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Whether or not you participate in the annual meeting, it is important that you vote your shares.

We encourage you to access the meeting prior to the start time. Online check-in will begin at 9:45 a.m. Pacific Time, and you should allow reasonable time for the check-in procedures. Participation in the meeting is limited due to the capacity of the host platform and access to the meeting will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.

Please note that if you do not have your Control Number and you are a registered stockholder, you will be able to login as a guest. To view the meeting webcast visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MAPS2022 and register as a guest. If you login as a guest, you will not be able to vote your shares or ask questions during the meeting.

If you are a beneficial owner (that is, you hold your shares in an account at a bank, broker or other holder of record), you will need to contact that bank, broker or other holder of record to obtain your Control Number prior to the annual meeting.

A list of our record stockholders as of the close of business on the record date will be made available to stockholders during the meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MAPS2022. In addition, for the ten days prior to the Annual Meeting, the list will be available for examination by any stockholder of record for a legally valid purpose at our corporate headquarters during regular business hours.

If you encounter any difficulties accessing the Annual Meeting during the check-in or meeting time, please call the technical support number that will be posted on the Annual Meeting log-in page.

We plan to have a Q&A session at the annual meeting. Questions may be submitted prior to the annual meeting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MAPS2022. During the live Q&A session of the Annual Meeting, we may answer questions as they come in to the extent relevant to the business of the Annual Meeting and as time permits.

We plan to have a Q&A session at the Annual Meeting and will include as many stockholder questions as the allotted time permits. Stockholders may submit questions relevant to the business of the Annual Meeting in advance of the Annual Meeting. If you are a stockholder, you may submit a question in advance of the Annual Meeting at www.proxyvote.com after logging in with your Control Number. Questions may be submitted prior to the Annual Meeting through www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MAPS2022.

Only stockholders of record at the close of business on April 28, 2022 will be entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. On this record date, there were 86,103,114 shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company (the “Class A Common Stock”) and 58,294,288 shares of Class V Common Stock (the “Class V Common Stock”, and together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”) outstanding and entitled to vote.

If on April 28, 2022, your shares were registered directly in your name with the Company’s transfer agent, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, then you are a stockholder of record. If you are a stockholder of record, you may vote your shares at the Annual Meeting by following the instructions provided on the Notice to log in to www.proxyvote.com. You will be asked to provide the Control Number from your Notice. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, we urge you to vote by proxy to ensure your vote is counted. You may still attend and vote at the Annual Meeting even if you have already voted by proxy.

If on April 28, 2022 your shares were held, not in your name, but rather in an account at a brokerage firm, bank or other similar organization, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name” and the Notice is being forwarded to you by that organization. The organization holding your account is considered to be the stockholder of

record for purposes of voting at the Annual Meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank or other agent regarding how to vote the shares in your account. You are also invited to attend the Annual Meeting. However, since a beneficial owner is not the stockholder of record, you may not vote your shares live at the Annual Meeting unless you follow your broker, bank or other nominee’s procedures for obtaining a legal proxy.

There are four matters scheduled for a vote:

The Board knows of no other matters that will be presented for consideration at the Annual Meeting. If any other matters are properly brought before the meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the accompanying proxy to vote on those matters in accordance with their best judgment.

You may either vote “For” all the nominees to the Board of Directors or you may “Withhold” your vote for any nominee you specify. With regard to your advisory vote on how frequently we should solicit stockholder advisory approval of executive compensation, you may vote for any one of the following: one year, two years or three years, or you may abstain from voting on that matter. For each of the other matters to be voted on, you may vote “For” or “Against” or abstain from voting.

The procedures for voting are fairly simple:

If you are a stockholder of record, you may vote online at the Annual Meeting, vote by proxy over the telephone, vote by proxy through the Internet or vote by proxy using a proxy card that you may request or that we may elect to deliver at a later time:

If you are a beneficial owner of shares registered in the name of your broker, bank or other agent, you should have received a Notice containing voting instructions from that organization rather than from the Company. You must follow the voting instructions provided by your broker, bank or other nominee in order to direct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote your shares. Beneficial owner of shares held in street name should generally be able to vote by returning a voting instruction form, or by telephone or on the Internet. However, the availability of telephone and Internet voting will depend on the voting process of your broker, bank or other nominee. As discussed above, if you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name, you may not vote your shares live at the Annual Meeting unless you obtain a legal proxy from your broker, bank or other nominee.

Internet proxy voting will be provided to allow you to vote your shares online, with procedures designed to ensure the authenticity and correctness of your proxy vote instructions. However, please be aware that you must bear any costs associated with your internet access, such as usage charges from internet access providers and telephone companies.

On each matter to be voted upon, you have one vote for each share of Class A Common Stock and each share of Class V Common Stock you own as of April 28, 2022. Holders of Class A Common Stock and Class V Common Stock will vote together as one class on all proposals.

If you are a stockholder of record and do not vote by completing your proxy card, by telephone, through the internet or online at the Annual Meeting, your shares will not be voted.

If you return a signed and dated proxy card or otherwise vote without marking voting selections, your shares will be voted, as applicable, “For” the election of all three nominees for director, “For” the advisory approval of executive compensation, for “One Year” as the preferred frequency of advisory votes to approve executive compensation and “For” the ratification of the selection by the Audit Committee of the Board of Baker Tilly US, LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2022. If any other matter is properly presented at the meeting, your proxyholder (one of the individuals named on your proxy card) will vote your shares using his or her best judgment.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name and you do not instruct your broker, bank or other agent how to vote your shares, your broker, bank or other agent may still be able to vote your shares in its discretion. In this regard, brokers, banks and other securities intermediaries may use their discretion to vote your “uninstructed” shares with respect to matters considered to be “routine”, but not with respect to “non-routine” matters. In this regard, Proposals 1, 2 and 3 are considered to be “non-routine” meaning that your broker may not vote your shares on those proposals in the absence of your voting instructions. However, Proposal 4 is considered to be a “routine” matters meaning that if you do not return voting instructions to your broker by its deadline, your shares may be voted by your broker in its discretion on Proposal 4.

If you a beneficial owner of shares held in street name, in order to ensure your shares are voted in the way you would prefer, you must provide voting instructions to your broker, bank or other agent by the deadline provided in the materials you receive from your broker, bank or other agent.

We will pay for the entire cost of soliciting proxies. In addition to these proxy materials, our directors and employees may also solicit proxies in person, by email, by telephone, or by other means of communication. Directors and employees will not be paid any additional compensation for soliciting proxies. We may also reimburse brokerage firms, banks and other agents for the cost of forwarding proxy materials to beneficial owners.

If you receive more than one Notice, your shares may be registered in more than one name or in different accounts. Please follow the voting instructions on the Notices to ensure that all of your shares are voted.

Yes. You can revoke your proxy at any time before the final vote at the meeting. If you are the record holder of your shares, you may revoke your proxy in any one of the following ways:

Your most current proxy card or telephone or internet proxy is the one that is counted.

If your shares are held by your broker, bank as a nominee or other agent, you should follow the instructions provided by your broker, bank or other agent.

To be considered for inclusion in next year’s proxy materials, your proposal must be submitted in writing by December 30, 2022, to WM Technology, Inc., Attn: Corporate Secretary, 41 Discovery, Irvine, California 92618. If you wish to submit a proposal (including a director nomination) at the meeting that is not to be included in next year’s proxy materials, you must do so by submitting your proposal in writing which must be received by the Corporate Secretary not earlier than the close of business on the 120^th day and not later than the close of business on the 90^th day prior to the anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders. Therefore, we must receive notice of such a proposal or nomination for the 2023 Annual Meeting no earlier than the close of business on February 21, 2023 and no later than the close of business on March 23, 2023. The notice must contain the information required by our Bylaws. In the event that the date of the 2023 Annual Meeting is not within 30 days before or delayed by more than 60 days from the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders, or no annual meeting was held during the preceding year, then the Corporate Secretary must receive such written notice not earlier than the close of business on the 120^th day prior to the 2023 Annual Meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90^th day prior to 2023 Annual Meeting or the closing of business on the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made.

In addition to satisfying the foregoing requirements under our bylaws, to comply with the universal proxy rules (once effective), stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than our Board’s nominees must provide notice that sets forth any additional information required by Rule 14a-19 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, no later than April 22, 2023.

Votes will be counted by the inspector of election appointed for the Annual Meeting, who will separately count, for the proposal to elect directors, votes “For,” “Withhold” and broker non-votes; with respect to the proposal regarding frequency of stockholder advisory votes to approve executive compensation, votes for frequencies of one year, two years or three years, abstentions and broker non-votes; and, with respect to the other proposals, votes “For” and “Against,” abstentions and, if applicable, broker non-votes. Abstentions will be counted towards the vote total for each of Proposals 2 and 4, and will have the same effect as “Against” votes. For Proposal 3, abstentions will be counted towards the vote total, and will have the same effect as votes against each of the proposed voting frequencies. Broker non-votes on Proposal 1, 2 and 3 will have no effect and will not be counted towards the vote total for any of those proposals. Proposal 4 is considered a “routine” matter, accordingly, if you hold your shares in street name and do not provide voting instructions to your broker, bank, or other agent that holds your shares, your broker, bank, or other agent has discretionary authority to vote your shares on Proposal 4.

As discussed above, when a beneficial owner of shares held in street name does not give voting instructions to his or her broker, bank or other securities intermediary holding his or her shares as to how to vote on matters deemed to be “non-routine”, the broker, bank or other such agent cannot vote the shares. These un-voted shares are counted as “broker non-votes.” Proposals 1, 2 and 3 are considered to be “non-routine”, and are proposals for which brokers do not have discretionary voting authority. We therefore expect broker non-votes to exist in connection with those proposals. Proposal 4 is a “routine” matter and therefore broker non-votes are not expected to exist in connection with this proposal.

As a reminder, if you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name, in order to ensure your shares are voted in the way you would prefer, you must provide voting instructions to your broker, bank or other agent by the deadline provided in the materials you receive from your broker, bank or other agent.

Proposal 1: For the election of directors, the three Class I nominees receiving the most “For” votes from the holders of shares present or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the election of directors will be elected. Only votes “For” will affect the outcome. “Withhold” votes, “Abstain” votes and broker non-votes will have no effect.

Proposal 2: The advisory vote, on a non-binding basis, on the compensation of our Named Executive Officers for the year ended 2021 will be considered to be approved if it receives “For” votes from the holders of a majority in voting power of shares of Common Stock present or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the matter. “Abstain” votes and broker non-votes will have no effect.

Proposal 3: For the advisory vote, on a non-binding basis, on the frequency of stockholder advisory votes on the compensation of our Named Executive Officers, the frequency receiving the highest number of affirmative votes from the holders of shares present or represented by proxy and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. “Abstain” votes and broker non-votes will have no effect.

Proposal 4: To ratify the selection of Baker Tilly US, LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2022, the proposal must receive “For” votes from the holders of a majority in voting power of the shares of Common Stock present by remote communication at the meeting or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the matter. If you “Abstain” from voting, it will have the same effect as an “Against” vote. This proposal is considered to be a “routine” matter. Accordingly, if you hold your shares in street name and do not provide voting instructions to your broker, bank, or other agent that holds your shares, your broker, bank, or other agent has discretionary authority to vote your shares on this proposal.

A quorum of stockholders is necessary to hold a valid meeting. A quorum will be present if stockholders holding a majority in voting power of the shares of Common Stock entitled to vote are present by remote communication at the meeting or represented by proxy. On the record date, there were 144,397,402 shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote. Thus, the holders of 72,198,702 shares of Common Stock must be present by remote communication at the meeting or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting to have a quorum. Broker non-votes and abstentions are counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present.

Your shares will be counted towards the quorum only if you submit a valid proxy (or one is submitted on your behalf by your broker, bank or other nominee) or if you vote by telephone, online or at the meeting. Abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted towards the quorum requirement. If there is no quorum, the holders of a majority in voting power of the shares of Common Stock present by remote communication at the meeting or represented by proxy may adjourn the meeting to another date.

Preliminary voting results will be announced at the Annual Meeting. In addition, final voting results will be published in a current report on Form 8-K that we expect to file within four business days after the Annual Meeting. If final voting results are not available to us in time to file a Form 8-K within four business days after the meeting, we intend to file a Form 8-K to publish preliminary results and, within four business days after the final results are known to us, file an additional Form 8-K to publish the final results.

subscription streaming service with over 70 million registered users and 14 million active. In November 2015, Rdio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief as a condition of its sale to Pandora. Prior to Rdio, Mr. Bay served as a Vice President and Global head for Digital Video for Amazon from 2011 to 2013, responsible for all aspects of the company's Digital Video and streaming business globally. During his eight year tenure at Microsoft, Mr. Bay was Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Microsoft's Digital Media Division and a member of Microsoft's executive staff. Earlier, Mr. Bay was General Manager of Microsoft's Commercial Systems Division, responsible for developing core components of Microsoft's Internet services platform, including ISP/carrier infrastructure, website development and eCommerce. Mr. Bay joined Microsoft as part of the MSN management team in 1994, eventually overseeing all MSN development and production systems. At Apple from 1986 to 1994, Mr. Bay worked at Apple Computer in various product leadership roles, including three years at Apple's European headquarters in Paris. Mr. Bay holds an MBA from San Jose State University and undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mr. Bay was selected to serve on the Board based on his business experience as a founder, chief executive officer and various leadership positions of technology companies, and as a director of private and publicly-listed companies.

Tony Aquila. Mr. Aquila, age 57, has served as a member of the Board since June 2021. In June 2019, Mr. Aquila founded AFV Partners, an affirmative low-leverage capital vehicle that invests in long-term mission critical software, data and technology businesses and serves as its Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer since its founding. In 2005, Mr. Aquila founded Solera Holdings Inc., and led it as Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer to a $1 billion initial public offering in 2007, and in the following years sourced and executed over 50 acquisitions significantly expanding Solera’s total addressable market. Mr. Aquila oversaw Solera’s $6.5 billion transaction from a public-to-private business in 2016. Mr. Aquila currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Canoo, Inc., a mobility technology company, since April 2021, and as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Canoo since December 2020. Mr. Aquila also serves as a member of the Arkansas Council on Future Mobility since February 2022. Mr. Aquila also serves as a member of the board of directors of The Lost Explorer Mezcal Company, a sustainable producer and distributor of handcrafted mezcal, since May 2021. Furthermore, Mr. Aquila currently serves as the Chairperson for Aircraft Performance Group, LLC, a global provider of mission critical flight operations software, since January 2020, RocketRoute Limited, global aviation services company, since March 2020, APG Avionics LLC, an aviation data and software company for the general aviation market, since September 2020. From November 2018 to July 2020, Mr. Aquila served as the Global Chairperson of Sportradar Group, a sports data and content company.

Mr. Aquila was selected to serve on the Board based on his business experience as a founder, inventor, chief executive officer and director of publicly-listed companies and his investing experience.

Brenda Freeman. Ms. Freeman, age 57, has served as a member of the Board since June 2021. Since March, 2022, Mrs. Freeman has served as Chief Brand Officer of Wunderkind Corporation and since April 2021, she has served as a partner of Debut Capital. Ms. Freeman founded and has served as President of Joyeux Advisory Group LLC, a firm providing advisory services to early-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies, since January 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Freeman served as Chief Executive Officer for Arteza, Inc., a direct-to-consumer arts and crafts manufacturing and supply company from February 2020 to February 2021. From March 2016 to December 2018, Ms. Freeman was Chief Marketing Officer of Magic Leap, Inc., a virtual reality technology company, and from December 2018 to April 2019 was Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer. From March 2015 to March 2016, Ms. Freeman served as Chief Marketing Officer of National Geographic Channel, a television network and channel. Ms. Freeman has been a member of the boards of directors of Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. since October 2020, of Caleres, Inc. since April 2017 and of Avnet, Inc. since November 2018. Ms. Freeman previously served on the board of directors of Herman Miller, Inc. from January 2016 to June 2019 and on the board of directors of RTW Retailwinds, Inc. from April 2019 to April 2020. Previously, Ms. Freeman served as Chief Marketing Officer at Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. and was Vice President, television marketing at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Ms. Freeman holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and an M.B.A degree from the University of Maryland.

Ms. Freeman was selected to serve on the Board based on her business experience and technology industry expertise.

Olga Gonzalez. Ms. Gonzalez, age 55, has served as a member of the Board since June 2021. Since January 2021, Ms. Gonzalez has served as Global Business Leader for Wild Fork Foods, an online specialty food service. Prior to

that, Ms. Gonzalez held various leadership positions at Walmart Inc., including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Walmart México y Centroamérica from July 2017 to April 2020, Vice President Commercial & Operations Finance at Walmart México y Centroamérica from October 2014 to June 2017, Chief Financial Officer at Walmart Chile from 2011 to 2014, and Vice President, Internal Audit Services Latin America at Walmart US from 2010 to 2011. Prior to that, Ms. Gonzalez had served as Director, Internal Audit at General Motors Company from 2006 to 2010 and from 1996 to 2004, Vice President, Enterprise Risk and Assurance Services at the American Express Company from 2004 to 2006, and Internal Audit at Banco Santander from 1989 to 1996. Ms. Gonzalez holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico and an M.B.A. from Florida International University.

Ms. Gonzalez was selected to serve on the Board based on her business experience and financial expertise.

Douglas Francis. Mr. Francis, age 44, has served as a member of the Board since June 2021. Mr. Francis is a co-founder of Legacy WMH, and served as Chairperson of Legacy WMH’s board of managers since March 2019 and as a member of Legacy WMH’s board of managers prior to that. Mr. Francis previously served as Legacy WMH’s Chief Executive Officer from February 2016 until March 2019 and as Legacy WMH’s President from January 2009 to February 2016. Mr. Francis has served in management positions in each of Legacy WMH’s current subsidiaries. Mr. Francis holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Management from Chapman University.

Mr. Francis was selected to serve on the Board based on his perspective, experience and institutional knowledge as WMH’s co-founder and his long tenure as WMH’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Scott Gordon. Mr. Gordon, age 60, has served as a member of the Board since June 2021. Mr. Gordon has been the Chairperson of Silver Spike’s board of directors and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Since 2016, Mr. Gordon has been the co-founder and Chairperson of Egg Rock Holdings, parent company of the Papa & Barkley family of cannabis products with related subsidiary assets in manufacturing, processing, and logistics. Egg Rock Holdings also is the parent company of Papa & Barkley Essentials, a hemp-derived CBD business based in Colorado. From 2016 to 2018, Mr. Gordon was also President of Fintech Advisory Inc., investment manager for a multibillion dollar family office fund focused on long-term and opportunistic investments in emerging markets. From late 2013 to 2016, Mr. Gordon served as a Portfolio Manager at Taconic Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy investment firm. Prior to joining Taconic, Mr. Gordon was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Caxton Associates from 2009 to 2012. He was also a Senior Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets at Marathon Asset Management from 2007 to 2009. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gordon held leadership positions at Bank of America and ING Capital. Mr. Gordon was a founding member of the Emerging Markets business at JP Morgan where he worked upon graduating from Bowdoin College in 1983.

Mr. Gordon was selected to serve on the Board based on his experience in emerging markets and in the cannabis sector.

Justin Hartfield. Mr. Hartfield, age 38, has served as a member of the Board since June 2021. Mr. Hartfield is a co-founder of Legacy WMH, and served as a member of Legacy WMH’s board of managers since inception and served as Legacy WMH’s Chairperson of the board from February 2016 to March 2019. Previously, Mr. Hartfield served as Legacy WMH’s Chief Executive Officer until February 2016. Mr. Hartfield holds a B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences and Supportive Services from the University of California, Irvine.

Mr. Hartfield was selected to serve on the Board based on his perspective, experience and institutional knowledge as WMH’s co-founder and his long tenure as WMH’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

The Board Diversity Matrix below provides the diversity statistics for the Board.

As required under the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) listing standards, a majority of the members of a listed company’s Board of Directors must qualify as “independent,” as affirmatively determined by the Board of Directors. The Board consults with the Company’s counsel to ensure that the Board’s determinations are consistent with relevant securities and other laws and regulations regarding the definition of “independent,” including those set forth in pertinent listing standards of Nasdaq, as in effect from time to time.

Consistent with these considerations, after review of all relevant identified transactions or relationships between each director, or any of his or her family members, and the Company, its senior management and its independent auditors, the Board has affirmatively determined that the following six directors are independent directors within the meaning of the applicable Nasdaq listing standards: Messrs. Aquila, Bay and Gordon and Mses. Freeman, Gonzalez and Tan. Ms. Freeman served as the lead independent director from the completion of our business combination with Silver Spike Acquisition Corp (the “Business Combination”) until the appointment of our independent Chairperson, Mr. Bay. In making these determinations, our Board of Directors considered the current and prior relationships that each non-employee director has with our company and all other facts and circumstances our Board of Directors deemed relevant in determining their independence, including the beneficial ownership of our capital stock by each non-employee director, and the transactions involving them described in the section titled “Related Person Transactions.”

The Board has an independent Chairperson, Mr. Bay, who has authority, among other things, to call and preside over Board meetings, including meetings of the independent directors, to set meeting agendas and to determine materials to be distributed to the Board. Accordingly, the Chairperson has substantial ability to shape the work of the Board. The Company believes that separation of the positions of the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer reinforces the independence of the Board in its oversight of the business and affairs of the Company. In addition, the Company believes that having an independent Chairperson creates an environment that is more conducive to objective evaluation and oversight of management’s performance, increasing management accountability and improving the ability of the Board to monitor whether management’s actions are in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. As a result, the Company believes that having an independent Chairperson can enhance the effectiveness of the Board as a whole.

One of the Board’s key functions is informed oversight of the Company’s risk management process. The Board does not have a standing risk management committee, but rather administers this oversight function directly through the Board as a whole, as well as through various Board committees that address risks inherent in their respective areas of oversight. In particular, the Board is responsible for monitoring and assessing strategic risk exposure, including a determination of the nature and level of risk appropriate for the Company. The Audit Committee has the responsibility to consider and discuss our major financial risk exposures and the steps our management has taken to monitor and control these exposures, including guidelines and policies to govern the process by which risk assessment and management is undertaken. The Audit Committee is also responsible for monitoring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, in addition to oversight of the performance of our internal audit function. The Audit Committee’s responsibilities also include oversight of cybersecurity risk management. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of our corporate governance guidelines, including whether they are successful in preventing illegal or improper liability-creating conduct. The Compensation Committee is responsible for assessing and monitoring whether any of our compensation policies and programs has the potential to encourage excessive risk-taking. While the Board and its committees oversee risk management strategy, management is responsible for implementing and supervising day-to-day risk management processes and reporting to the Board and its committees on such matters.

The Board of Directors of Silver Spike Acquisition Corp (“Silver Spike”) met one time during the last fiscal year. Each member of the Board of Directors of Silver Spike attended 75% or more of the aggregate number of meetings of the Board and of the committees on which they served, held during the portion of the last fiscal year for which

they were a director or committee member. Following the completion of our Business Combination in June 2021, the Board met two times during 2021. Each Board member attended 75% or more of the aggregate number of meetings of the Board and of the committees on which they served, held during the portion of the last fiscal year for which they were a director or committee member.

The Board established the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating And Corporate Governance Committee. The Board adopted a charter for each of these committees, which complies with the applicable requirements of current Nasdaq rules and can be found at our website at ir.weedmaps.com.We intend to comply with future requirements to the extent they will be applicable to us. Copies of the charters for each committee are available on the investor relations portion of our website. The following table provides membership and meeting information for the year ended December 31, 2021 for each of the standing Board committees:

Below is a description of each standing committee of the Board. Each of the committees has authority to engage legal counsel or other experts or consultants, as it deems appropriate to carry out its responsibilities. The Board has determined that each member of each committee meets the applicable Nasdaq rules and regulations regarding “independence” and each member is free of any relationship that would impair his or her individual exercise of independent judgment with regard to us.

The Audit Committee consists of Mses. Gonzalez and Freeman and Messrs. Bay and Gordon. The Board has determined that each of the members of the Audit Committee satisfy the independence requirements of Nasdaq and Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act. Each member of the Audit Committee can read and understand fundamental financial statements in accordance with Nasdaq audit committee requirements. In arriving at this determination, the Board examined each audit committee member’s scope of experience and the nature of their prior and/or current employment.

We named Ms. Gonzalez as the chair of the Audit Committee. The Board determined that Ms. Gonzalez qualifies as an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of SEC regulations and meets the financial sophistication requirements of Nasdaq listing rules. In making this determination, the Board considered Ms. Gonzalez’s formal education and previous experience in financial roles. Both our independent registered public accounting firm and management periodically will meet privately with our audit committee.

During 2021 and prior to completion of the Business Combination (the “Closing”), Orrin Devinsky, Richard Goldman and Kenneth Landis served on the audit committee of SSPK, our predecessor, with Kenneth Landis serving as the chair of the audit committee of Silver Spike Acquisition Corp. (“SSPK”). The audit committee of SSPK met two times during 2021. The current Audit Committee, established in June 2021 after the completion of the Business Combination, met three times during 2021.

The functions of this committee include, among other things:

Typically, the Compensation Committee meets quarterly and with greater frequency if necessary. The agenda for each meeting is usually developed by the Chair of the Compensation Committee, in consultation with the Chief Executive Officer and the General Counsel. The Compensation Committee meets regularly in executive session. However, from time to time, the Compensation Committee may invite to its meetings any director, officer or employee of the Company and such other persons as it deems appropriate in order to carry out its responsibilities. The Chief Executive Officer may not participate in, or be present during, any deliberations or determinations of the Compensation Committee regarding his compensation or performance. In addition, under its charter, the Compensation Committee has the authority to obtain, at the expense of the Company, advice and assistance from compensation consultants and internal and external legal or other advisors and other external resources that the Compensation Committee considers necessary or appropriate in the performance of its duties. The Compensation Committee has direct responsibility for the compensation and oversight of the work of any consultants or advisers engaged for the purpose of advising the Committee. In particular, the Compensation Committee has the sole authority to retain, in its sole discretion, compensation consultants to assist in its evaluation of executive and director compensation, including the authority to approve the consultant’s reasonable fees and other retention terms. Under its charter, the Compensation Committee may select, or receive advice from, a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser to the Compensation Committee, other than in-house legal counsel and certain other types of advisers, only after taking into consideration factors prescribed by the SEC and Nasdaq, that bear upon the adviser’s independence; however, there is no requirement that any adviser be independent.

During the past fiscal year, after taking into consideration those factors prescribed by the SEC and Nasdaq, the Compensation Committee engaged Compensia Inc. (“Compensia”) as compensation consultants.

During the year ended December 31, 2021, Compensia provided the following services:

The Compensation Committee typically makes most of the significant adjustments to annual compensation, and determines base salary, bonus and equity awards at one or more meetings held during the first quarter of its fiscal year. However, the Compensation Committee also considers matters related to individual compensation, such as compensation for new executive hires, as well as high-level strategic issues, such as the efficacy of our compensation strategy, potential modifications to that strategy and new trends, plans or approaches to compensation, at various meetings throughout the year. The Compensation Committee recommends to the independent members of the Board for determination and approval the compensation and other terms of employment of our Chief Executive Officer and evaluates the Chief Executive Officer’s performance in light of relevant corporate performance goals and objectives. For all Named Executive Officers and non-employee directors as part of its deliberations, the Compensation Committee may review and consider, as appropriate, materials such as financial reports and projections, operational data, tax and accounting information, tally sheets that set forth the total compensation that may become payable to our executive officers in various hypothetical scenarios, executive officer and non-employee director stock ownership information, our stock performance data, analyses of historical executive compensation levels and current Company-wide compensation levels and recommendations of the Compensation Committee’s compensation consultant, including analyses of executive and non-employee director compensation paid at other companies identified by the consultant.

The Compensation Committee has evaluated its relationship with Compensia to ensure that it believes that such firm is independent from management. This review process included a review of the services that such compensation

consultant provided, the quality of those services and the fees associated with the services provided during 2021. Based on this review, as well as consideration of the factors affecting independence set forth in Exchange Act Rule 10C-1(b)(4), Rule 5605(d)(3)(D) of the Nasdaq rules, and such other factors as were deemed relevant under the circumstances, the Compensation Committee has determined that no conflict of interest was raised as a result of the work performed by Compensia.

Governance Committee retains the right to modify these qualifications from time to time. Candidates for director nominees are reviewed in the context of the current composition of the Board, the operating requirements of the Company and the long-term interests of stockholders. In conducting this assessment, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee typically considers diversity (including gender, racial and ethnic diversity), age, skills and such other factors as it deems appropriate, given the current needs of the Board and the Company, to maintain a balance of knowledge, experience and capability.

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee appreciates the value of thoughtful Board refreshment, and regularly identifies and considers qualities, skills and other director attributes that would enhance the composition of the Board. In the case of incumbent directors whose terms of office are set to expire, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee reviews these directors’ overall service to the Company during their terms, including the number of meetings attended, level of participation, quality of performance and any other relationships and transactions that might impair the directors’ independence. Commencing in 2022, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will also take into account the results of the Board’s self-evaluation, conducted annually on a group and individual basis and every three years, conducted with an outside consultant. In the case of new director candidates, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee also determines whether the nominee is independent for Nasdaq purposes, which determination is based upon applicable Nasdaq listing standards, applicable SEC rules and regulations and the advice of counsel, if necessary. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee then uses its network of contacts to compile a list of potential candidates, but may also engage, if it deems appropriate, a professional search firm. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee conducts any appropriate and necessary inquiries into the backgrounds and qualifications of possible candidates after considering the function and needs of the Board. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee meets to discuss and consider the candidates’ qualifications and then selects a nominee for recommendation to the Board by majority vote. In the year ended December 31, 2021, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee paid fees to Russell Reynolds Associates and True Capital Partners, LLC to assist in the process of identifying or evaluating director candidates.

At this time, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee does not have a policy with regard to the consideration of director candidates recommended by stockholders. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee believes that it is in the best position to identify, review, evaluate and select qualified candidates for Board membership, based on the comprehensive criteria for Board membership approved by the Board.

Our relationship with our stockholders is an important part of our corporate governance program. Engaging with stockholders helps us to understand how they view us, to set goals and expectations for our performance, and to identify emerging issues that may affect our strategies, corporate governance, compensation practices or other aspects of our operations. Our stockholder and investor outreach includes investor road shows, analyst meetings, and investor conferences and meetings. We also communicate with stockholders and other stakeholders through various media, including our annual report and SEC filings, proxy statement, news releases and our website. Our webcasts for quarterly earnings releases are open to all. These webcasts are available in real time and are archived on our website for a period of time.

We have not adopted a formal process for stockholder communications with the Board. Nevertheless, every effort has been made to ensure that the views of stockholders are heard by the Board or individual directors, as applicable, and that appropriate responses are provided to stockholders in a timely manner. We believe our responsiveness to stockholder communications to the Board has been excellent and therefore a formal process is not necessary.

The Board adopted a Code of Conduct (the “Code of Conduct”), applicable to all of our employees, executive officers and directors. The Code of Conduct is available on our website at ir.weedmaps.com. The nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board is responsible for overseeing the Code of Conduct and must approve any waivers of the Code of Conduct for employees, executive officers and directors. We expect that any amendments to the Code of Conduct, or any waivers of its requirements, will be disclosed on our website.

The Board has documented our governance practices by adopting Corporate Governance Guidelines to assure that the Board will have the necessary authority and practices in place to review and evaluate our business operations as

needed and to make decisions that are independent of our management. The guidelines are also intended to align the interests of directors and management with those of our stockholders. The Corporate Governance Guidelines set forth the practices the Board intends to follow with respect to board composition and selection, board meetings and involvement of senior management, Chief Executive Officer performance evaluation and succession planning, and board committees and compensation. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines, as well as the charters for each committee of the Board, may be viewed at investors.weedmaps.com.

As part of our insider trading policy, all our directors, officers, employees and certain designated consultants are prohibited from engaging in short sales of our securities, establishing margin accounts, pledging our securities as collateral for a loan, trading in derivative securities, including buying or selling puts or calls on our securities, or otherwise engaging in any form of hedging or monetization transactions (such as prepaid variable forwards, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds) involving our securities.

All 2021 fees described above were approved by the Audit Committee.

Our Audit Committee has adopted a policy and procedures for the pre-approval of audit and non-audit services rendered by our independent registered public accounting firm, Baker Tilly. The policy generally pre-approves specified services in the defined categories of audit services, audit-related services and tax services up to specified amounts. Pre-approval may also be given on a collective basis pursuant to such policy or on an individual, explicit, case-by-case basis before the independent auditor is engaged to provide each service. The pre-approval of services may be delegated to one or more of the Audit Committee’s members, but the decision must be reported to the full Audit Committee at its next scheduled meeting.

Our Audit Committee has determined that the rendering of services other than audit services by Baker Tilly is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

The following sets forth biographical information with respect to our executive officers who are not directors.

Arden Lee. Mr. Lee served as our Chief Financial Officer since June 2021. Mr. Lee served as Legacy WMH’s Chief Financial Officer from February 2019 to June 2021. Prior to joining Legacy WMH, Mr. Lee was the Vice President of Global Business Planning at Nike, Inc. from December 2016 to July 2018 and previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. from April 2007 to November 2016, most recently holding the position of Managing Director of Investment Banking. Mr. Lee also previously served as Vice President, Investment Banking at Citigroup, Inc. and Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank Securities. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University.

Juanjo Feijoo. Mr. Feijoo has served as our Chief Operating Officer since July 2021 and as our Chief Marketing Officer from June 2021 to July 2021. Mr. Feijoo served as Legacy WMH’s Chief Marketing Officer from May 2019 to June 2021. Previously, Mr. Feijoo served as Senior Director of Customer Engagement for Creative Cloud at Adobe, a publicly-held global technology company, from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that, from 2015 to 2017, Mr. Feijoo served various roles at Maplebear inc (d/b/a Instacart), a private company, including Vice President of Central Operations & Marketing. Prior that, from 2008 to 2015, Mr. Feijoo held several roles at Google, Inc, a publicly-held global technology company, including Head of Consumer Experience, Consumer Operations. Mr. Feijoo holds a B.S. in International Business Management from Oxford Brookes University.

Justin Dean. Mr. Dean has served as our Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer since June 2021. Mr. Dean served as Legacy WMH’s Chief Technology Officer from December 2019 to June 2021 and Chief Information Officer since November 2018. He previously served as the Senior Vice President of Technology and Head of Infrastructure and Platform at Ticketmaster from February 2015 to November 2018, Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Head of Technical Operations at Shopzilla (formerly Bizrate) from January 2007 to February 2015 and Vice President of Information Technology at B3 Corp from 2002 to 2007. Mr. Dean started his career in technology while serving as a Network Systems Engineer in the U.S. Marine Corps from October 1995 to October 1999 and then went on to serve in senior technical architecture roles at National Realty Trust and Compuware (assigned to Sempra Energy).

Brian Camire. Mr. Camire has served as our General Counsel and Secretary since June 2021. Mr. Camire served as Legacy WMH’s General Counsel from May 2019 to June 2021. Prior to joining Legacy WMH, Mr. Camire served as Associate General Counsel of Snap Inc. from May 2016 until April 2019 and as Corporate Counsel from March 2015 to May 2016. From January 2011 to February 2015, Mr. Camire worked as an associate attorney at Cooley LLP. Mr. Camire holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors and executive officers, and persons who own more than ten percent of a registered class of our equity securities, to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of our Common Stock and other equity securities. Officers, directors and greater than ten percent stockholders are required by SEC regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file.

To our knowledge, based solely on a review of the copies of such reports furnished to us and written representations that no other reports were required, during the year ended December 31, 2021, all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to our officers, directors and greater than ten percent stockholders were complied with, except for late Form 4s filed on November 3, 2021 to report the initial RSU grants made to each of Tony Aquila, Francis Douglas, Brenda Freeman, Olga Gonzalez, Scott Gordon, Justin Hartfield and Fiona Tan in connection with the Business Combination.

In 2021, the compensation of our Named Executive Officers was as follows:

We believe our executive compensation program is reasonable, competitive, and appropriately balances the goals of attracting, motivating, rewarding, and retaining our Named Executive Officers and of aligning their interests with those of our stockholders. To ensure this alignment and to motivate and reward individual initiative and effort, we seek to ensure that a meaningful portion of our Named Executive Officers’ target annual total direct compensation opportunity is both variable in nature and “at-risk.”

We emphasize variable compensation that appropriately rewards our Named Executive Officers through two separate compensation elements:

These variable pay elements ensure that, each year, a substantial portion of our Named Executive Officers’ target total direct compensation is contingent in nature, rather than fixed, with the amounts ultimately payable subject to variability above or below target levels commensurate with our actual performance.

In 2021, approximately 60% of our Chief Executive Officer’s target total direct compensation and approximately 40%, on average, of our other Named Executive Officers target total direct compensation consisted of variable, “at-risk” compensation.

We believe that this design provides balanced incentives for our Named Executive Officers to execute our operational objectives and drive long-term growth. To ensure that we remain faithful to our compensation philosophy, the Compensation Committee intends to regularly evaluate the relationship between the reported values of the equity awards granted to our Named Executive Officers, the amount of compensation realizable (and, ultimately, realized) from such awards in subsequent years, and our performance over this period.

We endeavor to maintain sound corporate governance standards consistent with our executive compensation policies and practices. The Compensation Committee reviews our executive compensation program on an annual basis to ensure consistency with our short-term and long-term goals given the dynamic nature of our business and the market in which we compete for executive talent. The following summarizes our executive compensation-related policies and practices that were in effect during 2021:

At the annual meeting to which this Proxy Statement relates, we will be conducting the following stockholder advisory votes for the first time:

See “Proposal 2: Advisory Vote, on a Non-binding Basis, to Approve the Compensation of Our Named Executive Officers for the Year Ended 2021” and “Proposal 3: Advisory Vote, on a Non-binding Basis, on the Frequency of Solicitation of Advisory Stockholder Approval of Executive Compensation” respectively, in this Proxy Statement.

Although these are non-binding, advisory votes, we value the opinions of our stockholders. The Board and the Compensation Committee will consider the outcome of the Say-on-Pay vote and the related Say-on-Frequency vote, in addition to other relevant stockholder feedback that may be received throughout the year, when making compensation decisions for our Named Executive Officers.

The Board is recommending that we hold future Say-on-Pay votes on the compensation of our Named Executive Officers on an annual, rather than a biennial or triennial, basis. For additional information about the Say-on-Frequency vote, see “Proposal 3 above.

Our executive compensation program is designed to achieve our ambitious goals by attracting, motivating, and retaining talented, deeply qualified, and committed individuals who believe in our mission, while rewarding them for long-term value creation. Specifically, our compensation philosophy is as follows:

A critical priority is to promote a long-term commitment to the Company by our Named Executive Officers and other key employees. We believe that there is great value to the Company in having a team of long-tenured, seasoned managers and knowledgeable, experienced employees. Our team-focused culture and management processes are designed to foster this commitment.

While we are still evolving our compensation policies and practices, we strive for a fair, competitive, transparent, and equitable approach in recognizing and rewarding our Named Executive Officers and other employees. We take a principled approach to providing fair, relevant, and competitive compensation and benefits to a dynamic workforce with diverse needs. For our Named Executive Officers, we aim to balance short-term and long-term compensation and fixed amounts of cash with variable incentive compensation.

The design of our executive compensation program is influenced by a variety of factors, with the primary goals being to align the interests of our Named Executive Officers and stockholders and link pay with performance. Prior to June 16, 2021 (the “Closing Date”), when making executive compensation decisions, we considered the competitive market for corresponding positions within comparable geographic areas and companies of similar size and stage of development operating in our industry. This informal consideration was based on the general knowledge of our Chief Executive Officer regarding the compensation of some executive officers of other companies in our industry, through informal discussions with recruiting firms, research, and informal benchmarking against his personal knowledge of

the competitive market. Our Chief Executive Officer approved compensation decisions for each executive officer on an individual basis after a thorough discussion of various factors, including any informal knowledge or data in his possession.

As we gain experience as a public company, the specific direction, emphasis, and components of our executive compensation program will continue to evolve as determined by the Compensation Committee. We have begun to transition to a more empirically-based approach that involves positioning our executive compensation against the competitive market based on an analysis of peer group data and broad-based executive compensation surveys.

Following the Closing Date, the Compensation Committee has been responsible for discharging the responsibilities of the Board relating to the compensation of our Named Executive Officers and the non-employee members of the Board. The Compensation Committee has overall responsibility for overseeing our compensation and benefits policies generally, and overseeing, evaluating and approving the compensation plans, policies, and practices applicable to our Named Executive Officers.

We expect that the compensation of our Named Executive Officers will be reviewed at least annually by the Compensation Committee and will be informed by the recommendations of our Chief Executive Officer. The Compensation Committee will then evaluate and determine any recommended compensation adjustments or awards to our Named Executive Officers or make recommendations to the Board for final determination. We expect that as part of this review process, the Compensation Committee will apply the objectives described above within the context of our overall compensation philosophy while simultaneously considering the compensation levels to ensure our executive compensation program remains competitive based on input and market data from its compensation consultant. The Compensation Committee will also evaluate whether we are meeting our retention objectives and the potential cost of replacing any of our Named Executive Officers.

In carrying out its responsibilities, the Compensation Committee evaluates our compensation policies and practices with a focus on the degree to which these policies and practices reflect our executive compensation philosophy, develops strategies, and makes decisions that it believes further our philosophy or align with developments in best compensation practices, and reviews the performance of our Named Executive Officers when making decisions with respect to their compensation.

The Compensation Committee’s authority, duties, and responsibilities are further described in its charter, which is reviewed annually and revised and updated as warranted. Our Compensation Committee charter is located at our website at ir.weedmaps.com.

The Compensation Committee has retained a compensation consultant (as described below) to provide support in its review and assessment of our executive compensation program; however, the Compensation Committee exercises its own judgment in making final decisions with respect to the compensation of our Named Executive Officers.

Going forward, during the first quarter of each year, the Compensation Committee, will conduct a review of the compensation arrangements of our Named Executive Officers. As part of this review, the Compensation Committee will evaluate the base salary levels, cash bonus opportunities, and long-term incentive compensation opportunities of our Named Executive Officers and all related performance criteria.

The Compensation Committee does not intend to establish a specific target for formulating the target annual total direct compensation opportunities of our Named Executive Officers. In making decisions about the compensation of our Named Executive Officers, the members of the Compensation Committee rely primarily on their general experience and subjective considerations of various factors, including the following:

These factors provide the framework for compensation decision-making and final decisions regarding the compensation opportunity for our Named Executive Officers. No single factor is determinative in setting compensation levels, nor is the impact of any individual factor on the determination of pay levels quantifiable.

The Compensation Committee does not intend to weigh these factors in any predetermined manner, nor will it apply any formulas in developing its compensation decisions. The members of the Compensation Committee will consider this information in light of their individual experience, knowledge of the Company, knowledge of the competitive market, knowledge of each Named Executive Officer, and business judgment in making their decisions.

The Compensation Committee does not intend to engage in formal benchmarking against other companies’ compensation programs or practices, to set compensation levels or make specific compensation decisions with respect to our Named Executive Officers. Instead, in making its determinations, the Compensation Committee will review information summarizing the compensation paid at a representative group of peer companies, to the extent that the executive positions at these companies are considered comparable to our positions and informative of the competitive environment, and more broad-based compensation surveys to gain a general understanding of market compensation levels.

In discharging its responsibilities, the Compensation Committee intends to work with members of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer. Our management will assist the Compensation Committee by providing information on corporate and individual performance, market compensation data, and management’s perspective on compensation matters (other than their own compensation). The Compensation Committee will solicit and review our Chief Executive Officer’s proposals with respect to program structures, as well as his recommendations for adjustments to annual cash compensation, long-term incentive compensation opportunities, and other compensation-related matters for our Named Executive Officers (except with respect to his own compensation).

At least once each year, our Chief Executive Officer will review the performance of our other Named Executive Officers, based on such individual’s level of success in accomplishing the business objectives established in the prior year and overall individual performance during that year, and then will make recommendations to, the Compensation Committee. The Compensation Committee will review and discuss our Chief Executive Officer’s proposals and recommendations with him and consider them as one factor in determining and approving the compensation of our other Named Executive Officers. Our Chief Executive Officer generally attends meetings of the Board and the Compensation Committee at which executive compensation matters are addressed, except during discussions about his own compensation.

The Compensation Committee has the sole authority to retain an external compensation consultant to assist it by providing information, analysis, and other advice relating to the compensation of our Named Executive Officers,

including the authority to approve the consultant’s reasonable fees and other retention terms. The compensation consultant reports directly to the Compensation Committee and its chair, and serves at the discretion of the Compensation Committee, which reviews the engagement annually.

In 2021, the Compensation Committee engaged Compensia, Inc. (“Compensia”), a national compensation consulting firm, to serve as its compensation consultant to advise on executive compensation matters, including competitive market pay practices for our Named Executive Officers and with data analysis and selection of the compensation peer group.

During 2021, Compensia attended the meetings of the Compensation Committee as requested (both with and without management present) and provided various services including the analysis and selection of our compensation peer group, the review and analysis for certain long-term incentive compensation opportunities for our Named Executive Officers, the development of tools for the efficient administration of the Compensation Committee, and a review of non-employee Board compensation. The terms of Compensia’s engagement includes reporting directly to the Compensation Committee chair. Compensia also coordinated with our management for data collection and informal market comparisons for our Named Executive Officers. In 2021, Compensia did not provide any other services to us.

The Compensation Committee has evaluated its relationship with Compensia to ensure that it believes that such firm is independent from management. This review process included a review of the services that such compensation consultant provided, the quality of those services and the fees associated with the services provided during 2021. Based on this review, as well as consideration of the factors affecting independence set forth in Exchange Act Rule 10C-1(b)(4), Rule 5605(d)(3)(D) of the Nasdaq listing rules, and such other factors as were deemed relevant under the circumstances, the Compensation Committee has determined that no conflict of interest was raised as a result of the work performed by Compensia.

We believe that peer group comparisons are useful guides to evaluate the competitiveness of our executive compensation program and related policies and practices. For purposes of assessing our executive compensation against the competitive market going forward, the Compensation Committee intends to review and consider the compensation levels and practices of a select group of peer companies. This compensation peer group will consist of technology, Internet-related, interactive media, and retail consumer-related companies that are similar to us in terms of certain financial characteristics (primarily revenue and market capitalization) and other important criteria that are similar to us in terms of certain financial characteristics (primarily revenue and market capitalization) and other important criteria. The compensation data drawn from this compensation peer group is one of several factors that the Compensation Committee will consider in making its decisions with respect to the compensation of our Named Executive Officers.

In 2021, our Chief Executive Officer made adjustments to the compensation arrangements of our Named Executive Officers as he determined in his discretion using his assessment of each Named Executive Officer’s individual skills, experience, performance, expected future contributions, his knowledge of the Company and the competitive market for executive talent, and his business judgment.

In April 2021, management approved an updated compensation peer group with the assistance of Compensia to analyze the compensation of our Named Executive Officers. In identifying and selecting the companies to comprise the compensation peer group, Compensia considered the following primary criteria:

After evaluating the proposed peer companies against these criteria, the Compensation Committee approved the following compensation peer group for the rest of 2021 and its impending status as a public company:

The Compensation Committee intends to use data drawn from the companies in our compensation peer group, as well as data drawn from a custom cut of the Radford Global Technology Survey (which included participating peer companies and additional financially comparable industry competitors), to evaluate the competitive market when determining the total direct compensation packages for our Named Executive Officers, including base salary, target cash bonus opportunities, and long-term incentive compensation opportunities. While the Compensation Committee considers peer data to be a helpful reference to assess the competitiveness and appropriateness of our executive compensation program, the Committee applies its own business judgment and experience to determine individual compensation and does not set or target the compensation of our executives at specific levels or within specified percentile ranges relative to peer company pay levels.

The Compensation Committee intends to review our compensation peer group at least annually and makes adjustments to its composition if warranted, taking into account changes in both our business and the businesses of the companies in the peer group.

We also provide certain post-employment compensation (severance and change-in-control) payments and benefits that are consistent with our view of competitive market practices, and other benefits, such as health and welfare programs, including a Section 401(k) retirement savings plan. In general, our executive officers participate in the standard employee health and welfare benefit programs available to our employees generally.

Base salary represents the fixed portion of the compensation of our Named Executive Officers and is a critical element of compensation intended to attract and retain highly talented individuals. Generally, the base salary for each Named Executive Officer is intended to provide a fixed amount of cash compensation that is based on the executive’s role, experience, and expected contributions to the Company. Base salary is also designed to provide our Named Executive Officers with steady cash flow during the course of the fiscal year that is not contingent on short-term variations in our corporate performance.

Prior to the Closing Date, our Chief Executive Officer reviewed and determined the annual base salaries of our other Named Executive Officers, taking into account each Named Executive Officer’s position, qualifications, experience, prior salary level, the base salaries of our other executive officers and our compensation objectives. Our Chief Executive Officer also considered information about the base salaries of similarly situated executives in other companies at a similar stage of development. Our Chief Executive Officer’s annual base salary was set forth in his employment offer letter.

The annual base salaries of our Named Executive Officers for 2021 were as follows:

Going forward, the Compensation Committee will review and adjust the annual base salaries of our Named Executive Officers as part of its annual review of our executive compensation program.

The base salaries paid to our Named Executive Officers during 2021 are set forth in the “2021 Summary Compensation Table” below.

Prior to the Closing Date, we did not maintain a formal bonus plan. Instead, we provided our Named Executive Officers (other than our Chief Executive Officer) with the opportunity to earn quarterly cash bonuses that were intended to encourage the achievement of the key objectives and milestones set forth in our annual operating plan. At the end of each fiscal quarter, our Chief Executive Officer would determine whether cash bonuses were to be awarded for the quarter and, if so, the amount of such bonuses based on a percentage of each Named Executive Officer’s annual base salary. During the first half of 2021, our Chief Executive Officer based his cash bonus decisions on his discretionary assessment of our corporate performance and an evaluation of each Named Executive Officer’s individual contributions to that performance. During the second half of 2021, our Chief Executive Officer continued to make his decisions based on the exercise of his discretion after evaluating our corporate performance and each Named Executive Officer’s individual performance, but also took into consideration the Company’s actual performance as measured against its quarterly revenue targets and pre-identified operational performance metrics and goals for each Named Executive Officer.

Each Named Executive Officer (other than our Chief Executive Officer) was assigned a target cash bonus opportunity, expressed as a percentage of the Named Executive Officer’s annual base salary, as set forth in the Named Executive Officer’s employment offer letter. From time to time, our Chief Executive Officer could adjust a Named Executive Officer’s target cash bonus opportunity after taking into account the Named Executive Officer’s position, role and responsibilities, experience, prior target cash bonus opportunity, the target bonus opportunities of our other Named Executive Officers, and our compensation objectives. Our Chief Executive Officer also considered information about the target bonus opportunities of similarly situated executives in other companies at a similar stage of development.

The target cash bonus opportunities of our Named Executive Officers for 2021, as a percentage of annual base salary, were as follows:

Our Chief Executive Officer had the discretion to determine whether to pay and, if so, the amount of each Named Executive Officer’s quarterly cash bonus based upon his quantitative evaluation of the Company’s financial and operational performance and his qualitative evaluation of the impact of the Named Executive Officer’s contributions to that performance. Our Chief Executive Officer retained discretion over the ultimate annual bonus determinations. In addition, our Chief Executive Officer could adjust cash bonuses due to extraordinary or nonrecurring events. These cash bonuses were intended to reward our Named Executive Officers who had a positive impact on our corporate results.

After the end of the second, third and fourth fiscal quarters of 2021, our Chief Executive Officer met with the Compensation Committee to review our actual performance for the quarter and to present his determinations as to whether to pay a cash bonus for that quarter and the amount earned by each Named Executive Officer. The Compensation Committee reviewed and provided input on our Chief Executive Officer’s determinations, but the final decisions as to each Named Executive Officer’s cash bonus was solely the determination of our Chief Executive Officer.

Based on our Chief Executive Officer’s assessment of our corporate performance and each Named Executive Officer’s individual contributions to that performance during each fiscal quarter, our Named Executive Officers earned the following aggregate cash bonuses in 2021:

Going forward, the Compensation Committee will design and adopt a formal cash bonus plan for our Named Executive Officers as part of its annual review of our executive compensation program.

In October 2021, the Compensation Committee determined that, as a follow-up to the Closing Date, it would be in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders to award contingent transaction-related cash bonuses to Messrs. Lee and Camire. Mr. Lee’s transaction-related cash bonus was contingent on at least six stock analysts initiating coverage of the Company prior to year-end of 2021, and Mr. Camire’s transaction-related cash bonus was contingent on our timely completion and filing of all regular Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q with the SEC to be filed in 2021. The amount of these contingent transaction-related cash bonuses for Messrs. Lee and Camire was $450,000 and $200,000, respectively.

In December 2021, the Compensation Committee determined that at least six stock analysts have initiated coverage of the Company and that we had timely completed and filed all regular Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q with the SEC for 2021. Accordingly, the Compensation Committee approved the payment of the contingent transaction-related cash bonuses to Messrs. Lee and Camire in the amounts of $450,000 and $200,000, respectively, on the Company’s first regular pay date after December 31, 2021, subject to their continued employment through the payment date.

The annual bonuses awarded to our Named Executive Officers for 2021 are set forth in the “Summary Compensation Table” below.

We encounter significant competition for qualified personnel, and long-term incentive compensation plays a critical role in our ability to attract, hire, motivate, and reward qualified and experienced executives. The use of long-term incentive compensation in the form of equity awards is necessary for us to compete for qualified executives without significantly increasing cash compensation and is the most important element of our executive compensation program. We use equity awards to incentivize and reward our Named Executive Officers for long-term corporate performance based on the value of our Class A Common Stock and, thereby, align their interests with the interests of our stockholders. The realized value of these equity awards bears a direct relationship to our stock price, and, therefore, these awards are an incentive for our Named Executive Officers to create value for our stockholders. Equity awards also help us retain our Named Executive Officers in a highly competitive market.

In December 2021, we granted time-based RSU awards and PRSU awards, which may be settled for shares of our Class A Common Stock, to motivate and reward our Named Executive Officers for long-term increases in the value of our Class A Common Stock. We view these equity awards, whether the awards are subject to time-based vesting requirements or are to be earned based on the attainment of specific performance objectives over a multi-year performance period, as inherently variable since the grant date fair value of these awards may not necessarily be indicative of their value when, and if, the stock underlying these awards vest or are earned. Because RSU awards have value to the recipient even in the absence of stock price appreciation, we believe that we are able to incentivize and retain our Named Executive Officers using fewer shares of our Class A Common Stock than would be necessary if we used stock options to provide an equity stake in the Company. Further, since the value of RSU awards increases with any increase in the value of the underlying shares, RSU awards also provide incentives to our Named Executive Officers that are aligned with the interests of our stockholders. We believe that PRSU awards also serve as an effective source of motivation for our Named Executive Officers to drive our financial performance. In addition, PRSU awards provide a direct link between compensation and stockholder return, thereby motivating our Named Executive Officers to focus on and strive to achieve both our annual and long-term financial and strategic objectives.

The Compensation Committee reviewed and determined the size of the equity awards of our Named Executive Officers based on a formula that took into account each Named Executive Officer’s position, qualifications, experience and a competitive market analysis prepared by its compensation consultant, and the other factors described in “Compensation-Setting Process—Setting Target Total Direct Compensation” above. Based upon these factors, the Compensation Committee determined the size of each equity award at levels considered appropriate to create a meaningful opportunity for reward predicated on the creation of long-term stockholder value.

The equity awards granted to our Named Executive Officers in December 2021 under the WM Technology, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Equity Plan”) were as follows:

The RSU awards granted to our Named Executive Officers vest in equal quarterly installments over three years following the vesting commencement date, and vesting terminates upon the Named Executive Officer’s termination

of continuous service with us. Each unit granted pursuant to these RSU awards represents a contingent right to receive one share of our Class A Common Stock for each unit that vests.

The PRSUs granted to our Named Executive Officers vest only if we achieve specified performance goals during the performance period beginning on January 1, 2022 and ending on December 31, 2023. The actual number of PRSUs that vest will be determined based upon the following calculation: (i) the sum of (A) the Revenue CAGR Percentage (as defined in the PRSU award agreement) multiplied by 0.75, plus (B) the Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage (as defined in the PRSU award agreement) multiplied by 0.25, then multiplied by (ii) the target Number of PRSUs granted to the Named Executive Officer, with the resulting number of PRSUs rounded down to the nearest whole unit.

The number of PRSUs that vest will be determined by our compensation committee within 90 days following the end of the performance period, which is referred to as the determination date. Each Named Executive Officer must remain employed by us through the determination date for the PRSU award to vest.

Threshold achievement of the Revenue CAGR performance metric will result in a 50% Revenue CAGR Percentage, target achievement of the Revenue CAGR performance metric will result in a 100% Revenue CAGR Percentage, and maximum achievement of the Revenue CAGR performance metric will result in a 200% Revenue CAGR Percentage, with the Revenue CAGR Percentage interpolated linearly and rounded up the nearest percentage point between these level after threshold performance is attained.

Threshold achievement of the Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance metric will result in a 50% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage, target achievement of the Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance metric will result in a 100% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage, and maximum achievement of the Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance metric will result in a 200% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage, with the Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage interpolated linearly and rounded up the nearest percentage point between these level after threshold performance is attained.

The equity awards granted to our Named Executive Officers during 2021 are set forth in the “Summary Compensation Table” and the “Grants of Plan-Based Awards” below.

Our Named Executive Officers are generally eligible to participate in the same employee benefit plans, and on the same terms and conditions, as all our other eligible employees. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, vacation, personal holidays, and sick days, basic life insurance and supplemental life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and a Section 401(k) retirement savings plan. In addition, our executives are eligible for life insurance and disability benefits paid for by us.

We maintain a tax-qualified Section 401(k) retirement savings plan (the “Section 401(k) Plan”) that provides our employees, including our Named Executive Officers, who satisfy certain eligibility requirements, with an opportunity to save for retirement on a tax advantaged basis. Eligible employees are able to participate in the Section 401(k) Plan as of the first day of the month following the day they complete three months of employment and participants are able to defer, either on a pre-tax basis or on an after-tax (Roth) basis through contributions to the Section 401(k) Plan, up to 90% of their eligible compensation, but within the limits prescribed by the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). All participants’ interests in their deferrals are 100% vested when contributed. Under the Section 401(k) Plan, we make matching contributions of 100% of each participant’s elective deferrals of the first 1% of such participant’s eligible compensation plus 50% of each participant’s elective deferrals of the next 2% to 6% of such participant’s eligible compensation, up to a maximum matching contribution of 3.5% of eligible compensation. The Section 401(k) Plan is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code with the Section 401(k) Plan’s related trust intended to be tax exempt under Section 501(a) of the Code.

We believe these benefits are generally consistent with those offered by other companies and specifically those companies with which we compete for employees. We design our employee benefits programs to be affordable and competitive in relation to the market as well as compliant with applicable laws and practices. We adjust our employee benefits programs as needed based upon regular monitoring of applicable laws and practices and the competitive market.

Currently, we do not view perquisites or other personal benefits as a significant component of our executive compensation program. Accordingly, we do not generally provide perquisites or other personal benefits to our Named Executive Officers except as generally made available to our employees or in situations where we believe it is appropriate to assist an individual in the performance of his duties, to make them more efficient and effective, and for recruitment and retention purposes. During 2021, our Named Executive Officers did not receive perquisites or other personal benefits that were, in the aggregate, $10,000 or more for each individual.

In the future, we may provide perquisites or other personal benefits in limited circumstances, such as those described in the preceding paragraph. All future practices with respect to perquisites or other personal benefits will be approved and subject to periodic review by the Compensation Committee.

Each of our Chief Executive Officer and each of our other Named Executive Officers have entered into written employment offer letters, which set forth each Named Executive Officer’s initial base salary, eligibility to receive an annual bonus, eligibility to received discretionary bonuses, certain employee benefits, a recommendation for an equity award and eligibility to participate in our employee benefit plans and programs on the same basis as those plans and programs are made available to other similarly situated employees. We believe that these arrangements were necessary to secure the service of these individuals in a highly competitive job market. As a condition to entering into these employment offer letters, each Named Executive Officer was required to execute our Confidential Information, Non-Solicitation and Inventions Assignment Agreement.

For additional information about the employment offer letters with our Named Executive Officers, see “Employment Arrangements” below.

We believe that having in place reasonable and competitive post-employment compensation arrangements, including in the event of a change-in-control of the Company, are essential to attracting and retaining highly qualified executive officers. The Compensation Committee does not consider the specific amounts payable under the post-employment compensation arrangements when determining our Named Executive Officers’ compensation. We do believe, however, that these arrangements are necessary to offer competitive compensation packages.

In December 2021, we adopted a Severance and Change in Control Plan (the “Severance Plan”). Each of our Named Executive Officers is eligible to participate in the Severance Plan, which provides certain benefits. We believe these the Severance Plan provides reasonable compensation in the form of a cash severance payment (which is based on a participant’s base salary and target annual bonus (if any), certain limited health care benefits, and, in connection with a termination of employment in connection with a change-in-control of the Company, acceleration of vesting and/or exercisability any outstanding and unvested equity awards, to a Named Executive Officer upon leaving our employ under certain circumstances to facilitate a transition to new employment. Further, we seek to mitigate any potential employer liability and avoid future disputes or litigation by requiring a departing Named Executive Officer to sign a general waiver and release of all claims as a condition to receiving post-employment compensation payments or benefits. We believe that the Severance Plan helps maintain our Named Executive Officers’ continued focus on their assigned duties to maximize stockholder value if there is a potential change-in-control transaction and mitigate the risk of subsequent disputes or litigation.

For a description of the Severance Plan and the specific post-employment compensation arrangements of our Named Executive Officers, as well as an estimate of the potential payments and benefits payable under these arrangements, see “Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control” below.

The Compensation Committee has adopted an equity award grant policy to ensure the integrity and efficiency of our equity award process. The Board has delegated to the Compensation Committee the express authority to serve as administrator of the 2021 Equity Plan, although such delegation of authority is not exclusive as the Board retains concurrent rights to grant equity awards under the 2021 Equity Plan.

The Compensation Committee has delegated to the Equity Grant Committee (which consists of our Chief Executive Officer, General Counsel, and Chief Financial Officer) (the “EGC”) the nonexclusive authority to grant equity

awards to employees who are not “officers” as defined in Rule 16a-1 of the Exchange Act. Further, the EGC may not grant any equity award to a member of the EGC, any member of the Board, or any consultant. At least annually, the EGC will provide the Compensation Committee with a report summarizing the equity awards granted by the EGC during the applicable period.

It is also our intent that no equity awards will be backdated, nor will the timing of the public release of material information or of the grant of an equity award be manipulated with the intent of benefiting an award recipient.

The Compensation Committee intends to take the applicable tax and accounting requirements into consideration in designing and overseeing our executive compensation program.

For federal income tax purposes, publicly-traded companies may be prohibited under Section 162(m) of the Code from deducting employee remuneration in excess of $1 million paid to their chief executive officer, chief financial officer, any other executive officer whose total compensation is required to be reported to stockholders under the Exchange Act by reason of such individual being among the three highest compensated executive officers for the tax year, and any executive officer who was subject to the deduction limit in any tax year beginning after December 31, 2016.

Even if Section 162(m) may limit the compensation deduction, our Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee believe our compensation policies and practices should be designed to help us meet our established goals and objectives. While the Compensation Committee will consider the impact of the Section 162(m) deduction limitation, it intends to continue to compensate our Named Executive Officers in a manner that is in the best interests of our stockholders and reserves the right to make compensation decisions that may not be deductible under Section 162(m) where the Compensation Committee determines the compensation to be appropriate and in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders.

The Compensation Committee takes accounting considerations into account in designing compensation plans and arrangements for our executive officers and other employees. Chief among these is ASC Topic 718, the standard which governs the accounting treatment of certain stock-based compensation. Among other things, ASC Topic 718 requires us to record a compensation expense in our income statement for all equity awards granted to our executive officers and other employees. This compensation expense is based on the grant date “fair value” of the equity award and, in most cases, will be recognized ratably over the award’s requisite service period (which, generally, will correspond to the award’s vesting schedule). This compensation expense is also reported in the compensation tables below, even though recipients may never realize any value from their equity awards.

Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the related SEC rule (the “Rule”), we are required to provide to our shareholders specified disclosure regarding the relationship of our Chief Executive Officer’s total compensation to the total compensation of our median employee, referred to as “pay-ratio” disclosure.

For 2021, the estimated median of the annual total compensation of all of our employees, excluding our Chief Executive Officer, was $138,000 and the annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer, as reported in the Summary Compensation Table included in this Proxy Statement, was $10,614,467. Based on this information, the ratio of the annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer to the median of the annual total compensation of all other employees was estimated to be 76.5 to 1.

The pay ratio above represents the Company’s reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with the Rule and applicable guidance. The Rule and guidance provide significant flexibility in how to identify the median employee, and each company may use a different methodology and make different assumptions particular to the company. As a result, as the SEC explained when it adopted the Rule, in considering the pay-ratio disclosure, shareholders should keep in mind that the Rule was not designed to facilitate comparisons of pay ratios among different companies, even companies within the same industry, but rather to allow shareholders to better understand and assess each particular company’s compensation practices and pay-ratio disclosures.

In determining the pay ratio information provided above, we identified our “median employee” by using the following methodology, as permitted by the Rule:

For 2021, we calculated the annual total compensation of the median employee using the same methodology that we used to determine the annual total compensation of the Chief Executive Officer, as reported in the Summary Compensation Table of this proxy statement.

The SEC’s pay ratio disclosure rules provide reporting companies with a great deal of flexibility in determining the methodology used to identify the median employee and the pay ratio. As such, our methodology may differ materially from the methodology used by other companies to prepare their pay ratio disclosures, which may contribute to a lack of comparability between our pay ratio and the pay ratio reported by other companies, including those within our industry.

For 2021, the compensation programs for our Named Executive Officers consisted of base salary, cash bonuses and equity-based incentive awards.

Base salary is set at a level that is intended to reflect the executive’s duties, authorities, contributions, prior experience and performance.

In 2021, Messrs. Beals, Feijoo and Camire were each eligible for annual discretionary cash bonus awards of up to 83%, 50% and 15% respectively, of their annual salary subject to the attainment of performance goals set by our board of directors and our compensation committee. In addition, Messrs. Lee and Camire each received a one-time discretionary cash bonus of $450,000 and $200,000, respectively, in connection with the completion of the Business Combination.

In December 2021, we awarded our Named Executive Officers RSUs and PRSUs under our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (our “2021 Plan”).

The number of RSUs granted to each of our Named Executive Officers was 781,250, 625,000, 468,750, 328,125 and 234,375 for Messrs. Beals, Lee, Feijoo, Dean and Camire, respectively. The RSUs vest in equal quarterly installments over three years following the vesting commencement date, and vesting terminates upon the Named Executive Officer’s termination of continuous service with us.

The target number of PRSUs granted to each of our Named Executive Officers was 781,250, 625,000, 468,750, 328,125 and 234,375 for Messrs. Beals, Lee, Feijoo, Dean and Camire, respectively. The PRSUs vest only if we achieve specified performance goals during the performance period beginning on January 1, 2022 and ending on December 31, 2023. The actual number of PRSUs that vest will be determined based upon the following calculation: (i) the sum of (A) the Revenue CAGR Percentage (as defined in the PRSU award agreement) multiplied by 0.75, plus (B) the Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage (as defined in the PRSU award agreement) multiplied by 0.25, then multiplied by (ii) the target Number of PRSUs granted to the Named Executive Officer, with the resulting number of PRSUs rounded down to the nearest whole unit.

The number of PRSUs that vest will be determined by our compensation committee within 90 days following the end of the performance period, which is referred to as the determination date. Each Named Executive Officer must remain employed by us through the determination date for the PRSU award to vest.

Threshold achievement of the Revenue CAGR performance metric will result in a 50% Revenue CAGR Percentage, target achievement of the Revenue CAGR performance metric will result in a 100% Revenue CAGR Percentage, and maximum achievement of the Revenue CAGR performance metric will result in a 200% Revenue CAGR Percentage, with the Revenue CAGR Percentage interpolated linearly and rounded up the nearest percentage point between these level after threshold performance is attained.

Threshold achievement of the Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance metric will result in a 50% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage, target achievement of the Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance metric will result in a 100% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage, and maximum achievement of the Adjusted EBITDA Margin performance metric will result in a 200% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage, with the Adjusted EBITDA Margin Percentage interpolated linearly and rounded up the nearest percentage point between these level after threshold performance is attained.

We provide benefits to our Named Executive Officers on the same basis as provided to all of our employees, including health, dental and vision insurance; accidental death and dismemberment insurance;; and a tax-qualified Section 401(k) plan. With the exception of life insurance and long-term disability insurance, we do not maintain any executive-specific benefit or executive perquisite programs.

We maintain a tax-qualified retirement plan that provides our employees, including our Named Executive Officers, who satisfy certain eligibility requirements with an opportunity to save for retirement on a tax advantaged basis. Eligible employees are able to participate in the 401(k) plan as of the first day of the month following the date they complete three months of employment and participants are able to defer, either on a pre-tax basis or on an after-tax (Roth) basis through contributions to the 401(k) plan, up to 90% of their eligible compensation, up to the contribution limits prescribed by the Code and applicable regulations or notices. All participants’ interests in their deferrals are 100% vested when contributed. We make matching contributions of 100% of each participant’s elective deferrals of the first 1% of such participant’s eligible compensation that is contributed plus 50% of each participant’s elective deferrals of the next 2% to 6% of such participant’s eligible compensation that is contributed, up to a maximum matching contribution of 3.5% of eligible compensation.

Each of our Named Executive Officers have entered into an offer letter with Ghost Management Group, LLC, which provides for employment on an at-will basis..

Mr. Beals previously entered into an offer letter with Ghost Management Group, LLC, dated July 31, 2015. Pursuant to the terms of the offer letter, Mr. Beals’s current annual base salary is $600,000. Mr. Beals also is eligible to participate in the employee benefit plans generally available to our employees and maintained by us.

Mr. Lee previously entered into an offer letter with Ghost Management Group, LLC, dated February 5, 2019. Pursuant to the terms of the offer letter, Mr. Lee’s current annual base salary is $500,000. Mr. Lee also is eligible to participate in the employee benefit plans generally available to our employees and maintained by us.

Mr. Feijoo previously entered into an offer letter with Ghost Management Group, LLC, dated April 30, 2019. Pursuant to the terms of the offer letter, Mr. Feijoo’s annual base salary was $400,000, which increased to $440,000 following his promotion to Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Feijoo also is eligible to participate in the employee benefit plans generally available to our employees and maintained by us.

Mr. Dean previously entered into an offer letter with Ghost Management Group, LLC, dated October 3, 2018. Pursuant to the terms of the offer letter, Mr. Dean’s annual base salary was $475,000 per year. Mr. Dean also is eligible to participate in the employee benefit plans generally available to our employees and maintained by us.

Mr. Camire previously entered into an offer letter with Ghost Management Group, LLC, dated April 4, 2019. Pursuant to the terms of the offer letter, Mr. Camire’s annual base salary was $350,000, which increased to $410,000 per year. Mr. Camire also is eligible to participate in the employee benefit plans generally available to our employees and maintained by us.

Each of our Named Executive Officers is eligible to participate in the Severance Plan, which provides certain benefits.

The Severance Plan provides for severance and change in control benefits to our Named Executive Officers upon a “change in control termination” or a “regular termination” (each, as described below). Upon a change in control termination, each of our Named Executive Officers is entitled to (i) a lump sum payment equal to a number of months of his base salary (18 months for Mr. Beals and 12 months for our other Named Executive Officers), (ii) a lump sum payment equal to a percentage of the Named Executive Officer’s annual target cash bonus (150% for Mr. Beals and 100% for our other Named Executive Officers), (iii) full vesting acceleration of all outstanding equity awards (with any performance-based vesting awards deemed achieved at target level), and (iv) payment of group health insurance premiums for a number of months (18 months for Mr. Beals and 12 months for our other Named Executive Officers). Upon a regular termination, each of our Named Executive Officers is entitled to (i) continued payment of the Named Executive Officer’s base salary for a number of months (12 months for Mr. Beals and nine months for our other Named Executive Officers), (ii) a lump sum payment equal to a percentage of the Named Executive Officer’s annual target cash bonus (100% for Mr. Beals and 75% for our other Named Executive Officers), and (iii) payment of group health insurance premiums for a number of months (12 months for Mr. Beals and nine months for our other Named Executive Officers). All benefits under the Severance Plan are subject to the Named Executive Officer’s execution of an effective release of claims against us.

For purposes of the Severance Plan, a “change in control termination” is a termination by us without “cause” (and not as a result of death or disability) or a resignation by the Named Executive Officer for “good reason” (each, as defined in the Severance Plan), that occurs during the period of time beginning three months before the closing of, and ending 12 months following the closing of, a “change in control” (as defined in our 2021 Plan), which we refer to as the “change in control period.” A “regular termination” is a termination by us without cause or, in the case of Mr. Beals, a resignation for good reason, in either case, that does not occur during a change in control period.

The following table quantifies the amount of cash payments and the value of any equity acceleration our Named Executive Officers would have received in connection with certain terminations of employment as if such termination of employment had occurred on December 31, 2021. No benefits are payable pursuant to our Severance Plan in the event of a Named Executive Officer’s retirement or voluntary resignation (other than for Good Reason, as described above).

Our Named Executive Officers did not participate in, or otherwise receive any benefits under, any pension or retirement plan sponsored by us during 2021.

The following table shows certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of the Company in 2021:

The Amended Operating Agreement contains restrictions on transfers of units and requires the prior consent of the managing member for such transfers, except in specified cases, including (i) certain transfers to permitted transferees under certain conditions and (ii) exchanges of Units for shares of Class A Common Stock or cash pursuant to the exchange agreement.

Concurrently with the Closing, we, WMH LLC and the Unit holders, including Messrs. Beals, Camire, Dean, Feijoo, Lee, Francis and Hartfield and Ghost Media Group, LLC, as described in the section titled “Principal Securityholders,” entered into an exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”). The terms of the Exchange Agreement provide the Unit holders (or certain permitted transferees thereof) with the right from time to time at and after 180 days following the Business Combination to exchange their c) for shares of Class A Common Stock on a one-for-one basis, subject to customary conversion rate adjustments for stock splits, stock dividends and reclassifications, and to exchange their vested Class P Units for shares of Class A Common Stock with a value equal to the value of such Class P Units less their participation threshold, or, in each case, at the Company’s election, the cash equivalent of such shares of Class A Common Stock. By default, each exchange will take the form of a redemption by us of the WMH Units in exchange for Class A Common Stock or cash, as applicable, unless we elect to effect such exchange directly with the applicable Unit holder. The shares of Class V Common Stock surrendered in any exchange will be immediately cancelled.

The Exchange Agreement provides that, as a general matter, a Unit holder does not have the right to exchange Units if we determine that such exchange would be prohibited by law or regulation or would violate other agreements with us and our subsidiaries to which the Unit holder may be subject, including the Amended Operating Agreement and the Exchange Agreement. Additionally, the Exchange Agreement contains restrictions on redemptions and exchanges intended to prevent WMH LLC from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” for U.S. federal income tax purposes. These restrictions are modeled on certain safe harbors provided for under applicable U.S. federal income tax law. We may impose additional restrictions on exchanges that it determines to be necessary or advisable so that WMH LLC is not treated as a “publicly traded partnership” for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Concurrently with the Closing, we, the Holder Representative and the Class A Unit holders, including Messrs. Beals, Francis and Hartfield and Ghost Media Group, LLC, as described in the section titled “Principal Securityholders,” entered into the tax receivable agreement, (the “Tax Receivable Agreement”), pursuant to which we are required to pay to holders of Class A Units, in the aggregate, 85% of the amount of cash savings, if any, in U.S. federal, state and local income tax or franchise tax that we actually realizes as a result of (i) increases to the tax basis of WMH LLC’s assets resulting from our acquisition of common units for cash in the Business Combination and future redemptions or exchanges of Class A Units for shares of Class A Common Stock or cash, (ii) tax benefits related to imputed interest or (iii) tax attributes resulting from payments made under Tax Receivable Agreement. The payment obligations under Tax Receivable Agreement are our obligations and not obligations of WMH LLC.

We expect that the payments we will be required to make under the Tax Receivable Agreement will be substantial. Assuming no material changes in relevant tax law, that there are no future redemptions or exchanges of Class A Units and that we earn sufficient taxable income to realize all tax benefits that are subject to the tax receivable agreement, the tax savings associated with acquisitions of common units in the Business Combination would aggregate to approximately $151.3 million over 15 years from the Closing Date. Under this scenario, we would be required to pay to the Class A Unit holders approximately 85% of such amount, or $128.6 million, over the 15-year period from the Closing Date. The actual amounts we will be required to pay may materially differ from these hypothetical amounts, because potential future tax savings that we will be deemed to realize, and the Tax Receivable Agreement payments made by us, will be calculated based in part on the market value of the Class A Common Stock at the time of each redemption or exchange under the exchange agreement and the prevailing applicable tax rates applicable to us over the life of the Tax Receivable Agreement and will depend on us generating sufficient taxable income to realize the tax benefits that are subject to the Tax Receivable Agreement. Payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement are not conditioned on the Class A Unit holders’ continued ownership of WMH LLC.

Payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement will be based on the tax reporting positions we determine, and the IRS or another tax authority may challenge all or a part of the existing tax basis, tax basis increases, or other tax

attributes subject to the Tax Receivable Agreement, and a court could sustain such challenge. The parties to the Tax Receivable Agreement will not reimburse us for any payments previously made if such tax basis or other tax benefits are subsequently disallowed, except that any excess payments made to a party under the Tax Receivable Agreement will be netted against future payments otherwise to be made under the Tax Receivable Agreement, if any, after the determination of such excess.

In addition, the Tax Receivable Agreement provides that if (1) we breach any of our material obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement (including in the event that we are more than three months late making a payment that is due under the Tax Receivable Agreement, except in the case of certain liquidity exceptions), (2) we are subject to certain bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceedings, or (3) at any time, we elect an early termination of the Tax Receivable Agreement, our obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement (with respect to all Class A Units, whether or not such units have been exchanged or redeemed before or after such transaction) would accelerate and become payable in a lump sum amount equal to the present value of the anticipated future tax benefits calculated based on certain assumptions, including that we would have sufficient taxable income to fully utilize the deductions arising from the tax deductions, tax basis and other tax attributes subject to the Tax Receivable Agreement. The Tax Receivable Agreement also provides that, upon certain mergers, asset sales or other forms of business combination, or certain other changes of control, (A) our obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement with respect to Class A Units that have been exchanged or redeemed prior to or in connection with such change of control transaction would accelerate and become payable in a lump sum as described above and (B) with respect to Class A Units that have not been exchanged as of such change of control transaction, our or our successor’s obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement would be based on certain assumptions, including that our or our successor would have sufficient taxable income to fully utilize the increased tax deductions and tax basis and other benefits covered by the Tax Receivable Agreement. As a result, upon any acceleration of our obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement (including upon a change of control), we could be required to make payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement that are greater than 85% of our actual cash tax savings, which could negatively impact its liquidity. The change of control provisions in the Tax Receivable Agreement may also result in situations where the Class A Unit holders have interests that differ from or are in addition to those of the Class A stockholders.

Finally, because we are a holding company with no operations of our own, our ability to make payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement depends on our ability to make distributions to us. To the extent that we are unable to make payments under the tax receivable agreement for any reason, such payments will be deferred and will accrue interest until paid, which could negatively impact our results of operations and could also affect our liquidity in periods in which such payments are made.

Concurrently with the Closing, Silver Spike Sponsor, LLC (“Silver Spike Sponsor”) and certain Unit holders, including Messrs. Beals, Camire, Dean, Feijoo, Lee, Francis and Hartfield, Silver Spike Sponsor, LLC and Ghost Media Group, LLC, as described in the section titled “Principal Securityholders,” entered into the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated June 16, 2021, among us and certain of our stockholders (the “Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement”). As a result, Silver Spike Sponsor, LLC and such certain Unit holders are able to make a written demand for registration under the Securities Act of all or a portion of their registrable securities, subject to a maximum of three such demand registrations for Silver Spike Sponsor, LLC and three such demand registrations for such certain Unit holders thereto, in each case so long as such demand includes a number of registrable securities with a total offering price in excess of $10.0 million. Any such demand may be in the form of an underwritten offering, it being understood that we will not be able to conduct more than two underwritten offerings where the expected aggregate proceeds are less than $25.0 million but in excess of $10.0 million in any 12-month period. In addition, the holders of registrable securities will have “piggy-back” registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by us. We have also agreed to file within 45 days of the Closing a resale shelf registration statement covering the resale of all registrable securities.

In June 2019, Silver Spike Sponsor purchased 7,187,500 founder shares for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or $0.004 per share. On September 23, 2019, in connection with the expiration of the underwriter’s over-allotment option, Silver Spike Sponsor surrendered 937,500 founder shares. In connection with the closing of Silver Spike’s IPO, Silver Spike Sponsor granted sponsor LLC equity interests to Silver Spike’s independent directors that collectively comprised approximately 1% of the outstanding equity interests in Silver Spike Sponsor.

Silver Spike Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 7,000,000 Private Placement Warrants for a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant in a private placement simultaneously with the closing of Silver Spike’s IPO. Each Private Placement Warrant may be exercised for one share of Class A Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as provided herein. The Private Placement Warrants (including the Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by it until 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination.

Silver Spike entered into an Administrative Services Agreement pursuant to which Silver Spike paid Silver Spike Sponsor up to $20,000 per month for office space, administrative and support services. Upon completion of the Business Combination, Silver Spike ceased paying any of these monthly fees. As of the Closing Date, Silver Spike Sponsor was paid an aggregate of $79,074 for office space, administrative and support services and was entitled to be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses.

Silver Spike Sponsor, Silver Spike’s officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates, were reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on Silver Spike’s behalf, such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. As of the Closing Date, Silver Spike Sponsor, and its respective affiliates were paid an aggregate of $88,252.

Silver Spike Sponsor agreed to loan Silver Spike $250,000 under an unsecured promissory note to be used for Silver Spike’s working capital expenses. These loans are non-interest bearing and unsecured. The value of Silver Spike Sponsor’s interest in this loan transaction corresponded to the principal amount outstanding under any such loan. On February 18, 2021, Silver Spike Sponsor agreed to loan Silver Spike an additional $750,000 under an additional unsecured promissory note to be used for the payment of working capital expenses, including expenses incurred in connection with the Business Combination. The notes were non-interest bearing, unsecured and repaid on the Closing Date.

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Silver Spike entered into a Subscription Agreement with (i) Silver Spike Opportunities I, LLC, an entity affiliated with certain directors and officers of Silver Spike, for the purchase of 3,500,000 shares of Silver Spike’s Class A ordinary shares for an aggregate purchase price of $35,000,000 and (ii) AFV Partners SPV-5 (WM) LLC, an entity affiliated with Tony Aquila, one of our directors, for the purchase of 5,000,000 PIPE Shares for an aggregate purchase price of $50.0 million, in each case on the same on the same terms and conditions as the form of Subscription Agreement.

Certain immediate family members of Douglas Francis, Legacy WMH’s former chief executive officer and a current member of our board of managers, provide services to us for compensation, as described below:

WCC MGMT, LLC is a business of which each of Messrs. Francis and Hartfield indirectly own a minority interest. WCC MGMT, LLC uses our listing products and has participated in other brand promotion opportunities. WCC MGMT, LLC paid us a total of $98,495, $536,750 and $507,935 in 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively, for such products and services. Mr. Beals indirectly owned a minority interest in WCC MGMT, LLC, but relinquished his indirect interest in April 2019.

DICA Distribution, LLC is a company of which Mr. Francis indirectly owned 47.5%, Mr. Hartfield indirectly owned 47.5% and Mr. Beals indirectly owned 5% of the equity interests. DICA Distribution, LLC leased premises pursuant to a lease, in connection with which we issued a guaranty in favor of the landlord. The value of the underlying lease was $502,272 and $171,505 in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In April 2019, Mr. Beals relinquished his indirect interest in DICA Distribution, LLC. In May 2019, DICA Distribution, LLC merged with and into WCC MGMT, LLC and our guaranty was released by the landlord.

Glasir Group, LLC is a business owned by Messr. Francis and his spouse. We are contemplating a sublease of our offices located at 43 Discovery, Irvine, California 92618 to Glasir Group, LLC.

In August 2012, Searchcore, Inc., or Searchcore, purchased all of the equity ownership that Messrs. Francis and Hartfield held in Searchcore for an installment note in the amount of $1.6 million payable to each of Messrs. Francis and Hartfield. Pursuant to certain reorganization transactions, the notes were ultimately assigned to Weedmaps Media, LLC, one of our wholly owned subsidiaries.

Pursuant to a note payable to Mr. Hartfield and that certain Global Securities Purchase, Consulting, and Resignation Agreement dated as of July 31, 2012, by and among Searchcore, Weedmaps Media, Inc. and Justin Hartfield, there were $205,324 of the remaining obligations to Mr. Hartfield, which were paid off in 2021. All obligations to Mr. Francis and Mr. Hartfield under these arrangements have been paid in full.

We have entered into employment and other agreements with certain of our executive officers. For a description of agreements with our Named Executive Officers, see the sections entitled “Executive Compensation—Executive Employment Arrangements” and “—Outstanding Equity Awards at December 31, 2020.”

We have granted equity awards to certain of our executive officers. For a description of equity awards granted to our Named Executive Officers, see the section entitled “Executive Compensation.”

We entered into indemnification agreements with substantially all of our directors and executive officers. These agreements, among other things, require us to indemnify our directors and officers for certain expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or officer in any action or proceeding arising out of their services as one of our directors or officers or any other company or enterprise to which the person provides services at our request.

The Board has adopted a written Related Person Transactions Policy that sets forth our policies and procedures regarding the identification, review, consideration and oversight of related-person transactions. For purposes of our policy, a related-person transaction is a transaction, arrangement or relationship (or any series of similar transactions, arrangements or relationships) in which we and any related person are, were or will be participants, in which the amount involved exceeds $120,000. Transactions involving compensation for services provided to us as an employee, consultant or director will not be considered related-person transactions under this policy.

The SEC has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries (e.g., brokers) to satisfy the delivery requirements for Notices of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials or other Annual Meeting materials with respect to two or more stockholders sharing the same address by delivering a single Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials or other Annual Meeting materials addressed to those stockholders. This process, which is commonly referred to as “householding,” potentially means extra convenience for stockholders and cost savings for companies.

A number of brokers with account holders who are our stockholders will be “householding” the Company’s proxy materials. A single Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials will be delivered to multiple stockholders sharing an address unless contrary instructions have been received from the affected stockholders. Once you have received notice from your broker that they will be “householding” communications to your address, “householding” will continue until you are notified otherwise or until you revoke your consent. If, at any time, you no longer wish to participate in “householding” and would prefer to receive a separate Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, please notify your broker or WM Technology, Inc. Direct your written request to Investor Relations at investors@weedmaps.com. Stockholders who currently receive multiple copies of the Notices of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials at their addresses and would like to request “householding” of their communications should contact their brokers. In addition, we will promptly deliver, upon written or oral request to the address or telephone number above, a separate copy of the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials or the full set of proxy materials, as applicable, to a stockholder at a shared address to which a single copy of the documents was delivered.