Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The discussion contains forward-looking statements, including with respect to the durability of the acceleration we have experienced in the near term on consumer preferences for digital ordering, transaction volumes, and customer adoption of multi-modules, that are based on the beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, our management. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed in or implied by forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed below and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” We have omitted discussion of 2019 results where it would be redundant to the discussion previously included in our final prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on March 18, 2021, or the Prospectus, pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act. Overview We are Olo, a leading open SaaS platform for restaurants. Our platform powers restaurant brands’ on-demand digital commerce operations, enabling digital ordering, delivery, front-of-house, or FOH, management and payments, while further strengthening and enhancing the restaurants’ direct consumer relationships. Consumers today expect more on-demand convenience and personalization from restaurants, particularly through digital channels, but many restaurants lack the in-house infrastructure and expertise to satisfy this increasing demand in a cost- effective manner. We provide restaurants with a business-to-business-to-consumer, enterprise-grade, open SaaS platform to manage their complex digital businesses and enable fast and more personalized experiences for their customers. Our platform and application programming interfaces, or APIs, seamlessly integrate with a wide range of solutions, unifying disparate technologies across the restaurant ecosystem. Restaurant brands rely on us to increase their digital omni-channel sales, maximize profitability, establish and maintain direct consumer relationships, and collect, protect, and leverage valuable consumer data. As a result of our ability to meet restaurant brands’ growing needs, gross merchandise value, or GMV, which we define as the gross value of orders processed through our platform, has increased on an annual basis, reaching more than $20 billion in GMV during the year ended December 31, 2021. Our well-established platform has led many of the major publicly traded and top 50 fastest growing private restaurant brands, measured by overall sales, in the United States to work with us and has been a factor in our high dollar-based net revenue retention. See the section titled “Key Factors Affecting Our Performance” below for additional information on how we calculate dollar-based net revenue retention. Further, industry- recognized outlets, including Restaurant Business Online, QSR Magazine, and AP News, have also deemed Olo a leading food ordering platform for the restaurant industry. We built Olo with th e goal of being the leading SaaS platform for the restaurant industry by aligning the solutions we have developed with the needs of our customers. Our platform initially focused on our Order Management solutions, a suite of fully-integrated, white-label, on-demand digital commerce and channel management solutions, enabling guests to order and pay directly from restaurants via mobile, web, kiosk, voice, and other digital channels, through our Ordering, Network, Switchboard, Kiosk, and Virtual Brands modules. We then expanded our platform by launching our Delivery Enablement s olution s , including Dispatch, our delivery enablement module, and Rails, our aggregator and channel management module. In 2021 we acquired Wisely Inc, or Wisely. This acquisition added our Customer Engagement s olution s , a suite of restaurant- centric marketing and sentiment solutions enabling restaurants to collect, analyze, and act on guest data to deepen relationships, boost revenue, and increase Customer Lifetime Value, or CLV, through the Marketing Automation, Sentiment, and Customer Data Platform, or CDP, modules, as well as our Front-of-House solutions, which enable restaurants to streamline the queue orders from multiple sales channels, optimize seat utilization in the dining room, and increase flow-through of reservation and waitlist parties through the Host module. The key milestones in our corporate history are the following: • 2005: Olo Founder and CEO Noah Glass accepted $0.5 million in Series A funding to start Mobo. • 2010: We renamed our company to “Olo” and shifted our focus to enterprise customers. • 2013: We surpassed $50 million in GMV and expanded our executive leadership team. • 2014: We surpassed $100 million in GMV, and restaurateur Danny Meyer joined our Board of Directors. • 2015: We launched Dispatch, our first significant product extension. 48
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