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| We believe differentiated product integrations with amazing partners like Salesforce, the product-enhancing acquisitions of Tagger and Repustate, and rapidly expanding enterprise capabilities have positioned Sprout to lead our category |
| We’re entering 2024 with notable momentum and an expanding scope of growth opportunities |
| We are proud to deliver fantastic fourth quarter results |
| With more than 3x current Sprout ACVs and a meaningful opportunity to further differentiate Sprout while cross-selling into our customer base, we believe Tagger is on track to achieve our $100 million ARR target |
| Earlier this month, we were rated as the number one best software product by G2 across the entire software industry, adding to leadership across all of the major categories in which we compete |
| We believe our product leadership and outstanding execution have Sprout position for a breakout year as we define category leadership |
| During Q4, we saw continued record new business ACVs and total ACV growth of 43% year-over-year |
| We added record net new organic 10K and 50K customers, and our premium product attach rate is now 30%, with premium product ARR growing greater than 50% year-over-year |
| Record new business deal sizes and early returns from influencer marketing each compounded ongoing healthy seat expansion and premium module attach rates |
| And if you kind of layer that into the success we saw in the quarter, you can just show it just really reflects the strength that we’ve seen in the mid-market and enterprise business |
| Record ARR was led primarily by rapid enterprise new business growth, accelerating premium module attach rates, and continued early Tagger momentum |
| Our focus strategy is yielding powerful results |
| This is reinforcing the strength of our strategy and our differentiation |
| So the trajectory is really good |
| We continue to see a lot of good opportunity with that Salesforce pipeline |
| We think that as we continue to do a good job in the parts of the market that we’ve always been successful in and upmarket into the large enterprise logos that we’ve been talking about the last couple of quarters |
| We continue to invest in our future and our increasingly targeted investments in AI and social customer care are delivering strong returns |
| We see massive potential to unify what should be standard social capabilities for all global businesses, and to accelerate premium product attach rates and ACV growth |
| Exiting 2023, our premium product attach rate increased to 30%, and total premium module ARR is now growing greater than 50% year-over-year |
| The acceleration of these metrics reflects our underlying momentum in the enterprise, highlights rapidly improving quality of our business, and revenues are highest ever quarterly total contract value bookings by nearly 80% |
| Q4 ACV growth was a record 43% year-over-year |
| We expect rapid ACV growth, similar to second half 2023 ACV growth rates to continue over the medium term during my strengths and enterprise, influencer marketing and customer care |
| Non-GAAP operating income for Q4 was $1.7 million, for 1.8% non-GAAP operating margin, an improvement of 100 basis points year-over-year |
| Total ARR as in Q4 was $385.2 million, up 30% year-over-year, and ahead of our expectation |
| I think that we see Tagger’s upside |
| Social Care is the fastest growing market on our SAM, and we believe we are well positioned to lead that market |
| We see continued acceleration with the Care use cases is upside and a bunch of other things |
| We believe we transformed our business model to position us to deliver increasingly durable and increasingly efficient growth |
| During Q4, we delivered another very strong performance with new logos similar to Q4 of last year, but with 40% more new ARR than Q4 2022 |
| We believe our single code base coupled with strong and dynamic partner relationships are key competitive differentiators for Sprout, and are extending our moat as we scale |
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| Non-GAAP free cash flow was negative $0.3 million, down from a year ago |
| The year-over-year growth rate of our total customer base will likely still decline and probably trough in Q1 |
| Our strategic changes in 2023 and the emphasis on low-value, low-potential customers accelerated sharing on our SMB and agency segments, which was a substantial drag on reported NDR |
| To make sure, our business has changed maturely, we have increasingly fewer month-to-month customers, which has been a drag on reported ARR as we’ve shifted resources to support higher value customers |
| Non-core customers further declined in Q4 and now represent less than 800K in ARR |
| Operating cash flow in Q4 was negative $2.6 million compared to positive $3.0 million a year-ago |
| Ending the year, a competitor of yours recently noted what they called a heightened level of down-sell in the fourth quarter |
| In 2023, our overall dollar-based net retention rate was 107%, down from 109% in 2022 |
| If you just look at the demand we’re seeing the size of the deals we’re seeing, we will definitely drive lower operating margin in the first couple of quarters |
| We’re just not feeling that |
| We’ve doubled down on our thesis that social is maturing as the primary communication channel between brands and their customers |
| Typically, we’re hearing from our customers that they’re challenged with a few things, be it the most complex parts of the platform that they’re trying to get access to, like listening and reporting, where they’re finding great value in Sprout |
| You think you said non-core customers will no longer act as a headwind to growth |
| So if you think about the ARR that we turned in 2023 related to the non-core, there was a chunk of that was in the agency, especially on the smaller side of the agency business that’s dragging that number down |
| And they talked about customers renewing at lower seat counts, obviously, there’s been plenty of layoffs across tech and various industries as late |
| This business will no longer be a headwind to growth in 2024 |
| And then we expect that in the back half of 2024 to start to decline, but still be higher than the historical kind of ACV growth that you saw from us |
| I would have expected that maybe to show up in that net retention rate, but perhaps some of the business transition is having an impact there |
| Without a social media management tool in place, it would be impossible for us to coordinate efforts across nearly 500 accounts |
| Non-GAAP research and development expenses for Q4 were $17.1 million, or 18% of revenue, down from 19% a year ago |
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