Randy Altschuler
Analyst · William Blair. Your line is open
Thanks, Shawn. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our Q1 2025 earnings call. In Q1, revenue increased 23% year-over-year to a record $151 million, a 700 basis point acceleration from 16% year-over-year revenue growth in Q4 2024. Marketplace growth accelerated to 27%, driven by continued enterprise adoption. We delivered better than expected operating leverage, generating positive adjusted EBITDA alongside investments to accelerate our global sourcing strategy. In Q2 demand continues to be robust, consistent with our forecast of higher revenue growth in 2025 versus 2024. The current volatile and complex international trade and supply chain environment further validates our marketplace model. In addition, there is renewed recognition of the importance of maintaining strong domestic manufacturing bases, which is consistent with our approach of building 18 like localized marketplaces in the United States, Europe and Asia. Xometry provides buyers real-time access to unprecedented manufacturing capacity whether here or abroad. Likewise, we're enabling our manufacturing partners to grow their businesses by tapping into that demand. We work directly with more than 71,000 buyers and over 4,375 manufacturers across the world, giving us real-time data and insights into changing trends such as domestic reshoring and shifts in preferred geographies. For our US customers, the vast majority of their demand was already fulfilled by our US manufacturing network. In Q2, we're seeing an incremental shift in our mix to domestic sourcing. Between our domestic network and our industrial sourcing platform, Thomas, we're well positioned to support the push for more US manufacturing. Low-cost offshore manufacturing does remain an important lever for some of our customers, and we're working with them to identify alternative geographies and solutions to help manage their supply chain costs. Xometry has navigated this kind of situation before. During COVID, not only did global supply chains get severed, local ones were upended as individual US states had different policies around business closures. With our marketplace versus an asset-based approach, we can respond to our customers' needs in real time. We continue to invest in the technology and network, which today spans 51 countries across four continents that meets customers' needs. In addition, here's what we're focused on in Q2 to further address the situation. First, utilizing our AI-driven marketplace to dynamically optimize sourcing strategies and help mitigate cost increases by identifying competitive pricing across our global supplier network. Our pricing algorithms account for changes in tariffs, consistent with how we manage changes in shipping costs. Two, working with our enterprise customers to secure ample domestic supply and when requested provide alternative offshore solutions to meet their specific needs, continuing a strategy that we initiated in Q1 which has proven to be an even more advantageous decision post the Liberation Day tariffs. And then three, delivering coordinated advertising and communication campaigns across Xometry and Thomas underscoring thought leadership and education for our customers and manufacturing partners. Alongside our global sourcing efforts, we continue to invest in technology to become the digital rails in this massively fragmented and largely off-line custom manufacturing market. In Q1, we launched Instant Quoting for Injection Molding in the EU, UK and Turkey as we further expand our marketplace platform and aim to be the one-stop shop for our customers. Improved our highly successful Teamspace software with enhanced collaboration for enterprise customers. Main improvements in our Workcenter supplier software including the launch of a new partner success score algorithm. On Thomasnet, started testing a new search experience for buyers in April using natural language algorithms to infer intent and offer improved search results. In the next couple of months, we will complement the enhanced search with a new ad server technology platform that increases the inventory of advertising we can sell on Thomasnet. Since I co-founded Xometry in 2013, we've had durable growth in multiple macro environments including a US manufacturing contraction for the past two years. In 2025, we expect revenue growth to be faster than 2024. We remain confident in our long-term secular growth outlook given: first, the shift to digital sourcing and custom manufacturing is happening irrespective of the macro. Our growth demonstrates that we are a beneficiary of that trend and driving market share gains; two, the custom manufacturing market is extremely large. Even if that overall market were to shrink, our share is still so small that we can continue to have robust growth rates for many years to come; and then three, because we're a leading two-sided marketplace and a marketplace powered by AI, our efficacy and competitive moat continues to increase, as we grow our networks of buyers and suppliers and gain more data to continuously train our algorithms. Each quarter of growth and improvements in our technology helps to incrementally power the quarters that follow. We have a clear strategic path forward. For buyers, it's an unrelenting quest to provide a compelling triad of price selection and speed, backed by our expanding supplier network and AI-powered sourcing optimization. Our asset-light extensible technology platform and global scope can enable us to do just that. Adding additional features and capabilities as part of Teamspace will further deepen our enterprise relationships in particular. For suppliers, it's enabling them to effectively access buyer demand and provide them with the software, marketing tools and financial products through Workcenter to grow their businesses. We expect for 2025 to be a year of accelerated growth and increasing adjusted EBITDA profitability. Thanks to my amazing talented and hard-working colleagues and our ever-increasing networks of buyers and suppliers, we continue to build an important and exciting AI-enabled marketplace in one of the world's largest and most critical sectors of the economy. I'll now turn the call over to James for a more detailed review of Q1 and our business outlook.