Good afternoon and welcome to the Velo3D First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I'll now turn over the call to Mr. Bob Okunski, Vice President of Investor Relations at Velo3D Corporation. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I'd like to welcome everyone to our First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. On the call today, we will start out with comments from Benny Buller, CEO of Velo3D, who will provide a summary of the quarter as well as an update on certain key strategic priorities for 2023. Following Benny's comments, Bill McCombe, our CFO, will then review our first quarter 2023 financial results and provide our guidance. As a reminder, a replay of this call will be available later today on the investor relations page of our website. During today's call, we will make forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties that are described in the Safe Harbor slide of today's presentation, today's press release, as well as our 2022 10-K and additional SEC filings. Please see those documents for additional information regarding those factors that may affect these forward-looking statements. Also, we will reference certain non-GAAP metrics during today's call. Please refer to the appendix of our presentation as well as today's earnings press release for the appropriate GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations. Finally, to enhance this call, we have also posted a set of PowerPoint slides, which we will reference during the call on the events and presentations page of our investor relations website. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Benny Buller, CEO of Velo3D. Benny? Thanks, Bob, and I'd like to welcome everyone to our first quarter earnings call. We remain very excited about the overall opportunity for additive manufacturing as our technology is rapidly changing the way high-value metal parts are manufactured across the world. Our ability to capitalize on this opportunity is the key driver behind our significant growth, which in turn is enabling us to accelerate our path to profitability. I would now like to discuss the specifics of our first quarter. Please turn to slide three. Overall, we were very pleased with our Q1 results as we saw continued strong demand for our systems. For the quarter, revenue more than doubled year-over-year to $27 million. This performance reflects not only strong customer demand for our technology, but also our ability to rapidly scale our business and production operations. Operationally, we executed well as we further ramped production of our Sapphire XC and Sapphire XC 1MZ products to meet increasing demand for new and existing customers for these systems. This production success was a direct result of the efficiency initiatives we put in place over the last six months. Bookings rose more than 30% sequentially to $20 million and reflects strong customer demand for our technology. With our first quarter bookings and book backlog of $24 million, we believe we have increasing confidence to achieve our second quarter and fiscal year 2023 goals. Our path to profitability remains on track as improved operational efficiency enabled us to expand our margins while reducing adjusted operating expenses. We significantly improved our net cash flow by more than 50% sequentially, exceeding our cash forecast for the quarter. We remain committed to approaching break even in the 4th quarter of this year. I would now like to briefly discuss why we remain confident in achieving our Q2 and 2023 revenue targets. Turning to slide 4. As I previously mentioned, our 2023 confidence is driven by the fact that we have significant visibility for this year. In addition, we expect to see ongoing strong demand for both our Sapphire and Sapphire XC systems as customers continue to choose our industry-leading technology for their AM needs. This chart provides a detailed breakdown of our Q2 and 2023 revenue expectations by category. Given our strong Q1 revenue performance, expected recurring revenue from our expanding installed base and healthy backlog, we remain confident in achieving our goals for the year. 75% of our Q2 forecasted revenue is either booked or recurring, and on our annual basis for 2023, more than 50% of our forecast is either recognized, recurring, or already booked with a record pipeline of opportunities, which significantly de-risk our 2023 booking gap. As a result, we believe we are well positioned to achieve our 2023 revenue guidance of $120 million-$130 million. I'd now like to provide a quick update on our operational initiatives. As we have discussed previously, we instituted a number of strategic programs over the last nine months to improve our production efficiency, as well as to minimize future supply chain disruptions. Please turn to slide 5. Overall, we continued to make significant progress on a number of initiatives in the first quarter. In relationship to manufacturing, we further strengthened our operations team as we added a number of leaders who have particular experience in highly complex manufacturing environment. Additionally, we materially reduced production cycle times by further leveraging our continuous improvement capability on the production floor. We are also benefiting from programs to standardize manufacturing flow in our production facility. We have also successfully reorganized our factory floor to accelerate the production process. These efforts include tighter management of material flow to the production cells and reducing production labor waste associated with material shortages. On the supply chain, we have accomplished a number of initiatives. We have completed the build-out of our supply chain leadership, as well as improved multiple operational processes with the goal of reducing or eliminating shortages in the future. Although we plan additional supply chain improvements, our current state of supply chain provides us much better confidence in managing our inventory and avoiding shortages. Finally, we remain focused on prudently managing our inventory and working capital. We continue to work with our new and existing vendors to better manage our supply chain as we are starting to see the initial benefits of our staggered delivery contracts that more closely matches our build schedule. Additionally, we have implemented tighter material and production planning processes to improve inventory control. Finally, we are seeing improved supply chain condition overall that will enable us to manage our production on a more real-time basis. I would like to close out my remarks by providing an update to our 2023 strategic priorities that I highlighted last quarter. Our primary focus for this year remains driving to profitability by significantly improving EBITDA. This will be done through revenue growth, margin expansion, and expense control. As a result, we expect to materially improve cash flow. Please turn to slide six. First, the first three bullets on this page will be regarding EBITDA. We remain confident in our goal of more than 50% revenue growth this year. Our strong Q1 result, increased booking, and healthy backlog reflect increasing demand for our industry-leading technology and position us well for the balance of the year. We also made significant progress on expanding gross margin in the first quarter and remain on track for sequential improvement through the end of the year. This further expansion will be driven by lower BOM costs and increase in overall volume as well as higher ASP, given the continued mix shift to our Sapphire XC products. Additionally, we expect to realize the full benefits of our bill of material cost control programs and production efficiency initiatives in the second half of the year. Our first quarter results also show solid progress in lowering operating costs as we continue to prudently manage our expenses. The cost control initiatives we put into place over the last quarter are yielding results as our adjusted operating expenses declined 5% sequentially compared to the fourth quarter, reversing the trend of increased sequential spend in 2022. We expect a similar rate of reduction on a quarterly basis as we go through the year. We remain committed to reducing adjusted operating expenses by 20% in Q4 of 2023 compared to Q4 of 2022. Finally, improving cash flow. We expect sequential improvement in cash flow as we go through the year, driven by improved EBITDA, as I just discussed. Additionally, we will benefit from a reduction in working capital as we remain on plan to reduce year-over-year inventory by 10%-15% this year. We expect to see the benefits of these inventory efforts starting in the third quarter of this year. In closing, we are excited about the future opportunity and believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the growing demand for high-value 3D printed metal parts. Our path to profitability is clear, and we remain confident in achieving our 2023 goals. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Bill to discuss our financials and provide our guidance. Bill? Thanks, Benny. Moving on to our quarterly financial performance, please turn to slide 8. First quarter revenue of $26.8 million was in line with our forecast and was up approximately 120% year-over-year. Compared to Q4, Q1 year of sale revenue declined slightly, primarily due to slightly lower volumes versus Q4, which included shipments deferred from the prior quarter, and lower ASP resulting from the absence of higher revenue deferred payment transactions in Q1. Recurring and service revenue for the quarter declined $500,000 sequentially to $2.2 million due to lower hourly print fees and a reduction in the number of leased systems in the field. On a year-over-year basis, year of sale revenue was up 140% from $10.2 million to $24.6 million. Recurring revenue was up 10% from $2 million to $2.2 million. Gross margin for the quarter was 11%, which was the top end of our guidance range and up from 6% in Q4. The sequential increase in gross margin was primarily driven by a reduction in material costs and improved manufacturing efficiency. non-GAAP operating expenses for the quarter, which excludes stock-based compensation, were $20.8 million. This compares to $18.6 million in the prior quarter, which included $3.4 million of non-recurring expense reductions. On a comparable basis, after adding back these reductions, non-GAAP operating expenses declined approximately 5% sequentially from $22 million to $21 million. Specifically, on this basis, R&D expenses declined $600,000 compared to Q4. G&A declined $400,000 and sales and marketing was in line with the fourth quarter. GAAP net loss for the quarter was $36.2 million, including a non-cash loss of approximately $12.2 million related to changes in the fair value of our warrants and earn out liabilities. On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes this loss and stock-based compensation expense, net loss was $17.8 million, and Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter, excluding the same items, was a loss of $16 million. Finally, as Benny mentioned, bookings for the quarter were up 30% to $20 million, and our backlog now stands at $24 million. The decline in backlog is primarily related to an adjustment we made to remove an order which has not been canceled, but where the customer has not demonstrated adequate progress in securing financing to complete the purchase. We therefore believe it's prudent to remove it from backlog at this time. I'd like to provide more detail on our gross margin outlook for 2023. Please turn to slide 9. As I mentioned earlier, our gross margin in Q1 increased to 11% and was at the high end of our guidance range. In Q1, gross margin expansion was primarily driven by lower material costs and an improvement in our manufacturing efficiency. We remain confident in our ability to improve our gross margin to approximately 30% by Q4 of this year. This will be driven by the following factors. First, bill of material costs are expected to decline as we receive more materials under new long-term, lower cost supply contracts. These contracts are either currently in effect with deliveries occurring, signed and at the product validation stage, or in the process of being negotiated. As the year progresses, we expect to work off existing inventory and receive a higher proportion of our materials under these new contracts, therefore lowering our costs. In addition, we're making a concerted effort to reduce material inefficiency and scrap costs. Second, we will benefit from increased volumes and the investments we've made in leadership and training, which will drive labor and production efficiency. Volume growth will also improve fixed cost absorption as we spread our fixed costs over a greater number of units. We therefore expect labor, overhead, and other factory costs to decline as a percentage of revenue. Finally, we expect continued improvement in ASPs for the balance of the year due to recently implemented price increases and the completion of shipments with early bird reservation discounts from last year. Please turn to the balance sheet on slide 10. We exited the quarter with a very strong balance sheet with $64 million in cash and limited debt. Cash usage for the quarter was $16 million, down more than 50% sequentially and significantly better than our forecast. The major components of cash usage were as follows: Q1 EBITDA was a loss of $16 million. Inventory increased by $3 million, primarily due to a temporary increase in finished goods. We expect inventory growth to slow and flatten out next quarter and then to decline in the second half of 2023 as we work through our existing inventory and staggered contract deliveries allow for lower stocking levels. The increase in other working capital primarily reflects increases in accounts receivable due to the timing of shipments in the quarter and a reduction in contract liabilities due to the timing of deposit payments. CapEx was $1 million, down from $3 million in Q4. We also raised approximately $15 million in cash from financing activities, comprised of $11 million of equity sales under our ATM facility and $4 million of borrowing under our bank facilities. We expect total cash usage in Q2 to be in a range of $13 million-$17 million, depending on the timing of payments for booking deposits, shipments, and receivables collections. This range is inclusive of proceeds from financing under our ATM program and our bank facility. We expect cash usage to continue to decline each quarter through the end of 2023. Finally, we remain confident that we have the liquidity to fund our business plan through to profitability. I'd now like to provide our outlook for 2023. Please turn to slide 11. We expect second quarter 2023 revenue to be in a range of $25 million-$29 million, which is supported by our existing backlog, and gross margin to be in the range of 12%-16%, excluding non-recurring items. We also expect bookings to be in the range of $23 million-$29 million. Our full year 2023 guidance is unchanged. We expect revenue growth of greater than 50% and revenue to be in a range of $120 million-$130 million. We expect gross margin for the year to be in a range of 19%-21% with Q4 gross margin of approximately 30%. Finally, we expect bookings for the year to be in the range of $100 million-$130 million. In conclusion, we are focused on executing on our clear path to profitability through improvements in operating efficiency, margins, and cash flow. With that, I'd now like to turn the call over for questions. Operator? Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star key. One moment please while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from Brian Drab with William Blair. Please proceed with your question. Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. The first one, Bill, can you just elaborate on the backlog, the orders that were removed from backlog? I may have missed it if you said a figure, but I'm just wondering how significant was that order size? Yeah. Also, is that something that will come back potentially if the customer is able to get financing or is that off the table? Yeah, no, the order has not been canceled. It's just that, you know, it's been out there for a while and the customer hasn't demonstrated enough progress in getting financing, so we thought that we should remove it in the interest of conservatism. Obviously if the customer gets financing, it could certainly come back. The order is approximately 80% of the decline in backlog or about just a smidge under $15 million, one five. Okay. I guess if you're able to remove that, something of that size from your backlog and still maintain your guidance. Overall, it seems like demand is better than expected, really, except for that one issue. Is that a fair conclusion? Yeah. As you saw, bookings are still strong and improving. There is a very solid pipeline for Q2 and for Q3. We have a very clear coverage to how we're going to meet the booking numbers for this quarter from the rest of the year, right? We, we guided, you know, booking targets for this quarter, and we wouldn't do that if we didn't have a very detailed plan on how we are going to accomplish that. Sorry, just to be really clear, that is that approximate $15 million then out of the I know it's out of backlog, but that's out of the forecast... Correct. Yeah. forecasting guidance for 2023? Exactly. Exactly. Okay. If it will come back, it will come back. We'll let you know when it comes back. Because we talked about it, so if it will come back, you know, in terms of likelihood to ship, we'll let you know. The way we think about it is we have, you know, for every booking that we have, we want to have a date where, not a date, but at least a quarter where we are going to ship it, right? Ideally Yeah. better than that. For this booking, since we don't have the time at which we can ship it's not useful for us to report on it as a booking. Going forward, we will not report bookings unless the customer paid all their kind of, you know, early payments per schedule, right? If the customer is delinquent, we will not report that. Yeah. No, on this one, I should add one that a small deposit had been paid. The customer was trying to arrange financing, but, you know, we, as I said, we didn't see adequate progress. We didn't have a shipping date. We elected to remove it from our reporting. You know, it's still, it's still in place. It's just, you know, it's uncertain whether they're gonna get the financing, and it's uncertain when. It's a new customer? Yes. Would be a new customer? Okay. Yeah. It's a customer that doesn't operate with us. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I think I might just pass it along since I asked, like, 4 follow-up questions. Thank you very much. I'll talk to you later. Thanks, Brian. Thank you. Our next question comes from Ashley Ellis with Credit Suisse. Please proceed with your question. Hi, thank you for taking my question. Bill, just to clarify, the order you took out of backlog you were just discussing, is that in addition to the two customers, last quarter that were having financing issues? No. It was one of them. Yeah. It was one of the ones that we referenced. Yeah. Yeah. When we talked about customers that have financing issues, that's the main one that we discussed. Okay. How are customer conversations going? Is this a trend that you're concerned of or? No. Any certain segment? I think you said contract manufacturers last quarter. Yeah. No, we have no concerns with all the other customers in the backlog. You know, the deposits, the financing is in place for purchases, and so we have no other situations like this one. Okay, great. I had a quick follow-up. With operating expenses, as you're cutting OpEx, what are the areas that you think you'll continue to prioritize, and then where is there opportunity to improve? Specifically, I'm wondering how you're thinking about go-to-market investments. Thanks. You know, we're continuing to prioritize, our R&D and engineering efforts and our sales and marketing. We just are being a little bit more careful around expenditure across the board, and we expect modest headcount reduction through attrition. You know, we are continuing to make all the investments that we had planned in engineering, R&D, and in sales and marketing. Okay, thank you. This is just an effort to be more efficient, and spend our money, you know, more productively. Right. Thanks. Thanks, Ashley. Thank you. Our next question comes from Jim Ricchiuti with Needham & Company. Please proceed with your question. Hi. good afternoon. This is actually Christopher Grenga on for Jim. could you provide a bit more color on the sequential decline on the recurring payment revenue? I'm sorry, could you restate the question? I didn't catch it. It was a bit faint. Sorry. Could you provide color on the sequential decline in the recurring payment revenue? Sure. Yeah. There were two factors there. We had a small decline in the number of systems in the field due to a lease buyout and returns. Another component of that revenue line item are the hourly fees that are paid when a customer uses above their allotment, their initial allotment of print hours. We saw that come down, and that, you know, is more than likely or may have been associated with the system that was purchased by the renter of that system. You know, going forward, we've got a number of lease systems that are scheduled to go out this quarter. We would expect the number of systems in the field to modestly increase. This is a, you know, what I would call an isolated trend that really is driven by the timing of the shipments of leased systems. Jim, can I give you a little more color on this? Maybe Bill will ensure that my answer is 100% correct. This has to do with 3 systems. 1 of them was a system that was on lease, and the customer decided to buy that, right? That basically moved revenue from, you know, recurring to 1 time. Another system was a system that the customer decided to upgrade this system to another system that is a bigger system. Basically, there was a return, and then they purchased full price the bigger system. Then the 3rd one is a customer that we hope to do 1 of the first 2, and the customer decided at the end not to keep the system. These are the 3 systems in the history. Got it. Very helpful. Thanks. Yeah. As I mentioned, we've got, you know, more shipments of lease systems going out this quarter, so you know, that trend will turn around. This was a one-time blip, I'd say. Got it. With respect to the printing workshops that you've been holding recently and that are more planned, it's still early in that effort, but has it met your expectations in terms of how that effort is translating into bookings or discussions around bookings? I noticed that there are a few tour dates targeting the Asia market. Just curious how you would currently characterize the demand and the reception that you're seeing in that geography just more recently. Thank you. Yeah. As you know, we never sold into China, so we didn't have any, you know, kind of inflection from that. We have a few opportunities that we are working on in the rest of Asia Pacific. I would say that from all our three regions, this is the region that is developing the slowest. We have much more traction and even recurring or repeat orders in Europe already. Asia is developing slower for us. We also have much less resources in Asia compared to Europe. A very small effort for us. In the print workshops. In Asia or in general? We kind of have a pretty good footprint in contract manufacturers in the United States. Our main focus is expanding those customers in terms of contract, kind of, building out their fleet as opposed to kind of adding more contract manufacturers. In Europe, we are working with a number of contract manufacturers to build this network. We have one, and we are building, we are a few more actively now. Did I answer your- All right. Thank you so much. Great. Thank you. Our next question comes from Troy Jensen with Lake Street Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Hey, gentlemen. Congrats on a great quarter here. Thanks, Troy. Thanks, Troy. Thank you. Hey, I got a question. These machines that are coming off of lease, what do you guys do with them? Refurbish them and re-lease them or? It depends on the customers. Most generally, those machines are leased again to another customer. We use those leases basically as almost a kind of business development as try before you buy type of. Right ... arrangement. We have a few machines like that went from one customer to another. At the most general. Very rarely we would sell them at a discounted price. More often, they would just be re-leased. In some cases, Troy, they come out of the leased system count because they're purchased by the lessee. Right. I get that. They're still on site. Yeah, just the revenue. The ones that are returned most generally are re-leased. Gotcha. All right. Was there a couple other questions here? Was there any launch pricing systems in Q1? There was no launch customer contract, but there were some early bird reservation shipments. Those were at a discount. Are all the launch pricing machines gone through the income statement now? Yeah, I think there's only one left. Is there? No, the launch. The launch customer is gone. The launch customers, they're all gone. Yeah. The early bird, I think there is one more early bird. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Two more questions, if that's okay. Can you just give us an update on Europe? Europe? Yeah. Yeah. We have a few OEMs in Europe that purchased the machine. One of them already followed up with a repeat order. We have one contract manufacturer that already has a machine and is getting a second machine. We also have a pipeline for a number of more both OEMs and contract manufacturers. I would say it's generally going well. It's a new market and, you know, it's a long sales cycle, so it takes time. We have a very good team on the ground in Europe, and it's moving forward. I'm very optimistic that this will move. It's difficult to forecast how quickly it will move, but I'm very pleased that it's moving forward all the time. Good. All right. Hey, last question. This may be a little long-winded, but coverage ratio, right? The percentage of the quarter that's done entering the quarter, you said it's 75% for Q2 here. Just your thoughts on the second half, Benny. It seems like, you know, backlog is gonna go down meaningfully as a percentage of the revenue goal. It's definitely much higher in the second half. I mean, to me, it's got to be significantly more book and ship business. I'm just kind of curious, I mean, this is just all pipeline opportunity, obviously, if it's not in backlog. I would say roughly like this, right? We have a booking guidance that we gave to Q2. If we meet this booking guidance, we'll be roughly at the same place in terms of backlog getting into Q3. Yep. if we hit our booking guidance for Q3, we'll be roughly at the same place going into Q4. Got it. Kind of the nice thing about providing this backlog information and this booking information is that you can kind of have a bracket on how well we can execute the next quarter, given how we did this quarter, right? We basically provided you most of the information. Troy, it also depends on how much business we book and ship in the quarter. Right. That's a factor that goes into the equation as well. Bill, do you guys have finished inventory to ship that quickly, though? We do not have a significant amount of shipment inventory. This is not, but we are building these machines now. Got you. Okay. you. Okay. Yeah, maybe I should put it in a different way. We have inventory of parts to build the machines in the quarter that we need to get to these numbers. Yeah. We're confident we can hit the shipment targets given. Yeah. You guys have definitely expressed a lot of confidence in revenues here. It's good to hear. the- Well, congrats, guys. Oh, go ahead, Benny. Yeah, just to say that, you know, the thing, you know, the reason why we provide this information is the core of the risk lies in the bookings and, you know, the fact that we already have the bookings and the backlog for 75% of the revenue. Given in the past few quarters, we didn't say that, but I'll say that now, our average revenue that was from bookings that were booked or from systems that were booked and shipped the same quarter was about 20%. The range was between all the way up to 25%. There is some risk in being able to hit this number. You can bracket this list given that, you know, our average was 20% and we have accomplished 25% in the last few quarters. Yeah. Just to elaborate on that a little bit, Troy. The total revenue, the total percentage of revenue that we, that we book and ship in the quarter, you know, averages around 35%, and that, you know, is plus or minus sort of 5%-8%. I'm referring to the looking back over the last year or so. Of that 35%, about 10% is the support services and recurring payment services. What goes into printer revenue is about 25% of total revenue that generally is booked and shipped in the quarter. Got you. That includes some, you know, consumables and things like that we sell in addition to. Understood. Congrats again, gentlemen, and Benny, I'll see you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. Thank you. As a reminder, press star one to ask a question at this time. There are no further questions. I would like to turn the floor back over to Benny Buller, CEO, for closing comments. Thank you. As I mentioned earlier, 2023 is a year in which we are determined to get to the point of profitability. As you can see, we are making very steady progress towards that. This is driven by improving the total top line of revenue, as well as improving gross margin and reducing OpEx. We are making very good steps to this, and we are very confident that we'll get to the edge of profitability by the end of the year. Thank you very much, thanks for being on our earnings call. Benny. This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.