Wearables & Devices

Rockley Photonics Reports Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results

Revenue of $1.8 million and backlog1 of $23.0 million

Broadened and accelerated commercial opportunities for VitalSpex™, Rockley’s end-to-end non-invasive biomarker sensing platform, by signing multiple partnerships across key markets, including tier-1 consumer electronics manufacturers, global medtech companies, and leading healthcare research institutions

Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited (NYSE: RKLY) (“the Company” or “Rockley”), a global leader in photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021.

“I’m very excited about our progress in the third quarter as our product development and commercial activities exceeded internal expectations. Rockley’s VitalSpex™ biomarker sensing platform has been well-received by our customers in both the consumer and medtech markets, we’ve signed new agreements with a wide range of partners, and we continue to make substantial progress with our ongoing human studies toward optimizing our biomarker algorithms,” said Dr. Andrew Rickman, founder and chief executive officer of Rockley. “This progress reinforces my belief that our VitalSpex platform has the potential to improve individuals’ health and well-being and help enable the transition from reactive to proactive healthcare.”

Dr. Rickman continued, “Representing a significant step toward our goal of bringing real-time, non-invasive biomarker sensing to a wider and more diverse market, today we announced new partnership agreements with multiple additional consumer electronics companies, including some of the most prominent companies in the smartphone and wearables markets. In medtech, we announced partnerships with two of the world’s largest medical device companies and expanded our development efforts to include wearables and full-stack data analytics solutions. And we continued to develop relationships with healthcare research institutions with the announcement of our partnership with Caltech. I believe that working with Caltech and other institutions will accelerate the development of future healthcare applications using our sensing platform. Each of these new partnerships provides further validation that our non-invasive biomarker sensing solutions are uniquely positioned to transform personal healthcare.”

“We strengthened our balance sheet with the completion of our business combination and our financing arrangement with Lincoln Park Capital,” said Mahesh Karanth, chief financial officer of Rockley. “We continue to make good progress on our commercialization efforts and are scaling our organization to address the large market opportunity ahead of us.”

Business Highlights:

  • Completed its business combination with SC Health on August 11, 2021, and commenced trading on the NYSE under the ticker “RKLY” on August 12, 2021
  • Extended the Company’s leadership in providing biosensing solutions for the consumer electronics market with the addition of five global consumer electronics companies, bringing its total to six of the top ten consumer wearables manufacturers, and reducing the Company’s exposure to any single customer
  • Expanded and accelerated its commercial strategy in medical devices and healthcare by signing multi-year partnerships with two of the world’s top-ten medical equipment and device manufacturers, enabling Rockley to evaluate and incorporate the next generation of non-invasive biomarker sensing technology into a range of medical device applications
  • Based on increased healthcare customer demand, began to scale up capacity for high-volume production of stand-alone wearable devices, including full-stack data analytics solutions, for widescale human studies, remote patient monitoring, and diagnostic and treatment support
  • Entered into a research partnership with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to collaborate on the development of next-generation solutions that combine advanced sensors with AI to enhance insights into health and well-being
  • Completed preliminary stages of multiple human studies using Rockley’s wearable wristband, producing encouraging results across a range of biomarkers and refining the overall performance of the VitalSpex sensing platform
  • Began the qualification process of a second source for its silicon photonics chip supply, putting it on track to qualify in the first quarter 2022
  • Retired all convertible notes and expect to retire the remaining debt obligation of $28.6 million in 2022
  • Signed financing agreement with Lincoln Park Capital, providing an equity line of credit of up to $50 million to strengthen the balance sheet and add flexibility in the commercialization of its non-invasive biomarker sensing solutions

Third Quarter 2021 Financial Highlights:

  • Revenue of $1.8 million, compared to $2.2 million in the second quarter of 2021
  • Gross profit of $(1.6) million, compared to $(2.4) million in the second quarter of 2021
  • GAAP selling, general, and administrative expenses of $13.6 million, compared to $6.7 million in the second quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP selling, general, and administrative expenses of $9.4 million, compared to $5.8 million in the second quarter of 2021
  • GAAP research and development expenses of $26.4 million, compared to $17.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP research and development expenses of $24.3 million, compared to $15.7 million in the second quarter of 2021
  • GAAP net loss of $58.0 million, or $0.54 net loss per share, compared to a net loss of $30.6 million, or $0.36 net loss per share, in the second quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss of $51.4 million, or $0.48 net loss per share, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $27.4 million or $0.33 net loss per share, in the second quarter of 2021
  • Adjusted EBITDA totaled $(35.6) million, compared to $(23.4) million in the second quarter of 2021
  • Cash, cash equivalents and investments of $125.0 million as of September 30, 2021
  • Cash used in operations of $37.4 million, compared to $29.6 million in the second quarter of 2021

A reconciliation of GAAP financial measures to Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP) financial measures is included in the financial statement tables included in this press release.

Conference Call Information

Rockley will host a conference call and webcast to discuss its third quarter 2021 results at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time today, November 15, 2021. The live audio webcast along with accompanying presentation materials will be accessible on the Company’s Investor Relations website at investors.rockleyphotonics.com.

The U.S. dial-in for the call is 877-407-0784 or +1 201-689-8560 for international callers. Please reference access code 13724627. A replay of the conference call will be available until November 29, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, while an archived version of the webcast will be available on Rockley’s Investor Relations website for one year. The U.S. dial-in for the conference call replay is 844-512-2921 or +1 412-317-6671. The replay access code is 13724627.

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