Workiva
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Regulation as moat. A repeat team rode the 2009 XBRL mandate, made filing self-service, and unseated the printers. Forced demand plus a sticky data layer built a $739M firm — after years of losses.
01How the money moves
SEC mandates XBRL + SOX reporting
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Companies file on Workiva's linked platform
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Annual subscriptions renew and expand
02The numbers
$739M
FY2024 revenue
8-K
+17%
revenue YoY
8-K
$101M
2014 IPO raise
S-1
All first-party: press release, 8-K, S-1. FY2024 press release
Workiva reports FY2024 revenue of $739M (up 17%), including $668M subscription and support, in its own Q4/FY2024 press release and 8-K. As a public company (NYSE: WK) these are audited, first-party figures.
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Workiva Q4 & FY2024 financial results (press release)Workiva Form S-1 (SEC, 2014)Workiva — Wikipedia (history, founders)Engineering Animation sold to Unigraphics for $205MWebFilings: 2,000+ customers, 60%+ of Fortune 500
Revenue is FILED — Workiva's FY2024 press release/8-K: $739M total, $668M subscription (public, NYSE: WK). Founding-team, the $205M EAI sale and printer-displacement facts are documented; the read on why printers stalled (innovator's dilemma) is [our read]. We never score you.