Filed by Innoviz Technologies Ltd. pursuant
to
Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject Company: Collective Growth Corporation
Commission File No.: 001-39276
Date: December 11th, 2020
INVESTOR PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT
Jim Sheridan: |
Hi, I’m Jim Sheridan, the CEO of Perception Capital Partners
and I’m honored to be here today. We at Perception first met the Innoviz team six months ago and were immediately impressed with
their product and technology, but were even more impressed with the acumen, integrity, and focus of the management team.
Now, in terms of the valuation of the company, the pro-forma enterprise value of a billion dollars along with the market cap of 1.4 billion dollars, represents a very attractive valuation relative to that of our most direct peers. The reason that we did that was to attract the right group of shareholders - smart, long-term investors, because we believe the company has a promising path towards market leadership and our valuation will grow as we achieve that leadership.
With that, I’ll turn it over to Omer. |
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Omer Keilaf: |
Thank you Jim, hi everyone! I am Omer Keilaf, Co-founder
and CEO of Innoviz, and I am very excited about this milestone. Let me tell you about the short history of Innoviz. We started
in 2016 to develop our Solid-state LiDAR, InnovizOne. As you can see here, it is a very nice-looking device. During 2016, we partnered,
already in our first year, with Magna International, our first Tier 1 partner in the industry. We are working with Magna in order
to win business in the market, and we also partnered with Aptiv, which with Magna, led our second financing round. During 2017,
we worked with Magna on a very long due diligence conducted by BMW as part of their RFQ process to select the LiDAR for their
series production vehicle for L3. We were nominated in December 2017 by BMW to be their LiDAR for their series production of L3.
Later, we partnered with HiRain, which is a Chinese Tier 1. We worked with them to win business in China. We also partnered with
Samsung Harman. |
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We won the BMW program with Innovizone,
our solid-state LiDAR, which is a very high-end LiDAR and cost effective. We froze that design 3.5 years ago. Since then, we made
a lot of progress in our technology, to bring now, InnovizTwo, which provides a 70% cost reduction. This enables adopting a LiDAR,
a high end LiDAR, also in L2+ platforms. L2+ price point is much lower than L3, and in order to be able to absorb such a technology,
it needs to be very cost effective. Now, with InnovizTwo, we believe that we will be able to penetrate the L2+ and allow carmakers
to launch earlier with a much more simple platform, which allows the car to drive itself, yet the driver holds the wheel and pays
attention. That allows the car maker to collect data and validate through crowdsourcing – testing their software in real
time, in real life conditions in different countries. That not only saves the cost of the LiDAR for the platform, but also the
cost of validation, which is very high. We see ourselves penetrating through that into the market. Being an incumbent in the L2+,
when L3 occurs in several years, we will already be part of many programs. |
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You can see here a video taken from a LiDAR that was mounted
in the grille of the car. It looks as if it comes from a drone, but that’s only because the data is 3D. It allows us to change
the pointing view of the sensor, but the sensor is just mounted on the grille. You can see how easy it is to see the different
objects, seeing the different people, pedestrians, and people on bicycles or motorcycles. This is the most advanced LiDAR today
available and it’s going to be in mass market next year.
We are very honored to work with BMW and Magna that are helping us get there. Not only that the technology needs to be automotive grade, but also the company. We have been working the last three years to bring up all of the qualification that we need to meet – all of the certification, such as VDA, which goes to the way that we manage suppliers, Automotive SPICE, which goes to how we write the code.
This slide talks about the way we split the market. We’ve split it between L2 and L3, and the reason is price. The pricing barrier for L2 is to have a LiDAR which is below $500. in this space, our competition is very low-end LiDARS with very low resolution. InnovizTwo, which is targeting a very low-cost, provides a path not only to allow very good and safe L2+ platforms, but also a path for the carmaker to develop on top of it, the software that eventually reaches L3. Our competition in the L3 and L4 are products that are far from being mature, don’t meet the resolution, very big, and really most of our competition are start-ups that don’t have Tier 1 relationships, which allows them to compete on business.
On the manufacturing front, we have different partners and different business models. We work with Jabil today. We have a line in Germany that produces these LiDARs, which we provide to different partners.
Within the automotive space, our partnership with the Tier 1 works in the fact that we provide a business model based on components. We sell our unique components, which are the MEMS, the detector, and the ASIC, and the Tier 1 is responsible for the high-volume manufacturing. We are now ramping up a high-volume manufacturing with our partner to serve BMW and others.
Let me hand over to Oren to present our product portfolio. Thank you. |
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Oren Rosenzweig: |
Thank you, Omer. Hi, I’m Oren Rosenzweig, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder at Innoviz.
As you understood from Omer’s presentation, we’ve been very focused on the passenger car market since we started the company in 2016 and this is how we managed to strike four Tier 1 partnerships and this is how we won the first and largest L3 series production award for a LiDAR in passenger cars, and it’s really through the work of our global sales teams that are working very, very closely on a daily basis with the passenger car OEMs on their RFIs and RFQs, and the work of our product team which is getting guidance on LiDAR specifications to enable L2+ and L3 passenger cars from our Tier 1 partners, and of course from our lead customer, BMW. But it’s really not just about the product performance, it’s also about cost, especially in the passenger car market and this is true for our current product, InnovizOne, and also for the next generation products, InnovizTwo, and Innoviz SLR.
Besides the passenger car market, where we’ve got a leading position in, we also have very strong business traction in other industries. So, you can find InnovizOne on the shuttles and robotaxis of the leading companies that develop their L4 fleets. We have partnered with Shaanxi trucks, one of the leading truck companies in China, earlier this year, and we’re also working with other leaders of the trucking space, and our LiDARs are also used by many of the companies developing delivery robots and autonomous drones. We’re also working with a variety of heavy machinery companies for mining applications, construction, and agriculture.
The way we approached modeling revenue is a completely bottom-up approach. We look at a funnel of about 200 companies across all these industries that our team works with today, especially over 20 passenger car OEMs across U.S., Europe, China, and Japan. We’re in daily, close discussions about the LiDAR that they’d like to put in the cars that they’re developing. About 25 of the 200 accounts are in late stages of awarding series production contracts and the win rate that we model will depend on the stage of those accounts. We want to be able to beat our projections, so we took a very conservative approach to modeling volumes as well, so we use take rates of about 3% maximum. Therefore, what we see here is a very big upside, so for example, an award such as BMW at a standard 15% take rate at the peak year of the program, would represent more than $700M in booking and $220M in revenue in 2025, which would be about 38% of 2025 projections.
Another big upside we see here is around the software, so in our model we only included the one-time sale of perception software that we sell together with the LiDAR, but from more recent discussions with OEMs, they would also like to get updates to the software to support corner cases that they encounter after they roll out their vehicles, or when they want to support additional locations. This will be offered as a subscription model that, as I said, we have not included in our model yet.
I will hand it over to Eldar Cegla, CFO, to go through the financials. |
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Eldar Cegla |
Thank you, Oren. My name is Eldar Cegla and I am the CFO of Innoviz. So the projections shown reflect the company’s strategy with a focus on L2+ and L3 for OEM car manufacturer’s business. In addition to the business we already won, we plan on additional design wins in the next year which will yield significant revenues once these programs mature and hit the market. This is reflected in the significant revenues ramp up, as of 2023 and the continuous growth in 2024 and 2025 when we reach over half a billion dollars of revenues. It is a predictable business and once a program is won, the revenues it generates will provide visibility for 6 to 8 years over the lifetime of the program. We offer a computer vision perception software at $50 per license, which adds to our revenues and has a positive contribution to our gross margins.
In terms of gross margins, we applied a few business models that support our performance. When working with OEMS, we are actually selling our strategic chipsets to the T1s, which in turn manufacturer the LiDAR system based on our design. This enables higher gross margins in the levels of around 50% in high-volume sales. We turn EBITDA positive on 2024, and we show higher values as revenues picks up. Our cash position at the end of 2020 will be around 50 million dollars. The merger transaction will provide us with sufficient cash to support the company up to cash flow positive, which happens in 2025. It is important to note that a strong and viable balance sheet is supporting our ability to win programs. We are audited by the OEMs both on the technology side, as well as on our financial stability and ability to support this industry cycle time, I am certain that by consummating the merger transaction Innoviz will be able to extract its full potential. Thank you, and I will turn it back to Jim. Thank you very much.
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Jim Sheridan: | Thank you Omer, Oren, and Eldar, and thank you to our current and prospective shareholders. We look forward to the merger, and to helping Innoviz become the leader in the LiDAR space. |
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