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| The strong operating leverage of our business model is delivering an attractive financial profile that is transitioning toward long-term profitable growth at attractive adjusted EBITDA margin performance |
| We believe our accomplishments in 2023 have set the stage for us to deliver another year of strong performance in 2024 and sets us on a path for long-term leadership in Space-Based Intelligence |
| Beginning with Slide 3, I’m pleased to report that 2023 was an exceptional year for BlackSky, with strong and growing demand for our Space-Based Intelligence solutions |
| We executed across all aspects of our business and delivered strong operating results against our major goals for 2023 |
| First, for the full year 2023, we achieved record revenues of over $94 million, a 45% growth over 2022 |
| We had an exceptionally strong fourth quarter that delivered revenues over $35 million, an 83% increase over the prior year quarter |
| This was driven by strong quarter-over-quarter growth in our Imagery and Analytics revenues and progress toward deliverables on the recently awarded contract for the Government of Indonesia |
| Following the strong revenue performance in Q4, we ended 2023 with revenue of $94.5 million, up 45% over 2022 and achieving another record year for the company |
| Third, with these key wins, we increased our year end contracted backlog to over $260 million, providing strong out year revenue visibility from an expanding anchor customer base that has signed long-term, multiyear commitments |
| Fourth, we successfully delivered positive adjusted EBITDA of over $9 million in Q4, achieving one of our major objectives for 2023 |
| In fact, for the full year, we were nearly adjusted EBITDA breakeven, this significant operating achievement is attributed to the combination of strong revenue growth of our high-margin Imagery and Analytics services, our focus on disciplined cost management, continued streamlining of our operations and the strong operating leverage of our business model |
| This strong execution is anchored by the hard work and dedication of our team, who work tirelessly to meet our customer commitments through the delivery of timely and reliable intelligence that our customers rely on every day for critical decision-making |
| BlackSky’s dynamic hourly monitoring capabilities are becoming an essential capability for customers around the world, as evidenced by a strong and growing sales pipeline and the continued growth of our customer base, which increased by over 50% last year |
| Our industry-leading technology and credentials have us well positioned to serve a large and expanding global market for Space-Based Intelligence solutions |
| We are seeing strong demand for our Gen-3 capabilities as these advanced satellites are now in production and on track for launch this year |
| Turning to Slide 11, I’m happy to report that we successfully met our company’s goal of reaching positive adjusted EBITDA in Q4, an accomplishment very few space companies have done on their first constellation |
| And that ability over time to process, analyze and turn that information into actionable intelligence that used to take months and now can be hours and minutes is really an exciting development |
| 2023 was another strong year of focused execution and another major step forward in the growth of our business, which has us well positioned to address this large and growing market opportunity |
| The operational achievements of 2023 have us on a path toward long-term profitable growth and demonstrate our commitment to building shareholder value |
| Turning to Slide 4, we’re continuing to see global demand for BlackSky’s products and services remain very strong around the world, especially in markets where governments are increasing their investments and accelerating programs to acquire Space-Based Intelligence capabilities |
| And so this is an extremely positive signal |
| In fact, during the past year, the revenue contribution from our international business grew from 17% in 2022 to now over 37% this past year, as we are successfully building out a diverse global customer base |
| Obviously, a contract of that size is drawing a lot of attention, but we feel that we’re bringing the technology and the credentials that have us well positioned |
| So we are extremely well positioned to go compete for the $290 million of work orders that will come through the Luno contract |
| This multiyear renewal agreement expanded our existing contract threefold over the prior year contract and demonstrates the customer’s long-term commitment to secure assured access to our high-frequency monitoring and analytics capabilities |
| And so we feel really good about how the ramp of those contracts will tie to the deployment of our constellation |
| The full year revenue increase demonstrates the growing demand we’re seeing from customers around the world who are taking advantage of our unique and differentiated solutions |
| In 2023, we successfully grew our international customer base by 50% and are proud to be providing them with advanced intelligence solutions now and in the future |
| We look forward to another exceptional year |
| The ability to see, understand and act first provides a strategic advantage, an advantage that can now be achieved through the rapid advancements of commercial space technology |
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| We remain conscious of the uncertainty of the timing of these awards and the ramp of services to recognize revenue, particularly related to the award of new large government contracts such as what we experienced with Indonesia |
| In fact, our Q4 SG&A cost, excluding stock-based compensation expense were down 17% year-over-year on revenue growth of 83% |
| Turning to Slide 16, our full year 2023 adjusted EBITDA loss was $1.1 million, compared to a loss of $29.5 million in 2022 |
| This increased demand is driven by geopolitical, economic and national security concerns that governments around the world are facing now more than ever |
| There’s long been lots of discussion in particular in the US government about the shift to commercial providers obviously, in most cases been a lot of talk, but it’s been much, much slower, I think then everybody, including maybe yourselves here, expected |
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