8/13/2025

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Operator
Conference Operator

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the NIACCS' second quarter 2025 earnings conference call. All participants are present in listen-only mode. Following management's formal presentation, instructions will be given for the question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Aaron Greenberg. Please go ahead, Aaron.

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

Thank you, Operator, and everyone for joining us today on this conference call. With me on the call today are Yair Nikmad, NIAC's co-founder and chief executive officer, and Sageet Manoor, chief financial officer. Following management's prepared remarks, we will open the call for the question and answer session. Our press release and supplementary investor presentation are available on our investor relations website at ir.niacs.com. As a reminder, during this call, we'll be making forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements on our call today are based on assumptions and therefore subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from those projected. We have no obligation to update these statements except as required by law. You can read about these risks and uncertainties in our supplementary investor presentation released earlier today and our regulatory filings. In addition, today's call will include a discussion of non-IFRS measures. Management believes non-IFRS results are useful in order to enhance our understanding of our ongoing performance. However, these measures should be considered as a supplement to and not as a substitute for IFRS financial measures. A reconciliation between NIACS's non-IFRS to IFRS measures can be found in our earnings press release issued earlier today. All key performance indicators are intended to evaluate our business and properly measure factors in a macroeconomic environment to guide and support our decision-making. These key performance indicators may be calculated in a matter different from the industry standards. And finally, please note that all figures in today's call will be reported in U.S. dollars unless stated otherwise. Yair will start the call with key financial and operational highlights. Following that, Suggit will go through the details of financial results and discuss the outlook. And with that, I would like to turn the call over to NAICS's CEO, Yair Nekhmat. Yair?

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Aaron, and thank you, everyone, for joining the call this morning to discuss our results for the second quarter and the progress we are making across the business. Our second quarter results reflect the successful execution of our strategic initiatives and the positive momentum of the business. We delivered yet another quarter of strong operational and financial performance driven by profitable revenue growth. robust global demand for our solution and services, and an ever-expanding geographic footprint for our install base. Our time is large and growing, driven by the ongoing shift from cash to digital payments and our expansion into new verticals. We're continuing to gain market share across our core verticals, with strong global demand and a clear product market fit we are not only acquiring new customers at a scale, but doing so at a pace that exceeds broader market growth. As the global leader in the automated self-service payment space, we have a trusted brand and reputation that enable us to both deepen relationship with existing customers and consistently onboard thousands of new customers each quarter. Importantly, our growth continues to be achieved with a very low customer chain rate of under 3% annually, reflecting the stickiness of our platform and the mission-critical role we play for our customers. Customers are not only sticking with us, but deepening their engagement with our platform as they add more devices, process more transactions, and expand into new vertical overtime. Our role goes far beyond enabling transactions. We are a true partner to our customers, helping them grow their business with a platform shaped by two decades of listening, learning, and building for their specialized needs. Whether it is launching a new location, expanding into new vertical, or introducing value-added services, our technology and team are there every step of the way. We deliver a complete solution that combines modular payment, hardware, and management software, built to reflect the diversity of our customers' ambitions, and designed to scale without compromise. That's what makes Knives not just a solution provider, but a longer-term growth partner. Turning to our results, revenue for the quarter increased 22% over Q2 24, reaching $96 million. Recruiting revenue grew at even faster pace, rising 32% over Q2 2024, lifting its share of total revenue to 74% from 68% in the same quarter last year. Our consistently growing share of high margin recurring revenue reflecting the long-term success of our strategy to build a more profitable and predictable business. In terms of profitability, adjusted EBITDA was nearly $13 million for the quarter, representing approximately 13% of total revenue. This underscores our disciplined focus on delivering profitable growth while expanding our top line. We see revenue acceleration in the second half of the year. We expect increased shipment and adoption of our recently launched product, including our embedded reader called the Uno Mini, as we ramp production to meet growing demand across multiple regions. Furthermore, we see strong growth in emerging segments such as EV chargers, smart coolers, and family entertainment centers. Longer enterprise sales, particularly from customers with longer procurement cycles, are expected to contribute meaningful to this acceleration in the second half of the year. With that, we are reaffirming our full year 2025 guidance. I'd like to now share some customer success story and key development from the quarter that highlights our continued expansion in the automated self-service space. Earlier this week, we announced a major milestone, both for our embedded payment solution and for our presence in the fast-growing EV charging vertical. When we signed a strategic partnership with Hotel Energy, as one of the largest electrical vehicle charging equipment manufacturers in the world, Hotel Energy is expected to purchase 100,000 Uno Minis to be embedded inside their manufacturer AC slow chargers. to the end of 2026. We are seeing strong momentum for the Unumini product, which are devices integrated inside OEM products. In Q2, we announced a strategic partnership with LinkWheel, a leader in EV charging solution in the United States, to deliver a comprehensive suite of integrated payment and management capabilities to North American EV charging markets. With the current tariff environment in the US, we believe that LinkWheel's Buy America EV Charger, embedded with our Unum Mini payment reader, will see strong demand over the coming quarters. We expect to announce more partnership with manufacturers as our Unum Minis continue to gain traction for high-volume deployment. We also advance our M&A strategy in the quarter. We acquire InnoProPay, our long-standing distributor in the Benelux region, further strengthening our position in Europe, and bringing us closer to our customers through the establishment of full-service NICE office in the Netherlands. In addition, we acquire a remaining 51% of NICE Capital, a joint venture we initially launched in 2023. NICE Capital is now fully consolidated under our recently created Embedded Banking Division. Embedded finance solutions such as bank account, card issuing, and financing will bring more value to our customers and increase recurring revenue for customers over time. We are also focused on integrating our recent acquisition to streamline operations, combine complementary capabilities, and realize synergies in key markets. In Brazil, we brought together APE and VM Technologies under the NICE Brazil brand defining a common market strategy and unifying our sales, service, and support operation nationwide. We integrated the uptake coffee solution originally built for Brazil into the border Nike sales platform and are seeing strong initial demand from customers in multiple international markets. In the fueling vertical, we combine Rosman and OTI PetroSmart into one global four core team to deliver a single end-to-end platform for fuel station operator. With each of these partnership, acquisition, and integration, we continue to bolster NIACS as a leading provider of cashless payment and management solution, driving innovation and growth across multiple industries and markets. Looking forward, we are excited about our near-term growth opportunities and our business fundamentally remain solid. Our team is large and growing, driven by the ongoing shift from cash to digital payment and our expansion into new verticals. When we continue to pursue strategic M&A, organic growth remains our primary building block and will continue to be the main driver of our growth. With our expanding pipeline, we are well positioned to continue to outpace the growth of the broader payment industry and deliver exceptional value to our customers. With that, I'll turn it over to our CFO, Sagit Manon, who will review our KPIs, our financial results in greater detail, and walk through our guidance. Sagit?

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Sageet Manoor
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Yair, and good morning, good evening, everyone. I'll start by reviewing our KPIs and financial performance for the second quarter, and then I'll discuss our outlook for the full year 2025, which, as Yair mentioned, we are reaffirming. I would like to start by highlighting three key performance indicators for the quarter that we consider primary measures of growth. First, total transaction value increased by more than 34% over Q2 2024, reaching nearly $1.6 billion, driving strong processing revenue growth of 35% for the quarter. our customer base expanded by approximately 24% compared to Q2 2024, approaching 105,000 customers at the end of Q2. And third, our install base of managed and connected devices grew 16% compared to Q2 2024 to almost 1.38 million devices at the end of the quarter. These KPIs reflect not only the momentum in our business, and the underlying strengths of our platform, but also demonstrate the flywheel effect and the success of our go-to-market strategy. Looking at our financial performance, revenue for the second quarter was $96 million, which is an increase of 22% over Q2 2024. We continued taking market share, adding nearly 5,000 new customers this quarter, and 48,000 managed and connected devices. Revenue included $1.1 million of favorable foreign exchange rate. Organic revenue growth for the second quarter was 20%. We expect organic revenue growth to accelerate throughout the remainder of the year, which I will discuss in our outlook. For the quarter, recurring revenue, which includes payment processing fees and fast subscription revenues, increased by 32% compared to last year's second quarter to $71 million and represented 74% of our total revenue in Q2. More specifically, processing revenue grew by 35% to $43 million in Q2, driven by a 16% increase in our installed base of managed and connected devices and a 34% increase in dollar transaction value. This processing revenue growth continues to demonstrate our success as a scalable and valued payment partner to our diverse customer base as the market continues its cash to cashless conversion. Our take rate for the quarter was 2.7%, same as the prior year's quarter. Hardware revenue in the quarter was $25 million, slightly higher than the prior year's quarter, with continued strong demand for our product, solutions, and technology. In the quarter, our install base grew by 16% compared to last year's second quarter, reaching nearly 1.38 million devices as we added 48,000 devices to our install base. Moving now to profitability and margin for the quarter. Gross margin significantly improved to 48.3%, compared to 44.3% in the last year's second quarter, driven by both higher recurring and hardware margins. More specifically, our recurring margin increased to 52.8% from 51.5% in the prior year quarter, mainly driven by an additional improvement in processing margin from the acceleration to meaningful processing volumes with our new banking partner, Adyen, driving improved operational efficiency. We also benefited from the favorable renegotiation of key contracts with several bank acquirers and improved smart routing capabilities. On the hardware side, our margin increased to 35.4% compared to 28.7% in Q2 2024, driven by the continuing optimization of our supply chain infrastructure and better component sourcing and cost, consistent with our expectations. For the full year, we continue to expect the household margin to be within the range of 30% to 35%. While total revenue grew by 22% over Q2 of last year, total gross profit grew significantly more, by 33%, to more than $46 million. Adjusted OPEX of $34 million was 35.6% of revenue, a testament to our disciplined cost management. Adjusted EBITDA increased nearly $13 million, representing 13% of revenue, an improvement of approximately $4.5 million compared to last year's second quarter, and demonstrating the continued scaling of our operating leverage in the business. Operating profits, was $9.5 million and includes a one-time gain of $5.6 million, mainly from the share purchase of NYX Capital. Excluding this one-time gain, operating profit would have been $3.9 million, an improvement of $3 million from last year's second quarter. The significant operating profit increase is mainly driven by improved gross margins. Net income for the quarter was nearly $12 million compared to net loss of $3 million in the prior year period. Excluding the one-time gain mainly associated with the show purchase of NYX capital, net income would have been $6.1 million, a significant improvement of $9.1 million from the prior year period. Turning to our balance sheet. On June 30, 2025, cash and cash equivalents and short-term deposits totaled $172 million. Short and long-term debt was $156 million, both driven by a notes and warrant offering completed in March 2025 of approximately 486 million shekels net, maintaining a solid balance sheet and net cash position. Looking at our cash flow, we generated $12.9 million from operating activities. Free cash flow for the quarter was $5.6 million. Turning now to our outlook and referring to our forward-looking information disclosure in our press release. As Yair mentioned, for the full year 2025, we are reaffirming our financial outlook of revenue growth of between 30% to 35%, representing a revenue range of $410 to $425 million on a constant currency basis. This includes an organic revenue growth of at least 25%. Consistent with prior years and reflecting the seasonal nature of our business, we expect stronger performance in the second half of the full year, mainly driven by enterprise sales, particularly from customers with longer procurement cycles. Our guidance for adjusted EBITDA remains unchanged at between $65 to $70 million, driven by continued revenue growth, market expansion, the full integration of recent acquisitions, and continued operational optimization. We also expect at least 50% free cash flow conversion from adjusted EBITDA for the full year 2025. As for our 2028 target, we continue to project an annual revenue growth of approximately 35% driven by a combination of organic growth and strategic M&A. We also continue to target a gross margin of 50% and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 30% as we continue to drive high margin revenues and operational efficiency. In closing, we are well positioned for future growth in 2025 and beyond. as we continue to grow our install base globally and capture market share. We'll also continue to focus on scaling our recurring revenue stream, in particular, our payment processing capabilities, which benefits from the conversion trend of cash to cashless transactions. I'll now turn the call over to the operator for our Q&A session.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Operator? Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and then 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and then 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. The first question we have is from Josh Nichols of B. Reilly. Please go ahead.

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Josh Nichols
Analyst, B. Riley Securities

Yeah, thanks for taking my question and great to see the gross margin and the operating leverage is starting to come into play here. Wanted to touch on, you know, you had some key wins this quarter, particularly in the EV market. How should we think about, you know, the larger opportunity in terms of EV as a percentage of revenue as that starts to scale? A relatively small percentage today, but the one you just announced recently represents like 7% of the entire install base, and presumably with a relatively higher average transaction price than your other businesses. So how do you expect that piece of business to scale over the next couple of years?

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Josh, hi. It's Yayo. Thank you for the question. First, I want to give the context of how we see payment into the decades ahead and what is important about the payment platform that we're building. It's based on trust and ease of use and scale. We are now in the era of scaling the business, and scaling the business in all the aspects of payment means that we have to pave the way for distribution partners and to have more and more partners that we can work with and scale our business in terms of acquiring customers. You have to remember that we're talking about almost direct to the market, gaining and winning customers, and most of them are small to medium-sized businesses. When we are saying that we have a partnership like a hotel that we put two days ago or yesterday, It's not the hotel itself that is the customer. We're looking through them that we're getting more and more customers through the pavement of their bringing the customer to us. It keeps the cost of acquisition quite low, and it's opened the door for all the customers that they're already selling to. The difference in terms of this kind of thing and why we see a big difference in terms of the term of NACs into the future on this aspect, that we moved from just an OEM, basically, that's taking what you call a VipoStarch unit and retrofitting some of the orders into a solution which is ODM solution, meaning that all the market that the hotel will sell or anyone that's working with NIAX is embedded with the NIAX payment solution. Whether it will happen in terms of activation within one month, two months, five months, one year, two years, I really don't care. The only thing is that this customer is a full partner, and he has what he calls max insights. And this is opening the door for a big, big market from my perspective, and that's the agreement that we're doing today on the EV markets. We want to capture the market at the starting point and gaining potentially very, very big market share. So we are very optimistic regarding what we can gain out of it, although in terms of potentially of the hardware, it's been seen that because it's a Uno Mini, so it's very, very low hardware revenue, but in terms of customers, which is the main thing, that we're getting a SaaS out of these customers, which is higher than the vending industry, is much more important, and of course, the gross margin is much higher.

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

Just to add to that, this is Aaron, Josh, With regards to the hotel relationship specifically, but in terms of our broader strategy, as we talked about the last couple of quarters now, going up the chain, not just as you said, the last couple of decades, we started really from the ground up with going down to the small operator. And we're seeing now that we can also come from the top down with regards to the OEMs and really make a push into the OEM business, which Really, it allows us to be able to get in front of the customer at a much lower CAC, as you mentioned, at a much higher volume at the OEM level. And that's why we were able to set up the relationship with someone like Autel for 100,000 devices, which they're going to now spread out over all of their jurisdictions. Part of that was our investment over the last couple of years after the OTI acquisition into the embedded payments business, which allows us to go and actually integrate these Uno Mini devices inside the EV charger, which creates a lot of stickiness because you can't actually remove it afterwards and flip it into another payment device. They receive it at the OEM level. They actually go through the certification, the UL certification process for the U.S. market and various other certifications for other markets. They actually go through that certification with the Uno Mini in the machine, and then they go and sell it. So it brings a different level of stickiness, and we've now announced two partnerships, LinkWell and now Autel, and we hope to be able to announce a lot more in the future.

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Josh Nichols
Analyst, B. Riley Securities

I appreciate the context there, and great to see the company moving up market. I guess just to dive in a little bit, last question for me. You mentioned you're expecting a pretty healthy step up, particularly in the second half for enterprise customers. Is a good chunk of that related to these new announcements in the EV, or are they more around other areas specifically, and is the EV ramp expected to be more of a 2026 story?

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

No, we do have EV opportunities. We do have other aspects of the business. We have the unattended business that has big opportunities. And we do have also retail that's coming in front of us. And we do see something that will happen within the six months of all of these potential markets.

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Sageet Manoor
Chief Financial Officer

And maybe to add to that, Maybe to add to that, Josh, hi. Yes, the second half of the year, we see stronger household revenue sales, both from an enterprise perspective, both in the smart coolers area, as you mentioned, in the EV space. but also some retrofit that we see that will happen towards the end of the year. However, we also see a very strong transaction value that is growing and recurring revenue in general. For example, July and August are already showing us the significant increase and give us the confidence of the strong second half.

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Josh

Appreciate the context, thanks.

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Operator
Conference Operator

The next question we have is from Chris Kennedy of William Blair. Please go ahead.

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Chris Kennedy
Analyst, William Blair

Great, thanks for taking the question. Can you just talk about NRR and kind of how you think of that trending over the next couple of years as your business mix starts to maybe change a little bit? Thank you.

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

I will take it first.

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Josh

Sure.

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

It just just to mention regarding an hour and then it will continue We think basically the NRL is basically on two engines one is the service and the other one is the processing both both of them are really creating the net retention of the NX it's maybe through verbally to be a little bit difficult to understand but if you remember in 2021, 2, and 3, we always stated about the 10, the 10 of the market, and it was first and foremost the vending and then moving out to ticketing and moving out to car wash and then to electrical vehicle. We're seeing now more and more that the retrofit business, totally, that the customer is coming and he's empty, he's coming totally from cash to cashless, is slowing down, and we're seeing more the other verticals are emerging. And that's created the engine of the processing, which is growing quite nicely, is holding very strongly on the NRL. So in terms of the future, we're seeing that we're coming from a ticket in the past, it was around, let's say, less than $2. And now it's much higher than $2. And we're growing with the verticals that are really higher in terms of the ticket. So if a vending is, let's say, $1.6, $1.8, The parking is potentially four. The EV is around seven. And these verticals are creating more verticals than all that we see into the future.

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Sageet Manoor
Chief Financial Officer

And maybe to add to that, you know, the NRL 123% remains very strong, really indicating, as you mentioned, healthy growth both in the output and in the ATV. And you can see that as long as we continue to bring the 4,000, 5,000 customers a quarter, as long as we continue to grow significantly as we did this quarter with the number of managed and connected devices, the growth is there. Reminding you that approximately 80% of our customers are existing customers. and organic revenue, and we grew recurring revenue by 32%, organic recurring revenue grew by 29%. So it really reflects the normal quarterly variation in customer usage and deployment cycles. So we feel that we continue to enjoy the high customer stickiness. You can see that with the very low churn rate. And the scalability of the business is still there. It basically supports the continuing and sustainable growth.

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Chris Kennedy
Analyst, William Blair

Great. Thank you for that detail. And then just as a follow-up, can you just give us an update on kind of your hospitality and retail initiatives? Kind of where are you in that journey? Thank you.

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

On the retail, we built a big infrastructure in terms of the back end and we're moving forward with the retail. We're now testing the water with the retail initiative directly to customers. We built a team that's doing outbound calls that are already running on our existing customers and new customers. We're seeing a very strong demand and I think we'll have some news in the next six months regarding a big, big jump into the retail with some big news that will come following in the next six months.

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

I'll also add to that on the hospitality space. We're trying to make a push into it. In the last year since the VM technology acquisition, we spent a lot of time going and trying to integrate our technology into the Brazilian markets. And we released our food services business for kiosks into the Brazilian market a few months ago and are seeing already a lot of demand in that market for the solution. Interestingly, there was not very much in terms of the amount of cloud-based solutions, you know, fully integrated with a post and being able to give a full end-to-end solution that was you know, in the modern generation. And we feel that there's a huge market opportunity in the Brazilian market for the hospitality business specifically.

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Josh

Great. Thanks for taking the question, Gus. Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

The next question we have is from Sanjay Sakrani of KBW.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Please go ahead.

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Vasu Govil
Analyst, KBW Securities

Hi. This is Vasu Govil for Sanjay. Thank you for taking my question. I guess maybe the first question just around M&A, if we could get what the revenue contribution from M&A has been year to date, it looks like we're still expecting about 25 million contribution for the year. Do we feel like we have all the deals that you'd need to done to hit that target for this year? And then specifically on NIAC's capital JV, is that part of the M&A contributions or any color on how big that is? Thank you.

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

Yes, this is Aaron. With regards to the M&A, as we've said at the beginning of the year after the first couple of acquisitions, we have a run rate still after that roughly the same as what we said back a few months ago, which is around $10 million through the rest of the year in inorganic growth. With regards to the NIACS capital, don't see to be meaningful amounts of inorganic growth from that activity through the end of the year. Really, what it does is it helps with our long-term strategy, which is to start getting more into the financing solutions, which we've pushed out and already heavily in markets like the Brazilian market, which was separated from the NIAX capital solution completely. and we're now bringing that all into one infrastructure, and we're rolling out this rental-based financing model into other jurisdictions. We saw an opportunity there to bring it in-house and to really start to scale it more quickly, and we're also combining that in our embedded banking solution, which we are now working on rolling out over the next few months. And it was mentioned in the first notes here some minutes ago. But we've essentially put together a new division with bringing in NIAX Capital. And we brought in the former CTO of Bank HaPolim, the largest bank in Israel, to go and build out essentially a banking division for NIAX We've partnered strategically with Adyen to go and enter the market for embedded banking solutions, so issuing cards and bank accounts, which we plan on rolling out in the U.S. market first in a few months. And hopefully we'll go into some other markets again soon. With regards to rest of the year M&A pipeline, We still intend to complete probably one to two more acquisitions this year based on our current pipeline. I don't expect that the inorganic revenue is going to get to $25 million, but I do believe that we're going to be able to hit the inorganic growth that is needed in order to meet the 35%, which we have reiterated on.

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Sageet Manoor
Chief Financial Officer

Great, thank you. Maybe to add to that, is that still, you know, as in previous years, most of the growth will come from organic growth, as we expect that the second half of the year will be, as we talked about, right, stronger in both hardware revenue as well as continue the beautiful growth that we already see in the recurring revenue.

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Vasu Govil
Analyst, KBW Securities

Thank you. That's helpful, Galer. And I guess for my follow-up, I wanted to ask about the VM technology acquisition process. I know there was a plan to move from a hardware sales to more of a rental or subscription model. Curious where you guys are with that and if that's something, you know, what the reception to that has been and if that's something you are planning to roll out more aggressively across the organization.

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

Yeah, so as I was alluding to a little bit earlier, this is a big reason why we decided to bring the full NAICS capital in-house. It was previously a joint venture. We're seeing a lot of success in the Brazilian market with the rental-based model. It's still growing very well as a business in Brazil and now with the UpPay acquisition as well. We've doubled our managing connected devices there in Brazil. It's still growing very strongly. We're essentially taking that embedded banking division and centralizing everything so that we can roll out a standard model essentially across each of these jurisdictions and We announced locally in the Australian market a few weeks back that we're starting to roll out the rental-based model pretty aggressively there in the Australian market, and we're seeing a lot of demand for that so far. And we're starting to slowly go and roll it out in some other jurisdictions as well. But the intention here is over the coming months that we will start to more aggressively push the infrastructure for it. And we'll start to see some results here over the coming quarters of that model.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Great. Thank you very much.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, just a final reminder, if you would like to ask a question, you may press star and then 1 to join the queue. The next question we have is from Nick Cremo of UBS. Please go ahead.

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Nick Cremo
Analyst, UBS

Hey, guys. Congrats on the strong results, and thanks for taking my questions. First, I just wanted to go back to the new EV charging partnerships you announced with Attell and Linkwell. Can you just elaborate on how competitive winning those deals were and why NIAS was ultimately selected?

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

Yeah, absolutely. Nick, this is Aaron. You know, if we're looking at the EV charging industry, this is an industry that we entered into at the very beginning, back seven, eight years ago. And That experience in the EV charging industry has allowed us to really have an advantage here today because we really have the know-how of learning from experience, from mistakes at the beginning of how complicated this industry is. It's a very technical integration with these EV chargers. Now with the embedded devices, you have to go through UL certification with the manufacturer. You have to know what you're doing. You have to be working very closely hand-in-hand You have to update them with SDKs periodically. And, you know, there's very few players in the market from the payments point of view that are able to compete in this space just because of the complexity of it. You know, when we're looking at these OEMs now, I think that we have a very differentiated product with this Uno Mini that we released. And I don't think personally that there is another product at the same level out there right now. I think we have a first mover advantage with regards to this type of a product for the EV industry. And I think that now as we're working through this cycle now of integrating with all of these OEMs, I think we have the chance here to go and to run very fast with several more partners. And the thing is with the OEMs, They don't go and replace their, you know, their hardware and go through UL certification every six months or year. They go through cycles on this. So the intention here is that, you know, once we've gone through this process with them, they'll be using us for many years before they go through another, you know, potential RFP process.

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Just to add to this, you have to remember that in 20 years, we built a footprint of more than 100 countries. So as an exporter coming from China or wherever it is, and he wants to serve his customers, it's plug and play, and then he can run the business smoothly with an embedded payment inside covering all over the world. And that's a big, big advantage that nobody else can have. Yeah, it's one SKU, as Yair was alluding to.

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Aaron Greenberg
Head of Investor Relations

It's that UNO Mini for Autel. If they're selling 100,000 of these devices, they can keep one SKU of the UNO Mini. They don't have to change it depending on the region. They don't have to go work with multiple suppliers.

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, and it's landing on the ground in France or in the U.K. or in the U.S., and it's operating because the onboarding of the customers is done by us as a payment facilitator.

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Josh

Awesome. Well, thanks for all the color, guys. Very exciting.

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Operator
Conference Operator

At this time, there are no further questions, and I would like to turn the call back over to Yair Meghmad for any closing remarks.

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Yair Nikmad
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you for joining the call today. The quarter's performance demonstrates a strong strength of our strategy and the commitment of our team. By continuing the investment in innovation, expanding our global reach, and strengthening our customers' relationship, we are positioned at NAACS for sustainable growth and long-term value creation. I'm grateful to our employees for their dedication, which makes our success possible. The opportunities ahead are significant, and we are prepared to build this momentum into the upcoming quarters.

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Josh

Thank you.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.

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