Chris Diorio
Analyst · Roth Capital
Thank you, Chelsea. Thank you, all for joining the call. First quarter results were strong with revenue, net loss and adjusted EBITDA loss outperforming our guidance. Revenue at $33.1 million was a record for our first quarter and led by strength in endpoint ICs, reader ICs and gateways. We continue building on the strong momentum we cited entering 2019, and are excited by the growth opportunities we see entering the second quarter. Endpoint IC revenue posted solid year-over-year growth. In March, the RAIN Alliance announced 2018 industry endpoint IC shipments of 15.4 billion units, growing 23% year-over-year. Our endpoint IC unit volume growth rate, subsequent to our 2018 channel inventory correction is consistent with that number. The Alliance also forecasted their expectation that the industry growth rates will remain strong, as I will cover in more detail in a moment. I believe our new Impinj M700 endpoint IC product family will be instrumental to enabling these cases behind those growing unit volumes. Our systems business exceeded expectations, with record revenue for a first quarter, led by project based gateway sales into logistics and supply chain opportunities in North America. We continue to focus our technology and product development efforts on tracking item transitions. Innovating and delivering solutions that our partners sell into logistics and supply chain, as well as into other market opportunities. Reader IC revenue also exceeded expectations, with another quarter of solid year-over-year growth, led by broad-based opportunities in the handheld and embedded reading markets. First quarter industry events included the National Retail Federation show in New York and the RAIN Alliance meeting at the University of Memphis. I talked about NRF on our last call and want to again highlight our growing retail opportunities as the only company with a platform, spanning endpoint ICs to software. Turning to the RAIN Alliance Meeting. Michelle Covey, Vice President of partnerships at GS1 U.S., said GS1 will focus on driving standards for digital twins and data sharing among supply chain partners, as well as promoting RAIN as a core technology for item to cloud connectivity. I am thrilled about the positive impact GS1's initiatives are likely to have on us delivering our vision of digital life for everyday items. Turning to product developments. In March, we announced the technology behind the Impinj M700 endpoint IC family. This announcement is to me our most significant since we introduced the first ever RAIN IC Monza 1 in 2005 and exemplifies the technology leadership Impinj is known for. The Impinj M700 leverages Moore's Law to enable smaller, higher performing ICs with advanced functionalities that our customers need and our competition can't easily match. The Impinj M700, 300 millimeter wafers contain more than twice as many ICs as those of other RAIN or RFID manufacturers using 300-millimeter wafers and more than four times as many as those using 200-millimeter wafers. The new ICs include technology innovations we have been developing for more than a decade and incorporate significant patented Impinj inventions. They also increase the distance, reliability and speed at which a RAIN RFID system can inventory, locate and engage tagged items, while enabling our partners to innovate smaller, high performing global tags. The Impinj M700 technology represents the pinnacle of our market and highlights Impinj's innovation, competitive advantages and yet again our industry leadership. We demonstrated the first ICs in the Impinj M700 family to key partners and customers in April. And their feedback was incredibly positive. I would like to thank the entire Impinj team for their tireless work on the Impinj M700, as we drive our vision of enabling connectivity for trillions of everyday items. Even as we introduce the Impinj M700 product family, we continue innovating and developing the other layers of our platform. In March, we've announced ItemSense 2.0, with improved algorithms for tracking item transitions, deployability, and ease of use. The transition detection improvements increase the speed and accuracy with which ItemSense identifies a tagged item's direction and path, proving existing use cases and enabling new ones. The deployability improvements continue to build on our goal of automating our platform setup and tuning, enabling scalable and repeatable solutions. On prior calls, we've spoken about our platform deployments at Faurecia. I invite you to view a short but compelling video just posted on our website and on our blog that shows transition detection inaction at Faurecia using our platform. On the IT front, we continue advancing the depth and breadth of our patent portfolio to protect new technologies and innovations like those we introduced in Monza-R6 and more recently with our new Impinj M700. We ended the quarter with 253 issued and allowed patents as we focus on extending and protecting our technology lead across our entire product line. In closing, I would like to thank the Impinj team for their efforts this past quarter, and as always, in driving our bold vision. With a strong first quarter behind us, solid team execution today, and good growth prospects ahead, I remain energized by our opportunity, confident in our market position, and excited about the future. I will now turn the call over to Eric for our detailed financial review and second quarter outlook. Eric?