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| Also, our SaaS business, despite facing the downsell in large enterprise in our consulting business, reached BRL134 million in gross profit in the first 9 months of the year, a 13% increase compared to the first 9 months of '22 and reached a gross margin of nearly 64% |
| To finish, I would just like to reiterate the guidance we previously set for 2023, as we are confident with our performance so far, and we are expecting a good Q4, which normally boost our revenue and will positively impact our EBITDA, which, as I just said, is already on track to meeting the guidance |
| However, when we look at the results accumulated in the first 9 months of the year, we see solid performance in both businesses with increased margins, demonstrating our ability to navigate this dynamic competitive environment without losing focus on the medium and long-term profitability |
| Given our leadership in the Brazilian SMS market and the more balanced market dynamics, we've been able to leverage a more efficient cost structure to gain market share with certain strategic large enterprise customers, which led to the strong recovery in SMS volumes with healthy profitability levels |
| So for us, that's why we are leading that transition from SMS to RCS, brings lots of different opportunities for upsell and of course, better experiences for end users and better results for our customers |
| During this quarter, we were able to accelerate revenue growth, especially in the CPaaS business while maintaining healthy profitability levels |
| And due to our effort in generating EBITDA, but also having a very strict control of working capital, we've been able to push our cash and our liquidity to put us in a better position to renegotiate debt |
| We're incredibly excited by the potential of RCS as a natural evolution of SMS, bringing rich interactive content that boosts marketing campaign results as comparing to traditional SMS |
| So we're getting more presence on the CPaaS space, and we expect that in the short to midterm to also benefit us on the SaaS market as well |
| But as you can see, our strategy is paying off with the third quarter of '23 marking the fifth consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA |
| So we're able to -- being able to benefit from that position in the market to bring especially big customers that are driving their growth on the space with Zenvia |
| During this quarter, we delivered double-digit top line growth in both SaaS and CPaaS while maintaining healthy margins |
| CPaaS also delivered a solid 13% increase in gross profit when compared to the first 9 months of '22, reaching a gross margin of 33.2%, up 5 percentage points |
| We are confident that this strategy will help us improve our relationship with these customers, allowing us to capitalize on cross-selling and upselling opportunities |
| Total revenue increased 21% year-over-year to BRL219 million from a fairly stable client base of 13,600 clients |
| The performance of our CPaaS business in the first 9 months of the year has been above our expectations |
| In the CPaaS business, as I just mentioned, we saw an opportunity to accelerate revenues and gain market share with strategic large enterprise customers, while keeping profitability at healthy levels |
| To attest our strategy to balance top line growth and profitability is paying off, we delivered an EBITDA of BRL16.5 million in the quarter, up from BRL9.9 million in Q3 of '22, marking the fifth quarter in a row of positive EBITDA |
| Our stronger EBITDA and better working capital management led to solid operating cash flow of almost BRL124 million in the 9 months period |
| We'll benefit from our regional leadership on the CPaaS market and its new technological advances with the power of our CX solutions coming both from R&D and M&A initiatives into a unified offering that is expected to be rolled out throughout 2024 |
| And at the same time, we saw strong margins across the business lines that led to a gross profit growth of 13% year-over-year and gross margin growth of 4.5 percentage points to 44.1% |
| That's a huge opportunity for us |
| In terms of cash flow, we ended September '23 with a solid cash balance of nearly BRL120 million, in line with the previous quarter and a direct result of our focus on cash preservation without jeopardizing our sustainable growth |
| Now let's compare the third quarter of '23 to the second quarter of the year, which shows our continued progress in growing revenues |
| Here on this slide, we can see that sequentially we grew consolidated revenues by 13.3% with double-digit increase in both segments |
| So that's why we're getting back our market share and are also advancing more than we had in the past and with profitability |
| So we'll be able to combine more aggressiveness on the market with a positive flow of cash coming from this business |
| Our strategic acquisitions are allowing us not only to expand our portfolio and market presence but also to bring more value to our customers who are starting to benefit from our end-to-end solutions being deeply integrated and bundled |
| As I explained earlier, we have already seen early signs of improvement in the conversion of our sales cycle to large enterprise customers in Q3, but we expect most of the impact to positively impact revenues in Q4 |
| We're very excited with this year and especially next year coming |
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| Gross profit reached BRL83.9 million, down 3.1% year-over-year with gross margin decreasing 9.6 percentage points to 38.4% due to lower margins in both segments |
| So when we are addressing the enterprise market, this year has been a tough year, a tough environment, which means decision-making cycles are taking longer than expected |
| In the SaaS segment, the lower profitability is a result of the still complex macroeconomic environment, which is mainly affecting our consulting businesses |
| If we isolated quarter of '23, our gross profit for both businesses went down year-over-year, mainly due to lower gross profit from large enterprise customers in CPaaS |
| On the negative side, the downsell in large enterprise in our consulting business held net revenue expansion down to 102% compared to 120% in Q2 of '22 |
| Last year, we had a very tough competition on the CPaaS space, being talking about the last couple of quarters |
| So it doesn't -- there's not some issue for us losing clients, especially -- a number of clients especially because of their small revenues |
| It has not been easy, particularly given the complex macro environment |
| That's why, even though we're bringing new enterprise customers, especially to our SaaS offerings, it is taking longer than expected to ramp up their revenues |
| As we expect in the next couple of quarters to get this on track, especially as we're seeing new logos coming and new projects being under launch phase, it's still not being in our results, but we expect the next couple of quarters to have a higher flow of enterprise customers coming and impacting our revenues |
| While our large enterprise customer remained cautious on their investment decision during this quarter, we have already seen early signs of improvement in Q3, but the higher impact will be seen in Q4 2023 |
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