Yossi Carmil
Analyst · Craig Hallum. Please go ahead
Thank you, Andy, and thank you all for joining us today. Look, I'm excited to discuss our second quarter results which highlight our continued success in delivering the industry's leading digital intelligence software suite to public and private sector customers around the globe. As illustrated on Slide number 4, we delivered an excellent second quarter performance on all fronts. We reported strong financial results while making strategic progress in several areas which are critical to our long-term success. Our Q2 financial performance was highlighted by the following KPIs. Total revenue of $76.7 million driven by subscription software revenue growth of 35%. ARR grew 28% to $274 million. Dollar based net revenue retention was 125%, which was our 18 straight quarter above 120%. We closed 25 large deals each valued at greater than $0.5 million adjusted EBITDA of 11.1 million or 14.5% on a marginal base and non-GAAP EPS of $0.05. And lastly, we ended Q2 with cash and investment totaling nearly $245 million, up 23 million from Q1. Now with a strong first half of '23 behind us, we now move into the seasonally stronger second half of the year and in a healthy market. And as a result, we have increased our financial outlook for the year. Turning to Slide 5, Cellebrite customer relationship remains strong in Q2. Our ongoing investment in powerful customer driven innovation and go-to-market activities enable us to continue winning in the market. Our second quarter 2023 revenue growth demonstrates our ongoing success in extending the scope of our relationship within the digital forensic units of our customers and our progress in extending our reach into their investigative units. In addition to strong public sector expansion, we delivered our second straight quarter of high-teens revenue growth in the private sector. Geographically, our Q2 revenue and ARR growth were powered by the Americas and EMEA. In terms of our large deals, the average size of our second quarter 2023 large deals grew 16% over last year even though the number of the deals was slightly below the same period last year. Importantly, more than half of our large deals included Premium and approximately 40% included either Pathfinder our investigative analytics tool or Guardian, our evidence management solution or both. So overall, the spending environment on digital intelligence solution remains robust. Around the globe, public safety is challenged by rising crime rates, increasingly sophisticated criminals. The proliferation of digital evidence across a wide range of smartphones and other devices limited in increasingly strained police manpower and heightened interest around police operation and priorities. And to close this gap in public safety, law enforcement agencies around the globe continue to invest in digital intelligence solutions that will help modernize their investigative workflow to successfully advance and close cases, keep the community safe, and meet other important KPIs. And as a result, we continue to see favorable budget tailwinds in the USA, Western Europe, Latin America, and key parts of the Asia-Pacific region with more customers in the public sector, allocating more money for Cellebrite Solutions than they did last year. In addition to our strong Q2 performance, Cellebrite made important strategic progress over the past several months. So in June, we announced our plans to introduce you UFED Ultra, a revolutionary next generation Collect and Review solution that enables digital forensic units to lawfully access and extract digital evidence from the broadest range of mobile phones. UFED Ultra is designed to deliver greater ease of use, simplified workflows, and full file system extraction for even the most advanced smartphones, a capability that was previously only available in our Premium solution. And just as important, we've continued to see great uptake on our premium suite of solutions, which provides low full access to the most advanced smartphones on the market and still a significant room for adoption across our installed UFED license base. Now, leadership in this sector is anchored by differentiated technological capabilities that remains unmatched across both iPhone, iOS, and on Android. And given these dynamics, we see substantial multi-year opportunity to upgrade and upsell our Collect and Review solution. We are also taking important steps to enhance Guardian, our case and Evidence Management workflow solution. We recently announced new features and functionalities for Guardian that make it easier and more efficient for examiners to share digital evidence with their investigators. Now, I will highlight a couple of great second quarter Guardian wins in a moment. Between Guardian and our Premium as a Service offering, we are just starting to scratch the surface of the revenue potential of cloud-based digital intelligence solutions. We are accelerating our plans to build out our technical infrastructure and support the delivery of more high value cloud-based solution. The second quarter was also marked by continued adoption of Pathfinder, our artificial intelligence power investigative analytics solution. We are on track to significantly expand our Pathfinder customer base this year and drive faster ARR growth. We believe that the investigative units represent Cellebrite's second primary growth engine augmenting on our growth in digital forensic units. Accordingly, we are mobilizing our R&D, sales and marketing resources to ensure that we effectively and efficiently capitalize on this opportunity. On the R&D front, it is important to recognize that our investment in artificial intelligence benefits more than just our Pathfinder investigative analytics. In Collect and Review, we have continued to strengthen our market leading Physical Analyzer platform with advanced machine learning capabilities, which makes it easier and faster for digital forensic units to identify relevant evidence within the vast volume of digital data across the broadest range of digital devices, applications, and warrant returns. In conjunction with reporting our results today, we also announced the appointment of Tom Hogan as Cellebrite's Executive Chairman. And we believe that this action enhance our corporate governance and support Cellebrite as it moves into the next chapter of growth and market impact as a global digital intelligence leader. Tom is experience of the veteran with a proven track record of success, including his most recent work at Vista Equity. Now, I look forward to his council and support as we work together with the board and the broader Cellebrite team to help shape and drive our strategy forward, scale up our business in our largest market and drive value creation for our stakeholders. Now, Tom's appointment expand our Board of Directors to 10 members, and we are also fortunate that the Company's former chairman, Haim Shani of Israeli Growth Partners, a longstanding Cellebrite shareholder will continue serving as a Director on our board. Moving to Slide 6, I would like to review several second quarter deals which help illustrate some of the key drivers of our success. Now, as noted earlier, adoption of premium by existing customers is steadily increasing. Now this quarter we a major expansion of our premium footprint ahead of schedule with a large North American federal law enforcement agency, along with an initial Pathfinder engagement to accelerate time to resolution on critical cases. Cellebrite Digital Intelligence Solutions is expected to help this customer centralize its critical digital forensic capabilities at scale and supercharge its investigative capabilities. And as a result, our ARR this account will nearly triple to approximately nearly $5 million. In terms of new logos, we want a meaningful new customer in the Asia-Pacific region that is expected to deliver nearly $250,000 in ARR. This regional correctional service agency is deploying UFED Premium as a service and Pathfinder as part of its efforts to build its own house digital forensic unit to support strong investigative capabilities rather than outsource these activities to other agencies. I would also like to briefly highlight two deals for Guardian that illustrate our success in leveraging our strengths in digital forensic units to extend our reach into new buying centers. Now in both wins, law enforcement agencies serving mid-sized U.S. city's selected guardian to modernize their Evidence Management workflow to efficiently track sensitive digital evidence as they advance investigations. In one deal, the combined purchase of Guardian and Premium as a service is expected to increase Cellebrite's ARR at this police department by a factor of $10,000 to over $200,000. In the other deal, ARR for the city's DA office will more than double to $330,000. And last in the private sector, our intensified sales focus on larger, more strategic accounts is yielding tangible results. In Q2, a U.S. service provider expanded its use of endpoint inspector for a more digital data collection from mobile phones, computers, and cloud applications as part of its forensic practice. And that supports its corporate client's legal, regulatory, and compliance activities. ARR from this service provider will nearly double into the low six figure range. Let's move to Slide 7 and update on our outlook. As we look ahead, we believe that we are well positioned to continue helping law enforcement agencies convert the following three major pain points into advantages. First, the complexity and volume of digital data involving today crimes is rapidly increasing. Second, inefficient workflows are limiting the speed of investigations and contributing to a growing backlog of devices. And third, there is a greater public scrutiny on the ethics and accountability of law enforcement operations. Now, based on our results to date the trajectory of our business into the second half of this year and favorable market conditions, we have raised our annual 2023 guidance. Our updated revenue and ARR targets primarily reflect our ongoing success in gaining more wallet share with existing customers. As I have discussed, demand for our Collect and Review solutions remain strong, and this is augmented by attractive prospects to drive adoption for our investigative analytics and evidence management offering. So, we expect that the combination of our revenue growth and discipline spending will enable us to deliver a major improvement in our adjusted EBITDA over the last year, along with strong cash generation in 2023. And Dana will share additional details on our updated guidance in short. Now, while there is still a lot of hard work ahead, 2023 is shaping up to be a very good year for Cellebrite, it is a very exciting time for Cellebrite. The opportunities in front of us are substantial in size and global in scope. Our team is focused on fulfilling our mission to deliver powerful digital intelligence solutions that helps our customers modernize the workflow in support of protecting and saving lives, accelerating justice and ensuring data privacy. And by executing on our second half plans, we believe we'll stay on track to achieve our updated expectation for 2023, sustain our momentum in 2024 and keep Cellebrite well positioned for creating shareholder value over the long-term. And with that, I will turn the call over to Dana for her financial review.