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Polight Asa — Q3 2021 Earnings Presentation

26 slides from Polight Asa's earnings presentation, Oct 29, 2021

  1. Slide 1: Third quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation

    Third quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation 29th October 2021

  2. Slide 2: Disclaimer

    Disclaimer This presentation (the "Presentation") has been produced by poLight ASA (the "Company") exclusively for information purposes. This Presentation has not been approved, reviewed or registered with any public authority or stock exchange. Further to the aforementioned, this presentation is th

  3. Slide 3: Today's agenda

    Today’s agenda Presenting Dr. Øyvind Isaksen • Key events Chief Executive Officer Dr. Isaksen has been CEO of poLight since August 2014. He has • Introduction to poLight previously held several CEO positions, most recently in the publicly listed company Q-Free ASA, which he left in January 2014, aft

  4. Slide 4: Key events in the quarter

    Key events in the quarter • Follow-up purchase order for barcode scan engine product, worth approximately NOK 1,450,000 (Q2- rep.) • Two purchase orders received related to a surgical device, worth a combined total of NOK 4,000,000 • Private placement successfully raised net NOK 130,300,000 (includi

  5. Slide 5: poLight at a glance

    poLight at a glance Background and description Geographical footprint Horten • Global player in tunable optics having Norway applications in mobile, web cam, industrial, Southampton Tampere Finland augmented reality, medical and others San Jose, CA UK Lyon USA France Shenzhen • Founded in 2005 and h

  6. Slide 6: TLens customer-wins

    TLens® customer-win´s XIAOMI Mi Bunny 4 Pro Honeywell EX 30 barcode MAXHUB UC W20 XUN Smartwatch Max Pro smart watch scanner Machine Vision – direct marking reading 6 Third quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation

  7. Slide 7: poLight products & technology well-suited for several applications

    poLight products & technology well-suited for several applications Smartphone & wearable Barcode/industrial Augmented Reality (AR) Other • Large addressable market, • Evolving from 1D laser to 2D • Augmented reality expected to • New opportunities emerging billions of cameras produced for imaging ba

  8. Slide 8: Operations and market review

    Operations and market review

  9. Slide 9: Barcode / Industrial

    Barcode / Industrial Design-in example • Follow-up order for EX30 - good feedback • Accumulated order intake has so far been approx. NOK 4.7 millions, - supplies of TLens goes well • Release of EX30 has generated more appetite among other potential customers Barcode • 3 design-in´s, 2 PoC´s and 3 OE

  10. Slide 10: Professional use cases

    AR: TLens considered for next generation glasses by several OEM´s • AR market is still at an early stage, with low volumes Professional use cases • TLens offers several advantages related to power consumption, speed, compactness and no gravity sensitivity Education • Two use cases : world facing cam

  11. Slide 11: Smartphone: Interest in TLens remains high

    Smartphone: Interest in TLens® remains high • Add-in TLens design, is attracting good interest • Potential to become a widely used solution for selfie cameras and may represent a route to the main camera (back camera) for TLens • Progress on several Proof of Concept (PoC) projects, with OEMs and cam

  12. Slide 12: Other cases

    Other cases Web camera / Video conferencing • The pandemic has forced us to cooperate more and more virtual, and video conferring has increased in use • poLight technology will be potential good fit for web camera application due to constant field of view and speed • Longer term volumetric video con

  13. Slide 13: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation

    Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation • Scientific paper about a miniaturized two-photon microscope • “The improved cell yield was achieved through a new optical system design featuring an enlarged field of view (FOV) and a new micro-tunable lens with increased z

  14. Slide 14: Good progress in most customer cases

    Good progress in most customer cases Ongoing supply Project Completed PoC Ongoing PoC Planning PoC Consumer 3 (3) 0 (0) 17 (16) 9 (12) 2 (2) Augmented Reality 3 (3) 6 (6) 6 (3) 4 (0) Industrial 2 (2) 3 (1) 14 (12) 3 (4) 8 (6) Other (e.g. medical) 1 (1) 2 (1) 3 (4) 4 (1) (x) last quarter 5 (5) 7 (5)

  15. Slide 15: Financial review

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  16. Slide 16: Key financials

    Key financials Income statement Balance sheet summary (in NOK million) Q3 2021 Q3 2020 FY 2020 (in NOK million) Q3 2021 Q3 2020 FY 2020 Revenue 1.7 0.6 3.0 Intangible assets 35.9 46.2 43.6 Cost of sales -0.9 -0.1 -0.7 Inventories 12.2 9.5 9.2 Research and development expenses -2.0 -5.6 -20.4 Cash an

  17. Slide 17: Cash Flow

    Cash Flow • Q3 cash used in operating activities was NOK 9.2 Q3 2021 cash flow development million, compared with NOK 10.3 million in Q3 (NOK million) 2020 118,1 0,0 • Q3 cash received from financing activities was 164,1 NOK 118.1 million • net proceeds from the private placement of NOK 118.5 millio

  18. Slide 18: Outlook

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  19. Slide 19: Outlook

    Outlook • Overall, progress has been good during the quarter in all market segments • Smartphone customer cases are still at Proof of Concept level, challenges need to be solved, but the possibility of a real phone project in the second half of 2022 remains in place • In the Augmented Reality (AR) s

  20. Slide 20: Next event: Q4-21 February 2022

    Next event: Q4-21 18 February 2022

  21. Slide 21: Appendix

    Appendix •Appendix 21 Third quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation

  22. Slide 22: Management Team

    Management Team Dr. Øyvind Isaksen Chief Executive Officer Dr. Isaksen has been CEO of poLight since August 2014. He has previously held several CEO positions, most recently in the publicly listed company Q-Free ASA, which he left in January 2014, after 7 years as CEO. Øyvind Isaksen holds a PhD in

  23. Slide 23: Board of Directors

    Board of Directors Ann-Tove Kongsnes - Chairman Ms. Kongsnes is an Investment Director at Investinor AS. Kongsnes has over her career gained extensive experience from investments, development, M&A, IPO’s and exits of technology companies. Prior to this, she worked 7 years with international marketin

  24. Slide 24: Statement of income

    Statement of income NOK 000 Note Q3 2021 Q3 2020 YTD 2021 YTD 2020 FY 2020 Sale of goods 1 696 526 4 777 1 534 2 590 Rendering of services 0 91 1 350 241 429 Revenue 1 696 617 6 126 1 775 3 019 Cost of sales -930 -122 -2 540 -316 -698 Gross profit 766 495 3 587 1 459 2 321 Research and development e

  25. Slide 25: Balance sheet

    Balance sheet NOK 000 ASSETS Note Q3 2021 Q3 2020 FY 2020 Property, plant and equipment 1 393 983 839 Intangible assets 9 35 944 46 217 43 646 Right-of-use assets 5 025 1 510 964 Total non-current assets 42 363 48 711 45 448 Inventories 12 236 9 547 9 166 Trade and other receivables 8 8 662 16 563 6

  26. Slide 26: Cash flow

    Cash flow NOK 000 Note Q3 2021 Q3 2020 YTD 2021 YTD 2020 FY 2020 Operating activities Profit / loss (-) for the period -6 016 -5 583 -45 532 -38 321 -50 952 Adjustments for: Depreciation and impairment of property, plant and equipment and right-of-use assets 513 439 1 272 1 402 1 842 Amortisation an

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