5/17/2022

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Operator
Conference Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Autonomous First Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there'll be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you require any further assistance, please press star 0. I would now like to hand the call over to Mary Segal, CEO of MSIR. Please go ahead.

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Mary Segal
CEO of MSIR

Thank you, Operator, and thank you all for joining us today. Welcome to Autonomous First Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that our discussions today will include forward-looking statements that are subject to risk and uncertainties relating to future events and the future financial performance of Autonomo. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements made today speak only to our expectations as of today and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise them. For a discussion of some of the important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements, please see the risk factors section of Autonomous 20F form filed with the SEC on March 31st, 2022. If you have not received a copy of the earnings press release, please download one from the investor relations section of the company's website. Today's call will be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation. You're welcome to view the presentation on Autonomous Investor Relations website. Following the call, a replay of the webcast will be available on the Autonomous Investor Relations website. Please also note that we will present non-GAAP operating loss on today's call, which is a historical non-GAAP financial measure. Because this financial measure is used in Autonomo's internal analysis of financial and operating performance, Autonomo believes that it provides increased transparency to investors of management's view of our economic performance. Autonomo also believes the presentation of this measure allows investors to more effectively evaluate and compare the performance of Autonomo to that of its peers, although autonomous presentation of this non-GAAP measure may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. A reconciliation of this measure to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is included in our earnings release. Today we are joined by Ben Volkow, CEO, director, and co-founder of Autonomo, and Bonnie Moave, CFO, and Ron Simon, Executive VP, Strategy and Corporate Development. Ben will start with the current state of the market and an update of the business. He will be followed by Bonnie, who will share an overview of the company's financial results. We will then open the call for a live question and answer session. During the Q&A session, Ben will be joined by Bonnie Moav and Doron Simon. With that, I'd like to pass the call over to Ben Volkow. Ben, please go ahead.

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Ben Volkow
CEO, Director and Co-Founder of Autonomo

Thank you, Miri. Hi, everyone, and thank you for joining Autonomous First Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. Today, we will provide insights into how we see the market evolving from connected cars to mobility services, and now that is shaping our strategy. We will provide the high-level summary of the first quarter and a review of recent business development, including the acquisition of the flow. Our Q1 results reflected strong growth year-over-year of our leading indicators, continued momentum in demand for key mobility service use cases, as well as met new customer levels joining the autonomous ecosystem. I will elaborate on these points later in today's call. At Autonomo, we believe mobility should be more fair, accessible, sustainable, and safe. We believe that harnessing the power of mobility data will be the catalyst to forever change how people move. In the same time, we see new emerging complex cross-segment use cases arising, changing the mobility ecosystem in our lives. We believe that those multi-level mobility-related tectonic changes require a platform that can capture, translate, and unify raw mobility data so our ecosystem can create rich new experiences and services. That's Autonomo. We are building the platform to power the mobility economy. At the heart of Autonomo's platform is connected vehicle data. We take over 150 data points, historical and real-time, and shape them into active, curated data sets that our partners can use to build or enrich mobility services and applications. but we see a wall shaping up where it's connected vehicles data and micro mobility data and mobile phone data and infrastructure data such as charging points, traffic signs, road conditions, et cetera. More than this, we see an ecosystem shaping up where it's data and insight with the ability to use technology to map and highlight patterns, visualize complex interdependencies, and create the needed insights to propel a business forward. What we are describing is an evolution from connected cars to a larger, broader market that encompasses all forms of mobility and mobility-related infrastructure. That view is what is driving our platform development and acquisition strategy. Let me explain. Autonomous smart mobility data platform can take streaming data from tens to hundreds of millions of mobility devices, index it, process it, and create valuable insights around environmental, vehicle, mobility, and infrastructure data. We use our unique IP to normalize, standardize, and anonymize both static and streaming data. We use machine learning to create evaluated, curated data sets to meet and empower a wide range of use cases, from smart city planning to traffic management, fleet management, and connected insurance. We employ additional data science to create insights for clients to support their business critical decisions. All of this is applications and services ready. We are one API and one contract. We believe that Autonomo is highly appreciated in the market. Here are a few examples. One. In the breadth of curated data we provide covering the mobility spectrum, not just connected cars. Two, integration of AI workbench and visualization tools into our platform to enable mobility intelligence analytics. Three, the enabling technologies we develop to accelerate market transformation in specific sectors. Today, Dozens of our ecosystem customers and partners are using Autonomo's smart mobility data platform across a wide range of segments, like insurance, fleet management, urban planning, traffic management, electric vehicle infrastructure, planning and monitoring, and more. For every one of them, Autonomo provides rich data sets and intelligent insights. to enable them to unlock the value of mobility data. We recognize that this is a fast-moving and growing market. That's why we embarked on a rapid acquisition strategy to both build differentiation and also to address the large growth sectors. The Neura acquisition last October gave us the ability to integrate data science tools directly into our platform. No third party partnerships or relying on a third party is needed. Customers in smart city planning, traffic management, infrastructure planning, or micro mobility fleet, to name just a few examples, value our ability to provide data processing, engineering, and data science all in one unified platform. We will continue to enhance the insights mobility intelligence tools to address key ecosystem requirements and fast-moving segments in the mobility sector. During Q1, we announced the next element of our growth strategy. with the acquisition of the Flow, a SaaS provider of connected insurance technology for major carriers globally. We successfully closed the acquisition early in Q2. The Flow is making mobility safer and smarter for everyone with a proven set of products and services used by some of the largest insurance companies in the world. We expect the flow will materially contribute to autonomous success in multiple vectors. First, exiting 2021, the flow grew their client base by more than 50% and has a very strong pipeline coming into 2022. With long cycle time to revenue in the insurance sector, We expect to see strong growth in the flow's revenue through the second half of this year. Further, as the flow of business is recurring revenues by nature, we feel this will be a strong contributor to autonomous success and recurring revenue. Second, on a more strategic basis, we believe that the fusion of connected card data via autonomous and mobile device data via the flow is a game changer in the insurance industry. To date, market feedbacks from partners, clients, and industry analysts has been extremely positive about the combination of the two companies. Clearly, there is an opportunity for both OEMs and insurance companies alike to accelerate the utilization of their data, create new products, improve customer experiences, and accelerate business transformation. On top of that, our belief is that the Flow technology can be deployed and used in new emerging services outside the insurance landscape. Like, for example, fleet management and others. We are already engaged with ecosystem partners outside the insurance sector that confirm the breadth of opportunity with our combined technology. Autonomo is uniquely positioned to walk across both aggregate and VIN-based data use cases in the market and focus on two of the largest revenue segments in mobility, streets and insurance. using our differentiating data and IP. We believe that we have the capital to successfully operate and fund the business as market adoption accelerates over the next few years. We expect to aggressively grow our revenue in 2022, including ARR, and further separate ourselves in the market with the IP and value we deliver So how is our position and strategy translating into traction for the business? Based on Q1 results, we are seeing positive momentum across key attributes. We added 10 new customers in Q1. Quarterly recurring revenues grew 40% compared to the previous quarter. Recurring revenue backlog more than doubled compared to the previous quarter. Booking of recurring revenues nearly doubled compared to the previous quarter. Backlog increased 61% compared to the previous quarter and 207% year-over-year. We signed one of the top five global OEMs bringing the total number of OEM contracts to 23. Those combined contracts represent over 50 million addressable connected vehicles. Average sales cycle time decreased 30% compared to the previous quarter and decreased over 20% year over year. And of course, we acquired the flow a leader in connected insurance technology. Finally, we continue to see demand for our core market of connected car use cases. For example, Waycare, a subsidiary of Recall Systems, uses autonomous connected vehicle data to help government agencies with crash prediction, congestion detection, as well as incident management and identification. WayCare collects data from transportation agencies' existing infrastructure, which is then synthesized with additional data from mobile apps, connected vehicles, weather analysis, and events management systems. For all of these use cases, Waker needs large amounts of connected vehicle data to increase the efficiency of their application. This is where Autonomo and its smart mobility data platform bring value. Or Total Traffic and Weather Network, the leader provider of traffic, transit, and weather transformation in the United States. TTWN reaches more than 200 million monthly radio and TV listeners across more than 200 markets. They provide traffic alerts as well as average speed information for road segments around the U.S. TTWN is using autonomous data to do ground truth average speed studies for road segments around the U.S. Prior to meeting with Autonomo, TTWN was paying drivers to help calculate average speed on road segments. Autonomo provides average speed data for specific time frames at the customer request, making it faster and easier for TTWN to perform their studies, as well as add new road segments in the future at the fraction of the time and cost. Finally, a recent competitive win against a competitor with Xuba, a European analytics company. Xuba was using physical roadway sensors to collect data around speeding and accident-prone road segments. Now Xuba is partnering with Autonomo to use connected car data to revolutionize the way European road authorities are able to improve the safety and efficiency of road operations. To summarize, we are increasing our deal volume, decreasing sales cycle time, winning new customers in our focused use cases, building a strong recurring revenue base for our company, and growing our core business organically. We believe that all of these factors show positive momentum. Looking ahead, I'm confident that the momentum in bookings, recurring revenues, and new customers will continue. Furthermore, we expect significant revenue contributions from the flow will be reflected in autonomous financial results from April 14th. For more details on our Q1 financials, I'll hand it over to Bonnie Moab, Autonomous CFO.

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