Creative Realities, Inc.: Form 10-Q for the period ended Jun 30, 2023

The following discussion contains various forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Although we believe that, in making any such statement, our expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, any such statement may be influenced by factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected. When used in the following discussion, the words “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “projects,” should,” “may,” “propose,” and similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions), as they relate to us or our management, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, and many of which are beyond our control. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated are set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2023.

Our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward-looking statements. Accordingly, we cannot be certain that any of the events anticipated by forward-looking statements will occur or, if any of them do occur, what impact they will have on us. We caution you to keep in mind the cautions and risks described in this document and to refrain from attributing undue certainty to any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of the document in which they appear. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement.

Overview

Creative Realities, Inc. (“Creative Realities,” “we,” “us,” or the “Company”) transforms environments through digital solutions by providing innovative digital signage solutions for key market segments and use cases, including:

• Retail
• Entertainment and Sports Venues
• Restaurants, including quick-serve restaurants (“QSR”)
• Convenience Stores
• Financial Services
• Automotive
• Medical and Healthcare Facilities
• Mixed Use Developments
• Corporate Communications, Employee Experience
• Digital out of Home (DOOH) Advertising Networks

We serve market-leading companies, so there is a good chance that if you leave your home today to shop, work, eat or play, you will encounter one or more of our digital signage experiences. Our solutions are increasingly visible because we help our enterprise customers achieve a range of business objectives including:

• Increased brand awareness
• Improved customer support
• Enhanced employee productivity and satisfaction
• Increased revenue and profitability
• Improved guest experience
• Increased customer/guest engagement

Through a combination of organically grown platforms and a series of strategic acquisitions, including our acquisition of Reflect in February 2022, the Company assists clients to design, deploy, manage, and monetize their digital signage networks. The Company sources leads and opportunities for its solutions through its digital and content marketing initiatives, close relationships with key industry partners, specifically equipment manufacturers, and the direct efforts of its in-house industry sales experts. Client engagements focus on consultative conversations that ensure the Company’s solutions are positioned to help clients achieve their business objectives in the most cost-effective manner possible.

When comparing Creative Realities to other digital signage providers, our customers value the following competitive advantages:

• Breadth of solutions – Creative Realities is one of only a few companies in the industry capable of providing the full portfolio of products and services required to implement and run an effective digital signage network. We leverage a ‘single vendor’ approach, providing clients with a one-stop-shop for sourcing digital signage solutions from design through day two services.
• Managed labor pool – Unlike most companies in our industry, we have a curated labor pool including thousands of qualified and vetted field technicians available to service clients quickly nationwide. We can meet tight schedules even in exceptionally large deployments and still ensure quality and consistency.
• In-house creative resources – We assist clients in repurposing existing content for digital signage experiences or creating new content, an activity for which the Company has won several design awards in recent years. In each instance, our services can be essential in helping clients develop an effective content program.
• Network scalability and reliability – Our software as a service (“SaaS”) content management platforms power some of the largest and most complex digital signage networks in North America evidencing our ability to manage enterprise scale projects. This also provides us purchasing power to source products and services for our customers, enabling us to deliver cost effective, reliable and powerful solutions to small and medium size business clients.
• Ad management platform – Our customers are increasingly interested in monetizing their digital signage networks through advertising content. However, efficiently scheduling advertising content into digital signage playlists to meet campaign objectives can be a challenging and labor-intensive process. AdLogic, our home-grown, content management-agnostic platform, automates this process, allowing network owners to capture more revenue with less expense.
• Media sales – Few, if any other digital signage solution providers, can offer their clients media sales as a service. We have in-house media sales expertise to elevate conversations with clients interested in better understanding network monetization. We believe this meaningful differentiation in the sales process provides an additional revenue stream to Creative Realities compared to our competitors.
• Market sector expertise – Creative Realities has in-house experts in key market segments such as automotive, retail, quick-serve restaurants (QSR), convenience stores, and Digital Out of Home (DOOH) advertising. Our expertise in these business segments enables our teams to provide meaningful business conversations and offer tailored solutions with prospects and customers to their unique business objectives. These experts build industry relationships and create thought leadership that drives lead flow and new opportunities for our business.
• Logistics – Implementing a large digital signage project can be a logistics nightmare that can stall an initiative even before deployment. Our expertise in logistics improves deployment efficiency, reduces delays and problems, and saves customers time and money.
• Technical support – Digital signage networks present unique challenges for corporate IT departments. Creative Realities helps simplify and improve end user support by leveraging our own Network Operations Center (“NOC”) in Louisville, Kentucky. The NOC resolves many issues remotely and when field support is required, it can be dispatched from the NOC, leveraging our managed labor pool to resolve customer issues quickly and effectively.
• Integrations and Application Development – The future of digital signage is not still images and videos on a screen. Interactive applications and integrations with other data sources will dominate the future. From social media feeds to corporate data stores to Point of Sale (“POS”) systems, our proven ability to build scalable applications and integrations is a key advantage clients can leverage to deliver more compelling and engaging experiences for their customers.
• Hardware support – A number of digital signage providers sell a proprietary media player or align themselves with just one operating system. We utilize a range of media players including Windows, Android and BrightSign to provide clients the flexibility they need to select the appropriate hardware for any application knowing the entire network can still be served by a single digital signage platform, reducing complexity and improving the productivity of their teams.

The three primary sources of revenue for the Company are:

• Hardware sales from reselling digital signage hardware from original equipment manufacturers such as Samsung and BrightSign.
• Services revenue from helping customers design, deploy and manage their digital signage network, including:
• Hardware system design/engineering
• Hardware installation
• Content development
• Content scheduling
• Post-deployment network and field support
• Media sales
• Recurring subscription licensing and support revenue from our digital signage software platforms, which are generally sold via a SaaS model. These include:
• ReflectView, the Company’s core digital signage platform for most applications, scalable and cost effective from 10 to 100,000+ devices
• Reflect Xperience, a web-based interface that allows customers to give content scheduling access to local users via the web or mobile devices, while still maintaining centralized programming control
• Reflect AdLogic, the Company’s ad management platform for digital signage networks, which presently delivers approximately 50 million ads daily
• Reflect Clarity, the Company’s menu board solution, which has become a market leader for a range of restaurant and convenience store applications
• Reflect Zero Touch, which allows customers to turn any screen into an interactive experience by allowing guests to engage using their mobile device
• iShowroomProX, an omni-channel digital sales support platform targeted at original equipment manufacturers in the transportation sector, which integrates with dozens of key data services including dealer inventory at the VIN level
• OSx+, a digital VIN-level checklist used to assist in the tracking and delivery of new vehicles in the transportation sector, providing measurable lift in customer satisfaction scores and connected vehicle enrollments and subscription activations.

While hardware sales and support services revenues can fluctuate more significantly year over year based on new, large-scale network deployments, the Company expects to see continuous growth in recurring SaaS revenue for the foreseeable future as digital signage adoption/utilization continues to expand across the vertical markets we serve.

Our Expenses

Our expenses are primarily comprised of three categories: sales and marketing, research and development, and general and administrative. Sales and marketing expenses include salaries and benefits for our sales, business development solution management and marketing personnel, and commissions paid on sales. This category also includes amounts spent on marketing networking events, promotional materials, hardware and software to prospective new customers, including those expenses incurred in trade shows and product demonstrations, and other related expenses. Our research and development expenses represent the salaries and benefits of those individuals who develop and maintain our proprietary software platforms and other software applications we design and sell to our customers. Our general and administrative expenses consist of corporate overhead, including administrative salaries, real property lease payments, salaries and benefits for our corporate officers and other expenses such as legal and accounting fees.

Recent Developments

Reverse stock split

On March 23, 2023, the Company filed Articles of Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota to effectuate, effective March 27, 2023, a 1-for-3 stock split of the shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.01 per share.

As a result of the reverse stock split, effective 12:01 am on March 27, 2023, every three shares of common stock then-issued and outstanding automatically combined into one share of common stock, with no change in par value per share. No fractional shares were outstanding following the reverse stock split and any fractional shares resulting from the reverse split were rounded up to the nearest whole share of common stock. In connection with the reverse stock split, the total number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance was reduced from 200,000,000 shares to 66,666,666 shares in proportion to the reverse stock split.

Effective as of the same time as the reverse stock split, the number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the Company's equity compensation plans were reduced in proportion to the reverse stock split. The reverse stock split also resulted in the number of shares of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants, or the exercise or vesting of equity awards, in proportion to the reverse stock split and caused a proportionate increase in exercise price or share-based performance criteria, where applicable.

Rejection of unsolicited offer

On February 2, 2023, we received an unsolicited proposal from Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P., on behalf of itself and certain of its affiliates, including Slipstream (collectively, “Pegasus”), to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company that are not owned by Pegasus for a purchase price of $0.83 per share (or, as a result of our recent reverse stock split, $2.49 per share) in cash. Pegasus is the beneficial owner of our common stock owned of record by Slipstream. The Special Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Special Committee”) has concluded that such proposal undervalues the Company based on the Special Committee’s views of the intrinsic value of the Company’s existing business and current and future prospects, and is not in the best interests of the Company’s existing shareholders. Consequently, the Special Committee has advised Pegasus that it has rejected the proposal.

On May 1, 2023, we received a subsequent unsolicited proposal from Pegasus to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company that are not owned by Pegasus for a purchase price of $2.85 per share in cash. The Special Committee has concluded that such proposal undervalues the Company based on the Special Committee’s views of the intrinsic value of the Company’s existing business and current and future prospects, and is not in the best interests of the Company’s existing shareholders. Consequently, the Special Committee has advised Pegasus that it has rejected the proposal.

Please see Note 5 Business Combinations, Note 8 Loans Payable, Note 11 Warrants, and Note 12 Stock-based Compensation to the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements contained in this Report for a description of recent developments of the Company that occurred during, and subsequent to, the three and six months ended June 30, 2023.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The Company’s significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies of the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Report. The Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Certain accounting policies involve significant judgments, assumptions, and estimates by management that could have a material impact on the carrying value of certain assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Our actual results could differ from those estimates.

Results of Operations

Note: All dollar amounts reported in Results of Operations are in thousands, except share and per-share information.

Three Months Ended June 30, 2023 Compared to Three Months Ended June 30, 2022

The tables presented below compare our results of operations and present the results for each period and the change in those results from one period to another in both dollars and percentage change.

Sales

Sales were $9,196, representing a decrease of $1,727, or 16%, as compared to the same period in 2022. Hardware revenues were $3,437 for the three month period ended June 30, 2023, a decrease of $2,230, or 39%, as compared to the prior year. Hardware revenues generated during the three month period ended June 30, 2022 were driven by two customers which refreshed their digital hardware throughout their entire geographic footprint. These refresh activities are cyclical in nature and no current customer executed a similar large scale refresh during the three months ended June 30, 2023. Those refresh activities represented $2,418 in incremental hardware revenue during the three months ended June 30, 2022. Services and other revenues were $5,759 for the three month period ended June 30, 2023, an increase of $503, or 10%, driven primarily by increases in installation services revenue.

Gross Profit

Gross profit decreased by $364, or 8% during the three months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to the same period in 2022 driven by an increase in installation services revenue.

Gross profit margin increased to 47% during the three months ended June 30, 2023, from 43% in the same period in 2022 driven by (1) favorable revenue mix during the three months ended June 30, 2023 as managed services, which includes higher margin SaaS and other services revenues, increased to 42% of total revenue as compared to 35% of total revenues in the three months ended June 30, 2022, and (2) margin expansion in hardware, partially offset by reduced revenue in the current year.

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Sales and marketing expenses generally include the salaries, taxes, and benefits of our sales and marketing personnel, as well as trade show activities, travel, and other related sales and marketing costs. Sales and marketing expenses increased by $82, or 7%, driven primarily by the Company’s enhanced investments into sales and marketing activities. Following the Merger, the Company adopted certain tools, technology, and processes – particularly with respect to lead generation and brand marketing – that were historically undercapitalized by the Company and have since accelerated new customer acquisition. Through completion of the Merger, the Company also acquired a media sales business unit that serves to monetize customer networks via the direct sale of advertising to be displayed on digital advertising networks owned by those customers. This business utilizes internal and third-party sales agents - the salaries and commissions of which are included within Sales and Marketing Expense within the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations. We expect the sales and marketing expenses of the Company for the three months ended June 30, 2023 to adequately reflect normal spend in these areas in future reporting periods.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses generally include personnel and development tools costs associated with the continued development of the Company’s content management systems and other related application development. The Company capitalizes certain of these expenses and amortizes those costs through the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations on a straight-line basis over the economic useful life of the software feature or functionality. Research and development expenses decreased by $41, or 10%, for the three month period ended June 30, 2023 as compared to the same period in 2022 driven primarily by an elevated level of capitalized activity during the current quarter associated with a customer-facing opportunity.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses were effectively flat, increasing $33, or 1%. Compared to the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company experienced decreases of (1) $203 in stock compensation expense as outstanding performance awards were fully expensed as of December 31, 2022, and (2) reductions in certain expenses following completion of integration activities/projects completed during 2022 following the Merger (including but not limited to consolidation of CMS tools, cloud hosting environments, IT tools) that materialized through the balance of 2022. These decreases were offset by increases of $278 in increased personnel costs as a result of higher headcount following the Merger and scaled up operations in response to an increase in customer acquisitions.

Depreciation and Amortization Expenses

Depreciation and amortization expenses increased $329, or 70%, in the three months ended June 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, driven by incremental amortization expense generated from the addition of $17,160 in amortizing intangible assets on February 17, 2022, as a result of the Merger, and a measurement period adjustment recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2022 which artificially reduced the total depreciation and amortization expense. The Company current expects depreciation and amortization expense to be approximately $800 per quarter for the remainder of 2023.

Interest Expense

See Note 8 Loans Payable to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the Company’s debt and related interest expense obligations.

Changes in Fair Value of Warrant Liability

During the three month period ended June 30, 2022, the Company recorded a gain of $2,433 as the result of assessing the fair value of warrant liabilities associated with the Company’s issuance of warrants in its debt and equity offerings completed in February 2022 to finance the Merger. These warrants were initially assessed at fair value through Black Scholes calculation, with changes in fair value recognized at each period end.

Loss on Warrant Amendment

Effective June 30, 2022, the Company amended the terms of certain warrants previously issued to its creditor and an investor, which removed the holder’s option to exercise such warrants on a cashless basis utilizing the VWAP of the Company’s common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date of a notice of cashless exercise in certain circumstances, and removed the condition to exercising such warrants that the Company’s shareholders approve the exercise thereof (which had already been obtained). The amendments to the warrants extended the term of such warrants for an additional one year. As a result of the extension in term provided in exchange for the amendment, the Company reassessed the fair value of those warrants, resulting in the Company recording a loss on the fair value of these warrants of $345. The foregoing amendments to the warrants resulted in such warrants to be accounted for as equity instruments on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements as of June 30, 2022.

Six Months Ended June 30, 2023 Compared to Six Months Ended June 30, 2022

The tables presented below compare our results of operations and present the results for each period and the change in those results from one period to another in both dollars and percentage change.

Sales

Sales were $19,140, representing a decrease of $2,540, or 12%, as compared to the same period in 2022. Hardware revenues were $7,759 for the six month period ended June 30, 2023 as compared to $12,126 for the six month period ended June 30, 2022, a decrease of $4,367, or 36%. Hardware revenues generated during the six month period ended June 30, 2023 were driven by two customers which refreshed their digital hardware throughout their entire geographic footprint . These refresh activities are cyclical in nature and no current customer executed a similar large scale refresh during the six months ended June 30, 2023. Those refresh activities represented $4,418 in incremental hardware revenue during the six months ended June 30, 2022.

Services and other revenues were $11,381 for the six month period ended June 30, 2023, an increase of $1,827, or 19%, driven by growth in managed services revenue. Managed services revenue, which includes both SaaS and help desk technical subscription services, as well as non-contracted recurring content management services, were $7,907 in the six months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to $6,535 in the same period in 2022, driven by expansion in the Company's SaaS revenue and the inclusion of Reflect revenue for a full six months in the current year as compared to approximately four and one half months during the six months ended June 30, 2022 as a result of the Merger closing on February 17, 2022. This represents a year-over-year growth rate of 21% in our higher margin, primarily subscription-based, managed services revenue.

Gross Profit

Gross profit increased by $833, or 10% during the six months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to the same period in 2022 driven by improvements in hardware gross margins as a result of a significant deployment with gross margin of approximately 25%.

Gross profit margin increased to 49% during the six months ended June 30, 2023, from 39% in the same period in 2022 driven by (1) favorable revenue mix as managed services revenue, which includes higher margin SaaS and other services revenues, increased to 41% of total revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2023 as compared to 30% of total revenues in the six months ended June 30, 2022 and (2) margin expansion in hardware partially offset by reduced revenue in the current year.

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Sales and marketing expenses generally include the salaries, taxes, and benefits of our sales and marketing personnel, as well as trade show activities, travel, and other related sales and marketing costs. Sales and marketing expenses increased by $511, or 28%, driven primarily by (1) the acquisition of Reflect via the Merger on February 17, 2022, and (2) the Company’s enhanced investments into sales and marketing activities. Following the Merger, the Company adopted certain tools, technology, and processes – particularly with respect to lead generation and brand marketing – that were historically undercapitalized by the Company and have since accelerated new customer acquisition. Through completion of the Merger, the Company also acquired a media sales business unit that serves to monetize customer networks via the direct sale of advertising to be displayed on digital advertising networks owned by those customers. This business utilizes internal and third party sales agents - the salaries and commissions of which are included within Sales and Marketing Expense within the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations. We expect the sales and marketing expenses of the Company for the six months ended June 30, 2023 to adequately reflect the normal spend in these areas in future reporting periods.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses generally include personnel and development tools costs associated with the continued development of the Company’s content management systems and other related application development. The Company capitalizes certain of these expenses and amortizes those costs through the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations on a straight-line basis over the economic useful life of the software feature or functionality. Research and development expenses increased by $84, or 13%, for the six month period ended June 30, 2023 as compared to the same period in 2022 driven primarily by incremental headcount added via completion of the Merger on February 17, 2022. Through the Merger, we acquired a fully staffed, experienced software development team and elected to keep that team in-tact, particularly given current competitive employment market conditions with respect to talented software engineers. We integrated the development teams which has enhanced speed to market on new feature and functionality development activities. We expect a continued elevated level of expenditure and capitalized activity through the third quarter of 2023 associated with a customer-facing opportunity, followed by a return to spending levels consistent with the Company’s results for the second quarter of 2022, which adequately reflect the pace for spend in these areas in future reporting periods.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses were effectively flat, increasing $71, or 1%. As compared to the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company experienced decreases of (1) $456 in stock compensation expense as outstanding performance awards were fully expensed as of December 31, 2022, and (2) reductions in certain expenses following completion of integration activities/projects completed during 2022 following the Reflect Merger (including but not limited to consolidation of CMS tools, cloud hosting environments, IT tools) that materialized through the balance of 2022. These decreases were partially offset by increases of (1) $313 in increased personnel costs as the Company scaled up operations in response to an increase in customer acquisitions, (2) $133 in legal expenses associated with the Company's establishment of a Special Committee of the Board of Directors to consider and respond to an unsolicited proposal of a Company shareholder to acquire certain outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, as well as settlement of two open litigation matters during the period, and (3) other operating costs, each primarily associated with the consolidation of Reflect for six months in 2023, as compared to reporting consolidation of Reflect for only 134 days during the six months ended June 30, 2022 as a result of completion of the Reflect Merger on February 17, 2022.

Depreciation and amortization expenses

Depreciation and amortization expenses increased $401, or 34%, in the six months ended June 30, 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, driven primarily by incremental amortization expense generated from the addition of $17,160 in amortizing intangible assets on February 17, 2022, as a result of the Merger.

Interest expense

See Note 8 Loans Payable to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the Company’s debt and related interest expense obligations.

Changes in fair value of warrant liability; Loss on warrant amendment

During the six month period ended June 30, 2022, the Company recorded a gain of $7,902 as the result of assessing the fair value of warrant liabilities associated with the Company’s issuance of warrants in its debt and equity offerings completed in February 2022 to finance the Merger. These warrants were initially assessed at fair value through Black Scholes calculation, with changes in fair value recognized at each period end.

Effective June 30, 2022, the Company amended the terms of certain warrants previously issued to its creditor and an investor, which removed the holder’s option to exercise such warrants on a cashless basis utilizing the VWAP of the Company’s common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date of a notice of cashless exercise in certain circumstances, and removed the condition to exercising such warrants that the Company’s shareholders approve the exercise thereof (which had already been obtained). The amendments to the warrants extended the term of such warrants for an additional one year (collectively, the "Warrant Amendment"). The foregoing amendments to the warrants resulted in such warrants to be accounted for as equity instruments in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Changes in fair value of equity guarantee

The Company has contingent consideration arrangements related to the Merger to potentially pay additional cash amounts in future periods based on the lack of achievement of certain share price performance goals of our common stock. Such contingent consideration arrangements are recorded at fair value and are classified as liabilities on the acquisition date and are remeasured at each reporting period in accordance with ASC 805-30-35-1 using a Monte Carlo simulation model. The change in the period represents the mark-to-market adjustment as of the balance sheet dates.

Loss on debt waiver consent

During the six months ended June 30, 2022, in connection with obtaining a waiver of certain restrictions in investment documents between an investor and the Company in order to consummate the financing contemplated by the Company's credit agreement with Slipstream, the Company paid consideration to such investor in the form of the Purchaser Warrant to purchase 466,667 shares of Company common stock in an at-the-market offering under Nasdaq rules. The number of shares of Company common stock subject to the Purchaser Warrant was equal to the waiver fee ($175) divided by $0.375 per share. The exercise price of the Purchaser Warrant is $4.23 per share, and the Purchaser Warrant became exercisable on August 17, 2022. The Purchaser Warrant expires six years from the date of issuance following execution of the Warrant Amendment. At the date of issuance, the Company performed a Black-Scholes valuation of the Purchaser Warrant, resulting in a fair value of $2.5968 per warrant. In recording the warrant liability, the Company recorded an expense in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations associated with the issuance of the Purchaser Warrant of $1,212 for the six months ended June 30, 20222. No such transactions occurred in the current period.

Loss on extinguishment of debt

During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company refinanced its debt facilities with Slipstream. The Company assessed the combination of the pre-existing senior secured term loan and secured convertible loan in accordance with ASC 470 Debt and determined the transaction should be accounted for as an extinguishment, in part as the Consolidation Term Loan eliminated a substantive conversion feature. In aggregate the Company recorded a loss on extinguishment of $295, primarily associated with the write-off of pre-existing debt discounts. No such transactions occurred in the current period.

Summary Unaudited Quarterly Financial Information

The following represents unaudited financial information derived from the Company’s quarterly financial statements:

Liquidity and Capital Resources

See Note 1 Nature of Organization and Operations to the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of liquidity and financial resources.

Operating Activities

The net cash provided by operating activities during the six months ended June 30, 2023 was $6,344 compared to net cash used in operating activities of $63 for the same period in 2022. Cash provided by operating activities in the six month period ending June 30, 2023, was driven by a reduction in accounts receivable, inventory and prepaid assets of $1,458, $1,119 and $1,035, respectively. In addition, deferred revenue and customer deposits increased $1,604 and $1,507 respectively.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2023 was $2,203 compared to $19,546 during the same period in 2022. The use of cash in the prior year was driven by completion of the Merger. We currently do not have any material commitments for capital expenditures as of June 30, 2023; however, we anticipate continued elevated capital expenditures in excess of historical trends through third quarter of 2023 as we complete the modernization and internationalization of our automotive platform in an effort to capture incremental SaaS-based revenue contracts.

Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2023 was $2,510 compared to net cash provided by financing activities of $19,566 for the same period in 2022. The change is the result of the Company’s completion of equity and debt financing in the first quarter of 2022 to facilitate the Merger, which provided net cash of $10,109 and $9,868, respectively. Net cash used in financing activities during the six month period ended June 30, 2023, primarily represents repayments made on the Secured Promissory Note and Term Loan (2022) of $623 and $1,881, respectively.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, we did not engage in any off-balance sheet arrangements set forth in Item 303(a)(4) of Regulation S-K.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

An evaluation was performed under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer), of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of June 30, 2023, and designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended June 30, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

As a smaller reporting company, we are not required to provide the information required by this Item; however, the discussion of our business and operations should be read together with the Risk Factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 30, 2023 and subsequent filings made with the SEC. Such risks and uncertainties have the potential to affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flow, strategies or prospects in a material and adverse manner. In addition, below is an additional risk factor for which you should be aware:

If we are unable to extend the maturity or replace our existing financing agreements in the future, our plans to operate our business may be adversely affected and we could be required to curtail our activities significantly and/or cease operating.

As of August 4, 2023, our largest shareholder and investor, Slipstream Communications LLC (“Slipstream”) is the holder of 96% of our outstanding debt instruments, including three term loans, and has beneficial ownership of approximately 38% of our common stock (on an as-converted, fully diluted basis including conversion of outstanding warrants, and assuming no other convertible securities, options and warrants are converted or exercised by other parties). Historically, we have been able to obtain a continuing support letter from Slipstream, a factor that has previously alleviated the substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

Pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Credit and Security Agreement (the "Credit Agreement") made between the Company and Slipstream Communications ("Slipstream") the Company is required to make monthly repayments of principal on the Consolidation Term Loan beginning on September 1, 2023 and on the first day of each month thereafter until the Maturity Date on February 17, 2025. The monthly principal payment beginning on September 1, 2023 is approximately $399, or total principal repayments for the twelve months subsequent to the reporting date of these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements of $4,389. As a result of the principal debt service payments required to be paid on account of the Consolidation Term Loan, the Company does not currently have cash on hand or committed available liquidity to repay all of its outstanding debt due within one year after the date that these financial statements are issued. These conditions and events raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern under the technical framework within ASU 205-40.

In response to these conditions, management plans to either refinance or recapitalize the debt should the Company not produce sufficient cash flows to continue to make repayments of principal. However, these plans have not been finalized and are not completely within the Company's control, and therefore cannot be deemed probable under ASU 205-40. We have been unable to obtain a continuing support letter from Slipstream beyond the period ending May 31, 2024. Obtaining a continuing support letter from Slipstream beyond one year of our report date was a factor that previously alleviated the substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. As a result, the Company has concluded that management's plans do not alleviate substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.

If we are unable to extend the maturity or replace our existing financing agreements in the future, our plans to operate our business may be adversely affected and we could be required to curtail our activities significantly and/or cease operating.