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| Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Weave Communications, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Weave Communications Canada, Inc. and Weave Communications India Private Limited (collectively “Weave” or the “Company”). Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
Segments
The Company operates as one operating and reportable segment. The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) evaluates reporting operations and financial information on a consolidated basis for the purposes of making operating decisions, assessing financial performance and allocating resources.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amount of sales and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates included in the Company’s financial statements include the valuation allowance against deferred tax assets, recoverability of long-lived assets, fair value of issued warrants, fair value of stock-based compensation, amortization period of deferred contract costs, and useful lives for depreciable assets.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash consists of deposits in financial institutions. Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with an original maturity of 90 days or less. The fair value of cash equivalents approximated their carrying value as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 the Company did not have any restricted cash.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company has incurred losses and generated negative cash flows from operations since inception. As of December 31, 2022 the Company had an accumulated deficit of $231.6 million. The Company has partially funded its operations through cash flows generated by sales of its product offerings, and as of December 31, 2022 the Company had completed several rounds of equity financing as a private company with total net proceeds approximating $159.0 million. In November 2021, the Company completed its initial public offering, which generated an additional net proceeds of $107.5 million. As of December 31, 2022 the Company had outstanding borrowings under its revolving line of credit of $10.0 million.
On March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) was appointed as receiver. Thereafter, the FDIC transferred all deposits of SVB to a newly created bridge bank, named Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A. The FDIC and Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A. have announced that customers have full access to deposit accounts and credit facilities beginning on March 13, 2023. As of March 15, 2023, our cash held in deposit accounts at Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A. represented less than 1% of our cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, which is considered to be immaterial to our liquidity.
The Company believes its existing cash, cash equivalents, and cash flows provided by sales of product offerings and proceeds from the initial public offering will be sufficient to meet operating cash flow requirements for at least twelve months from the date of issuance of the December 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements. As a result of the Company’s growth plans, losses and negative cash flows from operations may continue in the foreseeable future.
Foreign Currency
The reporting currency of the Company is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of the subsidiaries is the applicable local currency. Transactions within a subsidiary entity which are denominated in currencies other than the subsidiary’s functional currency are recorded based on the exchange rates at the time such transactions arise. Resulting gains and losses are recorded in other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements of operations in the period of occurrence.
Revenues and expenses of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated from the applicable functional currency to the U.S. dollar using the average exchange rates during the reporting period, while assets and liabilities are translated at the period-end exchange rates. Resulting gains or losses from translating foreign currency are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
Short-Term Investments
The Company determines the appropriate classification of its investments at the time of purchase. As the Company views these securities as available to support current operations, it accounts for these debt securities as available-for-sale and classifies them as current assets on its consolidated balance sheets. These securities are recorded at estimated fair value. Unrealized gains and losses for available-for-sale securities are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). The Company periodically evaluates its investments to assess whether those with unrealized loss positions are other-than-temporarily impaired. The Company considers impairments to be other than temporary if they are related to deterioration in credit risk or if it is more likely than not that the Company will sell the securities before the recovery of their cost basis. If the Company does not intend to sell a security and it is not more likely than not that it will be required to sell the security before recovery, the unrealized loss is separated into an amount representing the credit loss, which is recognized in other income (expense), net, and the amount related to all other factors, which is recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
Realized gains and losses and declines in value judged to be other than temporary are determined based on the specific identification method and are reported in other income (expense), net in the
consolidated statements of operations. Realized gains and losses for the year ended December 31, 2022 were not material.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amounts when an unconditional right to cash exists. Accounts receivable do not bear interest. Accounts outstanding longer than the contractual payment terms are considered past due. Accounts are written off when deemed uncollectible. Recoveries of accounts receivable previously written off are recorded when cash is received. The Company specifically identified and wrote off uncollectible accounts of $0.7 million, $0.4 million and $0.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As the receivables outstanding as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 mostly comprised credit card billings and there were no specifically identified receivables deemed to have significant collection risk in addition to those already written off to bad debt, the Company did not record an allowance for doubtful accounts as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are stated at historical cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of property and equipment or over the related lease terms (if shorter). Costs of major improvements that extend the useful life of the property and equipment have been capitalized, while costs of normal repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. For customers who subscribed prior to August 2021, phone hardware provided to customers as part of the subscription arrangement remains the property of the Company for three years beginning on the date that the customer begins receiving subscribed services. After three years, the title of the phone hardware passes to the customer. For phones provided to customers subscribing in or after August 2021, the Company retains ownership of the phone. Phone hardware is deemed to have a useful life of three years and is depreciated over that period. The estimated useful life of each asset category is summarized as follows:
When property and equipment is retired or otherwise disposed of, the net book value of the asset is removed from the respective accounts and any gain or loss is included in the results of operations.
Capitalized Internal-Use Software Costs
The Company capitalizes certain costs in connection with implementing or developing software for internal use. Amortization of such costs begins when the implementation/development project is substantially complete and the software is ready for its intended use. Costs related to preliminary project activities and post implementation activities are expensed as incurred. Capitalized software is stated at cost less accumulated amortization and amortized on a straight-line basis over its estimated period of expected benefit, which is three years.
Offering Costs
Offering costs, which consisted of direct incremental legal, consulting, accounting, and other fees relating to the anticipated sale of the Company’s common stock in the IPO, were initially capitalized and recorded as deferred offering costs in other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets. Upon the completion of our IPO in November 2021, these deferred offering costs were reclassified into
stockholders’ equity (deficit) as a reduction from the proceeds of the offering. There were no deferred offering costs as of December 31, 2022 or 2021.
Leases
On January 1, 2022, the Company adopted Topic 842 using the modified retrospective method. See Accounting Pronouncements Adopted for details and impact of adopted lease accounting policy.
Prior to the adoption of Topic 842, the Company's leases were classified as either operating or capital leases. Capital lease liabilities were stated separately on the consolidated balance sheets and capital lease assets were included in property, plant and equipment, net on the consolidated balance sheets. Operating leases were not recognized in the balance sheet. Capital lease balances are presented on the same lines as finance lease balances for comparative prior periods in the consolidated financial statements.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company’s long-lived assets consist of property and equipment. Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized in the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Significant management judgment is required in determining the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset and the fair value of long-lived assets for impairment purposes. No events or changes in circumstances were identified and no impairment has been recognized for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020.
Advertising Expense
Advertising costs are expensed as incurred. The Company recorded advertising expense of $5.5 million, $6.8 million, and $2.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 respectively. Advertising costs are included in sales and marketing expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses include software development costs that are not eligible for capitalization and support the Company’s efforts to ensure the reliability, availability and scalability of the Company’s solutions. The Company’s cloud platform is software-driven, and its research and development teams employ software engineers in the continuous testing, certification and support of the Company’s solutions. Accordingly, the majority of the Company’s research and development expenses result from employee-related costs, including salaries, bonuses, benefits and costs associated with technology tools used by the Company’s engineers.
Income Taxes
The Company records a provision for income taxes for the anticipated tax of its reported results of operations using the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred income taxes are recognized by applying the enacted tax rates expected to be in effect in future years to the differences between financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases as well as net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. The measurement of deferred tax assets is reduced by a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
The Company does not recognize certain tax benefits from uncertain tax positions within the provision for income taxes. A tax benefit is recognized only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be
sustained on examination by taxing authorities based on the technical merits of the position. For such positions, the largest benefit that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement is recognized in the consolidated financial statements. Where applicable, interest and penalties are recognized in income tax expense.
Sales Commissions
Sales commissions for all sales personnel are deferred and amortized on a straight-line basis over the period of consumer benefit, which has been determined to be three years. See Deferred Contract Costs below for more detail on the period of benefit.
Stock-Based Compensation
Stock-based compensation expense resulting from stock options is measured at the grant date fair value of the award and is calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. This compensation expense is recognized using the straight-line attribution method over the requisite service period. The Company accounts for forfeitures as they occur. See Note 12 for further detail on the judgements and assumptions used to calculate stock-based compensation.
The Company records restricted stock unit compensation expense based on the grant date fair value of the awards and recognizes the fair value of those awards as expense using the straight-line method over the requisite service period of the award.
Stock-based compensation expense related to purchase rights issued under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) is based on the Black-Scholes option-pricing model fair value of the estimated number of awards as of the beginning of the offering period. Stock-based compensation expense is recognized using the straight-line method over the offering period.
Net Loss Per Share
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is calculated using the two-class method required for companies with participating securities. All series of the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock are considered participating securities as they participate on a pari passu basis in any dividends declared to holders of the Company's common stock. Net loss is adjusted for the effect of any cumulative dividends on the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock prior to allocating undistributed earnings to common stockholders and holders of participating securities. Undistributed earnings are allocated to participating securities to the extent that each participating security may share in the earnings as if all of the earnings for the period had been distributed. In periods in which the Company reports a net loss, no amounts are allocated to participating securities as holders of the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock do not have a contractual obligation to share in losses. Note that all redeemable convertible preferred stock was converted to common stock in connection with our IPO.
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.
Diluted net loss per share is computed using the weighted-average number of shares of common stock plus the effect of dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period using the treasury stock method unless their effect is anti-dilutive.
Concentration of Risks
The functionality of the Company’s software and cloud-based phone system relies heavily on the ability to integrate with customers’ practice or client management systems. Less than five providers make up the majority of practice management systems maintained by dentists and optometrists in the United States. At this time, the Company does not anticipate loss of integration rights with any of these major providers. To mitigate the risk, the Company has developed a system-agnostic platform that, if needed, does not rely on an integration for functionality.
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents. At times, the Company’s cash balances may exceed the amount insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. As of March 15, 2023 the Company held less than $1.0 million cash in deposit accounts at Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A.; the Company maintains a majority of its cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments with other financial institutions. The Company does not anticipate nonperformance by those institutions.
No customers accounted for more than 10% of accounts receivable or total revenues as of and for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020. To date, the Company has not experienced material losses related to non-payment by customers.
Geographic Information
Other than the United States, no individual country exceeded 10% of total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, substantially all of the Company’s property and equipment was located in the United States.
Revenue Recognition
The Company derives substantially all revenue from subscription services by providing customers access to its platform.
The Company recognizes revenue when control of these services are transferred to customers in an amount that reflects consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those services, net of tax. Revenue recognition is determined from the following steps:
•Identification of a contract with a customer;
•Identification of the performance obligations in the contract;
•Determination of the transaction price;
•Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations within the contract; and
•Recognition of revenue when, or as, performance obligations are satisfied.
The Company recognizes revenue as follows:
Subscriptions revenue (software and phone service) is generated from fees that provide customers access to one or more of the Company’s software applications and related services. These arrangements generally have contractual terms of month-to-month. Arrangements with customers do not provide the customer with the right to take possession of the Company’s software at any time. Instead, customers are granted continuous access to the services over the contractual period. The Company transfers control of services evenly over the contractual period. Accordingly, the consideration related to subscriptions is recognized over time on a straight-line basis over the contract term beginning on the date the Company’s service is made available to the customer.
The Company also provides payment processing/collection services and receives a revenue share from a third-party payment facilitator on transactions between Weave customers that utilize the Weave payments platform, and their end consumers. These payment transactions are generally for services rendered at customers’ business location via credit card terminals or through several card-not-present modalities, including “text-to-pay” functionality. As the Company acts as an agent in these arrangements, revenue from payments services is recorded net of transaction processing fees and revenue is recognized as the performance obligation is performed each time transactions are processed.
Previously, as part of the onboarding process, the customer could request the Company install pre-configured applications on hardware which allow remote access to Weave's cloud solution. In addition,
the customer could request the Company install phone hardware at the customer’s location. Whereas the Company continues to provide remote installation services, the in-office installation program was phased out during the third and fourth quarters of 2021. Whether performed remotely or in office, the Company considers onboarding/installation a separate performance obligation, and recognizes revenue at the time the installation services are complete.
With the exception of payments services and installation revenue, customers are billed in advance and they may elect to be billed on a monthly or annual basis. The Company records contract liabilities to deferred revenue when cash payments are received, or billings are due in advance of revenue recognition from services. Deferred revenue is recognized as revenue when, or as, the performance obligations are satisfied. Software and phone service revenue is recognized net of discounts in the statements of operations. The Company does not consider discounts variable consideration as they are stated on each agreement and not subject to contingencies or variability. The Company collects sales and communications taxes from its customers. In the statement of operations, amounts collected from taxes are excluded from the reported revenue amounts.
The Company elected to apply the practical expedient to not disclose the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations for contracts with a contract term of one year or less. As of December 31, 2022, approximately $1.0 million of revenue is expected to be recognized from remaining performance obligations for contracts with original performance obligations that exceed one year. As the right to invoice for this $1.0 million does not begin until January 2023, this amount is not recorded in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2022. The Company expects to recognize revenue on these remaining performance obligations over the next 7 months.
In addition to providing VoIP phone and software services, the Company provides phone hardware to its customers as part of the subscription. The Company allows customers to include up to 5 phones without adjustment to the subscription base price. In such arrangements, the Company is deemed the lessor and the arrangement is an operating lease per guidance provided in ASC 842. Title of the phones does not transfer to the customer at any point. If a customer were to cancel at any time, the phones are returned to the Company. For customers subscribed prior to August 2021, the Company allowed customers to include up to 10 phones without adjustment to the subscription base price and title of the phones transfers to the customer after 36 months of subscription have occurred. If a customer were to cancel at any time prior to completion of the 36-month period, the phones are returned to the Company. For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 the Company recorded $4.2 million, $3.3 million and $2.6 million, respectively, in lease revenues associated with the phone hardware.
As a lessor, future minimum lease payments may vary due to customer agreements being month-to-month and the fact that subscription payments are allocated based on the fair value of all services provided to the customer. With phones being deployed to customers for their useful life, residual value does not accrue to the benefit of the Company. Phones that are returned are refurbished and placed into service.
Deferred Contract Costs
In accordance with ASC-340, the Company capitalizes incremental costs of obtaining and fulfilling a contract provided the Company expects to recover those costs. The capitalized amounts mainly consist of sales commissions paid to the Company’s direct sales force. Capitalized costs also include:
•Commissions to sales management for achieving incremental sales quota;
•The associated payroll taxes and fringe benefit costs associated with the payments to the Company’s employees;
•One time commissions paid to partners; and
•One time registration fees assessed by mobile carriers.
These costs are recorded as deferred contract costs on the consolidated balance sheet. Amortization of deferred contract costs related to commissions, and the associated taxes and fringe benefit costs, are included in sales and marketing expense. Deferred contract costs related to one time commissions paid to partners are included in cost of revenue. Deferred contract fulfillment costs related to one-time registration fees paid to mobile carriers are included in cost of revenue. These expenses are amortized on a straight-line basis over the average period of consumer benefit, three years. In arriving at this average period of benefit, the Company evaluated both qualitative and quantitative factors which included the anticipated customer life, historical customer life, and the useful life of the Company’s product offerings.
Monthly commensurate revenue share fees paid to partners are expensed as incurred as their estimated period of benefit does not extend beyond 12 months and therefore fall under the practical expedient which allows these costs to be expensed as incurred.
Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which requires lessees to apply a dual approach, classifying leases as either finance or operating leases based on the principle of whether or not the lease is effectively a financed purchase by the lessee. For all leases with a term greater than twelve months, the new standard also requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use (“ROU”) asset and a corresponding lease liability on their consolidated balance sheets. Upon adoption, lessees must apply a modified retrospective transition approach for leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements or they may record the amount in the year in which the ASU is adopted. The accounting applied by a lessor is largely unchanged from that applied under previous Topic 840. For example, the vast majority of operating leases should remain classified as operating leases, and lessors should continue to recognize lease income for those leases on a generally straight-line basis over the lease term.
On January 1, 2022, the Company adopted Topic 842 using the modified retrospective approach with the effective date as of the date of initial application. Prior period amounts were not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with previous lease guidance under ASC Topic 840, Leases. The Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance, which allows an entity to carryforward certain conclusions for leases that commenced prior to the effective date, including the determination of whether an existing contract contains a lease, the classification of the lease, and the accounting for initial direct costs. In addition, the Company elected the practical expedient that allows lessees the option to account for lease and non-lease components together as a single component for all classes of underlying assets. The Company performed evaluations of its contracts to ensure compliance with the new guidance of Topic 842. Upon adoption, the Company recognized cumulative operating lease liabilities of $52.8 million offset by a write off in deferred rent of $4.3 million and operating right-of-use assets of $48.5 million. Capital lease obligations of $15.0 million existing as of December 31, 2021 were renamed finance lease liabilities, and the related $12.4 million in assets that were reported within property and equipment, net, as of December 31, 2021 were reclassified as finance right-of-use assets as of the adoption date.
Accounting Pronouncements Pending Adoption
As an “emerging growth company,” the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, allows the Company to delay adoption of new or revised accounting pronouncements applicable to public companies until such pronouncements are made applicable to private companies. The Company has elected to use the adoption dates applicable to private companies. As a result, the Company’s financial statements may not be comparable to the financial statements of issuers who are required to comply with the effective date for new or revised accounting standards that are applicable to public companies.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which requires the measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held at amortized cost, and includes the Company's accounts receivable, certain financial instruments and contract assets. ASU 2016-13 results in more timely recognition of credit losses. For non-public companies, adoption is required for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. As a result, the Company expects to adopt the standard as of January 1, 2023 and is currently evaluating the expected impact of adoption on the financial statements.
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