Good day and welcome to the Energous First Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Matt Sullivan, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Andrew and welcome everyone. Before we begin, I would like to remind participants that during today’s call, the company will make forward-looking statements. These statements whether in prepared remarks or during the Q&A session are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that are detailed in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as otherwise required by federal securities laws, Energous disclaims any obligation or undertaking to publicly release updates or revisions to the forward-looking statements contained herein or elsewhere to reflect changes in expectations with regard to those events, conditions and circumstances. Also, please note that during this call, Energous will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures as defined by SEC Regulation G. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in today’s press release, which is posted on the company’s website. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Cesar Johnston, CEO of Energous. Please go ahead, Cesar.

Thanks, Matt. Good afternoon and welcome to the Energous 2022 first quarter conference call. Joining me this afternoon is Bill Mannina, our Acting Chief Financial Officer. As you saw on our first quarter press release that came out this afternoon, we reported revenue of approximately $216,000 in Q1, 2022 which represents a 49% increase over the same quarter for 2021. This highlights the growing interest in our wireless power networks technology. And we are very pleased to report that for the first time in the company's history, we are shipping measurable quantities of product. The Energous vision is that wireless power is crucial to unlocking significant unrealized potential, speeding up and expanding the deployment of IoT devices. Our wired wireless charging technology is assigned not only to enable mobility for devices as we charge them while in motion, and over the air at large distances, but also to enable freedom of placements flexibility for fixed IoT sensors, tractors and other IoT devices without the constraints of wires or the need to change batteries. We are finding that there is particularly solid customer interest in wirelessly powering RF tags and electronic shelf labels. We believe that early adoption of wireless power in these areas would lead to future IoT deployments in retail, industrial, medical, smart home and smart office market environments. We also believe this target markets hold tremendous potential for Energous. In our previous Q4 2021 earnings call, we mentioned three near term business goals which we would like to give an update on today. The first was to fulfill the commercial delivery of 1W WattUp PowerBridge orders. As noted on our last goal, our first shipment of WattUp PowerBridge was delivered in Q4 2021. We are happy to report that in Q1 2022 despite continuing supply chain challenges, we…

Thanks, Cesar. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone again that we issued a press release today at the close of market announcing our financial results for our first quarter of fiscal 2022 ended March 31. As we mentioned in the release, we delivered our first shipment of 1W WattUp PowerBridge transmitters in the 2021 fourth quarter. And we're very pleased to report that in the 2022 first quarter, we fulfilled additional orders of WattUp PowerBridge. Revenue in the first quarter was $216,000 a 49% increase over the $145,000 we reported in Q1 2021. Sequentially, this compares to $225,000 in Q4 2021. As discussed, we do anticipate quarter-over-quarter revenue fluctuations as we ramp up sales. As a result of our product revenue in Q1, we reported the related cost of revenue for our product sales. Cost of revenue was $203,000 in Q1. We did not report cost of revenue in the prior quarter or in Q1 last year. Going forward, our aim is to generate volume demand for our products. And we expect to be to be able to significantly reduce our cost of revenue once we achieve larger order volumes. For the quarter, total GAAP spending decreased by $2.3 million down to $7.4 million compared to the prior quarter, primarily due to a decrease of $2.5 million in stock compensation expense. Year-over-year total GAAP spending for Q1 decreased by $1.3 million compared to the same quarter last year, which is due to a $1.3 million decrease in stock based-compensation. Research and Development expense accounted for 48% of total cost and expenses in Q1. Management continues to evaluate targeted cost savings opportunities, while still supporting business growth. Net loss for the first quarter on a GAAP basis was approximately $7.2 million or a $0.09 loss per share on approximately…

Thank you, Bill. We would like to thank our shareholders and stakeholders for their support. We would also like to thank our partners who share our vision and support the growing IoT wireless charging market. Energous goal is to make WattUp wireless power a worldwide standard for over the air wireless charging at 900 megahertz. We believe Energous is poised for success due to our strong innovation capabilities in the technology, regulatory and business development areas. We have made a tremendous amount of progress towards our goals in IoT wireless powered networks. Thank you for your support as we work to unleash the full potential of IoT through WattUp wireless charging by removing cables and batteries. At this time, we would like to open the call for questions. Operator?

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Suji Desilva with ROTH Capital. Please go ahead.

Hi Caesar, hi Bill, congratulations on the shipments continuing -- this great of WattUp the PowerBridge. So let me ask this it seems like the shipments initially are through Wiliot if I heard it kind of if I read between the lines there, are there is that correct? Are there other partners that are also shipping trial products? I just wonder how many partners are helping seed the market already.

Suji, we’re not giving the customer detail this time.

Okay that's fair enough. Maybe perhaps then you could talk about the end markets that those initial PowerBridges are shipping into to understand where you're seeing initial traction and market watch verticals.

Sure. As we have previously discussed, we are focused on two particular applications. One of them is RF tags and the second application is electronic shelf labels. On the RF tag side with Wiliot in conjunction with their IoT pixels, we are looking at a couple of markets that seem to be pretty interesting right now, one of them I actually mentioned on the call today, and deals with asset tracking. And there's a lot of interest in being able to track devices, in markets such as industrial retail, as well as smart home and smart offices, where pretty much customers are interested in being able to find different components that they have deploy across their premises. And being able to actually find those components in a timely manner is kind of interesting to see, especially in medical applications where, from what we hear, takes sometimes over a couple of hours to find equipment. And with this type of technology, you can find that equipment, especially in emergency situations, quite quite fast. There are some applications also on written retail, where as you have merchandise in the front of the store, and that merchandise is consumed by the buyers, that merchandise, it's highlighted, and it's actually communicated to the warehouse and the warehouse can actually bring that into the front. So those are two. So two examples, I think, where we've seen asset tracking as a potential business right now.

Okay, that's great. And then just go ahead, sorry.

On ESL just to add to your question, because I said there were two potential applications on ESL, we've seen also very complimentary usage of an ESL tax to basically complement RF tags, where the RF tags can be in the front of the store or the premises or the warehouse, and where you can have actually those RF tags indicating verbatim what the status of let's say, inventories or warning people that things are going low, or in certain cases in retail, actually updating coupon prices and merchandise pricing as people move to stores and things like that. Okay.

Great, yes, sounds like really some good areas for opportunity for you guys. In these pilots Cesar are you shipping both the transmit base gateway as well as the end device kind of receive, is it both ends that these pilots are taking products?

It's a combination of both in the case of let's say, Wiliot evaluation tags. And those are extremely low, vertically integrated devices from a technology point of view. Okay, so they're optimized to be extremely cheap and dedicated to retail and asset tracking, as well as other RF tags applications. So in those potential scenarios, what you're seeing is just a combination of PowerBridges with those labels, and potentially in certain cases, ESL displays, there are other applications with that. Also, you could potentially share that environment with higher powered devices that require the technology that we have, or also potentially could also use devices that we have also put together as part of our reference designs, because it's not just semiconductors that we have when we have reference designs also, and they tend to use our EPS partner solution. So there's a combination, there's not a one off per se.

Okay, very helpful. Switching over to the financials, perhaps the revenue in the quarter is showing 60,000 is 100% product revenue or there's still non product elements I mean, in terms of pilot products?

There's a mix Suji.

Okay, and then they know the cards are high here because you're at low volumes and initial kind of shipments. What are the target gross margins you would foresee as you get to a more volume ramp just understand where this can go?

Definitely, definitely we're looking to ramp that number down. I mean, we're not we're not, targeting exact numbers at this time on the call, but they definitely with volume we can bring the number down.

Okay it's very helpful. And then lastly on the quarter, I know you've completed the ATM here. You talked about the cash burn was in the first quarter. And if you'll be looking to I guess set up another ATM or kind of other funding vehicles or whether you feel like you have good coverage for the near term.

Okay, well actually we, we mentioned we raised 27 million last quarter, so we haven't actually finished the ATM. So approximately 7 million left on the ATM. And that's still just up to our own timing.

Okay, no I'd heard you'd said you completed I guess you hadn't completed the ATM. Just I guess 7 million left. 7 million left. Got it. And then what was the cash burn in the quarter, the first quarter?

Overall about 6.3 million.

Okay. Okay. Thanks, guys. And again, congrats on the progress.

Okay, thank you Suji.

Thanks Suji.

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Caesar Johnston for any closing remarks.

As previously stated, we would like to thank our shareholders and stakeholders for the support, and most importantly, our partners that allow us to extend our reach and make our products well known. We are working hard here to make Energous the solution for IoT wireless power networks. And we will be updating all of you as we move forward and make progress. This has been a very important quarter for us. We announced our first product in history. And we are seeing today as we move forward the growth of wireless power networks. And this is a very important year. So thank you very much.

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.