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| Maintaining fewer releases has been a centerpiece of the efforts that brought us nearly 1,000 basis points of margin improvement in the last five quarters |
| It was a quarter full of accomplishments of which we are extremely proud, including most notably winning more than a dozen new customers, growing our installed base sales, winning three meaningful international orders and exceeding the high end of our guidance for revenue, gross margin and EBITDA |
| So, we think this is a good investment |
| So, I am optimistic that not only do – will we continue to see bookings velocity, but I think we will also get better and better at implementing these customers and bringing them to revenue faster as well |
| We are just getting better and better as a company every day on that |
| Gross margin grew approximately 600 basis points year-over-year, and adjusted EBITDA grew from a loss of $5.6 million to a gain of $1.1 million, an improvement of $6.7 million of quarterly adjusted EBITDA year-over-year |
| I would say it’s similar to prior quarters, but there doesn’t seem to be anything terrifically broken and customers continue to buy, and we are continuing to develop nice momentum and expansion in our pipeline and in our order volume |
| Bookings in the quarter were stronger than expected, and we are currently ahead of our internal bookings target |
| What’s more, a combination of aggressive performance management and excellent sales and marketing execution has seen our pipeline grow to record levels and sales attainment is substantially ahead of where it was this same time last year |
| And we are seeing generally good energy and momentum in the business |
| We are off to a pretty good start, I would say, in Q3, and it does feel to us like there is good energy in the business |
| Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was a positive $1.1 million also well above the high end of our guided range |
| Adjusted gross margin for the second quarter was 70%, an increase of 170 basis points versus last quarter and nearly 600 basis points better than the second quarter of last year |
| Jenny is one of Avaya’s largest distributors, and we believe that their extensive reseller network together with our recent admission into Avaya’s DevConnect program will bring market momentum to our channel efforts |
| Net revenue retention stayed steady at 111% versus 112% last quarter and improved from 108% in the second quarter of last year |
| Together with our committed employees and our obsession for customer success, we believe the future of LiveVox is very bright |
| Momentum in our go-to-market efforts is building |
| Q2 was another record quarter for sales accepted lead and pipeline opportunity creation |
| Innovations in AI, the market’s acceptance of our new meeting capabilities and our commercial flexibility have created a catalyst for success in the potential migration of more than 10 million competitively held legacy contact center seats |
| In June, we set a record for billable minutes on our LiveVox platform and our first half new logo bookings in 2023 have already exceeded the new logo bookings from all of fiscal year 2022 |
| The macro trend that LiveVox enjoys, are powerful and enduring |
| We are excited by the energy in our order flow and customer interactions |
| Lastly, we continue to enjoy a brisk tailwind in pipeline growth from inquiries related to our newly introduced AI solutions and have been characterized as an AI beneficiary by several industry analysts |
| SMS traffic modestly improved in both May and June and the business disruption from this unexpected event appears to be stabilizing |
| As you may have seen in our press release earlier this afternoon, LiveVox delivered a strong second quarter, which broadly met or exceeded expectations on nearly every key metric |
| Similarly, we enjoyed a dramatic improvement in our adjusted EBITDA margin, which surged from negative 17% of revenue in the second quarter of last year to positive 3% of revenue this quarter |
| You may have noticed that in Q2 we successfully hurdled the 70% non-GAAP gross margin milestone for the first time in the company’s history |
| But it’s a good quarter on its own merits, and the second half as I telegraphed in the call, is looking also very energetic |
| We also enjoyed several important wins from our newly established channel organization |
| Revenue for the second quarter was $35.4 million, 7% higher than the second quarter of last year and $400,000 above the high end of our guided range of $34 million to $35 million |
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| GAAP earnings per share for the quarter were a negative $0.05 on both a basic and diluted basis versus negative $0.11 per share last quarter and a negative $0.12 in the second quarter of last year |
| Many of our customers continue to struggle from persistent staffing shortages |
| There is also a lot of pressure on people right now from just staffing challenges and turnover challenges and the wage cost |
| As I detailed in last quarter’s call, in the early days of Q2, one of our SMS text aggregators unexpectedly notified us of their decision to significantly reduce delivery of messages originating on the LiveVox platform |
| I noticed that it was up 8% year-over-year, but it was down sequentially, roughly 2% |
| Each time we retire a platform, it has a profound impact on COGS and support costs |
| It’s not a huge burden on us |
| I think we have seen that persist into this quarter as well |
| I do think that we do expect from that a halo effect with other segments such as state and local government, education, civilian |
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