Beamr Issues Annual CEO Letter to Shareholders: Highlighting Beamr Cloud Launch, 2023 Financial Results and Achievements and Q2 2024 Upcoming Milestones
March 04 2024 - 6:05AM
Beamr (Nasdaq: BMR), a leading supplier of video optimization
technology and solutions, today issued its annual Letter to
Shareholders from Sharon Carmel, Chief Executive Officer of Beamr.
Dear Shareholders:
As we look toward a promising and exciting year ahead, I am
proud to reflect on Beamr’s achievements throughout 2023, including
our financial results for 2023, our recent achievements so far in
Q1 2024, and look forward to our plans for Q2 2024.
2023 was the year we built the Beamr Cloud service, and 2024 is
the year we plan to invest in expansion of our business.
Beamr is experiencing a pivotal moment following the launch of
the Beamr Cloud SaaS solution, which enables everyone to perform
high quality, high scale video processing at attractive pricing.
Our new video cloud service, launched in February 2024, offers more
capabilities than we initially expected. They include video
standards modernization from AVC to HEVC, and adoption acceleration
of new standards.
Just before announcing Beamr Cloud launch, we raised gross
proceeds of $13.8 million in an underwritten offering in February
2024, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and other offering
expenses. We intend to use the raised capital to substantially
expand the reach of our video cloud services by investing in
research and development efforts, sales and marketing activities,
cloud operating costs, as well as general and administrative
corporate purposes, including working capital and capital
expenditures. We plan to expand Beamr Cloud across the emerging
markets in the video world: User-Generated Content, Generative AI,
Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Streaming (OTT).
During Q2 2024, Beamr plans to emphasize enabling vision AI
processes in Beamr Cloud. Recently we published a technical paper
that showed how Beamr tech downsized video files by 40% on average
— streamlining Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
processes and allowing significant savings in storage and costs. On
March 17th, we plan to participate in GTC
https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/, an NVIDIA led conference for the
era of AI. At the conference, we will provide more information on
our plans for integrating AI workflows into Beamr Cloud.
2023 Highlights
In 2023, we took our vision public on NASDAQ, focusing on
optimizing video at scale.
We signed up another one of the top five largest media companies
in the world to provide our video compression and optimization
technology and solutions to its products and that following such
agreement, Beamr is now working with three of the top five largest
media companies in the world. We believe that this is a testimony
of our leadership in video compression and optimization
solutions.
2023 Financial Results
Regarding our financial results for 2023:
- Revenues increased by $0.05 million or 2% to $2.9 million for
the year ended December 31, 2023, from $2.86 million for the year
ended December 31, 2022. The increase was primarily due to binding
transactions with new customers versus other transactions that were
terminated.
- Cost of revenues were $0.096 million the year ended December
31, 2023 compared to $0.098 million for the year ended December 31,
2022, with no material change during those periods.
- Research and development expenses decreased by $0.2 million, or
12% to $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, from $2
million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The decrease was
primarily due to a decrease in salaries due to changes in personal
and capitalization of costs consisting mainly of direct labor
(including stock-based compensation expenses) associated with
creating the internally developed software related to our
cloud-based SaaS solution offset by an increase in professional
fees.
- Selling and marketing expenses decreased by $0.54 million, or
60% to $0.36 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, from
$0.9 million in 2022. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease
in salaries and professional fees.
- General and administrative expenses increased by $0.7 million,
or 82% to $1.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, from
$0.83 million in 2022. The increase was primarily due to
professional fees related to legal, accounting, investor relations
as well as insurance coverage resulting from the completion of our
initial public offering in March 2023.
- Financing expenses, net decreased by $0.4 million, or 230% to
$(0.2) million for the year ended December 31, 2023, from $0.17
million in 2022. The decrease was primarily due to income from the
change in fair value of convertible advanced investment, decrease
in amortization of discount and accrued interest and interest on
bank deposits, offset by the change in fair value of derivative
warrant liability and change in exchange rate
differences.
- Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $0.7 million
or $0.06 basic net loss per ordinary share, compared to a net loss
of $1.2 million, or $0.48 basic net loss per ordinary share, in the
year ended December 31, 2022.
- Beamr ended 2023 with $6.1 million in cash and cash
equivalents, compared to $0.7 million as of December 31,
2022. This does not include $13.8 in gross proceeds received
from our recently completed underwritten offering in February
2024.
Furthermore, Q4 2023 specifically presented strong revenues,
consistent with our legacy business's robust performance in the
fourth quarter of the year with $1.5 million in revenue in the
fourth quarter of 2023 compared to $1.6 million in revenue in the
same period in 2022.
Respectfully,
Sharon Carmel Chief Executive Officer, Beamr Imaging Ltd.
A copy of Beamr’s annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended
December 31, 2023 has been filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission at https://www.sec.gov/ and posted on
Beamr’s investor relations website
at https://www.investors.beamr.com/. Beamr will deliver a hard
copy of its annual report, including its complete audited
consolidated financial statements, free of charge, to its
shareholders upon request at investorrelations@beamr.com.
About Beamr
Beamr (Nasdaq: BMR) is a world leader in content adaptive video
solutions. Backed by 53 granted patents, and winner of the 2021
Technology and Engineering Emmy® award and the 2021 Seagate Lyve
Innovator of the Year award, Beamr's perceptual optimization
technology enables up to a 50% reduction in bitrate with guaranteed
quality. www.beamr.com
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