Innoviz Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results

Rhea-AI Summary

Innoviz Technologies (NASDAQ: INVZ), a Tier-1 supplier of automotive LiDAR sensors, reported its Q4 and FY2024 results with revenues of $24.3M in 2024, up from $20.9M in 2023. The company secured significant developments including:

- An $80M NRE payments plan with key customers
- Integration into Mobileye Drive™ platform with 9 InnovizTwo LiDARs per vehicle
- Partnership with NVIDIA's Hyperion 8 platform
- $40M raised through registered direct offering
- Operational optimization targeting $12M annual savings

The company projects 2025 revenue guidance of $50-60M and aims for program SOPs in 2026 with volume production in 2027. Operating expenses decreased 17% to $100.8M in 2024, with liquidity of $68M as of December 31, 2024.

Positive

• Revenue growth to $24.3M in 2024 from $20.9M in 2023
• $80M NRE payments plan secured with key customers
• 17% reduction in operating expenses
• New partnership with Mobileye Drive platform
• Integration with NVIDIA Hyperion 8 platform
• $12M annual cost savings from operational optimization
• $40M raised through direct offering

Negative

• Operating expenses remain high at $100.8M despite reduction
• current liquidity of $68M as of December 2024

Insights

Financial Analyst

Innoviz Technologies' Q4 and full-year 2024 results reveal a company making strategic moves to strengthen its position in the automotive LiDAR market while addressing persistent financial challenges. The company reported $24.3 million in 2024 revenue (up 16% YoY) while reducing operating expenses by 17% to $100.8 million, though still generating significant losses.

Three critical developments substantially improve Innoviz's financial outlook:

• An $80 million NRE payment plan with key customers ($40+ million expected in 2025)
• A $40 million equity raise completed in February 2025
• Operational optimizations projected to save $12 million annually

The Mobileye partnership represents a potential step-change in Innoviz's business model. With 9 LiDAR units per vehicle integrated into Mobileye Drive™, this significantly exceeds typical single-unit installations and could drive substantial volume when production ramps in 2027. Given Mobileye's established relationships with VW Commercial Vehicles, Schaeffler/VDL and others, this partnership provides Innoviz with access to major automotive supply chains.

The 2025 revenue guidance of $50-60 million implies 100%+ growth, driven primarily by NRE payments rather than production volume. This distinction is important - NRE payments help fund development but don't represent recurring revenue. The $40+ million in expected 2025 NRE payments accounts for most of the projected revenue increase.

With a market cap of only $156 million against projected 2025 revenues of $50-60 million, Innoviz trades at a significant discount to other LiDAR companies like Luminar, reflecting investor skepticism about its path to profitability. While recent funding improves the company's runway through critical 2026 SOPs, Innoviz remains in a race against time to reach positive cash flow before requiring additional capital.

Automotive Technology Expert

The recent Mobileye and NVIDIA partnerships represent significant technical validations for Innoviz's LiDAR technology in an increasingly competitive market. The Mobileye integration is particularly noteworthy for its 9-LiDAR configuration per vehicle - a sensor arrangement that suggests comprehensive 360-degree coverage with redundancy, critical for Level 4 autonomous systems. This configuration significantly exceeds typical ADAS deployments that use 1-2 LiDARs, indicating Mobileye's confidence in Innoviz's technology for safety-critical applications.

The InnovizTwo sensor selected by Mobileye delivers several technical advantages over competing solutions:

• Higher point cloud density and frame rate essential for real-time object detection
• Automotive-grade reliability with ASIL-B functional safety compliance
• Significantly reduced size and manufacturing cost compared to first-generation automotive LiDARs
• Optimized power consumption suitable for electric vehicle platforms

The NVIDIA Hyperion 8 platform integration demonstrates Innoviz's software capabilities beyond hardware. By combining their perception software with NVIDIA's AI computing architecture, Innoviz offers OEMs a more complete solution that reduces integration complexity and development time. This software-hardware package approach addresses a key pain point for automakers who often struggle with integrating components from multiple suppliers.

The transition from development to high-volume production represents Innoviz's most significant technical challenge. Automotive-grade LiDAR manufacturing at scale has proven difficult for the entire industry, with issues including:

• Maintaining precise optical alignment during mass production
• Ensuring reliability across extreme automotive environmental conditions
• Developing automated calibration and testing processes
• Meeting automotive cost targets while maintaining performance

While the 2026 SOP timeline aligns with industry expectations for next-generation autonomous vehicles, Innoviz faces intense competition from both established LiDAR companies and new entrants with novel technologies. The company's ability to execute its manufacturing ramp while maintaining quality standards will be decisive for capitalizing on these high-profile partnerships.

• Recent financial and business developments leave Innoviz well-prepared for multiple program SOPs in 2026 and volume production of LiDARs in 2027
• Partnership announcements with Mobileye and NVIDIA position the Company to further scale business and pursue opportunities with new OEMs
• Targeting 2025 revenues of $50-$60 million

TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensors and perception software, today provided commercial and strategic updates on its business, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024, and set 2025 commercial and financial targets.

 

"I am very pleased with our strong finish to 2024, and with the recent developments and accomplishments that have the potential to transform Innoviz's financial and operational position for 2025 and beyond," said Omer Keilaf, CEO and Co-Founder of Innoviz. "In the past two months, we've entered into an approximately $80 million NRE payments plan with our key customers, we've announced an optimization of our operations that we project will deliver $12 million in savings on an annualized basis, and we completed a registered direct offering of our securities that generated gross proceeds of approximately $40 million from two institutional investors. The funding enhances our financial resiliency, provides operational runway, and we believe it will help us reach key NRE milestones and prepare for SOPs in 2026 and volume production in 2027."

Keilaf added, "During the quarter, we disclosed that Mobileye had chosen Innoviz LiDARs as a key feature of its Mobileye Drive™ AV platform. In addition, InnovizTwo is now offered as part of NVIDIA's Hyperion 8 platform, and our RFI and RFQ pipeline remains robust. We expect our newly strengthened liquidity position to be a competitive advantage. Bolstered by it and by other developments, we believe we have accelerated our path to profitability and are well situated to execute on our pipeline with additional OEMs and enhance growth in the automotive industry with our differentiated LiDAR technology and expanding capacity."

Commercial and Strategic Updates

• Mobileye announced that it will integrate Innoviz LiDARs into its Mobileye Drive™ autonomous driving platform – the platform has been adopted by significant vehicle producers globally, including VW Commercial Vehicles, Schaeffler/VDL, Holon, and Verne, and will include a suite of 9 InnovizTwo LiDARs per vehicle, driving significant unit volume. SOPs are slated for 2026, with volume expected to ramp in 2027.
• Bolstered financial position with approximately $80 million through a multi-year NRE payment plan – Innoviz announced an approximately $80 million NRE payment plan with key customers; the majority of payments are expected in 2025 and 2026, with $40+ million in 2025.
• Demonstrated the integration of Innoviz Perception Software with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin – at CES, Innoviz demonstrated the integration of its Perception Software with NVIDIA's autonomous driving and ADAS platform. Leveraging the NVIDIA Hyperion 8 platform, Innoviz will offer automakers a powerful combination of LiDAR sensors and software.
• Announced optimization of operations – Innoviz announced an optimization of its operations to extend its cash runway and accelerate progress towards profitability and free cash flow generation. The actions will be implemented during the first half of 2025 and are expected to reduce cash outlays by approximately $12 million on an annualized basis.
• Completed registered direct offering of our securities – our February 2025 registered direct offering generated gross proceeds of approximately $40 million. The offering enhances the Company's resiliency and provides operational runway. We also believe these proceeds will help Innoviz reach key NRE milestones and ramp capacity ahead of program SOPs and volume production, and that our liquidity position is now part of Innoviz's competitive advantage.
• Continued to develop existing programs and advance potential new programs with notable OEMs – Innoviz continued to make progress with its existing customer programs, including L3 with VW, and to advance on its pipeline of RFIs and RFQs. Innoviz's RFI and RFQ processes with notable OEMs in Europe, North America, and Asia continued to advance on both L3 and L4 programs.

Full Year 2024 Financial Results

Revenues in 2024 were $24.3 million compared to revenues of $20.9 million in 2023. The revenue growth resulted from a combination of NRE services, production units and sample shipments.

Operating expenses in 2024 were $100.8 million, a decrease of 17% compared to operating expenses of $121.0 million in 2023. Operating expenses for 2024 included $17.0 million of share-based compensation compared to $20.7 million of share-based compensation in 2023.

Liquidity as of December 31, 2024 was approximately $68.0 million, consisting of cash and cash equivalents, short term deposits, short term restricted cash and marketable securities.

FY 2025 Financial and Operational Targets

The company is establishing initial targets for FY 2025 of:

• Revenues of $50-$60 million
• An additional $20-$50 million of NRE bookings in 2025
• 1-3 new program wins

Conference Call

Innoviz management will hold a web conference today, February 26, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time (6:00 a.m. Pacific time) to discuss commercial and strategic updates, financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2024 and 2025 financial and operational targets. Innoviz CEO Omer Keilaf and CFO Eldar Cegla will host the call, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Investors are invited to attend by registering in advance here. All relevant information will be sent upon registration.

A replay of the webinar will also be available shortly after the call in the Investors section of Innoviz's website for 90 days.

About Innoviz

Innoviz is a global leader in LiDAR technology, serving as a Tier-1 supplier to the world's leading automotive manufacturers and working towards a future with safe autonomous vehicles on the world's roads. Innoviz's LiDAR and perception software "see" better than a human driver and reduce the possibility of error, meeting the automotive industry's strictest expectations for performance and safety. Operating across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Innoviz has been selected by internationally recognized premium car brands for use in consumer vehicles as well as by other commercial and industrial leaders for a wide range of use cases. For more information, visit https://innoviz.tech/

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Forward Looking Statements

This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements regarding the services offered by Innoviz, the anticipated technological capability of Innoviz's products, the markets in which Innoviz operates, expected NRE payments, and Innoviz's projected future operational and financial results, including revenue and NREs. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "may," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties.

"NRE (Non-recurring Engineering)" is booked services that may be ordered from Innoviz usually as part of a program design win and includes, among other things, application engineering, product adaptation services, testing and validation services, standards and qualification work and change requests (usually during the lifetime of a program). NREs may be paid based on milestones over the development phase of the project which may take a few years.

Many factors could cause actual future events, and, in the case of our forward-looking revenues and NRE bookings, actual orders or actual payments, to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this announcement, including but not limited to, the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, the ability to convert design wins into definitive orders and the magnitude of such orders,  the possibility that NRE would be set off against liabilities and indemnities, the ability to identify and realize additional opportunities, potential changes and developments in the highly competitive LiDAR technology and related industries, and our expectations regarding the impact of the evolving conflict in Israel to our ongoing operations. The foregoing list is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider such risk and the other risks and uncertainties described in Innoviz's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023  filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 12, 2024, in Innoviz's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024 to be filed with the SEC and in other documents filed by Innoviz from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. There can be no assurances that the Company will enter into definitive agreements, orders or receive payments with respect to the NRE payments plan referenced in this announcement.  Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Innoviz assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Innoviz gives no assurance that it will achieve its expectations.

 

INNOVIZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES       CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
U.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data) (Unaudited)
		Year Ended December 31,				Three Months Ended December 31,
		2024		2023		2024		2023
Revenues	$	24,268	$	20,876	$	6,027	$	14,917
Cost of revenues		(25,429)		(32,490)		(5,488)		(17,197)
Gross profit (loss)		(1,161)		(11,614)		539		(2,280)
Operating expenses:
Research and development		73,817		92,676		13,489		22,107
Sales and marketing		7,474		8,777		1,722		1,999
General and administrative		19,466		19,535		4,577		5,412
Total operating expenses		100,757		120,988		19,788		29,518
Operating loss		(101,918)		(132,602)		(19,249)		(31,798)
Financial income, net		7,328		9,790		691		1,469
Loss before taxes on income		(94,590)		(122,812)		(18,558)		(30,329)
Taxes on income		(167)		(642)		(38)		(122)
Net loss	$	(94,757)	$	(123,454)	$	(18,596)	$	(30,451)
Basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share	$	(0.57)	$	(0.84)	$	(0.11)	$	(0.18)
Weighted average number of ordinary shares  used in computing basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share		167,216,070		147,480,521		168,858,283		165,121,766

 

 

 

INNOVIZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
U.S. dollars in thousands  (Unaudited)
		December 31,		December 31,
		2024		2023
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	25,365	$	26,283
Short-term restricted cash		16		53
Bank deposits		30,628		105,750
Marketable securities		11,955		13,335
Trade receivables, net		6,043		7,395
Inventory		1,905		1,868
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		6,707		5,774
Total current assets		82,619		160,458
LONG-TERM ASSETS:
Marketable securities		-		4,813
Restricted deposits		2,725		2,623
Property and equipment, net		23,432		25,770
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net		23,194		25,486
Other long-term assets		79		84
Total long-term assets		49,430		58,776
Total assets	$	132,049	$	219,234
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Trade payables	$	8,813	$	8,036
Deferred revenues		274		6,949
Employees and payroll accruals		8,722		9,468
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities		5,631		8,743
Operating lease liabilities		4,330		4,034
Total current liabilities		27,770		37,230
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES:
Operating lease liabilities		25,264		28,475
Warrants liability		86		240
Total long-term liabilities		25,350		28,715
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:
Ordinary Shares of no-par value		-		-
Additional paid-in capital		808,974		788,577
Accumulated deficit		(730,045)		(635,288)
Total shareholders' equity		78,929		153,289
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity	$	132,049	$	219,234

 

 

 

INNOVIZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
U.S. dollars in thousands    (Unaudited)
		Year Ended December 31,				Three Months Ended    December 31,
		2024		2023		2024		2023
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss	$	(94,757)	$	(123,454)	$	(18,596)	$	(30,451)
Adjustments required to reconcile net loss to net cash used   in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization		7,786		9,192		1,592		3,947
Remeasurement of warrants liability		(154)		(472)		22		(128)
Change in accrued interest on bank deposits		1,939		(1,051)		1,048		(709)
Change in marketable securities		(534)		(409)		(84)		-
Share-based compensation		19,682		22,320		3,816		6,494
Capital gain, net		(75)		-		(75)		-
Foreign exchange gain, net		(305)		(470)		(171)		(917)
Change in prepaid expenses and other assets		(437)		(782)		(3,351)		(341)
Change in trade receivables, net		1,352		(5,633)		(2,504)		(2,523)
Change in inventory		(37)		2,368		(678)		2,970
Change in operating lease assets and liabilities, net		(623)		29		369		1,592
Change in trade payables		(72)		424		1,631		368
Change in accrued expenses and other liabilities		(3,299)		2,578		129		3,122
Change in employees and payroll accruals		(746)		333		(987)		1,156
Change in deferred revenues		(6,675)		1,974		(4)		1,400
Net cash used in operating activities		(76,955)		(93,053)		(17,843)		(14,020)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of property and equipment		(4,412)		(6,579)		(1,191)		(481)
Proceeds from sales of property and equipment		75		-		75		-
Investment in bank deposits		(54,100)		(165,600)		(27,400)		(23,000)
Withdrawal of bank deposits		127,300		141,500		38,700		29,000
Investment in restricted deposits		(122)		(40)		-		-
Investment in marketable securities		(55,493)		(51,678)		(22,036)		(16,885)
Proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities		62,220		83,461		26,930		21,586
Net cash provided by investing activities		75,468		1,064		15,078		10,220
Cash flows from financing activities:
Issuance of ordinary shares, net of issuance cost		-		61,400		-		(534)
Proceeds from exercise of options		224		456		55		50
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities		224		61,856		55		(484)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and   restricted cash		308		515		126		787
Decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash		(955)		(29,618)		(2,584)		(3,497)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of   the period		26,336		55,954		27,965		29,833
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the   period	$	25,381	$	26,336	$	25,381	$	26,336

           

 

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FAQ

What are Innoviz's (INVZ) revenue projections for 2025?

Innoviz targets revenues of $50-60 million for FY2025, along with $20-50 million in additional NRE bookings.

How many InnovizTwo LiDARs will be integrated into each Mobileye Drive vehicle?

Each vehicle using Mobileye Drive autonomous platform will include a suite of 9 InnovizTwo LiDARs.

What is the value of Innoviz's (INVZ) recent NRE payment plan?

Innoviz secured an approximately $80 million NRE payment plan, with over $40 million expected in 2025.

When will Innoviz (INVZ) begin volume production for Mobileye Drive platform?

SOPs are scheduled for 2026, with volume production expected to ramp up in 2027.

How much did Innoviz's (INVZ) operating expenses decrease in 2024?

Operating expenses decreased 17% to $100.8M in 2024, compared to $121.0M in 2023.