Good morning. Thank you everyone for joining us today, and welcome to MineHub's investor webinar for 2025 fiscal first quarter, ending April 30, 2024. My name is Pardeep Sangha, and I will be the moderator for today's call. Joining me on the call today is Andrea, Andrea Aranguren, CEO of MineHub, and Monika Russell, CFO of MineHub. This call is being recorded. There will be a question and answer session at the end of the call. I trust that everyone has received a copy of MineHub's financial results press release that was issued yesterday. Listeners are welcome, also encouraged to download a copy of the company's quarterly financial statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis from SEDAR+. Please note, portions of today's call, other than historical performance, include statements of forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws.
These statements are made under the safe harbor provisions of those laws. We provide forward-looking statements solely for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions, assumptions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law. Please refer to today's press release, yesterday's press release and in our management's discussion and analysis on SEDAR+ for our disclosure of risks, uncertainties, and various factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our projections. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Andrea Aranguren, CEO of MineHub. Andrea, please turn on your video.
Thank you, Pardeep, and welcome everyone. We truly appreciate everyone joining us today. For those of you who don't know MineHub, first, a little bit of background on what is MineHub. MineHub is the digital supply chain platform for the commodities markets, making raw material supply chains more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. MineHub provides enterprise-grade digital solutions that connect buyers, sellers, laboratories, and financiers within physical commodity supply chains in a digitally integrated workflow, powered by data that is usable, shareable, verifiable, and unforgeable. Users of MineHub solutions are in full control of their supply chain, enabling them to optimize their use of resources, respond better and faster to disruptions, and provide better customer service. Global enterprises already use MineHub solutions as part of their logistics, compliance, trade management, and financing operations.
The first quarter of fiscal 2025 was a remarkable period for MineHub, characterized by record revenue and strategic accomplishments. We launched our Business Confirmations Module and secured a services agreement with a major Canadian bank. The long-term opportunities for MineHub are vast, as we continue to implement our strategy of delivering enhanced value to customers and expanding our ecosystem, which is the foundation for further sales growth and profitability. The company is establishing a first-mover advantage within MineHub, with MineHub actively working with over 165 companies, including many industry leaders. On today's call, I will provide some commentary on our customer activity and product development efforts. After that, Monika will review our financial results for the quarter. I will then conclude with the company's strategic goals and outlook for the year ahead. I want to start by highlighting our accelerating business and customer activity.
We've been able to attract high-caliber companies to our network, including companies such as Codelco, the largest producer of copper in the world, Sumitomo, one of the largest movers of metal throughout the world, and Southwire, one of the largest cable and wire manufacturers in the world. After a new anchor customer is onboarded, we then integrate the customer's supply chain counterparts or ecosystem partners to the MineHub network. The company has grown to over 165 ecosystem partners on our network at the end of April 30th, 2024, compared to 102 at the end of April 30th, 2023. Accelerating customer activity is leading to increasing cumulative gross merchandise value, or GMV, transacted on the MineHub platform.
MineHub achieved GMV of $4 billion of commodities transacted on its platform in the three months ended April 30th, 2024, compared with $3.2 billion of commodities transacted on the platform in the three months ended April 30th, 2023. I am pleased to provide an update on the following recent customer engagements. We continued to onboard Codelco's ecosystem partners in the fiscal first quarter and have now added a total of 55 ecosystem partners as a result of the Codelco implementation. Our contract with Codelco is aimed at digitizing its global, global refined copper business, representing a significant validation of our technology platform. Through this advanced technology, Codelco will be able to offer its customers heightened visibility, traceability, and operational efficiencies, elevating the overall customer experience.
On March 27th, 2024, we signed a services agreement with a large Canadian bank to deploy MineHub's Consignment Module to manage non-ferrous metals transactions for this bank. The Consignment Module provides an accurate, real-time view of consignment stocks, allowing both manufacturers and suppliers to improve inventory management. On May 14th, 2024, the company announced a partnership with Surecomp, a global leader in digital trade and supply chain finance solutions. This collaboration will integrate MineHub's platform into Surecomp's RIVO solution. On May 21st, 2024, we announced the launch of a pilot program with Southwire Company and Panama City Port Authority in Florida to incorporate digital truck bills of lading. This initiative aims to modernize and streamline the transportation process for copper cathode shipments, enhancing real-time tracking and security.
Along with the increase in customer activity, we strive to amplify the value delivered to customers by enhancing the offering of features and functionality available on the MineHub platform. We recently added the following functionalities to the platform: On March 7th, 2024, we announced the launch of our Business Confirmations Module, a tool designed to transform the way sellers and buyers engage in contract negotiations. This software module allows seamless sharing of structured contract terms, allowing for efficient agreements through an audited approval workflow to ensure compliance. On June 5th, 2024, we announced the launch of our Financial Document Module. This cutting-edge addition to MineHub's suite of offerings is set to modernize the management of financial documents by providing buyers and sellers with a unified platform for transparent, efficient, and secure financial data sharing.
I will now turn the call over to Monika to go over our financial results for the quarter.
Hi, everyone, and thanks for joining us today. I'm thrilled to be here doing my first webinar with you, and to have joined the MineHub team at what I think is a very exciting time, given the acceleration of commercial activity. Turning to our fiscal first quarter financial results, I'm pleased to report that we achieved record revenue and net loss for the quarter ended April 30th, 2024. MineHub reported quarterly revenue of CAD 776 ,000 during Q1 of fiscal 2025, an increase of 127% as compared to revenue of CAD 342 ,000 generated in the prior year. SaaS revenue increased by CAD 238 ,000 as a result of both new customer growth and a full quarter contribution from the Waybridge acquisition compared to Q1 of fiscal 2024.
Professional services revenue increased by CAD 196,000 as the company completed a non-recurring project and recognized the remainder of deferred revenue related to that project. MineHub reported a net loss of CAD 1.3 million in Q1 of fiscal 2025, compared to a net loss of CAD 2.3 million in the prior year, a year-over-year improvement of 45%. The decrease in net loss is primarily due to improved costs and partially due to Waybridge acquisition costs incurred in Q1 of fiscal 2024, as well as increased revenue in this current period. MineHub ended its first quarter of fiscal 2025 with a clean balance sheet, having cash of CAD 1.3 million, with no bank debt as of April 30th, 2024, compared to cash of just under CAD 900,000 as of April 30th, 2023. I also wanted to provide a quick reminder on our capitalization.
On March 1st of this year, the company consolidated its common shares on the basis of one post-consolidation share for every two pre-consolidation shares. This reduces the number of outstanding shares by half, with fractional shares rounded down. The company had 68 million shares outstanding as of April 30th, 2024. This concludes the financial update, and I will now turn the call back over to Andrea to provide an update on our goals and outlook for fiscal 2025.
Thank you, Monika. MineHub's accelerated growth trajectory is a testament to the value its platform brings its partners and customers alike. Management is confident of MineHub's long-term growth potential and has developed the following key goals for fiscal 2025. One, continue to accelerate the company's growth, improve margins, and increase long-term customer value. We've launched several new features in this fiscal year that enhance the value proposition to customers. These new features include expanding the consignment management capabilities, adding the business confirmation digital workflow capabilities, launching the Financial Document Module, and piloting digital truck bills of lading. While these additions are still in the early stages, initial customer feedback has been very positive. Revenue and margin for the first quarter are very strong, in large part because the company concluded a professional services project ahead of schedule and with very strong margins.
Management expects revenue and margins to be lower over the next two quarters, as the professional services revenue stream is highly variable and is not expected to be recurring over the short term. Two, increase the company's annual recurring revenue, or ARR, by executing new customer contracts and expanding volumes of commodities managed for existing customers. ARR of CAD 1.9 million as of January 20th, 2024, was unchanged from our last year-end. The sales pipeline remains robust, but sales cycles continue to prove challenging. We are developing strategies to shorten the sales cycle, and in the combination, with the expanded feature set that increases customer value of the platform, we hope, we hope to see growth in the coming quarters. We are also encouraged by the digital truck bill of lading pilot project.
This service has the potential to increase ARR with existing customers, and has already attracted interest from other potential customers who may not otherwise implement the platform. Three, improve profitability with cost containment strategies while increasing revenue and cash flow. We have a demonstrated track record of cost containment, with operating costs trending lower throughout the last three quarters. However, over the coming quarters, we may make further investments in personnel to ensure that the company can scale to support planned revenue growth. These incremental costs may precede revenue and reduce short-term profitability. We remain committed to cost containment, but not at the expense of ensuring that new customers receive the support they need for a successful onboarding. Four, leveraging our successful implementations with industry leaders to continue to grow the ecosystem of companies we are connected to.
We continue to pursue growth by selling into parties who currently use the platform as a counterparty to an existing MineHub customer. The new service agreement announced in March with a large Canadian bank is an example of growth through conversion of an ecosystem user to a paid customer. We've now onboarded 55 Codelco ecosystem partners so far, expanding our reach to more potential customers. We also believe that strategic partnerships, such as the Surecomp partnership, will further drive ecosystem growth and customer value. We're exploring several other partnership opportunities over the coming quarters. The outlook for MineHub is exceptionally promising. With the continued enhancement of our offerings, the ongoing onboarding of new customers, and their ecosystem partners. MineHub's achievements and progress for the year to date have proven a very solid foundation for the remainder of the year.
Over the next couple of months, management expects a decline in non-recurring professional services revenue as the company begins to shift its strategic focus towards annually recurring SaaS subscription revenue, which is a more sustainable growth source in comparison to professional services. Profitability may be further impacted by investment in personnel that ensure the company can scale to support planned SaaS revenue growth later this year. The company continues to enjoy a very robust sales pipeline. We expect to continue to work with our large anchor customers to onboard additional ecosystem partners. Management believes that the platform enhancements, cost containment strategies, and the recent ecosystem growth, have laid the foundation for the growth in ARR and progress towards profitability. MineHub strives to amplify the value delivered to customers by enhancing the offering of features and functionality available on its platform.
The company also continues to explore longer-term opportunities to launch the MineHub platform into adjacent markets, such as steel and chemicals. We are excited about the future of MineHub. We believe that MineHub is a favorable investment opportunity for the following reasons: MineHub's customer base includes some of the largest resource companies in the world, including Sumitomo, Codelco, and Southwire. We have a very diversified B2B revenue base with customers from different sectors. There is a very large greenfield opportunity to digitize commodity, commodity-related supply chain ecosystem. MineHub has validated its industry-leading SaaS platform, built with significant domain expertise and IP. We have a strong management team that has a proven ability to execute. And finally, there is a massive market opportunity, with an addressable market of CAD 7.5 billion.
MineHub is emerging as the market leader within the physical commodity supply chain market, with the company providing solutions in a massive greenfield opportunity, where there is a low penetration of digital solutions. MineHub is benefiting from increasing tailwinds, such as new regulations and increasing compliance requirements, that are driving a recognized need for digitization throughout the market. Finally, I wanna thank the entire MineHub team, including the employees, whose hard work continues to elevate the company to higher levels. We wanna thank our customers around the globe, who trust and rely on us to make their supply chains more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. Also, I'd like to thank all of you for joining us on the call today. We look forward to providing more updates in the coming quarter. I will now hand it over to Pardeep for questions.
Thank you, Andrea. With that, we will now open the call to questions. To submit your questions, please use the Q&A button on the bottom of your screens. Please note that priority will be given to questions from equity analysts. The first question is from Gianluca Tucci of Haywood. Please unmute yourself. Go ahead, Mr. Tucci.
Hi, thanks, Pardeep. Good morning, everybody, and, congrats on a good quarter. Just firstly, on your GMV figure, Andrea, is there a direct correlation here between GMV and higher SaaS revenues over time? And is the growth mainly coming from existing customers doing more on the platform, or onboarding new customers and their volumes?
Hi, Gianluca. Thank you so much for your question. To answer your first question related to GMV, we see GMV as a leading indicator for revenue over time, because it really represents the magnitude of the volume moved through the platform. And if you may remember, we're moving towards a recurring SaaS business model, where we do charge our customers based on the total volume they manage on the platform. And so growing GMV is representative of a growing number of material managed on the platform ecosystem engagement, which should be a leading indicator for SaaS revenue over time.
Okay, thanks for that, Andrea.
And yeah, your second question, right, was related to, is that growth really stem from growth.
Existing or new, yeah.
E xisting customers or conversion? The answer, it's really both. So in the last quarter, our revenue growth has been primarily driven by increasing volumes with existing customers. However, looking forward for the remainder of the year, we see ARR revenue growth, driven really as a combination between expanding, the value and the volume of how we're engaging with existing customers, as well as signing new customers.
Okay. I, I can appreciate that commentary. And, and on ARR, I think it was flat Q-on-Q, and like, you know, you kinda spoke to elongated sales cycles as, as kind of the key culprit there. But are these just simply growing pains, or are you seeing a change in customer buying patterns from a more broad sense?
We don't see a change in customer buying patterns. I think that our strategy to focus on signing some of the largest market leaders in the market has been very effective because it's helped us to drive adoption. The thing about signing very large enterprise companies is that those sales cycles do tend to take longer. And, you know, with year-end and just a variety of different priorities within the market, we've just seen companies slow to approve and get, you know, legal approval and just finalize the sales cycle. But we certainly don't have any concerns about customer buying pattern. If anything, we see our sales pipeline becoming more and more robust almost every week.
The number of inbound leads that we have, the number of prospecting meetings we have, the number of follow-ups that we're having are more numerous, and coming quicker and quicker than ever before. So even though the sales cycle to actually execute the contracts has been taking longer than we wanted, we're very encouraged by the increase in commercial traction that we're seeing nonetheless, as companies move through the sales funnel, and we're hoping to get a number of deals closed soon in the near future.
Okay, great. So, it's safe to assume a re-acceleration in ARR in the coming quarters?
That is definitely the intention and the expectation.
Okay. Awesome. Thanks, Andrea. And my final question here, the presentation of margins on the income statement, I am a fan of that. If you split out software and the professional service, I guess, business lines, how do the margin profiles compare on those two segments?
Thank you. I'm actually gonna let Monika answer that, as she knew, 'cause she's putting her camera on for us.
Hi, Gianluca, nice to chat with you today. In terms of the margin for SaaS going forward, what we are targeting is a 40% margin going forward. Given that we are pushing harder to build out the SaaS pipeline, that would be an expectation that you could safely assume going forward.
Okay, and, it kinda sounds like the next few quarters are gonna be more professional services type, heavy as you onboard new customers. Is that a safe assumption?
No, actually, it's kind of the opposite, because we just wrapped up a significant project, and so you'll actually see our professional services drop after this quarter. And then initially, too, I think the margin is gonna be a little bumpier because we are shifting resources around, and as we also said, likely onboarding some new customer success team members to make sure that we're primed for future growth.
And just.
Okay, thanks for that clarity.
No problem. Gianluca, just add one more thing. That's a deliberate transition, so we are deliberately looking to move from sort of one-off, discrete professional services revenue to more sustainable, recurring SaaS-type revenue in the future. So this next coming quarter or quarters will be a period of transition as we move towards that model.
Very good. Thanks, Andrea. Thanks, Monika. Talk to you guys soon.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next question we have here is from Gabriel Leung of Beacon Securities. Gabriel's question is: Can you provide some more color around what the sales pipeline looks like? How many large producers are you in discussions with? And does the pipeline include ecosystem partners who could potentially evolve into paying customers?
Yes. Thank you, I can take that. In terms of the sales pipeline, I can safely say that every, all of the largest mining companies and producers, and the vast majority of the largest manufacturing companies globally in the copper and aluminum space, are actively engaged in our pipeline, specifically within copper and aluminum markets. We are very actively building out or expanding our sales pipeline to add beyond copper and aluminum to start thinking about adjacent markets. So that's, you know, new work that we're doing to build out our sales pipeline. But today, the most exciting opportunities that we're seeing are primarily still within the copper and aluminum space, and are largely comprised of still market leaders, either on the sell side or on the buy side of the market.
Beyond that, we can't give any, you know, specifics around names due to confidentiality. And then, Pardeep, could you remind me the second part of that question, please?
Just more the pipeline of ecosystem partners evolving into paying customers.
Yes. Yes, absolutely, and I think that's a really good point. When we talk about ecosystem partners, it does primarily include what we call counterparty. So if I'm a customer, it would include their suppliers. If I'm a producer, like Codelco, it would include their buyers. But we also consider logistical partners or ports as ecosystem partners. And if you've heard us speak before about sort of our product roadmap and our growth strategy, we're excited about leveraging our core platform into new areas, or leveraging the ability to overlay additional services and features onto our core foundational platform. And so what we mean by that are things like leveraging our platform for trade finance, or leveraging our platform for other logistics or sustainability-related offerings.
Those ecosystem partners are actually potentially future customers as we expand our feature set into trade finance or logistics or sustainability. It's really important for us to lay that foundation today, to get engaged and develop those relationships, because we do believe they'll be customers in the future.
We have a second question here from Gianluca, or sorry, Gabriel Leung from Beacon Securities. Are you able to offer an update on the timing of revenue ramp from newer products and services, such as trade finance, and logistics, and ESG?
For the remainder of this year, our focus and the primary driver for revenue growth will be executing on our pipeline. So it'll be SaaS ARR-related growth. We will invest in laying the foundation for revenue for these additional services, but we don't expect that in this fiscal year.
Just a reminder, if you want, like, to submit any questions, use the Q&A button at the bottom of your screen. We have several questions here with regards to just the current view of the management with regards to profitability, and maybe Monika, you can comment on what the cash position looks like now, and what the profitability outlook could look like in the future.
So our goal very much is all around becoming profitable and hitting breakeven, and then beyond breakeven. That is very dependent on revenue, obviously, as we're doing everything we can to manage costs. But we are looking at, you know, an overall longer term strategy there, and trying to not chase the short-term revenue that's not going to be recurring or sustainable. But it will take some time. That's just a fact of being still in the commercialization stage. And we are always also looking at our cash balance and our balance sheet, and determining how we are going to fund that continued progress toward breakeven. Nothing that we can be specific about now, but, you know, it's very much part of our planning process.
Thank you. There are no further questions. I now pass the call back to Andrea for closing remarks.
Thank you, Pardeep. In closing, I wanna thank everybody once again for joining our call today. Thank you to the analysts for their questions, and we look forward to providing more updates in the coming months. Thank you.