Innoviz Technologies Ltd【INVZ】株式ニュース

Innoviz Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results
February 26, 2025
Link to Press Release https://ir.innoviz.tech/news-events/press-releases/detail/143/innoviz-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2024-results
Link to Earnings Call Presentation https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_03f591e51c312eb9241bb8618f84217a/innoviz/db/1087/9893/pdf/INVZ+Q4+2024+Earnings+Deck_FINAL+26+02+25.pdf
Link to Earnings Call Recording https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_49caf8fe0640d6ee4973a43682ecb42a/innoviz/db/1111/9891/earnings_call_recording/GMT20250226-140022_Recording_1920x1200.mp4
Link to Earnings Call Transcript https://www.investing.com/news/transcripts/earnings-call-transcript-innoviz-q4-2024-beats-eps-forecast-stock-surges-93CH-3893254
Link to Previous (Q3 2024) Results https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175379180

Highlights
- Recent financial and business developments leave Innoviz well-prepared for multiple program SOPs in 2026 and volume production of LiDARs in 2027
- Partnership announcements with Mobileye and NVIDIA position the Company to further scale business and pursue opportunities with new OEMs
- Targeting 2025 revenues of $50-$60 million

TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensors and perception software, today provided commercial and strategic updates on its business, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024, and set 2025 commercial and financial targets.

"I am very pleased with our strong finish to 2024, and with the recent developments and accomplishments that have the potential to transform Innoviz's financial and operational position for 2025 and beyond," said Omer Keilaf, CEO and Co-Founder of Innoviz. "In the past two months, we've entered into an approximately $80 million NRE payments plan with our key customers, we've announced an optimization of our operations that we project will deliver $12 million in savings on an annualized basis, and we completed a registered direct offering of our securities that generated gross proceeds of approximately $40 million from two institutional investors. The funding enhances our financial resiliency, provides operational runway, and we believe it will help us reach key NRE milestones and prepare for SOPs in 2026 and volume production in 2027."

Keilaf added, "During the quarter, we disclosed that Mobileye had chosen Innoviz LiDARs as a key feature of its Mobileye Drive™ AV platform. In addition, InnovizTwo is now offered as part of NVIDIA's Hyperion 8 platform, and our RFI and RFQ pipeline remains robust. We expect our newly strengthened liquidity position to be a competitive advantage. Bolstered by it and by other developments, we believe we have accelerated our path to profitability and are well situated to execute on our pipeline with additional OEMs and enhance growth in the automotive industry with our differentiated LiDAR technology and expanding capacity."

Commercial and Strategic Updates

- Mobileye announced that it will integrate Innoviz LiDARs into its Mobileye Drive™ autonomous driving platform – the platform has been adopted by significant vehicle producers globally, including VW Commercial Vehicles, Schaeffler/VDL, Holon, and Verne, and will include a suite of 9 InnovizTwo LiDARs per vehicle, driving significant unit volume. SOPs are slated for 2026, with volume expected to ramp in 2027.
- Bolstered financial position with approximately $80 million through a multi-year NRE payment plan – Innoviz announced an approximately $80 million NRE payment plan with key customers; the majority of payments are expected in 2025 and 2026, with $40+ million in 2025.
- Demonstrated the integration of Innoviz Perception Software with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin – at CES, Innoviz demonstrated the integration of its Perception Software with NVIDIA's autonomous driving and ADAS platform. Leveraging the NVIDIA Hyperion 8 platform, Innoviz will offer automakers a powerful combination of LiDAR sensors and software.
- Announced optimization of operations – Innoviz announced an optimization of its operations to extend its cash runway and accelerate progress towards profitability and free cash flow generation. The actions will be implemented during the first half of 2025 and are expected to reduce cash outlays by approximately $12 million on an annualized basis.
- Completed registered direct offering of our securities – our February 2025 registered direct offering generated gross proceeds of approximately $40 million. The offering enhances the Company's resiliency and provides operational runway. We also believe these proceeds will help Innoviz reach key NRE milestones and ramp capacity ahead of program SOPs and volume production, and that our liquidity position is now part of Innoviz's competitive advantage.
- Continued to develop existing programs and advance potential new programs with notable OEMs – Innoviz continued to make progress with its existing customer programs, including L3 with VW, and to advance on its pipeline of RFIs and RFQs. Innoviz's RFI and RFQ processes with notable OEMs in Europe, North America, and Asia continued to advance on both L3 and L4 programs.

Full Year 2024 Financial Results

Revenues in 2024 were $24.3 million compared to revenues of $20.9 million in 2023. The revenue growth resulted from a combination of NRE services, production units and sample shipments.

Operating expenses in 2024 were $100.8 million, a decrease of 17% compared to operating expenses of $121.0 million in 2023. Operating expenses for 2024 included $17.0 million of share-based compensation compared to $20.7 million of share-based compensation in 2023.

Liquidity as of December 31, 2024 was approximately $68.0 million, consisting of cash and cash equivalents, short term deposits, short term restricted cash and marketable securities.

FY 2025 Financial and Operational Targets

The company is establishing initial targets for FY 2025 of:

- Revenues of $50-$60 million
- An additional $20-$50 million of NRE bookings in 2025
- 1-3 new program wins

Conference Call

Innoviz management will hold a web conference today, February 26, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time (6:00 a.m. Pacific time) to discuss commercial and strategic updates, financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2024 and 2025 financial and operational targets. Innoviz CEO Omer Keilaf and CFO Eldar Cegla will host the call, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Investors are invited to attend by registering in advance here. All relevant information will be sent upon registration.

A replay of the webinar will also be available shortly after the call in the Investors section of Innoviz's website for 90 days.

About Innoviz

Innoviz is a global leader in LiDAR technology, serving as a Tier-1 supplier to the world's leading automotive manufacturers and working towards a future with safe autonomous vehicles on the world's roads. Innoviz's LiDAR and perception software "see" better than a human driver and reduce the possibility of error, meeting the automotive industry's strictest expectations for performance and safety. Operating across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Innoviz has been selected by internationally recognized premium car brands for use in consumer vehicles as well as by other commercial and industrial leaders for a wide range of use cases. For more information, visit https://innoviz.tech/

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Mobileye And Innoviz Move Up On The Autonomy Scale
Jan 27, 2025
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sabbirrangwala/2025/01/27/mobileye-and-innoviz-move-up-on-the-autonomy-scale/

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES), held in Las Vegas from January 7-11, 2025, devoted significant floor space and exhibits in the area of autonomy - from the likes of Waymo and Mobileye for passenger cars and ride-hailing, autonomous racecar competitions organized by Indy Autonomous Challenge, and big machine companies like Caterpillar, John Deere, Komatsu and Oshkosh presenting autonomous solutions in mining, construction, agriculture, airport operations, lunar construction (yes!) and garbage hauling.

Mobileye, previously owned by Intel and spun out as a separate NASDAQ listed company in 2022 has a current market capitalization of ~$14B and revenues of $1.8B/year (easily the leading player in the pure play autonomy landscape). Its customers include 50 automotive OEMs who use their ADAS based solutions (cameras, chips, software) across 1200 car models and 190M cars. Mobileye’s strategy has always been to move up in the autonomy game to support L4 (complete autonomy in prescribed geographies, traffic and weather conditions) and L5 (complete autonomy, anywhere, anytime). At CES 2025, it announced collaborations for L3 (highway autonomy at prescribed speeds with human driver able to take control within 10 seconds) and L4 (no human driver required in specific Operational Design Domain or ODD) autonomy solutions. Volkswagen is one of the customers across multiple models (VW ID Buzz, Audi, etc.) that advertised the L4 capable ID Buzz vehicle.

CEO, Amnon Shashua laid out Mobileye’s vision and roadmap for revolutionizing autonomy from its current L2 offerings (hands on, eyes on, minds on) to L5 autonomy (no human driver required, autonomy everywhere). At a press briefing at CES 2025, he described the trajectory of Mobileye’s roadmap from L2 to L5 capabilities (Figure 1).

Figure 1: CEO and Founder Amnon Shashua Discusses Mobileye Pathway to Moving Up in the Autonomy ... [+]Mobileye

Dr. Shashua describes 2 key concepts in the autonomy revolution:

1) Precision - which is in essence a metric that captures the quality of the autonomy stack in terms of disengagements and safety at different autonomy levels).

2) Recall - which is a set of constraints in which the autonomy stack can work, for example, traffic and weather conditions, geography and cost effectiveness for deployment in affordable cars.

L5 is the nirvana state with 100% Precision and Recall (its great to dream, but is it really achievable???)

Waymo’s L4 robotaxi service is high on the Precision axis (Y axis, green dot)) but very expensive and constrained in terms of where it can operate. Tesla’s L2 capability on the other hand is very high in Recall (X Axis, red dot) but low on precision which means it is not really autonomous and needs constant human control. Mobileye to date has been following the Tesla path with its SV52 (SuperVision™ based on its proprietary EyeQ5 chip) launched in 2024. In 2026 the SV62 (based on the EyeQ6 chip) with higher precision is to be deployed in the Porsche and Audi product lines. The SuperVision™ capabilities are L2 systems which need constant human driver attention and control.

After this, the Mobileye roadmap zig-zags. With the Chauffeur™ (expected commercial launch in 2027), Recall will be sacrificed (only highways, up to 130 kph speeds, higher cost) but precision greatly improved to deliver affordable L3 capability. This is enabled by fusing camera, radar and a front-facing LiDAR (hence the higher cost). The final step in what Dr. Shashua describes as a revolution is the Mobileye Drive™ which is driverless, and used by robotaxi and trucking customers and integrated with a total of 13 cameras, 5 imaging radars and 3 LiDARs. Beyond 2027 as the Chauffeur™ increases Recall (more road conditions and geographies, lower cost), the addition of sensors and compute capabilities are critical for delivering L4 capabilities with higher degrees of Recall.

The keys in enabling Mobileye’s autonomy revolution are:

1) Diverse driving data collected to date across global geographies, traffic patterns and weather with its SuperVision™ camera based systems (300 PB to date covering millions of miles. This is critical for training its AI based perception and driving stacks.

2) Semiconductor capabilities, such as the EYEQ generation of chips

3) Redundancies in sensors, compute stacks and algorithms to ensure successful edge case negotiations through intelligent fusion

4) Sensor Capabilities, most notably its internally developed imaging radar chips, which draws on IP during its tenure within Intel. Mobileye believes that its imaging radar is a perfect complement to cameras, especially in bad weather and will play a big role in increasing Recall (by increasing availability when cameras and LiDAR are compromised). The resolution is twice that of other imaging radars on the market enabling small object hazard detection, segmentation and identification (at speeds of 130 km/hr, OEM requirements are 130 m, Mobileye claims it’s radar meets 136 m). Costs are expected to be in the $100 range. Adding imaging radar to achieve 360° Field of View (FoV) is a critical enabler to achieving higher Recall and delivering L4 capability through Mobileye Drive™.

The Role of LiDAR and Innoviz

Mobileye’s evolution (or revolution) to L3 and L4 capabilities through Chauffeur™ and Mobileye Drive™ include use of front and side facing LiDARs, At CES 2023, Mobileye promoted its internal development of a 1320 nm FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) LiDAR, leveraging Intel’s photonics capabilities. Roughly 18 months later, it wound down its internal LiDAR efforts, claiming that its internal development was less essential to its future efforts, and “that the availability of next-generation FMCW lidar is less essential to our roadmap for eyes-off systems”. It cited as reasons the progress on its EyeQ6-based computer vision perception, performance of its imaging radar, and better-than-expected cost reductions in third-party time-of-flight (ToF) LiDAR units.

Innoviz, an Israel based, ToF LiDAR company announced at CES 2025 that it had been selected as the LiDAR supplier by Mobileye. Founded in 2016, the company has been developing its MEMs (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) based LiDAR for the past 8 years. It went public in 2021 through a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) merger.

The InnovizOne has been designed into BMW’s BMW Personal Pilot and manufactured in partnership with Magna International in an automotive-grade production facility. The next generation InnovizTwo is more compact, with a higher range and resolution, designed to work through obscurants (mud, insect splatter, rain).

A few events and their timelines are important to understand Innoviz’ selection as a LiDAR partner for Mobileye and Volkswagen:

1) Early 2023: Volkswagen announced Mobileye as its autonomy stack partner for a mid-decade L4 autonomous Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) launch in 2023. This included L4 trials with Volkswagen ID Buzz electric vans.

2) Mid-2023: Innoviz announced in a SEC filing that “a major existing global automotive customer aims to expand its use of the InnovizTwo LiDAR to a new light commercial vehicle program”. This likely means that Innoviz has been working with Mobileye on its Innoviz LiDAR integration for at least 2 years.

3) Mid-2023: The next generation InnovizTwo was selected in 2023 by Audi which designated the company as its Tier 1 supplier, following an extensive round of audits on multiple fronts - manufacturing, costs, quality and production strategy. It positions Innoviz as the primary choice for LiDAR for other Volkswagen models for supporting L3 and L4 autonomy.

4) Late 2024: Mobileye announces shutdown of its internal LiDAR effort.

5) Late 2024: Innoviz announces $80M in NRE (Non Recurring Engineering) funding for designing its InnovizTwo LiDAR into different OEM platforms.

6) Early 2025: Innoviz announced at CES 2025 that it had been selected as the LiDAR supplier by Mobileye, for the Chauffeur™ and Mobileye Drive™ programs.

According to Omer Kielaf, CEO of Innoviz, its success in getting designed into major OEM platforms “are our history of deep working relationships, disciplined project management, investing in becoming a Tier 1 designated supplier, the cost-performance-durability-size of the InnovizTwo LiDAR, and the ability for customers to source short and long range lidars from the same supplier”.

Figure 2: CEO Omer Kielaf Shows InnovizTwo LiDARInnoviz Technologies

As part of its drive to move into higher levels of autonomy (L3 and L4), Innoviz is also making investments in hardware and perception software developments.

On the hardware front, making the InnovizTwo resilient to optical path obscurations (mud, rain, insect splatter) is a critical requirement for autonomous operation. Per Mr. Kielaf, having such obscurations in an L2 system where a human operator is always in control is not a significant problem. With an L3 system, it becomes an issue because it now requires the human driver to disengage L3 capability and takeover, reducing the convenience of the feature. With L4 (no human driver), this is an absolute requirement since loss of perception at high speeds can be lethal. The optical design of the InnovizTwo LiDAR ensures redundancy in the optical path for the transmit and receive path for each pixel (see Figure 3). As an example if the window is 25% covered, no single pixel will be “dead” and some pixels will lose about 7% of the range performance.

Figure 3: Resilient Performance of InnovizTwo With Mud (LEFT) And Water Obscuration (RIGHT)Innoviz Technologies

On the software front, Innoviz announced a partnership with NVIDIA which will enable delivery of high-performance, AI-enabled perception systems to its customers. The software will be “optimized to run with the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin platform, allow for real-time processing and advanced understanding of the vehicle's environment, enabling exceptional object detection, classification, and tracking capabilities”. Per Omer Kielaf, "By leveraging the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin platform, we will be able to offer a powerful combination of cutting-edge LiDAR sensors and perception software, enabling automakers to scale from L2+ ADAS all the way to fully autonomous vehicles".