Shlomi Haim
Analyst · William Blair
Thank you, JoAnn. Greetings from the swamp, and thanks for joining us for JFrog's 2021 Third Quarter Earnings Call. I'm happy to report that in Q3, all JFrog's metrics are trending upwards. Q3 was $53.7 million, a growth of 38% over last year, accelerating from 34% growth reported in Q2. Our cloud revenue in Q3 grew by 50% year-over-year, accelerating from 47% reported in Q2. Customers with over $1 million in ARR are growing as a result of our investment in the strategic sales team alongside strong growth in the number of customers with ARR over $100,000. JFrog continues to expand the business this quarter. And as predicted, I'm happy to report that for trailing quarters net-dollar retention stabilized at 129% as customers increased usage and adopted more of our DevOps end-to-end platform that includes the software package repository, distribution and security. In addition, JFrog was again profitable this quarter, even after including the impact of our recent acquisitions. Team JFrog, you delivered a strong quarter, which exceeded our commitments to the market. This success belongs to you. The DevOps market is growing fast. Analyst firms such as IDC believe that only 1/4 of companies have actually begun to build road maps for complex digital transformation initiative. As companies scale in cloud and on-prem environment, we believe this is the beginning of an even larger adoption pattern. As we continue to see, in order to scale company need to unify DevOps solutions, integrating across the ecosystem while securely distributing software packages into production. JFrog is the only end-to-end binary solution that bridges the gap between the world of git based tools for source code and the secure delivery of software packages. In a world of fast and secure software big-to-release life cycles, category leaders must coexist and together help organization fulfill their future digital needs. Now on to some product and business highlights. First, for Q3, I would like to tell you about our acquisition of Upswift, an IoT connected device management company that we believe will significantly expand our market. The Upswift team is tasked with extending our DevOps platform reach all the way to the device, allowing for software updates, security and device fleet management from anywhere in the world. This technology innovation will extend our portfolio offering, support new personas and expand our TAMs to serve the DevOps needs to the multibillion-dollar IoT market. In fact, the second largest automobile manufacturer in Europe is already partnering with Upswift and JFrog saying and I quote, "We are using Upswift for our pilot product and looking forward to using Upswift in the future more and more to monitor our fleet of IoT devices in Europe and all over the world. We appreciate the joint venture of Upswift and JFrog, and hopefully, we are able to use other solutions from JFrog in combination with Upswift to get a 360-degree view of our fleet." In the future, the world of CI/CD will be connected to the end devices and the JFrog DevOps platform will connect these 2 words. Amit Ezer. and Eitan Chudnovsky, Co-Founders of Upswift, we welcome you and the team and are already excited to drive customers' initiative forwards. Second, I would like to update you on the impressive progress of last quarter's Vdoo acquisition, that not only included a leading cloud-native security platform, but also exposed us to new personas in the security market and brought a team of experts that are now an integral part of our R&D, product, sales and marketing forces. This technology and team is boosting JFrog's impact and not only driving cross-selling for Xray, our DevSecOps product, but also amplifying our position as thought leaders in the security community. In fact, the JFrog security research team has already uncovered multiple risks in common packages and public repositories. For example, JFrog just recently exposed the vulnerability in a popular open source tool created by 23andMe, a leading provider of DNA and biotechnology services. Their tools are utilized in an estimated 200 public software repositories, affecting potentially thousands of applications and companies. Highly publicized findings such as this one are only the beginning, and we look forward to proactively keeping the developer community made aware of security vulnerability that affect their supply chains. This protection of the community and customers is foundational to JFrog's security solution goals. In Q3, we started to incorporate the security intelligence derived from Vdoo into JFrog Xray product. This allows data around hundreds of open source venerability discovered by the scanning technology and research team to enrich the embolden JFrog security solution. Not only in technology, but we also already see synergies between JFrog Solution and Vdoo technologies on the sales front. Post acquisition security-driven deals are already taking place, including a Vdoo technology-driven deal we won in Q3 with one of North America's top industrial automation company. In addition, just after quarter ended, JFrog was announced as an authorized common vulnerabilities and exposure, also known as CVE, numbering authority. JFrog joins an elite group of public and private sector organizations authorized to assigned identification numbers to newly discovered security vulnerability and publish related details and associated records for public consumption, now I would like to talk about more DevOps innovation JFrog released to the market in Q3. Our recent release included a capability, we anticipate all companies at scale we look at, JFrog calls architect storage. This solution available this quarter in the JFrog platform allows organizations to easily store, manage and retain software artifacts for a long periods of time. Enterprises are often required to keep softer records for compliance and security reasons. And in some industries, records may need to be kept for years. Companies using cold storage will see decreased storage costs at scale as well as enjoy simple ways to comply with regulations, while retaining development speed. This position JFrog as a long-term strategic partner for these companies as they set up environments that support their extended compliance road map being entrusted to JFrog. Our team worked closely with enterprises to make this cold storage technology rock solid, and we look forward to working with more JFrog customers like the National Australia Bank to drive further compliance and improvements like this in the DevOps world. Finally, in our product news, I would like to acknowledge the great work of our ecosystem engineering team, who has released open source updates to our developer community, including integrations to observability tools, collaboration product and sourced code repositories. The JFrog tool integrated to fail approach that offers our customers a unique combination of a hybrid DevOps platform that also seamlessly integrates with the leading tools in the developer ecosystem is key to our goal. For example, we are proud to work with the world's leading retailer to help their DevOps team deliver transformative market-leading digital experience at scale. These retailers DevOps team, who recently migrated to JFrog to allow scale in a multi-site global setup, is in the process of adoption of our platform to enable software building, securing and deployment to production environments. During the process of adopting JFrog's platform, this customer's ARR value to JFrog grew over 200% in 2021, including the latest significant expansion in Q3. The third quarter also included investments in new growth avenues such as the federal sector. I'm excited to say that in Q3, JFrog has achieved Iron Bank certification, authorizing JFrog Artifactory and Xray inclusion in the Federal Platform One initiative. With this achievement, JFrog reinforces its commitment to providing DevOps and DevSecOPs solution for its public sector customers and those in highly regulated industries such as finance, health care, energy and transportation. This certification has the potential to open up a very large market of governmental services, contractors and public sector segments that rely on Iron Bank certification to adopt [indiscernible] tools. We look forward to continuing success as we pursue other certification in the government space such as FedRAMP in the near future. As another exciting milestone, we recently announced the partnership with SBC&S, a SoftBank company to drive DevOps and JFrog growth across Japan. SBC&S is one of the most trusted software resellers in Japan and will drive DevOps adoption across one of the world's leading economies. They're joining other JFrog partners in APAC as part of our channel program expansion to drive the region's DevOps transformation. Japan-based customers, like Hitachi, are already powering their DevOps and DevSecOps flow using JFrog. Expanding our footprint in Japan with partners like SBC&S will not only generate new business, but also improve the expansion and adoption among the existing customers. Finally, a note on enterprise adoption. We continue to see our software distribution and edge node solution as a key driver for the full platform subscription. These capabilities are unique in the marketplace and solve an authentic software delivery pain for enterprises by securely getting software at the last mile to where it's consumed. We anticipate this to continue being a strong hybrid differentiator for us moving forward. One of this quarter's most exciting platform buy came from one of the world's largest business consulting firm, which recently chose JFrog as a displacement of 2 vendors, consolidating both existing software package repository and security solutions. JFrog's ability to universally and continuously manage their binary life cycle was key to adoption across the entire platform. Wins such as this are the results of technology and go-to-market development. I'm pleased to see how our sales and marketing teams have grown significantly in Q3. Our focus on building a bottom up together with the top-down sales funnel led to these performances. We'll keep investing further to be sure that all aspects of the business, community, customers, and prospective users are going to be able to enjoy JFrog solutions. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Jacob Shulman, JFrog's CFO, to look more deeply at the Q3 financials.