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Movano Inc. (MOVE)

Q1 2022 Earnings Call· Sun, May 15, 2022

$17.43

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Operator

Operator

J. Cogan

Management

Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us today. Our CEO, John Mastrototaro, will open today's call with prepared remarks about the progress we've made during the first quarter of 2022. Afterward, I will cover the highlights of our quarterly operating results and provide perspective on our financial position. Finally, Movano's Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Michael Leabman, will join John and me for the Q&A. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that we will make forward-looking statements during today's call. Whether in prepared remarks or during the Q&A session, these forward-looking statements are subject to inherent risk and uncertainties. These risk and uncertainties are detailed in the risk factors section of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically in the company's Forms 10-Q and 10-K. Except as otherwise required by federal securities laws, Movano disclaims any obligation to update or make revisions to such forward-looking statements contained herein or elsewhere to reflect changes in expectations with regards to those events, conditions and circumstances. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, John Mastrototaro.

John Mastrototaro

Management

Welcome everyone. We appreciate you joining us for our first quarter earnings call. In my 30 plus years in the healthcare industry, I've led teams that have brought numerous novel medical devices to the market, which have significantly improved the lives of people with chronic conditions. While those initiatives were certainly rewarding, I believe the technology we're currently developing at Movano is some of the most cutting edge and exciting I've had the pleasure to work on throughout my career. What excites me most is the opportunity we have in front of us. The opportunity to positively impact a much broader range of people, the hundreds of millions of individuals globally, who have or are at risk of getting diabetes or hypertension or who just aren't feeling like themselves and want to regain control of their well being and bring back their vitality. Consumers are more aware of their health today than ever before and in general, we collectively understand that to feel our best as we age, we need to put more emphasis on making healthy day-to-day decisions. Since announcing the Movano Ring at CES this year. We continue to receive many messages each week from people who are looking for a way to interpret their body's signals and understand how they can implement changes to feel better and ultimately position themselves to achieve a more well-balanced, healthier and happier life. The overcome the rising rates of chronic conditions worldwide and the associated and overwhelming healthcare costs we need technology that promotes prevention and does so in fresh consumer friendly ways. At Movano, we're developing technology that combines the best of the consumer and medical worlds to provide equitable access to health data with timely feedback through beautifully designed products. We're moving healthcare technology in a direction that's more…

J. Cogan

Management

Thanks, John. We detailed the financial results in today's first quarter earnings release which you can find on our website. But I'll share a few key line items. Movano reported an operating loss of $6.9 million in the first quarter of 2022 compared to an operating loss of $3.3 million in the year ago period. The increase was primarily related to the expansion of our team and R&D initiatives as well as the full quarter inclusion of public company costs related to our March 2021 Initial public offering. At the end of the first quarter of 2022, we had $27.7 million of cash, cash equivalents and short term investments and total assets of $29.6 million. We will not be providing specific financial guidance. But as you've heard in today's quarterly report, as well as through our commentary on previous quarterly calls, we're making great progress and doing so on a capital efficient basis as evidenced by today's news regarding the successful validation of the functionality of a proprietary and patented system on the chip, our plans for several more clinical studies in 2022 as we pursue a wide range of FDA clearances, and the build out of our go-to market team, which is positioning the company for a beta release of the Movano Ring in the back half of 2022 and a broader commercial launch following a successful beta program. As that concludes our formal remarks we'd be glad to take your questions. Operator, we're ready to begin the Q&A section of the call.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. At this time, we'll be conducting a question and answer session. [Operator Instructions]

J. Cogan

Management

Okay, operator while you're working on the phone lines, why don't we go ahead and take some questions from the webcast. I'll go ahead and ask those. The first question has to do with balance sheet and cash and generally if we have enough funds to launch on a direct to consumer basis without raising additional capital. I'll go ahead and take this one John. Our cash burn was just under $6 million in the first quarter of 2022. Pretty similar to what it was in the fourth quarter of 2021 and again, to reiterate, we had $27.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and short term investments at the end of the first quarter. Capital deployment and efficiency are very important strategic objectives for the company. We've been making very targeted investments over the past four years, including team building, clinical studies, tech development, which has served us well and we expect to continue to be very efficient as we go both on an absolute basis, also relative to our peer set. As we've talked about before, we don't provide financial guidance, and we can't comment on the potential timing of capital raises, etc, as you're well aware. But as we've noted in our financial filings in the past, we expect to raise more capital over time and we plan to continue to make good progress between now and whenever that might be. John, I think the second question is going to be for you. Today's news on your single chip solution sounds like an important catalyst. Can you give us some additional insights on what it all means? How it plays into your plans to launch commercial products, including both the monitoring of blood pressure and glucose?

John Mastrototaro

Management

Sure, Thanks, J. Yes, look, I'd have to say that today's news regarding the functionality of our single chip solution is arguably the biggest milestone reached by our team today. And if you take a step back, we made a decision to build our own proprietary system on a chip to generate the greatest accuracy and cost efficiency in the market and allow us to reach the widest possible audience. I think it's also important to note that this is not something that can be easily replicated, given our team's deep experience in RF and sensor development as well as the significant IP that we've developed around it. And now it's very much derisked from an investment standpoint, which we believe is quite attractive for our current and future investors. So what this means moving forward is it'll further improve and accelerate our blood pressure and glucose clinical studies process as well as our algorithm development initiatives. As you can imagine, we're building new prototypes clinical testing as we speak, and plan to do further testing in 2022. Second, the single chip solution is key to our commercialization pipeline as it layers in blood pressure, glucose and a range of other analytics and conditions we plan to measure, monitor and provide important insights about and many of these we've yet to announce for competitive reasons. And also, due to the small size of the chip, we can integrate it into any form factor, including a ring. So to summarize, the chip is proprietary, it's patented and it's valuable in that there's simply nothing like it in the world with this capabilities. And we're really thrilled to have reached this significant milestone.

J. Cogan

Management

Okay, let's move on to the next question. This one, I think will also be for you, John. Can you be a little more specific about the beta launch of the Movano Ring as well as the broader launch to consumers? We had a few questions on the webcast. And I think that should pretty much cover all those questions.

John Mastrototaro

Management

Sure. Well, first I'd like to reiterate that the beta launch is on track for the second half of the year as we had announced in our last quarterly earnings call. And we've assembled a terrific go-to-market team to help ensure a successful test of our first product. We have no shortage of interested beta testers. We've received more than 5000 personalized messages from supportive individuals since unveiling the Movano Ring, most of whom have volunteered to participate in the beta launch. And of course, we're also looking at other opportunities for beta evaluation as well. The beta program is going to provide us a valuable opportunity to collect feedback on our platform outside of the laboratory. And meanwhile, while that's happening, our go-to-market team is actively preparing for the broader market launch following the successful beta program and while we haven't announced the launch date, you can rest assured we're moving as fast as possible as we have with our other efforts as a company today.

J. Cogan

Management

Okay, there's a kind of general question about strategic partners I think just looking for a little bit more insight and update as to our process and progress.

John Mastrototaro

Management

Well, the announcement of our plans to launch the Ring certainly provided a catalyst for Movano to engage with potential strategic partners. As you can understand, we're not in a position today to be specific about the status of such conversations. But as we've noted in the past, we're seeing interest from a broad cross section of the healthcare, consumer and technology sectors. In fact, the level of interest has definitely surpassed our expectations and I think it speaks to the tremendous appeal of the Movano Ring and the value that our solution could bring to consumers and potential partners. There's several elements of the Ring in our mission that have resonated broadly in our conversations. The focus on women, the aesthetically pleasing design of the Ring, the medical grade data and pursuit of FDA clearances, the intelligent insights that connect cause and effect to help people understand how activities of their daily life affect their health. And finally, providing this solution that's affordable enough that it can be attractive to a mass audience. I think those five things in general have really resonated with everyone that we spoken to at this point in time.

J. Cogan

Management

Okay and there's one more here from the webcast I think I can probably handle this one. And then we'll see what's happening on the phone lines after this. Can you provide a little bit more detail on the Ring in terms of the price, whether it's going to be a subscription model, etc. And we've talked about this in a few calls in the past, but just to reiterate, we want our solution to be attractive and accessible to a wide audience, not a niche market. We remain very committed to that as we believe good health is the fundamental right. We've also discussed that we've been leaning towards a subscription model that would be approachable to consumers and potential partners and would also enable the company to reinvest in our solution, adding more features over time. We're continuing to do research on this. And as we move through 2022, we'll keep you posted on the progress and the details. We're definitely looking at an economic model that's going to work both for our customers as well as for shareholders. Okay, operator, are there any questions on the phones?

Operator

Operator

At this time, I'm not seeing any questions coming in. [Operator Instructions]

J. Cogan

Management

Okay, we'll give it a second there.

Operator

Operator

Okay, I'm not seeing anything coming in. I'd like to pass it back over to J. Cogan for any closing remarks.

J. Cogan

Management

Thanks, operator. Thanks everybody for your time today. As a reminder, you can stay connected and up-to-date on Movano news and events by checking out our investor website @ir.movano.com.