and offers. Additional areas of uncertainty that could impact sales of our products and offers include laws and regulations related to encryption technology, environmental sustainability, export control, product certification and national security controls applicable to our supply chain. Changes in regulatory requirements in these areas could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Our network could fail, which could negatively impact our revenues. Our success depends upon our ability to deliver reliable, high-speed access to our channels’ and customers’ data centers and upon the ability and willingness of our telecommunications providers to deliver reliable, high-speed telecommunications service through their networks. Our network and facilities, and other networks and facilities providing services to us, on commercially reasonable terms.are vulnerable to damage, unauthorized access or cessation of operations from human error and tampering, breaches of security, fires, earthquakes, severe storms, power losses, telecommunications failures, software defects, intentional acts of vandalism including computer viruses, and similar events. The occurrence of a natural disaster or other unanticipated problems at the network operations center, key sites at which we locate routers, switches and other computer equipment that make up the backbone of our service offering and hosted infrastructure, or at one or more of our partners’ data centers, could substantially and adversely impact our business. We cannot ensure that on an ongoing basis, we will be ablenot experience failures or shutdowns relating to obtain third-partyindividual facilities or even catastrophic failure of the entire network or hosted infrastructure. Any damage to, or failure of, our systems or service providers could result in reductions in, or terminations of, services cost-effectivelysupplied to our customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
Our network depends upon telecommunications carriers who could limit or deny us access to their network or fail to perform, which would have a material adverse effect on our business. We rely upon the scaleability and within the time frames that we require, if at all. Failurewillingness of certain telecommunications carriers and other corporations to obtain orprovide us with reliable high-speed telecommunications service through their networks. If these telecommunications carriers and other corporations decide not to continue to make use of such third-party servicesprovide service to us through their networks on substantially the same terms and conditions (including, without limitation, price, early termination liability, and installation interval), if at all, it would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, many of our service level objectives are dependent upon satisfactory performance by our telecommunications carriers. If they fail to so perform, it may have a material adverse effect on our business.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property
Ourfailure to properly manageobtain or maintain the distributionright to use certain intellectual property may negatively affect our business. Our future success and competitive position depend in part upon our ability to obtain and maintain certain proprietary intellectual property to be used in connection with our services. While we are not currently engaged in any intellectual property litigation, we could become subject to lawsuits in which it is alleged that we have infringed the intellectual property rights of others, or we could commence lawsuits against others who we believe are infringing upon our services couldrights.
Third parties, including customers, may in the future assert claims or initiate litigation related to exclusive patent, copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights to technologies and related standards that are relevant to us. Because of the existence of a large number of patents in the networking field, the secrecy of some pending patents, and the rapid rate of issuance of new patents, it is not economically practical or even possible to determine in advance whether a product or any of its components infringes or will infringe on the patent rights of others. The asserted claims and/or initiated litigation can include claims against us or our manufacturers, suppliers or customers, alleging infringement of their proprietary rights with respect to our existing or future products or components of those products. Regardless of the merit of these claims, they can be time-consuming, result in a loss of revenues.costly litigation, and Where claims are made by customers, resistance even to unmeritorious claims could damage customer relationships.
We currently sell our services both directly to customers and through channel partners. Successfully managing the interaction of our direct and indirect sales channels to reach various potential customers for our services is a complex process. Each sales channel has distinct risks and costs, and therefore, our failure to implement the most advantageous balance in the sales model for our services could adversely affect our revenue and profitability.
We incur significant accounting and administrative costsAn adverse outcome as a publicly traded corporationdefendant in any such litigation may result in impacts to the Company including, but not limited to:
•Payment of substantial damages;
•Diversion of technical and management personnel;
•Cessation of the use, development, or sale of services that impact our financial condition.infringe upon patented intellectual property;
•Entrance into license agreements; and
As•Expending significant resources to develop or acquire a publicly traded corporation, we incur certain costs to comply with regulatory requirements. If regulatory requirements were to become more stringent or if controls thought to be effective later fail, we may be forced to make additional expenditures,non-infringing technology.
the amounts of which could be material. Some of our competitors are privately owned so their comparatively lower accounting and administrative costsThere can be no assurance that that we would be successful in such litigation, that development or licenses will be available on acceptable terms and conditions, if at all, or that our indemnification by our suppliers will be adequate to cover our costs if a competitive disadvantageclaim were brought directly against us or our customers. Furthermore, because of the potential for us. Should our sales continuehigh court awards that are not necessarily predictable, it is not unusual to declinefind even arguably unmeritorious claims settled for significant amounts. If any infringement or other intellectual property claim made against us by any third party is successful, if we are required to indemnify a customer with respect to a claim against the customer, or if we are unsuccessful at increasing pricesfail to cover higher expenditures for internal controlsdevelop non-infringing technology or license the proprietary rights on commercially reasonable terms and audits, ours costsconditions, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected. Our exposure to risks associated with regulatory compliance will risethe use of intellectual property may be increased as a percentageresult of sales.acquisitions, as we have a lower level of visibility into the development process with respect to such technology or the care taken to safeguard against infringement risks.
If we failAn adverse outcome as plaintiff in any such litigation, in addition to maintain an effective systemthe costs involved, may, among other things, result in the loss of internal controls, wethe intellectual property (such as a patent) that was the subject of the lawsuit by a determination of invalidity or unenforceability, significantly increase competition as a result of such determination, and require the payment of penalties resulting from counterclaims by the defendant.
We may not be able to accurately reportprotect the rights to, or enforce, our financial resultsintellectual property. We generally rely on patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret laws to establish and maintain proprietary rights in our technology and products. We have been issued numerous patents, other patent applications are currently pending, and some of our intellectual property is not covered by any patent. As we further develop our services and related intellectual property, we expect to seek additional patent protection. Our patent position is subject to complex factual and legal issues that may give rise to uncertainty as to the validity, scope and enforceability of a particular patent. Accordingly, we cannot assure that any of the patents owned by us or prevent fraud.other patents that other parties license to us in the future will not be invalidated, circumvented, challenged, rendered unenforceable or licensed to others; any of our pending or future patent applications will be issued with the breadth of claim coverage sought by it, if issued at all; or any patents owned by or licensed to us, although valid, will not be dominated by a patent or patents to others having broader claims. Furthermore, many key aspects of networking technology are governed by industry-wide standards, which are usable by all market entrants, and there can be no assurance that patents will be issued from pending applications or that claims allowed on any patents will be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Additionally, the laws of some foreign countries may not protect our proprietary rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. The outcome of any actions taken in these foreign countries may be different than if such actions were determined under the laws of the United States. Although we are not dependent on any individual patent or group of patents for particular segments of the business for which we compete, if we are unable to protect our proprietary rights to the totality of the features (including
aspects of products protected other than by patent rights) in a market, we may find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need not incur the substantial expense, time and effort required to create innovative products that have enabled us to be successful.
Failure to protect our existing intellectual property rights may result in the loss of our exclusivity or the right to use our technologies. If we do not adequately ensure our freedom to use certain technology, we may have to pay others for rights to use their intellectual property, pay damages for infringement or misappropriation and/or be enjoined from using such intellectual property.
We also seek to protect our proprietary intellectual property, including intellectual property that may not be patented or patentable, in part by confidentiality agreements. We cannot ensure that these agreements will not be breached, that we will have adequate remedies for any breach or that such persons will not assert rights to intellectual property arising out of these relationships.
A number of our solutions incorporate software provided under open source licenses which may restrict or impose certain obligations on how we use or distribute our solutions or subject us to various risks and challenges, which could result in increased development expenses, delays or disruptions to the release or distribution of those solutions, inability to protect our intellectual property rights and increased competition. Certain significant components of our solutions incorporate or are based upon open source software, and we may incorporate open source software into other solutions in the future. Such open source software is generally licensed under open source licenses, including, for example, the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, "Apache-style" licenses, "BSD-style" licenses and other open source licenses. The use of open source software subjects us to a number of risks and challenges, including, but not limited to:
•If open source software programmers, most of whom we do not employ, do not continue to develop and enhance open source technologies, our development expenses could increase and our product release and upgrade schedules could be delayed.
•Open source software is open to further development or modification by anyone. As a result, currentothers may develop such software to be competitive with our platform and potential stockholders may not be confident inmake such competitive software available as open source. It is also possible for competitors to develop their own solutions using open source software, potentially reducing the demand for, and putting price pressure on, our financial reporting,solutions.
•The licenses under which could adversely affectwe license certain types of open source software may require that, if we modify the price of our stock and harm our business.
Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,open source software we receive, we are required to includemake such modified software and other related proprietary software of ours publicly available without cost and on the same terms. In addition, some open source licenses appear to be permissive in our annual report on Form 10-K its assessmentthat internal use of the effectivenessopen source software is allowed, but prohibit commercial uses, or treat provision of cloud services as triggering the requirement to make proprietary software publicly available. Accordingly, we monitor our internal controls over financial reporting.use of open source software in an effort to avoid subjecting our proprietary software to such conditions and others we do not intend. Although we believe that we currently have adequate internal control procedures in place,complied with our obligations under the various applicable licenses for open source software that we cannot be certain thatuse, our internal controls over financial reporting will remain effective. If we cannot adequately maintain the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, we mayprocesses used to monitor how open source software is used could be subject to liability and/error. In addition, there is little or sanctions or investigation by regulatory authorities, such asno legal precedent governing the SEC. Any such actioninterpretation of terms in most of these licenses and licensors sometimes change their license terms. Therefore, any improper usage of open source, including a failure to identify changes in license terms, could adversely affectresult in unanticipated obligations regarding our financial resultssolutions and the market price oftechnologies, which could have an adverse impact on our common stock.
The combined organization will need to raise additional capital by issuing securities or debt, which may cause significant dilution to the combined organization’s stockholdersintellectual property rights and restrict the combined organization’s operations.
We expect the combined organization will need to raise additional capital to fund its near and long-term operations. Additional financing may not be available to the combined organization when it needs it or may not be available on favorable terms. To the extent that the combined organization raises additional capital by issuing equity securities, the terms of such an issuance may cause more significant dilution to the combined organization’s stockholders’ ownership, and the terms of any new equity securities may have preferences over the combined organization’s common stock. Any debt financing the combined organization enters into may involve covenants that restrict its operations. These restrictive covenants may include limitations on additional borrowing and specific restrictions on the use of the combined organization’s assets, as well as prohibitions on itsour ability to create liens, pay dividends, redeem its stockderive revenue from solutions incorporating the open source software.
•If an author or make investments.other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur legal expenses defending against such allegations, or engineering expenses in developing a substitute solution.
If we are unable to successfully address the challenges of integrating offerings based upon open source technology into our business, our business and operating results may be adversely affected and our development costs may increase.
Risks Related to Our Business Resulting From the Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is an emerginga serious threat to health and economic wellbeingwell-being affecting our employees, investors, customers, and other business partners.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that infections of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) had become pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, the U.S. President announced a National Emergency relating to the disease. There is a possibilityDuring 2020, 2021 and through the date of continuedthis Report, widespread infection in the United States and abroad with the potential for catastrophic impact.prompted National, state, and local authorities have requiredto require or recommendedrecommend social distancing and imposed or are consideringimpose quarantine and isolation measures on large portions of the population, including mandatory business closures. These measures, while intended to protect human life, are expected to have had serious adverse impacts on domestic and foreign economies, and these impacts
could continue, in various degrees of uncertain severity and for an uncertain duration. The long-term effectiveness of economic stabilization efforts, including government payments to affected citizens and industries is uncertain. Some economists are predicting the United States will soon enter a recession.
The sweeping nature of the coronavirus pandemic makes it extremely difficult to predict how the Company’s business and operations will be affected in the longer run, but we expect that it maythe pandemic materially affectaffected our business, financial conditionrevenue and results of operations.operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2021, as we experienced delayed orders in our distribution channels as a direct result of customer implementation schedules shifting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The extent to which the coronavirus impacts our results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information whichthat may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others. Moreover, the coronavirus outbreak has begun to havehad indeterminable adverse effects on general commercial activity and the world economy, and our business and results of operations could be adversely affected to the extent that this coronavirus or any other epidemic harms the global economy generally and/or the markets in which we operate specifically.
Any of the foregoing factors, or other cascading effects of the coronavirus pandemic that are not currently foreseeable, could materially increase our costs, negatively impact our sales and damage the company’s results of operations and its liquidity position, possibly to a significant degree. The duration of any such impacts cannot be predicted.
The impact of any deterioration in the U.S. economy or in the financial condition of our customers, specifically, as a result of the coronavirus outbreak may negatively affect our business.
A deterioration in the U.S. economy or our industry as a result of the coronavirus outbreak could result in a period of substantial turmoil. The impact of this event on our business and the severity of an economic crisis is uncertain. It is likely that a crisis (such as the coronavirus outbreak) in the U.S. economy could adversely affect our business, our current and potential customers, our vendors and prospects as well as our liquidity and financial condition. Further, our current and potential customers willmay likely be required to continue to allocate resources and adjust budgets to accommodate potential contingencies related to the effects of the coronavirus and measures required to be put in place to prevent and contain contamination of the virus. An existing major customer of the Company suspended certain professional services we provided to the customer effective April 30, 2020, due to COVID-19. These services accounted for $0.7$1.0 million, of the Company’s revenue during the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2019, which represented 13% and 6%or 9%, of the Company’s revenue for these periods, respectively.the year ended December 31, 2020. Uncertainties resulting from COVID-19 may result in additional customers delaying budget expenditures or re-allocating resources, which would result in a decrease in orders from these customers. Any such decrease in orders from these customers could cause a material adverse effect on our operations and financial results and our ability to generate positive cash flows. Further, our current service offerings and our future growth may be minimized to a point that would be detrimental to our business development activities. These events would be detrimental to
Any of the foregoing factors, or other cascading effects of the coronavirus pandemic that are not currently foreseeable, could materially increase our business prospectscosts, negatively impact our sales and result in material negative changes to ourdamage the company’s results of operations and financial position.
its liquidity position, possibly to a significant degree. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated a risk existsduration of a pandemic in the United States, which would mean that the current methods in place to control of the spread of the virus have been ineffective. In such a situation, the effect on the economy and on the public may be severe. There are no comparable recent events which may provide guidance as to the effect of the spread of coronavirus and a potential pandemic, and, as a result, there is considerable uncertainty of its potential effect on our business and results of operations.
Our business activities will require additional financing that might not be obtainable on acceptable terms, if at all, given the coronavirus outbreak and resulting economic conditions. The failure to obtain such financing will likely have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, liquidity and ability to operate going forward.
As discussed herein, we believe additional capital will be required to fund operations and provide growth capital including investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. To access capital to fund operations or provide growth capital, we will need to restructure the SVB Loan Agreement and raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings. However, given the economic effect of the recent coronavirus outbreak there can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising necessary capital or that any such offering willimpacts cannot be on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are unable to raise additional capital that may be needed on terms acceptable to us, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company. Failure to obtain financing, or obtaining financing on unfavorable terms, could result in a decrease in our stock price, would have a material adverse effect on future operating prospects, and could require us to significantly reduce operations.predicted.
A material disruption in our workplace as a result of the coronavirus could affect our ability to carry on our business operations in the ordinary course and may require additional cost and effort should our employees continue to not be able to be physically on-premises.
While many of our employees work remotely in the ordinary course, other employees work from our offices. Should we continue to experience periods where it is not prudent for some or all of these employees to be physically present on-site, we may not have the benefit of the time and skills of such employees or we may be required to adjust our current business operations and processes to permit some or all of such employees to work remotely in order to avoid the potential spread of the virus. In addition, for a currently indeterminate amount of time we may be forced to continue to suspend all non-essential travel for our employees and discourage employee attendance at industry events and in-person work-related meetings. We can offer no assurances that these adjustments would not cause material disruptions to our daily operations or require us to expend our time, energy and resources to make necessary adjustments, and they therefore may result in a material adverse effect on our sales, research and development and other critical areas of our business model. Also, it may continue to hamper our efforts to comply with our filing obligations with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Our common stock may experience volatility in trading or loss in value as a result of the effects of the coronavirus on the U.S. and global economies.
Uncertainties surrounding the effects of the coronavirus on the United States and global economies has resulted in an increase in volatility and violent drops in the value of publicly traded securities, including the trading in our common stock. We can offer no assurances that these effects are temporary or that any losses that are incurred as a result of these uncertainties will be regained if and when this crisis has passed. As a result, the value of our stock remains subject to such volatility and potential loss of market value.
Risks Related to the Merger with Oblong Industries
Our acquisition of Oblong Industries in October 2019 could adversely affect our operations, financial results and financial condition.
On October 1, 2019, Glowpoint acquired Oblong Industries, a privately-held visual collaboration company that develops, manufactures and markets multi-stream, concurrent multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device, and multi-location technology platforms for dynamic and immersive visual collaboration. With respect to the acquisition of Oblong Industries and any future acquisitions, we may experience:
difficulties in integrating the acquired businesses and their respective personnel and products into our existing business;
difficulties in integrating commercial organizations;
difficulties or delays in realizing the anticipated benefits of the acquisition;
diversion of our management’s time and attention from other business concerns;
challenges due to limited or no direct prior experience in new markets or countries we may enter;
inability to successfully develop new products and services on a timely basis that address our new market opportunities post-acquisition;
inability to compete effectively against companies already serving the broader market opportunities expected to be available to us post-acquisition; and
unanticipated costs and other contingent liabilities.
We have invested, and expect to continue to invest, significant cash and other resources in connection with our acquisition of Oblong Industries, integration of its business and development and commercialization of its products. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in our efforts. Should we be unable to obtain adequate financing or generate sufficient revenue in the future, our business, result of operations, liquidity and financial condition could be materially and adversely harmed.
The failure to successfully operate and integrate the former businesses of Glowpoint and Oblong Industries in the expected timeframe could adversely affect the combined organization’s future results following the completion of the transaction.
The success of the Merger will depend, in large part, on the ability of the combined organization to realize the anticipated benefits from combining the former businesses of Glowpoint and Oblong Industries. The failure to operate and integrate successfully and to manage successfully the challenges presented by the integration process may result in the combined organization’s failure to achieve some or all of the anticipated benefits of the transaction. Potential difficulties that may be encountered in the integration process include the following:
using the combined organization’s cash and other assets efficiently to develop the business of the combined organization;
appropriately managing the liabilities of the combined organization;
limited experience of management in performing acquisitions and managing growth;
potential unknown and unforeseen expenses, delays or regulatory conditions associated with the transaction; and
performance shortfalls at one or both of the companies as a result of the diversion of management’s attention caused by integrating the companies’ operations.
If we do not achieve the contemplated benefits of the Merger, our business and financial condition may be materially impaired.
We may not achieve the desired benefits from the Merger. For any of the reasons described above and elsewhere in this report and even if we are able to successfully operate Oblong Industries within the combined organization, we may not be able to realize the revenue and other growth that we anticipate from the Merger in the time frame that we currently expect, and the costs
of achieving these benefits may be higher than what we currently expect, because of a number of risks, including the possibility that the Merger may not further our business strategy as we expected and risks related to contingent liabilities related to the Merger.
The conversion of our issued and outstanding shares of Series D and Series E Preferred Stock into shares of our common stock is contingent upon NYSE American approval.
Pursuant to the Certificates of Designations governing our Series D and Series E Preferred Stock, respectively, such shares are automatically convertible into shares of our common stock following the completion of both (i) approval of such conversion by our stockholders and (ii) receipt of all required authorizations and approvals from the NYSE American. We obtained stockholder approval for the conversion in December 2019. With respect to required approval from the NYSE American, we will be required to file an initial listing application with the NYSE American for the combined organization and to satisfy the initial listing requirements of such exchange in order to remain listed thereon. Receipt of the NYSE American’s approval of such initial listing application will require the combined organization to meet the NYSE American’s initial listing standards, including but not limited to standards with respect to such entity’s market value of public float, which, given the Company’s current financial situation, may be difficult or impossible for the combined organization to satisfy. In the event we receive NYSE American approval, then the issuance of such shares of common stock will result in substantial and significant dilution to the former Glowpoint stockholders, with Glowpoint’s former stockholders only holding, in the aggregate, approximately 25% of the Company’s fully diluted shares of common stock. Alternatively, in the event we do not receive NYSE American approval of the initial listing application, then the continued existence of the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock may hinder the Company’s ability to seek additional equity and/or debt financing opportunities in the future. In addition, if the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock continue to remain outstanding:
Each share of Series D and Series E Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive an annual dividend equal to 6.0% of its then-existing accrued value per annum, commencing on the first anniversary of its issuance;
Upon any liquidation of the Company, the shares of Series D and Series E Preferred Stock will rank senior to the Company’s common stock, but junior to the Company’s outstanding Series A-2 Preferred Stock and Series C Preferred Stock;
Holders of Series D and Series E Preferred Stock will generally not have voting rights with respect to such shares, but for so long as at least twenty percent (20%) of the shares of Series D or Series E Preferred Stock issued by the Company are outstanding, respectively, the consent of such shares, as a class, will be required for the Company to take the following actions:
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◦ | authorizing, creating or issuing any debt security, or permitting any subsidiary to take any such action with respect to any debt security, if the aggregate indebtedness of the Company and its subsidiaries for borrowed money following such action, in excess of the amount outstanding or available for borrowing under the Company’s loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank, would exceed $500,000. |
Risks to Owning Our Common Stock
Throughout much ofOur stock price has fluctuated in the past, has recently been volatile and may be volatile in the future, and as a result, investors in our history,common stock could incur substantial losses. Historically, our common stock has experienced substantial price volatility, particularly as a result of variations between our actual financial results and the published expectations of analysts and as a result of announcements by our competitors and us. Furthermore, speculation in the press or investment community about our strategic position, financial condition, results of operations, business, and security of our products or significant transactions can cause changes in our stock price. In addition, the stock market has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market price of many technology companies, in particular, and that have often been thinly tradedunrelated to the operating performance of these companies. These factors, as well as general economic and subjectpolitical conditions and the announcement of proposed and completed acquisitions or other significant transactions, or any difficulties associated with such transactions, by us or our current or potential competitors, may materially adversely affect the market price of our common stock in the future. The market price for our common stock may be influenced by many factors, including the following:
•investor reaction to our business strategy;
•the success of competitive products or technologies;
•our continued compliance with the listing standards of the Nasdaq;
•regulatory or legal developments in the United States and other countries, especially changes in laws or regulations applicable to our products;
•variations in our financial results or those of companies that are perceived to be similar to us;
•our ability or inability to raise additional capital and the terms on which we raise it;
•declines in the market prices of stocks generally;
•trading volume of our common stock;
•sales of our common stock by us or our stockholders;
•general economic, industry and market conditions;
•the transformation of our business to deliver more software and subscriptions offerings where revenue is recognized over time;
•fluctuations in demand for our products and services, especially with respect to distributors and partners, in part due to changes in the global economic environment;
•the introduction and market acceptance of new technologies and products, and our success in new evolving markets, and in emerging technologies, as well as the adoption of new standards;
•the ability of our customers, channel partners, contract manufacturers and suppliers to obtain financing or to fund capital expenditures, especially during a period of global credit market disruption or in the event of customer, channel partner, contract manufacturer or supplier financial problem;
•the overall movement toward industry consolidation among both our competitors and our customers;
•changes in sales and implementation cycles for our products and reduced visibility into our customers’ spending plans and associated revenue;
•the timing, size and mix of orders from customers;
•manufacturing and customer lead times;
•how well we execute on our strategy and operating plans and the impact of changes in our business model that could result in significant restructuring charges;
•our ability to achieve targeted cost reductions;
•benefits anticipated from our investments;
•changes in tax law or accounting rules, or interpretations thereof;
•actual events, circumstances, outcomes and amounts differing from judgments, assumptions and estimates used in determining the values of certain assets (including the amounts of related valuation allowances), liabilities, and other items reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements; and
•other events or factors, including those resulting from such events, or the prospect of such events, including war, terrorism and other international conflicts, public health issues including health epidemics or pandemics, such as the outbreak of COVID-19, and natural disasters such as fire, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados or other adverse weather and climate conditions, whether occurring in the United States or elsewhere, could disrupt our operations, disrupt the operations of our suppliers or result in political or economic instability.
These broad market and industry factors may seriously harm the market price of our common stock, regardless of our operating performance. Since the stock price of our common stock has fluctuated in the past, has been recently volatile and may be volatile in the future, investors in our common stock could incur substantial losses. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market, securities class-action litigation has often been instituted against companies. Such litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and diversion of management’s attention and resources, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects. There can be no guarantee that our stock price fluctuations.will remain at current prices or that future sales of our common stock will not be at prices lower than those sold to investors.
Throughout much of our corporate history, our common stock has been thinly traded, and therefore has therefore been susceptible to wide price swings. Our common stock has historically traded on the NYSE American under the symbol “GLOW.” On March 9,
2020, in connection with our name change to Oblong, Inc., we changed our ticker symbol to “OBLG.” While our common stock has recently experienced increased trading volume, we cannot ensure that this level of trading volume will continue, or that the increased trading volumes will lessen the historic volatility in the price for our common stock. Thinly traded stocks are more susceptible to significant and sudden price changes and the liquidity of our common stock depends upon the presence in the marketplace of willing buyers and sellers. At any time, the liquidity of our common stock may decrease to the thinly traded levels it has experienced in the past, and we cannot ensure that any holder of our securities will be able to find a buyer for its shares. Further, we cannot ensure that an organized public market for our securities will continue or that there will be any private demand for our common stock.
We could failAdditionally, recently, securities of certain companies have experienced significant and extreme volatility in stock price due short sellers of shares of common stock, known as a “short squeeze.” These short squeezes have caused extreme volatility in those companies and in the market and have led to satisfy the standardsprice per share of those companies to maintain our listing ontrade at a stock exchange.
We could fail to satisfysignificantly inflated rate that is disconnected from the standards for continued exchange listing on the NYSE American, such as standards having to do with a minimum share price, the minimum number of public shareholders, a minimum amount of stockholders’ equity or the aggregate marketunderlying value of publicly held shares. As a result of each of the foregoing, we may be unable to maintain our listing oncompany. Many investors who have purchased shares in those companies at an inflated rate face the NYSE American, which would negatively affect, among other things (i) our ability to raise capital on terms we deem advisable, or at all, and (ii) the liquidity of our common stock. Failure to obtain financing, or obtaining financing on unfavorable terms, could result in a decrease in our stock price, would have a material adverse effect on future operating prospects, and could require us to significantly reduce operations. Any holder of our securities should regard them as a long-term investment and should be prepared to bear the economic risk of anlosing a significant portion of their original investment as the price per share has
declined steadily as interest in such securities for an indefinite period.those stocks have abated. While we have no reason to believe our shares would be the target of a short squeeze, there can be no assurance that we will not be in the future, and you may lose a significant portion or all of your investment if you purchase our shares at a rate that is significantly disconnected from our underlying value.
Penny stock regulations may impose certain restrictions on the marketability of our securities.
The SEC has adopted regulations which generally define a “penny stock” to be any equity security that has a market price less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. Our common stock is presently subject to these regulations, which impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell such securities to persons other than established customers and accredited investors (generally those with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 together with their spouse). For transactions covered by these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchase of such securities and have received the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to the purchase. Additionally, for any transaction involving a “penny stock,” unless exempt, the rules require the delivery, prior to the transaction, of a risk disclosure document mandated by the SEC relating to the “penny stock” market. The broker-dealer must also disclose the commission payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the securities and, if the broker-dealer is the sole market maker, the broker-dealer must disclose this fact and the broker-dealer’s presumed control over the market. Finally, monthly statements must be sent disclosing recent price information for the “penny stock” held in the account and information on the limited market in “penny stocks.” Consequently, the “penny stock” rules may restrict the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and may negatively affect the ability of purchasers of our shares of common stock to sell such securities.
Future operating results may vary from quarter to quarter, and we may fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts and investors at any given time.
We have experienced, and may continue to experience, significant quarterly fluctuations in operating results. Factors that cause fluctuation in our results of operations include lack of revenue growth or declines in revenue and declines in gross margins and increases in operating expenses. Accordingly, it is possible that in one or more future quarters our operating results will be adversely affected and fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors. If this happens, the trading price of our common stock may decline.
Sales of substantial amounts of common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales may occur, could reduce the market price of our common stock and make it more difficult for us and our stockholders to sell our equity securities in the future.
The sale into the public market of a significant number of shares issued upon the potential conversion of the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock (as discussed above) or in future financings,common stock by our existing shareholders, or the resale into the public market of shares issued in prior or future financings, could depress the trading price of our common stock and make it more difficult for us or our stockholders to sell equity securities in the future. Such transactions may include, but are not limited to (i) any future issuances by us of additional shares of our common stock or of other securities that are convertible or exchangeable for shares of common stock; and (ii) the resale of any previously issued but restricted shares of our common stock that become freely available for re-sale,re- sale, whether through an effective registration statement or under Rule 144 of the Securities Act; and (iii) future conversions of some or all of our outstanding Series C, Series D and Series E Convertible Preferred Stock into shares of our common stock, which may dilute the ownership interests of our common stockholders upon conversion, and any sales in the public market of any shares of our common stock issued upon such conversion, which could adversely affect prevailing market prices of our common stock.Act.
While the sale of shares to the public might increase the trading volume of our common stock and thus the liquidity of our stockholders’ investments, the resulting increase in the number of shares available for public sale could drive the price of our common stock down, thus reducing the value of our stockholders’ investment and perhaps hindering our ability to raise additional funds in the future.
Our common stock ranks juniorWe will need to raise additional capital by issuing securities or debt, which may cause significant dilution to our outstanding sharesstockholders and restrict our operations. We will need to raise additional capital to fund our near and long-term operations. Additional financing may not be available when we need it or may not be available on favorable terms. To the extent that we raise additional capital by issuing equity securities, the terms of Series A-2 Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock, Series D Preferred Stocksuch an issuance may cause more significant dilution to our stockholders’ ownership, and Series E Preferred Stock with respect tothe terms of any dividendsnew equity securities may have preferences over the combined organization’s common stock. Any debt financing we enter into may involve covenants that restrict our operations. These restrictive covenants may include limitations on additional borrowing and upon liquidation.
The rights ofspecific restrictions on the holdersuse of our commonassets, as well as prohibitions on our ability to create liens, pay dividends, redeem stock rank junior to the rights of the holders of our outstanding shares of preferred stock with respect to any dividends and payments upon the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up. Further, our certificate of incorporation permits our board of directors to authorize the issuance of additional series of preferred stock that would rank senior to our common stock with respect to any dividends and payments upon the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up.make investments.
Our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage takeover attempts and lead to management entrenchment.
The Company’s certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of the company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect directors that are not nominated by the current members of the board of directors or take other corporate actions, including effecting changes in the Company’s management. These provisions include:
•no cumulative voting in the election of directors, which limits the ability of minority stockholders to elect director candidates;
•the ability of our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;
•the exclusive right of our board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on its board of directors;
•the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by the chairman of our board of directors or a majority of our board of directors, which could delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors;
•the ability of our board of directors, by majority vote, to amend the Company’s amended and restated bylaws, which may allow our board of directors to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend the amended and restated bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt; and
•advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of the Company.
We could fail to satisfy the standards to maintain our listing on a stock exchange. We could fail to satisfy the standards for continued exchange listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market such as standards having to do with a minimum share price, the minimum number of public shareholders, a minimum amount of stockholders’ equity or the aggregate market value of publicly held shares. On February 17, 2022, the Company received written notice (the "Notice") from the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC ("Nasdaq") indicating that the bid price for the Company's common stock (the "Common Stock"), for the last 30 consecutive business days, had closed below the minimum $1.00 per share and, as a result, the Company is not in compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement for the continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). In accordance with the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company has a period of 180 calendar days, or until August 16, 2022, to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement. To regain compliance, the closing bid price of the Common Stock must meet or exceed $1.00 per share for a minimum of ten consecutive business days during this 180 day period. If the Company is not in compliance by August 16, 2022, the Company may qualify for a second 180 calendar day compliance period. If the Company does not qualify for, or fails to regain compliance during the second compliance period, then the Nasdaq will notify the Company of its determination to delist its Common Stock, at which point the Company would have an option to appeal the delisting determination to a Nasdaq hearings panel. The Company intends to actively monitor the closing bid price of its Common Stock and may, if appropriate, consider implementing available options to regain compliance with the minimum bid price under the Nasdaq Listing Rules. If we are unable to maintain our listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, it would negatively affect, among other things (i) our ability to raise capital on terms we deem advisable, or at all, and (ii) the liquidity of our common stock. Failure to obtain financing, or obtaining financing on unfavorable terms, could result in a decrease in our stock price, would have a material adverse effect on future operating prospects and could require us to significantly reduce operations. Any holder of our securities should regard them as a long-term investment and should be prepared to bear the economic risk of an investment in such securities for an indefinite period.
General Risks
We incur significant accounting and administrative costs as a publicly traded corporation that impact our financial condition. As a publicly traded corporation, we incur certain costs to comply with regulatory requirements. If regulatory requirements were to become more stringent or if controls thought to be effective later fail, we may be forced to make additional expenditures, the amounts of which could be material. Some of our competitors are privately owned so their comparatively lower accounting and administrative costs can be a competitive disadvantage for us. Should our sales continue to decline or if we are unsuccessful at increasing prices to cover higher expenditures for internal controls and audits, ours costs associated with regulatory compliance will rise as a percentage of sales.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud. As a result, current and potential stockholders may not be confident in our financial reporting, which could adversely affect the price of our stock and harm our business. Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, we are required to include in our annual report on Form 10-K our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting. Although we believe that we currently have adequate internal control procedures in place, we cannot be certain that our internal controls over financial reporting will remain effective. If we cannot adequately maintain the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, we may be subject to liability and/or sanctions or investigation by
regulatory authorities, such as the SEC. Any such action could adversely affect our financial results and the market price of our common stock may decline as a result of the Merger.stock.
The market price of our common stock may decline as a result of the Merger for a number of reasons, including if:
investors react negatively to the prospects of the combined organization’s product line, business and financial condition;
the effect of the Merger on the combined organization’s business and prospects is not consistent with the expectations of financial or industry analysts; or
the combined organization does not achieve the perceived benefits of the Merger as rapidly or to the extent anticipated by financial or industry analysts. Stockholders may not realize a benefit from the Merger commensurate with the ownership dilution they will experience in connection with the Merger.
If the combined organization is unable to realize the strategic and financial benefits currently anticipated from the Merger, stockholders will have experienced substantial dilution of their ownership interests in their respective companies without receiving the expected commensurate benefit, or only receiving part of the commensurate benefit to the extent the combined organization is able to realize only part of the expected strategic and financial benefits currently anticipated from the Merger.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 2. Properties
We lease office and warehouse spacethree facilities in Los Angeles, California, one facility in two facilities that consist of an aggregate of approximately 25,000 square feet, under leases expiring 2022Dallas, Texas, and 2023.one facility in Austin, Texas, all providing office space. We also currently lease office spacea facility in Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Los Altos, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Munich, Germany.City of Industry, California, providing warehouse space. These leases expire between October 20202022 and 2023. We2024. During 2021, and through the date of this filing, we exited office space during December 2019 through April 2020leases in Denver, Colorado; New York, New York; Oxnard,Munich, Germany; Los Altos, California; and London, England.Boston, Massachusetts. Although subject to COVID restrictions, we currently occupy two of the facilities in Los Angeles and the warehouse space in City of Industry; we have subleases in place for the third Los Angeles property and the Dallas property. With the exception of these spaces described above, we currently operate out of remote employment sites with a remote office located at 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, Colorado 80433. For additional information regarding our obligations under leases, see Note 179 - CommitmentsOperating Leases and ContingenciesRight-of-Use Assets to the consolidated financial statements contained in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we are subject to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, including proceedings for which we have insurance coverage. As of the date hereof, we are not party to any legal proceedings that we currently believe will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or liquidity.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not Applicable.applicable.
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
Market Information
Effective March 9, 2020,February 11, 2021, the Company’s securities tradecommon stock trades on the NYSE AmericanNasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “OBLG.” Prior to March 9, 2020,February 11, 2021, the Company’s securitiescommon stock traded on the NYSE American under the symbolsymbols “OBLG” and “GLOW”.
The following table sets forth high and low sale prices per share for our common stock for each quarter of 2018 and 2019, based upon information obtained from the NYSE American. All reported sales prices reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commissions and may not necessarily represent actual transactions. On April 17, 2019, the Company filed an amendment to its certificate of incorporation that effected a one-for-ten reverse stock split of the Company's issued and outstanding shares of common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Reverse Stock Split did not affect the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock or the par value of a share of the Company’s common stock. Proportionate adjustments were made to the per share exercise or conversion price and the number of shares issuable upon the exercise or conversion of all outstanding options and other convertible or exchangeable securities, including issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s convertible preferred stock. The data in the following table have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to this Reverse Stock Split.
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| Year Ended December 31, 2018 | | | |
| First Quarter | $ | 4.60 |
| | $ | 2.10 |
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| Second Quarter | 2.50 |
| | 1.50 |
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| Third Quarter | 2.22 |
| | 1.20 |
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| Fourth Quarter | 2.30 |
| | 1.10 |
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| Year Ended December 31, 2019 | | | |
| First Quarter | $ | 1.80 |
| | $ | 1.20 |
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| Second Quarter | 2.07 |
| | 0.80 |
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| Third Quarter | 1.22 |
| | 0.60 |
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| Fourth Quarter | 1.49 |
| | 0.94 |
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On May 11, 2020,March 23, 2022, the closing sale price of our common stock was $1.07$0.54 per share as reported on the NYSE American,Nasdaq Capital Market, and 5,211,50030,816,048 shares of our common stock were issued and outstanding. As of May 11, 2020,March 23, 2022, there were 88162 holders of record of our common stock. American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC is the transfer agent and registrar of our common stock.
Dividends
Our board of directors has never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock and does not expect to do so for the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain any earnings to finance the growth and development of our business. Our board of directors will make any future determination of the payment of dividends based upon conditions then existing, including our earnings, financial condition and capital requirements, as well as such economic and other conditions as our board of directors may deem relevant. In addition, our ability to pay cash dividends is limited under the terms of the SVB Loan Agreement and by the Certificates of Designations governing our Preferred Stock.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
The following table sets forth as of December 31, 2019 information regarding our common stock that may be issued under the Company’s equity compensation plans:
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| Plan Category | | Number of Securities
to be Issued Upon
Exercise of
Outstanding Stock Options (*)
(a) | | Weighted Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding
Stock Options
(b) | | Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Vesting of Outstanding Restricted Stock Units (**)
(c) | | Number of Securities
Remaining Available
for Future Issuance
Under Equity
Compensation Plans
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Reflected in Columns
(a) & (c)) |
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders | | 107,500 |
| | $ | 12.27 |
| | 23,334 |
| | 3,021,000 |
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(*) The outstanding options noted in the table above include options that were issued in exchange for outstanding Oblong Industries options in connection with the Merger.
(**) As of December 31, 2019, 28,904 vested restricted stock units (“RSUs”) remain outstanding as shares of common stock have not yet been delivered for these units in accordance with the terms of the RSUs.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
There have been no unregistered sales of securities byOn January 28, 2021, the Company duringentered into an agreement with the period covered by this Report that have not been previously reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K.
Purchases of Equity Securities by Glowpoint and Affiliated Purchasers
Stock Repurchase Program
On July 21, 2018, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program (the “Stock Repurchase Program”) granting the Company authority to repurchase up to $750,000holder of the Company’s CommonSeries A-2 Preferred Stock par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”). Allto convert all outstanding shares of Commonthe Series A-2 Preferred Stock, repurchased under the Stock Repurchase Program are recorded as treasury stock. The Stock Repurchase Program does not have an expiration date. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company repurchased 2345 shares, of Common Stock at an aggregate cost of $30, including commissions and fees. During the quarter ended December 31, 2019, no shares were repurchased as part of the Stock Repurchase Program. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had $673,000 remaining for future repurchases of Common Stock under the Stock Repurchase Program.
Vesting of Stock Awards
During the fourth quarter of 2019, the Company repurchased 6,896into 84,292 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (and recorded such shares in treasury stock) from employees to satisfy $6,896common stock, at a negotiated conversion price of minimum statutory tax withholding requirements relating to the vesting of stock awards.$4.00 per share, after taking into consideration accrued and unpaid dividends. The incremental
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| Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased (1) | | Average Price Paid Per Share | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs |
| October 1 - 31, 2019 | | 6,896 | | $1.00 | | — | | $673,000 |
| November 1 - 30, 2019 | | — | | $— | | — | | $673,000 |
| December 1 - 31, 2019 | | — | | $— | | — | | $673,000 |
| Total | | 6,896 | | $1.00 | | — | | $673,000 |
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(1) All shares purchased by the Company during the period covered by this Report were purchased from employees to offset $6,896 of minimum statutory tax withholding requirements relating to the vesting of stock awards. As of December 31, 2019, the maximum number of shares that may yet be purchased by the Company would not exceed the employees’ portion of taxes withheld on the vesting of the following outstanding unvested equity awards: 627 shares of restricted stock, 215,345 stock options, and 23,334 restricted stock units, plus 3,021,000 shares yet to be granted under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan as of December 31, 2019. |
As of December 31, 2019, the Company had $673,000 remaining for future repurchases of Common Stock under the Stock Repurchase Program.
Item 6. Selected Financial DataReserved
Not applicable.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 20192021 and 20182020, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020, and the related notes attached thereto. All statements contained herein that are not historical facts, including, but not limited to, statements regarding anticipated future capital requirements, our future development plans, our ability to obtain debt, equity or other financing, and our ability to generate cash from operations, are based on current expectations. The discussion of results, causes and trends should not be construed to imply any conclusion that such results or trends will necessarily continue in the future. Because
Business
We are a provider of patented multi-stream collaboration products and managed services for video collaboration and network solutions.
We believe there is a substantial market opportunity for Oblong Industries’ product offerings and services, and we are in the closingprocess of transforming our offerings to meet the evolving needs of our customers. As part of the acquisitiontransformation of Oblong Industries occurredour business, we are evolving certain aspects of our model by designing and developing software to include subscription-based offerings. Historically, our technology products and services have been developed and consumed in conventional commercial real estate spaces such as conference rooms. We have experienced decreases in our revenue primarily attributable to the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic on October 1, 2019,our channel partners and customers as they evaluate how and when to re-open their commercial real estate footprints. As our core collaboration products evolve, we expect to add more contemporary software features along with expanded accessibility beyond commercial spaces through both hybrid and SaaS offerings delivered in the Company’s consolidated financial statementscloud. These initiatives will require significant investment in technology and product development and sales and marketing. We believe additional capital will be required to fund these investments and our operations. If we do not complete the transformation, or if we fail to manage the transformation successfully and in a timely manner, our revenue, business and operating results may be adversely affected.
Mezzanine™ Product Offerings
Our flagship product is called Mezzanine™, a family of turn-key products that enable dynamic and immersive visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations (see further description of Mezzanine™ in Part I, Item 1). Mezzanine™ currently consists of hardware and software that function together to deliver the system’s essential functionality. We generate revenue from the shipment of Mezzanine™ products and also through maintenance agreements. Historically, customers have used Mezzanine™ products in conventional commercial real estate spaces such as conference rooms. We have experienced decreases in Mezzanine™ revenue in 2020 and 2021 primarily attributable to the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic on our customers as they evaluate how and when to re-open their commercial real estate footprints. While pre-pandemic momentum suggested end-users were beginning to embrace simple, easy to install, intuitive, and affordable collaboration solutions that integrate with cloud-based collaboration software services, we believe as businesses begin to reopen there will be significant demand for higher forms of engagement that combines robust video conferencing with enhanced content sharing as users adapt to more flexible workplace alternatives. We believe there is a substantial market opportunity for our Mezzanine™ product offerings, and we are in the year endedprocess of transforming our offerings to meet the evolving needs of our customers.We are currently designing and developing software offerings for our core collaboration products, with expanded accessibility beyond commercial spaces through both hybrid and software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) solutions delivered in the cloud. These initiatives will require significant investment in technology and product development and sales and marketing.
Managed Services
We provide a range of managed services for video collaboration, from automated to orchestrated, to simplify the user experience in an effort to drive adoption of video collaboration throughout our customers’ enterprise.
We also provide network solutions that ensure reliable, high-quality and secure traffic of video, data and internet. Network services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis. Our network services business carries variable costs associated with the purchasing and reselling of this connectivity.
See further description of our managed services in Part I, Item 1. Our managed services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis, and we generate revenue monthly as services are performed over the term of customer agreements. Our managed services business has experienced declines in revenue in recent years mainly due to loss of customers to competition.
Results of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2019 included2021 (“2021”) versus Year Ended December 31, 2020 (“2020”)
Segment Reporting
As discussed in Part I, Item 1 of this Report, only reflect Oblong Industries’ financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019.
Business
Oblong, Inc. (“Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company”) was formed as a Delaware corporation in May 2000 and prior2000.Prior to March 6, 2020, Oblong, Inc. was named Glowpoint, Inc. (“Glowpoint”). On October 1, 2019, Glowpointthe Company closed an acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interests of Oblong Industries, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation founded in 2006 (“Oblong Industries”), pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”), dated September 12, 2019, by and among Glowpoint, Oblong Industries and Glowpoint Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of
Glowpoint (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, among other things, Merger Sub merged with and into Oblong Industries with Oblong Industries surviving asbecame a wholly owned subsidiary of Glowpointthe Company (the “Merger”). See further discussion of the Merger in Note 3 - Oblong Industries Acquisition to our consolidated financial statements attached hereto. On March 6, 2020, Glowpoint changed its name to Oblong, Inc. In this Report, we use the terms “Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company” to refer to (i) Oblong (formerly Glowpoint), for periods prior to the closing of the Merger, and (ii) the “combined organization” of Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) and Oblong Industries for periods after the closing of the Merger. For purposes of segment reporting, we refer to the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business as “Glowpoint” herein, and to the Oblong Industries business as “Oblong Industries” herein.
Since the closing of the Merger on October 1, 2019, we have been focused on the integration of the former businesses of Glowpoint and Oblong Industries into a combined organization. While our acquisition of Oblong Industries does provide additional revenues to the combined organization, the cost to further develop and commercialize Oblong’s product offerings is expected to exceed its revenues for the foreseeable future. We expect to achieve certain revenue and cost synergies in connection with combining Glowpoint and Oblong Industries and also expect to reduce the Company’s operating expenses in the future as compared to its annualized operating expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2019. We also expect to continue to invest in product development and sales and marketing expenses with the goal of growing the Company’s revenue in the future. We believe additional capital will be required to fund operations and provide growth capital including investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. We intend to invest sales and marketing resources to expand awareness of Oblong Industries’ product offerings in the Cisco sales channel with the goal of increasing adoption and growing revenue. We expect to continue operating Glowpoint’s former business in the future as part of our combined organization; however, as discussed above, we expect to focus the majority of our future investments in product development and sales and marketing on our efforts to grow revenue from Oblong Industries’ products and service offerings. Glowpoint’s former business experienced declines in revenue in recent fiscal years, with revenue of $14.8 million, $12.6 million and $9.7 million in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. These revenue declines are primarily due to net attrition of customers and lower demand for Glowpoint’s services given the competitive environment and pressure on pricing that exists in its industry.
Results of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2019 (“2019”) versus Year Ended December 31, 2018 (“2018”)
Segment Reporting
As discussed above, on October 1, 2019, the Company acquired Oblong Industries, and Oblong Industries became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Prior to the acquisition of Oblong Industries on October 1, 2019, the Company operated in one segment. Effective October 1, 2019, the former businesses of Glowpoint (now Oblong, Inc.) and Oblong Industries werehave been managed separately, during the fourth quarter of 2019 and involve different products and services. Accordingly, the Company currently operates in two segments: 1)segments for purposes of segment reporting: (1) “Collaboration Products,” which represents the Glowpoint (now named Oblong)Oblong Industries business surrounding our Mezzanine™ product offerings and (2) “Managed Services,” which mainly consists ofrepresents the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business surrounding managed services for video collaboration and network and 2) the Oblong Industries business which consists of products and services for visual collaboration technologies.solutions.
Because the closing of the acquisition of Oblong Industries occurred on October 1, 2019, the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019 included in this Report only reflect Oblong Industries’ financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019. Certain information concerning the Company’s segments for the yearyears ended December 31, 20192021 and 2020, is presented in the following table (in thousands):
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| For the Year Ended December 31, 2021 |
| Managed Services | | Collaboration Products | | Corporate | | Total |
| Revenue | $ | 4,270 | | | $ | 3,469 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 7,739 | |
| Cost of revenues | 2,991 | | | 2,030 | | | — | | | 5,021 | |
| Gross profit | $ | 1,279 | | | $ | 1,439 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 2,718 | |
| Gross profit % | 30.0 | % | | 41.5 | % | | — | % | | 35.1 | % |
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| Allocated operating expenses | $ | 593 | | | $ | 7,556 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 8,149 | |
| Unallocated operating expenses | — | | | — | | | 6,363 | | | 6,363 | |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 593 | | | $ | 7,556 | | | $ | 6,363 | | | $ | 14,512 | |
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| Income (loss) from operations | $ | 686 | | | $ | (6,117) | | | $ | (6,363) | | | $ | (11,794) | |
| Interest and other income (expense), net | (22) | | | 227 | | | 2,448 | | | 2,653 | |
| Income (loss) before income taxes | $ | 664 | | | $ | (5,890) | | | $ | (3,915) | | | $ | (9,141) | |
| Income tax expense | $ | (15) | | | $ | (75) | | | $ | — | | | $ | (90) | |
| Net income (loss) | $ | 679 | | | $ | (5,815) | | | $ | (3,915) | | | $ | (9,051) | |
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| As of December 31, 2021 |
| Total assets | $ | 9,259 | | | $ | 19,348 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 28,607 | |
| | | | For the Year Ended December 31, 2019 | | For the Year Ended December 31, 2020 |
| | Glowpoint | | Oblong Industries | | Total | | Managed Services | | Collaboration Products | | Corporate | | Total |
| Revenue | $ | 9,660 |
| | $ | 3,167 |
| | $ | 12,827 |
| Revenue | $ | 6,227 | | | $ | 9,106 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 15,333 | |
| Cost of revenues | 6,269 |
| | 1,158 |
| | 7,427 |
| Cost of revenues | 3,789 | | | 3,491 | | | — | | | 7,280 | |
| Gross profit | $ | 3,391 |
| | $ | 2,009 |
| | $ | 5,400 |
| Gross profit | $ | 2,438 | | | $ | 5,615 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 8,053 | |
| Gross profit % | 35 | % | | 63 | % | | 42 | % | Gross profit % | 39.2 | % | | 61.7 | % | | — | % | | 52.5 | % |
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| Allocated operating expenses | $ | 6,835 |
| | $ | 5,183 |
| | $ | 12,018 |
| Allocated operating expenses | $ | 1,479 | | | $ | 9,913 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 11,392 | |
| Unallocated operating expenses | — |
| | — |
| | 956 |
| Unallocated operating expenses | — | | | — | | | 6,725 | | | 6,725 | |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 6,835 |
| | $ | 5,183 |
| | $ | 12,974 |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 1,479 | | | $ | 9,913 | | | $ | 6,725 | | | $ | 18,117 | |
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| Loss from operations | $ | (3,444 | ) | | $ | (3,173 | ) | | $ | (7,574 | ) | |
| Interest and other expense, net | — |
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| | (187 | ) | |
| Loss before income taxes | $ | (3,444 | ) | | $ | (3,173 | ) | | $ | (7,761 | ) | |
| Income (loss) from operations | | Income (loss) from operations | $ | 959 | | | $ | (4,298) | | | $ | (6,725) | | | $ | (10,064) | |
| Interest and other income (expense), net | | Interest and other income (expense), net | (19) | | | 2,765 | | | — | | | 2,746 | |
| Income (loss) before income taxes | | Income (loss) before income taxes | $ | 940 | | | $ | (1,533) | | | $ | (6,725) | | | $ | (7,318) | |
| Income tax expense | | Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | $ | 53 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 103 | |
| Net income (loss) | | Net income (loss) | $ | 890 | | | $ | (1,586) | | | $ | (6,725) | | | $ | (7,421) | |
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| | As of December 31, 2019 | | As of December 31, 2020 |
| Total assets | $ | 5,942 |
| | $ | 28,967 |
| | $ | 34,909 |
| Total assets | $ | 6,494 | | | $ | 22,649 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 29,143 | |
Unallocated operating expenses include costs during the fourth quarter of 2019 (after the October 1, 2019 acquisition date) that are not specific to a particular segment but are general to the group; included are expenses incurred for administrative and accounting staff, general liability and other insurance, professional fees and other similar corporate expenses. Interest and other expense, net, is also not allocated
Revenue. Total revenue decreased for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the operating segments.
As shown in the table below, the combined organization’s total revenue for calendar years 2019 and 2018 on a pro forma basis (as if the acquisition of Oblong Industries had occurred on January 1, 2018), were $25.6 million and $29.8 million, respectively.
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| | Year Ended December 31, ($ in thousands) |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Revenue | | | |
| Glowpoint | $ | 9,660 |
| | $ | 12,557 |
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| Oblong Industries | 15,926 |
| | 17,249 |
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| Pro forma revenue | $ | 25,586 |
| | $ | 29,806 |
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Revenue. Total revenue increased $270,000 (or 2%) in 2019 to $12,827,000 from $12,557,000 in 2018.year ended December 31, 2020. The following table summarizes the changes in components of our revenue, and the significant changes in revenue are discussed in more detail below.
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| Year Ended December 31, ($ in thousands) |
| 2021 | | % of Revenue | | 2020 | | % of Revenue |
| Revenue: Managed Services | | | | | | | |
| Video collaboration services | $ | 854 | | | 11.0 | % | | $ | 2,413 | | | 15.7 | % |
| Network services | 3,347 | | | 43.2 | % | | 3,611 | | | 23.6 | % |
| Professional and other services | 69 | | 0.9 | % | | 203 | | 1.3 | % |
| Total Managed Services revenue | $ | 4,270 | | | 55.2 | % | | $ | 6,227 | | | 40.6 | % |
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| Revenue: Collaboration Products | | | | | | | |
| Visual collaboration product offerings | $ | 3,367 | | | 43.5 | % | | $ | 6,873 | | | 44.8 | % |
| Professional services | — | | | — | % | | $ | 1,033 | | | 6.7 | % |
| Licensing | 102 | | | 1.3 | % | | $ | 1,200 | | | 7.8 | % |
| Total Collaboration Products revenue | $ | 3,469 | | | 44.8 | % | | $ | 9,106 | | | 59.4 | % |
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| Total consolidated revenue | $ | 7,739 | | | 100.0 | % | | $ | 15,333 | | | 100.0 | % |
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| | Year Ended December 31, ($ in thousands) |
| | 2019 | | % of Revenue | | 2018 | | % of Revenue |
| Revenue: Glowpoint | | | | | | | |
| Video collaboration services | $ | 5,566 |
| | 43 | % | | $ | 7,589 |
| | 60 | % |
| Network services | 3,860 |
| | 30 | % | | 4,351 |
| | 35 | % |
| Professional and other services | 234 |
| | 2 | % | | 617 |
| | 5 | % |
| Total Glowpoint revenue | $ | 9,660 |
| | 75 | % | | $ | 12,557 |
| | 100 | % |
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| Revenue: Oblong | | | | | | | |
| Visual collaboration product offerings | $ | 2,180 |
| | 17 | % | | $ | — |
| | — | % |
| Professional services | 709 |
| | 6 | % | | $ | — |
| | — | % |
| Licensing | 278 |
| | 2 | % | | $ | — |
| | — | % |
| Total Oblong Industries revenue | $ | 3,167 |
| | 25 | % | | $ | — |
| | — | % |
| Total revenue | $ | 12,827 |
| | 100 | % | | $ | 12,557 |
| | 100 | % |
Glowpoint
Revenue•The year over year decrease in revenue for managed services for video collaboration services decreased $2,023,000 (or 27%) to $5,566,000 in 2019, from $7,589,000 in 2018. This decrease is mainly attributable to lower revenue from existing customers (either from reductions in price or level of services) and loss of customers to competition.
Revenue•The year over year decrease in revenue for network services decreased $491,000 (or 11%) to $3,860,000 in 2019 from $4,351,000 in 2018. This decrease is mainly attributable to net attrition of customers and lower demand for our services given the competitive environment and pressure on pricing that exists in the network services business.
Revenue•The year over year decrease in revenue for professional and other services decreased $383,000 (or 62%) to $234,000 in 2019 from $617,000 in 2018. This decrease is mainly attributable to lower resale of video equipment.
Oblong IndustriesCollaboration Products
For Oblong Industries, the increase•The year over year decrease in revenue in each of the different components wasfor visual collaboration product offerings is primarily attributable to the acquisitioneffects of Oblong Industriesthe COVID-19 pandemic on October 1, 2019our existing and includes Oblong Industries’target customers as they evaluate how and when to re-open their commercial real estate footprints, as Mezzanine™ products are currently used in conventional commercial real estate spaces such as conference rooms. The Company’s results reflect the challenges due to long and unpredictable sales cycles, delays in customer retrofit budgets, project starts, and supply delayed orders in our distribution channels as a direct result of customer implementation schedules shifting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular has, and may continue to have, a significant economic and business impact on our Company. During 2021 and 2020, we saw a weakness in revenue from October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019, as comparedour customers across all sectors delayed order placements in reaction to no revenue included for 2018.the ongoing impacts of the pandemic that caused our customers to suspend or postpone real estate retrofit projects due to budget and occupancy uncertainties. We continue to monitor the impact of the pandemic on our customers, suppliers and logistics providers, and evaluate governmental actions being taken to curtail and respond to the spread of the virus. The significance and duration of the ongoing impact on us is still uncertain. Material adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on market drivers, our customers, suppliers or logistics providers could significantly impact our operating results. We will continue to actively follow, assess and analyze the ongoing impact of the pandemic and adjust our organizational structure, strategies, plans and processes to respond. Because the situation continues to evolve, we cannot reasonably estimate the ultimate impact to our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial position that the pandemic may have. Continuation of thepandemic and government actions in response thereto could cause further disruptions to our operations and the operations of our customers, suppliers and logistics partners and could significantly adversely affect our near-term and long-term revenues, earnings, liquidity and cash flows.
We expect the Company’s total revenue will increase from 2019 to 2020, mainly driven by the inclusion of a full calendar•The year ofover year decrease in revenue for Oblong Industries inprofessional services is primarily attributable to a former customer terminating services effective April 30, 2020 (since 2019 only includesdue to COVID-19. Our professional services revenue for the fourth quarter for Oblong Industries), partially offset by an expected continuing declineyear ended December 31, 2020 was primarily attributable to this customer. We did not generate revenue from professional services in 2021 and we do not expect to in the future.
•The year over year decrease in revenue for licensing is primarily attributable to a former customer terminating the licensing of our technology effective December, 31 2020. Our licensing revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020 was primarily attributable to this customer. We do not expect to generate material revenue from licensing in the Glowpoint business given the dynamic and competitive environment for these services.future.
Cost of revenue (exclusive of depreciation and amortization). Cost of revenue, exclusive of depreciation and amortization, includes all internal and external costs related to the delivery of revenue. Cost of revenue also includes the cost for taxes whichthat have been billed to customers.
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| For the Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Cost of Revenue | | | |
| Managed Services | $ | 2,991 | | | $ | 3,789 | |
| Collaboration Products | 2,030 | | | 3,491 | |
| Total cost of revenue | $ | 5,021 | | | $ | 7,280 | |
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| | For the Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Cost of Revenue | | | |
| Glowpoint | $ | 6,269 |
| | $ | 7,598 |
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| Oblong Industries | 1,158 |
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| Total cost of revenue | $ | 7,427 |
| | $ | 7,598 |
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Cost of revenue decreased to $7,427,000 in 2019 from $7,598,000 in 2018. The $171,000year over year decrease in cost of revenue from 2018 to 2019 is mainly attributable to lower costs associated with the $2,897,000 decrease in Glowpoint revenue during the same period, partially offset byand the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) of $192,000 which reduced labor costs in cost of revenue for Oblong Industries for the fourth quarter of 2019.2021. The Company’s total cost
of revenue decreased 58% in 2019 as compared to 61% in 2018. For Glowpoint, the cost of revenue, as a percentage of Glowpoint revenue, increased to 65% for 2019 from 61% for 2018. We reduced costs related to Glowpoint revenue in the following areas in 2019: personnel costs, network costs, taxes and external costs associated with video meeting suites. The increase in Glowpoint’s cost of revenuegross profit, as a percentage of revenue, declined in 2021 as compared to 2020. The decrease in gross profit for 2019 is mainly attributableManaged Services was primarily due to higherthe decline in video collaboration services revenue while maintaining certain levels of personnel and other fixed costs as a percentage ofto deliver revenue. For Oblong Industries, cost ofCollaboration Products, the decrease in gross profit was primarily due to the decline in licensing revenue as a percentage of revenue was 37% for the fourth quarter of 2019.from 2020 to 2021.
Research and Development. Research and development expenses include internal and external costs related to developing features and enhancements to our existing services. Research and development expensesproduct offerings. The year over year decrease in 2019 and 2018 were $2,023,000 and $921,000, respectively. This increase is primarily attributable to $1,216,000 of research and development expenses for Oblong Industries in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses in 2019 and 2018 were $1,936,000 and $319,000, respectively. This increase2021 compared to 2020 is primarily attributable to $1,782,000a reduction in headcount, and the ERC of $271,000 attributable to research and development labor for the year ended 2021, partially offset by a increase in stock-based compensation of $33,000.
Sales and Marketing. The year over year decrease in sales and marketing expenses for Oblong Industries2021 compared to 2020 is primarily attributable to a reduction in headcount, a reduction in lease expense as we closed several office locations during the fourth quarteryears ended 2020 and 2021, the ERC of 2019.$150,000 attributable to sales and marketing labor for 2021, and a reduction of stock-based compensation.
General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses include direct corporate expenses related to costs of personnel in the various corporate support categories, including executive, legal, finance and accounting, human resources and information technology. GeneralThe year over year decrease in general and administrative expenses in 2019 and 2018 were $5,377,000 and $4,611,000, respectively. This increase2021 compared to 2020 is mainly attributable to an increase relateda reduction in headcount and the ERC of $261,000 attributable to $1,405,000 of general and administrative expenseslabor for Oblong Industries in the fourth quarter of 2019;2021, partially offset by (i) a decreaseincrease of $313,000 in professional fees related to merger and acquisition costs, (ii) a decrease of $185,000$851,000 in stock-based compensation and stock-based expense and (iii) a decrease in administrative and overhead costs of $128,000.for services.
Impairment Charges. Impairment charges in 2019 and 2018 were $2,317,000 and $5,093,000, respectively. The impairment charges for 20192021 are primarily attributable to $2,254,000impairment charges on Glowpoint’s goodwillproperty, equipment, and $63,000 onintangible assets no longer used in the business. For 2018,service, and the impairment charges during the year ended 2020 are primarily attributable to $4,955,000 on goodwillproperty and $138,000 on capitalized softwareequipment no longer in service. The continued future declineservice, and goodwill related to the Managed Services segment. Future declines of our revenue, cash flows and/or stock price may give rise to a triggering event that may require the Company to record impairment charges in the future related to our goodwill, intangible assets and other long-lived assets.
Depreciation and Amortization. DepreciationThe year over year decrease in depreciation and amortization expenses in 2019 and 2018 were $1,321,000 and $755,000, respectively. This increase2021 compared to 2020 is mainly attributable to $754,000the disposition and impairment of depreciationcertain assets during 2020 and amortization expense recorded in the fourth quarter of 2019 related to assets recorded in connection with the acquisition of Oblong Industries, partially offset by2021 as well as a decrease of $188,000 in depreciation and amortization expense for Glowpoint as certain assets became fully depreciated in 2019.depreciated.
Loss from Operations. Loss from operations increased to $7,574,000 in 2019 from $6,740,000 in 2018. The year over year increase in the Company’s loss from operations is mainly attributable to including Oblong Industries’ loss from operations of $3,173,000 for 2019,lower revenue and gross profit, partially offset by a $2,339,000 decrease in Glowpoint’s loss from operations for 2019 as compared to 2018. The decrease in Glowpoint’s loss from operations was mainly attributable to decreases in impairment charges on goodwill, cost of revenue andlower operating expenses partially offset by a decrease in our revenue (see further discussion above).as addressed above.
Interest and Other (Income) Expense,Income, Net. Interest and other expense,income, net in 20192021 was $187,000,primarily comprised of (i) $97,000other income resulting from the settlement of an office lease, and (ii) a gain on extinguishment of debt resulting from the forgiveness of our Paycheck Protection Program loan (the “PPP Loan”). Interest and other income, net in 2020 was comprised of a gain on extinguishment of debt related to the satisfaction of the Silicon Valley Bank loan (the “SVB Loan”), partially offset by interest expense on the Company’s former debt obligations with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) during the fourth quarter of 2019, and (ii) $90,000 of amortization of debt discount costs related to the SVB Loan Agreement. Interest and other expense, net in 2018 was $415,000, comprised of (i) $311,000 of interest expense on the Company’s then-existing debt obligations during 2018, and (ii) $269,000 of amortization of debt discount costs related to our then-existing debt obligations, partially offset by a $165,000 gain on extinguishment of debt.obligations.
Income Tax Benefit/Expense. IncomeWe recorded an income tax benefit of $90,000 in 2021 and income tax expense of $103,000 in 2019 and 2018 was $0 and $13,000, respectively2020 (see Note 1817 - Income Taxes to our consolidated financial statements).
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of December 31, 2019 and 2018,2021, we had $4,602,000 and $2,007,000$9,000,000 of cash, respectively. consisting of $8,939,000 in available cash and $61,000 in restricted cash, and $10,258,000 of working capital.For the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, we incurred net losses of $7,761,000$9,051,000 and $7,168,000,$7,421,000, respectively, and net cash used in operating activities was $3,253,000$7,732,000 and $1,155,000,$6,566,000, respectively.
Net cash used in investing activities for 20192021 and 20182020 was $2,149,000$49,000 and $335,000,$31,000, respectively, and primarily related to purchases of property and equipment, including capitalized internal-use software costs.equipment.
Net cash provided by financing activities in 20192021 was $3,699,000,$11,504,000, attributable to net proceeds from an equity financing. Net cash provided by financing activities in 2020 was $7,272,000, primarily attributable to the Company’s sale of its Series E Preferred Stock in a private placement during the fourth quarter of 2019. On October 1, 2019, the Company entered into a Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the investors party thereto, who, prior to the closing of the Oblong Industries acquisition, were stockholders of Oblong (the “Purchasers”). At an initial closing on October 1, 2019 and a subsequent closing on December 18, 2019, the Company sold, and the Purchasers purchased, a total of 131,579 shares of Series E Preferred Stock at a price of $28.50 per share for grossnet proceeds of $3,750,000 (the “Series E Financing”). The 131,579 shares$7,371,000 from two equity financings and $2,417,000 of Series E Preferred Stock issued byproceeds from the Company in the Series E Financing have an aggregate Accrued Value of $3,750,000 and upon their conversion will convert at a conversion price of $2.85 per share into 1,315,790 common shares. The Company did not pay any commissions or discounts in connection with the Offering. In connection with the Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Purchasers executed a Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 1, 2019 (the “Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to the Rights Agreement, among other things, the Company has provided the Purchasers with certain rights to require the Company to file and maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement with respect to the re-sale of shares of Common Stock underlying the shares of Series D Preferred Stock issued in the Company’s acquisition of Oblong Industries and Series E Preferred Stock sold in the Series E Financing and, in each case, held by the Purchasers.
Net cash used in financing activities for 2018 was $449,000, primarily attributable to (i) $1,832,000 of aggregate principal payments on the Western Alliance BankPPP Loan, Agreement and Super G Loan Agreement (no debt obligations remained as of December 31, 2018), and (ii) other payments of $154,000 relating to the purchase of treasury stock and debt issuance costs, partially offset by (i) $1,527,000the satisfaction payment of net proceeds from$2,500,000 on the January 2018 offering of Series C Preferred Stock.SVB Loan.
Future Capital Requirements and Going Concern
As of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020, we had $4,602,000 and $2,061,000 of cash, respectively. Our estimated cash balance as of March 31, 2020 is preliminary and unaudited and is being presented here for illustrative purposes only. As of December 31, 2019 and the filing of this Report, we had $5,609,000 of total obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement. The SVB Loan Agreement provides that interest-only payments were due through March 31, 2020, after which equal monthly principal and interest payments will be payable in order to fully repay the loan by September 1, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”). Prior to April 1, 2020, SVB (i) indicated its agreement via e-mail to defer the monthly principal payment of $291,500 and a prior deferral fee of $100,000 that were each due on April 1, 2020 and (ii) verbally agreed to defer the monthly principal payment of $291,500 that was due on May 1, 2020, in each case to June 1, 2020. Failure to make these payments will constitute an event of default under the SVB Loan Agreement. However, the Company and SVB are currently in negotiations to restructure the SVB Loan Agreement, though there can be no assurance that the Company and SVB will be able to reach any agreement. In April 2020, we received cash proceeds from a loan for $2,416,600 (the “PPP Loan”) from MidFirst Bank under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) contained within the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The PPP Loan has a term of two years, is unsecured, and is guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The PPP Loan carries a fixed interest rate of one percent (1.0%) per annum, with the first six months of interest deferred. Our capital requirements in the future will continue to depend on numerous factors, including the timing and amount of revenue, for the combined organization, customer renewal rates and the timing of collection of outstanding accounts receivable, in each case particularly as it relates to the combined organization’sour major customers, the expense to deliver services, expense for sales and marketing, expense for research and development, capital expenditures, and the cost involved in protecting intellectual property rights, debt service obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement, the amount of forgiveness of the PPP Loan, if any, and the debt service obligations under the PPP Loan, and expenses required to successfully integrate Glowpoint and Oblong Industries. While our acquisition of Oblong Industries does provide additional revenues to the Company, the cost to further develop and commercialize Oblong Industries’ product offerings is expected to exceed its revenues for the foreseeable future.rights. We expect to achieve certain revenue and cost synergies in connection with combining Glowpoint and Oblong Industries and also expect to reduce the Company’s operating expenses in the future as compared to our annualized operating expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2019. We also expect to continue to invest in product development and sales and marketing expenses with the goal of growing the Company’s revenue in the future. The Company believes that, based on the combined organization’sour current projection of revenue, expenses, capital expenditures, debt service obligations, and cash flows, it will not have sufficient resources to fund its operations for the next twelve months following the filing of this Report. We believe additional capital will be required to fund operations and provide growth capital including investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. To access capital to fund operations or provide growth capital, we will need to restructure the SVB Loan Agreement and raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising necessary capital or that any such offering will be on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are unable to raise additional capital that may be needed on terms acceptable to us, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company. The factors discussed above raise substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from these uncertainties.
See Note 1716 - Commitments and Contingenciesto our consolidated financial statements for discussion regarding certain additional factors that could impact the Company’s liquidity in the future.
Critical Accounting Policies
We prepare our consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP.Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”). Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 1 - Business Description and Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements attached hereto. We believe the following critical accounting policies involve the most significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.
Revenue Recognition.Recognition
GlowpointThe Company accounts for revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606.
Revenue billedThe Company recognizes revenue using the five-step model as prescribed by Topic 606:
•Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;
•Identification of the distinct performance obligations in advance for video collaboration services is deferred until the revenue has been earned, which is whencontract;
•Determination of the related services have been performed. Other service revenue, including amounts passed through based on surcharges from our telecom carriers, relatedtransaction price;
•Allocation of the transaction price to the network servicesperformance obligations in the contract; and collaboration
•Recognition of revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation.
The Company’s managed videoconferencing services are recognized as service is provided. As the non-refundable, upfront installation and activation fees chargedoffered to our customers do not meet the criteriaon either a usage basis or on a subscription. Our network services are offered to our customers on a subscription basis. Revenue for these services is generally recognized on a monthly basis as a separate unit of accounting, theyservices are deferred and recognized over the 12 to 24-month period estimated life of the customer relationship.performed. Revenue related to professional services is recognized at the time the services are performed. Revenues derived from other sources are recognized when services are provided or events occur.
Oblong Industries
Oblong Industries’ core platform is g-speak™, and Mezzanine™ is its flagship product built on this platform. Mezzanine™ offers advanced collaboration for conference room technology, which amplifies sales presentations, enhances group collaboration, and makes work sessions more productive. The Company offers g-speak development licenses to larger enterprise customers. The Company’s products are systems that consist of hardware and software that function together to deliver the system’s essential functionality. The Company sells the systems as a complete package and does not sell the hardware and software separately. The Company also sells maintenance and support contracts and license agreements. The Company has determined that its systems and service contracts have value to a customer on a standalone basis; therefore, revenue from each item should be recognized separately. The Company establishes the relative selling price of each deliverable based on estimated selling price. The Company recognizes product revenue from its systems upon shipment, installation revenue upon completed installation and revenue from maintenance contracts and license agreements ratably over the applicable periods, ranging from 12 to 36 months. Professional service contracts are billed based on time and materials at the contract rate as the services are rendered.
In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 2014-09 (Topic 606) “Revenue from Contracts with Customers.” Topic 606 supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Accounting Standards Codification Topic 605 “Revenue Recognition” (Topic 605) and required entities to recognize revenue when control of promised goods or services is transferred to customers at an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services. On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted Topic 606 using the modified retrospective method applied to those contracts which were not completed as of January 1, 2018. Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2018 are presented under Topic 606, while prior period amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with our historic accounting under Accounting Standards Codification Topic 605. We did not record an adjustment to opening accumulated deficit as of January 1, 2018 as the cumulative impact of adopting Topic 606 was not material. We adopted Topic 606 for Oblong Industries effective October 1, 2019 (the date of acquisition).
The costs associated with obtaining a customer contract were previously expensed in the period they were incurred. Under Topic 606, these payments are deferred on our consolidated balance sheet and amortized over the expected life of the customer contract. The impact to sales and marketing expense for the year ended December 31, 2019 was not material as a result of applying Topic 606. For Oblong Industries, we recorded customer contract costs of $87,500 on the date of adoption. As of December 31, 2019, $101,500 of customer contract costs are recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets. Deferred revenue as of December 31, 20192021 totaled $1,901,000 as certain performance obligations were not satisfied as of this date. Deferred revenue as of December 31, 2018 totaled $43,000$8,000 as certain performance obligations were not satisfied as of this date. During the year ended December 31, 2019,2021, the Company recorded $32,000$24,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2018.2020. During the year ended December 31, 2018,2020, the Company recorded $350,000$21,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2017. 2019.
The Company’s visual collaboration products are composed of hardware and embedded software sold as a complete package, and generally include installation and maintenance services. Revenue for hardware and software is recognized upon shipment to the customer. Installation revenue is recognized upon completion of installation, which also triggers the beginning of recognition of revenue for maintenance services which range from one to three years. Revenue is recognized over time for maintenance services. Professional services are contracts with specific customers for software development, visual design, interaction design, engineering, and project support. These contracts vary in length, and revenue is recognized over time as
services are rendered. Licensing agreements are for the Company’s core technology platform, g-speak, and are generally one year in length. Revenue for these services is recognized ratably over the service period. Deferred revenue, as of December 31, 2021, totaled $1,156,000 as certain performance obligations were not satisfied as of this date. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded $1,193,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2020. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recorded $978,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2019.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets, Goodwill and Intangible Assets
The Company disaggregates its revenue by geographic region. See Note 16 - Segment Reporting for more information.
Long-Lived Assets. We evaluateassesses the impairment losses onof long-lived assets used in operations, primarily fixed assets and purchased intangible assets subject to amortization when events and circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets might not be recoverable as required by ASC Topic 360 “Property, Plant and Equipment.”recoverable. For purposes of evaluating the recoverability of long-livedfixed assets and amortizing intangible assets, the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are compared to the carrying amounts of those assets. If and when the carrying values of the assets exceed their fair values,the undiscounted cash flows, then the related assets will be written down to fair value. During 2019
For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2018,2020, the Company recorded asset impairment charges on property and equipment of $41,000$98,000 and $0,$144,000, respectively, which pertained primarily consisting of furniture, computer equipment, and network equipmentto assets no longer being utilizedused in the Company’s business. These charges are recognized as “Impairment Charges”During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company disposed of fixed assets of $1,092,000 and the corresponding accumulated depreciation of $993,000, partially offset by proceeds on our Consolidated Statementssale of Operations.$1,000, which resulted in a loss on disposal of $98,000. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company disposed of fixed assets of $3,438,000 and the corresponding accumulated depreciation of $3,287,000, partially offset by proceeds on sale of $7,000, which resulted in a loss on disposal of $144,000.
Capitalized Software Costs. The Company capitalizes certain costs incurred in connection with developing or obtaining internal-use software. All software development costs have been appropriately accounted for as required by ASC Topic 350.40 “Intangible - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software.” Capitalized software costs are included in “Property and Equipment” on our consolidated balance sheets and are amortized over three to four years. Software costs that do not meet capitalization criteria are expensed as incurred. For the year ended December 31, 2019, we capitalized internal-use software costs2020, the Company recorded aggregate impairment charges of $0$465,000 on two right-of-use assets. See Note 9 - Operating Leases and we amortized $241,000 of these costs. ForRight-of-Use Assets for further discussion. There were no right-of-use asset impairments for the year ended December 31, 2018, we capitalized internal-use software costs of $265,000 and we amortized $372,000 of these costs. During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we recorded impairment losses of $22,000 and $138,000, respectively, for certain discrete projects that were abandoned. These charges are recognized as “Impairment Charges” on our Consolidated Statements of Operations.2021.
Goodwill. Goodwill is not amortized but is subject to periodic testing for impairment in accordance with ASC Topic 350 “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Testing Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment” (“ASC Topic 350”). As of December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, goodwill was $7,907,000 and $2,795,000, respectively. As of December 31, 2019,$7,367,000. This goodwill was comprised of (i) $7,366,000 recorded in connection with the October 1, 2019 acquisition of Oblong Industries and (ii) $541,000 related to the Glowpoint reporting unit as discussed below.Industries.
We test goodwill for impairment on an annual basis on September 30th of each year or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change indicating that the fair value of the goodwill may be below its carrying amount. Prior to the acquisition of Oblong Industries on October 1, 2019, theThe Company operated as a singleoperates two reporting unitsegments, Managed Services and used its market capitalization toCollaboration Products. To determine the fair value of theeach reporting unit as of each test date. In order to determinefor the market capitalization, the Company used the trailing 20-day volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of its stock as of each period end. Following the acquisition of Oblong Industries, the Company operated two reporting units, Glowpoint and Oblong Industries. As of each June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2019, we considered the declines in Glowpoint revenue and/or stock price to be triggering events for interim goodwill impairment tests. For the Glowpoint goodwill impairment test as of December 31, 2019, to determine the fair value of the reporting unit,tests, we used ana weighted average of the discounted cash flow method and a market-based method (multiples of revenue for comparable companies).method.
For the GlowpointManaged Services reporting unit, we recorded goodwill impairment charges of $2,254,000 and $4,955,000 in$541,000 for the yearsyear ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively,2020, as the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeded its fair value on the applicable test dates. These charges are recognized as “Impairment Charges” on our Consolidated Statements of Operations.Operations, and this segment no longer has any goodwill included in the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2020.
For the Collaboration Products reporting unit, the fair value of this reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount on our annual testing dates and as of December 31, 2021, therefore no impairment charges were required during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. During the three months ended December 31, 2021, we considered the decline in our stock price to be a triggering event for an interim goodwill impairment test as of December 31, 2021. The fair value of this reporting unit was in excess of its carrying value by approximately 20% as of December 31, 2021. In the event we experience future declines in our revenue, cash flows and/or stock price, this may give rise to a triggering event that may require the Company to record additional impairment charges on goodwill in the future.
Intangible Assets. Intangible assets total $12,572,000totaled $7,562,000 and $10,140,000 as of December 31, 20192021 and include $12,200,000 related to the intangible assets recorded in connection with the acquisition of Oblong Industries.2020, respectively. The Company assesses the impairment of purchased intangible assets subject to amortization when events and circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets might not be recoverable. Fair value of the intangible assets during 2019 has been determined using the relief from royalty methodology. This approach involves two steps: (a) estimating reasonable royalty rates for each intangible asset and (b) applying these royalty rates to a net revenue stream and discounting the resulting cash flows to determine fair value. This fair value is then compared with the carrying value of each intangible asset. If the carrying value of the intangible asset is greater than its implied fair value, an impairment in the amount of the excess is recognized and charged to operations. The determination of related estimated useful lives and whether or not these assets are impaired involves significant judgments, related primarily to the future profitability and/or future value of the assets. Changes in the Company’s strategic plan and/or other-than-temporary changes in market conditions could significantly impact these judgments and could require adjustments to recorded asset balances. Long-lived assets are evaluated for impairment whenever an event or change in circumstances has occurred that could have a significant adverse effect on the fair value of long-lived assets. The Company performed evaluations of intangible assets as of each quarter end during 20192020 and determined that the fair value of the long-lived assets exceeded the carrying value, therefore no impairment charges were required for2021. For the year ended December 31, 2019.2021, the Company recorded an impairment of $207,000 on purchased intangible assets. See Note 7 - Intangible Assets for further discussion. There were no impairments to purchased intangible assets for the
year ended December 31, 2020. Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized using the straight-line method
over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which range from five to twelve years in accordance with ASC Topic 350 “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Testing Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment.”
InflationLeases
Management does not believe inflation had a significant effectThe Company primarily leases facilities for office, warehouse, and data center space under non-cancellable operating leases for its U.S. and international locations, and accounts for these leases in accordance with ASC-842. Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the consolidated financial statementspresent value of lease payments over the expected lease term. Right-of-use assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the periods presented.lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Since our lease arrangements do not provide an implicit rate, we use our estimated incremental borrowing rate for the expected remaining lease term at commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.Variable lease payments are not included in the lease payments to measure the lease liability and are expensed as incurred. The Company’s leases have remaining terms of one to three years and some of the leases include a Company option to extend the lease term for less than twelve months to five years, or more, which if reasonably certain to exercise, the Company includes in the determination of lease payments. The lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recognized on the balance sheet and the expense for these short-term leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Common area maintenance fees (or CAMs) and other charges related to leases are expensed as incurred. See Note 9 - Operating Leases and Right-of-Use Assets for further discussion of the Company’s lease activities.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of December 31, 20192021 and 20182020, we had no off-balance sheet arrangements.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See the sections titled “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies-Recently adopted accounting pronouncements” and “Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted” in Note 1 - Business Description and Significant Accounting Policies to our Consolidated Financial Statements for more information.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Not applicable.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
The information required by this Item 8 is incorporated by reference herein from Item 15, Part IV, of this Report.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in RuleRules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of December 31, 2019.2021. Based on such evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of December 31, 2019,2021, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms and are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated changes in internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 20192021 and have concluded that no change has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining an adequate system of internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f). Our internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes, in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Because of inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject
to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies and procedures may deteriorate.
The Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 20192021 based on the 2013 framework in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). The COSO framework summarizes each of the components of a company’s internal control system, including (i) the control environment, (ii) risk assessment, (iii) control activities, (iv) information and communication, and (v) monitoring. Based on this evaluation, the Company’s management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2019.2021.
Item 9B. Other Information
None.
Item 9C. Disclosures Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
Not applicable.
PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors currently consists of five directors. The current Board members include threefour independent directors our chief executive officer and our chief technologyexecutive officer. The core responsibility of our Board of Directors is to exercise its business judgment to act in what it reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. Further, members of the Board fulfill their responsibilities consistent with their fiduciary duty to the stockholders, and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. The primary responsibilities of the Board include:
•Oversight of management performance and assurance that stockholder interests are served;
•Oversight of the Company’s business affairs and long-term strategy; and
•Monitoring adherence to the Company’s standards and policies, including, among other things, policies governing internal controls over financial reporting.
Our Board of Directors conducts its business through meetings of the Board and through activities of the standing committees, as further described below. The Board and each of the standing committees meet throughout the year and also
holds special meetings and acts by written consent from time to time, as appropriate. Board agendas include regularly scheduled executive sessions of the independent directors to meet without the presence of management. The Board has delegated various responsibilities and authority to different committees of the Board, as described below. Members of the Board have access to all of our members of management outside of Board meetings.
Our Board of Directors met twelveand/or acted by written consent nine times during the year ended December 31, 2019.2021. During this period, each director attended 75% or more of the aggregate of (i) the total number of meetings of the Board of Directors held during the period for which he was a director and (ii) the total number of meetings of committees of the Board of Directors on which he served, held during the period for which he served. The Company does not have a policy with regard to directors’ attendance at our annual meetings of stockholders. All of our directorsBoard members attended the 20192021 annual meeting of stockholders.
Our Board of Directors conducts its business through meetings of the Board and through activities of the standing committees, as further described below. The Board and each of the standing committees meet throughout the year on a set schedule and also holds special meetings and acts by written consent from time to time, as appropriate. Board agendas include regularly scheduled executive sessions of the independent directors to meet without the presence of management. The Board has delegated various responsibilities and authority to different committees of the Board, as described below. Members of the Board have access to all of our members of management outside of Board meetings.
The following table sets forth information with respect to our Board of Directors as of the date of this Report.
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| Name | Age | Position with Company |
Jason Adelman (1)(2)(3) | 5052 | Director, Chairman of the Compensation Committee, Chairman of the Nominating Committee |
Peter HolstMatthew Blumberg (1)(3) | 51 | Chairman of the Board |
| Peter Holst | 53 | Director, President and Chief Executive Officer |
James S. Lusk (1)(2)(3) | 6466 | Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee Lead Independent Director |
Richard Ramlall (1)Deborah Meredith (2)(3)
| 6462 | Director |
John Underkoffler | 52 | Director |
| (1) Member of the Audit Committee | |
| (2) Member of the Compensation Committee | |
| (3) Member of the Nominating Committee | |
Biographies for Board of Directors
Jason Adelman, Director. Mr. Adelman joined our Board of Directors in July 2019. Mr. Adelman was appointed to the Board in connection with the Representations Agreement. Mr. Adelman is the Founder and Managing Member of Burnham Hill Capital Group, LLC, a privately held financial advisory firm, and serves as Managing Member of Cipher Capital Partners LLC, a private investment fund. Mr. Adelman also serves as a member of the board of directors of Trio-Tech International (NYSE American:TRT). Prior to founding Burnham Hill Capital Group, LLC in 2003, Mr. Adelman served as Managing Director of Investment Banking at H.C. Wainwright and Co., Inc. Mr. Adelman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, and from Cornell Law School with a J.D.
In considering Mr. Adelman as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed, among other qualifications, his experience and expertise in finance, accounting, banking and management based on his experience with Burnham Hill Capital Group LLC, Cipher Capital Partners LLC, and H. C. Wainwright & Co. Mr. Adelman qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" under the applicable SEC rules and accordingly contributes to the Board of Directors his understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and his skills in auditing, as well as in analyzing and evaluating financial statements.
For more information regardingMatthew Blumberg, Chairman of the Representations Agreement, see “Part III, Item 13. Certain RelationshipsBoard. Mr. Blumberg joined our Board of Directors in August 2021 and Related Transactions, and Director Independence” below.
Peter Holst,has served as the Chairman of the Board since our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders (December 16, 2021). Since April 2020, Mr. Blumberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bolster, an on-demand executive talent marketplace that helps accelerate companies’ growth by connecting them with experienced, highly vetted executives for interim, fractional, advisory, project-based or board roles. From 1999 to June 2019, Mr. Blumberg served as Chairman and CEO of Return Path, Inc., a software company. He also co-founded and currently serves as Chairman of Path Forward.ORG, a nonprofit organization on a mission to empower people to restart their careers after time spent focused on caregiving, working with more than 60 companies including Apple, Amazon, Walmart, Intuit, Campbell’s Soup, PayPal, Verizon and Oracle. Mr. Blumberg is also an author and frequent public speaker. He was recognized as one of New York’s 100 most influential technology leaders by the Silicon Alley Insider in 2008, was one of Crain’s New York Top Entrepreneurs in 2012 and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2012. He has served as a board member of numerous corporate, nonprofit and community organizations. Mr. Blumberg attended Princeton University where he graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in Urban Planning in 1992.
In considering Mr. Blumberg as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed his experience and expertise in work force matters and the leadership he has shown in his positions with current and prior companies. Mr. Blumberg qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" under the applicable SEC rules and accordingly contributes to the Board of Directors his understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and his skills in auditing, as well as in analyzing and evaluating financial statements.
Peter Holst, President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to being named President and CEO in January 2013, Mr. Holst served had served as the Company’s Senior Vice President for Business Development since October 1, 2012. Mr. Holst has served as a director of the Company since January 2013 and as Chairman of the Board sincefrom July 2019.2019 up until the 2021 annual meeting of shareholders. Mr. Holst has more than 29 years of experience in the collaboration industry. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Holst served as the Chief Executive Officer of Affinity VideoNet, Inc. (“Affinity”), a leading provider of public videoconferencing rooms and managed videoconferencing services, from June 1, 2008 until October 1, 2012, when the Company acquired Affinity. Prior to joining Affinity, Mr. Holst served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Raindance Communications. Mr. Holst holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.
In considering Mr. Holst as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed his extensive knowledge and expertise in the communication services industry, and the leadership he has shown in his positions with prior companies.
James S. Lusk, Director. Mr. Lusk joined our Board of Directors in February 2007. Mr. Lusk is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Sutherland Global Services, a global provider of business process transformation and technology management services. Mr. Lusk joined Sutherland in July 2015. From 2007 until July 2015, Mr. Lusk was Executive Vice President of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), a leading provider of facility solutions, and served as ABM’s Chief Financial Officer from 2007 until April 2015. Prior to joining ABM, he served as Vice President, Business Services and Chief Operating Officer for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region for Avaya from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Lusk has also served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of BioScrip/MIM, President of Lucent Technologies’ Business Services division, and interim Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller of Lucent Technologies. Mr. Lusk earned his B.S. (Economics), cum laude, from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his M.B.A (Finance) from Seton Hall University. He is a certified public accountant and was inducted into the AICPA Business and Industry Leadership Hall of Fame in 1999.
In considering Mr. Lusk as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed his extensive expertise and knowledge regarding finance and accounting matters, as well as compensation, risk assessment and corporate governance. Mr. Lusk qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the applicable SEC rules and accordingly contributes to the Board of Directors his understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and his skills in auditing, as well as in analyzing and evaluating financial statements.
Richard Ramlall,Deborah Meredith, Director. Mr. RamlallMs. Meredith joined our Board of Directors in July 2019. Mr. Ramlall was appointed toAugust 2021. Ms. Meredith currently serves, and has served for the Board in connection with the Representations Agreement. Mr. Ramlall is currently President and Principal of Ramlall Partners LLC, which provides investor relations, social media, financial and regulatory due diligence, business development, strategic planning, financial and regulatory due diligence, and public relations consulting to public and private organizations. Mr. Ramlall has developed and executed social media investor, marketing & customer acquisition strategy and programs and/or strategic advice compliant with SEC’s Reg FD for Internap Corporation (INAP); Primus telecommunications (PTGi); Livewire Mobile (LVWR); Evolving Systems (EVOL) and Concurrent Computer Corporation (CCUR), and used social media/PR programs as part of an M&A strategy to raise competitive awareness and interest from potential retail and other investors, customers and possible acquirers. Ramlall Partners is currently servinglast 19 years, as a Senior Strategic Advisorboard member, advisor and consultant to MOLQ Entertainment, a global streaming video app platform of independent films, programming, and TV Networks,several high-tech companies with extensive experience in addition to a Senior Advisor to Inveeram International LLC, which offers financial institutions programs to complystrategic roles with Regulatory requirementsprivately held start-up companies such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML); Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Identification (CIP)Proofpoint, Aviatrix, Qventus, Alation and relevant Customer Due Diligence (CDD) relatedKinsa Health. Ms. Meredith has more than three decades of experience working hands-on with company founders to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Most recently, Mr. Ramlall served as the Vice President of Investorassemble world-class teams, architect software products and Public Relations at Internap (NASDAQ:INAP)establish a roadmap for operational success. Ms. Meredith earned a master's degree in computer science from January 2017 to January 2020. Internap is a leading technology provider of High Performance Data Center Services including Colocation, Managed, Hosting, Cloud and Network Services. From September 2013 to December 2016, through Ramlall Partners LLC, he provided investor relations, financial and regulatory due diligence and compliance, business development, strategic planning, and public relations consulting to public and private organizations in the financial, telecommunications and energy sectors. From November 2010 to August 2013, Mr. Ramlall served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Communications Officer of Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (NYSE:PTGI). Before being successfully sold to various entities, Primus was a leading provider of advanced communication solutions, including broadband Internet, traditional and IP voice, data, mobile services, collocation, hosting, and outsourced managed services to business and residential customers in the United States, Canada and Australia. From March 2005 to August 2010, Mr. Ramlall served as Senior Vice President, Strategic External Affairs and Programming at RCN Corporation, the leading overbuilder broadband provider of video, data, and voice services to residential, business and commercial/carrier customers. Prior to joining RCN in March 2005, Mr. Ramlall served as Senior Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Spencer Trask Media and Communications Group, LLC (a division of New York-based venture capital firm Spencer Trask & Company) based in Reston, Virginia, from June 1999. From March 1997 to June 1999, Mr. Ramlall served as Vice President and Managing Director for Strategy, Marketing and International Government Affairs for Bechtel Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Bechtel Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Ramlall was Executive Director for International Business Affairs for Bell Atlantic International and spent over 18 years at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) including assignments in Product Management, Legal, Regulatory, Rates, Forecasting and Country Manager-Indian Subcontinent. Mr. Ramlall holds a B.S. in Business AdministrationStanford University and an M.G.A. (Technology Management)undergraduate degree in both computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland. Mr. Ramlall served on the Board of Evolving Systems (NASDAQ: EVOL), a provider of software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline and internet protocol (IP) carrier market, from 2008 until 2019.Michigan.
In considering Mr. Ramlall as a director of the Company, the Board considered Mr. Ramlall’s 39 plus years of experience in the telecommunications/IT industry and more than 24 years of international business experience, as well as operational experience at a senior executive level, with particular emphasis on Indian operations. As Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Communications Officer at Primus, in addition to previous assignments, Mr. Ramlall was responsible for International Business Development, M&A, Investor Relations, Public Relations and Regulatory Affairs, bringing valuable investor and corporate governance expertise and experience to our Board and our management team. Mr. Ramlall has won more than 25 Business Communications awards and in March 2013 was recognized as one of the Top 25 Minority Business leaders in the Washington D.C. Metro Area.
For more information regarding the Representations Agreement, see “Part III, Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence” below.
John Underkoffler, Director. Mr. Underkoffler joined our Board of Directors in October 2019 in connection with the Oblong Industries Merger. Mr. Underkoffler served as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer from October 1, 2019 to May 1, 2020. Prior to this position, Mr. Underkoffler served as chair of Oblong Industries’ Board of Directors since 2006 and as its Chief Executive Officer since 2013. Mr. Underkoffler founded Oblong Industries in 2006. Oblong Industries’ technological and design trajectories build on fifteen years of foundational work at the MIT Media Lab, where in the 1980s and 1990s Mr. Underkoffler was responsible for innovations in real-time computer graphics systems, optical and electronic holography, large-scale visualization techniques, and the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room systems. He has been science and technology advisor to films including “Iron Man,” “Aeon Flux,” “The Hulk” (A. Lee), and “Minority Report.” Mr. Underkoffler's design of the gestural interface used by the Tom Cruise pre-forensic detective character in the latter film became one of the most widely influential fictional UIs in history. His 2010 TED talk and demo operated as definition and summary for the field of spatial computing. Mr. Underkoffler speaks worldwide on the central role of the human machine interface and the urgent need for its evolution; he is regarded one of the world's leading practitioner-experts in the UI field. He serves on the Board of Directors of the E14 Fund in Cambridge, MA; on the National Advisory Council of Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, MI; and as a curator-at-large for New York’s Museum
of Arts and Design. Mr. Underkoffler is the recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In considering Mr. UnderkofflerMs. Meredith as a director of the Company, the Board reviewed his extensive knowledgeher experience and expertise in the visual collaborationtechnology industry and the leadership heshe has shown in his positionher positions with Oblong.prior companies.
Director Independence
On February 12, 2021, the Company transferred the listing of our common stock from the NYSE American Stock Exchange (the “NYSE American”) to The Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”).Our Board of Directors has determined that each of our current directors, other than Mr. Holst, and Mr. Underkoffler, qualifies as “independent” in accordance with the rules of the NYSE American.Nasdaq. Because Mr. Holst is an employee of the Company, and Mr. Underkoffler has recently served as an employee of the Company, they dohe does not qualify as independent.
The NYSE AmericanNasdaq independence definition includes a series of objective tests, such as that the director is notneither an executive officer nor an employee of the Company and has not engaged in various types of business dealings with the Company. In addition, as further required by the NYSE AmericanNasdaq rules, the Board has made a subjective determination as to each independent director that no relationship exists which, in the opinion of the Board, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. In making these determinations, the directors reviewed and discussed information provided by the directors and the Company with regard to each director’s business and personal activities as they may relate to the Company and the Company’s management, including each of the matters set forth under “Part III, Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.” below.
Board Committees
The Board has an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating committee, and may form special committees as is required from time to time. Each of the committees regularly report on their activities and actions to the full
Board. The charters for the audit committee, the compensation committee, and the nominating committee are available on the Company’s website at www.oblong.com. The contents of our website are not incorporated by reference into this document for any purpose.
Audit Committee
The audit committee currently consists of Mr. Lusk (chair), Mr. Blumberg, and Mr. Ramlall.Adelman. Our Board of Directors has determined that all members of the audit committee are “independent” within the meaning of the listing standards of NYSE AmericanNasdaq and the SEC rules governing audit committees and “financially literate” for purposes of applicable NYSE AmericanNasdaq listing standards. In addition, our Board of Directors has determined that each of Messrs. Lusk, Blumberg, and RamlallAdelman have the accounting and related financial management expertise to satisfy the requirements of an “audit committee financial expert,” as determined pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. The audit committee consults and meets with our independent registered public accounting firm, Chief Financial Officer and accounting personnel, reviews potential conflict of interest situations where appropriate, and reports and makes recommendations to the full Board of Directors regarding such matters. The audit committee met four times during the year ended December 31, 2019.2021.
Compensation Committee
Our compensation committee currently consists of Mr. Adelman (chair), Mr. Lusk, and Mr. Lusk.Ms. Meredith. Each member of the compensation committee meets the applicable independence requirements of the NYSE American.Nasdaq, including the additional independence test required for compensation committee members. In affirmatively determining the independence of the compensation committee members, we considered all factors specifically relevant to determining whether each of the directors has a relationship to the Company that is material to that director’s ability to be independent from management in connection with the duties of a compensation committee member. The compensation committee met twoand/or acted by written consent three times during the year ended December 31, 2019.2021.
The compensation committee is responsible for establishing and administering our executive compensation policies. The role of the compensation committee is to (i) formulate, evaluate and approve compensation of the Company’s directors, executive officers and key employees, (ii) oversee all compensation programs involving the use of the Company’s stock and (iii) produce, if required under applicable securities laws, a report on executive compensation for inclusion in the Company’s proxy statement for its annual meeting of stockholders. The duties and responsibilities of the compensation committee under its charter include:
•annually reviewing and making recommendations to the Board with respect to compensation of directors, executive officers and key employees of the Company;
•annually reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to Chief Executive Officer compensation, evaluating the Chief Executive Officer’s performance in light of those goals and objectives, and recommending to the Board the Chief Executive Officer’s compensation levels based on this evaluation;
•reviewing competitive practices and trends to determine the adequacy of the executive compensation program;
•approving and overseeing compensation programs for executive officers involving the use of the Company’s stock;
•approving and administering cash incentives for executives, including oversight of achievement of performance objectives, and funding for executive incentive plans;
•annually performing a self-evaluation on the performance of the compensation committee; and
•making regular reports to the Board concerning the activities of the compensation committee.
When appropriate, the compensation committee may, in carrying out its responsibilities, form and delegate authority to subcommittees. The Chief Executive Officer plays a role in determining the compensation of our other executive officers by evaluating the performance of those executive officers. The Chief Executive Officer’s evaluations are then reviewed by the compensation committee. This process leads to a recommendation for any changes in salary, bonus terms and equity awards, if any, based on performance, which recommendations are then reviewed and approved by the compensation committee.
Nominating Committee
Our nominating committee currently consists of Mr. Adelman (chair), Mr. Blumberg, Mr. Lusk, and Mr. Ramlall.Ms. Meredith. Each member of the nominating committee meets the independence requirements of the NYSE American.Nasdaq. The nominating committee is responsible for assessing the performance of our Board of Directors and making recommendations to our Board regarding nominees for the Board. The nominating committee met and/or acted by written consent two times during the year ended December 31, 2019.2021.
The nominating committee considers qualified candidates to serve as a member of our Board of Directors that are suggested by our stockholders. Nominees recommended by stockholders will be given appropriate consideration and evaluated in the same manner as other nominees. Stockholders can suggest qualified candidates for director by writing to our Corporate Secretary at 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, CO 80433. Stockholder submissions that are received in accordance with our by-laws and that meet the criteria outlined in the nominating committee charter are forwarded to the members of the nominating committee for review. Stockholder submissions must include the following information:
•a statement that the writer is our stockholder and is proposing a candidate for our Board of Directors for consideration by the nominating committee;
•the name of and contact information for the candidate;
•a statement of the candidate’s business and educational experience;
•information regarding each of the factors set forth in the nominating committee charter sufficient to enable the nominating committee to evaluate the candidate;
•a statement detailing any relationship between the candidate and any of our customers, suppliers or competitors;
•detailed information about any relationship or understanding between the proposing stockholder and the candidate; and
•a statement that the candidate is willing to be considered and willing to serve as our director if nominated and elected.
In considering potential new directors, the nominating committee will review individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds. Among the qualifications to be considered in the selection of candidates are broad experience in business, finance or administration; familiarity with national and international business matters; familiarity with our industry; and prominence and reputation. While there is no formal policy with regard to consideration of diversity in identifying director nominees, the nominating committee will consider diversity in business experience, professional expertise, gender and ethnic background, along with various other factors when evaluating director nominees. The nominating committee will also consider whether the individual has the time available to devote to the work of our Board of Directors and one or more of its committees.
The nominating committee will also review the activities and associations of each candidate to ensure that there is no legal impediment, conflict of interest or other consideration that might hinder or prevent service on our Board of Directors. In
making its selection, the nominating committee will bear in mind that the foremost responsibility of a director of a corporation is to represent the interests of the stockholders as a whole. The nominating committee will periodically review and reassess the adequacy of its charter and propose any changes to the Board of Directors for approval.
Contacting the Board of Directors
Any stockholder who desires to contact our Board of Directors, committees of the Board of Directors and individual directors may do so by writing to: Oblong, Inc., 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, CO 80433, Attention: David Clark, Corporate Secretary. Mr. Clark will direct such communication to the appropriate persons.
Board Leadership Structure and Role in Risk Oversight
Mr. Holst has served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2013 and has served as the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors sincefrom July 2019 up until our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders. Effective on the resignation of our former Chairmandate of the Board,2021 annual meeting of stockholders, Mr. Patrick Lombardi, in July 2019.Blumberg replaced Mr. Lombardi servedHolst as the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors from April 2014 until July 2019. Mr. Lombardi’s resignation was not a result of any disagreement with the Company regarding any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices.Directors.
The Board believes the combined role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer promotes unified leadership and direction for the Company, which allows for a single, clear focus for management to execute the Company's strategy and business plans. As Chief Executive Officer, the Chairman is best suited to ensure that critical business issues are brought before the Board, which enhances the Board’s ability to develop and implement business strategies.
To ensure a strong and independent Board, as discussed herein, the Board has affirmatively determined that all directors of the Company, other than Messrs.Mr. Holst, and Underkoffler, are independent within the meaning of the NYSE AmericanNasdaq listing standards currently in effect. Our
Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that non-management directors shall meet in regular executive session without management present, and that Mr. Lusk, who serves as our lead independent director, shall act as the Chairman of such meetings. Additionally, Mr. Lusk actively participates in establishing and setting Board meeting agendas.present.
The Board has an active role, directly and through its committees, in the oversight of the Company’s risk management efforts. The Board carries out this oversight role through several levels of review. The Board regularly reviews and discusses with members of management information regarding the management of risks inherent in the operation of the Company’s business and the implementation of the Company’s strategic plan, including the Company’s risk mitigation efforts.
Each of the Board’s committees also oversees the management of the Company’s risks that are under each committee’s areas of responsibility. For example, the audit committee oversees management of accounting, auditing, external reporting, internal controls and cash investment risks. The nominating committee oversees and assesses the performance of the Board and makes recommendations to the Board from time to time regarding nominees for the Board. The compensation committee oversees risks arising from compensation practices and policies. While each committee has specific responsibilities for oversight of risk, the Board is regularly informed by each committee about such risks. In this manner the Board is able to coordinate its risk oversight.
We have adopted a code of conduct and ethics, as amended effective October 12, 2015, that applies to all of our employees, directors and officers, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and our finance team. The full text of our code of conduct and ethics (as amended) is posted on our website at www.oblong.com and will be made available to stockholders without charge, upon request, in writing to the Corporate Secretary at 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, CO 80433. Disclosure regarding any amendments to, or waivers from, provisions of the code of conduct and ethics that apply to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or person performing similar functions will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K within four business days following the date of the amendment or waiver, unless website posting of such amendments or waivers is then permitted by the rules of the national securities exchange on which the Company trades.
Biographies for Executive Officers
Peter Holst, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). See “Biographies for Board of Directors” above for Mr. Holst’s biography.
David Clark, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Clark, 51,53, joined the Company in March 2013 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and leads our financial operations and investor relations, including financial planning and reporting, accounting, tax and treasury.(“CFO”). Mr. Clark has more than 2529 years of experience in finance and accounting. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Clark spent
over eight years with Allos Therapeutics, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, serving from 2007 to 2012served as Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and acting CFO. While atCFO for Allos Mr. Clark was responsible for oversightTherapeutics, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and managementas CFO of all financial activities, including equity financings, strategic financial planning, and investor relations. Prior to Allos, Mr. Clark spent nearly four years with Seurat Company (formerly XOR, Inc.), an e-commerce managed services company, serving most recently as CFO.company. Mr. Clark started his career and spent overwith seven years in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Clark is an active Certified Public Accountant and received a Master of Accountancy and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Denver.
Pete Hawkes, Senior Vice President, Design, Product & Engineering. Mr. Hawkes, 44, joined the Company in October 2011. Mr. Hawkes previously held the position of Director of Interaction Design at the Company and was promoted to his current position in May 2020. Mr. Hawkes received an M.F.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California Los Angeles.
Family Relationships
There are no family relationships between the officers and directors of the Company.
Legal Proceedings
During the past ten years none of our directors or executive officers was involved in any legal proceedings described in subparagraph (f) of Item 401 of Regulation S-K.
Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires executive officers and directors and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC. Executive officers, directors and greater than 10% stockholders are required by regulations of the SEC to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) reports they file.
Based solely on our review of the copies of reports we received, or written representations that no such reports were required for those persons, we believe that, for the year ended December 31, 2019, all statements of beneficial ownership required to be filed with the SEC were filed on a timely basis with the exception of the following:
Patrick Lombardi, a former director of the Company, failed to file on a timely basis a single Form 4 to report a single withholding transaction. The Form 4 was subsequently filed, and the Company is not aware of any failure by Mr. Lombardi to file a required form under Section 16 of the Exchange Act during 2019.
Kenneth Archer, a former director of the Company, failed to file on a timely basis a single Form 4 to report a single withholding transaction. The Form 4 was subsequently filed, and the Company is not aware of any failure by Mr. Archer to file a required form under Section 16 of the Exchange Act during 2019.
David Giangano, a former director of the Company, failed to file on a timely basis a single Form 4 to report a grant of restricted stock units and a related withholding transaction. The Form 4 was subsequently filed, and the Company is not aware of any failure by Mr. Giangano to file a required form under Section 16 of the Exchange Act during 2019.
John Underkoffler, a director of the Company, failed to file on a timely basis a Form 3. The Form 3 was subsequently filed, and the Company is not aware of any failure by Mr. Underkoffler to file a required form under Section 16 of the Exchange Act during 2019.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
Director Compensation
The Company’s director compensation plan provides that non-employee directors are entitled to receive annually: (i) a grant of 2,500 shares of Restricted Stockrestricted stock or RSUsrestricted stock units (“RSUs”) awarded under the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (pro-rated as necessary for the period of service from the director’s date of appointment to the Board of Directors until the
next annual meeting of stockholders); and (ii) a retainer fee of $20,000. The annual fee is payable in equal quarterly installments on the first business day following the end of the calendar quarter, in cash or shares of Restricted Stock,restricted stock, as chosen by the director, on an annual basis on or before December 31 of the applicable fiscal year. Prior to the 1-for-10 reverse stock split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock effective as of April 17, 2019 (the “2019 Reverse Stock Split”), the grant of shares of restricted stock or RSUs included in the director compensation plan was set at 25,000 shares. In addition, during 2019, the retainer fee included in the director compensation plan was revised from $25,000 to the current amount of $20,000. The annual equity grants to directors are normally made as of the date of the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders. Grants of Restricted Stockrestricted stock or RSUs vest on the first anniversary of the grant date or earlier upon the occurrence of certain termination events or upon a change in control of the Company. Vested RSUs are settled in shares of Common
Stock on a 1-for-1 basis upon the earliest of (i) the tenth anniversary of the grant date of the RSUs, (ii) a change in control (as defined in the award agreement) of the Company and (iii) the date of a director’s separation from service.
The CompanyCompany’s director compensation plan provides that non-employee directors are also paysentitled to receive annually: (i) an additional cash payment of $20,000 to the chairman of its Board of Directors, (ii) an additional cash payment of $20,000 per year,$10,000 to the chairperson of its audit committee, (iii) an additional cash payment of $10,000 per year,$5,000 to each of the chairpersons of its compensation committee and nominating committee, and (iv) an additional cash payment of $5,000 per year, and$3,000 to each non-chair member of any standing committee, an additional cash payment of $3,000 per year, in each case payable in equal quarterly installments in arrears. In addition, the Company may establish special committees of the Board from time to time and provide for additional retainers in connection therewith.
The following table represents compensation for the Company’s non-employee directors during the year ended December 31, 2019.2021. All compensation for Peter Holst, the Company’s Chairman, President and CEO, and John Underkoffler, the Company’s former Chief Technology Officer, during the year ended December 31, 20192021 is included in the Summary Compensation Table under “Executive Compensation” below.
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| Name | | Cash Fees Earned ($) | | Stock Awards($)(1) | | Total($) |
| Jason Adelman | | 33,000 | | 328,500 | | 361,500 |
| Matthew Blumberg | | 10,627 | | None | | 10,627 |
| James S. Lusk | | 36,000 | | 109,500 | | 145,500 |
| Deborah Meredith | | 9,750 | | None | | 9,750 |
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| (1) These amounts represent the aggregate grant date fair value for awards of restricted stock units for fiscal year 2021 computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. |
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| Name | | Fees Earned or Paid in Cash (1) | | Stock Awards (2) | | Total |
| Jason Adelman | | $13,375 | | None | | $13,375 |
| Kenneth Archer | | $18,178 | | None | | $18,178 |
| David Giangano | | $23,250 | | $2,500 | | $25,750 |
| Patrick J. Lombardi | | $26,440 | | None | | $26,440 |
| James S. Lusk | | $38,399 | | None | | $38,399 |
| Richard Ramlall | | $11,592 | | None | | $11,592 |
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| (1) With the exception of Mr. Lusk, all non-employee directors only served on the Board for a portion of 2019. On July 19, 2019, Messrs. Archer and Lombardi resigned from the Board and Messrs. Adelman and Ramlall were appointed to the Board. On October 1, 2019, Mr. Giangano resigned from the Board. |
| (2) These amounts represent the aggregate grant date fair value for awards of restricted stock units for fiscal year 2019 computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. |
As of December 31, 2019,2021, Mr. Lusk has 10,000 outstanding vested stock options and 627 unvested restricted stock awards. In addition, as of December 31, 2019,2021, 28,904 vested RSUs issued to Mr. Lusk remain outstanding due to the deferred payment provisions set forth in these RSU awards. No other equity awards arewere outstanding, as of December 31, 20192021, for the remaining non-employee directors.
Executive Compensation
Summary Compensation Table
The following table sets forth, for the years ended December 31, 20192021and 20182020, the compensation awarded to, paid to, or earned by: Peter Holst, Chairman, President and CEO; David Clark, CFO, Treasurer and Secretary; Pete Hawkes, SVP, Product, Design & Engineering; and John Underkoffler, former Director and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO)(“CTO”) (the “named executive officers”), as follows:
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| Name and Principal Positions | Year | Salary ($) | | Bonus ($) | Stock Awards (1) ($) | | All Other Compensation ($) | | Total ($) |
| Peter Holst | 2019 | 199,875 |
| | 212,500 |
| 43,668 |
| (2) | 10,970 |
| (3) | 467,013 |
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| Chairman, President and CEO | 2018 | 199,875 |
| | 171,602 |
| 463,238 |
| (4) | 10,770 |
| (3) | 845,485 |
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| David Clark | 2019 | 225,133 |
| | 119,295 |
| 13,974 |
| (5) | 10,790 |
| (6) | 369,192 |
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| CFO, Treasurer and Secretary | 2018 | 225,133 |
| | 63,500 |
| 137,968 |
| (7) | 10,152 |
| (6) | 436,753 |
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| John Underkoffler | 2019 | 75,000 |
| (8) | — |
| — |
| | 250 |
| | 75,250 |
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| Director and CTO | 2018 | — |
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| — |
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| (1) These amounts represent the aggregate grant date fair value for awards of RSUs for 2018 and 2019, computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. |
| (2) Represents the grant date fair value of 33,334 performance-vested awards granted on January 28, 2019. These awards terminated without vesting on June 1, 2019 pursuant to their terms. |
| (3) Represents a matching contribution under the Company’s 401(k) Plan of $8,400 and $8,250 for 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $2,390 and $2,520 of parking reimbursement for 2019 and 2018, respectively. |
| (4) Represents the sum of the grant date fair values of the following awards: (i) 33,333 performance-vested RSUs granted on April 13, 2018 (the “April 2018 PVRSUs”), the terms of which are described below under “Grants of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Units,” and (iii) 231,316 performance-vested RSUs granted on November 19, 2018 (the “November 2018 PVRSUs”), the terms of which are described below under “Grants of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Units.” The grant date fair value of the April 2018 PVRSUs and the November 2018 PVRSUs is based upon achievement of 100% of the target performance. The number of RSUs shown herein have been adjusted for the 2019 Reverse Stock Split. |
| (5) Represents the grant date fair value of 10,667 performance-vested awards granted on January 28, 2019. These awards terminated without vesting on June 1, 2019 pursuant to their terms. |
| (6) Represents a matching contribution under the Company’s 401(k) Plan of $8,400 and $7,632 for 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $2,390 and $2,520 of parking reimbursement for 2019 and 2018, respectively. |
| (7) Represents the sum of the grant date fair value of the following awards: (i) 34,000 April 2018 PVRSUs, (ii) 11,667 time-based RSUs granted on April 13, 2018 with vesting scheduled for April 13, 2020 and (iii) 24,746 November 2018 PVRSUs. The grant date fair value of the April 2018 PVRSUs and the November 2018 PVRSUs is based upon achievement of 100% of the target performance. The number of RSUs shown herein have been adjusted for the 2019 Reverse Stock Split. |
(8) Mr. Underkoffler joined the Company on October 1, 2019 and therefore the salary shown herein represents salary earned from October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019. Mr. Underkoffler left the Company on May 1, 2020 effective immediately. Mr. Underkoffler’s annual salary was $300,000. |
Grants of Performance-Vested Restricted Stock Units (“PVRSUs”)
April 2018 PVRSUs. The compensation committee of the Oblong board of directors granted April 2018 PVRSUs under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan to Mr. Holst and Mr. Clark on April 13, 2018. Each PVRSU represented the right to receive a share of common stock if certain performance goals were achieved in a specified time period. Any earned PVRSUs were to vest at the end of the applicable measurement period. The performance measures for the April 2018 PVRSUs were Adjusted EBITDA (“AEBITDA”) and Revenue. AEBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that is reconciled to the most comparable GAAP financial measure for the relevant fiscal year in Item 7 of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K on the year ended 2017. For the April 2018 PVRSUs granted to Mr. Holst, AEBITDA was weighted at 37.5% and Revenue was weighted at 62.5% for each of the measuring periods. For the April 2018 PVRSUs granted to Mr. Clark, AEBITDA was weighted at 62.5% and Revenue was weighted at 37.5% for each of the measuring periods. The April 2018 PVRSUs have a measuring period of calendar year 2018 for Mr. Holst and a measuring period of calendar year 2018 for 66% of Mr. Clark’s PVRSUs with the other 34% having a measuring period of calendar year 2019. The table below sets forth the threshold, target and maximum payout percentages that could have been earned by each named executive officer based on the threshold, target and maximum levels of AEBITDA and Revenue performance for each fiscal year as set forth below. The AEBITDA and Revenue performance for the measuring period of calendar year 2018 was determined to be achieved at 100% of Target and vesting for the April 2018 PVRSUs occurred during 2019.
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| Vesting Percentage of Target PVRSUs | | Adjusted EBITDA
For Calendar Years 2018 & 2019
| | Revenue Calendar Years 2018 & 2019 |
Threshold | 80% | | 95% of Target Amount | | 95% of Target Amount |
Target | 100% | | Projected Calendar Year Adjusted EBITDA as set forth in the Annual Operating Plan | | Projected Calendar Year Revenue as set forth in the Annual Operating Plan |
Maximum | 120% | | 120% of Target Amount | | 120% of Target Amount |
November 2018 PVRSUs. On November 19, 2018, the compensation committee of the Board of Directors granted additional RSUs to certain officers, including the named executive officers, representing in the aggregate the right to receive up to 346,841 shares (adjusted for the 2019 Reverse Stock Split) of Common Stock (the “November 2018 PVRSUs”). The November 2018 PVRSUs held by the named executive officers terminated without vesting on June 1, 2019 pursuant to their terms.
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| Name and Principal Positions | Year | Salary
($) | | Bonus
($) | Stock Awards (2)
($) | | All Other Compensation
($) | | Total
($) |
| Peter Holst | 2021 | 246,340 | | (1) | 200,000 | | — | | | 8,693 | | (3) | 455,033 | |
| Chairman, President and CEO | 2020 | 199,875 | | | 210,000 | | — | | | 8,550 | | (3) | 418,425 | |
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| David Clark | 2021 | 242,164 | | (1) | | 100,000 | | — | | | 8,688 | | (3) | 350,852 | |
| CFO, Treasurer and Secretary | 2020 | 225,133 | | | 118,125 | | — | | | 8,550 | | (3) | 351,808 | |
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| John Underkoffler | 2021 | — | | | — | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Former Director and Former CTO | 2020 | 100,000 | | (4) | — | | — | | | 115,400 | | (4) | 215,400 | |
| Pete Hawkes | 2021 | 200,000 | | (1) | — | | 372,000 | | | 5,769 | | (3) | 577,769 | |
| SVP, Design, Product, & Engineering | 2020 | 180,304 | | | — | | — | | | — | | | 180,304 | |
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| (1) Effective July 1, 2021, the annual salaries for Mr. Holst and Mr. Clark were increased to $295,000 and $260,000, respectively. Effective June 29, 2020, Mr. Hawkes annual salary is $200,000. |
| (2) These amounts represent the aggregate grant date fair value for awards of stock options for 2021, computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. |
| (3) Represents matching contributions under the Company’s 401(k) Plan for Mr. Holst of $8,693 for 2021 and $8,550 for 2020; for Mr. Clark of $8,688 for 2021 and $8,550 for 2020; and $5,769 for Mr. Hawkes for 2021. |
| (4) Effective May 1, 2020, Mr. Underkoffler was no longer with the Company as an employee and therefore the salary shown herein represents salary earned from January 1, 2020 through May 1, 2020 (Mr. Underkoffler’s annual salary was $300,000). Mr. Underkoffler received a severance payment of $100,000 and COBRA benefits in connection with his separation from the Company pursuant to the terms of a Separation Agreement (which is reflected in the “All Other Compensation” column and is discussed further in “Agreements with Named Executive Officers” below). Effective November 9, 2020, Mr. Underkoffler resigned from the Board of Directors. |
Outstanding Equity Awards at 20192021 Fiscal Year-End
The table set forth below presents the number and values of exercisableinformation concerning outstanding stock option awards and unvested RSUs held by thecertain named executive officers at December 31, 2019:2021.
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| | Option Awards | | Stock Awards |
| Name | Grant Date | Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options
(#) Exercisable (1) | | Option Exercise Price ($) | | Option Expiration Date | | Number of Shares of Stock that Have Not Vested (#)(2) | | Market Value of Shares of Stock That Have Not Vested ($)(3) |
| Peter Holst | 1/13/2013 | 87,500 | | | 19.80 | | | 1/13/2023 | | — | | | — | |
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| David Clark | 3/25/2013 | 10,000 | | | 15.10 | | | 3/25/2023 | | — | | | — | |
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| Pete Hawkes | 10/1/2019 | 150,000 | | | 3.25 | | | 6/28/2031 | | 150,000 | | | 154,500 | |
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| John Underkoffler | — | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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| (1) All stock option awards held by Messers Holst and Clark were fully vested and exercisable as of December 31, 2021; Mr. Hawkes stock option awards were not vested or exercisable. |
| (2) At December 31, 2021, Mr. Hawkes held 150,000 stock options, which were subject to vesting over a three-year period; 1/3 on June 28, 2022, 1/3 on June 28, 2023, and 1/3 on June 28, 2024. |
| (3) Calculated on an as-converted basis to common stock at a per share price of $1.03, which was the closing price of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market as of December 31, 2021. |
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| | | Option Awards | | RSU Awards |
| Name | Grant Date | Number of Securities Underlying Unexercised Options (#) Exercisable | | Option Exercise Price ($) | | Option Expiration Date | | | Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Number of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested | | Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Market or Payout Value of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested ($) (1) |
| Peter Holst | 1/13/2013 | 87,500 |
| | $19.80 | | 1/13/2023 | | | | | |
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| David Clark | 3/25/2013 | 10,000 |
| | $15.10 | | 3/25/2023 | | | | | |
| | 4/13/2018 | | | | | | | | 11,667 |
| (2) | $16,217 |
| | 4/13/2018 | | | | | | | | 11,667 |
| (3) | $16,217 |
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| (1) The market value of the stock awards is based on the $1.39 closing market price of the Company’s common stock on December 31, 2019. |
| (2) Represents the number of April 2018 PVRSUs that would vest under the terms of these awards based upon achievement of 100% of the target performance. |
| (3) Represents an award of time-based RSUs, scheduled to vest on April 13, 2020. |
401(k) Plan
The Company maintains a tax-qualified 401(k) plan on behalf of its eligible employees, including its named executive officers. Pursuant to the terms of the plan, for fiscal years 20182021 and 20192020, eligible employees may defer up to 80% of their salary each year, and the Company matched 50% of an employee’s contributions on the first 4% of the employee’s salary for 2017 and through February 28, 2018. Effective March 1, 2018, the Company matched 50% of an employee’s contributions on the first 6% of the employee’s salary. This matching contribution vests over four years.
Agreements with Named Executive Officers
We have entered into employment agreements with certain of our named executive officers, excluding Mr. Hawkes. All named executive officers, whether or not subject to an employment agreement, are “at will” employees of the Company.
Peter Holst Employment Agreement.
On January 13, 2013, the Board appointed Peter Holst as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Board. In connection with his appointment, the Company entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Holst, which was subsequently amended and restated as of January 28, 2016 and as of July 19, 2019 (as amended and restated, the “Holst Employment Agreement”). Pursuant to the Holst Employment Agreement, Mr. Holst receives an annual base salary of $199,875$295,000 and is eligible to receive an annual incentive bonus equal to 100% of his base salary, at the discretion of the compensation committee of the Board based on meeting certain financial and non-financial goals.
Under the terms of the Holst Employment Agreement, if Mr. Holst’s employment is terminated outside of a “change in control” (as defined in the Holst Employment Agreement) (i) by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Holst for “good reason” (as such terms are defined therein) or (ii) as a result of the expiration of the term of the Holst Employment Agreement caused by the Company’s election not to renew such agreement, then he will be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to his execution and non-revocation of an effective general release of claims in favor of the Company:
•12 months’ base salary, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices;
•100% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs;
•100% accelerated vesting of Mr. Holst’s then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs;RSUs (if any); and
•payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for continuation of coverage for Mr. Holst and his eligible dependents under the Company’s then existing medical, dental and prescription insurance plans for a period of 12 months.
In addition to the above payments and benefits, in the event that Mr. Holst’s employment is terminated during the 18-month period following a “change in control” (i) by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Holst for “good reason” or (ii) as a result of the expiration of the term of the Holst Employment Agreement caused by the Company’s election not to renew such agreement, then he will be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to his execution and non-revocation of an effective general release of claims in favor of the Company:
•24 months’ base salary, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices;
•100% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs;
•a pro-rated portion of his maximum annual target bonus for the calendar year in which the effective date of termination occurs;
•80% accelerated vesting of Mr. Holst’s then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs;RSUs (if any); and
•payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for continuation of coverage for Mr. Holst and his eligible dependents under the Company’s then existing medical, dental and prescription insurance plans for a period of 12 months.
In consideration of the payments and benefits under the Holst Employment Agreement, Mr. Holst is restricted from engaging in competitive activities for 12 months after the termination of his employment, as well as prohibited from soliciting the Company’s clients and employees and from disclosing the Company’s confidential information.
The Holst Employment Agreement contains a “best after-tax benefit” provision, which provides that, to the extent that any amounts payable under the Holst Employment Agreement would be subject to the federal tax levied on certain “excess parachute payments” under Section 4999 of the Code, the Company will either pay Mr. Holst the full amount due under the
Holst Employment Agreement or, alternatively, reduce his payments to the extent that no Section 4999 excise tax would be due, whichever provides the highest net after-tax benefit to Mr. Holst.
David Clark Employment Agreement.
On March 25, 2013, the Company entered into an employment agreement with David Clark in connection with his appointment as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, which was subsequently amended and restated on July 19, 2019 (as amended and restated, the “Clark Employment Agreement”). Pursuant to the Clark Employment Agreement, Mr. Clark receives an annual base salary of $225,133$260,000 and is eligible to receive an annual incentive bonus equal to 50% of his base salary, at the discretion of the compensation committee of the Board, based on meeting certain financial and non-financial goals.
Under the terms of the Clark Employment Agreement, if Mr. Clark’s employment is terminated outside of a “change in control” (as defined in the Clark Employment Agreement) (i) by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Clark with or without “good reason” (as such terms are defined therein) or (ii) as a result of the expiration of the term of the Clark Employment Agreement caused by the Company’s election not to renew such agreement, then he will be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to his execution and non-revocation of an effective general release of claims in favor of the Company:
•Six months’ base salary, payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices;
•50% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs;
•a pro-rated portion of his maximum annual target bonus for the calendar year in which the effective date of termination occurs;
•100% accelerated vesting of Mr. Clark’s then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs;RSUs (if any); and
•payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for continuation of coverage for Mr. Clark and his eligible dependents under the Company’s then existing medical, dental and prescription insurance plans for a period of six months.
In addition to the above payments and benefits, in the event that Mr. Clark’s employment is terminated during the 18-month period following a “change in control” by the Company without “cause” or by Mr. Clark for “good reason,” then he will also be entitled to receive (i) increased severance equal to 18 months’ base salary, (ii) 100% of his maximum annual target bonus payable for the calendar year in which such termination occurs, and (iii) extended payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA
premiums for 12 months. In such event, Mr. Clark will be entitled to receive 80% accelerated vesting of his then-unvested shares of restricted stock and RSUs.RSUs (if any).
In consideration of the payments and benefits under the Clark Employment Agreement, Mr. Clark is restricted from engaging in competitive activities for six months after the termination of his employment, as well as prohibited from soliciting the Company’s clients and employees and from disclosing the Company’s confidential information.
John Underkoffler Separation Agreement.
On May 7, 2020, the Company announced that Mr. John Underkoffler had ceased serving in the role of Chief Technology Officer effective as of May 1, 2020. On November 9, 2020, the Company entered into a Separation Agreement (the “Separation Agreement”) with Mr. Underkoffler to aid in Mr. Underkoffler’s transition from the Company. Pursuant to the Separation Agreement, among other things: (i) the Company agreed to make a severance payment of $100,000 to Mr. Underkoffler (which was paid in a single lump sum during the year ended December 31, 2020) and provided him payment (or reimbursement) of the COBRA premiums for continuation of health insurance benefits for twelve months; (ii) Mr. Underkoffler executed a customary release of claims and proprietary information and inventions agreement; and (iii) Mr. Underkoffler resigned as a director of the Company effective as of November 9, 2020. Mr. Underkoffler’s resignation was not a result of any disagreement with the Company regarding any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices.
Potential Payments to Named Executive Officers upon Termination or Change-in-Control
In accordance with the terms of the Company’s 2007 Stock Incentive Plan and 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, upon a Change“Change in ControlControl” or Corporate Transaction, as“Corporate Transaction” (as each such term is defined in such Plans,Plans), all shares of restricted stock, restricted stock units
RSUs and all unvested options, including those held by the named executive officers, immediately vest.vest and become exercisable, as applicable. No Named Executive Officernamed executive officer is entitled to accelerated vesting in connection with Voluntary Resignation,a voluntary resignation, retirement, termination due to death or disability, or a termination for cause. In accordance with the terms of the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, the Company is given authority to accelerate the timing of the exerciseexercise/vesting provisions of awards under such plan in the event of certain change in control or other corporate transactions.
See “Agreements with Named Executive Officers” above for a discussion of certain payments the Company could be required to make upon the termination of a Named Executive Officer.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners of the Company’s Stock
The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our capital stock, as of May 15, 2020March 23, 2022, by each of the following:
•each person (or group within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) known by us to own beneficially more than 5% of any class of our voting securities;
•the named executive officers set forth in the Summary Compensation Table under “Executive Compensation” above;
•each of our directors and director nominees; and
•all of our directors and executive officers as a group.
The amounts and percentages in the table below are based on 30,816,048 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of May 11, 2020, including (i) 5,211,500 shares of Common Stock, (ii) 44.8 shares of Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock (15,555 shares of Common Stock on an as-converted basis), and (iii) 325 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (108,333 shares of Common Stock on an as-converted basis), but exclude the (y) 1,734,901 issued and outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock (which are convertible into 17,349,010 shares of Common Stock), and (z) 131,579 issued and outstanding shares of Series E Preferred Stock (which are convertible into 1,315,790 shares of Common Stock), the conversion of which is subject to certain conditions precedent as discussed further in this Annual Report.March 15, 2022. As used in this table, “beneficial ownership” means the sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting or to dispose or direct the disposition of any security. A person is considered the beneficial owner of securities that can be acquired within 60 days of such date through the exercise or conversion of any option, warrant or other derivative security. Shares of Common Stock subject to options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), warrants or other derivative securities which are currently exercisable or convertible or are exercisable or convertible within such 60 days are considered outstanding for computing the ownership percentage of the person holding such options, RSUs, warrants or other derivative security, but are not considered outstanding for computing the ownership percentage of any other person.
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| | | Common Stock |
Name and Address of Beneficial Owners (1) | | Amount and Nature of Beneficial Ownership (2) | | Percent of Class |
| Named Executive Officers and Directors: | | | | |
| Peter Holst | | 413,491 |
| (3) | 8 | % |
| David Clark | | 66,932 |
| (4) | 1 | % |
| John Underkoffler | | — |
| (5) | — | % |
| Jason Adelman | | 496,000 |
| (6) | 9 | % |
| James S. Lusk | | 43,406 |
| (7) | 1 | % |
| Richard Ramlall | | 632 |
| (8) | — | % |
All directors and executive officers as a group (6 people) | | 1,020,461 |
| | 19 | % |
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| Greater than 5% Owners: | | | | |
| Norman H. Pessin 366 Madison Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017 | | 402,004 |
| (9) | 8 | % |
| Sandra F. Pessin 366 Madison Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017 | | 250,453 |
| (9) | 5 | % |
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| (1) Unless otherwise noted, the address of each person listed is c/o Oblong, Inc., 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, CO 80433. |
| (2) Unless otherwise indicated by footnote, the named persons have sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares of Common Stock beneficially owned. |
| (3) Includes 325,991 shares of Common Stock and 87,500 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options presently exercisable. |
| (4) Includes 33,598 shares of Common Stock, 10,000 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options presently exercisable and 23,334 of RSUs that are expected to vest within 60 days of March 31, 2020. |
| (5) Excludes 1,024,030 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of 102,403 shares of Series D Preferred Stock held by Mr. Underkoffler (constituting 6% of such class of Series D Preferred Stock and 4% of our Common Stock assuming the conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock upon NYSE American approval of a new listing application). Upon the conversion of these shares of Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock, the directors, director nominees and executive officers shown in the table above would own 2,044,491 shares of Common Stock (constituting 9% of our Common Stock) as a group (assuming the conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock). Effective as of May 1, 2020, Mr. Underkoffler no longer serves as an officer of the Company but remains a member of its Board of Directors. |
| (6) Based on ownership information from the Form 4 filed by Mr. Adelman with the SEC on April 23, 2020. Mr. Adelman beneficially owns 496,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 419,500 shares are held directly by Mr. Adelman and 76,500 shares are held in a retirement plan. |
| (7) Based on ownership information from the Form 4 filed by Mr. Lusk with the SEC on May 31, 2018. Amount includes 10,000 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options presently exercisable and 28,904 shares of Common Stock issuable from vested RSUs (for which the shares of Common Stock have not yet been delivered in accordance with the terms of these RSUs). |
| (8) Based on ownership information from the Form 3 filed by Mr. Ramlall with the SEC on July 26, 2019. Includes 632 shares of Common Stock. |
| (9) Based on ownership information from an amendment to Schedule 13D filed on September 23, 2019. |
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| | Common Stock |
Name and Address of Beneficial Owners (1) | | Amount and Nature of Beneficial Ownership (2) | | Percent of Class |
| Named Executive Officers and Directors: | | | | |
| Peter Holst | | 413,491 | | (3) | 1.3 | % |
| David Clark | | 58,933 | | (4) | 0.2 | % |
| Pete Hawkes | | 13,112 | | (5) | — | % |
| James S. Lusk | | 93,406 | | (6) | 0.3 | % |
| Jason Adelman | | 646,000 | | (7) | 2.1 | % |
| Matthew Blumberg | | — | | (8) | — | % |
| Deborah Meredith | | — | | (9) | — | % |
All directors and executive officers as a group
(7 people) | | 1,224,942 | | | 4.0 | % |
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| Greater than 5% Owners: | | | | |
| Foundry Group, 700 Front St., Suite 104, Louisville, CO 80027 | | 7,839,509 | | (10) | 25.4 | % |
| StepStone Group LP, 4225 Executive Square, Suite 1600, La Jolla, CA 90237 | | 3,692,661 | | (11) | 12.0 | % |
| Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc.,522 5th Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10036 | | 3,416,345 | | (12) | 11.1 | % |
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| (1) Unless otherwise noted, the address of each person listed is c/o Oblong, Inc., 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, CO 80433. |
| (2) Unless otherwise indicated by footnote, the named persons have sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares of Common Stock beneficially owned. |
| (3) Includes 325,991 shares of Common Stock and 87,500 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options presently exercisable. |
| (4) Includes 48,933 shares of Common Stock and 10,000 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options presently exercisable. |
| (5) Includes 13,112 shares of Common Stock and excludes 150,000 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options not presently exercisable. |
| (6) Based on ownership information from the Form 4 filed by Mr. Lusk with the SEC on August 20, 2021. Includes 54,502 shares of Common Stock, 10,000 shares of Common Stock subject to stock options presently exercisable, and 28,904 shares of Common Stock issuable from vested RSUs (for which the shares of Common Stock have not yet been delivered in accordance with the terms of these RSUs). |
| (7) Based on ownership information from the Form 4 filed by Mr. Adelman with the SEC on August 20, 2021. Mr. Adelman beneficially owns 646,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 569,500 shares are held directly by Mr. Adelman and 76,500 shares are held in a retirement plan. |
| (8) Based on ownership information from the Form 3 filed by Mr. Blumberg with the SEC on August 25, 2021. |
| (9) Based on ownership information from the Form 3 filed by Ms. Meredith with the SEC on August 25, 2021. |
| (10) Based on ownership information from an amendment to Schedule 13D filed on February 22, 2021. |
| (11) Based on ownership information from an amendment to Schedule 13G/A filed on February 11, 2022. |
| (12) Based on ownership information from a Schedule 13G filed on February 11, 2022. |
Change of Control
As discussed under Note 13 - Preferred Stock to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report, the Company’s (i) 1,736,626 issued and outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock are convertible into 17,349,010 shares of our Common Stock, and (ii) 131,579 issued and outstanding shares of Series E Preferred Stock are convertible into 1,315,790 shares of our Common Stock, in each case following receipt of all required authorizations and approvals from the NYSE American (or any such other exchange upon which the Company’s securities are then listed for trading) for the listing of the Common Stock underlying such preferred stock and the continued listing of the Company following such conversion. The 18,664,800 total shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock will constitute approximately 78% of our issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock following such conversion, and may therefore be deemed to constitute a change of control of the Company for certain purposes, including under the NYSE American Company Guide. Notwithstanding the above, the Company does not expect to incur any payments under any of its outstanding employment agreements as a result of any such change of control.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table sets forth, as of December 31, 2021, information regarding our common stock that may be issued under the Company’s equity compensation plans:
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| Plan Category | | Number of Securities
to be Issued Upon
Exercise of
Outstanding Stock Options
(a) | | Weighted Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding
Stock Options
(b) | | Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Vesting of Outstanding Restricted Stock Units (*)
(c) | | Number of Securities
Remaining Available
for Future Issuance
Under Equity
Compensation Plans
(Excluding Securities
Reflected in Columns
(a) & (c)) |
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders | | 407,500 | | | $ | 7.57 | | | — | | | 2,513,500 | |
(*) As of December 31, 2021, 28,904 vested RSUs remain outstanding under the Company’s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as shares of common stock have not yet been delivered for these units in accordance with the terms of the RSUs.
See “Part II. Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities--Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans” for information concerning our equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2019.2021.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Other than compensation arrangements for our directors and named executive officers, which are described elsewhere in this Annual Report, below we describethere have been no transactions since January 1, 20192020 to which we were a party or will be a party, in which:
•the amounts involved exceeded or will exceed $120,000;the lesser of (1) $120,000 or (2) one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years; and
•any of our directors, executive officers or holders of more than 5% of our capital stock, or any member of the immediate family of, or person sharing the household with, the foregoing persons, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
Representations Agreement
On July 19, 2019, the Company entered into a Representation Agreement (the “Representation Agreement”) with certain stockholders of the Company comprised of Jason Adelman, Cass Adelman and certain of their affiliates (collectively, the “Stockholders”) regarding the nomination of Jason Adelman and Richard Ramlall to the Board of Directors of the Company in July 2019 and related matters. The Representation Agreement provides that, among other things, the Company will recommend, support and solicit proxies at the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for the re-election of Jason Adelman and Richard Ramlall together with three other directors selected by the Board. The Representation Agreement contains customary covenants of the Company regarding the nomination of Jason Adelman and Richard Ramlall to the Board and customary standstill obligations of the Stockholders. The Representation Agreement will terminate on the earlier to occur of the date of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Company’s stockholders or the one year anniversary of the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Company’s stockholders.
This description of the Representations Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the complete copy of the Representations Agreement attached to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the SEC on July 25, 2019.
Oblong Merger Agreement
On October 1, 2019, the Company closed its acquisition of all outstanding equity interests of Oblong Industries, pursuant to the terms of the Oblong Merger Agreement discussed in this Annual Report. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, among other things, the Company agreed to appoint John Underkoffler to the Board of Directors, to hold office until his successor has been duly elected or appointed and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the Company Charter and the Company’s bylaws
Policy on Future Related Party Transactions
Transactions with related parties, including the transactions referred to above, are reviewed and approved by independent members of the Board of Directors of the Company in accordance with the Company’s written Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
See Item 10. Director Independence and Item 10. Board Leadership Structure and Role in Risk Oversight for information regarding the independence of our directors.
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services
The audit committee, composed entirely of independent, non-employee members of the Board of Directors, appointed the firm of EisnerAmper LLP, Iselin, New Jersey (“EisnerAmper”), PCAOB identification number 274, as the independent registered public accounting firm for the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries for the fiscal years ending December 31, 20192021 and 2018.2020. As our independent registered public accounting firm, EisnerAmper audited our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019,2021, reviewed the related interim quarters, and performed audit-related services and consultation in connection with various accounting and financial reporting matters. EisnerAmper may also perform certain non-audit services for our Company. The audit committee has determined that the provision of the services provided by EisnerAmper as set forth herein are compatible with maintaining EisnerAmper’s independence and the prohibitions on performing non-audit services set forth in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and relevant SEC rules.
Audit Fees
EisnerAmper, our principal accountant, billed us approximately $344,480$299,000 for professional services for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the 20192021 fiscal year and the reviews of the consolidated financial statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the 20192021 fiscal year. EisnerAmper billed us $191,200$301,000 for professional services for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the 20182020 fiscal year and the reviews of the consolidated financial statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the 20182020 fiscal year.
Audit-Related Fees
EisnerAmper billed us $16,640 in the 2018 fiscal year for due diligence services related to the failed merger with SharedLabs. EisnerAmper did not bill us in 2019 for any professional services rendered for audit-related items.
Tax Fees
EisnerAmper did not bill us in the 20192021 and 20182020 fiscal years for any audit-related fees.
Tax Fees
EisnerAmper did not bill us in the 2021 and 2020 fiscal years for any professional services rendered for tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning.
All Other Fees
EisnerAmper did not bill us in the 2019for products and 2018 fiscal years for any other products or services, other than the audit described above, during the 2021 and audit-related fees described above.2020 fiscal years.
Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policy
The audit committee is required to pre-approve the engagement of EisnerAmper to perform audit and other services for the Company. Our procedures for the pre-approval by the audit committee of all services provided by EisnerAmper comply with SEC regulations regarding pre-approval of services. Services subject to these SEC requirements include audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services. The audit engagement is specifically approved, and the auditors are retained by the audit committee. The audit committee also has adopted policies and procedures for pre-approving all non-audit work performed by EisnerAmper. In accordance with audit committee policy and the requirements of law, all services provided by EisnerAmper in the 20192021 and 20182020 fiscal years were pre-approved by the audit committee and all services to be provided by EisnerAmper will be pre-approved. Pre-approval includes audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services. To avoid certain potential conflicts of interest, the law prohibits a publicly traded company from obtaining certain non-audit services from its auditing firm. We obtain these services from other service providers as needed.
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
A. The following documents are filed as part of this Report:
1. Consolidated Financial Statements:
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Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 | |
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 | |
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 | |
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 | |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements | |
2. Financial Statement Schedules have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or the information is otherwise included.
3. Exhibits:
A list of exhibits required to be filed as part of this Report is set forth in the Exhibit Index on page 4850 of this Form 10-K, which immediately precedes such exhibits, and is incorporated by reference.
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary
None.
EXHIBIT INDEX
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10.1#4.12 | | Default Waiver and First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated June 26, 2020, by and among by and among Oblong, Inc., Oblong Industries, Inc., and GP Communications, LLC, as borrowers, and Silicon Valley Bank as lender (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrants Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 14, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference). |
| 4.13 | | Agreement, dated October 20, 2020, by and among Oblong, Inc., Oblong Industries, Inc., GP Communications LLC, and Silicon Valley Bank (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 16, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference). |
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# Constitutes a management contract, compensatory plan or arrangement.
* Filed herewith.
** Furnished herewith.
† Schedules have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The registrant hereby undertakes to furnish supplementallysupplemental copies of any of the omitted schedules upon request by the SEC.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirement of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
May 15, 2020
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| OBLONG, INC. |
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| By: | /s/ Peter Holst |
| | Peter Holst |
| | Chief Executive Officer and President |
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Peter Holst and David Clark jointly and severally, his attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Report on Form 10-K, and file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant as of this 15th29th day of May 2020March 2022 in the capacities indicated.
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| /s/ Peter Holst | | Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Peter Holst | | |
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| /s/ David Clark | | Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
| David Clark | | |
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/s/ Jason AdelmanMatthew Blumberg | | DirectorChairman of the Board |
Jason AdelmanMatthew Blumberg | | |
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/s/ Richard RamlallJason Adelman | | Director |
Richard RamlallJason Adelman | | |
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/s/ John UnderkofflerJames Lusk | | Director |
John UnderkofflerJames Lusk | | |
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/s/ James LuskDeborah Meredith | | Director |
James LuskDeborah Meredith | | |
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Oblong, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Oblong, Inc. formerly Glowpoint, Inc.and subsidiaries (the “Company"“Company”) as of December 31, 20192021, and 2018,2020, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 20192021, and 2018,2020, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Going Concern
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company has incurred losses and expects to continue to incur losses. These conditions raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.uncertainty.
Change in Accounting Principle
As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has changed its method of accounting for leases in 2019 due to the adoption of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 842 - Leases.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB"(“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 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'sCompany’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 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 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 financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Goodwill Impairment Assessment
The Company performs goodwill impairment testing on an annual basis on September 30 or when events occur or circumstances change that would indicate the carrying value exceeds the fair value. For reporting units evaluated using a quantitative assessment, the fair values are determined using a weighting of an income approach and a market approach. An impairment loss is recognized when the carrying amount of a reporting unit’s net assets exceeds the estimated fair value of the reporting unit. These estimates are subject to significant management judgment, including the determination of many factors such as, but not limited to, sales growth rates and discount rates developed using market observable inputs and considering risk regarding future performance. Changes in these estimates can have a significant impact on the determination of cash flows and fair value and could potentially result in future material impairments. During the fourth quarter of 2021, the Company
determined that a triggering event relating to the Company’s declining stock price required an interim evaluation of goodwill at December 31, 2021. Based on the impairment test performed, no impairment charges were recorded.
We identified goodwill impairment assessment as a critical audit matter because of the significant management judgment and subjectivity in developing the fair value measurement of the reporting units. This required a high degree of auditor judgement and an increase in audit effort to perform procedures and evaluate audit evidence related to the revenue growth rates, estimated costs, and the discount rate assumptions utilized in the income approach.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included, among others, (i) obtaining an understanding of management’s process and evaluating the design of controls related to the goodwill impairment assessment; (ii) testing management’s process for developing the fair value estimate; (iii) evaluating the appropriateness of the valuation model used in management’s estimate; (iv) testing the completeness, accuracy, and relevance of underlying data used in the model; and (v) evaluating the reasonableness of the revenue growth rates and assumptions used by management. Evaluating management’s assumptions related to the revenue growth rates, estimated costs and the discount rate involved evaluating whether the assumptions used by management were reasonable considering (i) the current and past performance of the reporting unit, (ii) the consistency with external market and industry data, (iii) whether these assumptions were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit, and (iv) performing sensitivity analyses over significant estimates and assumptions. We involved valuation professionals with specialized skills and knowledge when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of Management’s estimates and assumptions related to the selection of sales growth rates and discount rates.
Intangible Asset Impairment Assessment
Intangible assets are comprised of developed technology, trade names, and distributor relationships in the Collaboration Products reporting segment. The Company assesses the impairment of intangible assets subject to amortization when events and circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets might not be recoverable. Estimates and assumptions are utilized in the valuations, including projected cash flows, revenue growth rates, and the estimated useful lives of the assets. These estimates are subject to significant management judgment. Changes in these estimates can have a significant impact on the determination of cash flows and could potentially result in future material impairments. In 2021, the Company considered the decline in revenue for the Collaboration Products reporting segment to be a triggering event for a recoverability test of its intangible assets. Based on the corresponding recoverability test, the Company determined no impairment chargers were required to be recorded.
We identified the intangible asset impairment assessment as a critical audit matter because of the significant management judgment and subjectivity in developing the undiscounted cash flows utilized in the impairment assessment. This required a high degree of auditor judgement and significant audit effort to perform procedures and evaluate audit evidence related to the projected cash flows including revenue growth rates.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included, among others, (i) obtaining an understanding of management’s process and evaluating the design of controls related to the intangible asset impairment assessment; (ii) testing management’s process for developing the undiscounted cash flow estimate; (iii) testing the completeness, accuracy, and relevance of underlying data used in the model; and (iv) evaluating the reasonableness of the revenue growth rates and assumptions used by management, including the estimated useful lives of the intangible assets. Evaluating management’s assumptions related to the revenue growth rates involved evaluating whether the assumptions used by management were reasonable considering (i) the current and past performance of the reporting unit, (ii) the consistency with external market and industry data, (iii) whether these assumptions were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit, and (iv) performed sensitivity analyses over significant estimates and assumptions. We involved valuation professionals with specialized skills and knowledge when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of Management’s estimates and assumptions related to the selection of sales growth rates and the estimated useful lives of the assets.
/s/ EisnerAmper LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2010.
EISNERAMPER LLP
Iselin, New Jersey
May 15, 2020March 29, 2022
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OBLONG, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except par value, stated value and shares)
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| December 31,
2021 | | December 31,
2020 |
| ASSETS | | | |
| Current assets: | | | |
| Cash | $ | 8,939 | | | $ | 5,058 | |
| Current portion of restricted cash | 61 | | | 158 | |
| Accounts receivable, net | 849 | | | 3,166 | |
| Inventory | 1,821 | | | 920 | |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,081 | | | 691 | |
| Total current assets | 12,751 | | | 9,993 | |
| Property and equipment, net | 159 | | | 573 | |
| Goodwill | 7,367 | | | 7,367 | |
| Intangibles, net | 7,562 | | | 10,140 | |
| Operating lease, right-of-use assets | 659 | | | 903 | |
| Other assets | 109 | | | 167 |
| Total assets | $ | 28,607 | | | $ | 29,143 | |
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | | | |
| Current liabilities: | | | |
| Current portion of long-term debt, net of debt discount | $ | — | | | $ | 2,014 | |
| Accounts payable | 259 | | | 313 | |
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | 959 | | | 1,201 | |
| Current portion deferred revenue | 783 | | | 1,217 | |
| Operating lease liabilities, current | 492 | | | 830 | |
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| Total current liabilities | 2,493 | | | 5,575 | |
| Long-term liabilities: | | | |
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| Long-term debt, net of current portion and net of debt discount | — | | | 403 | |
| Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion | 236 | | | 602 | |
| Deferred revenue, net of current portion | 381 | | | 506 | |
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| Total long-term liabilities | 617 | | | 1,511 | |
| Total liabilities | 3,110 | | | 7,086 | |
| Commitments and contingencies (see Note 15) | 0 | | 0 |
| Stockholders’ equity: | | | |
| Preferred stock Series A-2, convertible; $.0001 par value; $7,500 stated value; 7,500 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021, and 45 shares issued and outstanding, and liquidation preference of $338, at December 31, 2020 | — | | | — | |
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| Preferred stock Series D, convertible; $.0001 par value; $28.50 stated value; 1,750,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021, and 1,697,958 shares issued and outstanding, and liquidation preference of $48,392 at December 31, 2020 | — | | | — | |
| Preferred stock Series E, convertible; $.0001 par value; $28.50 stated value; 175,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021, and 131,579 shares issued and outstanding, and liquidation preference of $3,750 at December 31, 2020 | — | | | — | |
| Common stock, $.0001 par value; 150,000,000 shares authorized; 30,929,331 shares issued and 30,816,048 outstanding at December 31, 2021 and 7,861,912 shares issued and 7,748,629 outstanding at December 31, 2020 | 3 | | 1 |
| Treasury stock, 113,283 shares at December 31, 2021 and 2020 | (181) | | | (181) | |
| Additional paid-in capital | 227,581 | | | 215,092 | |
| Accumulated deficit | (201,906) | | | (192,855) | |
| Total stockholders’ equity | 25,497 | | | 22,057 | |
| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | 28,607 | | | $ | 29,143 | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements
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| | December 31,
2019 | | December 31,
2018 |
| ASSETS | | | |
| Current assets: | | | |
| Cash | $ | 4,602 |
| | $ | 2,007 |
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| Accounts receivable, net | 2,543 |
| | 1,371 |
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| Inventory | 1,816 |
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| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 965 |
| | 547 |
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| Total current assets | 9,926 |
| | 3,925 |
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| Property and equipment, net | 1,316 |
| | 728 |
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| Goodwill | 7,907 |
| | 2,795 |
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| Intangibles, net | 12,572 |
| | 499 |
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| Operating lease, right-of-use assets | 3,117 |
| | — |
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| Other assets | 71 |
| | 15 |
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| Total assets | $ | 34,909 |
| | $ | 7,962 |
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| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | | | |
| Current liabilities: | | | |
| Current portion of long-term debt, net of debt discount | $ | 2,664 |
| | $ | — |
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| Accounts payable | 647 |
| | 222 |
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| Deferred revenue | 1,901 |
| | 43 |
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| Operating lease liabilities, current | 1,294 |
| | — |
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| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | 1,752 |
| | 867 |
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| Total current liabilities | 8,258 |
| | 1,132 |
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| Long-term liabilities: | | | |
| Long-term debt, net of current portion and net of debt discount | 2,843 |
| | — |
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| Operating lease liabilities, non-current | 2,020 |
| | — |
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| Other long-term liabilities | 3 |
| | — |
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| Total long-term liabilities | 4,866 |
| | — |
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| Total liabilities | 13,124 |
| | 1,132 |
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| Commitments and contingencies (see Note 17) |
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| Stockholders’ equity: | | | |
| Preferred stock Series A-2, convertible; $.0001 par value; $7,500 stated value; 7,500 shares authorized, 32 shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $237 at December 31, 2019 and $308 at December 31, 2018 | — |
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| Preferred stock Series B, convertible; $.0001 par value; $1,000 stated value; 2,800 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $0 at December 31, 2019 and 75 shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $75 at December 31, 2018 | — |
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| Preferred stock Series C, convertible; $.0001 par value; $1,000 stated value; 1,750 shares authorized, 475 shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $475 at December 31, 2019 and 525 shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $525 at December 31, 2018 | — |
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| Preferred stock Series D, convertible; $.0001 par value; $28.50 stated value; 1,750,000 shares authorized, 1,734,901 shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $49,445 at December 31, 2019 and none at December 31, 2018 | — |
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| Preferred stock Series E, convertible; $.0001 par value; $28.50 stated value; 175,000 shares authorized, 131,579 shares issued and outstanding and liquidation preference of $3,750 at December 31, 2019 and none at December 31, 2018 | — |
| | — |
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| Common stock, $.0001 par value; 150,000,000 shares authorized; 5,266,800 shares issued and 5,161,500 outstanding at December 31, 2019 and 5,113,700 shares issued and 4,981,200 outstanding at December 31, 2018 | 1 |
| | 1 |
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| Treasury stock, 105,300 and 132,500 shares at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively | (165 | ) | | (496 | ) |
| Additional paid-in capital | 207,383 |
| | 184,998 |
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| Accumulated deficit | (185,434 | ) | | (177,673 | ) |
| Total stockholders’ equity | 21,785 |
| | 6,830 |
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| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | 34,909 |
| | $ | 7,962 |
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OBLONG, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except per share data)
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Revenues | $ | 7,739 | | | $ | 15,333 | |
| Cost of revenues (exclusive of depreciation and amortization) | 5,021 | | | 7,280 | |
| Gross profit | 2,718 | | | 8,053 | |
| Operating expenses: | | | |
| Research and development | 2,913 | | | 3,711 | |
| Sales and marketing | 2,195 | | | 3,392 |
| General and administrative | 6,363 | | | 6,724 | |
| Impairment charges | 305 | | | 1,150 | |
| Depreciation and amortization | 2,736 | | 3,140 |
| Total operating expenses | 14,512 | | | 18,117 | |
| Loss from operations | (11,794) | | | (10,064) | |
| Interest and other (income) expense: | | | |
| Interest expense and other, net | 22 | | | 352 | |
| Gain on extinguishment of debt | (2,448) | | | (3,117) | |
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| Other income | (227) | | | — | |
| Foreign exchange loss | — | | | 19 | |
| Interest and other (income) expense, net | (2,653) | | | (2,746) | |
| Loss before income taxes | (9,141) | | | (7,318) | |
| Income tax (benefit) expense | (90) | | | 103 | |
| Net loss | $ | (9,051) | | | $ | (7,421) | |
| Preferred stock dividends | 1 | | | 17 | |
| Undeclared dividends | 366 | | | 788 | |
| Conversion inducement | 300 | | | — | |
| Warrant modification | 37 | | | — | |
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders | $ | (9,755) | | | $ | (8,226) | |
| | | |
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders per share: | | | |
| Basic and diluted net loss per share | $ | (0.37) | | | $ | (1.48) | |
| | | |
| | | |
| Weighted-average number of common shares: | | | |
| Basic and diluted | 26,567 | | | 5,547 | |
| | | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements
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| | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Revenues | $ | 12,827 |
| | $ | 12,557 |
|
| Cost of revenues (exclusive of depreciation and amortization) | 7,427 |
| | 7,598 |
|
| Gross profit | 5,400 |
| | 4,959 |
|
| Operating expenses: | | | |
| Research and development | 2,023 |
| | 921 |
|
| Sales and marketing | 1,936 |
| | 319 |
|
| General and administrative | 5,377 |
| | 4,611 |
|
| Impairment charges | 2,317 |
| | 5,093 |
|
| Depreciation and amortization | 1,321 |
| | 755 |
|
| Total operating expenses | 12,974 |
| | 11,699 |
|
| Loss from operations | (7,574 | ) | | (6,740 | ) |
| Interest and other (income) expense: | | | |
| Interest expense and other, net | 97 |
| | 311 |
|
| Gain on extinguishment of debt | — |
| | (165 | ) |
| Amortization of debt discount | 90 |
| | 269 |
|
| Interest and other (income) expense, net | 187 |
| | 415 |
|
| Loss before income taxes | (7,761 | ) | | (7,155 | ) |
| Income tax expense | — |
| | 13 |
|
| Net loss | $ | (7,761 | ) | | $ | (7,168 | ) |
| Preferred stock dividends | 27 |
| | 12 |
|
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders | $ | (7,788 | ) | | $ | (7,180 | ) |
| | | | |
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders per share: | | | |
| Basic and diluted net loss per share | $ | (1.52 | ) | | $ | (1.50 | ) |
| | | | |
| Weighted-average number of common shares: | | | |
| Basic and diluted | 5,108 |
| | 4,795 |
|
OBLONG, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In thousands, except shares of Series A-2, Series B, Series C, Series D and Series E Preferred Stock)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Series A-2 Preferred Stock | | | | Series C Preferred Stock | | Series D Preferred Stock | | Series E Preferred Stock | | Common Stock | | Treasury Stock | | | | | | |
| Shares | | Amount | | | | | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Additional Paid-In Capital | | Accumulated Deficit | | Total |
| Balance at December 31, 2019 | 32 | | | $ | — | | | | | | | 475 | | | $ | — | | | 1,734.901 | | | $ | — | | | 131.579 | | | $ | — | | | 5,267 | | | $ | 1 | | | 105 | | | $ | (165) | | | $ | 207,383 | | | $ | (185,434) | | | $ | 21,785 | |
| Net loss | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (7,421) | | | (7,421) | |
| Stock-based compensation | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 8 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 198 | | | — | | | 198 | |
| Issuance of preferred stock for accrued dividends | 13 | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 99 | | | — | | | 99 | |
| Forfeiture of preferred stock | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | (28,618) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Preferred stock conversion | — | | | — | | | | | | | (475) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 158 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Preferred stock dividends | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (17) | | | — | | | (17) | |
| Issuance of stock on vested restricted stock units | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 23 | | | — | | | 8 | | | (16) | | | — | | | — | | | (16) | |
| Series D exchanged for taxes | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | (8.325) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Forfeiture of restricted stock agreement | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (9) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Issuance of common shares from financing, net of offering costs | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 2,293 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 7,371 | | | — | | | 7,371 | |
| Issuance of common shares from warrant exercise | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 72 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Issuance of shares for professional service fees | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 50 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 58 | | | — | | | 58 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Balance at December 31, 2020 | 45 | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | 1,697,958 | | | — | | | 131,579 | | | — | | | 7,862 | | | 1 | | | 113 | | | (181) | | | 215,092 | | | (192,855) | | | 22,057 | |
| Net loss | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (9,051) | | | (9,051) | |
| Stock-based compensation | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 597 | | | — | | | 597 | |
| Series D & E Preferred Stock conversion | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | (1,697,022) | | | — | | | (131,579) | | | — | | | 18,762 | | | 2 | | | — | | | — | | | (2) | | | — | | | — | |
| Forfeiture of Series D Stock | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | (81) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Series D shares exchanged for tax | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | (855) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Series A2 Preferred Stock conversion | (45) | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 84 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Issuance of stock for services | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 21 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 390 | | | — | | | 390 | |
| Issuance of shares from financing, net of issuance costs | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 4,000 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 11,504 | | | — | | | 11,504 | |
| Issuance of stock on vested restricted stock units | — | | | — | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 200 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Balance at December 31, 2021 | — | | | $ | — | | | | | | | — | | | $ | — | | | — | | | $ | — | | | — | | | $ | — | | | 30,929 | | | $ | 3 | | | 113 | | | $ | (181) | | | $ | 227,581 | | | $ | (201,906) | | | $ | 25,497 | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Series A-2 Preferred Stock | | Series B Preferred Stock | | Series C Preferred Stock | | Series D Preferred Stock | | Series E Preferred Stock | | Common Stock | | Treasury Stock | | | | | | |
| | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Shares | | Amount | | Additional Paid-In Capital | | Accumulated Deficit | | Total |
| Balance at December 31, 2017 | 32 |
| | $ | — |
| | 450 |
| | $ | — |
| | — |
| | $ | — |
| | — |
| | $ | — |
| | — |
| | $ | — |
| | 4,516 |
| | $ | 1 |
| | 65 |
| | $ | (352 | ) | | $ | 183,118 |
| | $ | (170,505 | ) | | $ | 12,262 |
|
| Net loss | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (7,168 | ) | | (7,168 | ) |
| Stock-based compensation | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 365 |
| | — |
| | 365 |
|
| Issuance of preferred stock | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 1,750 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 1,527 |
| | — |
| | 1,527 |
|
| Preferred stock conversion | — |
| | — |
| | (375 | ) | | — |
| | (1,225 | ) | | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 542 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Preferred stock dividends | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (12 | ) | | — |
| | (12 | ) |
| Issuance of stock on vested restricted stock units | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 56 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Purchase of treasury stock | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 68 |
| | (144 | ) | | — |
| | — |
| | (144 | ) |
| Balance at December 31, 2018 | 32 |
| | — |
| | 75 |
| | — |
| | 525 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 5,114 |
| | 1 |
| | 133 |
| | (496 | ) | | 184,998 |
| | (177,673 | ) | | 6,830 |
|
| Net loss | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (7,761 | ) | | (7,761 | ) |
| Stock-based compensation | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 110 |
| | — |
| | 110 |
|
| Issuance of preferred stock in merger | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 1,736,626 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 18,862 |
| | — |
| | 18,862 |
|
| Forfeiture of preferred stock | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (1.725 | ) | | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Preferred stock conversion | — |
| | — |
| | (75 | ) | | — |
| | (50 | ) | | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 44 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Preferred stock dividends | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (27 | ) | | — |
| | (27 | ) |
| Issuance of stock on vested restricted stock units | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 109 |
| | — |
| | (76 | ) | | 382 |
| | (382 | ) | | — |
| | — |
|
| Proceeds from Series E equity offering | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 131,579 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 3,750 |
| | — |
| | 3,750 |
|
| Repurchase of treasury stock | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 48 |
| | (51 | ) | | — |
| | | | (51 | ) |
| Issuance of warrants to purchase common stock in connection with long term debt | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 72 |
| | — |
| | 72 |
|
| Balance at December 31, 2019 | 32 |
| | $ | — |
| | — |
| | $ | — |
| | 475 |
| | $ | — |
| | 1,734,901 |
| | $ | — |
| | 131,579 |
| | $ | — |
| | 5,267 |
| | $ | 1 |
| | 105 |
| | $ | (165 | ) | | $ | 207,383 |
| | $ | (185,434 | ) | | $ | 21,785 |
|
OBLONG, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Cash flows from Operating Activities: | | | |
| Net loss | $ | (9,051) | | | $ | (7,421) | |
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | | | |
| Depreciation and amortization | 2,736 | | | 3,140 | |
| Bad debt expense | 321 | | | 168 | |
| Amortization of debt discount | — | | | 56 | |
| Right-of-use assets | 495 | | | 1,001 | |
| Stock-based compensation | 597 | | | 198 | |
| Stock-based expense for services | 390 | | | 58 | |
| Gain on extinguishment of lease liability | (227) | | | — | |
| Gain on extinguishment of debt | (2,448) | | | (3,117) | |
| Impairment charges - property and equipment | 98 | | | 144 | |
| Impairment charges - intangible assets | 207 | | | — | |
| Impairment charges - right-of use assets | — | | | 465 | |
| Impairment charges - goodwill | — | | | 541 | |
| Changes in assets and liabilities: | | | |
| Accounts receivable | 1,996 | | | (792) | |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | (390) | | | 273 | |
| Inventory | (901) | | | 820 | |
| Other assets | (3) | | | (35) | |
| Accounts payable | (54) | | | (335) | |
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | (19) | | | (415) | |
| Deferred revenue | (559) | | | (178) | |
| Operating lease liability | (920) | | | (1,134) | |
| Other long-term liabilities | — | | | (3) | |
| Net cash used in operating activities | (7,732) | | | (6,566) | |
| Cash flows from Investing Activities: | | | |
| Proceeds on sale of equipment | 1 | | | 7 | |
| Purchases of property and equipment | (50) | | | (38) | |
| Net cash used in investing activities | (49) | | | (31) | |
| Cash flows from Financing Activities: | | | |
| Principal payments under borrowing arrangement | — | | | (2,500) | |
| Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of offering costs | 11,504 | | | 7,371 | |
| Proceeds from PPP Loan | — | | | 2,417 | |
| Shares withheld to cover tax liability | — | | | (16) | |
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 11,504 | | | 7,272 | |
| | | |
| Net increase in cash and restricted cash | 3,723 | | | 675 | |
| Cash and restricted cash at beginning of year | 5,277 | | | 4,602 | |
| Cash and restricted cash at end of year | $ | 9,000 | | | $ | 5,277 | |
| | | |
| Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information: | | | |
| Cash paid during the period for interest | $ | 9 | | | $ | 213 | |
| | | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements
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| | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Cash flows from Operating Activities (Net of business combinations): | | | |
| Net loss | $ | (7,761 | ) | | $ | (7,168 | ) |
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | | | |
| Depreciation and amortization | 1,321 |
| | 755 |
|
| Bad debt expense | 11 |
| | 9 |
|
| Amortization of debt discount | 90 |
| | 269 |
|
| Gain on debt extinguishment | — |
| | (165 | ) |
| Stock-based compensation | 110 |
| | 365 |
|
| Impairment charges on property & equipment | 63 |
| | 138 |
|
| Impairment charges on goodwill | 2,254 |
| | 4,955 |
|
| Changes in assets and liabilities: | | | |
| Accounts receivable | 780 |
| | (160 | ) |
| Inventory | 19 |
| | — |
|
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 301 |
| | 168 |
|
| Other assets | 495 |
| | (7 | ) |
| Accounts payable | 129 |
| | (115 | ) |
| Deferred revenue | (373 | ) | | — |
|
| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | (692 | ) | | (199 | ) |
| Net cash used in operating activities | (3,253 | ) | | (1,155 | ) |
| Cash flows from Investing Activities: | | | |
| Cash acquired through Oblong Industries merger | 2,194 |
| | — |
|
| Purchases of property and equipment | (45 | ) | | (335 | ) |
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | 2,149 |
| | (335 | ) |
| Cash flows from Financing Activities: | | | |
| Principal payments under borrowing arrangements | — |
| | (1,832 | ) |
| Proceeds from Series C preferred stock, net of expenses of $223 | — |
| | 1,527 |
|
| Proceeds from Series E preferred stock | 3,750 |
| | — |
|
| Purchase of treasury stock | (51 | ) | | (144 | ) |
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | 3,699 |
| | (449 | ) |
| Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | 2,595 |
| | (1,939 | ) |
| Cash at beginning of year | 2,007 |
| | 3,946 |
|
| Cash at end of year | $ | 4,602 |
| | $ | 2,007 |
|
| | | | |
| Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information: | | | |
| Cash paid during the period for interest | $ | 105 |
| | $ | 318 |
|
| | | | |
| Non-cash investing and financing activities: | | | |
| Issuance of common stock warrant | $ | 72 |
| | $ | — |
|
| Issuance of Series D stock for acquisition of Oblong Industries | $ | 18,862 |
| | $ | — |
|
| Accrued preferred stock dividends | $ | 27 |
| | $ | 12 |
|
| Issuance of common stock for vested restricted stock units | $ | 382 |
| | $ | — |
|
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Reconciliation of cash and restricted cash | | | |
| Cash | $ | 8,939 | | | $ | 5,058 | |
| Current portion of restricted cash | 61 | | | 158 | |
| Restricted cash included in other assets, net of current portion | — | | | 61 | |
| Total cash and restricted cash | $ | 9,000 | | | $ | 5,277 | |
| | | |
| Non-cash investing and financing activities: | | | |
| Issuance of preferred stock in exchange for accrued dividends | $ | — | | | $ | 99 | |
| New operating lease agreement | $ | 60 | | | $ | — | |
| Modification of operating lease agreement | $ | 192 | | | $ | — | |
| Transfer of assets from inventory to property and equipment | $ | — | | | $ | 78 | |
| Accrued preferred stock dividends | $ | 1 | | | $ | 17 | |
| Inducement to convert Series A-2 Preferred Stock to common | $ | 300 | | | $ | — | |
| Common stock issued for conversion of preferred stock | $ | 2 | | | $ | — | |
| Warrant modification | $ | 37 | | | $ | — | |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements
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OBLONG, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 - Business Description and Significant Accounting Policies
Business Description
Oblong, Inc. (“Oblong” or “we” or “us” or the “Company”) was formed as a Delaware corporation in May 2000 and is a provider of patented multi-stream collaboration technologies and managed services for video collaboration and network applications. Prior to March 6, 2020, Oblong, Inc. was named Glowpoint, Inc. (“Glowpoint”). On March 6, 2020, Glowpoint changed its name to Oblong, Inc.
On October 1, 2019, the Company closed an acquisition of all of the outstanding equity interest of Oblong Industries, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation founded in 2006 (“Oblong Industries”); see further discussion in Note 3 - Oblong Industries Acquisition.
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Oblong and our 100%-owned subsidiaries (i) GP Communications, LLC (“GP Communications”), whose business function is to provide interstate telecommunications services for regulatory purposes, (ii) Oblong Industries, Inc., and (iii) the following subsidiaries of Oblong Industries: Oblong Industries Europe, S.L. and Oblong Europe Limited. All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The U.S. Dollar is the functional currency for all subsidiaries.
Segments
Prior to the acquisition of Oblong Industries on October 1, 2019, the Company operated in one segment. Effective October 1, 2019, the former businesses of Glowpoint (now Oblong, Inc.) and Oblong Industries werehave been managed separately, during the fourth quarter of 2019 and involve different products and services. Accordingly, the Company currently operates in two segments: 1)2 segments for purposes of segment reporting: (1) “Collaboration Products” which represents the Glowpoint (now named Oblong)Oblong Industries business surrounding our Mezzanine™ product offerings and (2) “Managed Services” which mainly consists ofrepresents the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business surrounding managed services for video collaboration and network and 2) the Oblong Industries business which consists of products and services for visual collaboration technologies.solutions. See Note 1615 - Segment Reporting for further discussion.
Use of Estimates
Preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“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 revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual amounts could differ from the estimates made. We continually evaluate estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for reasonableness. Appropriate adjustments, if any, to the estimates used are made prospectively based upon such periodic evaluation. The significant areas of estimation include determining the allowance for doubtful accounts, the estimated lives and recoverability of property and equipment and intangible assets, the inputs used in the valuation of goodwill and intangible assets in connection with our impairment tests, and the inputs used in the fair value of equity based awards as well as the values ascribed to assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the business combination.awards.
Restricted Cash
As of December 31, 2019,2021, our total cash balance was $9,000,000, consisting of $8,939,000 in available cash and $61,000 in current restricted cash. As of December 31, 2020, our total cash balance of $4,602,000$5,277,000 included current and long-term restricted cash of $93,000.$158,000 and $61,000, respectively. The long-term restricted cash is included in our other assets on our consolidated balance sheet. The restricted cash pertainspertained to a lettertwo letters of credit that servesserved as the security deposit for our lease ofleased office space in Munich, Germany (as discussedBoston, Massachusetts and our leased office space in Note 17 - CommitmentsLos Altos, California, and Contingencies), and iswere secured by an equal amount of cash pledged as collateral, and such cash iswas held in a restricted bank account. The Los Altos lease, and thereby the letter of credit, in the amount of $158,000, expired during the year ended December 31, 2021 and the cash was released. The Boston lease and letter of credit expired in February 2022.
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
We perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers. We record an allowance for doubtful accounts based on specifically identified amounts that are believed to be uncollectible. We also record additional allowances based on our aged receivables, which are determined based on historical experience and an assessment of the general financial conditions affecting our customer
base. If our actual collections experience changes, revisions to our allowance may be required. After all attempts
to collect a receivable have failed, the receivable is written off against the allowance. We do not obtain collateral from our customers to secure accounts receivable. The allowance for doubtful accounts was $19,000$100,000 and $8,000$182,000 at December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, respectively.
Employee Retention Credit
The CARES Act provided an employee retention credit (“ERC”), which was a refundable tax credit against certain payroll taxes. Upon determination that the Company had complied with all of the conditions required to receive the credit, the Company qualified and filed to claim the ERC. The Company reflected the ERC as a reduction to the respective captions on the consolidated statements of operations associated with the employees to which the payroll tax benefit related. For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded a $874,000 reduction to operating expense.
Inventory
Inventory consists of finished goods and was determined using average costs and was stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value. The Company periodically performs analyses to identify obsolete or slow-moving inventory, as well as inventory used for trade shows. These items are recorded as a contra-asset, and totaled $261,000 as of December 31, 2019.inventory.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company considers its cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and debt obligations to meet the definition of financial instruments. The carrying amount of cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable approximated their fair value due to the short maturities of these instruments. The carrying amounts of our debt obligations (see Note 10 - Debt) approximateapproximated their fair values, which arewere based on borrowing rates that arewere available to the Company for loans with similar terms, collateral, and maturity.
The Company measures fair value as required by Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 820“Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” (“ASC Topic 820”). ASC Topic 820 defines fair value, establishes a framework and gives guidance regarding the methods used for measuring fair value, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC Topic 820 clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, there exists a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
•Level 1 - unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access as of the measurement date.
•Level 2 - inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are directly observable for the asset or liability or indirectly observable through corroboration with observable market data.
•Level 3 - unobservable inputs for the asset or liability only used when there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability at the measurement date.
This hierarchy requires the Company to use observable market data, when available, and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs when determining fair value. The fair value of the Super G warrant liability during 2018 (see Note 10 - Debt) was considered to be Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy and was estimated using an option pricing model. The warrant was canceled during 2018.
Revenue Recognition
The Company accounts for revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606.
The Company recognizes revenue using the five-step model as prescribed by Topic 606:
•Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;
•Identification of the distinct performance obligations in the contract;
•Determination of the transaction price;
•Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and
•Recognition of revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation.
The Company’s managed videoconferencing services are offered to our customers on either a usage basis or on a monthly subscription. Our network services are offered to our customers on a monthly subscription basis. Revenue for these services is generally recognized on a monthly basis as services are performed. Revenue related to professional services is recognized at the time the services are performed. The costs associated with obtaining a customer contract were previously expensed in the period they were incurred. Under Topic 606, these payments are deferred on our consolidated balance sheet and amortized over the expected life of the customer contract. The impact to sales and marketing expense for the year ended December 31, 2018 was not material as a result of applying Topic 606. Deferred revenue as of December 31, 20192021 totaled $1,901,000$8,000 as certain performance
obligations were not satisfied as of this date. During the year ended December 31, 2019,2021, the Company recorded $32,000$24,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2018.2020. During the year ended December 31, 2018,2020, the Company recorded $350,000$21,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2017. 2019.
The Company disaggregates its revenue by geographic region. See Note 16 - Segment Reporting for more information.
Oblong’sCompany’s visual collaboration products are composed of hardware and embedded software sold as a complete package, and generally include installation and maintenance services. Revenue for hardware and software is recognized upon shipment to the customer. Installation revenue is recognized upon completion of installation, which also triggers the beginning of recognition of revenue for maintenance services which range from one to three years. Revenue is recognized over time for maintenance services. Professional services are contracts with specific customers for software development, visual design, interaction design, engineering, and project support. These contracts vary in length, and revenue is recognized over time as services are rendered. Licensing agreements are for the Company’s core technology platform, g-speak, and are generally one year in length. Revenue for these services is recognized ratably over the service period. Upon adoptionDeferred revenue, as of Topic 606, Oblong wasDecember 31, 2021, totaled $1,156,000 as certain performance obligations were not required to adjust its revenue recognition methodology,satisfied as recognition was deemed to be in-line withof this date. During the five-step model. As of October 1, 2019, deferred revenue totaled $2,231,000; and the Company recognized $352,000 of revenue in the three monthsyear ended December 31, 20192021, the Company recorded $1,193,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of October 1, 2019. Additionally,December 31, 2020. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company capitalized costs $87,500recorded $978,000 of revenue that was included in deferred revenue as of October 1, 2019 (including sales representative commission payments) associated with obtainingDecember 31, 2019.
The Company disaggregates its revenue contracts, in accordance with ASC Subtopic 340.by geographic region. See Note 15 - Segment Reporting for more information.
Taxes Billed to Customers and Remitted to Taxing Authorities
We recognize taxes billed to customers in revenue and taxes remitted to taxing authorities in our cost of revenue. For the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, we included taxes of $390,000$264,000 and $440,000,$313,000, respectively, in revenue and we included taxes of $390,000$271,000 and $446,000,$328,000, respectively, in cost of revenue.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets, Goodwill and Intangible Assets
The Company assesses the impairment of long-lived assets used in operations, primarily fixed assets and purchased intangible assets subject to amortization when events and circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets might not be recoverable. For purposes of evaluating the recoverability of fixed assets and amortizing intangible assets, the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are compared to the carrying amounts of those assets. If and when the carrying values of the assets exceed their fair values,the undiscounted cash flows, then the related assets will be written down to fair value. This fair value is then compared with the carrying value of each intangible asset. If the carrying amount of the intangible asset is greater than its implied fair value, an impairment in the amount of the excess is recognized and charged to operations. There were no related impairments during
For the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018.2020, the Company recorded asset impairment charges on property and equipment of $98,000 and $144,000, respectively, which pertained primarily to assets no longer used in the business. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company disposed of fixed assets of $1,092,000, the corresponding accumulated depreciation of $993,000, and received proceeds on the sale of $1,000 which resulted in a loss on disposal of $98,000. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company disposed of fixed assets of $3,438,000, the corresponding accumulated depreciation of $3,287,000, and proceeds on sale of $7,000 which resulted in a loss on disposal of $144,000.
Goodwill.Goodwill is not amortized but is subject to periodic testing for impairment in accordance with ASC Topic 350 “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Testing Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment” (“ASC Topic 350”). During the year ended December 31, 2020, we recorded goodwill impairment charges of $541,000. There were no impairment charges recorded for the year ended December 31, 2021. See Note 76 - Goodwill and Note 8 - Intangible Assets) for further discussion.
Capitalized Software Costs
The Company capitalizes certain costs incurred in connection with developing or obtaining internal-use software. All software development costs have been appropriately accounted for as required by ASC Topic 350-40 “Intangible – Goodwill and Other – Internal-Use Software.” Capitalized software costs are included in “Property and equipment” on our consolidated balance sheets and are amortized over three to four years. Software costs that do not meet capitalization criteria are expensed as incurred. For the year ended December 31, 2019, we capitalized internal-use software costs2021, the Company recorded an impairment of $0 and we amortized $241,000 of these costs. For$207,000 on purchased intangible assets. See Note 7 - Intangible Assets for further discussion. There were no impairments to purchased intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2018, we capitalized internal-use software costs of $265,000 and we amortized $372,000 of these costs. During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we recorded impairment losses of $22,000 and $138,000, respectively, for certain discrete projects that were abandoned. These charges are recognized as “Impairment Charges” on our Consolidated Statements of Operations.2020.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject us to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash, and trade accounts receivable. We place our cash primarily in commercial checking accounts. Commercial bank balances may from time to time exceed federal insurance limits.
Leases
The Company primarily leases facilities for office, warehouse, and data center space under non-cancellable operating leases for its U.S. and international locations, and accounts for these leases in accordance with ASC-842. Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the expected lease term. Right-of-use assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Since our lease arrangements do not provide an implicit rate, we use our estimated incremental borrowing rate for the expected remaining lease term at commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.Variable lease payments are not included in the lease payments to measure the lease liability and are expensed as incurred. The Company’s leases have remaining terms of one to three years and some of the leases include a Company option to extend the lease term for less than twelve months to five years, or more, which if reasonably certain to exercise, the Company includes in the determination of lease payments. The lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, with the exception of leases for real property, are not recognized on the balance sheet and the expense for these short-term leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Common area maintenance fees (or CAMs) and other charges related to leases are expensed as incurred. See Note 9 - Operating Leases and Right-of-Use Assets for further discussion of the Company’s lease activities.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are stated at cost and are depreciated over the estimated useful lives of the related assets, which range from three to ten years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of either the asset’s useful life or the related lease term. Depreciation is computed on the straight-line method for financial reporting purposes.
Income Taxes
We use the asset and liability method to determine our income tax expense or benefit. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are computed based on temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rates that are expected to be in effect when the differences are expected to be recovered or settled. Any resulting net deferred tax assets are evaluated for recoverability and, accordingly, a valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that all or some portion of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.
Stock-based Compensation
Stock-based awards have been accounted for as required by ASC Topic 718 “Compensation – Stock Compensation” (“ASC Topic 718”). Under ASC Topic 718 stock-based awards are valued at fair value on the date of grant, and that fair value is recognized over the requisite service period. The Company accounts for forfeitures when they occur.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses include internal and external costs related to developing new service offerings and features and enhancements to our existing services.product offerings.
Treasury Stock
Purchases and sales of treasury stock are accounted for using the cost method. Under this method, shares acquired are recorded at the acquisition price directly to the treasury stock account. Upon sale, the treasury stock account is reduced by the
original acquisition price of the shares and any difference is recorded in additional paid in capital, on a first-in first-out basis. The Company does not recognize a gain or loss to income from the purchase and sale of treasury stock.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
Leases
In February 2016 the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” which sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both lessees and lessors. On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new lease standard using the optional transition method under which comparative financial information will not be restated and continue to apply the provisions of the previous lease standard in its annual disclosures for the comparative periods. In addition, the new lease standard provides a number of optional practical expedients in transition. The Company elected the package of practical expedients. As such, the Company did not have to reassess whether expired or existing contracts are or contain a lease; did not have to reassess the lease classifications or reassess the initial direct costs associated with expired or existing leases.
The new lease standard also provides practical expedients for an entity's ongoing accounting. The Company elected the short-term lease recognition exemption under which the Company will not recognize ROU assets or lease liabilities, and this includes not recognizing ROU assets or lease liabilities for existing short-term leases. The Company elected the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components for certain classes of assets (office buildings). For leases that qualify as short-term leases, the Company has elected to not apply the balance sheet recognition requirements of Topic 842, and instead we recognize the lease payments in the consolidated statement of operations on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. For the Company’s operating leases, the right-of-use (“ROU”) assets represents the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and operating lease liabilities represent an obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Since all of the lease agreements do not provide an implicit rate, the Company estimated an incremental borrowing rate in determining the present value of the lease payments. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term, subject to any changes in the lease or expectations regarding the terms. Variable lease costs such as operating costs and property taxes are expensed as incurred.
On January 1, 2019, the Company recognized ROU assets and lease liabilities of approximately $99,000 and $111,000, respectively, using an estimated incremental borrowing rate of 7.75%. This is net of a reclass of deferred rent to the right-of-use assets. On October 1, 2019 (the closing date of the acquisition of Oblong Industries), the Company recognized ROU assets and lease liabilities for Oblong Industries of approximately $3,376,000 and $3,578,000, respectively, using an estimated incremental borrowing rate of 6.00%. The ROU assets and lease liabilities as of December 31, 2019 are recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. See Note 17 - Commitments and Contingencies for further discussion.
Stock Compensation
In June 2018 the FASB issued ASU 2018-07, “Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718).” The guidance simplifies the accounting for share-based payments to non-employees by aligning it with the accounting for share-based payments to employees, with certain exceptions. The new guidance expands the scope to include share-based payments granted to non-employees in exchange for goods or services used or consumed in an entity’s own operations and supersedes the guidance in ASC 505-50. Effective January 1, 2019, we adopted this guidance which did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Credit Losses
In June 2016 the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326),” which was subsequently amended in February 2020 by ASU 2020-02, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326) and Leases (Topic 842).” The amendments introduce an impairment model that is based on expected credit losses, rather than incurred losses, to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments (e.g., loans and held-to-maturity securities), including certain off-balance sheet financial instruments (e.g., loan commitments). The expected credit losses should consider historical information, current information, and reasonable and supportable forecasts, including estimates of prepayments, over the contractual term. Financial instruments with similar risk characteristics may be grouped together when estimating expected credit losses. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently evaluating the impact the new guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.
In May 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-04, Issuer’s Accounting for Certain Modifications or Exchanges of Freestanding Equity-Classified Written Call Options. The FASB is issuing this update to clarify and reduce diversity in an issuer’s accounting for modifications or exchanges of freestanding equity classified written call options (for example, warrants) that remain equity classified after modification or exchange. ASU 2021-04 is effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, including interim periods within those fiscal years. An entity should apply the amendments prospectively to modifications or exchanges occurring after the effective date of the amendments. The Company does not expect this update to have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements. Note 2 - Liquidity and Going Concern
As of December 31, 2019,2021, we had $4,602,000$9,000,000 of cash, consisting of $8,939,000 in available cash and $5,609,000$61,000 in restricted cash, and $10,258,000 of total obligations underworking capital.For the Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) Loan Agreement. The SVB Loan Agreement provides that interest-only payments were due through Marchyears ended December 31, 2020, after which equal monthly principal2021 and interest payments will be payable in order to fully repay the loan by September 1, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”). Prior to April 1, 2020, SVB (i) indicated its agreement via e-mail to defer the monthly principal payment of $291,500 and a prior deferral fee of $100,000 that were each due on April 1, 2020 and (ii) verbally agreed to defer the monthly principal payment of $291,500 that was due on May 1, 2020, in each case to June 1, 2020. Failure to make these payments will constitute an event of default under the SVB Loan Agreement. However, the Company and SVB are currently in negotiations to restructure the SVB Loan Agreement, though there can be no assurance that the Company and SVB will be able to reach any agreement. In April 2020, we receivedincurred net losses of $9,051,000 and $7,421,000, respectively, and net cash proceeds from a loan for $2,416,600 (the “PPP Loan”) from MidFirst Bank under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) contained within the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,used in operating activities was $7,732,000 and Economic Security (CARES) Act (see Note 21 - Subsequent Events). The PPP Loan has a term of two years, is unsecured,$6,566,000, respectively.
Future Capital Requirements and is guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The PPP Loan carries a fixed interest rate of one percent (1.0%) per annum, with the first six months of interest deferred. Going Concern
Our capital requirements in the future will continue to depend on numerous factors, including the timing and amount of revenue for the combined organization,Company, customer renewal rates and the timing of collection of outstanding accounts receivable, in each case particularly as it relates to the combined organization’sCompany’s major customers, the expense to deliver services, expense for sales and marketing, expense for research and development, capital expenditures, the cost involved in protecting intellectual property rights, debt service obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement, the amount of forgiveness of the PPP Loan, if any, and the debt service obligations under the PPP Loan, and expenses required to successfully integrate Glowpoint and Oblong Industries. While our acquisition of Oblong Industries does provide additional revenues to the Company, the cost to further develop and commercialize Oblong Industries’ product offerings is expected to exceed its revenues for the foreseeable future.expenditures. We expect to achieve certain revenue and cost synergies in connection with combining Glowpoint and Oblong Industries and also expect to reduce the Company’s operating expenses in the future as compared to its annualized operating expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2019. We also expect to continue to invest in product development and sales and marketing expenses with the goal of growing the Company’s revenue in the future. The Company believes that, based on the combined organization’sits current projection of revenue, expenses, capital expenditures, debt service obligations, and cash flows, it will not have sufficient resources to fund its operations for the next twelve months following the filing of this Report. We believe additional capital will be required to fund operations and provide growth capital including investments in technology, product development and sales and marketing. To access capital to fund operations or provide growth capital, we will need to restructure the SVB Loan
Agreement and raise capital in one or more debt and/or equity offerings. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in raising necessary capital or that any such offering will be on terms acceptable to the Company. If we are unable to raise additional capital that may be needed on terms acceptable to us, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company. The factors discussed above raise substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from these uncertainties.
Note 3 - Oblong Industries Acquisition
On October 1, 2019, the Company closed its acquisition of Oblong Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Oblong Industries” and, such transaction, the “Acquisition”). The Acquisition was consummated through the merger of Glowpoint Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger Sub”), with and into Oblong Industries on the Closing Date, with Oblong Industries continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. On the Closing Date, (i) the shares of common and preferred stock of Oblong Industries issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition were converted into an aggregate of 1,686,659 shares of the Company’s 6.0% Series D Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series D Preferred Stock”); (ii) all options to purchase shares of Oblong’s common stock held by previously terminated employees of Oblong Industries were assumed by the Company and deemed, in the aggregate, to constitute options to acquire a total of 107,845 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“common stock”), at a volume weighted average exercise price of $4.92 per share and a remaining exercise period of one year; and (iii) all options to purchase shares of Oblong Industries’ common stock held by existing employees of Oblong were canceled and exchanged for an aggregate of 49,967 restricted shares of Series D Preferred Stock (“Restricted Series D Preferred Stock”), which are subject to vesting over a two-year period following the Closing Date.
Each share of Series D Preferred Stock is automatically convertible into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the accrued value of the share (initially $28.50), plus any accrued dividends thereon, divided by the Conversion Price (initially $2.85 per share, subject to specified adjustments) upon the completion of both i) approval of such conversion by the Company’s stockholders (which occurred on December 19, 2019) and (ii) the receipt of all required authorizations and approval of a new listing application for the combined organization from the NYSE American. Upon such conversion, the Series D Preferred Stock (including shares of Restricted Series D Preferred Stock) will convert into an aggregate of 17,349,010 shares of common stock. Following their conversion to common stock, shares of Restricted Series D Preferred Stock will remain subject to their vesting conditions.
The Acquisition was accounted for in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 805 “Business Combinations” (“ASC 805”) as a business combination, which requires an allocation of the purchase price of an acquired entity to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values at the date of acquisition. The purchase price and the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed were based on management estimates and values with assistance from an outside appraisal. Pursuant to ASC 805, the purchase price of $18,862,000 was measured as the fair value of the consideration exchanged in the Acquisition as follows:
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| Series D Preferred Stock (1,686,659 shares at $11.15 per share) | $ | 18,811,000 |
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| Value of common stock options issued (107,845 at $0.47 per option) | 51,000 |
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| Total purchase price | $ | 18,862,000 |
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The value per share of the Series D Preferred Stock was determined using an equity allocation method using the Company’s publicly traded common stock as the basis, with use of an option pricing model for determination of the value per share of the Series D Preferred Stock in the event conversion to common stock does not occur. On October 1, 2019, the closing sale price of our common stock was $1.00 per share as reported on the NYSE American. The value of the 107,845 common stock options was determined using the Black-Scholes method, with the following weighted-average assumptions: (i) exercise price of $4.92, (ii) risk-free interest rate of 1.5%, (iii) expected volatility of 217% and (iv) expected term of one year. The value of the Restricted Series D Preferred Stock was not included in the purchase price given the vesting requirements post combination. Therefore, the Company recorded stock-based compensation expense in the post combination period over the vesting period of these awards.
Based on the purchase price allocation, the following table summarizes the estimated fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the Closing Date (in thousands):
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| Cash | | $ | 2,194 |
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| Accounts receivable | | 1,962 |
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| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | | 719 |
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| Inventory | | 1,835 |
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| Property and equipment | | 1,221 |
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| Operating lease, right-of-use assets | | 3,376 |
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| Trade names | | 2,410 |
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| Distributor relationships | | 310 |
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| Developed technology | | 10,060 |
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| Other assets | | 194 |
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| Total assets acquired at fair value | | $ | 24,281 |
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| Accounts payable | | $ | (296 | ) |
| Operating lease liabilities | | (3,578 | ) |
| Deferred revenue | | (2,231 | ) |
| Debt | | (5,509 | ) |
| Other liabilities | | (1,171 | ) |
| Total liabilities assumed | | $ | (12,785 | ) |
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| Net assets acquired | | $ | 11,496 |
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The purchase price exceeded the fair value of the net assets acquired by $7,366,000, which was recorded as goodwill.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any revenues or expenses related to the Oblong Industries business on or prior to October 1, 2019 (the Closing Date of the Acquisition). A total of $468,000 of acquisition costs were expensed and included in General and Administrative expenses in the accompanying Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2019.
The preliminary allocation of the purchase price was based upon a valuation for which the estimates and assumptions are subject to change within the measurement period (up to one year from the acquisition date). The final allocation price could differ materially from the preliminary allocation. Any subsequent changes to the purchase price allocation that result in material changes to the Company’s consolidated financial results will be adjusted accordingly.
The consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019 includes $3,167,000 of revenue and net loss of $3,360,000 related to Oblong Industries for the period from October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019. The Company's unaudited pro forma results for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 are summarized in the table below, assuming the Acquisition had occurred on January 1, 2018 (in thousands). These unaudited pro forma results have been prepared for comparative purposes only and do not purport to be indicative of the results of operations which would have actually resulted had the acquisition occurred on January 1, 2018, nor to be indicative of future results of operations. These pro forma results include pro forma adjustments of $1,393,000 and $1,880,000 for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, related to the incremental amortization of Oblong Industries’ intangible assets recorded in connection with the Acquisition.
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| Revenue | | | |
| Glowpoint | $ | 9,660 |
| | $ | 12,557 |
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| Oblong Industries | 15,926 |
| | 17,249 |
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| Total revenue | $ | 25,586 |
| | $ | 29,806 |
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| Net loss | | | |
| Glowpoint | $ | 4,401 |
| | $ | 7,168 |
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| Oblong Industries | 15,795 |
| | 19,734 |
|
| Pro forma net loss | $ | 20,196 |
| | $ | 26,902 |
|
Note 4 - Inventory
Inventory was $1,816,000$1,821,000 and $920,000 as of December 31, 2019,2021 and 2020, respectively, and consisted primarily of equipment related to our Mezzanine™ product offerings, including cameras, tracking hardware, computer equipment, display equipment and amounts related to the Oblong Industries business.our Collaboration Products segment. Inventory consists of finished goods, and was determined using average costs, and was stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value.
The Company periodically performs analyses to identify obsolete or slow-moving inventory, as well as inventory used for trade shows. These items are recorded as a contra-asset, and totaled $261,000 asinventory. As of December 31, 2019.2021 and 2020, reserves for obsolete or slow moving inventory were recorded of $731,000 and $193,000, respectively.
Note 54 - Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets
Prepaid expenses and other current assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Prepaid expenses | $ | 340 | | | $ | 663 | |
| | | |
| Other current assets | 480 | | | 28 | |
| Prepaid software licenses | 261 | | | — | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | $ | 1,081 | | | $ | 691 | |
|
| | | | | | | |
| | December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Other prepaid expenses | $ | 548 |
| | $ | 292 |
|
| Other current assets | 209 |
| | — |
|
| Prepaid software licenses | 208 |
| | — |
|
| Prepaid insurance | — |
| | 255 |
|
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | $ | 965 |
| | $ | 547 |
|
Note 65 - Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consisted of the following (in thousands):
| | | | December 31, | | | | December 31, | | Estimated Useful Life |
| | 2019 | | 2018 | | Estimated Useful Life | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
| Network equipment and software | $ | 6,081 |
| | $ | 6,858 |
| | 3 to 5 Years | Network equipment and software | $ | 4,665 | | | $ | 4,957 | | | 3 to 5 Years |
| Computer equipment and software | 3,100 |
| | 2,354 |
| | 3 to 5 Years | Computer equipment and software | 5,070 | | | $ | 5,686 | | | 3 to 5 Years |
| Leasehold improvements | | Leasehold improvements | 690 | | | $ | 741 | | | (*) |
| Office furniture and equipment | 297 |
| | 164 |
| | 3 to 10 Years | Office furniture and equipment | 92 | | | $ | 175 | | | 3 to 10 Years |
| Leasehold improvements | 112 |
| | 63 |
| | (*) | |
| | 9,590 |
| | 9,439 |
| | | 10,517 | | | 11,559 | | |
| Accumulated depreciation and amortization | (8,274 | ) | | (8,711 | ) | | Accumulated depreciation and amortization | (10,358) | | | (10,986) | | |
| Property and equipment, net | $ | 1,316 |
| | $ | 728 |
| | Property and equipment, net | $ | 159 | | | $ | 573 | | |
(*) – Amortized over the shorter period of the estimated useful life (five years) or the lease term.
In connection with the acquisition of Oblong Industries, the Company recorded $1,221,000 of property and equipment on October 1, 2019. Related depreciation and amortization expense for the consolidated entities was $614,000$365,000 and $628,000$708,000 for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018,December 31, 2020, respectively.
For the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, the Company recorded asset impairment charges on property and equipmentdisposed of $63,000 and $138,000, which pertained primarily tofixed assets no longer used in the business. These charges are recognized as “Impairment Charges” on our Consolidated Statementsbusiness of Operations. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company disposed of fixed assets of $1,115,000,$1,092,000 and $3,438,000, respectively, and the corresponding accumulated depreciation of $1,052,000, which resulted$993,000 and $3,287,000, respectively, for net disposals of $99,000 and $151,000, respectively. The Company received proceeds in a lossrelation to these disposals of $1,000 and $7,000, for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively resulting in losses on disposal of $63,000.$98,000 and $144,000, respectively. These losses are recorded as a component of “Impairment Charges” on the Company’s consolidated Statements of Operations.
Note 76 - Goodwill
As of December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, goodwill was $7,907,000 and $2,795,000, respectively. As of December 31, 2019,$7,367,000. This goodwill was comprised of (i) $7,366,000 recorded in connection with the October 1, 2019 acquisition of Oblong Industries and (ii) $541,000 related to the Glowpoint reporting unit as discussed below.Industries.
We test goodwill for impairment on an annual basis on September 30th of each year, or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change indicating that the fair value of the goodwill may be below its carrying amount. Prior to the acquisition of Oblong Industries on October 1, 2019, Glowpoint operatedThe Company operates 2 reporting segments, as a single reporting unit and used its market capitalization todescribed above. To determine the fair value of theeach reporting unit as of each test date. In order to determinefor the market capitalization, the Company used the trailing 20-day volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of its stock as of each period end. Following the acquisition of Oblong Industries, the Company operated two reporting units, Glowpoint and Oblong Industries. As of each June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2019, we considered the declines in Glowpoint revenue and/or stock price to be triggering events for interim goodwill impairment tests. For the Glowpoint goodwill impairment test as of December 31, 2019, to determine the fair value of the reporting unit,tests, we used ana weighted average of the discounted cash flow method and a market-based method (multiples of revenue for comparable companies).methods.
For the GlowpointManaged Services reporting unit, we recorded an impairment charge on goodwill impairment charges of $2,254,000 and $4,955,000 in the years ended December$541,000 at March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively,2020, as the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeded its fair value on the applicable test dates. These charges aredate. This charge is recognized as a component of “Impairment Charges” on our Consolidatedconsolidated Statements of Operations. The activity inOperations, and reduced goodwill for this reporting unit to zero.
For the Collaboration Products reporting unit, the fair value of this reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount on our annual testing dates and as of December 31, 2021, therefore no impairment charges were required during the years ended
December 31, 20192021 and 2018 is shown2020. During the three months ended December 31, 2021, we considered the decline in the following table ($ in thousands):
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| Goodwill | Glowpoint | | Oblong Industries | | Total |
| Balance 1/1/2018 | $ | 7,750 |
| | $ | — |
| | $ | 7,750 |
|
| Impairment | (4,955 | ) | | — |
| | (4,955 | ) |
| Balance 12/31/2018 | 2,795 |
| | — |
| | 2,795 |
|
| Impairment | (2,254 | ) | | — |
| | (2,254 | ) |
| Acquisition | — |
| | 7,366 |
| | 7,366 |
|
| Balance 12/31/2019 | $ | 541 |
| | $ | 7,366 |
| | $ | 7,907 |
|
our stock price to be a triggering event for an interim goodwill impairment test as of December 31, 2021. In the event we experience futurefurther declines in our revenue, cash flows and/or stock price, this may give rise to a triggering event that may require the Company to record additional impairment charges on goodwill.
The activity in goodwill during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 is shown in the future.following table ($ in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Goodwill | Managed Services | | Collaboration Products | | Total |
| Balance January 1, 2020 | $ | 541 | | | $ | 7,367 | | | $ | 7,908 | |
| | | | | |
| Impairment | (541) | | | — | | | (541) | |
| Balance December 31, 2020 | — | | | 7,367 | | | 7,367 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| Balance December 31, 2021 | $ | — | | | $ | 7,367 | | | $ | 7,367 | |
Note 87 - Intangible Assets
The following table presents the components of net intangible assets (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| As of December 31, 2021 | | As of December 31, 2020 |
| | Gross Carrying Amount | | Accumulated Amortization | | Net Carrying Amount | | Gross Carrying Amount | | Accumulated Amortization | | Net Carrying Amount |
| Managed Services | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Affiliate network | $ | 994 | | | $ | (994) | | | $ | — | | | $ | 994 | | | $ | (735) | | | $ | 259 | |
| Trademarks | 548 | | | (548) | | | — | | | 548 | | | (548) | | | — | |
| Subtotal | 1,542 | | | (1,542) | | | — | | | 1,542 | | | (1,283) | | | 259 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Collaboration Products | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Developed technology | 10,060 | | | (4,537) | | | 5,523 | | | 10,060 | | | (2,520) | | | 7,540 | |
| Trade names | 2,410 | | | (542) | | | 1,868 | | | 2,410 | | | (302) | | | 2,108 | |
| Distributor relationships | 310 | | | (139) | | | 171 | | | 310 | | | (77) | | | 233 | |
| Subtotal | 12,780 | | | (5,218) | | | 7,562 | | | 12,780 | | | (2,899) | | | 9,881 | |
| Total | $ | 14,322 | | | $ | (6,760) | | | $ | 7,562 | | | $ | 14,322 | | | $ | (4,182) | | | $ | 10,140 | |
At each reporting period, we determine if there was a triggering event that may result in an impairment of our intangible assets.
Collaboration Products Reportable Segment
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we considered the decline in revenue for Collaboration Products to be a triggering event for a recoverability test of intangible assets for this reporting unit. Based on the corresponding recoverability tests of Collaboration Products’ intangible assets, we determined no impairment charges were required for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Managed Services Reportable Segment
During the year ended December 31, 2021, our Managed Services segment stopped offering video meeting suites (“VMS”) services. VMS services were a component of our video collaboration services revenue stream and contributed to the cash flows relating to the affiliate network intangible asset. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we identified the cessation of our VMS services to be a triggering event for a recoverability test of the affiliate network intangible asset. Based on the corresponding recoverability test, we deemed the affiliate network intangible asset to have no remaining value. Therefore, we recorded an impairment charge of $207,000 for the year ended December 31, 2021.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | As of December 31, 2019 | | As of December 31, 2018 |
| | Gross Carrying Amount | | Accumulated Amortization | | Net Carrying Amount | | Gross Carrying Amount | | Accumulated Amortization | | Net Carrying Amount |
| Glowpoint | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Customer Relationships | $ | 4,335 |
| | $ | (4,335 | ) | | $ | — |
| | $ | 4,335 |
| | $ | (4,335 | ) | | $ | — |
|
| Affiliate network | 994 |
| | (666 | ) | | 328 |
| | 994 |
| | (597 | ) | | 397 |
|
| Trademarks | 548 |
| | (504 | ) | | 44 |
| | 548 |
| | (446 | ) | | 102 |
|
| Subtotal | 5,877 |
| | (5,505 | ) | | 372 |
| | 5,877 |
| | (5,378 | ) | | 499 |
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Oblong Industries | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Developed technology | 10,060 |
| | (504 | ) | | 9,556 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Trade names | 2,410 |
| | (60 | ) | | 2,350 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Distributor relationships | 310 |
| | (16 | ) | | 294 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Subtotal | 12,780 |
| | (580 | ) | | 12,200 |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Total | $ | 18,657 |
| | $ | (6,085 | ) | | $ | 12,572 |
| | $ | 5,877 |
| | $ | (5,378 | ) | | $ | 499 |
|
Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which range from five years to twelve years in accordance with ASC Topic 350.
The weighted average lives for the components of intangible assets are as follows:
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| | | | |
GlowpointCollaboration Products | Life |
Affiliate networkDeveloped technology | 12 Years5 years |
TrademarksTrade names | 8 Years10 years |
| |
Oblong Industries | |
Developed technology | 5 Years |
Trade names | 10 Years |
| Distributor relationships | 5 Yearsyears |
Related amortization expense was $707,000$2,371,000 and $127,000$2,432,000 for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, respectively. Amortization expense for each of the next five succeeding years will be as follows (in thousands):
| | | 2020 | $ | 2,429 |
| |
| 2021 | 2,386 |
| |
| 2022 | 2,386 |
| 2022 | $ | 2,317 | |
| 2023 | 2,386 |
| 2023 | 2,309 | |
| 2024 | 1,850 |
| 2024 | 1,792 | |
| 2025 | | 2025 | 241 | |
| 2026 | | 2026 | 241 | |
| Thereafter | 1,135 |
| Thereafter | 662 | |
| Total | $ | 12,572 |
| Total | $ | 7,562 | |
Note 98 - Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Compensation costs | $ | 551 | | | $ | 411 | |
| Taxes and regulatory fees | 92 | | | 137 | |
| Customer deposits | 145 | | | 127 | |
| Professional fees | 69 | | | 236 | |
| Accrued dividends on Series A-2 Preferred Stock | — | | | 4 | |
| Other accrued expenses and liabilities | 102 | | | 286 | |
| $ | 959 | | | $ | 1,201 | |
Note 9 - Operating Leases and Right-of-Use Assets
We lease 3 facilities in Los Angeles, California, 1 facility in Dallas, Texas, and 1 facility in Austin, Texas, all providing office space. We also lease a facility in City of Industry, California, providing warehouse space. These leases expire between 2022 and 2024. During 2021, and through the date of this filing, we exited leases in Munich, Germany; Los Altos, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Although subject to COVID restrictions, we currently occupy 2 of the facilities in Los Angeles and the warehouse space in City of Industry; we have subleases in place for the third Los Angeles property and the Dallas property. With the exception of these spaces described above, we currently operate out of remote employment sites with a remote office located at 25587 Conifer Road, Suite 105-231, Conifer, Colorado 80433.
Lease expenses, net of common charges and sublet proceeds, for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $778,000 and $997,000, respectively.
The following provides balance sheet information related to leases as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | December 31, |
| | | 2021 | | 2020 |
| Assets | | | | |
| Operating lease, right-of-use asset, net | | $ | 659 | | | $ | 903 | |
| | | | | |
| Liabilities | | | | |
| Current portion of operating lease liabilities | | $ | 492 | | | $ | 830 | |
| Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion | | 236 | | | 602 | |
| Total operating lease liabilities | | $ | 728 | | | $ | 1,432 | |
The following table summarizes the future undiscounted cash payments reconciled to the lease liability (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | |
| Year Ending December 31, | | |
| 2022 | | $ | 519 | |
| 2023 | | 225 | |
| 2024 | | 17 | |
| Total lease payments | | $ | 761 | |
| Effect of discounting | | (33) | |
| Total lease liability | | $ | 728 | |
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we entered into 1 new operating lease, modified 1 operating lease, and terminated 2 operating leases. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company entered into 1 new operating lease, terminated 6 operating leases, and recorded aggregate impairment charges of $465,000 on 2 right-of-use assets. The following table provides a reconciliation of activity for our right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Right-of-Use Asset | | Operating Lease Liability |
| Balance at December 31, 2019 | | $ | 3,117 | | | $ | 3,314 | |
| Additions | | 116 | | | 116 | |
| Terminations and Modifications | | (864) | | | (860) | |
| Amortizations and Reductions | | (1,001) | | | (1,138) | |
| Impairment Charges | | (465) | | | — | |
| Balance at December 31, 2020 | | 903 | | | 1,432 | |
| Additions | | 60 | | | 60 | |
| Terminations and Modifications | | 192 | | | 156 | |
| Amortizations and Reductions | | (496) | | | (920) | |
| | | | |
| Balance at December 31, 2021 | | $ | 659 | | | $ | 728 | |
The ROU assets and lease liabilities are recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020.
During the December 31, 2021, the Company entered into 1 new lease, in Austin Texas, for office space. The new lease commenced in December 2021, has rent payments commencing on February 1, 2022, and has a term of 12 months. The new lease resulted in an addition to ROU Assets, and corresponding increase to lease liability, of $60,000.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company exited 2 of its leases, 1 in Los Altos, California and one in Munich, Germany. The Los Altos lease expired in the first quarter of 2021, and the Company elected to not renew the lease, and the Munich lease was exited in second quarter 2021, when the Company negotiated early termination of the lease.
In June 2021, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with the landlord of our Munich, Germany office space to exit the lease early in exchange for €125,000. At the time of the settlement, the remaining liability was €316,000, resulting in a
|
| | | | | | | |
| | December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Accrued compensation costs | $ | 810 |
| | $ | 189 |
|
| Other accrued expenses and liabilities | 843 |
| | 193 |
|
| Accrued dividends on Series A-2 Preferred Stock | 99 |
| | 71 |
|
| Other liabilities | — |
| | — |
|
| Accrued professional fees | — |
| | 246 |
|
| Accrued sales taxes and regulatory fees | — |
| | 168 |
|
| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | $ | 1,752 |
| | $ | 867 |
|
On December 31, 2020, the Company determined it was not going to be able to sublet the remainder of the Boston property and impaired the ROU asset value of the lease. In February 2022, this lease expired and was exited at that time.
Note 10 - Debt
Debt consisted of the following (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| PPP Loan Principal | $ | — | | | $ | 2,417,000 | |
| Less: current portion of long-term debt | — | | | 2,014,000 | |
| Long-term debt, net of current portion | $ | — | | | $ | 403,000 | |
|
| | | | | | | |
| | December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Loan obligations | $ | 5,609 |
| | $ | — |
|
| Unamortized debt discounts | (102 | ) | | — |
|
| Net carrying value | 5,507 |
| | — |
|
| Less: current maturities, net of debt discount | (2,664 | ) | | — |
|
| Long-term obligations, net of current maturities and debt discount | $ | 2,843 |
| | $ | — |
|
Silicon Valley Bank Loan Agreement and Warrant
On October 1, 2019,April 10, 2020 (the “Origination Date”), the Company received $2,417,000 in connection withaggregate loan proceeds (the “PPP Loan”) from MidFirst Bank (the “Lender”) pursuant to the Acquisition of Oblong Industries,Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The PPP Loan was evidenced by a Promissory Note (the “Note”), dated April 10, 2020, by and between the Company and Oblong Industries, as borrowers, and SVB, as lender, executed an amendmentthe Lender. Subject to the SVBterms of the Note, the PPP Loan Agreement. On October 24, 2019, GP Communications joined the SVB Loan Agreement as an additional co-borrower. The SVB Loan Agreement provides for a term loan facility of approximately $5,247,000, (the “Loan”), all of which is outstanding at December 31, 2019. The SVB Loan Agreement provides that interest-only payments will be due through March 31, 2020, after which interest payments and equal monthly principal payments of $291,500 will be payable in order to fully repay the Loan as of September 1, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”). The Loan accruesbore interest at a fixed rate equalof one percent (1.0%) per annum. The PPP Loan was unsecured and guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The PPP provided for forgiveness of up to the Prime Rate (as definedfull amount borrowed as long as the Company uses the loan proceeds disbursement for eligible purposes as described in the SVBCARES Act and related guidance. On July 28, 2021, the Company received notice that the PPP Loan Agreement) plus 200 basis points (for a total of 6.75% ashad been forgiven in its entirety.
As of December 31, 2019).
In connection with its execution2020, the Company accounted for payments that are due within 12 months of the amended SVB Loan Agreementbalance sheet date as current liabilities and payments due thereafter as non-current liabilities. As of December 31, 2021, there is no remaining principal balance or accrued interest on October 1, 2019,the Note due to the forgiveness of the Note. The Company recognized a gain on debt extinguishment of $2,448,000 during the year ended December 31, 2021, comprised of $2,417,000 of Note principal and $31,000 of accrued interest as of the date of forgiveness. This gain is recorded as a “Gain on extinguishment of debt” in our consolidated Statement of Operations.
Note 11 - Capital Stock
Common Stock
On February 11, 2021, the Company, i) agreedacting pursuant to pay SVB a feeauthorization from its Board of $100,000 on April 1, 2020Directors, determined to voluntarily withdraw the listing of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Deferral Fee”“Common Stock”), from the NYSE American Stock Exchange (the “NYSE American”) and ii)transfer such listing to The Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”). The Company’s listing and trading of its Common Stock on the NYSE American ended at market close on February 11, 2021, and trading began on Nasdaq at market open on February 12, 2021, and is continuing to trade under the ticker symbol “OBLG”. As of December 31, 2021 we had 150,000,000 shares of our $0.0001 par value Common Stock authorized, with 30,929,331 and 30,816,048 shares of issued and outstanding, respectively.
The following table provides a warrantsummary of Common Stock activity for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| Issued Shares as of December 31, 2019 | | 5,267 | |
| | |
| Less Treasury Shares: | | 105 | |
| | |
| Outstanding Shares as of December 31, 2019 | | 5,162 | |
| | |
| Issuances from Private Placements | | 2,293 | |
| Issuances from Preferred Stock Conversions | | 158 | |
| Issuances related to Warrants | | 72 | |
| Issuances related to Stock Compensation | | 31 | |
| Forfeitures of Restricted Stock Awards | | (9) | |
| Issuance of shares for fees | | 50 | |
| Issued Shares as of December 31, 2020 | | 7,862 | |
| | |
| Less Treasury Shares: | | 113 | |
| | |
| Outstanding Shares as of December 31, 2020 | | 7,749 | |
| | |
| Issuances from Private Placements | | 4,000 | |
| Issuances from Preferred Stock Conversions | | 18,846 | |
| Issuances related to Stock Compensation | | 200 | |
| Issuance of shares for fees | | 21 | |
| Issued Shares as of December 31, 2021 | | 30,929 | |
| | |
| Less Treasury Shares: | | 113 | |
| | |
| Outstanding Shares as of December 31, 2021 | | 30,816 | |
During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, 18,846,411 and 158,333 shares of the Company’s Common stock were issued in relation to SVB that entitles SVBpreferred stock conversions, respectively, and 200,000 and 30,834 shares were issued as stock-based compensation, respectively. See Note 12 - Preferred Stock and Note 13 - Stock Based Compensation for further information.
Issuance for Professional Service Fees
On December 10, 2020, the Company issued 50,000 shares of Common Stock as payment for services, with a fair value equal to $348,000, related to a financial advisory agreement entered into on December 1, 2020.
On January 21, 2021, the Company issued 21,008 shares of Common Stock as payment for services, with a fair value equal to $100,000, related to a financial advisory agreement entered into on January 15, 2021.
During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded stock-based professional services expense of $390,000 and $58,000, respectively, relating to the issuance of the shares above, which is included as a component of general and administrative expense in the accompanying consolidated Statements of Operations.
Issuance Pursuant to Equity Financing
On June 30, 2021, the Company closed on a concurrent public offering of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock, Series A Warrants to purchase 72,3941,000,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.01$4.00 per share, (the “SVB Warrant”).and private placement of Series B Warrants to purchase 3,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $4.40 per share for gross proceeds of $12,400,000. Issuance costs for this transaction were $896,000, resulting in net proceeds of $11,504,000.
Warrants
On October 21, 2020, the Company issued warrants to purchase up to 521,500 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a securities purchase agreement with certain accredited investors. The SVBWarrants have a term of 2 years, are initially exercisable at $4.08 per share and are subject to cashless exercise if, at the time of exercise, the Warrant has a ten (10) year term.Shares are not subject to an effective resale registration statement. The Warrants are also subject to adjustment in the event of (i) stock splits and dividends, (ii) subsequent rights offerings, (iii) pro-rata distributions, and (iv) certain fundamental transactions, including but not limited to the sale of the Company, business combinations, and reorganizations. The Warrants do not have any price protection or price reset
provisions with respect to future issuances of securities. The fair value of the SVB WarrantWarrants was recorded to additional paid-in capital during the year ended December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2021, no warrants had been exercised.
On December 6, 2020, the Company issued warrants to purchase up to 625,000 shares of Common Stock pursuant to a securities purchase agreement with certain accredited investors. The Warrants have a term of 2 years, are initially exercisable at $5.49 per share and was determinedare subject to be $72,000 usingcashless exercise if, at the Black-Scholes model, withtime of exercise, the following weighted-average assumptions:Warrant Shares are not subject to an effective resale registration statement. The Warrants are also subject to adjustment in the event of (i) risk-free interest rate of 1.5%,stock splits and dividends, (ii) subsequent rights offerings, (iii) expected volatility of 143%pro-rata distributions, and (iv) expected term of ten years. The total obligations undercertain fundamental transactions, including but not limited to the SVB Loan Agreement are $5,609,000, which are comprised of $5,247,000 for the term loan, the Deferral Fee and the Maturity Fee of $262,000 that was assumed on October 1, 2019 as partsale of the acquisition.Company, business combinations, and reorganizations. The Deferral Fee, theWarrants do not have any price protection or price reset provisions with respect to future issuances of securities. The fair value of the SVB Warrant, and $20,000 of debt issuance costs totaled $192,000 andWarrants was recorded asto additional paid-in capital during the year ended December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2021, no warrants had been exercised.
On June 30, 2021, the Company issued Series A Warrants to purchase up to 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock, and Series B Warrants to purchase up to 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock, pursuant to a discountsecurities purchase agreement with certain accredited investors. The Series A Warrants had an original term of 6 months and are initially exercisable at $4.00 per share. The Series B Warrants have a term of 3 years, commencing six months and one day from the date of issuance, and are initially exercisable at $4.40 per share. All of the warrants are subject to cashless exercise if, at the time of exercise, the Warrant Shares are not subject to an effective resale registration statement. The Warrants are also subject to adjustment in the event of (i) stock splits and dividends, (ii) subsequent rights offerings, (iii) pro-rata distributions, and (iv) certain fundamental transactions, including but not limited to the debt. This debt discount is being amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the termsale of the debt. Company, business combinations, and reorganizations. The Warrants do not have any price protection or price reset provisions with respect to future issuances of securities. The fair value of the Series A and B Warrants was recorded to additional paid-in capital during the year ended December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, no warrants had been exercised.
On December 31, 2021, the Company agreed with all the holders of Series A Warrants to amend the terms of the Series A Warrants to extend the Termination Date from January 4, 2022 to January 4, 2023. All other terms of the Series A Warrants will remain in full force and effect. The modification resulted in an incremental value adjustment, and deemed dividend, of $37,000, which was recorded to additional paid in capital on December 31, 2021.
Warrant activity for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 is presented below:
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| | Outstanding |
| | Number of Warrants | | Weighted Average Exercise Price |
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| Warrants outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2019 | | 72,238 | | | 0.01 | |
| Granted | | 1,146,500 | | | 4.85 | |
| Exercised | | (72,238) | | | 0.01 | |
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| Warrants outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2020 | | 1,146,500 | | | $ | 4.85 | |
| Granted | | 4,000,000 | | | $ | 4.30 | |
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| Warrants outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2021 | | 5,146,500 | | | $ | 4.85 | |
Treasury Shares
The Company maintains Treasury Stock for the Common Stock shares bought back by the Company when withholding shares to cover taxes on Stock Compensation transactions, or when purchasing shares related to the Stock Repurchase Program discussed below. The following table shows the activity for Treasury Stock during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 (in thousands):
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| | Shares | | Value |
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| Treasury Shares as of December 31, 2019 | | 105 | | | $ | (165) | |
| Purchases to cover stock compensation taxes | | 8 | | | $ | (16) | |
| | | | |
| Treasury Shares as of December 31, 2020 | | 113 | | | $ | (181) | |
| Treasury Shares as of December 31, 2021 | | 113 | | | $ | (181) | |
During the year ended December 31, 2019,2020, the Company amortized $90,000 of the debt discount, which is recorded in “Interest and Other Expense, Net” on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The remaining unamortized debt discount as of December 31, 2019 is $102,000.
The obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement are secured by substantially all of the assets of Oblong and its subsidiaries. The SVB Loan Agreement contains certain restrictions and covenants, which, among other things, subject to certain exceptions, restrict the Company’s ability to dispose of any portion of its business or property, engage in certain material changes to its business, enter into a merger, incur additional debt or make guarantees, make distributions or create liens or other encumbrances, or enter into related party transactions outside of the ordinary course of business. The SVB Loan Agreement also contains customary events of default, including failure to pay any principal or interest when due, failure to perform or observe covenants, breaches of representations and warranties, certain cross defaults, certain bankruptcy related events, monetary judgments defaults and the Company’s de-listing from the NYSE American without a listing of its Common Stock on another nationally recognized stock
exchange. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, the outstanding obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement may be accelerated and become immediately due and payable. As of December 31, 2019, the Company was in compliance with all debt covenants of the SVB Loan Agreement.
Western Alliance Bank Business Financing Agreement and Super G Loan Agreement and Warrant
On July 31, 2017, the Company entered into a Business Financing Agreement with Western Alliance Bank, as lender (the “Western Alliance Bank Loan Agreement”). The Western Alliance Bank Loan Agreement provided the Company with up to a total of $1,500,000 of revolving loans (the “A/R Revolver”). During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company made total principal payments of $800,000 on the A/R Revolver. On May 8, 2018, the Company terminated the Western Alliance Bank Loan Agreement. As of December 31, 2018, there are no outstanding obligations related to the Western Alliance Bank Loan Agreement.
On July 31, 2017, the Company and GP Communications entered into a Business Loan and Security Agreement with Super G Capital, LLC (“Super G”), as lender (the “Super G Loan Agreement”) and received a term loan from Super G in an amount equal to $1,100,000 (the “Super G Loan”). On July 31, 2017, the Company also issued a warrant that entitled Super G to purchase 550,000repurchased 7,998 shares of the Company’s Common Stock at an exercise price(and recorded such shares in treasury stock) from employees to satisfy $16,000 of $3.00 per share (the “Super G Warrant”). On January 26, 2018,minimum statutory tax withholding requirements relating to the Company and Super G entered into a payoff letter that terminated the Super G Loan Agreement and the Super G Warrant in exchange for total cash payments from the Companyvesting of $1,269,000 (the “Super G Payoff”). The total obligations to Super G at the timestock awards, respectively. No shares of the Super G Payoff was $1,434,000, including $1,032,000 of principal, accrued and remaining interest due over the term of the Super G Loan, and the Super G Warrant Liability. Therefore, the Company recorded a gain on extinguishment of the debt of $165,000, which is recorded in “Interest and Other Expense, Net” on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. In connection with the Super G Payoff, the related warrant liability and corresponding debt discountCompany’s Common Stock were eliminatedrepurchased during the year ended December 31, 2018. As of December 31, 2018, there are no outstanding obligations related to the Super G Loan.2021.
The total debt discount on the Western Alliance Bank A/R Revolver and Super G Loan was $339,000, comprised of $174,000 of debt issuance costs and $165,000 related to the Super G Warrant. This debt discount was being amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the debt. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company amortized $70,000 of the debt discount, which is recorded in “Interest and Other Expense, Net” on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. As of December 31, 2018, there was no remaining unamortized debt discount related to these loans.
Note 11 - Reverse Stock Split
On April 17, 2019, the Company filed an amendment to its certificate of incorporation that effected a one-for-ten reverse stock split of the Company's issued and outstanding shares of common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Reverse Stock Split did not affect the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock or the par value of a share of the Company’s common stock. Proportionate adjustments were made to the per share exercise or conversion price and the number of shares issuable upon the exercise or conversion of all outstanding options and other convertible or exchangeable securities, including issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s convertible preferred stock. All shares of common stock, as well as the per share exercise or conversion price and the number of shares issuable upon the exercise or conversion of all outstanding options and other convertible or exchangeable securities, including issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s convertible preferred stock, presented in this Report have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to this Reverse Stock Split.
Note 12 - Stock Repurchase Program
On July 21, 2018, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program (the “Stock Repurchase Program”) granting the Company authority to repurchase up to $750,000 of the Company’s Common Stock. Under the Company’s Stock Repurchase Program, repurchases of Common Stock may be funded using the Company’s existing cash balance and/or future cash flows through repurchases made in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions, or pursuant to other means determined by the Company, in each case as permitted by securities laws and other legal requirements. The number of shares purchased under the Stock Repurchase Program and the timing of any purchases may be based on many factors, including the level of the Company’s available cash, general business conditions, and the pricing of the Common Stock. The Stock Repurchase Program does not obligate the Company to acquire a specific number of shares and may be suspended, modified, or terminated at any time. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company repurchased 23 shares of Common Stock at an aggregate cost of $30, including commissions and fees. All shares of Common Stock repurchased under the Stock Repurchase Program are recorded as treasury stock. The Stock Repurchase Program does not have an expiration date. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had $673,000 remaining under the Stock Repurchase Program.
Note 13 - Preferred Stock
Our Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the issuance of up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock. As of December 31, 2019, there were: (i) 1002021 we had 1,938,250 designated shares of Perpetual Series B-1 Preferred Stock authorizedpreferred stock and no shares of preferred stock issued or outstanding; (ii) 7,500and outstanding. As of December 31, 2020, we had 1,829,582 shares of Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock authorized and 32 shares issued and outstanding (the “Series A-2 Preferred Stock”); (iii) 2,800 shares of 0% Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series B Preferred Stock”) authorized and no shares issued and outstanding; (iv) 1,750 shares of 0% Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series C Preferred Stock”) authorized and 475 shares issued and outstanding; (v) 4,000 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock authorized and no shares issued or outstanding; (vi) 100 shares of Perpetual Series B Preferred Stock authorized and no shares issued or outstanding; (vii) 1,750,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock authorized and 1,734,901 shares issued and outstanding; and (viii) 175,000 shares of 6.0% Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series E Preferred Stock”) authorized and 131,579 shares issued andpreferred stock outstanding.
Series A-2 Preferred Stock
As of December 31, 2020, there were 45 shares of Series A-2 Preferred Stock issued and outstanding. Each share of Series A-2 Preferred Stock hashad a stated value of $7,500 per share (the “A-2 Stated Value”), a liquidation preference equal to the Series A-2 Stated Value, and iswas convertible at the holder’s election into common stock at a conversion price per share of $21.60 as of December 31, 2019.$16.11. Therefore, each share of Series A-2 Preferred Stock iswas convertible into 347466 shares of common stock, asfor an aggregate of December 31, 2019. The conversion price is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence20,954 shares of certain events set forth in our Certificate of Incorporation.common stock.
The Series A-2 Preferred Stock is subordinate to the Series B-1 Preferred Stock and Series C-1 Preferred Stock butwas senior to all otheroutstanding classes of the Company’s equity has weighted average anti-dilution protection and effective January 1, 2013,was entitled to cumulative dividends at a rate of 5%5.0% per annum, payable quarterly, based on the Series A-2 Stated Value and payable at the option of the holder in cash or through the issuance of a number of additional shares of Series A-2 Preferred Stock with an aggregate liquidation preference equal to the dividend amount payable on the applicable dividend payment date.annum. As of December 31, 2019 and 2018,2020, the Company hashad recorded $99,000 and $82,000, respectively,$4,000 in accrued dividends on the accompanying Consolidatedconsolidated Balance Sheets related to the Series A-2 Preferred Stock outstanding. TheDuring the year ended December 31, 2021, an additional $1,000 dividend was recorded.
On January 28, 2021, the Company at its option, may redeem all or a portionentered into an agreement with the holder of the Series A-2 Preferred Stock in cash at a price per share of $8,250 (equal to $7,500 per share multiplied by 110%) plus all accrued and unpaid dividends.
Series B Preferred Stock
In October 2017convert the Company sold 2,800 shares of its Series B Preferred Stock. The shares of Series B Preferred Stock were sold at a price equal to their stated value of $1,000 per share and were convertibleall outstanding shares of the Series A-2 Preferred Stock, 45 shares, into 84,292 shares of the Company’s common stock, at a negotiated conversion price of $2.80$4.00 per share. Duringshare, after taking into consideration accrued and unpaid dividends. The incremental cost of inducing the years ended December 31, 2019conversion was approximately $300,000 and 2018, 75 and 375 shares of Series B Preferred Stock were convertedwas treated similar to 26,786 and 133,929 shares ofa preferred dividend, increasing the Company’snet loss attributable to common stock, respectively. As of December 31, 2019, no shares of Series B Preferred Stock remain issued and outstanding.stockholders.
Series CD and E Preferred Stock
On January 25, 2018, the Company closed a registered direct offering of 1,750 shares of its Series C Preferred Stock for total gross proceeds to the Company of $1,750,000. The shares of Series C Preferred Stock were sold at a price equal to their stated value of $1,000 per share and are convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $3.00 per share. The net proceeds to us from the sale of our securities in this offering were $1,527,000 after deducting offering expenses paid by us (the “Series C Offering”). During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, 50 and 1,225 shares of Series C Preferred Stock were converted to 16,667 and 408,333 shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively. As of December 31, 2019, 475 shares of Series C Preferred Stock remain issued and outstanding. As of the filing of this Report, there are 325 shares, or $325,000 of stated value, of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding. See Note 21 - Subsequent Events for more information.
The Company has agreed that it will not enter into certain “fundamental transactions,” including transactions constituting a change of control of the Company, certain reorganization transactions or a sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, except as pursuant to written agreements in form and substance satisfactory to the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock including the Lead Investor and on terms with respect to the Series C Preferred Stock as set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Rights, Powers, Preferences, Privileges and Restrictions of the Series C Preferred Stock.
In accordance with ASC Topic 815, we evaluated whether our convertible preferred stock contains provisions that protect holders from declines in our stock price or otherwise couldresult in modification of the exercise price and/or shares to be issued under the respective preferred stock agreements based on a variable that is not an input to the fairvalue of a “fixed-for-fixed” option and require a derivative liability. The Company determined no derivative liability is required under ASC Topic 815 with respect to our convertible preferred stock. A contingent beneficial conversion amount is required to be calculated and recognized when and if the adjusted $21.60 conversion price of the Series A-2 Preferred Stock is adjusted to reflect a down round stock
issuance that reduces the conversion price below the $11.16 fair value of the common stock on the issuance date of the Series A-2 Preferred Stock.
Series D Preferred Stock
In connection with the Acquisition (see Note 3 - Oblong Industries Acquisition),acquisition, the Company issued an aggregate of 1,686,659 shares of Series D Preferred Stock and an aggregate of 49,967 restricted shares of Series D Preferred Stock (“Restricted Series D Preferred Stock”), the latter of which arewere subject to vesting over a two-year period following the Closing Date of the Acquisition. Each share of Series D Preferred Stock is automatically convertible into a number of shares of the Company’s common stock equal to the accrued value of the share (initially $28.50), plus any accrued dividends thereon, divided by the Conversion Price (initially $2.85 per share, subject to specified adjustments) upon the completion of both (i) approval of such conversion by the Company’s stockholders (which occurred on December 19, 2019); and (ii) the receipt of all required authorizations and approval of a new listing application for the combined organization from the NYSE American.Date.
Pursuant to the terms of the Series D Certificate of Designations, each share of Series D Preferred Stock iswas entitled to receive an annual dividend equal to 6.0%6% of its then-existing Accrued Value per annum, commencing on the first anniversary of the issuance of the Series D Preferred Stock (or October 1, 2020). Prior to the first anniversary of the issuance of the Series D Preferred Stock no dividends will accrue on such stock. Dividends arewere cumulative and accrueaccrued daily in arrears. If the Company’s Board of Directors does not declare any applicable dividend payment in cash, the Accrued ValueThe accrued value of the Series D Preferred Stock will bewas increased by the amount of such dividend payment. Asdividends from October 1, 2020 through the date of conversion as described below.
During the years ended December 31, 2019, no dividends have been accrued.
2021 and 2020, 81 and 28,618 of Restricted Series ED Preferred Stock were forfeited, respectively, and, in 2021, 855 shares of Series D Preferred Stock were surrendered to cover the taxes on vesting shares.
On October 1, 2019, Oblong entered into a Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the investors party thereto, who, prior to the closing of the Acquisition, were stockholders of Oblong Industries (the “Purchasers”), relating to the offer and sale by the Company in a private placement (the “Offering”) of up to 131,579 shares of its Series E Preferred Stock at a price of $28.50 per share. At an initial closing on October 1, 2019 and a subsequent closing on December 18, 2019, theThe Company sold a total of 131,579 shares of Series E Preferred Stock for net proceeds of approximately $3,750,000. The 131,579 shares of Series E Preferred Stock issued by the Company in the Series E Financing havehad an aggregate Accrued Value of $3,750,000 and upon their conversion willwould convert at a conversion price of $2.85 per share into 1,315,790 common shares. Like the Series D Preferred Stock, each share of Series E Preferred Stock is automatically convertible into common stock upon the receipt of all required authorizations and approval of a new listing application for the combined organization from the NYSE American.
Pursuant to the terms of the Series E Certificate of Designations, each share of Series E Preferred Stock iswas entitled to receive an annual dividend equal to 6.0% of its then-existing Accrued Value per annum, commencing on the first anniversary of the issuance of the Series E Preferred Stock (or October 1, 2020 or December 18, 2020, as applicable). Prior to the first anniversary of the issuance of the Series E Preferred Stock no dividends will accrueaccrued on such stock. Dividends arewere cumulative and accrue daily in arrears. If the Company’s Board of Directors does not declare any applicable dividend payment in cash, the Accrued ValueThe accrued value of the Series E Preferred Stock will bewas increased by the amount of such dividend payment. As of December 31, 2019, no dividends have been accrued.
In connection with the Purchase Agreement, the Company executed a Registration Rights Agreement, datedfrom October 1, 2019 (the “Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to2020 through the Rights Agreement, among other things,date of conversion as described below.
The terms of the Company has provided the Purchasers with certain rights to require it to file and maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement with respect to the re-sale of shares of Common Stock underlying the shares of Series D Preferred Stock issued in the Oblong Transaction and Series E Preferred Stock sold in the Series E Financing.
If theCompany’s Series D and Series E Preferred Stock had beenprovided that such shares were automatically convertible into a number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock equal to the accrued value of the preferred shares (initially $28.50), plus any accrued dividends thereon, divided by the conversion price (initially $2.85 per share, subject to specified adjustments) upon the completion of both (i) approval of such conversion by the Company’s stockholders entitled to vote thereon (which occurred on December 19, 2019); and (ii) the receipt of all required authorizations and approval of a new listing application for the Company following the Company’s October 2019 acquisition of Oblong Industries, Inc. from the NYSE American or any such other exchange upon which the Company’s securities are then listed for trading. The Company determined that this conversion condition was completed in its entirety, and the Series D and E Preferred Stock automatically converted to common stock as of December 31, 2019, 17,349,010 and 1,315,790 shares of commonCommon Stock pursuant to their terms, effective upon the commencement of trading of the Company’s Common Stock on Nasdaq as described above, on February 12, 2021.
As of the date of conversion, the Company had 1,697,022 shares of Series D Preferred Stock and 131,579 shares of Series E Preferred Stock outstanding, respectively. The outstanding shares of Series D and Series E Preferred stock would have been issued forwere converted into 17,416,939 and 1,345,180 shares of Common Stock, respectively, after taking into consideration all accrued and unpaid dividends.
Following the conversion of the Series A-2, Series D, and Series E Preferred Stock, respectively, which would have increased our outstandingthe Company no longer has shares of common stock from 5,161,500 to 23,826,300. Both the Series D and Series E Preferred Stock remain outstanding as of December 31, 2019issued and as of the filing of this Report. The Company intends to file a new listing application with the NYSE American as soon as possible upon satisfying the initial listing standards. Among other requirements, these standards require the Company to have at least $15 million of non-affiliate public float, which, under the Company’s current financial situation, may be difficult or impossible for the Company to satisfy.outstanding.
Note 1413 - Stock Based Compensation
2019 Equity Incentive Plan
On December 19, 2019, the Oblong, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”) was approved by the Company’s stockholders at the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The 2019 Plan is an omnibus equity incentive plan pursuant to which the Company may grant equity and cash incentive awards to certain key service providers of the Company and its subsidiaries. The 2019 Plan replaces the Glowpoint, Inc. 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Prior Plan”), which was adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors on April 22, 2014, and subsequently approved by the Company’s stockholders. Following approval of the 2019 Plan, the Company terminated the Prior Plan and may no longer make grants under the Prior Plan; however, any outstanding equity awards granted under the Prior Plan will continue to be governed by the terms of the Prior Plan. As of the termination of the Prior Plan, 421,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock remained available for issuance under the Prior Plan. As of December 31, 2019, 23,334 restricted stock units were outstanding under the Prior Plan. As of December 31, 2019,2021, the share pool available for new grants under the 2019 Plan is 3,021,000, which is equal to2,513,500.
Shares Issued
During the sum of (i) 2,600,000year ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued 7,500 shares of the Company’s Common Stock and (ii) the 421,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock that remained available for issuance under the Prior Plan. No equity awards were granted under the 2019 Plan to a former Board member and recorded stock-based compensation expense of $35,000 in general and administrative expenses (based on the stock price on the date of issuance).
Stock Options
On June 28, 2021, the Company granted 300,000 stock options to certain employees. These options have a term of 10 years, vest equally over 3 years, 1/3 upon each anniversary of the grant date, and have an exercise price of $3.25 per share. Using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, the options were determined to have a fair value of $744,000 which is being expensed ratably over the vesting term. NaN stock options were granted during the year ended December 31, 2019.2020. The fair value of each stock option granted was estimated using the following assumptions:
2007 Stock Incentive Plan
| | | | | |
| June 28, 2021 |
| Risk free interest rate | 0.47% |
| Expected option lives | 3 years |
| Expected volatility | 1.36 |
| Estimated forfeiture rate | — |
| Expected dividend yields | — |
| Weighted average grant date fair value of options | $2.48 |
In May 2014, the Board terminated the Company’s 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2007 Plan”). Notwithstanding the termination of the 2007 Plan, outstanding awards under the 2007 Plan will remain in effect accordance with their terms. As of December 31, 2019, options to purchase a total of 107,500 shares of common stock and 627 shares of restricted stock were outstanding under the 2007 Plan. No shares are available for issuance under the 2007 Plan.
Stock Options
For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, other than the options granted to certain former holders of options to purchase shares of Oblong’s common stock, for which no stock-based compensation was recorded as discussed below, no stock options were granted. A summary of stock options expired and forfeited under our plans and options outstanding as of, and changes made during, the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 is presented below:
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| | Outstanding | | Exercisable |
| | Number of Options | | Weighted Average Exercise Price | | Number of Options | | Weighted Average Exercise Price |
| Options outstanding, December 31, 2017 | 120,200 |
| | $ | 19.90 |
| | 120,200 |
| | $ | 19.90 |
|
| Expired | (1,000 | ) | | 22.10 |
| | | | |
| Forfeited | (1,197 | ) | | 16.80 |
| | | | |
| Options outstanding, December 31, 2018 | 118,003 |
| | 19.90 |
| | 118,003 |
| | 19.90 |
|
| Exchanged for Oblong Industries stock options | 107,845 |
| | 4.92 |
| | | | |
| Expired | (440 | ) | | 16.48 |
| | | | |
| Forfeited | (10,063 | ) | | 23.20 |
| | | | |
| Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2019 | 215,345 |
| | $ | 12.27 |
| | 215,345 |
| | $ | 12.27 |
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| Outstanding | | Exercisable |
| Number of Options | | Weighted Average Exercise Price | | Number of Options | | Weighted Average Exercise Price |
| Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2019 | 215,345 | | | $ | 12.27 | | | 215,345 | | | $ | 12.27 | |
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| Expired | (107,845) | | | 4.92 | | | | |
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| Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2020 | 107,500 | | | 19.64 | | | 107,500 | | | 19.64 | |
| Granted | 300,000 | | | 3.25 | | | | | |
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| Options outstanding and exercisable, December 31, 2021 | 407,500 | | | $ | 7.57 | | | 107,500 | | | $ | 19.64 | |
Additional information as of December 31, 20192021 is as follows:
| | | | | Outstanding and Exercisable | | | Outstanding Exercisable | | Exercisable |
| Range of price | | Number of Options | | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (In Years) | | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Range of price | | Number
of Options | | Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (In Years) | | Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price | | Number
of Options | | Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price |
| $0.00 – $10.00 | | 110,345 |
| | 0.81 | | $ | 5.01 |
| $0.00 – $10.00 | | 302,500 | | | 9.43 | | $ | 3.30 | | | 2,500 | | | $ | 9.00 | |
| $10.01 – $20.00 | | 97,500 |
| | 3.06 | | 19.32 |
| $10.01 – $20.00 | | 97,500 | | | 1.06 | | 19.32 | | | 97,500 | | | 19.32 | |
| $20.01 – $30.00 | | 2,500 |
| | 2.44 | | 21.80 |
| $20.01 – $30.00 | | 2,500 | | | 0.43 | | 21.80 | | | 2,500 | | | 21.80 | |
| $30.01 – $40.00 | | 5,000 |
| | 2.20 | | 30.20 |
| $30.01 – $40.00 | | 5,000 | | | 0.19 | | 30.20 | | | 5,000 | | | 30.20 | |
| | | 215,345 |
| | 1.88 | | $ | 12.27 |
| |
| | | 407,500 | | | 7.26 | | $ | 7.57 | | | 107,500 | | | $ | 19.64 | |
In connection with the Acquisition, all options to purchase shares of Oblong’s common stock held by previously terminated employees of Oblong Industries were assumed by the Company and deemed, in the aggregate, to constitute options to acquire
a total of 107,845 shares of the Company’s common stock, at a volume weighted average exercise price of $4.92 per share and a remaining exercise period of one year. No stock-based compensation expense was recorded in the year ended December 31, 2019 for these stock options as the value for these options was recorded as part of the consideration of the Acquisition given that these options were issued to terminated employees.
The remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for stock option awards at December 31, 2019 was $0.
The intrinsic value of vested options, unvested options and exercised options were not significant for all periods presented. There was no$126,000 stock compensation expense, recorded as a component of Research and Development and General and Administrative expense, related to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2021, and $618,000 remaining as unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for options atas of December 31, 20192021 which will be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.5 years. There was no recognized or unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for options for the year ended and as all options were vested.
of December 31, 2020.
Restricted Stock Awards
A summaryAs of restricted stock granted, vested and unvested outstanding as of, and changes made during, the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018, is presented below:
|
| | | | | | |
| | Restricted Shares | | Weighted Average
Grant Price |
| Unvested restricted stock outstanding, December 31, 2017 | 34,100 |
| | $ | 10.60 |
|
| Vested | (22,780 | ) | | 8.40 |
|
| Unvested restricted stock outstanding, December 31, 2018 | 11,320 |
| | 14.88 |
|
| Vested | (1,372 | ) | | 15.72 |
|
| Forfeited | (9,321 | ) | | 14.70 |
|
| Unvested restricted stock outstanding, December 31, 2019 | 627 |
| | $ | 15.80 |
|
Stock-based compensation expense relating to2020, there were 627 unvested restricted stock awards is allocated as follows (in thousands):
|
| | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Research and development | — |
| | 1 |
|
| General and administrative | 3 |
| | 14 |
|
| | $ | 3 |
| | $ | 15 |
|
Thereoutstanding, with a weighted average grant date price of $15.80. The awards were issued in 2014 and vest over the lesser of ten years, a change in control, or separation from the company. Due to the variability of the vesting, the expense was amortized over an average service period of five years; therefore, there is no unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for restricted stock awards atfor the years ended December 31, 2019.2021 and 2020.
Restricted Stock Units
A summary ofOn August 18, 2021, the Company granted 200,000 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) granted,to certain board members. These RSUs vested forfeitedimmediately upon issuance. The price per share of the Company’s common stock was $2.19 on the grant date, resulting in a total fair value of $438,000 which was included in general and unvested outstandingadministrative expense, as of, and changes madestock-based compensation expense, upon issuance. NaN RSUs were granted during the yearsyear ended December 31, 20192020 and 2018, is presented below:$5,000 of stock compensation expense was recorded for existing RSUs for the year ended December 31, 2020. There was 0 remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for RSUs at December 31, 2021.
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| | | | | | |
| | Restricted Stock Units | | Weighted Average
Grant Price |
| Unvested restricted stock units outstanding, December 31, 2017 | 175,200 |
| | $ | 5.70 |
|
| Granted | 487,800 |
| | 1.70 |
|
| Vested | (55,400 | ) | | 7.50 |
|
| Forfeited | (104,082 | ) | | 4.30 |
|
| Unvested restricted stock units outstanding, December 31, 2018 | 503,518 |
| | 1.94 |
|
| Granted | 55,479 |
| | 1.30 |
|
| Vested | (114,505 | ) | | 3.05 |
|
| Forfeited | (421,158 | ) | | 1.54 |
|
| Unvested restricted stock units outstanding, December 31, 2019 | 23,334 |
| | $ | 2.20 |
|
As of December 31, 2019,2021, there were 0 unvested restricted stock units (“RSUs”) outstanding and 28,904 vested RSUs remain outstanding as shares of common stock have not yet been delivered for these units in accordance with the terms of the RSUs. As of December 31, 2019, there were 11,667 unvested RSUs that
have performance-based vesting provisions and are subject to forfeiture, in whole or in part, if these performance conditions are not achieved. Management assesses, on an ongoing basis, the probability of whether the performance criteria will be achieved and, once it is deemed probable, stock-based compensation expense is recognized over the relevant performance period. As of December 31, 2019, there were 11,667 unvested RSUs that have timed-based vesting provisions, and the cost of the RSUs is expensed, which is determined to be the fair market value of the shares at the date of grant, on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.
The number of restricted stock units vested during the year ended December 31, 2019 includes 55,800 shares withheld and repurchased by the Company on behalf of employees to satisfy $58,000 of tax obligations relating to the vesting of such shares. Such shares are held in the Company’s treasury stock as of December 31, 2019.
Stock-based compensation expense relating to restricted stock units is allocated as follows (in thousands):
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| | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Cost of revenue | $ | 10 |
| | $ | 43 |
|
| Research and development | 12 |
| | 50 |
|
| Sales and marketing | — |
| | 7 |
|
| General and administrative | 52 |
| | 250 |
|
| | $ | 74 |
| | $ | 350 |
|
The remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for restricted stock units at December 31, 2019 was $3,200 and relates to time-based awards with a remaining weighted average period of 0.28 years.
There was no tax benefit recognized for stock-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018. No compensation costs were capitalized as part of the cost of an asset during the periods presented.
Restricted Series D Preferred Stock
In connection with the Acquisition,acquisition of Oblong Industries, all options to purchase shares of Oblong Industries’ common stock held by existing employees of Oblong Industries were canceled and exchanged for an aggregate of 49,967 restricted shares of Series D Preferred Stock (“Restricted Series D Preferred Stock”), which arewere subject to vesting over a two-year period following the Closing Date. This vesting period and compensation expense were accelerated, in February 2021, when the Restricted Series D shares were converted to shares of Common Stock. Refer to Note 12 - Preferred Stock for discussion on the conversion of the Series D Restricted Preferred Stock.
Stock-based compensation expense relating to Restricted Series D Preferred Stock is allocated as follows (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Research and development | $ | 17 | | | $ | 47 | |
| Sales, general and administrative | 16 | | | 111 | |
| $ | 33 | | | $ | 158 | |
|
| | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Research and development | $ | 17 |
| | $ | — |
|
| Sales and marketing | 6 |
| | — |
|
| General and administrative | 10 |
| | — |
|
| | $ | 33 |
| | $ | — |
|
During the yearyears ended December 31, 2019, 1,7252021 and 2020, 81 and 28,618 shares of Restricted Series D Preferred Stock were forfeited, respectively and 48,242no shares were outstanding and there was no remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation as of December 31, 2019. The remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation expense for Restricted Series D Preferred Stock at December 31, 2019 was $524,000.2021.
Note 1514 - Net Loss Per Share
Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding does not include any potentially dilutive securities or any unvested restricted shares of common stock. These unvested restricted shares, although classified as issued and outstanding at December 31, 20192021 and 2018,December 31, 2020, are considered contingently returnable until the restrictions lapse and will not be included in the basic net loss per share calculation until the shares are vested. Unvested shares of our restricted stock do not contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends and dividend equivalents. Vested RSUs (for which shares of common stock have not yet been delivered) are included in the calculations of basic net loss per share. Unvested RSUs are not included in calculations of basic net loss per share, as they are not considered issued and outstanding at time of grant.
Diluted net loss per share is computed by giving effect to all potential shares of common stock, including warrants, stock options, preferred stock, RSUs, and unvested restricted stock awards, to the extent they are dilutive. For the year ended December 31, 2019,2021, all such common stock equivalents have been excluded from diluted net loss per share as the effect to net loss per share would be anti-dilutive (due to the net loss per share)losses).
The following table sets forth the computation of the Company’s basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except per share data):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| Numerator: | 2021 | | 2020 |
| Net loss | $ | (9,051) | | | $ | (7,421) | |
| Less: preferred stock dividends | 1 | | | 17 | |
| Less: undeclared dividends | 366 | | | 788 | |
| Less: conversion inducement | 300 | | | — | |
| Less: warrant modification | 37 | | | — | |
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders | $ | (9,755) | | | $ | (8,226) | |
| Denominator: | | | |
| Weighted-average number of shares of common stock for basic net loss per share | 26,567 | | | 5,547 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| Basic and diluted net loss per share | $ | (0.37) | | | $ | (1.48) | |
| | | |
|
| | | | | | | |
| | Year Ended December 31, |
| Numerator: | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Net loss | $ | (7,761 | ) | | $ | (7,168 | ) |
| Less: preferred stock dividends | 27 |
| | 12 |
|
| Net loss attributable to common stockholders | $ | (7,788 | ) | | $ | (7,180 | ) |
| Basic and diluted net loss per share | $ | (1.52 | ) | | $ | (1.50 | ) |
The weighted-average number of shares, for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020, includes 28,904 and 988,000 shares respectively, of vested RSUs, as discussed in Note 1413 - Stock Based Compensation.
The following table represents the potential shares that were excluded from the computation of weighted-average number of shares of common stock in computing the diluted net loss per share for the periods presented because including them would have had an anti-dilutive effect:
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| | | |
| | | |
| Outstanding stock options | 407,500 | | | 107,500 | |
| Unvested restricted stock awards | 627 | | | 627 | |
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series A-2 preferred stock | — | | | 18,161 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series D preferred stock | — | | | 17,020,100 | |
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series E preferred stock | — | | | 1,315,790 | |
| Warrants | 5,146,500 | | | 1,146,500 | |
|
| | | | | |
| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Unvested restricted stock units | 23,334 |
| | 503,500 |
|
| Outstanding stock options | 215,345 |
| | 118,300 |
|
| Unvested restricted stock awards | 627 |
| | 11,300 |
|
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series A-2 preferred stock | 10,978 |
| | 11,000 |
|
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series B preferred stock | — |
| | 26,800 |
|
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series C preferred stock | 158,333 |
| | 175,000 |
|
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series D preferred stock | 17,349,010 |
| | — |
|
| Shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of Series E preferred stock | 1,315,790 |
| | — |
|
| Warrants | 72,394 |
| | — |
|
Note 1615 - Segment Reporting
Prior to the acquisition of Oblong Industries on October 1, 2019, the Company operated in one segment. Effective October 1, 2019, the former businesses of Glowpoint (now Oblong, Inc.) and Oblong Industries werehave been managed separately, during the fourth quarter of 2019 and involve different products and services. Accordingly, the Company currently operates in two segments:2 segments for purposes of segment reporting: (1) “Collaboration Products” which represents the Glowpoint (now named Oblong)Oblong Industries business surrounding our Mezzanine™ product offerings and (2) “Managed Services” which mainly consists ofrepresents the Oblong (formerly Glowpoint) business surrounding managed services for video collaboration and network applications; and (2) the Oblong Industries business which consists of products and services for visual collaboration technologies.solutions.
Because the closing of the acquisition of Oblong Industries occurred on October 1, 2019, the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 included in this Report only reflect Oblong Industries’ financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019. Certain information concerning the Company’s segments for the yearyears ended December 31, 20192021 and 2020 is presented in the following tables (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| For the Year Ended December 31, 2021 |
| Managed Services | | Collaboration Products | | Corporate | | Total |
| Revenue | $ | 4,270 | | | $ | 3,469 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 7,739 | |
| Cost of revenues | 2,991 | | | 2,030 | | | — | | | 5,021 | |
| Gross profit | $ | 1,279 | | | $ | 1,439 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 2,718 | |
| Gross profit % | 30.0 | % | | 41.5 | % | | — | % | | 35.1 | % |
| | | | | | | |
| Allocated operating expenses | $ | 593 | | | $ | 7,556 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 8,149 | |
| Unallocated operating expenses | — | | | — | | | 6,363 | | | 6,363 | |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 593 | | | $ | 7,556 | | | $ | 6,363 | | | $ | 14,512 | |
| | | | | | | |
| Income (loss) from operations | $ | 686 | | | $ | (6,117) | | | $ | (6,363) | | | $ | (11,794) | |
| Interest and other income (expense), net | (22) | | | 227 | | | 2,448 | | | 2,653 | |
| Income (loss) before income taxes | $ | 664 | | | $ | (5,890) | | | $ | (3,915) | | | $ | (9,141) | |
| Income tax expense | $ | (15) | | | $ | (75) | | | $ | — | | | $ | (90) | |
| Net income (loss) | $ | 679 | | | $ | (5,815) | | | $ | (3,915) | | | $ | (9,051) | |
| | | | | | | |
| As of December 31, 2021 |
| Total assets | $ | 9,259 | | | $ | 19,348 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 28,607 | |
| | | | For the Year Ended December 31, 2019 | | For the Year Ended December 31, 2020 |
| | Glowpoint | | Oblong Industries | | Total | | Managed Services | | Collaboration Products | | Corporate | | Total |
| Revenue | $ | 9,660 |
| | $ | 3,167 |
| | $ | 12,827 |
| Revenue | $ | 6,227 | | | $ | 9,106 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 15,333 | |
| Cost of revenues | 6,269 |
| | 1,158 |
| | 7,427 |
| Cost of revenues | 3,789 | | | 3,491 | | | — | | | 7,280 | |
| Gross profit | $ | 3,391 |
| | $ | 2,009 |
| | $ | 5,400 |
| Gross profit | $ | 2,438 | | | $ | 5,615 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 8,053 | |
| Gross profit % | 35 | % | | 63 | % | | 42 | % | Gross profit % | 39.2 | % | | 61.7 | % | | — | % | | 52.5 | % |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Allocated operating expenses | $ | 6,835 |
| | $ | 5,183 |
| | $ | 12,018 |
| Allocated operating expenses | $ | 1,479 | | | $ | 9,913 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 11,392 | |
| Unallocated operating expenses | — |
| | — |
| | 956 |
| Unallocated operating expenses | — | | | — | | | 6,725 | | | 6,725 | |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 6,835 |
| | $ | 5,183 |
| | $ | 12,974 |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 1,479 | | | $ | 9,913 | | | $ | 6,725 | | | $ | 18,117 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Loss from operations | $ | (3,444 | ) | | $ | (3,173 | ) | | $ | (7,574 | ) | |
| Interest and other expense, net | — |
| | — |
| | (187 | ) | |
| Loss before income taxes | $ | (3,444 | ) | | $ | (3,173 | ) | | $ | (7,761 | ) | |
| Income (loss) from operations | | Income (loss) from operations | $ | 959 | | | $ | (4,298) | | | $ | (6,725) | | | $ | (10,064) | |
| Interest and other income (expense), net | | Interest and other income (expense), net | (19) | | | 2,765 | | | — | | | 2,746 | |
| Income (loss) before income taxes | | Income (loss) before income taxes | $ | 940 | | | $ | (1,533) | | | $ | (6,725) | | | $ | (7,318) | |
| Income tax expense | | Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | $ | 53 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 103 | |
| Net income (loss) | | Net income (loss) | $ | 890 | | | $ | (1,586) | | | $ | (6,725) | | | $ | (7,421) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | As of December 31, 2019 | | As of December 31, 2020 |
| Total assets | $ | 5,942 |
| | $ | 28,967 |
| | $ | 34,909 |
| Total assets | $ | 6,494 | | | $ | 22,649 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 29,143 | |
Unallocated operating expenses include costs duringfor the fourth quarter of 2019 (after the October 1, 2019 acquisition date)year ending December 31, 2021 that are not specific to a particular segment but are general to the group; included are expenses incurred for administrative and accounting staff, general liability and other insurance, professional fees and other similar corporate expenses. Interest and other expense, net, is also not allocated to the operating segments.
For the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, there was no material revenue attributable to any individual foreign country. Approximately 1% of foreign revenue is billed in foreign currency and foreign currency gains and losses are not material. Revenue by geographic area is allocated as follows (in thousands):
| | | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
| Domestic | $ | 9,096 |
| | $ | 8,423 |
| Domestic | $ | 4,615 | | | $ | 10,288 | |
| Foreign | 3,731 |
| | 4,134 |
| Foreign | 3,124 | | | 5,045 | |
| | $ | 12,827 |
| | $ | 12,557 |
| | $ | 7,739 | | | $ | 15,333 | |
Disaggregated information for the Company’s revenue has been recognized in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and is presented below according to contract type (dollars in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | | Year ended December 31, |
| | Year Ended December 31, | | 2021 | | % of Revenue | | 2020 | | % of Revenue |
| | 2019 | | % of Revenue | | 2018 | | % of Revenue | |
| Revenue: Glowpoint | | | | | | | | |
| Revenue: Managed Services | | Revenue: Managed Services | | | | | | | |
| Video collaboration services | $ | 5,566 |
| | 43 | % | | $ | 7,589 |
| | 60 | % | Video collaboration services | $ | 854 | | | 11.0 | % | | $ | 2,413 | | | 15.7 | % |
| Network services | 3,860 |
| | 30 | % | | 4,351 |
| | 35 | % | Network services | 3,347 | | | 43.2 | % | | 3,611 | | | 23.6 | % |
| Professional and other services | 234 |
| | 2 | % | | 617 |
| | 5 | % | Professional and other services | 69 | | 0.9 | % | | 203 | | 1.3 | % |
| Total Glowpoint revenue | $ | 9,660 |
| | 75 | % | | $ | 12,557 |
| | 100 | % | |
| Total Managed Services revenue | | Total Managed Services revenue | $ | 4,270 | | | 55.2 | % | | $ | 6,227 | | | 40.6 | % |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Revenue: Oblong | | | | | | | | |
| Revenue: Collaboration Products | | Revenue: Collaboration Products | |
| Visual collaboration product offerings | $ | 2,180 |
| | 17 | % | | $ | — |
| | — | % | Visual collaboration product offerings | $ | 3,367 | | | 43.5 | % | | $ | 6,873 | | | 44.8 | % |
| Professional services | 709 |
| | 6 | % | | — |
| | — | % | Professional services | — | | | — | % | | 1,033 | | | 6.7 | % |
| Licensing | 278 |
| | 2 | % | | — |
| | — | % | Licensing | 102 | | | 1.3 | % | | 1,200 | | | 7.8 | % |
| Total Oblong Industries revenue | $ | 3,167 |
| | 25 | % | | $ | — |
| | — | % | |
| Total Collaboration Products revenue | | Total Collaboration Products revenue | $ | 3,469 | | | 44.8 | % | | $ | 9,106 | | | 59.4 | % |
| Total revenue | $ | 12,827 |
| | 100 | % | | $ | 12,557 |
| | 100 | % | Total revenue | $ | 7,739 | | | 100.0 | % | | $ | 15,333 | | | 100.0 | % |
Glowpoint’s fixedThe Company’s long-lived assets were 100% located in domestic markets during both years endedas of December 31, 20192021 and 2018. Oblong Industries’ long-lived assets were located 83% in domestic and 17% in foreign markets for the year ended December 31, 2019.2020.
The Company considers a significant customer to be one that comprises more than 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenues or accounts receivable. The loss of or a reduction in sales or anticipated sales to our most significant or several of our smaller customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Concentration of revenues was as follows:
| | | | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
| | Segment | | % of Revenue | | % of Revenue | | Segment | | % of Revenue | | % of Revenue |
| Customer A | Glowpoint | | 20 | % | | 25 | % | Customer A | Managed Services | | 34.7 | % | | 17.0 | % |
| Customer B | Glowpoint | | 18 | % | | 21 | % | Customer B | Collaboration Products | | — | % | | 17.0 | % |
|
Concentration of accounts receivable was as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | As of December 31, |
| | | 2021 | | 2020 |
| Segment | | % of Accounts Receivable | | % of Accounts Receivable |
| Customer A | Managed Services | | 24.9 | % | | 14.1 | % |
| Customer B | Collaboration Products | | — | % | | 20.1 | % |
| Customer C | Collaboration Products | | — | % | | 12.0 | % |
| Customer D | Collaboration Products | | 20.1 | % | | — | % |
| Customer E | Collaboration Products | | 18.2 | % | | — | % |
|
| | | | | | | |
| | | | December 31, 2019 | | December 31, 2018 |
| | Segment | | % of Accounts Receivable | | % of Accounts Receivable |
| Customer A | Glowpoint | | 12 | % | | 54 | % |
| Customer B | Glowpoint | | * |
| | * |
|
| Customer C | Oblong Industries | | 18 | % | | * |
|
| Customer D | Oblong Industries | | 16 | % | | * |
|
* The amount did not exceed 10% of the Company’s consolidated total accounts receivable.
Note 1716 - Commitments and Contingencies
Operating Leases
We lease office and warehouse space in Los Angeles, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Los Altos, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Munich, Germany. These leases expire between October 2020 and 2023. Lease expense for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 were $580,000 and $297,000, respectively.
The Company primarily leases facilities for office and data center space under non-cancellable operating leases for its U.S. and international locations that expire atFrom time to time, we are subject to various dates through 2023. For leases with a term greater than 12 months, the Company recognizes a right-of-use asset and a lease liability based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Variable lease payments are not includedlegal proceedings arising in the lease payments to measure the lease liability and are expensed as incurred. The Company’s leasesordinary course of business, including proceedings for which we have remaining terms of one to four years and some of the leases include a Company option to extend the lease term for less than twelve months to five years, or more, which if reasonably certain to exercise, the Company includes in the determination of lease payments. The lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
As the Company's leases do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate, the Company uses the incremental borrowing rate at lease commencement, which was determined using a portfolio approach, based on the rate of interest that the Company would have to pay to borrow an amount equal to the lease payments on a collateralized basis over a similar term. The Company uses the implicit rate when a rate is readily determinable. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recognized on the balance sheet and the expense for these short-term leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Common area maintenance fees (or CAMs) and other charges related to these leases continue to be expensed as incurred.
The following provides balance sheet information related to leases as of December 31, 2019 (in thousands):
|
| | | | | |
| | | | December 31, 2019 |
| Assets | | |
| | Operating lease, right-of-use assets | | $ | 3,117 |
|
| | | | |
| Liabilities | | |
| | Operating lease liabilities, current | | $ | 1,294 |
|
| | Operating lease liabilities, non-current | | 2,020 |
|
| | Total operating lease liabilities | | $ | 3,314 |
|
The following table summarizes the future undiscounted cash payments reconciled to the lease liability (in thousands):
|
| | | | |
| Year Ending December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | $ | 1,403 |
|
| 2021 | | 1,221 |
|
| 2022 | | 785 |
|
| 2023 | | 136 |
|
| Total cash payments remaining | | $ | 3,545 |
|
| Effect of discounting | | (231 | ) |
| Total lease liability | | $ | 3,314 |
|
On January 1, 2019, the Company recognized ROU assets and lease liabilities of approximately $99,000 and $111,000, respectively, using an estimated incremental borrowing rate of 7.75%. On October 1, 2019 (the closing date of the acquisition of Oblong Industries), the Company recognized ROU assets and lease liabilities for Oblong Industries of approximately $3,376,000 and $3,578,000, respectively, using an estimated incremental borrowing rate of 6.00%. The ROU assets and lease liabilities as of December 31, 2019 are recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.
Series A-2 Preferred Stock
As discussed herein, on October 1, 2019, the Company closed its merger with Oblong Industries, in connection with which it became a co-borrower under the SVB Loan Agreement. The holder (the “Holder”) of the Company’s Series A-2 Preferred Stock is granted pre-approval rights over certain corporate actions under the Certificate of Designations governing the terms of the Series A-2 Preferred Stock. Following the Company’s execution of the SVB Loan Agreement, the Holder informed the Company to assert that the Company’s execution of the SVB Loan Agreement without his consent contravened these pre-approval rights. The Company has not accrued any liabilities for this matter as of December 31, 2019.insurance coverage. As of the filingdate hereof, we are not party to any legal proceedings that we currently believe will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of this Report, there has been no further update regarding this matter.operations or liquidity.
COVID-19
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that infections of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) had become pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, the U.S. President announced a National Emergency relating to the disease. There is a possibility of continued widespread infection in the United States and abroad, with the potential for catastrophic impact. National, state and local authorities have required or recommended social distancing and imposed or are considering quarantine and isolation measures on large portions of the population, including mandatory business closures. These measures, while intended to protect human life, are expected to have serious adverse impacts on domestic and foreign economies of uncertain severity and duration. Some economists are predicting the United States will soon enter a recession. The sweeping nature of the coronavirus pandemic makes it extremely difficult to predict how the Company’s business and operations will be affected in the longer run, but we expect that it mayrun. The COVID-19 pandemic has materially affectaffected our business, financial condition and results of operations. The extent to which the coronavirus impacts our results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others. Moreover, the coronavirus outbreak has begun to have indeterminable adverse effects on general commercial activity and the world economy, and our businessrevenue and results of operations could be adversely affectedfor the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. The decreases in our revenue are primarily attributable to the extent that this coronavirus or any other epidemic harms the global economy generally and/or the markets in which we operate specifically. Any of the foregoing factors, or other cascading effects of the coronavirusglobal pandemic on our channel partners and customers as they evaluate how and when to re-open their commercial real estate footprints. The Company’s results reflect the challenges due to long and unpredictable sales cycles, delays in customer retrofit budgets, project starts, and supply delayed orders in our distribution channels as a direct result of customer implementation schedules shifting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular has, and may continue to have, a significant economic and business impact on our Company. During 2021 and 2020, we have seen a continuing weakness in revenue as our customers across all sectors delayed order placements in reaction to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that are not currently foreseeable,caused our customers to suspend or postpone real estate retrofit projects due to budget and occupancy uncertainties. We continue to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our customers, suppliers and logistics providers, and to evaluate governmental actions being taken to curtail and respond to the spread of the virus. The significance and duration of the ongoing impact on us is still uncertain. Material adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on market drivers, our customers, suppliers or logistics providers could materially increase our costs, negativelysignificantly impact our revenuesoperating results. We will continue to actively follow, assess and damageanalyze the Company’songoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and adjust our organizational structure, strategies, plans and processes to respond. Because the situation continues to evolve, we cannot reasonably estimate the ultimate impact to our business, results of operations, cash flows and its liquidityfinancial position possibly to a significant degree. The duration of any such impacts cannot be predicted. As discussed in Note 21, an existing major customerthat the COVID-19 pandemic may have. Continuation of the Company suspended certain professional services we provided to the customer effective April 30, 2020 due to COVID-19. These services accounted for $0.7 million, or 13%, of the Company’s revenue for the fourth quarter of 2019. Uncertainties resulting from COVID-19 may resultpandemic and government actions in additional customers delaying budget expenditures or re-allocating resources, which would result in a decrease in orders from these customers. Any such decrease in orders from these customersresponse thereto could cause a material adverse effect onfurther disruptions to our operations and the operations of our customers, suppliers and logistics partners and could significantly adversely affect our near-term and long-term revenues, earnings, liquidity and financial results and our ability to generate positive cash flows.
Note 1817 - Income Taxes
The following table sets forth pretax book loss (in thousands):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| United States | $ | (9,340) | | | $ | (7,570) | |
| Foreign | 199 | | | 252 | |
| Total | $ | (9,141) | | | $ | (7,318) | |
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| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| United States | $ | (7,882 | ) | | $ | (7,155 | ) |
| Foreign | 121 |
| | — |
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| Total | $ | (7,761 | ) | | $ | (7,155 | ) |
The following table sets forth income before taxes and the income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 (in thousands):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2021 | | 2020 |
| Current: | | | |
| Federal | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
| Foreign | (75) | | | 53 | |
| State | (15) | | | 50 | |
| Total current | (90) | | | 103 | |
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| Total deferred | — | | | — | |
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| Income tax (benefit) expense | $ | (90) | | | $ | 103 | |
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| | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2019 | | 2018 |
| Current: | | | |
| Federal | $ | — |
| | $ | — |
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| Foreign | — |
| | |
| State | — |
| | 13 |
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| | — |
| | 13 |
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| Deferred: | | | |
| Federal | — |
| | — |
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| Foreign | — |
| | — |
|
| State | — |
| | — |
|
| | — |
| | — |
|
| Income tax expense | $ | — |
| | $ | 13 |
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Our effective tax rate differs from the statutory federal tax rate for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 as shown in the following table (in thousands):
The tax effect of the temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 is presented below (in thousands):
The ending balances of the deferred tax asset have been fully reserved, reflecting the uncertainties as to realizability evidenced by the Company’s historical results. The change in valuation allowance for the year ended December 31, 20192021 is an increase of $32,488,000.$4,678,000 resulting from current year tax loss and adjustment to NOL carryforward. The change in valuation allowance for the year ended December 31, 20182020 was a decrease of $20,000.$4,005,000.
We and our subsidiary file federal and state tax returns on a consolidated basis. During 2013, we determinedOn October 1, 2019 Oblong, Inc. acquired the stock of Oblong Industries Inc. that resulted in Oblong Industries Inc.'s shareholders now owning 75% of Oblong, Inc. Therefore, an “ownership change” had occurred in 2013on this date (as defined under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended), which places an annual limitation on the utilization of the net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards accumulated
before the ownership change. If additional ownership changes occur in the future, the use of the net operating loss carryforwards could be subject to further limitation.
Additionally, ASC 740 provides guidance on the recognition of interest and penalties related to income taxes.unrecognized tax benefits. There were no interest or penalties related to income taxes that have been accrued or recognized as of and for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018.2020.
We have adopted a retirement plan under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. The 401(k) plan covers substantially all employees who meet minimum age and service requirements. Company contributions to the 401(k) plan for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 were $74,000$130,000 and $81,000,$58,000, respectively.