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Share-based Compensation
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2021
Disclosure Of Compensation Related Costs Sharebased Payments [Abstract]  
Share-based Compensation

8. Share-based compensation

On March 22, 2018, the board of directors of the Company and Cogint, Inc. (“cogint”) (now known as Fluent, Inc.), in its capacity as sole stockholder of the Company prior to the Company’s spin-off from cogint on March 26, 2018, approved the Red Violet, Inc. 2018 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”), which became effective immediately prior to the spin-off. A total of 3,000,000 shares of common stock were authorized to be issued under the 2018 Plan. On June 3, 2020, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the 2018 Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2018 Plan from 3,000,000 shares to 4,500,000 shares.

The primary purpose of the 2018 Plan is to attract, retain, reward and motivate certain individuals by providing them with an opportunity to acquire or increase a proprietary interest in the Company and to incentivize them to expend maximum effort for the growth and success of the Company, so as to strengthen the mutuality of the interests between such individuals and the stockholders of the Company.

As of June 30, 2021, there were 1,272,315 shares of common stock available for future issuance under the 2018 Plan, as amended.

To date, all stock incentives issued under the 2018 Plan have been in the form of RSUs. RSUs granted under the 2018 Plan vest and settle upon the satisfaction of a time-based condition or with both time- and performance-based conditions. The time-based condition for these awards is generally satisfied over three or four years with annual vesting. Details of unvested RSU activity during the six months ended June 30, 2021 were as follows:

 

 

Number of units

 

 

Weighted average

grant-date fair value

 

Unvested as of December 31, 2020

 

 

1,764,450

 

 

$

11.43

 

Granted

 

 

4,000

 

 

$

20.89

 

Vested and delivered(1)

 

 

(81,467

)

 

$

9.44

 

Vested not delivered

 

 

(4,000

)

 

$

6.10

 

Forfeited

 

 

(5,901

)

 

$

23.15

 

Unvested as of June 30, 2021

 

 

1,677,082

 

 

$

11.52

 

(1)

During the period from August 29, 2019 to September 8, 2020, the Company granted an aggregate of 277,500 RSUs to its employees. Such RSU grants shall not vest unless and until the Company has, for any fiscal quarter in which the RSUs are outstanding, (i) gross revenue determined in accordance with the Company’s reviewed or audited financial statements in excess of $10.0 million for such fiscal quarter, (ii) positive adjusted EBITDA of at least $1.5 million, as determined based on amounts derived from the Company’s reviewed or audited financial statements for such fiscal quarter, and (iii) the recipient continues to provide services to the Company either as an employee, director or consultant on the last day of the quarter that the performance criteria are met. Provided the performance criteria are met, the RSUs will vest in accordance with the time-based requirements contained in the award agreement over three or four years. In the event of a change of control, all RSUs which have not vested on the date of such change of control shall immediately vest even if the performance criteria have not been met. As of the respective grant dates, the Company determined that it was probable that the performance criteria would be met and therefore, began to record the related amortization expense on the grant dates. The Company determined that the performance criteria were met as of March 31, 2021, and 33,200 shares were included in “Vested and delivered” in the table above. The remaining shares underlying such awards are expected to vest and be issued in accordance with their time-based vesting requirement.

As of June 30, 2021, unrecognized share-based compensation expense associated with the granted RSUs amounted to $6,864, which is expected to be recognized over a remaining weighted average period of 2.0 years.

Share-based compensation was allocated to the following accounts in the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

Sales and marketing expenses

 

$

158

 

 

$

155

 

 

$

314

 

 

$

309

 

General and administrative expenses

 

 

2,007

 

 

 

2,187

 

 

 

3,897

 

 

 

4,254

 

Share-based compensation expense

 

 

2,165

 

 

 

2,342

 

 

 

4,211

 

 

 

4,563

 

Capitalized in intangible assets

 

 

344

 

 

 

468

 

 

 

695

 

 

 

1,056

 

Total

 

$

2,509

 

 

$

2,810

 

 

$

4,906

 

 

$

5,619