On Monday, MindWalk Holdings (NASDAQ:HYFT) discussed first-quarter financial results during its earnings call. The full transcript is provided below.

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Summary

MindWalk Holdings reported a 21% revenue growth in Q1 fiscal year 2027, reaching $3.8 million, with a gross margin increase to 59% from 48% the previous year.

The company launched its Reef IQ platform aimed at pharmaceutical companies, focusing on enterprise adoption and multi-year recurring revenue relationships.

MindWalk secured a US$30 million unsecured revolving credit facility to finance Reef IQ's rollout and internal pipeline development without issuing equity.

The company is transitioning to broader platform partnerships with pharmaceutical clients, allowing them to share in the economics of the assets they help create.

Operational highlights include a partnership with AMD and Vultr for deploying OpenFold 3 and strategic internal pipeline advancements with new leadership hires.

Full Transcript

OPERATOR (Operator)

Financial results and recent business highlights for first quarter fiscal year 2027. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. I will now hand the conference over to Dr. Jennifer Bath, President and Chief Executive Officer of MindWalk Holdings. Dr. Bath, please go ahead. Before we begin, I would like to remind listeners that today's discussion contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including the company's history of net losses and the ability to convert platform adoptions into contracted recurring arrangements, market acceptance of Reef IQ and LENS AI, intellectual property risks, competition, and capital market conditions. A fuller description of these risks appears in the company's annual report on Form 20-F and other filings available on SEDAR+ and EDGAR. All financial figures discussed during this call are in Canadian dollars. Financial statements and MD&A are available on the company's website at mindwalkai.com as well as sec.gov and SEDAR+.

A replay of this call will be available following its conclusion today. I will now turn the call over to Dr. Jennifer Bath, President and Chief Executive Officer of MindWalk Holdings. Please go ahead, Dr. Bath.

Jennifer Bath, CEO and President

Thank you very much. Good afternoon. In this first quarter of fiscal year 2027, MindWalk advanced toward our goal of becoming the leading bionative AI drug discovery and development company. In June, we launched Reef IQ, our proprietary data platform, and our focus is now on enterprise adoption. For those newer to the MindWalk story, Reef IQ is the substrate layer between complex unstructured biological data and AI models. It turns that data into structured, biologically meaningful representations so AI models deliver deeper, more actionable insights for our pharmaceutical partners.

Reef IQ's commercial model is built around multi-year recurring revenue relationships that can scale as clients expand their use of the platform. Because Reef IQ is integrated directly into a client's biological data and discovery workflows, these relationships are designed to deepen over time. As a trusted partner to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, we know how drug discovery works inside these organizations and what they need from a platform like Reef IQ.

Those relationships give us a real advantage as we drive adoption. We have made good progress. We are engaged with multiple large pharmaceutical companies around potential enterprise deployments of Reef IQ. These discussions vary in maturity and we are encouraged by how the platform is resonating with our clients. We are not yet in a position to announce specific partners or discuss contract values, but the level of engagement reinforces our conviction of the commercial opportunity.

We look forward to providing additional updates as these discussions progress. These opportunities are substantially larger than our historical LENS AI recurring revenue agreements. Investors should not use prior LENS AI contracts as a benchmark for the size or the scope of Reef IQ enterprise relationships. We have built a leading wet lab discovery franchise. Our clients include 19 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies and every one of those relationships is a potential opening for Reef IQ.

Two decades of biologics discovery work for our clients across multiple platforms and capabilities has already contributed to several dozen molecules reaching the clinic. Ten are in active Phase 1 through Phase 3 trials today and four of those are first-in-class molecules. We are also reshaping how we structure our commercial relationships with our pharmaceutical partners. Increasingly, new engagements are being structured as broader platform partnerships where MindWalk participates in the economics of the assets we help create rather than simply being paid for discrete projects.

This structure aligns our incentives with our partners, has been well received by our clients, and is contributing to increased activity across our commercial funnel. Today, roughly 80% of our current funnel by value is now structured this way, spanning data management, Reef IQ, and multi-target discovery. We also reached a clear infrastructure milestone with our engineering partner AMD and Vultr. We validated a production deployment of OpenFold 3 on AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs, and the first of those results are being published this week.

OpenFold 3 is open source and any drug discovery team can use it, which is exactly the point. Models commoditize the layer they run on—compounds. Every model run on Reef IQ enriches the biological context for every other program, and LENS AI, our reasoning layer, is deliberately model neutral so a client can bring their own model, any open source one, or any third party, and still reason over that same context layer. The compute win simply gives us more room to run discovery and scale Reef IQ.

This is a marquee week for that partnership with much more to come. Our internal pipeline continues to advance through preclinical development and we remain excited about the opportunity to drive value in this part of our business. Timelines there are hard to forecast, so we advance multiple programs in parallel and prioritize resources based on the strength of the data. This quarter we added experienced leaders to accelerate our IND-enabling work and move our best programs toward IND filings and the clinic.

We will update the market as they hit scientific, regulatory, and development milestones. Finally, our capital position. This morning we announced a binding commitment for a US$30 million unsecured revolving credit facility at a fixed 7% rate, drawn as needed. It gives us financial flexibility without issuing equity, which matters given where our stock trades set against how AI-enabled discovery platforms are valued in public and private markets.

We do not believe our market capitalization reflects what we have built or the scale of what we are pursuing. That informs how we think about financing the business and makes this facility particularly attractive to us. This is not a response to a step change in our cash needs. Our model is not capital intensive. The facility gives us the flexibility to invest behind Reef IQ, advance our internal pipeline, and pursue opportunities as they develop on terms that we believe are very favorable to MindWalk and its shareholders.

Our focus is on execution, and we believe sustained delivery will be reflected in the stock over time. Turning to the quarter, revenue grew 21% year over year and gross margin expanded to 59% from 48%. The larger loss this quarter reflects deliberate investment behind the commercial opportunity we see ahead of us. Sales and marketing expense increased by $1.9 million. We are investing to build a larger and more durable revenue base, not simply support the business we have today.

On the bottom line, this quarter is not directly comparable to the same quarter last year, which included income from discontinued operations. With that, I will turn it over to Scott to take you through the numbers.

R. Scott Areglado, Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Jennifer, and good afternoon, everyone. I will take you through our first quarter fiscal year 2027 financial results. As a reminder, all figures are in Canadian dollars. Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 was $3.8 million versus $3.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. This is an improvement of approximately $673,000, or 21%. That represents five quarters of consecutive year-over-year revenue growth. Gross margin was $2.2 million, or 59%, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 as compared to $1.5 million, or 48%, for the same quarter last year.

Looking at operating expenses for the quarter ended July 31, 2026, R&D was $1.3 million compared to $1.0 million in the same period last year. This increase is due primarily to increased salary costs to support the commercial development of our platform. Sales and marketing expenses were $3.2 million for the first quarter of 2027 as compared to $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2026, which included non-recurring costs incurred in the quarter. As I mentioned in our prior call, these are planned investments in our commercial infrastructure and represent increased headcount to support our commercial initiatives as well as investments in advertising and promotion. G&A increased to $3.9 million for the quarter ended July 31, 2026 as compared to $3.3 million for the same quarter last year. The increase is due primarily to non-cash stock-based compensation. Net loss and loss from continuing operations was $6.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 as compared to net loss from continuing operations of $4.1 million in the first quarter of 2026. Overall net loss in the prior year was $3.0 million, which included $1.1 million of income from discontinued operations.

Turning to the balance sheet, the company ended the quarter with a cash balance of $7.6 million as of July 31, 2026. Net cash used in operating activities was $4.0 million compared to $4.2 million in the prior-year quarter, due in part to non-cash expenses related to share-based payments. Cash was $11.3 million at April 30. I am also pleased with our announcement earlier today of a binding commitment for a US$30 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility.

This facility demonstrates confidence in our long-term strategy around our emerging pipeline and anticipated adoption of Reef IQ and provides the capital necessary to execute on that strategy. With that, I will turn the call back to Jennifer.

Jennifer Bath, CEO and President

Thank you, Scott. As we've mentioned, this morning we announced the binding commitment for US$30 million of unsecured capital without issuing a single share, and this gives us the runway to execute. The strategy is showing up in the business, with revenue up 21% and gross margin at 59%. Reef IQ is a recurring revenue business and it compounds as clients adopt and expand. We are in active negotiations with multiple large pharma companies on Reef IQ enterprise deployments, and you will hear from us as those conclude.

As mentioned, do not measure them against our historical LENS AI agreements. These are a different scale. On the discovery side, we are moving from discrete projects to platform partnerships where we share in the economics of the assets we help create. Both of these are happening with clients. We already have a distribution advantage that no new entrant can buy. On top of that, our internal pipeline adds upside with catalysts ahead. The higher loss this quarter is an investment behind a larger opportunity.

The market is moving toward exactly what we built, and our job now is to lead it. Operator, we are ready for questions.

OPERATOR (Operator)

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question at any time, press star one again. Please pick up your handset when asking a question to allow for optimum sound quality. If you are muted locally, please remember to unmute your device now. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. And our first question comes from the line of Charles Wallace with H.C. Wainwright. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Charles Wallace, Analyst at H.C. Wainwright

Hi, thanks for taking my question. This is Charles. I'm in for RK. So I guess for my first question, could you maybe help us understand what portion of the $3.8 million in the first quarter revenue was contracted recurring platform revenue? Let's start there. Thank you.

Jennifer Bath, CEO and President

Scott, if you have those numbers before you. I don't know if we do have those broken out. I can say that if by platform recurring revenue we're referring to Reef IQ, Reef IQ is not a data management program or platform that is currently in place. These are the ones that we've just discussed negotiating—that is a whole new level of engagement from clients that you'll definitely hear about as we proceed through that. And this was the platform that we just released in June quite recently.

Now, if it's recurring revenue or annual recurring revenue off of the SaaS model subscriptions, we do have that. We have announced that historically. I'm not sure that we have that broken out since we don't break these out by cost centers, but I can have Scott confirm.

Charles Wallace, Analyst at H.C. Wainwright

Okay, so I guess for my next question, for the active negotiations that you mentioned with the multiple large pharma partners for Reef IQ, which, as you mentioned, just launched in June, what are the current gating factors in these negotiations and when do you expect to see these convert in fiscal year 2027?

Jennifer Bath, CEO and President

Fair question. So the gating factors between each group actually differ significantly. Sorry, we're getting a lot of feedback on our side. In terms of negotiations with clients, on our side for gating factors, what we are seeking are primarily people who are already engaged with MindWalk, who are running different programs already with MindWalk, and primarily starting off with people who are also engaged through the SaaS model subscription. For large pharmaceutical companies, when they're moving into a vendor—bringing a vendor into their core infrastructure—none of them are really about whether or not the platform works.

They kind of fall in three buckets for us. The first big one is really about IT security and data governance review, which is something you probably heard us talk a lot about over the last six months. Reef IQ is different in the sense that it sits inside of a client's biological data and its discovery workflows, and so it goes through the same enterprise security, data residency, and governance processes as really any system of record. The second one is legal and procurement.

These are multi-year platform relationships, instead of project statements of work that we've done historically with our large pharmaceutical clients, and also when we're sharing in the economics of different assets during co-development and partnership relationships. So the contract itself is a very new shape. It's very different than the historical contracts we've had, and so it's different for their procurement terms as well. And then I would say, Charles, probably the third component of that is the scoping and just agreeing which programs and which data domains the first deployment are going to cover so that it lands cleanly and then it's expanding from there. And so I would say those are kind of the three core areas, as companies are by and large taking a relatively new and fairly big step in bringing us fully into the data landscape of what exists throughout their company, oftentimes in a multinational setting. As far as when we plan to close our first agreement or when we plan to see these start closing, I'm going to leave that question alone for now. I don't want to create that specific of an expectation.

But what I am comfortable saying at this point on the call is that we have these negotiations occurring at various different stages, and that includes groups that have worked with us for many years. That also includes one group that's been with us as many years and also has a SaaS model subscription and has been in negotiations in this particular component across multinational jurisdictions for their company for quite some time. So we have a very good line of sight on where and how this is going and when we anticipate it closing.

But of course not everything's under our control, so I'll hold off on giving an exact, more specific timeline.

Charles Wallace, Analyst at H.C. Wainwright

Yeah, that's very helpful. And then maybe one final question on the US$30 million revolving credit facility. When do you expect the initial draw from this facility and over what time frame, and how will it be allocated between the Reef IQ commercial rollout and the biologics programs?

R. Scott Areglado, Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, so we have 60 days to get the credit agreement drawn up, so we won't be able to do anything until the credit agreement is complete. As far as the investments, we'll draw capital as we need it and as we need liquidity. But we still have cash runway in our bank account as well.

Charles Wallace, Analyst at H.C. Wainwright

Great. And maybe one follow-up from that question. Does this credit facility replace the ring-fenced, program-level financing structure that you have in the Cayman asset—Cayman-style financing?

R. Scott Areglado, Chief Financial Officer

Sure. It does not. We hear you correct—exactly. It absolutely does not replace that. We still have interested parties investing in refinanced assets within the Cayman structure, and are probably 90–95% of the way in terms of completing the legal and tax planning efforts that go around setting up those structures.

Charles Wallace, Analyst at H.C. Wainwright

Thank you for taking all my questions.

Jennifer Bath, CEO and President

Thank you, Charles.

OPERATOR (Operator)

Your next question comes from the line of Dania Ben Hale with Jones. Your line is unmuted. Please go ahead.

Dania Ben Hale, Analyst at Jones

Hi. Thank you for taking my question. How should investors think about your revenue growth over the next 12 months and next two years?

R. Scott Areglado, Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, I mean these initial Reef IQ agreements are probably going to be relatively lumpy. It's just the nature of the structure. They're going to be milestone-based. There are engineering efforts at the outset, and then they become annual recurring revenue. So I do think revenue is going to be a little lumpy. It's hard to forecast. It really just depends on how quickly we get adoption of Reef IQ.

Dania Ben Hale, Analyst at Jones

Okay. And so we should expect it to be around these numbers in the next few quarters until things settle down and you get more subscriptions annually and things like that?

R. Scott Areglado, Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, I think once we're in a position to announce an agreement, we'll take a deeper dive into what the revenue model looks like and when we expect recurring revenue to occur based on the timing of the contract.

Dania Ben Hale, Analyst at Jones

Okay, thank you. And just another question about the discussions with the pharmaceutical and biotech companies. What are they focused on? Are they getting more engaged with Reef IQ? Is it more the subscriptions right now for the deep AI? What parts of it are more in demand?

Jennifer Bath, CEO and President

Yeah, that's actually a great question, Dania. I really appreciate that. One of the things we've talked about in the past is we definitely went about this from a different direction from others. You will see that there are companies that have a technology and some discovery capabilities that prepare those offerings for others as a partnership model, and really a little bit more on the premise of it's extremely low risk, so we'll backload it, but without really having the proof point or the evidence to support the quality of the work.

And that low risk was given in exchange for not having that type of a relationship with those clients. We've really done the exact opposite. We've spent the last five years demonstrating our ability to send really good molecules to the clinic that are quite successful in the clinic, and then also demonstrated our ability to do that with an understanding of the function of a molecule and its mechanism of action, providing a greater probability of success in later stages of the clinic.

And that's been a really different approach that we've made. As we enter into these conversations—we've mentioned before—we're working with hundreds of different clients in building these therapeutic drugs. One of the biggest changes we've had in the last two quarters is that every one of those programs coming in is an integrated lab-in-the-loop with our in silico work intertwined very directly with our wet lab work, providing clients with data sooner and larger amounts of data for more data-driven decision making.

But there are two components of that that really tie in—actually, technically three, Dania—that I think specifically address your question. One of them is that all of that data is turned back within LENS AI, so clients are directly exposed to the SaaS model subscription. They have the opportunity to use base layer applications within our LENS AI, and that has brought more clients to the table with those inquiries around SaaS model subscriptions. So it expands their ability to work with the data within the platform in which it's being received. The conversations around the partnerships, which are backloaded but always include some sort of upfront payment—the structure of those being ones that are milestone- and royalty-based—that is now a conversation happening with every single client. So that fee-for-service option that we have provided in the past, where we used that opportunity to build a relationship with these clients to be one of their preferred vendors, which is no easy task, and to demonstrate the competencies that we have—I would say superiority that we have in our AI and wet lab discovery—is what we're building on in those discussions. So every single one of those discussions is now a partnership discussion. There's no longer the opportunity to just walk in the door and put down money for fee-for-service. So it is a longer negotiation period for us. Even given the fact that we're still up in revenue with these double digits over last year, where we were up significantly in revenue as well, while backlogging approximately 80% of the discussions now in the pipeline as partnership discussions—to us, this is bringing us additional confidence.

These clients are not walking away from that discussion. They're not turning away from it because we've become the trusted provider that we've shown we can execute. And then the third component of that is Reef IQ. I would say the majority of the earlier adoption interest and communications we're having from that is from the larger pharmaceutical companies, which I guess makes sense. These are companies that are oftentimes juggling multiple jurisdictions, a lot more siloed data, and are also oftentimes being asked from the top down to find a solution to help their data make sense and to connect their data.

And so we're really seeing it across the board in all three areas. I would say the majority of those conversations—if we had to pick the one that was leading the way—would be partnership discussions, because, again, that's not an option to not have that discussion with us any longer. And then the second most would be Reef IQ, where people are looking for an advantage to find meaning in their data—an advantage to get away from hallucination and make their AI models better than their competition.

And we're able to bring that to the table with something we've been building for 20 years and something that no one else is able to offer. Thank you very much.

OPERATOR (Operator)

There are no further questions at this time. This will conclude today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.

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