7/18/2025

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Operator
Investor Relations

Good afternoon, everyone. As a reminder, Biotricity's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 ended on March 31st, 2025, so all figures presented for this period will reflect that end date. Earlier, Biotricity issued its earnings press release for the period, which highlighted financial and operational results. A copy of the press release is available on the Investor Relations section of the Biotricity website, and the full financials have been filed with the SEC on Form 10-K, and posted on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. Before beginning the company's formal remarks, I'd like to remind listeners that today's discussion may contain four looking statements that reflect management's current views with respect to future events. Any such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these four looking statements. Biotricity does not undertake to update any four looking statements except as required. At this point, I am pleased to turn the call over to Biotricity's founder and CEO, Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq. Please go ahead.

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

Thank you, and thank you, everybody, for joining us today. Fiscal 2025 has been a transformative year for Biotricity, marked by significant advancements and strategic initiatives that have positioned us at the doorstep of profitability and positive EBITDA. Our commitment to innovation, strategic partnerships, and operational efficiency has allowed us to make remarkable progress across multiple fronts. One of our most significant achievements this year has been the expansion of our Cardiac AI Cloud platform. This initiative, powered by strategic partnerships with industry giants such as Amazon AWS and Google's TensorFlow, leverages over a trillion heartbeats of anonymized data. Our AI-driven platform is designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, improve patient outcomes, and increase clinic profitability. As we pursue FDA clearance for our groundbreaking AI clinical model, we are setting new standards in cardiac care, ensuring every patient receives the highest quality of care. Our recent strategic alliances with three of the top group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, have been pivotal. These partnerships provide us access to approximately 90% of all hospitals in the United States, significantly expanding our market reach. This positions us to capitalize on broader market channels and secure advantageous terms for medical devices and supplies, strengthening our presence in the healthcare technology sector. Though these sales are characterized by long sales cycles and rollout periods, the associated volumes can drive significant growth as these deals are won and are rolled out. Moreover, the Health Canada approval for our BioCore device has opened new avenues for revenue growth in the $1.56 billion Canadian cardiology devices market. In another major move towards expansion, we just received regulatory approval in Saudi Arabia. This approval aligns perfectly with our strategy to promote accessible, high-quality care and improve patient outcomes. During the fourth quarter, we expanded sales of our BioCorp Pro, our next-generation cardiac monitoring device, and entered into several strategic partnerships, including some that will expand our market footprint and allow us to deliver on our commitment of providing innovative healthcare technology solutions. Looking beyond physical 2025, our recent initiatives continue to build momentum. We have launched major cardiac monitoring pilot programs with several hospital networks and clinics, and we are accelerating our path to break even with rapid adoption of our BioCorp Pro by both existing and new customers. We have delivered a best in class solution that achieves accolades for its usability and high patient compliance. Today, we can confidently say our ambulatory cardiac monitoring solution is best in class both clinically and technically with the superior device and software. Additionally, our expansion into the pulmonary and neurology fields through strategic partnerships with leading home-based diagnostic companies marks a diversification of our market reach. Furthermore, we are extremely excited about the recent launch of HeartSecure, our direct-to-consumer heart health screening service. We have received positive feedback on the service and are now building a broader strategy to scale the service. This service targets the $1.1 billion home heart health market and represents our commitment to making heart health services more accessible in response to the global challenge posed by cardiovascular disease. In summary, our strategic initiatives, technological advancements, and operational efficiencies have positioned BioTricy for sustained growth and profitability. We remain focused on delivering innovative, high-quality cardiac care solutions and are confident in our ability to continue driving value for our shareholders and improving patient outcomes globally. With that, I will turn the call over to our CFO, John Iannoglou, to provide more detailed financial insights.

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John Iannoglou
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Akash. Let's review the audited highlights of our fourth quarter and fiscal 2025. Our recurring revenue generated from our technology as a service subscription model, as well as our usage-based subscriptions, remains robust. driven by the popularity of our FDA-cleared cardiac monitoring devices, BioCore and BioFlux. Both continue to see strong market adoption and demand, particularly the next-generation BioCore Pro, which features cellular connectivity. Atrial fibrillation, a primary contributor to strokes, remains a significant focus for us. To date, Biotricity has monitored and recorded over a trillion heartbeats, providing early intervention opportunities and improving patient outcomes. This not only improves patient outcomes, but also underscores significant healthcare cost savings for both individuals and the broader healthcare system. For the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2025, revenue increased by 16.5% year over year to $3.7 million. For the fiscal year, revenue rose by 14.3% to $13.8 million compared to $12.1 million in the prior year. This growth is a testament to the efficacy of our strategic initiatives and our focus on transitioning customers to a flat fee subscription-based model, which establishes a higher quality and more predictable revenue stream. We anticipate further revenue growth in coming quarters as a result of our latest flagship device being a best-in-class device that is geared towards use in hospitals and large clinics where we are continuing to penetrate effectively. Technology fees accounted for 84.4% of the quarter's total revenue, reflecting our strong customer retention and the quality of our support services. Gross profit for the quarter totaled $3 million, up 31% from $2.3 million of the prior year period. A gross profit percentage improved over 730 basis points to 76.6% for the fiscal year, up from 69.3% in the prior year. For the fourth quarter, gross margin was 80.4%, an improvement of over 890 basis points compared to 71.5% in the same quarter of the prior year. This increase is attributed to the expansion of our recurring technology fee revenue base, efficiencies gained through proprietary AI, and improvements in our monitoring cost structure. Through the success of our sales team, we continue to look for opportunities to expand our geographic footprint. We are serving thousands of cardiologists across hundreds of centers. Our insourcing business model allows cardiac medical professionals to to have direct control over our services, enhancing efficiencies and enabling broader market penetration. Our business development initiatives also mean that we are expanding into other verticals that are ancillary to our core business, something we will be discussing with you in future quarters. Operating expenses for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 were $13 million, a 24.5% decrease from $17.2 million in the prior year. For the fourth quarter, operating expenses were $3.8 million compared to $5.3 million in the same period last year. Our SG&A expenses decreased by 30.2%, and we reduced our R&D expenses by 19.2%. We have strategically transformed our sales force to increase efficiency. Our external sales team is focused on longer sales cycles and larger accounts, including independent hospitals and GPO networks. As mentioned previously, we've signed three of the largest GPO networks with access to sell into more than 90% of hospitals in the US. All of these positive improvements in revenue growth and operating efficiencies through the use of AI and other automation, as well as proactive cost management, have allowed us to continue to achieve positive operating cash flows for the third consecutive quarter and have set us up on a path to achieving profitability in the next few quarters. In fact, we're pleased that the last quarter of fiscal 2025 was one in which we achieved positive adjusted EBITDA of $438,000 when adjusting EBITDA for non-cash items like share-based compensation and fair value changes in derivatives. On a per share basis, that corresponds to 1.7 cents per share. We're pleased with the progress made in building our technology, in obtaining FDA registrations, developing effective sales strategies, and implementing cost-cutting measures. On a fiscal year basis, our total operating expenses were reduced by $6.4 million. This resulted in an improvement in our loss from operations of $5.7 million. Net loss attributable to common stockholders for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 was $11.9 million compared to a net loss of 14.9 million during the prior fiscal year. On a per share basis, we reported a loss per share of 55.5 cents compared to $1.66 for the prior fiscal year. For the fourth quarter, net loss decreased to $2 million, despite the expenses associated with growth and rising variable interest rates. On a per share basis, this translates to a loss per share of $0.08 compared to $0.46 for the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. Again, adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal year improved to a loss of just under $1 million from a loss of $7.8 million in fiscal 24. This improvement underscores our progress towards breakeven and profitability. A reconciliation of our adjusted EBITDA numbers, both for the fiscal year and the quarter, is available in our 10-K. Looking ahead, we remain committed to advancing the commercialization of BioCorp, BioFlux, and BioCare products. Our tech is truly useful globally, since cardiac is the number one chronic care condition in the entire world, We have recently made inroads or received approvals from regulatory bodies of other countries that will allow us to sell into other jurisdictions. These set us up for new initiatives we intend to move forward on in 2026 and beyond. The growing market interest and demand for our suite of products dedicated to chronic cardiac disease prevention and management reinforce our confidence in our market position. Importantly, our focus on innovation and development continues to yield significant advancements in remote monitoring solutions for both diagnostic and post-diagnostic products, bringing us closer to achieving positive cash flow. We are excited about the future and confident in our ability to deliver sustained growth and profitability for Biotricity. That concludes our prepared remarks. Operator, please open the line for questions.

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Operator
Investor Relations

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two to remove yourself from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up the handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from the line of Kevin Deedy with AC Wainwright. Please proceed with your questioning.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Thank you, operator.

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Michael Diamond
Analyst, AC Wainwright

This is Michael Diamond calling in for Kevin Deedy. Hi, Lukas.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Hi, Michael.

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Michael Diamond
Analyst, AC Wainwright

So we're obviously excited about the portfolio of your products and relationships with GPOs. You're actually heading in the right direction. When can we expect a greater acceleration in terms of revenue?

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

Yeah, I think that the GPOs, as we roll out pilots and as we have announced previously, those pilots, you know, multi-states, large organizations, so they take time to close and, you know, sales cycles on, you know, upwards of a year. So, you know, we're engaging those pilots and, you know, over the next coming quarters, we will be providing more details as, you know, hopefully we win them and roll them out. And, you know, you'll see revenue trickling in. as these guys, A, complete the pilots and sign up, but more importantly, roll it out.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Okay.

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Michael Diamond
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Now, which cost levers give you confidence margins can stay above 80% in 2026?

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

So our highest margin area, right, is really our technology. delivering the data analysis and the output from our device. The costs that are giving us the good margin is we're getting economies of scale now, right? So there's a certain cost in a data infrastructure and a data cloud available. There's a certain cost that's related with just having contracts with the cellular companies to transmit data to our data. They're all cellular based. And as we have grown, we've hit that economies of scale. So every net new device that we add on the platform costs less than it was costing us in the previous years.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

That's helpful.

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Michael Diamond
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Now you reference, now speaking to data, you reference over a trillion beats in your data lake. Now beyond improving clinical algorithms, can this data set be monetized?

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

Absolutely. Most people don't have that level of data set available or accessible. We certainly have an opportunity to monetize that. I think cardiac is the number one killer. There is a big focus on trying to look at data to try to determine where and how you can predict issues so you can minimize hospital interventions. Big Pharma is also interested in it. That's, again, an area that they're focused on. So I think that there is an opportunity to monetize outside of our internal analysis. That requires a team and somebody who's focused on packaging and selling data. And I'll be transparent that we don't have that skill set in-house right now, but we do plan on building it out. So as we reach profitability, it's an area that we plan on investing into. In the meantime, we're using that data lake to optimize and improve our clinical uh workflow so that a similar kind of economies of scale and so that when we were able to do a lot more uh focused analysis so you know as opposed to spending time processing and reviewing um you know every single beat we're able to through automation and improvements uh and and being able to predict um our our team can actually

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

So the throughput improves. Great.

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Michael Diamond
Analyst, AC Wainwright

And can you discuss more about your efforts in pursuing FDA clearance for your AI clinical model? What needs to be completed before reaching pre-clearance?

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

Yeah, so that's with the FDA, especially with how AI is coming in and how they're looking at it. So our process right now and analyze. Now we're bringing in experts to, you know, provide secondary input. You go and you present that to the FDA in a pre-sub meeting. We'll let them give you feedback on, you know, whether or not the way the data is presented and how it's reviewed is done in the right way. I mean, we have a good relationship with the FDA. We have multiple clearances. We're also part of the FDA MD-SAP program. So we have a very good relationship there because the simple stuff and the algorithmic stuff and the, you know, I would say the low-hanging optimizations and where you can improve, we've already established that. We're now going for a lot more complex and nuanced type of clearances, right, where we can go further and, you know, much better results and that will supply that throughput. So, the FDA is very, very specific on how that information is presented. So, it's a longer process, but we're also going for a bigger opportunity.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

I appreciate that added color.

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Michael Diamond
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Congrats on Saudi Arabia. How do you see this market impacting revenue for the rest of calendar year 25 and

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

and uh next year yeah i think it's a 2026 thing i mean all of these clearances we found we you know we got them in canada we we're opportunistic right as we see a partner or somebody who reaches out to us and says hey we would be very interested in having your technology in your in the local market um we'll go and we'll get a clearance for it um and i think you know from our perspective if we can get you know, over the next couple of years, 20, 30% international business, which makes sense and is, is achievable. I think that's fantastic. You know, next year, I think if we can get, you know, half a million to a million dollars added revenue from distribution partnerships in international markets, I think that's a win for us because it's something that, you know, it's inbound. It's not something that we're actively out, outgoing pursuing, but if somebody credible, somebody, uh, opportunistic distribution partner comes in and contacts us, we do respond and we do push on that opportunity. And if it works out, then it's very positive and accretive to the overall organization.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Okay. Thank you, Akash. Best of luck moving forward. Thank you. Thank you.

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Operator
Investor Relations

There are no further questions at this time. And Dr. Al-Siddiq, we'll turn the conference back over to you for any additional or closed remarks.

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Dr. Waqas Al-Siddiq
Founder and CEO

Thank you, and thank you, everybody, for joining our call. As always, your support is appreciated. I think this year was, you know, a transformational year for us. We're very excited that I spoke with earlier on the call was about us getting getting in reach of profitability, but also we're hitting economies of scale. So every new account that we add, our ability to service that account, our ability to grow that account, every device that we add on, the costs are much less than they were in the previous year. So as we grow, we actually see our top line revenue growing faster than our operational expense. And we think that that trend is is going to continue because of us reaching economies of scale. With that, thank you. I look forward to speaking to all of you next quarter.

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Kevin Deedy
Analyst, AC Wainwright

Thank you, sir. That does conclude today's conference.

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Operator
Investor Relations

We thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

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