Aziyo Biologics (AZYO) CEO Randy Mills on Q2 2022 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

Aziyo Biologics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AZYO) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 11, 2022 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Leigh Salvo – IR

Kevin Rakin – Executive Chairman

Randy Mills – CEO

Matthew Ferguson – CFO

Conference Call Participants

Josh Jennings – Cowen

David Rescott – Truist

Ross Osborn – Cantor Fitzgerald

Operator

Good day. And thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Aziyo Biologics Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker’s presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. I would now like hand the conference over to Leigh Salvo, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Leigh Salvo

Thank you. And thank you all for participating in today’s call. Earlier today, Aziyo released financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. A copy of the press release is available on the company’s website. Before we begin, I’d like to remind you that management will make statements during this call that include forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws, which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Any statements contained in this call that do not relate to matters of historical fact or relate to expectations or predictions of future events, results, or performance are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those relating to our operating trends and future financial performance, are based upon our current estimates and various assumptions. These statements involve material risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to materially differ from those anticipated or implied by these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these statements.

For listening description of the risks and uncertainties associated with our business, please refer to the Risk Factors section of our public filings with the SEC, including Aziyo’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. As such, factors may be updated from time-to-time in Aziyo’s other filings with the SEC, including Aziyo’s quarterly report on Form 10-K for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2022, to be filed with the SEC, accessible on the SEC’s website3 www.sec.gov.

This conference call contains time-sensitive information and is accurate only as of the live broadcast today, August 11, 2022. Aziyo Biologics disclaims any intention or obligation except as required by law, to update or revise any financial projections or forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise. Also during this presentation, we refer to gross margins excluding intangible asset amortization, which is a non-GAAP financial measure. Reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is available in Company’s earnings release for the second fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022, which is accessible on the SEC’s website and posted on the Investor page of Aziyo’s website at www.aziyo.com.

And with that, I will turn the call over to Aziyo’s Executive Chairman, Kevin Rakin.

Kevin Rakin

Okay. Thank you, Leigh. It’s a pleasure to be with you all today. I just want to take a moment and introduce Randy because we announced a couple of days ago that Randy has assumed the role of permanent CEO. Just a quick background. Randy, he’s a proven leader. I think you’ll hear today that he’s a very passionate guy, subject matter expert on regenerative medicine with a background having being CEO of Osiris. Also present CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Randy’s created significant shareholder value over his career. Great Public Company experience. So, we feel very fortunate to have Randy on board. Moreover, Randy has history of the Company. He’s one of the co-Founders and he’s been on our Board but of course being CEO is a different role and you will hear from him today about some of his excitement and vision for the future.

I’m really pleased to build in our longstanding partnership by stepped up to being the Executive Chair, and we spent I think it’s fair to say fair amount of time probably every day we’ve been talking over the last six weeks. I also want you to know on a personal level I really appreciate how Randy’s literally been on the road every week for the last six weeks and you’ll hear some of these findings over that time. So, he has really hit the ground running and he immersed himself in this job even while he was Interim CEO. We have a terrific base business here at Aziyo but we have felt that we could build a more compelling vision for creating significant shareholder value on top of this space business or leverage this space business. And that’s what I think you’ll hear today.

But let me make one last point as in my capacity as a shareholder. So, going to the other shareholders out there, a HighCape I find is one of the significant shareholders in Aziyo. We’ve been involved in this company from the beginning. And we’re determined to build value but we’re going to do that within the constraints we operate in. So, I want to be really clear that the debt refinancing we announced yesterday is a major step forward to strengthening our balance sheet. There’s some other things in the works but we are not going to do any kind of dilutive offering at this kind of share price that we’re at right now. And you’ll hear within Randy’s plans how we’re going to work within the constraints we have and the resources that we have. So, that’s some introductory comments to set the stage. I’m going to pass the call on to Matt Ferguson, our CFO, who’s going to give you some of the financial highlights before we hear from Randy.

Matthew Ferguson

Okay. Thanks, Kevin. And it’s good to have you here today with us on this call. As Kevin noted, we’re using a little bit different format here today. And so, I’m just going to hit on a few highlights of the financials and for additional details I would refer you to the press release that we put out just about a half hour ago. And so as we get into it, the main comments I wanted to make or the main points I would like to highlight, one is that for the second quarter we had a really strong quarter overall from a topline growth perspective. We turned in 20% year-over-year revenue or net sales growth from our current products that is excluding the sales last year of a discontinued product. And we really had significant contributions both from our Richmond, California-based Human Tissue business as well as our Roswell, Georgia, CanGaroo and Cardiovascular business. And really with contributions all around, I would say that our most important growth drivers in the Q2 and I think likely to be the case in coming quarters and year frankly where CanGaroo and SimpliDerm and I would just note that in combination they actually grew 35% year-over-year in the second quarter. So, really great performance in those parts of the business.

Beyond the topline revenue growth, I would just note more from a balance sheet and cash flow perspective. I’m very pleased that we were able to report yesterday that we closed the debt financing transaction that Kevin referred to. We’ve been working on that for quite some time and I am really pleased that we were able to partner with SWK Holdings on that and I’d just like to give a big thank you to them who I would say really dug in deep and got to know our business extremely well. So, I think their investment in the company is a real signal of their confidence in us and our business. And is a real validation of the value that we have here. And they were really just great to work with through the entire process there. A little bit more about that transaction between the cash at closing and the next second tranche of that deal which we expect will be available to us over the course of the next 12 months. As well as now being at an interest-only period for at least the next two years.

So, as a result, we will not be making quarterly principle payments on our outstanding and debt in this. This deal will improve our cash position over that time by approximately $15 million over that one year period. And that includes an improvement to our cash position compared to Q2 on an apples-to-apples basis of about $4 million. But it’s really more important about what it’s going to do for us over time here. So, we see this deal as really just the first step and a real revitalization of our balance sheet. Again as Kevin noted, we are really our intent is really to avoid any kind of significant dilution and in addition to this here we have a number of other initiatives that are at somewhat earlier stages but I think also have a very strong likelihood of closing that will improve our financial health and our balance sheet position and will support our ongoing operating plans which you’re going to hear a lot more about in just a minute or two.

And then last but not least, I would like to note that we are reconfirming our guidance on the topline for the year, our net sales guidance of $47 million to $50 million for the year. And while we don’t see short-term revenue as the real determinant of value here, I’m still pleased to report that the team is executing really well and our overall business is definitely tracking to our plan. So, with that, I will turn the call over to Randy.

Randy Mills

Thank you, Matt. And it’s a pleasure to join you all this afternoon. My first conference call with Aziyo and I’m very excited to be here and I’ll share some thoughts in what I would say are our initial observations of my time with the company. So, first let’s just get into it, I’ll try to keep my comments 50 today. Aziyo today, this is as you heard from Matt and you heard from Kevin, this is a very strong Company with a very real business as a platform to build on. So, just looking at the numbers, we’re talking in $47 million to $50 million in annual sales growing in the mid-to-upper double-digits. There’s over 1500 institutions globally that use Aziyo products on a day-to-day basis. So, it’s a very real base for which to build a powerful company on. It also has the parts to be a fully integrated company.

So, we have research and development capabilities that have led to the creation of our proprietary products. We have strong manufacturing capabilities in our Roswell, Georgia facility as well as our Richmond, California facility. And we have a pretty remarkable commercial infrastructure and this is the point I’ll be making for a couple of time. But we have a commercial infrastructure that allows the work that we do in development and manufacturing to be more than a science experiment and in fact develop real products that have real commercial utility and validity as we take them out into the marketplace. And so, what I one of the things that get me so excited is that when I look at this, I see these great parts and I see this base to our company and I have to think that those parts can actually be assembled in an even better and more effective way toward those parts become an engine. And the power that that engine generates is more than its pieces.

And so, what I thought we do today is I’d start out just sharing with you what I’ve observed in my first 48, 45, 48 whatever it is days on job. I have been as Kevin said, I have been out for most of that time and during that time I’ve been doing a tremendous amount of visiting. I have held over 50 individual meetings with all types; physicians that love and use our products and are even jellicle about them; physicians that don’t use our products because they have questions about them; our sales representative; leaders from other companies in this space; and with our Aziyo team and all three of our Aziyo locations. And during that time, three things have really become crystal clear to me. And I’m going to tell you these three things are on the screen in front of you. And then I’m going to use a few slides afterward to try to give you some meat on the bones as why I think these three things are true.

But first is 1) We have exceptionally favorable market dynamics at play here. And that’s not just to say that we have demand for our product. But we have a market dynamics which make the introduction of our products right now unusually good. 2) We have the ability to satisfy and meet this demand with best-in-class products. We can and we will do this. And we are uniquely positioned to do this. And I will say that this is one of those areas where my background and my experience is. I’m able to come here and kind of put my hand on the scale and really tilt this one in our favor and I intend to do that. And 3) We have a great opportunity to leverage deep meaningful strategic partnerships in order to grow efficiently and to grow quickly. So, I’m going to go in and I’m going to try to peel back the onion here on these three points a little bit more for you but I’m going to do it using a specific example.

So, I’m going to be using only CanGaroo here for the majority of this vision. Keep in mind, we have four different components to our business beyond our device protection on CanGaroo this is. But I thought for brevity and clarity, I’ll just use CanGaroo as a model for how this vision can work and just you’ll be able to realize how it can translate into other pieces of our business in a second. So, let me just start off with some growth pictures. We can’t have a biotech company without here records in growth pictures. One of the questions that I get asked a lot is well why do you put a pacemaker inside of a pouch. What is it you’re trying to prevent or keep from happening? And infection grabs a lot of the attention in this space and it’s a real problem. But it’s a problem that affects 1.5% to 3.0% of the cases. You can see on the left that’s an example of what a bad infection would look like post pacemaker implantation.

And so, this is a real problem. I’m not knocking in the 1.5% to 3.0% infection rate. And this is actually the genesis behind our CanGaroo RM offering which is currently at the FDA right now on track under review by them. And this is our version of CanGaroo that has a Rifampin and Minocycline added to the mixture and we’re very excited about that. But that’s really just the beginning of the story here. Because 8% to 13% of these procedures fail. And if you’re a patient or you’re an electrophysiologist, that’s the number you really care about. How many times do I go to the operating room and have it not work. Because pacemaker implantation for the most part is not an elective procedure. If you have heart block, you need pacemaker. And so, when you look at some of these other conditions, erosion, this is literally where the pacemaker erodes through the skin, this happens frequently in patients with thin skin or hematoma.

So, a small a cold bleed underneath a skin becomes a real problem requiring next implantation. Or just looking at the aesthetics of pacemaker implantation and that was one of the things that sort of shocked me when I went I feel why is it you still see a pacemaker, why can’t we do better than that. When you look at these different characteristics, you see a market that is totally ripe for innovation. And we have our first product coming out in this to address this what I would call activity which is the CanGaroo RM product. But we actually think that the base of our technology, the biological regenerative make base of our technology enables us to tackle these other products in a way that the current market leaders’ product we think cant. And so, we’re going to attempt to address not just the infection product but multiple products. And we think that’s going to give us significant advantage in the marketplace.

So, now let’s take a look at these market dynamics that I’ve been alluding to. So, the CIED the market dynamics are — CIED is a fancy way to think pacemaker market dynamics are highly favorable for a few reasons. But let me sort of start out. The pace — the pouch opportunity in the pacemaker market is about a $500 million opportunity in round numbers, about 500 procedures annually that are taking place. But those 500 procedures can significantly influence and largely control an $11 billion pacemaker market. So, there is a 20 to 01 leverage going on here. And we take a look over on the graph on the right and we actually see that starting to come true. So, the market leader in both pacemakers and in the pouch market, they have their own pouch and they’ve done I think a fantastic job at creating a market and they’re using and they’ve had tremendous success within their own field.

So, these are our estimates of what’s taking place based on some different published numbers. But if you take a look at that, the market leader currently at 60% market share within their own customers. But there’s another 300,000 implant patients going on where the pacemaker is supplied by other manufacturers that don’t have access to a pouch. There is a couple of things going on here. The first dynamic is those other pacemaker manufacturers do not want the market leaders’ pouch in their procedure. So, they’re highly motivated to come up with a pouch to keep that actually prevent erosion of their own market. But we think given the slide I just showed you, we actually think we can turn this around and we think with a pouch that not only can address infection but actually could also some of these thing that regenerative medicine is uniquely capable to address; things like erosion; things like hematomas; and lead fracture; and all these other different things that we’re looking at.

We actually think that we have the opportunity to have by far the dominant pouch and enable these other manufacturers to reverse this trend and actually take device share away from the market leader by putting a better pouch into their procedures. And so, when we look at this we see a market that is just right and spring loaded for a great pouch. And that leads me really to this next point which is since this market dynamic exists, we think we’re positioned, we’re in the best position to actually satisfy that market demand. And let me show you why, right. So, we’re not new to this game, we’re actually pretty darn experienced. And in this field, we’ve really developed our R&D capabilities as a platform and that’s really how I want you to be thinking about this as I go through it.

And this platform centers around three different dials that we have the ability to control and that we have domain expertise over. 1) The first one of those dials is the material. So, in this particular case and the CanGaroo case, initially we’re talking about Porcine SIS or extracellular matrix ECM as it’s referred to. But we have actually expertise with a whole lot of different materials. Human acellularized dermis, amniotic tissue, bone, and so we can we have a palette of different materials to choose from. 2) The next dial we have in our R&D platform is activity. The activity what we’re talking about in CanGaroo, we’re talking about the ability of the product to allude an antibiotic. In a product like ViBone we’re talking about cellularity. So, we have the ability to change the activity of these different products.

3) And then lastly, engineering. And engineering sort of comes down to the configuration in the features, whether that’s holding innards designed to capture a device or has a putty form or a fiber form or all these different kinds of things we could do. And by combining these three different dials, we can create all kinds of different products and we have created all kinds of different products. So, just a real quick example as I mentioned sort of our ViBone product line that’s a combination of from a material bone mixed with from an activity standpoint, mesenchymal stem cells engineered into a putty type — in a putty type matrix. CanGaroo RM is obviously looking at human or I’m sorry, Porcine SIS mixed with two antibiotics configured into a pouch to hold a pacemaker. And so, you could see as we sort of move on from this, we can reconfigure these things kind of in any way we want.

So, we could take a SimpliDerm which I alluded to in some of my comment, has I would say unacceptably high or robust reconstruction has an unacceptably high post-surgical infection rate of about 10%. So, we could take the antibiotic elution technology that we have from CanGaroo and actually introduce it into our SimpliDerm, right. So, between these different things, we’re able to mix and match. But we don’t leave it there because I would say if we left it there, we would have a science experiment. But what we have is this fully integrated company and part of that fully integrated company as a commercial team that’s able to actually take these products out into the market place in and introduce them in to commerce and into sale and into contracting and get them through value-added committee and in the formularies and on the shelves and deal with reimbursement. And that significantly changes our position when we go to negotiate partnership arrangements with other companies.

Because we validated not just the scientific need but the actual commercial utility of the product. And so that’s something obviously I’m very passionate about and I am very excited about. This is again one given my background, great market demand, can you build it? Given my background and I have a tremendous amount of confidence that we have what it takes in order to build these products. And we will build the best products in each of the markets that we go into. So, then moving on, we look at in this model we were talking about pacemaker a CIED market at a $500 million market but that for us is really just the beginning of this market. Because when you start manipulating these three dials and you start being able to affectively move into other market $600 million robust reconstruction market which is currently sitting with a 10% infection rate. We think we can go into that market with a superior product.

Sleep apnea, neuromodulation, we have this facility in Richmond which enables us to do great things like cartilage resurfacing. There’s a tremendous amount of market opportunity for us to go into. And one of the things that I’ll say is when I talk about these kinds of things that “it seems like a great idea Randy, it also seems like a tremendous amount of money from an R&D standpoint.” A lot of what we’re talking about given the existing platform we have is actually a pretty low hanging fruit. Things that we can do with insight the 510(k) pathway or the 361 pathway or some combinations of those. So, we actually have a pretty fast and pretty efficient pathway to creating some best-in-class market, a product, or best-in-class product on the market protected with a pretty strong or actually a really strong intellectual property portfolio of patents around this technology.

Okay. So, I’ll summarize here and get on to taking questions. So, we believe and we’re very excited about the favorable market dynamics that currently exists. Given those market dynamics that exist, we really firmly believe that we can build best-in-class products to satisfy them and we intend to use strategic partnerships going forward in order to efficiently and quickly capture those markets. So, you’re probably saying “Great Randy what are you going to do next?” or a couple of things. One is we’re going to have and focus our commercial team and continually engage our key opinion leaders to continue to validate the innovations that we make. Obviously the CanGaroo RM regulatory review process is top of my fourth, and we’re going to keep working on getting that done. “Generate additional clinical?” And I would say non-clinical data as well to support our proprietary product franchises. When we say best-in-class, we want that to be evidence based built out of product pipeline.

So, we’re not going to show it obviously here today. But you will soon see from us a more robust product pipeline that starts connecting some of these dots that I’m alluding to. And then lastly, engage in some robust commercial discussions over strategic partnership that we can then leverage and help us with market adoption efficiently and quickly. So, been 45 days, it’s still early. You may want to ask me a whole lot of questions, I don’t have great answers to yet. That’s okay, I’ll do my best.

So, with that, I want to thank you for listening and turn the call over to the operator and get to your question.

Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Josh Jennings with Cowen. Your line is now open.

Josh Jennings

Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the questions. And Randy, it’s good to — congratulations on taking the CEO seat formally. Nice start with this quarter under your belt. I wanted just a couple of follow-up questions, I know it’s still early that you’re being in the leadership position. But just in terms of the clinical data pursuit to support your franchises, we should be thinking about funding trials and centers. Are you talking about funding major randomized control trials to support the CanGaroo RM launch and SimpliDerm and then the other products that’ll come out of the pipeline or just how do how should we be thinking about this clinical data accrual that’s going to come?

Randy Mills

Yes, thanks Josh. So, we currently have two different studies that are ongoing right now in HEAL study and our RECON study which are generating data. We will start to get readouts on those and I think that you can expect to see data from both of those in the second half of this year. So, those things are up and running. With regards to SimpliDerm, I think you’re dead on. We see tremendous opportunity in the SimpliDerm market particularly with at these acquisition of the AlloDerm product. We think there is an update market there to take, we also think there’s a big market there to improve on. And so, we’ll be designing some studies there going forward but we don’t have those built into the formula yet sufficiently for me to comment on them.

Josh Jennings

Alright. Next just on the outsides about the strategic partnership route. I mean, you have a number of strategic partnerships in play with the bone matrix’s unit. And should we think that commercial partnerships more extensive for SimpliDerm or cross-support is more stronger strategic partnerships in with CanGaroo distribution as well, any other hints you can provide in terms of that strategy? And just to follow-up on that, I think one of the elements of our understanding of the potential to pushed out your revenue growth that is some tuck-in M&A and you guys just signed that credit facility. Just how, how should we thinking about tuck-in M&A opportunities over the next 12 to 36 months as well. Thanks for taking the questions.

Randy Mills

Yes. No, Josh, great, two great power questions. So, with regards to different types of partnerships, we’ve obviously been very successful in the orthopedic side of the house. Again, SimpliDerm is a pretty interesting of addressing these, in that we’ve actually had a lot of success with our commercial team running a distributor model there. And that’s working pretty well and it’s simple. It’s nice. And that’s working pretty well and it’s simple and it’s nice and clear and clean. And financially it’s pretty advantageous for us. And so, I think we like the idea of expanding that model on the SimpliDerm side. But I would say probably not to start there with a major commercial partnership.

Where I think I see the most prominent opportunity is on the cardiovascular in CanGaroo side of the house. So, I was in NYC about a couple of days before I started getting calls from people I’ve had relationships with historically asking basically would I really going to go and build these great regenerative medicine products in this space and if so, can we talk about partnerships for them. And so, we have few to start with and I don’t want to be in any way dismissive of those. We have a great relationship with Boston Scientific which is specific to products in for the CIED market within the United States.

So, current products within the field within the United States. And then we have another more non-exclusive partnership with BIOTRONIK. And I said both of those partnerships we think are very good. We also think though the dynamic of this space says that if you’re in the CIED space, you need a pouch. And there’s a lot of pressure that to basically make sure that you have a chair before the music starts. And so, it’s a big, it’s sort of a big world out there and we’ve a pretty big canvas on which to paint particularly when you think about modifications we can make to these products. So, that I think that gives you a sort of a good idea of our thinking around partnership.

And your last question with regards to M&A, I think it’s something opportunistically we would seek in time. Josh, but I’ll tell you right now we have more opportunity in front of us, we’re drinking from a firehose. And we are laser focused on getting that. We see a market that needs our products. If we build those products, we think they’ll be taken up and we see a path to get that done through partnerships and so we’re going to kind of keep our eyes focused on that for right now. If something too good to be true comes along, well maybe it is and we will certainly take a hard look at it but we’re focused all organic right now.

Josh Jennings

Understood. Thanks, a lot.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Matthew O’Brien with Piper Sandler. Your line is now open.

Unidentified Analyst

Hi, good afternoon. This is Simran on for Matt. Randy, first off congrats on the new role. I guess if we can just start off with the Q2 performance. Maybe you guys can 35% growth in the core business. Maybe you can parse out kind of the growth driven by CanGaroo, growth driven in SimpliDerm, just performance of each of those business lines and how the non-core business kind of trended during the quarter?

Randy Mills

So, I’ll sort of start by putting a little color around this question. I’ll turn it over to Matt to give a good financial CFO answer to this question. Simran that you probably that you’re probably more interested in. I’ll say first, I’m not a big fan I’m just going to say it, I’m not a big fan of core/non-core. We make very serious products that go into patients who depend on the quality of our work for their lives. And there is no part of that we don’t take very seriously. And I know those are our terms not yours. But there is something I think going forward, you can look for us to drop from our lexicon.

We — they are all our children and we certainly rub them all. They might have different growth trajectories that might have different sales cycles and customer base, some B2C, some B2B. They are all very important very high quality products. And so, going forward, they’re all core to me.

With regards to breaking them out, Matt?

Matthew Ferguson

Yes. Well Simran, I think it’s a good question. We’re really pleased with what we saw from CanGaroo and SimpliDerm and that led us to one at least break out the growth rate for this two highly proprietary product as a group and really pleased to see 35% growth there. Clearly as you pointed out, our contract manufacturing business and the other products that go into that non-core line, we have seen really nice growth for multiple quarters there. And that business, lot of great people contributing to that and that part of the business is really going well.

In general, for the second quarter, it seems like kind of a long time ago now but thinking all the way back to April or so that we started off well and I think we had a good steady consistent performance throughout the quarter. I think it was a pretty clean and predictable period for us. So, I hopefully got to most of your question there, if there’s anything I missed or like Randy or me to follow-up on, please let us know.

Unidentified Analyst

No, that was perfect. And then, I guess switching gears to RM specifically, lots of excitement there. Is it so it sounds like it’s still on track for approval in the second half? I guess, could you maybe provide some color on what your discussions with the FDA are looking like at this point. And then, I guess it’s a follow-up to that, what’s the commercial strategy here? Are you able to start selling RM sometime in Q4 and then is there any pricing power that you can leverage?

Randy Mills

Yes. Those are great questions. So, my again limited short-term involvement with this with the RM product specifically and after meeting with the regulatory and the development teams. I’ll just tell you my take away from it. I think we have a product that is going through the review process well and it’s going to be reviewed. But I’ll also tell you I now been around this industry for a long time and I’ve worked with the FDA. And we have a review right now that’s going through two agencies or toward involves two agency: CDRH and Drug. And so, I just wouldn’t handicap and really wouldn’t get into whether it’s this quarter or next quarter or that sometime next year.

And I’ll say also because for our new way of thinking, it’s we’re thinking about this company differently. We’re not thinking about this company in terms of incremental revenue growth, we’re thinking this company in transformational revenue growth but actually goes perfectly with your sort of with sort of your last point. With the right strategic partners and importantly with the right strategic partnership in place. These kind of questions fall away and become sort of thus less important on what day in the quarter do we start selling or can we ink out a little bit more. So, we’re thinking about this in a more transformational way driven more by partnerships where and you guys pit to get used to. Where we look more like a biotech company and hopefully we start thinking about our valuations with a B on it and then in terms of market capital instead with an M on it.

But, yes.

Unidentified Analyst

Alright, perfect. And then, if I could just squeeze one last one in here I guess for Matt. You guys have $25 million in the debt financing and it sounds like there are opportunities to secure additional funding. I guess, can you provide a bit more color on your capital allocation priorities and how that I guess what that looks like over the next 12 months in terms of deployment?

Matthew Ferguson

Yes. Simran, again really good question. And it may be a little early to get into a great amount of detail in terms of the next 12 months. But what I can tell you is that the deal that we announced yesterday is a really important one for us. It does bring cash under the balance sheet immediately and it does only open the availability to do an additional working capital based that facility up to $8 million. So, that’s something that we’ll be working on in the near term. This is a business that has a really a manageable burn rate. Our EBITDA for the last quarter was only about our EBITDA loss was only about $5 million. Our cash usage from operations was below that.

So, we feel like we’re in good shape. We are working on a number of other things which I can’t comment yet on in detail. But as we mentioned in the prepared remarks, our goal is to avoid going back to the equity markets and avoid dilution in any significant sort of way and we think we’ve got some really good opportunity just to do that. So, I guess in part my answer would be stake in, we think we’ll have more to announce before too long here.

Unidentified Analyst

Okay, perfect. That’s it from me, thank you.

Randy Mills

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from David Rescott with Truist. Your line is now open.

David Rescott

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. And Randy, and congrats on formally at the end of the new role here. I want to start just on some of the commentary you made around partnerships and CanGaroo and the CIED market overall. And you mentioned that there is a 60, 40’s, or between the over in the market leader as it relates to the kind of number of higher percentage of the CIED envelopes going into these products versus the overall market around 5%’age. So, my question is what I guess do you think is the biggest driving factor on that, I mean is my guess is that some of the reimbursement in a way that some of the reimbursement had happened in the dynamics that they have but you may may be able to bundle some of these products.

That sounds when they’re in it, really. I would be able to given that you’re going to this partnership routes, I’m wondering what — how you think about the partnerships that you currently have as it relates to addressing the CIED pouch marker with CanGaroo and its current state. Do you believe that and I know you what you’ve seen thus far, the partnerships whether or not bidding to shift around at all as you think about going into market with CanGaroo?

Randy Mills

Yes, thanks David. Boy, you hit one of the things sort of right on the head. With regards to bundling, contracting, inventorying, the products where we have more of a sales agent type relationship under recurring partnership. It really I mean I wouldn’t even say disadvantages, is it almost sort of takes the product in a lot of cases just almost completely out of the game. This goes to our commercial team, they are remarkable at what they can do and what they can overcome. But we would — it’s a lot of those really massive barriers fall away if the agreements would be through it differently. And I think there is good reason to believe that will happen.

David Rescott

Okay. That’s helpful. And then, I guess as it relates to the guides here, I mean obviously a strong acceleration in CanGaroo and SimpliDerm. If I look at kind of the growth in the back half of the year and the 14% of growth in Q1, 20% growth in our Q2 excluding the FiberCel product, it definitely looks I think a little maybe conservative. So, just wondering how are you thinking about the cadence at least given with some of the acceleration you’ve seen with CanGaroo and SimpliDerm thus far. How you’re thinking or at least look into in the Q3 and then what maybe if at all I mean for the conservatism that’s built into the full-year especially if we should think about maybe the new CanGaroo RM product contributing maybe in Q4?

Randy Mills

Yes. So David, I think right now 45 days into it. I have seen a company that is really strong. I’ve seen a company that’s firing on all on all cylinders. But 45 days into it, I don’t think I have the confidence yet to turn this. I just don’t know enough in order to change guidance. And I’ll also just say style is particularly going forward as we get to know each other. I am far more of a point to the score board at the end of the game kind-of-guy. Then I am sort of talk smack before or during the game. And so, I just don’t know enough to do anything with and to comment on guidance. And even if I did, I’m not sure I would.

David Rescott

Okay. And maybe just one last one. I know that these on the commentary at least for the interim low and I think just as we said in our operational metrics, or a function metrics by of September 2023 that are contingent on drawing on this additional $4 million term loan. Just wondering if at all I know you probably got no specifics around what those are but just wondering if at all you could comment maybe on what we should be thinking about or maybe what kind of the operational function much as you guys were thinking about when you look out to that 3Q, 2023 timeframe?

Randy Mills

Yes. I think that’s probably in my camp, Dave. I think the intent is very much that second tranche will be available to us both from the point-of-view of SWK and for ourselves. Specifically, the operational metric is the clearance of CanGaroo RM and the financial metrics have to do with gross profit at levels that are really not much higher than where growth profits is today. So, we’ll have more details out at some point we’ll have an okay test going out the four details of the loan. But that’s the gist of it and we fully expect that as second tranche to be available to us sometime in 2023.

David Rescott

Right, very helpful. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from Ross Osborn with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.

Ross Osborn

Hi, thanks for taking my questions. And congrats on the new role, Randy Mills. So, looking at 2Q revenue, could you maybe parse out growth from higher utilization at existing accounts and accounts versus adding new accounts during the quarter?

Randy Mills

Boy, I sure can’t but maybe even can or maybe even can, I don’t know. Ross, I can speak to it a little bit. We certainly look at that internally and I can say that we saw contributors from both of those elements both new accounts as well as utilization within existing accounts. I would say without getting into the exact numbers which I don’t have right in front of me but we got more of a contribution from existing accounts than from new accounts. And no, I think that speaks to the stickiness of our products with our customer base and it’s a good indicator of overall healthy business.

Ross Osborn

Great. Now, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for parting that clarity. And then maybe just one more on OpEx. SG&A set up all of that sequentially, could you tell us a piece on the drivers there and then maybe how we can how we should think about the cadence for the balance of the year?

Randy Mills

Sure. And again, I can speak to that. 2Q, we did have a little bit of a bump-in in some of our OpEx. Sort of that was non-cash stock-based comp which is not too much to be concerned about. We did also have some things that I think where more transitory in terms of we had that the transition in the CEO seat which had some expense that went along with it that probably will in fact spill over into Q3. And we have had some higher legal expenses other G&A type expenses that I think will probably come down over time as well. So, I think Q2 is probably not a bad indicator for maybe where we’ll be in the current quarter and perhaps even into Q4. But we’re definitely looking hard at all of our discretionary spending and making sure that we’re managing our business judiciously.

Ross Osborn

That’s good. Well, thanks for taking my questions and congrats in on the quarter.

Randy Mills

Okay, thank you.

Operator

That concludes today’s question and answer session. I’d like to turn the call back to Randy Mills for closing remarks.

Randy Mills

Thank you, very much. I appreciate you all listening. I look forward to getting out and on the road and seeing and meeting you all at upcoming events as they unfold. We’ll be sending out a list of those. And I hope you have a great day. Thanks.

Operator

This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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