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RNS Number : 0048J Innodata Inc. 10 August 2023
Innodata Announces Another Big Five Tech New Customer Win and Reports Second
Quarter 2023 Results
· Winning streak continues with latest deal, expected to be signed
tomorrow
· Company has landed all three potentially transformative
opportunities disclosed in Q2 report, plus fourth deal originally anticipated
for later in year
· Company now poised to support four of Big Five global tech
companies for generative AI development
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / August 10, 2023 / INNODATA INC. (NASDAQ:INOD)
today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.
· Revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 was $19.7 million,
compared to revenue of $20.0 million in the same period last year. The
comparative period included $2.5 million in revenue from a large social media
company that underwent a significant management change in the second half of
last year, as a result of which it dramatically pulled back spending across
the board. There was no revenue from this company in the quarter ended June
30, 2023.
· Net loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 was $0.8 million, or
$0.03 per basic and diluted share, compared to a net loss of $3.8 million, or
$0.14 per basic and diluted share, in the same period last year.
· Revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2023 was $38.5 million,
compared to revenue of $41.2 million in the same period last year. The
comparative period included $6.9 million in revenue from the large social
media company referenced above. There was no revenue from this company in the
six months ended June 30, 2023.
· Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2023 was $2.9 million,
or $0.11 per basic and diluted share, compared to a net loss of $6.6 million,
or $0.24 per basic and diluted share, in the same period last year.
· Adjusted EBITDA was $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2023,
compared to Adjusted EBITDA loss of $1.3 million in the same period last
year.*
· Adjusted EBITDA was $2.4 million for the six months ended June
30, 2023, compared to Adjusted EBITDA loss of $2.3 million in the same period
last year.*
· Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $13.7
million at June 30, 2023, as compared to $10.3 million at December 31, 2022.
* Adjusted EBITDA is defined below.
The amounts in this press release have been rounded. All percentages have been
calculated using unrounded amounts.
Jack Abuhoff, CEO, said, "Today we are announcing yet another highly
anticipated win, which we expect gets signed tomorrow. We have now landed all
of the deals we presented last quarter as potentially transformative. In the
last eight weeks we have made four deal announcements. Two are with new
customers, including the deal we are announcing today, and two are with an
existing customer. All of these customers are among the top five global
technology companies in the world. These engagements support AI and large
language model development. Since these wins have all come in just the last
eight weeks, they are not yet reflected in our financial results. We believe
that these wins are potentially transformative for our company. Moreover, we
believe that we are in the very early stages of exploiting a market
opportunity which itself is in its early stages and for which - as our last
eight weeks of wins demonstrate - we believe we are particularly well-suited.
To give you a sense of the magnitude of our addressable market, an industry
analyst recently estimated that AI-focused IT services are among the four
hottest market opportunities in generative AI, all with 10-year CAGRs of 100%
or more, with the market likely to grow from $83 million in 2022, to $21.7
billion by 2027 and to $85.9 billion by 2032.( 1 )
"Further details on the deals we have announced, in reverse chronological
order, are as follows:
· For the deal we announced today, we expect the customer to
authorize $3.5 million in spend to get us started, and the customer has stated
that it intends to supplement this authorization as we move forward. We expect
to begin ramping up the engagement early in the fourth quarter. This customer
has shared with us its vision for the initial program, which, if fully
realized, we believe could potentially result in approximately $12 million
dollars of new quarterly revenues at maturity. That said, at this point we do
not know when or if the initial program will reach this level of spend. In
addition, while the customer has told us we will be signing tomorrow, it is
possible that this could slip as it is outside our control. Importantly, the
agreement we expect to sign tomorrow with this new customer is a framework
agreement that enables the customer's business units to easily add additional
programs and allocate additional scope and spend to us. The customer has told
us it will be potentially requesting us to participate in additional programs,
which may include supporting the customer's own customer base with model fine
tuning and integration.
· On July 18 we announced our engagement with another new Big Five
tech customer. We kicked off an initial program over the last couple of weeks
and based on discussions with this customer believe we may potentially get to
an annualized run rate of $15 million dollars with this customer by end of the
year solely on this initial program. We have begun discussions with this
customer about additional programs.
· On June 27 we announced a white-labeled service, under which we
will be performing AI data annotation and LLM fine-tuning for a hyperscaler's
customers. While we stated in our June 27 press release that we expected to
kick off the program with three end-customers in July, I'm pleased to report
that we already have nine end-customers signed on for pilots - and we are not
even halfway through August. We believe three of these pilots are highly
likely to turn into booked business near-term, with one having an anticipated
booking value of over $1 million. Beyond these nine white label enterprise
pilots, we presently have a direct pipeline of enterprises with which we are
now or soon plan to be engaged in discussions about LLM fine-tuning and
integration. Our direct pipeline includes a large legal information company,
one of the largest life insurance companies in the world, a leading investment
bank, and a leading commercial bank. In the near-term, through this program
with our customer, we anticipate a cadence of one to two new pilots each week.
It is difficult to forecast the revenue opportunity this program represents
because it is so new. However, if we can continue to onboard from this
potential pool of tens of thousands of our customers' end-customers at the
pace we are executing currently, we believe that this opportunity could dwarf
any single initiative we are pursuing.
· On June 14 we announced that an existing Big 5 customer had
engaged us for its LLM build program. In that announcement, we stated that we
anticipated potentially exceeding $8 million in revenue this year with this
customer. This is up from approximately $3 million last year. We believe there
could potentially be considerable opportunity to expand existing programs with
this customer and to land new programs. The white label program mentioned
above was one of the additional programs we contemplated in that release. We
thought it would come later in the year, and we are pleased that it has
accelerated."
Innodata will host an investor conference call later today (details below),
during which CEO Jack Abuhoff is expected to share the company's strategy,
including its focus on the Big Five tech companies' generative AI initiatives;
its white label services; and its enterprise LLM strategy. Abuhoff will
discuss that, having secured the mega tech companies as customers, Innodata
believes that it is well positioned to penetrate to other, potentially even
larger market opportunities, including, (a) 50 to 100 technology companies
that Innodata estimates are now building or are likely soon to be building
LLMs; and (b) thousands of enterprises across verticals that Innodata believes
are likely to invest in generative AI to obtain productivity benefits and
otherwise remain competitive. During the call, Abuhoff is also expected to
elaborate on and discuss the following:
· Under its white label services programs with hyperscalers,
Innodata will perform LLM training and fine-tuning services on their behalf.
These hyperscalers have positioned themselves to offer their customers
compute, storage, foundation models, machine learning, database and data
services - basically everything required to train and serve generative AI -
all under one roof and at attractive price points;
· Innodata believes these white label programs could enable
Innodata to rapidly deploy its services to a large number of enterprises,
independent of its own sales and marketing, leveraging both the hyperscalers'
brands and their customer reach;
· Through the white label program, Innodata believes it is likely
to gain early exposure to a wide range of early-adopter generative AI use
cases, having recently piloted use cases ranging from call center
summarization, legal and medical question-answering, and ecommerce. Innodata
believes this exposure will set it up well for what it believes will be our
largest and most significant opportunity - LLMs for the enterprise. Innodata
believes the pace of generative AI adoption among enterprises will rapidly
accelerate as early adopters demonstrate dramatically enhanced productivity
and significantly more compelling customer experiences. Innodata believes the
hyperscalers will make it possible for companies of all sizes to customize
their own large language models and build generative AI applications in a
secure and enterprise-grade fashion. Innodata believes this will be further
accelerated by high-performing, commercially-useable Open Source generative AI
models that are becoming increasingly available as well as the best-performing
closed source models that will likely soon support fine-tuning on proprietary
data.
· Innodata's plans to exploit the enterprise opportunity with what
it believes are five distinct competitive advantages:
o First, the skills and referenceability it will have acquired helping the
Big Five build the very foundation models with which enterprises will then be
seeking to integrate;
o Second, the experience it will have gained across a wide range of use
cases working with early-adopter enterprises through its white-label
engagements with the hyperscalers;
o Third, the real-world experience it continues to gain in integrating both
classical and generative AI into its own operations and products;
o Fourth, its technology platforms for transforming enterprise data into
LLM-ready context for both model fine-tuning and prompt injection; and
o Fifth, its technology platforms (both existing and road mapped for
development) that help enterprises generate reliable fact-based responses and
insights from foundation models using techniques such as retrieval augmented
generation, or RAG for short, that combine the reasoning and language engines
of pre-trained LLMs with business' proprietary context data - unstructured
data like technical documentation, images, videos, and reports, as well as
structured content from enterprise systems and sensors.
Relative to Q2 performance and 2023 outlook, Abuhoff added, "In Q2, revenue
was $19.7 million, a 4% increase from Q1, and Adjusted EBITDA was $1.6
million, a 100% increase from Q1, which we believe was made possible by the
work we did late last year and into Q1 in sharpening our focus and finding
opportunities to operate more cost effectively. There was no revenue in the
quarter from the wins we discussed earlier. There was also no revenue in the
quarter from the large social media company which contributed $2.5 million in
revenue in Q2 of last year but dramatically pulled back spending in the second
half of last year as it underwent a significant management change. If we back
out revenue from this large social media company, our revenue growth in Q2
2023 over Q2 2022 would have been 13%.
"In terms of the second half of the year and going into 2024, we expect
revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth to accelerate in the ensuing quarters, both
sequentially and year-over-year, as the wins we discussed today ramp up."
Abuhoff concluded, "We ended the quarter with $13.7 million in cash and
short-term investments, up from $10.8 million at the end of Q1. We continue to
have no appreciable debt. In order to support our growth and future working
capital requirements, in the quarter we put in place a secured revolving line
of credit with Wells Fargo that provides up to $10 million subject to a
borrowing base limitation."
1
https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/generative-ai-to-become-a-1-3-trillion-market-by-2032-research-finds/
(https://pr.report/YgQK0USh)
Timing of Conference Call with Q&A
Innodata will conduct an earnings conference call, including a
question-and-answer period, at 5:00 PM eastern time today. You can participate
in this call by dialing the following call-in numbers:
The call-in numbers for the conference call are:
1-877-545-0523 (Domestic)
+1 973-528-0016 (International)
Participant Access Code 219146
1-877-481-4010 (Domestic Replay)
+1 919-882-2331 (International Replay)
Replay Passcode 48772
It is recommended that participants dial in approximately 10 minutes prior to
the start of the call. Investors are also invited to access a live Webcast of
the conference call at the Investor Relations section of www.innodata.com
(https://pr.report/3d6qTVYc) . Please note that the Webcast feature will be in
listen-only mode.
Call-in or Webcast replay will be available for 30 days following the
conference call.
About Innodata
Innodata (NASDAQ: INOD) is a global data engineering company delivering the
promise of AI to many of the world's most prestigious companies. We provide
AI-enabled software platforms and managed services for AI data
collection/annotation, AI digital transformation, and industry-specific
business processes. Our low-code Innodata AI technology platform is at the
core of our offerings. In every relationship, we honor our 30+ year legacy
delivering the highest quality data and outstanding service to our customers.
Visit www.innodata.com to learn more.
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believes are reflective of the ongoing performance of the business.
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prospects for the future, particularly by providing the same information that
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this press release have certain limitations in that they do not reflect all of
the costs associated with the operations of our business as determined in
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non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies.
Adjusted EBITDA
We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) attributable to Innodata Inc.
and its subsidiaries in accordance with U.S. GAAP before interest expense,
income taxes, depreciation and amortization of intangible assets (which
derives EBITDA), plus additional adjustments for loss on impairment of
intangible assets and goodwill, stock-based compensation, income (loss)
attributable to non-controlling interests, non-recurring severance, and other
one-time costs.
We use Adjusted EBITDA to evaluate core results of operations and trends
between fiscal periods and believe that these measures are important
components of our internal performance measurement process.
A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP
measure is included in the tables that accompany this release.
INNODATA INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except per-share amounts)
Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Revenues $ 19,655 $ 19,987 $ 38,494 $ 41,179
Operating costs and expenses:
Direct operating costs 12,715 12,992 25,589 26,406
Selling and administrative expenses 7,574 10,277 15,371 20,467
Interest expense (income), net (7) (1) 56 2
20,282 23,268 41,016 46,875
Loss before provision for income taxes $ (627) $ (3,281) $ (2,522) $ (5,696)
Provision for income taxes 188 550 406 1,025
Consolidated net loss (815) (3,831) (2,928) (6,721)
Income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests - 2 3 (73 )
Net Loss attributable to Innodata Inc. and Subsidiaries $ (815) $ (3,833) $ (2,931) $ (6,648)
Loss per share attributable to Innodata Inc. and Subsidiaries:
Basic and Diluted $ (0.03) $ (0.14) $ (0.11) $ (0.24)
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic and Diluted 27,860 27,226 27,661 27,192
INNODATA INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
(In thousands)
June 30, December 31,
2023
2022
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 13,652 $ 9,792
Short term investments - other 14 507
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts 8,359 9,528
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 3,839 3,858
Total current assets 25,864 23,685
Property and equipment, net 2,430 2,511
Right-of-use asset, net 3,938 4,309
Other assets 2,229 1,498
Deferred income taxes, net 1,586 1,475
Intangibles, net 13,489 12,526
Goodwill 2,069 2,038
Total assets $ 51,605 $ 48,042
LIABILITIES, NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other $ 7,937 $ 9,880
Accrued salaries, wages and related benefits 6,802 6,136
Income and withholding taxes 4,999 3,230
Long-term obligations - current portion 1,063 877
Operating lease liability - current portion 582 693
Total current liabilities 21,383 20,816
Deferred income taxes, net 17 65
Long-term obligations, net of current portion 6,450 5,079
Operating lease liability, net of current portion 3,828 4,036
Total liabilities 31,678 29,996
Non-controlling interests (724) (727)
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY 20,651 18,773
Total liabilities, non-controlling interests and stockholders' equity $ 51,605 $ 48,042
INNODATA INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
(In thousands)
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2023 2022
Cash flows from operating activities:
Consolidated net loss $ (2,928) $ (6,721)
Adjustments to reconcile consolidated net loss to net cash
provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 2,242 1,824
Stock-based compensation 1,981 1,565
Deferred income taxes (142) 167
Pension cost 538 303
Loss on lease termination - 125
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable 1,270 274
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 634 (148)
Other assets 45 243
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other (1,856) (1,647)
Accrued salaries, wages and related benefits 658 (35)
Income and withholding taxes 1,741 178
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 4,183 (3,872)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital expenditures (3,012) (3,638)
Proceeds from short term investments - other 493 -
Net cash used in investing activities (2,519) (3,638)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from stock option exercises 2,179 180
Payment of long-term obligations (192) (477)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 1,987 (297)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents 209 (614)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 3,860 (8,421)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 9,792 18,902
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 13,652 $ 10,481
INNODATA INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(Unaudited)
(In thousands)
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
Consolidated 2023 2022 2023 2022
Net loss attributable to Innodata Inc. and Subsidiaries $ (815) $ (3,833) $ (2,931) $ (6,648)
Provision for income taxes 188 550 406 1,025
Interest expense 40 (1) 132 2
Depreciation and amortization 1,151 951 2,242 1,824
Severance** - - 580 -
Stock-based compensation 1,019 1,028 1,981 1,565
Non-controlling interests - 2 3 (73)
Adjusted EBITDA (loss) $ 1,583 $ (1,303) $ 2,413 $ (2,305)
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
DDS Segment 2023 2022 2023 2022
Net income (loss) attributable to DDS Segment $ (554) $ (651) $ (1,195) $ 112
Provision for income taxes 186 399 400 932
Interest expense 38 (1) 130 2
Depreciation and amortization 257 57 483 281
Severance** - - 33 -
Stock-based compensation 865 796 1,670 1,168
Non-controlling interests - 2 3 1
Adjusted EBITDA $ 792 $ 602 $ 1,524 $ 2,496
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
Synodex Segment 2023 2022 2023 2022
Net income (loss) attributable to Synodex Segment $ 121 $ (680) $ 135 $ (1,465)
Depreciation and amortization 162 271 324 312
Severance** - - 6 -
Stock-based compensation 59 50 117 99
Non-controlling interests - - - (74)
Adjusted EBITDA (loss) $ 342 $ (359) $ 582 $ (1,128)
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
Agility Segment 2023 2022 2023 2022
Net loss attributable to Agility Segment $ (382) $ (2,502) $ (1,871) $ (5,295)
Provision for income taxes 2 151 6 93
Interest expense 2 - 2 -
Depreciation and amortization 732 623 1,435 1,231
Severance** - - 541 -
Stock-based compensation 95 182 194 298
Adjusted EBITDA (loss) $ 449 $ (1,546) $ 307 $ (3,673)
** Represents non-recurring severance incurred for a reduction in headcount in
connection with the re-alignment of the Company's cost structure.
INNODATA INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED REVENUE BY SEGMENT
(Unaudited)
(In thousands)
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
2023 2022 2023 2022
Revenues:
DDS $ 13,180 $ 14,181 $ 25,927 $ 30,092
Synodex 2,112 1,945 3,976 3,614
Agility 4,363 3,861 8,591 7,473
Total Consolidated $ 19,655 $ 19,987 $ 38,494 $ 41,179
SOURCE: Innodata Inc.
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