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| However, for the stability of the business, they were the correct decisions and give Arqit the best chance to realize the value we see in our groundbreaking symmetric key agreement platform |
| We believe this is a significant market opportunity for the company in both the commercial and government markets |
| Our differentiated product offering represents incremental sales opportunities for our partners |
| Whilst the revenue is modest, the increase from sales through 2 channels in the first half of 2023 to sales through 6 different channels for the full year is positive momentum |
| Beyond the headline revenue result, there is evidence of material progress in broadening and deepening our business foundations, specifically the growth in our channel partnerships, the development of the suite of specialized applications of our core symmetric key agreement product, and the green shoots of revenue contract activity |
| Since our strategic pivot in December 2022 to focus on an exclusively-software product sold through sales channel partners, there has been encouraging commercial progress in building OEM integrations and distribution partnerships |
| There is most certainly, in our view, a market for our products, and it has strong efficacy |
| We believe that we made meaningful progress with the business in 2023, and we're optimistic that our channel partnerships will deliver further improvement in 2024 |
| Again, while the number of revenue transactions is modest, sales across all of our available products is encouraging |
| The TradeSecure product has benefited from regulatory progress this year |
| We hope investors can appreciate the uniqueness of our technology and market opportunity and demonstrate patience with Arqit as we strive to deliver success |
| We're pleased to say that we now have strong partners for each of these specialized applications |
| We're pleased to say that first sales of NetworkSecure-enabled firewalls of both channel partners have been executed |
| We're working hard with our partners to perfect sales strategies, which will benefit all parties |
| Digital trade documentation offers benefits to importers of lower administrative costs, faster payment for exports and lower capital allocation for banks |
| Our reported revenues were modest but that said, much progress has been made in deepening and broadening the foundation for future success, particularly in the expansion of our channel partnerships and specialized applications |
| We're, therefore, reasonably confident that the amount of runway that we currently have gives us a degree of comfort that we're satisfied with |
| We announced with our first half results and successfully executed a cost reduction action and benefits which became evident, started in July |
| Arqit believes that TradeSecure is the only digital trade documentation product, which is fully compliant with EDTA and provides the added benefits of symmetric key agreements encryption |
| As distributors and resellers of Juniper and Fortinet firewalls who are our partners, such as Carahsoft and Exclusive Networks become fully activated, we expect commercialization of Arqit NetworkSecure to gain more traction |
| To provide Arqit with additional runway to progress the commercialization of its products, we took significant actions in 2023 to improve our capital position and lower our operating costs |
| Each of these relationships offers distribution leverage to Arqit, which creates sales opportunities and reduces Arqit need for a significant direct sales force |
| We believe that the opportunity in which our product addresses merits additional patients as we work to further activate our channel partnerships and sign new such relationships |
| Our product develops stronger, simpler encryption in a manner that Arqit believes meets the requirements of the White House's National Security Memorandum 10, which calls for the adoption of enhanced encryption and advocates for symmetric key solutions |
| The supply chain finance market is a large and growing market, and digital transformation is accelerating now as a result of legal clarity |
| Scott Buck David, I'm curious, how are you thinking about the anticipated ramp in revenue in '24 as these relationships mature versus your current cash balance? I mean do you have enough runway to get you at least meaningfully closer towards the operating breakeven? David Williams We have confidence that the scale of our channel partnerships and the increasing maturity of those partnerships does offer us the ability to get towards cash flow breakeven within a relatively modest time period |
| We began to realize the benefits of our cost-saving initiative in July |
| We hope to see an inflection point in fiscal 2024 as those channel partners' sales initiatives begin to mature |
| Each new channel partner relationship is further validation by leading market participants of the efficacy of our Arqit's symmetric key agreement platform |
| Furthermore, we believe we are unique in having such a solution available today that is compatible with existing protocols and standards and is easy to implement |
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| The year was one of evolution, growth and challenges for Arqit |
| Changing our go-to-market strategy, combined with the pace of activating our new sales channels results in limited revenues from our products |
| The year-over-year decline in revenue from our QuantumCloud product reflects the refocusing of our sales effort through OEMs, distributors and resellers |
| As I noted at the opening, our top line performance was modest |
| Taking cost actions, which included reducing headcount are difficult decisions |
| We generated a loss before tax from continuing operations of $73.9 million |
| The variance in operating loss between periods primarily reflects lower revenue and the reclassification of other operating income as profit from discontinued operations, combined with a $12.3 million impairment on trade receivables and contract assets associated with the Virgin Orbit bankruptcy and $17.6 million impairment associated with satellite project development costs |
| The 2023 versus 2022 decline in operating income from our ESA contract reflects slower development of the satellite as we contemplated selling or otherwise monetizing the asset |
| Operating loss for the fiscal year was $84.4 million versus a loss of $63.8 million for fiscal year 2022 |
| Future other operating income from our ESA contract is uncertain |
| We must now get our channels to a tipping point, and we do see reasons for optimism in sales across our product offering, sales across channel partners and momentum across geographies |
| However, progress in establishing those OEM integrations and channels convinces us that the strategy is correct |
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