NOTE 1 – BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, NATURE OF OPERATIONS, RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Organization and Operations

Kubient, Inc. (“Kubient” or the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, was incorporated in May 2017 to solve some of the most significant problems facing the global digital advertising industry.

The Company’s experienced team of marketing and technology veterans has developed the Audience Cloud, a modular, highly scalable, transparent, cloud-based software platform for real-time trading of digital, Programmatic Advertising. The Company’s platform’s open marketplace gives both advertisers (ad space buyers) and Publishers (ad space sellers) the ability to use machine learning in the most critical parts of any Programmatic Advertising inventory auction, while simultaneously and significantly reducing those advertisers and Publishers’ exposure to fraud, even in a Pre-bid environment.

By becoming a one stop shop for advertisers and publishers, providing them with the technology to deliver meaningful messages to their target audience, all in one place, on a single platform that is computationally efficient, transparent, and as safely fraud-free as possible, the Company believes that its platform (and the application of its machine learning algorithms) leads to increased publisher revenue, lower advertiser cost, reduced latency and increased economic transparency during the advertising auction process.

Risks and Uncertainties

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19, a novel strain of coronavirus, a pandemic, which continues to spread throughout the United States and the world. This has resulted in authorities implementing numerous measures to contain the virus, including quarantines, “shelter-in-place” and “stay-at-home” orders, travel restrictions, and temporary closures of non-essential businesses. We have taken proactive measures to protect the health and safety of our employees and customers by closing our offices, requiring employees to work from home and suspending travel, in-person meetings and visits with our customers. We expect to continue these measures until the pandemic is adequately contained as determined by authorities.

While the Company’s financial condition and results of operations for the fiscal year 2020 has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has begun to see an increase in its customers’ advertising budgets beyond pre-pandemic levels. As a result, the Company recorded a corresponding increase in its advertising impression Volumes during the quarter ended September 30, 2020. Furthermore, the Company has recorded advertising impression Volumes in the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2020 that have actually exceeded pre-pandemic levels. In addition, as of September 30, 2020 all of the Company’s customers have returned to normal, pre-pandemic payment terms, such that the Company’s profit margins have returned to pre-pandemic levels as well. 

We are monitoring the impact of the pandemic on our business and implementing plans to take appropriate actions to adapt to changing circumstances arising from the pandemic, but there can be no assurances that the Company’s advertising impression Volumes and profit margins will stay above pre-pandemic levels for the remainder of fiscal 2020 and beyond.  

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic could have a long-term impact on the Company’s customers after 2020, which would reduce their demand for Company products. The extent to which COVID-19 or any other health epidemic may impact the Company’s results beyond 2020 will depend on future developments that could be outside the Company’s control, and which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information that may emerge concerning the severity of the overall economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, COVID-19 could continue to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects during the remainder of 2020 and beyond. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, such statements include all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring items) which are considered necessary for a fair presentation of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company as of September 30, 2020 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019. The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full year ending December 31, 2020 or any other period. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related disclosures as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 and for the years then ended which are included the Registration Statement filed on Form S-1/A on August 11, 2020.

Reverse Stock Split

A  1:9 reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock was effected on August 6, 2020 (the “Reverse Stock Split”). All share and per share information has been retroactively adjusted to give effect to the Reverse Stock Split for all periods presented, unless otherwise indicated.