Prospectus Summary
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read the following summary together with the more detailed information appearing in this prospectus, including “Risk Factors,” “Selected Consolidated Financial Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Business” and our consolidated financial statements and related notes before deciding whether to purchase shares of our common stock. Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms “Barracuda Networks,” “Barracuda,” “the company,” “we,” “us” and “our” in this prospectus refer to Barracuda Networks, Inc., and its subsidiaries. Our fiscal year end is February 28/29, and our fiscal quarters end on May 31, August 31, November 30 and February 28/29. Our fiscal years ended February 28, 2010, February 28, 2011, February 29, 2012 and February 28, 2013 are referred to herein as fiscal 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.BARRACUDA NETWORKS, INC.
Overview
Barracuda designs and delivers powerful yet easy-to-use security and storage solutions. We offer cloud-connected solutions that help our customers address security threats, improve network performance and protect and store their data. Our solutions are designed to simplify IT operations for our customers, allowing them to enhance their return on technology investment. Our business model is built on the core values of speed and agility, which we apply to all aspects of our approach, including our technology innovations, the delivery and deployment of our solutions and responses to customer inquiries. This model has enabled us to be highly scalable in reaching a large number of potential customers. Since inception, we have sold our solutions to more than 150,000 customers located in more than 100 countries.
Our security and storage solutions are connected to our cloud services which enable continuous software updates, offsite redundancy and distributed capacity, and are offered on a subscription basis. Our solutions are delivered as cloud-connected appliances and virtual appliances, as well as cloud-only solutions. Our security solutions are designed to protect and optimize the performance of the most critical points within our customers’ IT infrastructures, including email servers, web applications, data centers and core networks. Our storage solutions are designed to backup and archive business-critical data and make such data accessible for purposes such as compliance, disaster recovery and business intelligence. Our storage solutions also allow users to securely and quickly access, share, synchronize and sign files from Internet-connected devices. Our solutions can be managed centrally in any size or type of deployment through integrated, easy-to-use web interfaces that support configuration, monitoring and reporting.
We design our solutions specifically for IT professionals in resource-constrained environments who seek to benefit from current and emerging trends in information technology such as the rapid growth in cloud computing, adoption of virtualization, proliferation of mobile devices and the associated explosion of data. Our customers work in all types of organizations, from mid-market businesses, governments and educational institutions, to departments or divisions within Fortune 2000 enterprises.
We nurture a culture that delivers value through simplicity to optimize our customers’ experiences. From the design of our solutions to our sales processes, customer support, manufacturing and delivery, we strive to make our solutions easy to purchase, install, maintain and update. We believe that Barracuda has become a highly visible and recognizable brand as a trusted IT partner. We design our solutions to be easy to use and to deploy without the need for special expertise or external support from IT specialists, and also to provide powerful capabilities that can be optimized to meet the requirements of resource-constrained environments. We employ a high-velocity sales model that incorporates a 30-day right to return, real-time order fulfillment and a simple, low-cost entry point to make our customers’ purchase decisions and deployments seamless, easy and efficient. Through our recurring subscription services, we provide our customers with up-to-date features, functionality and real-time security protection, eliminating the need for costly upgrades or additional software purchases. We answer our phones live 24x7x365, and endeavor to treat every customer call with the same high priority. Central to our culture is a focus on the long-term customer experience, including an ongoing dialogue with our customers to enhance our features and solutions. Our development and fulfillment processes rapidly deliver new services and functionality to our customers, enabling them to improve their time to value and return on technology investment through low total cost of ownership, easy integration and accelerated deployment of our security and storage solutions.
For fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013, and for the six months ended August 31, 2013, our gross billings were $191.3 million, $233.2 million, $264.2 million and $150.5 million, respectively. For fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013, and for the six months ended August 31, 2013, our total revenue was $142.1 million, $160.9 million, $198.9 million and $114.1 million, respectively. We believe that the subscription nature of our solutions provides us with enhanced financial visibility. Subscription revenue for fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013 and for the six months ended August 31, 2013 represented approximately 63%, 73%, 70% and 69% of our total revenue, respectively. For fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013, and for the six months ended August 31, 2013, net income (loss) to Barracuda was $3.0 million, $0.6 million, $(7.4) million and $(4.6) million, respectively. For fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013, and for the six months ended August 31, 2013, our free cash flow, adjusted for acquisition costs and other non-recurring charges, was $34.4 million, $35.4 million, $41.1 million and $11.0 million, respectively.
Industry Background
Modern IT Trends Offer Attractive Benefits to All Organizations
Organizations are looking to take advantage of important technology trends, particularly the rapid growth of cloud computing, proliferation of mobile devices, widespread use of web applications like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube and increased adoption of virtualization and software defined networking, or SDN. These advanced technology trends can be exploited by organizations to gain significant competitive advantages and to support core business operations, enable dramatic efficiency gains and open up new go-to-market channels and revenue opportunities.
The Confluence of IT Trends Creates a Set of Obstacles that IT Professionals Must Address
IT trends are significantly changing the way that IT infrastructures are designed, deployed and secured, creating a complex and rapidly evolving set of challenges that need to be addressed by IT professionals.
of this information at all times. As a result, organizations cannot afford to lose access to business critical data and need a cost effective and scalable way to ensure that their data is being stored safely and can be recovered rapidly.
Organizations Need a New Approach to IT in Resource-Constrained Environments
Rapidly changing dynamics in today’s IT landscape are forcing organizations of all sizes to evolve their IT strategies. Fortune 500 companies are better positioned to address these challenges as they typically have core IT departments that can comprise a significant number of highly skilled and specialized computer scientists and engineers, as well as IT budgets that can be in the billions of dollars. We believe that there are millions of underserved organizations without these resources. These organizations include small and mid-market businesses, governments, educational institutions and departments or divisions within Fortune 2000 enterprises. IT professionals within these organizations seek powerful yet easy-to-use solutions to address the challenges posed by these trends.
We believe most traditional software and hardware vendors have designed their products and business operations to cater primarily to the largest companies. These solutions typically fail to meet the needs of resource-constrained organizations in several key ways:
Our Market Opportunity
We operate in a number of established, multi-billion dollar segments across the security and storage markets that we estimate were approximately $30 billion in 2012, based on market data from established third-party market research firms. We define our security market as the web access management, secure email gateway, secure web gateway, intrusion prevention systems equipment, secure socket layer virtual private network, or VPN, equipment, VPN/firewall equipment and application delivery controllers segments. According to Gartner, estimated spending on these security segments was $14.4 billion worldwide in 2012. We define our storage market as the archival disk-based storage, archiving software, purpose-built backup appliances and data protection software and hardware segments. According to IDC, estimated spending on these storage segments was $15.9 billion worldwide in 2012. The market for the above security and storage segments for companies with less than 5,000 employees was $14.8 billion in 2012, according to a study we commissioned from Compass Intelligence. Compass Intelligence further estimates there were 20.8 million companies worldwide with less than 5,000 employees in 2012.
Our Business Model
Since our founding, we have designed our solutions, established our culture and built our business model to cater specifically to the needs of IT professionals in resource-constrained environments. We maintain control of the value chain across our solutions, marketing efforts, sales processes, manufacturing, delivery and customer support. This integrated model enables us to tailor the customer experience to deliver powerful yet easy-to-use security and storage solutions and high-value, recurring subscriptions to IT professionals in the way that works best for their organizations.
Key elements of our business model include:
By offering a portfolio of solutions that includes cloud-connected appliances and virtual appliances, as well as cloud-only solutions, we are able to engineer functionality to align with, and take advantage of, the benefits of each form factor. This alignment increases overall value for our customers through more integrated solutions, and for our business through lower infrastructure and fewer materials costs. Our high-velocity sales model enables faster adoption of our solutions by customers and benefits our business by enabling us to improve our return on investment in sales and marketing. Our efficient manufacturing and fulfillment enables fast delivery of our solutions to customers and benefits our business through our ability to maintain low inventory levels and minimal overhead expenses. Our customer support proactively resolves customer issues and, we believe, results in higher renewal rates and new cross-sell opportunities for us. Our subscription model provides our customers with continuous and transparent access to the latest functionality enhancements and a highly visible, recurring revenue stream for our business.
Our Competitive Strengths
We believe we have a number of competitive advantages that will enable us to maintain and extend our leadership position including:
Our Strategy
Our goal is to maintain and extend our leadership position as a global provider of solutions that simplify complex IT problems for IT professionals in resource-constrained organizations. Key elements of our growth strategy include:
Risks Affecting Us
Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including those highlighted in the section titled “Risk Factors” immediately following this prospectus summary. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
Corporate Information
We were incorporated in 2003 in the State of California under the name Barracuda Networks, Inc. and in 2004 reincorporated in the State of Delaware. Our principal executive offices are located at 3175 S. Winchester Blvd., Campbell, California 95008, and our telephone number is (408) 342-5400. Our website is www.barracuda.com. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and you should not consider information on our website to be part of this prospectus.
Our design logos and the marks “Barracuda,” “Barracuda Networks,” “Copy” and “SignNow” are the property of Barracuda Networks, Inc. This prospectus contains additional trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ trade names, trademarks or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, these other companies.
We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering, the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.0 billion, the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer (this means the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the end of the second quarter of that fiscal year), or the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.