NASDAQ:INV Innventure Q2 2025 Earnings Report $4.39 -0.31 (-6.60%) As of 08/15/2025 04:00 PM Eastern ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Innventure EPS ResultsActual EPS-$1.60Consensus EPS -$0.17Beat/MissMissed by -$1.43One Year Ago EPSN/AInnventure Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$0.48 millionExpected Revenue$0.69 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$207.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/AInnventure Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2025Date8/14/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, August 14, 2025Conference Call Time5:00PM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Innventure Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 14, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Excelsius achieved key customer milestones including its first hyperscaler proof of concept, initial OEM orders that will ramp in Q3, a new Equinix deployment, and an expanded 21-member partner network. Positive Sentiment: Its sales pipeline is robust with 3× coverage of booking targets for 2025 and 6× coverage for 2026, shifting from proof-of-concept to 75% production engagements. Positive Sentiment: A Jacobs Engineering study demonstrated a 28–40% operating cost improvement for Excelsius two-phase cooling versus single-phase water systems. Neutral Sentiment: Second quarter revenue was $0.5 million with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $16.2 million, an improvement from Q1’s $21.8 million loss but still operating at a loss. Positive Sentiment: nVenture strengthened its balance sheet with $27 million in net proceeds from convertible debentures and ended Q2 with $12 million in cash to support growth initiatives. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallInnventure Q2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xThere are 7 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to nVenture Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, we'll open up for questions. To ask a question during the session, you need to press 11 on your telephone. Operator00:00:17You will then hit an unreaded message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press 11 again. Please advise that today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand it over to your first speaker today, Lucas Harper, Chief Investment Officer. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:33Thanks, operator, and thank you all for joining us for nVenture's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. My name is Lucas Harper, nVenture's Chief Investment Officer and joining me from the company are Bill Haskell, Chief Executive Officer and Dave Yablonowski, Chief Financial Officer. Earlier today, we issued a press release announcing our financial results, which is available on our Investor Relations website along with a supplemental slide presentation. As referenced on Slide five, we will be discussing non GAAP financial measures during this call. The most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of the differences between the GAAP and non GAAP financial measures are available in our earnings release and supplemental slide presentation on our website. Speaker 100:01:17In addition, certain statements being made today are forward looking statements that are based on management's current assumptions, beliefs and expectations concerning future events impacting the company. These forward looking statements involve a number of uncertainties and risks, including but not limited to those described in our earnings release, Form 10 Q for the period ending 06/30/2025 and other filings with the SEC. The actual results of operations and financial condition of the company could differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward looking statements. And now I'd like to hand the call over to Bill. Speaker 200:01:52Thanks, Lucas, and thanks to everyone joining us today. Last quarter, we invited Dino Fotararo, Excelsius' Chief Revenue Officer to call for a deep dive into Excelsius technology differentiators, market opportunity and customer engagement. We heard great feedback from investors and analysts on the value of this spotlight. So today we are pleased to have Josh Clayman, CEO of Excelsius on with us to speak about the exciting recent developments at the company and the incredible opportunity that lies ahead. Before passing to Josh, let me just reiterate that market momentum for Excelsius continues to accelerate and we anticipate an inflection in commercial bookings before the 2025. Speaker 200:02:34Josh's commentary will provide real world context for why we remain confident in our ability to deliver on that goal. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Josh. Josh? Speaker 300:02:46Thanks, Bill. I'm excited to be here today. As Bill mentioned, Excelsius continues to make tangible progress and gain traction in the market. I'm incredibly proud of my entire team for what they have accomplished to date, and we're very excited for the future. You've heard Inventure speak in the past about the size and rapid growth of the data center liquid cooling market, which is only accelerating as the adoption of AI continues to proliferate the market. Speaker 300:03:12In a recent analysis of the market by UBS, a 100% the roughly a 128 IT organizations surveyed intend to deploy AI workloads, with 14% having deployed AI workloads in some capacity already. The power demands these workloads place on current data center infrastructure are simply too high for traditional air cooling. And consensus is building in the industry that single phase water solutions will also rapidly become insufficient for many compute intensive applications. It is important to note that the average order size for these workloads is still less than $5,000,000, which demonstrates we are still in the proof of concept stage. The bottom line is that the opportunity is still ahead of us, and the direction of the market is very clearly pointed in need for advanced cooling solutions. Speaker 300:04:08With a differentiated market leading technology, Excelsius has positioned itself as the at the forefront of what we believe is an inevitable two phase directed chip liquid cooling adoption cycle. Against this attractive backdrop, Excelsius has been making great strides. Before getting into the details, it is important to remind you all that Excelsius was founded in 2022 and has only been in the market for less than one year. The 2024 was our first quarter of revenue generation and to be where where we are today, less than ten months later is truly impressive. So let's dive into several key milestones. Speaker 300:04:51As we've stated previously, Excelsius is focused on building relationships with four key groups, hyperscalers and multinational OEMs, global resellers, colocation providers, and AI as a service or Neo Cloud providers. We continue to make strides with each of these constituents. As of the second quarter, we engaged with our first hyperscaler for a proof of concept system. The system is currently being manufactured and we expect to deliver it by the end of Q3. From there, it will go through the evaluation process, which we expect to take six months. Speaker 300:05:28We are also in discussions with two other hyperscalers at the moment and are confident in our ability to advance to proof of concept with them as well. We began taking our first orders from our OEM partner, one of the largest in the data center sector. We expect this order volume to begin to ramp during the third quarter and continue to ramp with demand throughout 2025. We also announced an exciting engagement with Equinix, which is just the latest deployment among several other key colocation players. As with many colocation operators, Equinix is increasingly required to become a thought leader in cooling and power architectures. Speaker 300:06:11We have grown our contracted go to market partner network to 21, an increase of over a 100% since the beginning of 2025. This network includes industry players such as Park Place, Avnet, Computer Center, and more. Finally, we plan to open a demonstration point in the Bay Area with our contract manufacturing partner before the end of the year. Our as yet undisclosed Centimeters ODM partner is one of the key suppliers to multiple hyperscalers and is capable of ramping this demand as proof of concepts convert to production opportunities. As you can see, Excelsius has engaged with dozens of key players across the data center ecosystem, and we have quick quickly built an impressive reputation, which is driven by our differentiated technology and our data driven approach. Speaker 300:07:00The industry players are witnessing the technology platform in the field and results have been undeniable. Jacobs Engineering, a leading data center focused MEP firm, just completed a study comparing our technology side by side with single phase water and found an operating cost improvement over water of 28% to 40% depending on the exact assumption set around infrastructure deployed. Our performance has been impressive. However, the technology is still new and cell cycles for these relationships can sometimes span several quarters. Because of the compelling nature of the Excelsius technology, we anticipate the cell cycle will shorten significantly as the technology gains traction in the field at scale. Speaker 300:07:46Early signs of this traction are highly encouraging, evidenced by continued upward trend in leading indicators of demand, namely qualified marketing leads. When we spoke to you during the first quarter, marketing needs had exploded close to four times since the start of the year. While it is still too early to give specific revenue expectations, our pipeline continues to grow with three times gross coverage of bookings as compared to the plan for the remainder of 2025 and over six times coverage of our bookings plan for 2026. We are also excited to start to see a transition of our pipeline from 100% proof of concept engagements to date to 75% production engagements through 2026. And I'll make one final point on the pipeline to frame the rapid pace of momentum we are experiencing. Speaker 300:08:40Our Q2 bookings were greater than all bookings going to market before that. And our best estimate for Q3 is that bookings will be a multiple of the Q3 level of the Q2 level rather. You can see that the sales momentum is real and I'll close with information regarding an exciting addition we made to our team to institutionalize our sales process going forward. We are exceptionally proud of the team we have brought together. The latest illustration of this is our recent hire of Eric Brown as Vice President of Global Sales. Speaker 300:09:13Eric is a seasoned leader who joined us after over twenty three years at Dell and seven years at AMD. I worked with Eric during my time at Dell and we couldn't be more excited to have him on board. Eric brings decades of experience managing multi billion dollar sales engines that were proved invaluable as Axosys continues its exciting trajectory. Thanks again for having me on the call today, and I'll pass it back to Bill. Speaker 200:09:38Thanks, Josh. As we've said in previous quarters, the momentum at Excelsius is real and the excitement around the opportunity is palpable. We believe the company is equipped with a market leading technology that positions it at the forefront of a seismic shift to two phase directed chip liquid cooling adoption. We also feel strongly that Excelsius' ability to attract top talent like Eric Brown is a testament to the work they are doing and how well established the company has become in such a short period of time. Inventor is proud of the progress the company is making with major players in the data center ecosystem. Speaker 200:10:14And we believe the value of Excelsius and InVenture's operating model as a whole are markedly underappreciated by the street. Given the breadth of the opportunity and the level of excitement at Excelsius, it's easy for the market to overlook what InVenture really is, which you believe would be a mistake. So before passing the call to Dave, I'd like to reiterate that InVenture is foundationally an engine to create market changing companies like Excelsius. In the context of our conglomerate model, the success we've had to date is real and the value creation is compelling. While we focus today's call on Excelsius, which we believe represents the most immediate value creation opportunity, InVenture has started three other companies that are doing incredibly exciting things in their own right and offer proof points of our ability to deliver value for shareholders. Speaker 200:11:04First is Pure Cycle, which InVenture founded from scratch in 2015 and took public in 2021. Today, Pure Cycle trades at a market cap of greater than $2,300,000,000 While InVenture no longer holds an economic interest in the company, it offers a tangible proof point about the value creation opportunity offered by our model. Second is Aeroflex, founded in February 2018 in collaboration with Procter and Gamble, which is gaining significant traction in the $400,000,000,000 packaging market. As of the end of the second quarter, the company achieved four consecutive quarters of revenue recognition, highlighting its growing customer base and unique ability to serve the sustainable packaging market. At the May, the company received critical guidance recognition for recyclability from the Association of Plastic Recyclers or APR for its proprietary mono material Aeroflex pack. Speaker 200:12:00This recognition is one of the most widely accepted benchmarks for evaluating plastic packaging and provides independent validation and credibility that the Aeroflex pack is designed for recyclability. This is a significant milestone and we believe a precursor to unlocking meaningful sales opportunities. We successfully reengaged with a handful of notable CPG companies that require APR approval and we are experiencing increased engagement in a materially larger revenue opportunity. The company also took steps in the second quarter to further strengthen its IP position and competitive advantage by adding new patents to its growing portfolio. At the June, the company was awarded two patents that present a flexible package plastic package suitable for curbside recycling, where all plastic bottles are accepted. Speaker 200:12:50The patents align with industry standards used to assess the compatibility of polyethylene based films and flexible packaging innovations. This achievement demonstrates Aeroflex's unwavering commitment to providing a sustainable and differentiated liquid packaging solution to the marketplace. Third is Refinitiv, which we launched in December 2024 in collaboration with Dow. During our earnings call earlier this year, we outlined three strategic initiatives for Refinitiv in 2025. And we are happy to report the company is executing against each of these three milestones. Speaker 200:13:26The first was engaging an engineering procurement and construction partner for the first plant design, which was completed during the second quarter. Second was to demonstrate viability of fluid bed conversion of mixed plastic waste to liquid olefins at pilot scale within VTT's plant, which is on track with preliminary results leading to better quality and higher yield than originally modeled. Finally, third was securing initial site selection and feedstock sourcing for the first plant, which we are on track to accomplish during 2025. As you can see, nVenture's operating model has produced tangible and compelling value creation opportunities over the last decade, and we believe we are just getting started. We have a robust pipeline of high quality technology opportunities with several MNCs that could represent future nVenture operating companies. Speaker 200:14:21We'd remind everyone that we only launch companies that we believe can achieve at least $1,000,000,000 in enterprise value. The exciting progress across our current family of companies is real and observable evidence of nVenture's value creation engine at work and we believe the future is extremely bright. With that, I'll turn the call over to Dave to cover our financials. Speaker 400:14:42Dave? Thanks, Bill, and good afternoon, everyone. Inventor's second quarter revenue was $500,000 representing $300,000 of revenue at Acelsius and $200,000 of fees we collected from our management of the Inventis ESG fund. As with the prior quarter, the second quarter result was in line with our expectations and consistent with our view that we expect most sales orders, bookings and early stage revenue to be weighted to the second half of the year. As Josh highlighted in his remarks, the size and rapid growth of the data center liquid cooling market is accelerating as the adoption of AI continues to proliferate the market. Speaker 400:15:25The company has positioned itself at the forefront of what we believe is an inevitable two phase direct to chip liquid cooling adoption cycle with the CELSIUS' differentiated market leading technology. G and A expenses were approximately $18,600,000 for the quarter, an improvement from $19,700,000 in the prior quarter. This number has four primary components: non cash equity based comp of approximately 9,400,000.0 accounting, audit and legal professional service fees of approximately $4,400,000 $3,900,000 for payroll expense benefits and other operating expenses, primarily driven by growth at Acelsius and $900,000 of non cash amortization related to our intangible assets and equipment depreciation expense. It's important to point out, we continue to use outside professional services to keep our long term fixed cost and headcount low. We do however, expect to bring in house a large portion of this activity at an expected lower cost, as we build our internal processes and capabilities that meet our public company compliance requirements. Speaker 400:16:38Moving down the income statement, we booked $113,000,000 non cash goodwill adjustment, driven by the write down of goodwill on the balance sheet. This was a result of a variety of macro factors that affected business investments in the quarter, but again, this was non cash. In the non operating section of the income statement, we booked a favorable non cash adjustment of approximately $7,200,000 related to the change in fair value of our warrant and earn out liabilities. EBITDA for the quarter was a loss of approximately $135,000,000 After adjusting for certain items, adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $16,200,000 an improvement from a loss of $21,800,000 in the first quarter. Moving to the balance sheet. Speaker 400:17:26As previously disclosed, in the second quarter, pursuant to our securities purchase agreement with Yorkville Advisors, in two separate tranches, we issued convertible debentures for an aggregate amount of $30,000,000 In connection with these issuances, we received net proceeds of $18,000,000 on April 14 and $9,000,000 on May 15. This added $27,000,000 of cash to our balance sheet. Additionally, 6,500,000.0 of related party and other term convertible notes was raised into the second quarter. These amounts are reflected in the increase in financing activities on our cash flow statement. These two actions illustrate our active management of cash and both improve our capital position. Speaker 400:18:18Other notable items on our balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $12,000,000 of cash, restricted cash and cash equivalents, up from $11,100,000 at the end of last year. Inventory. As we take customer deposits and book new customer orders at Acelsius, inventory is beginning to grow. The second quarter ended with $6,600,000 of inventory on hand, up from $5,200,000 in the prior quarter. Speaker 400:18:46We're acting sensibly with our cash, optimizing the need to keep inventory on hand to meet customer orders while preserving cash on our balance sheet. Investments, the $32,400,000 on our balance sheet represents our $22,900,000 equity method investment in Aeroflex, a $9,000,000 investment in debt securities in Aeroflex, and our $05,000,000 equity investment in the ESG fund. Intangible assets, this represents developed technology and other intangible assets out of Celsius. These assets amortize at different intervals, primarily over the next eight to fifteen years. On to the cash flow statement. Speaker 400:19:32In the cash from operating activities section, you can see many of the non cash items I mentioned earlier. The cash used in investing activities primarily represents the funding given to Aeroflex through our existing facility comprised of debt securities. The cash provided by financing activities section includes the $27,000,000 of cash raised through the issuance of the Yorkville convertible debentures, 6,500,000.0 of related party and other term convertible notes. It's important to say again, the InVenture team remains focused on additional capital raises at the InVenture and operating company level to meet our liquidity needs and fund what we believe are very attractive growth opportunities ahead of us, with a goal of creating substantial value for our shareholders. With that, we'll open up the call for questions. Operator00:20:27Thank you. Your line is open. Speaker 500:20:54Hey, everybody. Thanks for taking the question. I wanted to ask your commentary, I guess, in the press release, looking for an inflection and revenue growth in the second half year. It seems like your visibility is growing there. I assume that's a function of traction at Excelsius, but maybe a little more color there. Speaker 500:21:18I think you talked about first orders with the OEM maybe starting to ramp, any more color on your thoughts there? Speaker 200:21:29It's Bill. Good afternoon. Nice to catch up with you. So there has been activity and I'll let Josh amplify this in a moment. There certainly has been activity, this material. Speaker 200:21:42There's one thing that I would wanna share, which is there can often be a long lag between order and delivery, not because of manufacturing issues on our end, but because these systems are going into very complex environments. And oftentimes customers will place orders in some cases two, three quarters in advance of when they actually want delivery. So we're focusing on the bookings because I think that really will be the indicator of the growth in the business. But I'm going to flip it over to Josh now. And if he wants to amplify anything, he's welcome to. Speaker 300:22:21Thanks, Bill. Yeah, I think we're seeing a couple of things happen. One is that the bookings are coming in faster than they have. So we're seeing an inflection point in that. I Speaker 200:22:35would Speaker 300:22:35like to remind everyone, we've been in market for about three and a half quarters. So we're new to shipping products and selling product in market. And so I think the adoption cycle's happening about as quickly as we would expect it to. The other thing that I think you'll see a tick up in our bookings through the rest of 'twenty five and into 'twenty six is because the average order size is increasing as well. And this reflects a shift from what were purely really proof of concept orders for the first couple of quarters to production orders, which are kind of by their nature larger. Speaker 300:23:20So I think we're seeing all the signs we would like to see at this point in terms of two phase directed chip cooling and all the signs that would evidence gaining traction on for Excelsius in the market. Speaker 500:23:37Yeah, that makes great sense. I appreciate the color, Josh. And I guess to your point, I think you talked about, if I heard you correctly, 75% production engagements next year, right? So it sounds like you've got visibility on some of those growing order sizes. Is that fair? Speaker 300:23:59That's correct. And a big portion of our pipeline for 2026, and we expected and I guess hoped that this would occur, are coming off of proof of concept orders that we had this year. So and I think that will continue for the next two to three quarters that we'll deploy a proof of concept order because people want to see the technology work in their environment. But they're doing that with intent. They're doing that because there is a larger production rollout happening after that. Speaker 300:24:35And I think we're starting to see that pattern kind of coalesce, which we find encouraging. Speaker 200:24:44You might talk about the selectivity. I just say around the selectivity of the POCs that we have delivered that have some sort of a multiplier. Speaker 300:24:57Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was gonna I'm sorry. Go ahead. You go ahead. Speaker 500:25:01No. Go ahead. Sorry, Jeff. Speaker 300:25:03Yeah. I was I was gonna say just to Bill's point. To protect our bandwidth at Excelsius, really, we've been fairly particular about where we deploy equipment because we want to make sure that when we deploy it, it does have a multiplier effect. So when we deploy a proof of concept, it's really not for someone just to play around with the equipment and become familiar. It's really because they want to test the equipment, because if it does what we say it's going to do, there's a project in front of it. Speaker 300:25:33And that is the sort of overwhelming pattern that we're seeing as we go to market. Speaker 500:25:41Very helpful. Maybe just a follow-up on that point. Your first hyperscaler proof of concept, that's obviously a big milestone. And I understand it'll be small initially, and they'll need to trial it for a period. But can you give us a sense of scale? Speaker 500:25:57I mean, we all know hyperscalers are large, but would they be looking to source for multiple areas or any indication of how big something like that could be if you're successful? Speaker 300:26:11I would just say, as you would expect, it would be big. So we have been given a phasing plan based on that proof of concept that if it's successful, and we've been given some time frames, if it's successful, it'll lead to x amount of, CDUs and and sockets being cooled. I'd rather not get into the the exact detail of that. But I think I think the way this should be sort of interpreted is that the the most sophisticated players in the market and most of the hyperscalers have very sophisticated thermal architecture teams in their in their in their businesses are starting to be get very curious and starting to wanna play with two phase technology, two phase directed chip because they know it's gonna come. And so we're seeing not just this initial hyperscaler, but we're seeing others follow suit and we expect a couple other placements in at least one or two other hyperscalers before the end of the year. Speaker 300:27:20So we're really excited about this. And I think I think that should be an interpretation. What what we're seeing in the market generally is that the most sophisticated players are coming to us in a way because they're they're the ones that are kind of looking around the corner and saying, well, how long can we use single phase water or these other cooling architectures with these increasing wattages, these TDPs of of chips in the next generation and the following generation. And they're seeing that they're probably going to require two phase direct to chip going forward. So I think these are the early signs of that. Speaker 500:28:00Excellent. And just the scale issue Speaker 200:28:04at a macro level, four hyperscalers have published that they're spending about $350,000,000,000 this year on data centers and data center architecture and equipment, and which is roughly a billion dollars a day. And they've projected 400,000,000,000 for next year. So they're spending significant amounts of money in anticipation of the growing demand in the whole generative AI space. Speaker 500:28:36For sure, it seems like those numbers go up every quarter. And any more on the manufacturing side, your comfort there, given what could come down the pipe, the contract manufacturing side. I think you talked about opening something up in the Bay Area. It's just any more color there. Speaker 300:28:59Yeah, sure. Sorry. Yeah, so our manufacturing strategy, we've really been talking about and setting up from the very beginning, even before we had a product in the market, has been that we will have a core manufacturing internally. And we've just signed a lease. In fact, we've just taken hold of it of an expanded facility here in Austin, about 30,000 square feet, about 27,000 of that is manufacturing. Speaker 300:29:33And that will service us. That could actually service the entire plan for next year. But we will subsidize that with contract manufacturing because, as Bill mentioned, I think earlier, some of these engagements are sort of binary. If we get traction in some of these engagements, they're gonna be massively scaled. And for that, we will rely at least partially on contract manufacturing. Speaker 300:30:00But we will always keep, for every product, a core of manufacturing in house because we think, one, we don't want anyone to have too much leverage over our business, and two, it's just a good quality way to scale manufacturing, to actually do our own analysis of tact times, do our own analysis of refining our build materials for manufacturing, designing for manufacturing. So we always, we just look at best in class examples of that, and we think that's a good path forward. So imagine a couple years from now, we'll probably have 25%, 30% of our manufacturing in house and the remainder with contract manufacturers. Speaker 500:30:49Got it. And maybe if I could sneak one last one in, maybe for Dave, just on the balance sheet, Just your comfort sort of bridge this period here before some of the commercial traction really accelerates. Thanks. Speaker 400:31:08You say bridge the period you've been Speaker 500:31:10from the. Yeah, just just your company. Yeah, or just cash needs. Right? How you're thinking about access to capital and things like that. Speaker 400:31:20Yeah, I have a high degree of comfort in our access to capital and our ability to book cash on the balance sheet. I'm not concerned in the least. Speaker 500:31:28Perfect. Great. Thanks very much. Operator00:31:31Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ashi Alpesh from Sidoti. Your line is open. Speaker 600:31:46Congratulations on the quarter, guys. I just have one more question relating to Acelsius. And I'm trying to understand the product. Can you explain how accurate accurately does the thermal Simulation RAC replicate real world AI and HPC workloads? And if you can just help us with understanding what is the feedback you're getting from the initial proof of concept deployment that you've done in the last quarter? Speaker 600:32:14And what's the market response been like? Speaker 200:32:19Thanks. Thanks, Ashi. I'm gonna flip this one to Josh. And I think if you can maybe talk about the kind of the products that have and simulated racks that can simulate things that don't exist yet and the implications of that would be helpful. Speaker 300:32:35Sure. Absolutely. Thanks for the question. So there's an issue with testing thermal loads in with GPU servers, and that's primarily because GPU servers are extremely expensive. So, you know, a rack of IT used to maybe three, four years ago in ancient history used to maybe cost $200,000 worth of servers to fill a rack within a data center. Speaker 300:33:06But for GPU servers, it might cost 3 to $5,000,000. So if you wanna test a thermal load, if you wanna make sure that the cooling architectures, cooling solution can cool that power density without spending millions of dollars, you have to rely on some sort of load simulation device. And so what we've done is create what we call TTVs or thermal test vehicles, which look like a processor, essentially same form factor, same sizing as a processor. We put a few of these. In fact, in our latest load simulation sled, we have six of them, each of which can drive about 1,000 watts, so a kilowatt each. Speaker 300:33:56So each load sled, which looks like a 1U server, can produce the heat of a six kilowatt server. So you can fill a rack with those and test the solution, the cooling solution, in what looks like over what looks like a sort of a GPU reference design for that rack at a fraction of the cost. By a fraction, mean, maybe one twentieth of the cost. So we think this is gonna be useful. Now we created, we developed these, load simulation sleds and racks for our own product development purposes, for our own R and D. Speaker 300:34:44And then we productize them because we found there's a demand in the market for them. So this is going to be, I don't know how large, it will be a supplemental business for us for commissioning data centers, for experimenting with different thermal loads in the real world. But we are shipping these today, and they have been well received. In terms of the proof of concepts that we have in the market, there is a desire to sift through some of the noise out there. Because it's a nascent market sector, there are a lot of companies that claim they can do things. Speaker 300:35:24They claim they can handle certain thermal capacities that they can't do. And I think it's the nature of every new market. So we've taken the approach that we want to be very data driven. We encourage people through our Kickstarter program to buy one of our racks to fill it sometimes with these load simulation sleds, sometimes with real servers, and test it and make sure that our product does what we say it's gonna do. And typically, the proof of concept is simply that. Speaker 300:35:54We're gonna we we like what you say your solution to do. We wanna see it actually work and perform the way you say it's going to perform in the real world. And as soon as it does that, we'll be ready to buy more. So the initial feedback on these proof of concepts has been extremely positive thus far. Speaker 200:36:13And it also allows them actually to look forward and project chips that are yet to be delivered in the marketplace, project how our technology will cool those chips, a generation or two forward. So they can literally test chips that haven't been designed that projected to be much harder than ones that are on the market today that are being delivered. Speaker 600:36:40Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Operator00:36:44Thank you. Once again, that's star one one for questions. One moment for any questions to populate. And I'm currently not showing any further questions at this time. This will conclude the question and answer session for today. Operator00:37:00Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the program. You may now disconnect. 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There are 7 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to nVenture Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, we'll open up for questions. To ask a question during the session, you need to press 11 on your telephone. Operator00:00:17You will then hit an unreaded message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press 11 again. Please advise that today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand it over to your first speaker today, Lucas Harper, Chief Investment Officer. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:33Thanks, operator, and thank you all for joining us for nVenture's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. My name is Lucas Harper, nVenture's Chief Investment Officer and joining me from the company are Bill Haskell, Chief Executive Officer and Dave Yablonowski, Chief Financial Officer. Earlier today, we issued a press release announcing our financial results, which is available on our Investor Relations website along with a supplemental slide presentation. As referenced on Slide five, we will be discussing non GAAP financial measures during this call. The most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of the differences between the GAAP and non GAAP financial measures are available in our earnings release and supplemental slide presentation on our website. Speaker 100:01:17In addition, certain statements being made today are forward looking statements that are based on management's current assumptions, beliefs and expectations concerning future events impacting the company. These forward looking statements involve a number of uncertainties and risks, including but not limited to those described in our earnings release, Form 10 Q for the period ending 06/30/2025 and other filings with the SEC. The actual results of operations and financial condition of the company could differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward looking statements. And now I'd like to hand the call over to Bill. Speaker 200:01:52Thanks, Lucas, and thanks to everyone joining us today. Last quarter, we invited Dino Fotararo, Excelsius' Chief Revenue Officer to call for a deep dive into Excelsius technology differentiators, market opportunity and customer engagement. We heard great feedback from investors and analysts on the value of this spotlight. So today we are pleased to have Josh Clayman, CEO of Excelsius on with us to speak about the exciting recent developments at the company and the incredible opportunity that lies ahead. Before passing to Josh, let me just reiterate that market momentum for Excelsius continues to accelerate and we anticipate an inflection in commercial bookings before the 2025. Speaker 200:02:34Josh's commentary will provide real world context for why we remain confident in our ability to deliver on that goal. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Josh. Josh? Speaker 300:02:46Thanks, Bill. I'm excited to be here today. As Bill mentioned, Excelsius continues to make tangible progress and gain traction in the market. I'm incredibly proud of my entire team for what they have accomplished to date, and we're very excited for the future. You've heard Inventure speak in the past about the size and rapid growth of the data center liquid cooling market, which is only accelerating as the adoption of AI continues to proliferate the market. Speaker 300:03:12In a recent analysis of the market by UBS, a 100% the roughly a 128 IT organizations surveyed intend to deploy AI workloads, with 14% having deployed AI workloads in some capacity already. The power demands these workloads place on current data center infrastructure are simply too high for traditional air cooling. And consensus is building in the industry that single phase water solutions will also rapidly become insufficient for many compute intensive applications. It is important to note that the average order size for these workloads is still less than $5,000,000, which demonstrates we are still in the proof of concept stage. The bottom line is that the opportunity is still ahead of us, and the direction of the market is very clearly pointed in need for advanced cooling solutions. Speaker 300:04:08With a differentiated market leading technology, Excelsius has positioned itself as the at the forefront of what we believe is an inevitable two phase directed chip liquid cooling adoption cycle. Against this attractive backdrop, Excelsius has been making great strides. Before getting into the details, it is important to remind you all that Excelsius was founded in 2022 and has only been in the market for less than one year. The 2024 was our first quarter of revenue generation and to be where where we are today, less than ten months later is truly impressive. So let's dive into several key milestones. Speaker 300:04:51As we've stated previously, Excelsius is focused on building relationships with four key groups, hyperscalers and multinational OEMs, global resellers, colocation providers, and AI as a service or Neo Cloud providers. We continue to make strides with each of these constituents. As of the second quarter, we engaged with our first hyperscaler for a proof of concept system. The system is currently being manufactured and we expect to deliver it by the end of Q3. From there, it will go through the evaluation process, which we expect to take six months. Speaker 300:05:28We are also in discussions with two other hyperscalers at the moment and are confident in our ability to advance to proof of concept with them as well. We began taking our first orders from our OEM partner, one of the largest in the data center sector. We expect this order volume to begin to ramp during the third quarter and continue to ramp with demand throughout 2025. We also announced an exciting engagement with Equinix, which is just the latest deployment among several other key colocation players. As with many colocation operators, Equinix is increasingly required to become a thought leader in cooling and power architectures. Speaker 300:06:11We have grown our contracted go to market partner network to 21, an increase of over a 100% since the beginning of 2025. This network includes industry players such as Park Place, Avnet, Computer Center, and more. Finally, we plan to open a demonstration point in the Bay Area with our contract manufacturing partner before the end of the year. Our as yet undisclosed Centimeters ODM partner is one of the key suppliers to multiple hyperscalers and is capable of ramping this demand as proof of concepts convert to production opportunities. As you can see, Excelsius has engaged with dozens of key players across the data center ecosystem, and we have quick quickly built an impressive reputation, which is driven by our differentiated technology and our data driven approach. Speaker 300:07:00The industry players are witnessing the technology platform in the field and results have been undeniable. Jacobs Engineering, a leading data center focused MEP firm, just completed a study comparing our technology side by side with single phase water and found an operating cost improvement over water of 28% to 40% depending on the exact assumption set around infrastructure deployed. Our performance has been impressive. However, the technology is still new and cell cycles for these relationships can sometimes span several quarters. Because of the compelling nature of the Excelsius technology, we anticipate the cell cycle will shorten significantly as the technology gains traction in the field at scale. Speaker 300:07:46Early signs of this traction are highly encouraging, evidenced by continued upward trend in leading indicators of demand, namely qualified marketing leads. When we spoke to you during the first quarter, marketing needs had exploded close to four times since the start of the year. While it is still too early to give specific revenue expectations, our pipeline continues to grow with three times gross coverage of bookings as compared to the plan for the remainder of 2025 and over six times coverage of our bookings plan for 2026. We are also excited to start to see a transition of our pipeline from 100% proof of concept engagements to date to 75% production engagements through 2026. And I'll make one final point on the pipeline to frame the rapid pace of momentum we are experiencing. Speaker 300:08:40Our Q2 bookings were greater than all bookings going to market before that. And our best estimate for Q3 is that bookings will be a multiple of the Q3 level of the Q2 level rather. You can see that the sales momentum is real and I'll close with information regarding an exciting addition we made to our team to institutionalize our sales process going forward. We are exceptionally proud of the team we have brought together. The latest illustration of this is our recent hire of Eric Brown as Vice President of Global Sales. Speaker 300:09:13Eric is a seasoned leader who joined us after over twenty three years at Dell and seven years at AMD. I worked with Eric during my time at Dell and we couldn't be more excited to have him on board. Eric brings decades of experience managing multi billion dollar sales engines that were proved invaluable as Axosys continues its exciting trajectory. Thanks again for having me on the call today, and I'll pass it back to Bill. Speaker 200:09:38Thanks, Josh. As we've said in previous quarters, the momentum at Excelsius is real and the excitement around the opportunity is palpable. We believe the company is equipped with a market leading technology that positions it at the forefront of a seismic shift to two phase directed chip liquid cooling adoption. We also feel strongly that Excelsius' ability to attract top talent like Eric Brown is a testament to the work they are doing and how well established the company has become in such a short period of time. Inventor is proud of the progress the company is making with major players in the data center ecosystem. Speaker 200:10:14And we believe the value of Excelsius and InVenture's operating model as a whole are markedly underappreciated by the street. Given the breadth of the opportunity and the level of excitement at Excelsius, it's easy for the market to overlook what InVenture really is, which you believe would be a mistake. So before passing the call to Dave, I'd like to reiterate that InVenture is foundationally an engine to create market changing companies like Excelsius. In the context of our conglomerate model, the success we've had to date is real and the value creation is compelling. While we focus today's call on Excelsius, which we believe represents the most immediate value creation opportunity, InVenture has started three other companies that are doing incredibly exciting things in their own right and offer proof points of our ability to deliver value for shareholders. Speaker 200:11:04First is Pure Cycle, which InVenture founded from scratch in 2015 and took public in 2021. Today, Pure Cycle trades at a market cap of greater than $2,300,000,000 While InVenture no longer holds an economic interest in the company, it offers a tangible proof point about the value creation opportunity offered by our model. Second is Aeroflex, founded in February 2018 in collaboration with Procter and Gamble, which is gaining significant traction in the $400,000,000,000 packaging market. As of the end of the second quarter, the company achieved four consecutive quarters of revenue recognition, highlighting its growing customer base and unique ability to serve the sustainable packaging market. At the May, the company received critical guidance recognition for recyclability from the Association of Plastic Recyclers or APR for its proprietary mono material Aeroflex pack. Speaker 200:12:00This recognition is one of the most widely accepted benchmarks for evaluating plastic packaging and provides independent validation and credibility that the Aeroflex pack is designed for recyclability. This is a significant milestone and we believe a precursor to unlocking meaningful sales opportunities. We successfully reengaged with a handful of notable CPG companies that require APR approval and we are experiencing increased engagement in a materially larger revenue opportunity. The company also took steps in the second quarter to further strengthen its IP position and competitive advantage by adding new patents to its growing portfolio. At the June, the company was awarded two patents that present a flexible package plastic package suitable for curbside recycling, where all plastic bottles are accepted. Speaker 200:12:50The patents align with industry standards used to assess the compatibility of polyethylene based films and flexible packaging innovations. This achievement demonstrates Aeroflex's unwavering commitment to providing a sustainable and differentiated liquid packaging solution to the marketplace. Third is Refinitiv, which we launched in December 2024 in collaboration with Dow. During our earnings call earlier this year, we outlined three strategic initiatives for Refinitiv in 2025. And we are happy to report the company is executing against each of these three milestones. Speaker 200:13:26The first was engaging an engineering procurement and construction partner for the first plant design, which was completed during the second quarter. Second was to demonstrate viability of fluid bed conversion of mixed plastic waste to liquid olefins at pilot scale within VTT's plant, which is on track with preliminary results leading to better quality and higher yield than originally modeled. Finally, third was securing initial site selection and feedstock sourcing for the first plant, which we are on track to accomplish during 2025. As you can see, nVenture's operating model has produced tangible and compelling value creation opportunities over the last decade, and we believe we are just getting started. We have a robust pipeline of high quality technology opportunities with several MNCs that could represent future nVenture operating companies. Speaker 200:14:21We'd remind everyone that we only launch companies that we believe can achieve at least $1,000,000,000 in enterprise value. The exciting progress across our current family of companies is real and observable evidence of nVenture's value creation engine at work and we believe the future is extremely bright. With that, I'll turn the call over to Dave to cover our financials. Speaker 400:14:42Dave? Thanks, Bill, and good afternoon, everyone. Inventor's second quarter revenue was $500,000 representing $300,000 of revenue at Acelsius and $200,000 of fees we collected from our management of the Inventis ESG fund. As with the prior quarter, the second quarter result was in line with our expectations and consistent with our view that we expect most sales orders, bookings and early stage revenue to be weighted to the second half of the year. As Josh highlighted in his remarks, the size and rapid growth of the data center liquid cooling market is accelerating as the adoption of AI continues to proliferate the market. Speaker 400:15:25The company has positioned itself at the forefront of what we believe is an inevitable two phase direct to chip liquid cooling adoption cycle with the CELSIUS' differentiated market leading technology. G and A expenses were approximately $18,600,000 for the quarter, an improvement from $19,700,000 in the prior quarter. This number has four primary components: non cash equity based comp of approximately 9,400,000.0 accounting, audit and legal professional service fees of approximately $4,400,000 $3,900,000 for payroll expense benefits and other operating expenses, primarily driven by growth at Acelsius and $900,000 of non cash amortization related to our intangible assets and equipment depreciation expense. It's important to point out, we continue to use outside professional services to keep our long term fixed cost and headcount low. We do however, expect to bring in house a large portion of this activity at an expected lower cost, as we build our internal processes and capabilities that meet our public company compliance requirements. Speaker 400:16:38Moving down the income statement, we booked $113,000,000 non cash goodwill adjustment, driven by the write down of goodwill on the balance sheet. This was a result of a variety of macro factors that affected business investments in the quarter, but again, this was non cash. In the non operating section of the income statement, we booked a favorable non cash adjustment of approximately $7,200,000 related to the change in fair value of our warrant and earn out liabilities. EBITDA for the quarter was a loss of approximately $135,000,000 After adjusting for certain items, adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $16,200,000 an improvement from a loss of $21,800,000 in the first quarter. Moving to the balance sheet. Speaker 400:17:26As previously disclosed, in the second quarter, pursuant to our securities purchase agreement with Yorkville Advisors, in two separate tranches, we issued convertible debentures for an aggregate amount of $30,000,000 In connection with these issuances, we received net proceeds of $18,000,000 on April 14 and $9,000,000 on May 15. This added $27,000,000 of cash to our balance sheet. Additionally, 6,500,000.0 of related party and other term convertible notes was raised into the second quarter. These amounts are reflected in the increase in financing activities on our cash flow statement. These two actions illustrate our active management of cash and both improve our capital position. Speaker 400:18:18Other notable items on our balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $12,000,000 of cash, restricted cash and cash equivalents, up from $11,100,000 at the end of last year. Inventory. As we take customer deposits and book new customer orders at Acelsius, inventory is beginning to grow. The second quarter ended with $6,600,000 of inventory on hand, up from $5,200,000 in the prior quarter. Speaker 400:18:46We're acting sensibly with our cash, optimizing the need to keep inventory on hand to meet customer orders while preserving cash on our balance sheet. Investments, the $32,400,000 on our balance sheet represents our $22,900,000 equity method investment in Aeroflex, a $9,000,000 investment in debt securities in Aeroflex, and our $05,000,000 equity investment in the ESG fund. Intangible assets, this represents developed technology and other intangible assets out of Celsius. These assets amortize at different intervals, primarily over the next eight to fifteen years. On to the cash flow statement. Speaker 400:19:32In the cash from operating activities section, you can see many of the non cash items I mentioned earlier. The cash used in investing activities primarily represents the funding given to Aeroflex through our existing facility comprised of debt securities. The cash provided by financing activities section includes the $27,000,000 of cash raised through the issuance of the Yorkville convertible debentures, 6,500,000.0 of related party and other term convertible notes. It's important to say again, the InVenture team remains focused on additional capital raises at the InVenture and operating company level to meet our liquidity needs and fund what we believe are very attractive growth opportunities ahead of us, with a goal of creating substantial value for our shareholders. With that, we'll open up the call for questions. Operator00:20:27Thank you. Your line is open. Speaker 500:20:54Hey, everybody. Thanks for taking the question. I wanted to ask your commentary, I guess, in the press release, looking for an inflection and revenue growth in the second half year. It seems like your visibility is growing there. I assume that's a function of traction at Excelsius, but maybe a little more color there. Speaker 500:21:18I think you talked about first orders with the OEM maybe starting to ramp, any more color on your thoughts there? Speaker 200:21:29It's Bill. Good afternoon. Nice to catch up with you. So there has been activity and I'll let Josh amplify this in a moment. There certainly has been activity, this material. Speaker 200:21:42There's one thing that I would wanna share, which is there can often be a long lag between order and delivery, not because of manufacturing issues on our end, but because these systems are going into very complex environments. And oftentimes customers will place orders in some cases two, three quarters in advance of when they actually want delivery. So we're focusing on the bookings because I think that really will be the indicator of the growth in the business. But I'm going to flip it over to Josh now. And if he wants to amplify anything, he's welcome to. Speaker 300:22:21Thanks, Bill. Yeah, I think we're seeing a couple of things happen. One is that the bookings are coming in faster than they have. So we're seeing an inflection point in that. I Speaker 200:22:35would Speaker 300:22:35like to remind everyone, we've been in market for about three and a half quarters. So we're new to shipping products and selling product in market. And so I think the adoption cycle's happening about as quickly as we would expect it to. The other thing that I think you'll see a tick up in our bookings through the rest of 'twenty five and into 'twenty six is because the average order size is increasing as well. And this reflects a shift from what were purely really proof of concept orders for the first couple of quarters to production orders, which are kind of by their nature larger. Speaker 300:23:20So I think we're seeing all the signs we would like to see at this point in terms of two phase directed chip cooling and all the signs that would evidence gaining traction on for Excelsius in the market. Speaker 500:23:37Yeah, that makes great sense. I appreciate the color, Josh. And I guess to your point, I think you talked about, if I heard you correctly, 75% production engagements next year, right? So it sounds like you've got visibility on some of those growing order sizes. Is that fair? Speaker 300:23:59That's correct. And a big portion of our pipeline for 2026, and we expected and I guess hoped that this would occur, are coming off of proof of concept orders that we had this year. So and I think that will continue for the next two to three quarters that we'll deploy a proof of concept order because people want to see the technology work in their environment. But they're doing that with intent. They're doing that because there is a larger production rollout happening after that. Speaker 300:24:35And I think we're starting to see that pattern kind of coalesce, which we find encouraging. Speaker 200:24:44You might talk about the selectivity. I just say around the selectivity of the POCs that we have delivered that have some sort of a multiplier. Speaker 300:24:57Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was gonna I'm sorry. Go ahead. You go ahead. Speaker 500:25:01No. Go ahead. Sorry, Jeff. Speaker 300:25:03Yeah. I was I was gonna say just to Bill's point. To protect our bandwidth at Excelsius, really, we've been fairly particular about where we deploy equipment because we want to make sure that when we deploy it, it does have a multiplier effect. So when we deploy a proof of concept, it's really not for someone just to play around with the equipment and become familiar. It's really because they want to test the equipment, because if it does what we say it's going to do, there's a project in front of it. Speaker 300:25:33And that is the sort of overwhelming pattern that we're seeing as we go to market. Speaker 500:25:41Very helpful. Maybe just a follow-up on that point. Your first hyperscaler proof of concept, that's obviously a big milestone. And I understand it'll be small initially, and they'll need to trial it for a period. But can you give us a sense of scale? Speaker 500:25:57I mean, we all know hyperscalers are large, but would they be looking to source for multiple areas or any indication of how big something like that could be if you're successful? Speaker 300:26:11I would just say, as you would expect, it would be big. So we have been given a phasing plan based on that proof of concept that if it's successful, and we've been given some time frames, if it's successful, it'll lead to x amount of, CDUs and and sockets being cooled. I'd rather not get into the the exact detail of that. But I think I think the way this should be sort of interpreted is that the the most sophisticated players in the market and most of the hyperscalers have very sophisticated thermal architecture teams in their in their in their businesses are starting to be get very curious and starting to wanna play with two phase technology, two phase directed chip because they know it's gonna come. And so we're seeing not just this initial hyperscaler, but we're seeing others follow suit and we expect a couple other placements in at least one or two other hyperscalers before the end of the year. Speaker 300:27:20So we're really excited about this. And I think I think that should be an interpretation. What what we're seeing in the market generally is that the most sophisticated players are coming to us in a way because they're they're the ones that are kind of looking around the corner and saying, well, how long can we use single phase water or these other cooling architectures with these increasing wattages, these TDPs of of chips in the next generation and the following generation. And they're seeing that they're probably going to require two phase direct to chip going forward. So I think these are the early signs of that. Speaker 500:28:00Excellent. And just the scale issue Speaker 200:28:04at a macro level, four hyperscalers have published that they're spending about $350,000,000,000 this year on data centers and data center architecture and equipment, and which is roughly a billion dollars a day. And they've projected 400,000,000,000 for next year. So they're spending significant amounts of money in anticipation of the growing demand in the whole generative AI space. Speaker 500:28:36For sure, it seems like those numbers go up every quarter. And any more on the manufacturing side, your comfort there, given what could come down the pipe, the contract manufacturing side. I think you talked about opening something up in the Bay Area. It's just any more color there. Speaker 300:28:59Yeah, sure. Sorry. Yeah, so our manufacturing strategy, we've really been talking about and setting up from the very beginning, even before we had a product in the market, has been that we will have a core manufacturing internally. And we've just signed a lease. In fact, we've just taken hold of it of an expanded facility here in Austin, about 30,000 square feet, about 27,000 of that is manufacturing. Speaker 300:29:33And that will service us. That could actually service the entire plan for next year. But we will subsidize that with contract manufacturing because, as Bill mentioned, I think earlier, some of these engagements are sort of binary. If we get traction in some of these engagements, they're gonna be massively scaled. And for that, we will rely at least partially on contract manufacturing. Speaker 300:30:00But we will always keep, for every product, a core of manufacturing in house because we think, one, we don't want anyone to have too much leverage over our business, and two, it's just a good quality way to scale manufacturing, to actually do our own analysis of tact times, do our own analysis of refining our build materials for manufacturing, designing for manufacturing. So we always, we just look at best in class examples of that, and we think that's a good path forward. So imagine a couple years from now, we'll probably have 25%, 30% of our manufacturing in house and the remainder with contract manufacturers. Speaker 500:30:49Got it. And maybe if I could sneak one last one in, maybe for Dave, just on the balance sheet, Just your comfort sort of bridge this period here before some of the commercial traction really accelerates. Thanks. Speaker 400:31:08You say bridge the period you've been Speaker 500:31:10from the. Yeah, just just your company. Yeah, or just cash needs. Right? How you're thinking about access to capital and things like that. Speaker 400:31:20Yeah, I have a high degree of comfort in our access to capital and our ability to book cash on the balance sheet. I'm not concerned in the least. Speaker 500:31:28Perfect. Great. Thanks very much. Operator00:31:31Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ashi Alpesh from Sidoti. Your line is open. Speaker 600:31:46Congratulations on the quarter, guys. I just have one more question relating to Acelsius. And I'm trying to understand the product. Can you explain how accurate accurately does the thermal Simulation RAC replicate real world AI and HPC workloads? And if you can just help us with understanding what is the feedback you're getting from the initial proof of concept deployment that you've done in the last quarter? Speaker 600:32:14And what's the market response been like? Speaker 200:32:19Thanks. Thanks, Ashi. I'm gonna flip this one to Josh. And I think if you can maybe talk about the kind of the products that have and simulated racks that can simulate things that don't exist yet and the implications of that would be helpful. Speaker 300:32:35Sure. Absolutely. Thanks for the question. So there's an issue with testing thermal loads in with GPU servers, and that's primarily because GPU servers are extremely expensive. So, you know, a rack of IT used to maybe three, four years ago in ancient history used to maybe cost $200,000 worth of servers to fill a rack within a data center. Speaker 300:33:06But for GPU servers, it might cost 3 to $5,000,000. So if you wanna test a thermal load, if you wanna make sure that the cooling architectures, cooling solution can cool that power density without spending millions of dollars, you have to rely on some sort of load simulation device. And so what we've done is create what we call TTVs or thermal test vehicles, which look like a processor, essentially same form factor, same sizing as a processor. We put a few of these. In fact, in our latest load simulation sled, we have six of them, each of which can drive about 1,000 watts, so a kilowatt each. Speaker 300:33:56So each load sled, which looks like a 1U server, can produce the heat of a six kilowatt server. So you can fill a rack with those and test the solution, the cooling solution, in what looks like over what looks like a sort of a GPU reference design for that rack at a fraction of the cost. By a fraction, mean, maybe one twentieth of the cost. So we think this is gonna be useful. Now we created, we developed these, load simulation sleds and racks for our own product development purposes, for our own R and D. Speaker 300:34:44And then we productize them because we found there's a demand in the market for them. So this is going to be, I don't know how large, it will be a supplemental business for us for commissioning data centers, for experimenting with different thermal loads in the real world. But we are shipping these today, and they have been well received. In terms of the proof of concepts that we have in the market, there is a desire to sift through some of the noise out there. Because it's a nascent market sector, there are a lot of companies that claim they can do things. Speaker 300:35:24They claim they can handle certain thermal capacities that they can't do. And I think it's the nature of every new market. So we've taken the approach that we want to be very data driven. We encourage people through our Kickstarter program to buy one of our racks to fill it sometimes with these load simulation sleds, sometimes with real servers, and test it and make sure that our product does what we say it's gonna do. And typically, the proof of concept is simply that. Speaker 300:35:54We're gonna we we like what you say your solution to do. We wanna see it actually work and perform the way you say it's going to perform in the real world. And as soon as it does that, we'll be ready to buy more. So the initial feedback on these proof of concepts has been extremely positive thus far. Speaker 200:36:13And it also allows them actually to look forward and project chips that are yet to be delivered in the marketplace, project how our technology will cool those chips, a generation or two forward. So they can literally test chips that haven't been designed that projected to be much harder than ones that are on the market today that are being delivered. Speaker 600:36:40Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Operator00:36:44Thank you. Once again, that's star one one for questions. One moment for any questions to populate. And I'm currently not showing any further questions at this time. This will conclude the question and answer session for today. Operator00:37:00Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the program. You may now disconnect. Everyone, have a great day.Read morePowered by