Bragg Gaming Group, Inc.’s (BRAG) CEO Yaniv Sherman on Q2 2022 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

Bragg Gaming Group Inc. (NASDAQ:BRAG) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 9, 2022 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Yaniv Spielberg – Chief Strategy Officer

Yaniv Sherman – Chief Executive Officer

Ronen Kannor – Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Neal Gilmer – Haywood Securities

Harman Bassi – Canaccord

David McFadgen – Cormark Securities

Jack Vander Aarde – Maxim Group

Operator

Good morning. My title is Dennis and I might be your convention operator at present. At this time, I want to welcome everybody to the Bragg Gaming Group Second Quarter 2022 Conference Call. All strains have been positioned on mute to stop any background noise. After the audio system’ remarks, there might be a query-and-reply session. [Operator Instructions]

I might now like to show the convention over to Yaniv Spielberg, Chief Strategy Officer. Please go forward.

Yaniv Spielberg

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everybody, and thanks for becoming a member of our second quarter 2022 earnings convention name. My title is Yaniv Spielberg. I’m the Chief Strategy Officer for Bragg Gaming Group. I’ll be internet hosting at present’s name alongside my colleague, Chief Executive Officer, Yaniv Sherman, welcome Yaniv, who will remark on our second quarter efficiency; and our CFO, Ronen Kannor, who will evaluate our second quarter outcomes and our steering for the rest of 2022 calendar yr.

If you haven’t already executed so, you may observe our Q2 earnings name presentation from our web site at traders.bragg.video games, that is traders.bragg.video games within the part known as Investor Presentation. On this name, we’ll evaluate Bragg’s monetary and working outcomes for the second quarter of 2022. Following our ready remarks, we’ll open the convention name to a query-and-reply interval.

I’ll begin the decision with some temporary cautionary remarks relating to sure statements which may be made on this name. Certain statements made on this name and our responses to varied questions might represent ahead-wanting data or future oriented monetary data inside the which means of relevant securities regulation. Statements about anticipated progress, potential outcomes, strategic outlooks and monetary and operational expectations, alternatives and projections rely on a variety of assumptions regarding future occasions, together with market and financial situations, enterprise prospects and alternatives, future plans and techniques, technological developments and anticipated occasions, traits and regulatory adjustments that will have an effect on the company and the subsidiaries and their respective prospects and industries.

While we consider these assumptions to be cheap, they’re topic to a variety of dangers, uncertainties and different components, lots of that are exterior the corporate’s management and which may trigger the precise outcomes, efficiency or achievement of the corporate to be materially totally different. There will be no assurance that these assumptions or estimates are correct or that any of those expectations will show correct. For an entire dialogue of those components, please discuss with our lately filed press launch and different publicly accessible disclosure.

With that behind us, I’d like to show the decision now to our CEO, Yaniv Sherman. Yaniv?

Yaniv Sherman

Good morning, everybody. My title is Yaniv Sherman, and I’m the CEO of Bragg. I’m very joyful to be internet hosting our very first outcomes presentation, having joined the corporate simply over a month in the past. As Yaniv talked about, we’ll be going over our second quarter highlights, financials and operational updates. Following the presentation, we’ll be joyful to reply any questions you will have.

The second quarter of 2022 marked the eighth consecutive progress quarter for Bragg. Revenues got here in at 34% greater to a report €20.8 million, whereas EBITDA rose 63% to €3.1 million. Our gross revenue margin has expanded as nicely, and Ronen will dive deeper into the drivers of those progress indicators in a second.

During the passing quarter, we accomplished our acquisition of Spin Games, a key milestone in our U.S. progress technique. The Spin deal closure follows Wild Streak Gaming’s acquisition final yr, and we’re excited to welcome the Spin and Wild Streak groups to the Bragg’s world household.

Bragg went dwell with our proprietary content material from the very first day of the newly regulated Ontario market, which was complemented by market entry and growth in Europe. After the quarter ended, with me becoming a member of the Bragg govt workforce and Board, we have marked one other U.S. market entry in Connecticut and rolled out our very first built-in Spin-Oryx proposition in North America. I’ll share extra particulars round these achievements after Ronen’s monetary evaluate. Ronen?

Ronen Kannor

Thank you, Yaniv, and good morning, everybody. I’ll start my feedback on Slide 7. The Group executed very nicely in Q2. The second quarter income was up by 34.2% yr-over-yr to €20.8 million and up by 7.6% from the earlier quarter, representing the report quarter we ever had. This efficiency drives primarily from natural progress from its present buyer base, the onboarding of recent strategic prospects in numerous jurisdictions, primarily the Netherlands, within the PAM and turnkey options phase.

In addition, we had a robust income efficiency from Wild Streak Gaming, the enterprise acquired in June 2021. From a KPI perspective, the full wagering generated by way of video games and content material supplied by Oryx and Wild Streak and Spin Games within the interval was up by 9.2% from the prior quarter to €4.2 billion, and 9% up from the earlier yr. As you may see from the wagering chart on the correct-hand aspect, the brand new German market restrictions on gameplay had an impact throughout Q3 2021, however ever since we’re seeing a optimistic pattern and momentum.

Gross revenue elevated by 65.5% to €11.6 million with margin rising as nicely by over 1,000 foundation factors to 55.9%. This is primarily attributed to the next proportion of income derived from the expansion within the proportion of the platform and Turnkey income, alongside with Wild Streak proprietary video games income, which haven’t value of sale in comparison with the license sport and content material, which have third-occasion prices related.

Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was up by 62.9% to €3.1 million, with adjusted EBITDA margin reaching 14.9%, rising by 260 foundation factors from the identical interval within the earlier yr. The improve in margin is especially because of scale and enchancment within the product mixture of PAM and turnkey options, offset by the elevated salaries and subcontractors value as a part of the company technique of funding within the growth of its software program improvement, product and senior administration perform with focus on margin management.

Other highlights. During the quarter, we closed the acquisition of Spin Games and its buying and selling was together with from the first of June 2022. We completed the quarter with a reported optimistic web revenue of over €100,000 as in comparison with final interval of web lack of €2.3 million loss. With respect of the steering, because of the optimistic momentum in buying and selling, we’re updating the monetary yr 2022 each income and adjusted EBITDA steering.

The new income steering is predicted to be in a spread of €76 million to €80 million, representing a 11% improve from the earlier consensus steering. The adjusted EBITDA is predicted to be within the vary of €10 million to €11 million, represents a 5% improve from the earlier consensus steering because the steering consists of the impression of continued investments within the enterprise centered on driving additional prime line progress.

I’ll now transfer to Slide #8. As I discussed earlier, our entry into new markets, particularly the Netherlands, has been exceptionally robust, coupled with new shopper wins and the ramping up of operators launched early within the yr offers us important momentum on this monetary yr. During the quarter, the brand new prospects income, which associated to prospects joined in 2021 and 2022, was up by 3.9% quarter-over-quarter, pushed by new market efficiency.

Legacy prospects, together with German-facing prospects, has additionally seen a progress quarter-over-quarter by 6.8%, with a restricted drop from the earlier quarters because of the new German market laws launched in July 2021. Wild Streak and Spin Games income was up by 50% quarter-over-quarter because of robust efficiency of the in-home constructed video games. Overall, the underlying recurring group income, together with licensed Germany elevated by 7.6% quarter-over-quarter.

As you may see on the correct-hand aspect, we now have offered the Q2 underlying enterprise income combine that’s transferring into the following quarter and for the entire yr after offsetting the headwinds for the German markets because the new regulatory adjustments passed off in July 2021. Overall, the brand new enterprise pipeline, new markets entry, and extra centered gross sales underpin 2022 monetary yr income steering.

In Slide 9, the gross revenue growth. As you may see from the margin slide, the gross revenue margins are within the progress momentum since Q2 2020. We are scaling up according to the income progress and momentum within the product combine as offered in the correct-hand aspect of the slide. The product combine modified since third quarter of final yr and now buying and selling in the direction of PAM, turnkey options and proprietary content material, whereas bettering gross revenue margins and profitability. As we indicated prior to now, platform and proprietary content material merchandise are carrying non-third occasion prices, which is giving us the flexibility to scale up gross revenue margins. The PAM and turnkey answer improved the Q2 gross revenue margin because of robust efficiency of our Dutch prospects.

In Slide 10, we want to display that our continued income progress is monitored with margins management. Total operational prices, excluding value of products related to third-occasion content material suppliers, continued to scale down since Q3 2021 and amounted to 40.6% as a proportion of the full income. While the company continued to spend money on increasing its expertise, product and video games improvement, the full value of wage and subcontractors as a proportion of the income scaled to 23.9% and focused to scale additional with additional progress.

Professional charges amounted to 4.1% of the full income and had been primarily associated to getting into new jurisdictions, licensing, authorized and audit charges. IT and internet hosting prices scaled to 2.9% of the full income, primarily because of the Group U.S. growth and natural income progress. In addition, all different prices are focused to scale according to the long run progress.

In Slide 11, I’ll element how we reconcile our working revenue to optimistic adjusted EBITDA on this quarter. Adjusted EBITDA amounted to €3.1 million at 14.9% margins towards an working revenue of €0.8 million. The hole will be defined by the next noncash and distinctive objects. Depreciation, amortization and improve in intangible amortization is a part of the Wild Streak acquisition in June 2021. The share-primarily based cost awards granted to senior administration in Q1 2022 composed of DSUs and RSUs and share choices. Transaction and acquisition prices, prices related to the company M&A technique and the acquire on re-measurement of contingent consideration, which is especially associated to the share consideration component of the Spin Games acquisition.

Moving on to Slide 12, as of the top of June 2022, money steadiness was €11 million in comparison with €16 million at December 31, 2021, with no debt facility in place. Net working capital was €1 million in comparison with €11.6 million originally of the yr, with the principle distinction between the interval was the €9.1 million funding within the consideration paid upon the Spin acquisition. We proceed to mission optimistic free money circulate from operation. As a reminder, our enterprise technique requires a little bit CapEx associated to expertise debt necessities.

From a money circulate perspective, within the 6 months resulted in June 2022, we generated €7.5 million from working actions, whereas investing €12 million within the acquisition of Spin Games and software program improvement prices as a part of the funding in our expertise.

With that, I’ll flip the decision again to Yaniv. Following that, again to the operator for any questions. Back to you, Yaniv.

Yaniv Sherman

Thanks, Ronen. I’d prefer to share a bit extra particulars concerning the progress we have been making in our strategic journey. While the Spin acquisition was solely accomplished on June 1 of this yr, because the deal was introduced, we have been making nice progress in laying the groundwork to permit for quick and streamlined integration into the Bragg enterprise.

The technical integration between Spin and Oryx platform has been accomplished in report time, permitting us to begin leveraging on Spin’s extensive distribution community within the U.S. shortly after deal completion. This was coupled with an in depth licensing effort to permit us to go dwell in Connecticut and Ontario shortly after closing, and this could assist expedite our content material rollout in the course of the second half of the yr and past.

Our lately acquired Wild Streak workforce headed by Doug Fallon out of Las Vegas is already producing and creating proprietary content material below our Atomic Slot Lab studio, which is now 1 of 4 in-home Bragg studios focusing on the worldwide iGaming market. This rising content material portfolio is powered by Oryx’s distant gaming server and participant account administration, equipping Bragg with a full stack product providing and utilizing state-of-the-artwork expertise. We consider these synergistic property will give us a aggressive edge within the markets we goal to develop in throughout North America, Europe and Latin America.

Focusing on the U.S., with entry to a fabric a part of the addressable iGaming market by way of present relationships and integration, you see on Slide 15 that we goal to reinforce our footprint within the American market and assist our working companions develop revenues and profitability utilizing Bragg’s proprietary, unique and aggregated video games portfolio. Our rollout is underway, and we goal to make significant progress by way of the second half of 2022 and early 2023.

In the following slide, as for our longer-time period enterprise objectives, Bragg has embarked on a mission to diversify its income sources from each the market and product perspective. As you may see, we have made good progress, pushed by natural and inorganic progress in these instructions. We are equally centered now on complementary income progress with greater margins, our goal to additional diversify our product income combine by way of extra proprietary positive factors and turnkey prospects, all whereas sustaining operational self-discipline and price management.

To summarize on Slide 18, Bragg has loved a robust quarter and a report first half. We see this momentum persevering with into the second half of 2022, as Ronen has outlined. We might be utilizing this momentum to additional combine our lately acquired U.S. subsidiary into the Bragg enterprise, changing into a really world iGaming answer supplier. Launching new merchandise into new markets might be complemented by enhancing present relationships, serving to our prospects compete and develop their companies.

I’d additionally prefer to take this chance and thank the Bragg’s govt workforce and our staff throughout Slovenia, Malta, London, Nevada and India, for his or her onerous work over the previous few months, which resulted in these spectacular achievements. So thanks all.

We’ll be joyful to take your questions now, and thanks for listening.

Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first query is from the road of Neal Gilmer with Haywood Securities.

Q – Neal Gilmer

Yes, good morning. Congrats on the great quarter. Maybe simply — you talked lately in your MD&A about natural progress excluding Wild Streak and Spin Games within the quarter up 25%. You touched on Netherlands within the ready remarks on the decision right here, however simply questioning if there’s some other markets you’d name out that helps kind of drive a few of that natural progress?

Yaniv Sherman

Yes, all proper, good afternoon and good morning. Ronen, do you wish to take that?

Ronen Kannor

Yes, certain. Good morning Yaniv, how are you doing? So sure, we offered 25% progress from the legacy enterprise, I imply excluding the acquisitions. The majority of the expansion, as we all know, from a nominal perspective, is in Dutch market as we’re doing, I might say, fairly strongly from 4, 5 prospects that we now have there on managed providers — turnkey options, sorry, and that iGaming platform and content material aggregating. We’re additionally seeing progress of 10% progress from the legacy enterprise, which is in numerous markets, some from the European market.

In explicit, I might say, we now have the enticing [ph] market, which is Serbia, Croatia. We can see some progress coming additionally from — choosing up from the U.Okay., though in small scale, and we’re seeing some form of Portugal, which simply entered, and another markets that we’re working normally in different European markets. So, I am unable to say particularly there’s one explicit market that’s as important as a Dutch market per se at this second, however we’re rising organically from all different markets concurrently.

Neal Gilmer

Okay, thanks for that. Maybe for my second query could be, clearly final yr was — you had a few acquisitions with Wild Streak and Spin Gaming. What’s your outlook at this time limit on the M&A panorama? Are you seeing some fascinating potential alternatives on the market or are your focus for the brief time period is simply executed on rising the prevailing platform?

Yaniv Sherman

Well, you are proper within the sense that we have accomplished two significant acquisitions. And I believe the panorama over the previous couple of months has modified significantly, and there are positively just a few fascinating alternatives on the market. Having mentioned that, administration’s present focus is integrating or additional integrating Bragg into a brand new world enterprise throughout three continents and I believe that strengthening the skeleton that may home extra offers sooner or later is our #1 precedence.

Again, having mentioned that, we — which means, the general public on this name are continually evaluating alternatives. We have our ear to the bottom in any respect given moments. And if it makes monetary and operational sense, then we’ll positively interact. But at this level, as you appropriately outlined, default could be within the subsequent few quarters is to additional improve and drive natural progress by way of the newly acquired property.

Neal Gilmer

Okay, that is nice. Thank you for taking my questions.

Yaniv Sherman

Thank you.

Operator

Your subsequent query is from the road of Harman Bassi with Canaccord. Please go forward.

Harman Bassi

Hey guys, good morning and nice second quarter. I’m Matt Lee’s affiliate. I used to be simply following up on one of many earlier questions. Are you capable of give us any insights on how the North American market is unfolding and what sort of markets that you simply really feel — what sort of market share you are feeling that Bragg can attain?

Yaniv Sherman

Sure. North America — the North American market, predominantly U.S. and Canada, has been — we have been making nice progress in mainly distributing or establishing a brand new distribution community on prime of the one which’s been already established available in the market and the concept could be to make the most of that community. We’re seeing some good preliminary indicators, however at this level, we have solely deployed restricted quantity of proprietary content material into it. I believe that the mixing is unquestionably — the acquisition positively created an efficient shortcut for us. So that might be our focus for the second half of the yr, getting as lots of the integrations dwell in a lot of the iGaming markets in North America, after which build up our content material portfolio with every operator.

I believe, there are some huge targets — the goal focus within the U.S. may be very a lot pushed upwards. The prime three or 4 operators management a significant a part of that market. So it’ll positively see us attempting to bolster our enterprise with these operators. And I believe it was talked about on the decision itself, the primary half of the yr was demonstrating some wholesome progress primarily based on each the acquisition and the prevailing Bragg enterprise and I believe we’ll be trying to speed up these.

In phrases of market share, it is a trickier level. I do know that whole addressable market was a subject of the dialog, however I believe that we’re coming off from a comparatively low base in North America. So even taking just a few factors or single-digit share might be a fabric upscale additive to our present outcomes. There are numerous methods of measuring, particularly on the B2B degree, however I believe that we needn’t take double-digit market share in these areas to make a significant impression on the enterprise. So, we’ll be beginning and focusing on that degree.

Harman Bassi

Perfect, thanks a lot.

Operator

Your subsequent query is from the road of David McFadgen with Cormark Securities.

David McFadgen

Hi guys. Thanks for taking my questions. So, I used to be a number of the outcomes of a number of the different B2C operators working in Europe and so a few of them exited the Netherlands markets to get a license, they acquired their license. Now they’ve entered again into the Netherlands market after which reporting fairly robust progress and I used to be questioning in the event you’re seeing any impression from that?

And then, secondly, on Germany, is the regulator doing something to clamp down on the gray market exercise there and to assist the white market operators? Thanks.

Yaniv Sherman

Sure. I’ll take the primary query concerning the Dutch market. So far, we have seen materials progress from our purchasers within the Dutch market. I believe the B2C operators, all of the regional or the worldwide operators have solely ventured again in recently, April and May, concluded the blackout interval in order that they’ve ventured again in. We have not seen — truly in the course of the first half, we’ve not seen or felt by way of our clientele the unfavourable impression from the elevated competitors, however I believe it is a bit quickly. I believe it is positively to not change into extra aggressive. I believe we now have the kind of the privilege of partnering with a number of the market leaders.

So, there would be the incumbents at this level and others would want to carve out market share and chase. But positively, I believe, the Netherlands, the Dutch market will proceed to develop on the again of elevated competitors, however the items of the ply would inherently must go smaller. Our focus is to onboard and launch extra purchasers and develop with the prevailing ones to kind of defend our place, however I believe the opposite level can also be diversifying our income sources simply so it turns into nicely balanced.

As far as Germany, we’ve not seen any particular actions by native authorities up till now. It does not imply that they are not occurring, however once more, our publicity to the market at this level after having exited it’s restricted. So, I do not know any explicit enforcement or some other measures. I do know that that is nonetheless very a lot a transferring goal. We’re monitoring it very fastidiously. If it turns into related once more, we positively have the product set to have the ability to take part. But at this level, we’re monitoring it from the sidelines.

David McFadgen

Okay, all proper, thanks.

Operator

Your subsequent query is from the road of Jack Vander Aarde with Maxim Group. Please go forward.

Jack Vander Aarde

Okay, nice. Good morning guys. Congrats on the strong outcomes. Good to see the steering elevate. I’ll begin with a query on the Spin acquisition and simply feedback relating to Wild Streak plus Spin income, up 50% sequentially, it is nice to listen to. Just a few observe-ups there. Does this imply professional forma Spin income or simply solely together with one quarter spend, simply given the timing of that acquisition? And then I’ve a observe-up.

Yaniv Sherman

Ronen, do you wish to take that?

Ronen Kannor

Sure. Hi Jack, how are you doing? So we offered quarter-over-quarter, 50%. To be trustworthy with you, it is probably not presentable to current on a professional forma till final yr. Spin was not acquired again then and Wild Streak was only one month of buying and selling. So one of the simplest ways to current it’s to indicate it in comparison with the earlier quarter. And within the quarter-by-quarter, there is a 50% improve. The a part of Spin was simply 1 month in the course of the consolidation of this quarter, so it isn’t considerably impacted the expansion. So it is all about our proprietary content material with Wild Streak with the prevailing legacy prospects and with the content material that really we’re rolling out into the U.S. land-primarily based on line casino, so it is on-line and land-primarily based on line casino, which is spectacular on its personal from our perspective.

Jack Vander Aarde

Got it. That’s useful coloration, I respect that. And then, simply wanting on the MD&A remark, it is good to see you added 30 prospects, it seems to be like sequentially 26 of these got here from Spin, I consider. So possibly — and that is signal, simply given the Tier 1 operator relationship. Can you possibly present some coloration on what you are listening to some Tier 1 operator prospects? And simply how receptive they have been to the change in possession and a newly built-in RGS platform? Just how are issues going there and what you are listening to from these prospects?

Ronen Kannor

They’ve been extremely receptive to date. I believe, the prevailing companions, kind of most of them, if not all of them, are very revenue-centric at this level. They welcome new content material. They welcome streamlined deployment course of. They’ve been nothing however cooperative and in addition desirous to see the brand new content material portfolio. We’ve truly been present process some highway reveals and demonstrating these portfolios. And I believe proper now, it is principally round 2 or 3 parts, which is time to market, certification and positioning. Naturally it is a very aggressive panorama from a content material perspective.

But all in all, the Spin workforce headed by Kent Young and his workforce in Reno and Vegas has been extraordinarily efficient and kind of relaying the brand new options and the brand new story, and we have been working ever because the deal closing in tandem with them. So all in all, it has been a really nicely receptive — the operators have been very receptive. Personally, I even have fairly good relationships from my earlier place. So leveraging on all of that, I believe it is as much as us to now complemented with some sound content material supply that may make an impression. But general, we’re very pleased with the way in which the whole lot going to date.

Jack Vander Aarde

Okay, nice. And then simply possibly one final query, simply given your debut within the newly regulated Ontario market, which simply went dwell in April, so very well timed. Just questioning, are you seeing any parallels to different markets you have lately entered and had success in, after all the Dutch market was form of a novel alternative, however nonetheless they’ve a house run alternative as nicely. Just the place would you rank Ontario when it comes to your preliminary ramp up there and the way you see issues enjoying out?

Yaniv Sherman

Well, I believe usually talking, Ontario resembles extra of a, what I name, a transitional regulation relatively than a market restart. Market restart, identical to the Dutch or a lot of the American markets by the way in which which have mainly shut down at a given second after which restarted the Dutch market. The regulator was very efficient in kind of restarting and leveling out the enjoying discipline. The American markets, was the identical.

The Canadian, the Ontario regulators took a extra transitional strategy in kind of bringing present dotcom operators below the tent, which implies it is a extra gradual course of. So preliminary numbers counsel it is a rising market, and it will be a wholesome one. But I believe it’ll take us a bit longer to hit or to kind of get to the identical ranges because it was all dotcom revenues to come back below that tent after which proceed to develop. I believe that is what we have seen in different markets, each for Bragg and usually talking.

And I do suppose it is also a way more aggressive market than the Dutch, which means so far as I do know, nicely over 100 purposes within the market and that’s solely rising, which implies, after all, for somebody like us, it is a a lot greater enjoying discipline, nevertheless it additionally means it is fairly fragmented initially. And we’re additionally ready for a set of the formal numbers to come back out of the regulator desk, like we now have in North America, to get a bit extra clever round it.

But I might — from the numbers that we have seen to date, and usually, I believe will probably be extra gradual and would display constant progress, nevertheless it will not be as dramatic because the Dutch market, which was mainly kind of a day one launch this can take a bit extra time when the [indiscernible] have rather a lot on their plate to undergo, as I discussed. They have to work by way of fairly a little bit of purposes and certifications, and that is typically that may be a bottleneck.

Jack Vander Aarde

Okay, nice. Really nice coloration there. I respect it.

Operator

Your subsequent query is from the road of [indiscernible]. Please go forward.

Unidentified Analyst

Hi gents, thanks very a lot for taking my name. Just an ideal quarter, by the way in which, and I’ve been within the firm for some time now. Just just a few questions, in the event you do not thoughts. Just going by way of the monetary statements a little bit intently right here, nicely, the primary one is extra of an apparent one. Right now, it seems to be like the corporate is slight working capital deficiency proper now. I used to be questioning if going ahead, I do know you anticipate to be money circulate optimistic. But I used to be questioning in the event you guys are contemplating possibly a elevate for capital in the event you want extra capital within the close to future, possibly go for some form of like debt safety, are you able to at the very least concerning the remark on that? That was my first query.

Yaniv Sherman

Yes, Ronen?

Ronen Kannor

Sure. Dae [ph], good morning. You’re spot on. Yes, we now have a really slender working capital. We knew that just a few months in the past, we knew the quarter’s Spin acquisition and $10 million we now have to pay the preliminary cost. We’re going to have a really tight working capital. Rightly what you are saying so far as we’re producing money on a month-to-month foundation. We have no debt. We have to beef up the steadiness sheet and to maintain ample working cap to help our progress and proceed with the momentum. So, we now have quite a few discussions with the Board members internally with administration.

There’s a number of processes working in the mean time. I consider within the subsequent few weeks, we will conclude concerning the course of we began and we are going to notify the market. But sure, it is one in all our necessary and key factors to realize by finish of September. And I believe even earlier that we are going to give you some form of changes — announcement, sorry.

Unidentified Analyst

Okay, thanks very a lot. The second query I’ve right here, I observed that the shopper focus threat positively elevated tremendously on this quarter. I see right here, primarily based on my calculation, over about 46% of Q2 revenues are from one buyer. How would you are feeling about this buyer focus threat? And is that this a priority to you or is that a possibility? How would you view this?

Yaniv Sherman

So, it is positively — we assessed that we had been lucky sufficient to companion with market leaders and we predict that we do not escape with particular prospects resulting from naturally confidentiality causes. But we’re lucky of partnering with market leaders, and that’s one optimistic facet of it. The different a part of it, truly the opposite aspect of any buyer that is quick rising takes us a rising a part of your whole income base.

And the answer there may be the necessity to additional diversify our income streams and develop companies in different components of the world and markets, and that is precisely what we’re doing. You’re spot on. I imply, on the finish of the day, firm’s progress was powered or pushed by this early success, and we wish to leverage that to maintain that progress trajectory and mitigate that threat, however that is an ideal studying of the present momentum drive.

Operator

Your subsequent query is from the road of [indiscernible] with Eight Capital. Please go forward.

Unidentified Analyst

Hi good morning guys, thanks for taking my questions. I needed to ask a query on the platform technique with the participant account administration, clearly seeing robust traction within the Dutch market. But some other markets exterior of that the place you are seeing that traction? I believe final quarter, you guys had talked about possibly within the Czech market, however how are these conversations and the way are these rollouts going exterior of the Dutch market with respect to the participant account administration and the platform technique?

Ronen Kannor

We have some fascinating PAM alternatives. Definitely Czech [ph] market is simply one of many alternatives. As Yaniv talked about, we now have alternatives within the Dutch market and somebody that have already got monitor report in it. Other European alternative in that regard, we’re evaluating these kind of in a case by case foundation, naturally PAM offers are extra complete of their strategy, and extra intimate relationships as a result of all all the on-line proposition is powered by us. But — and in regulated markets, as you may think about, operators have to have sure property and assets to be able to push one thing by way of to significant scale. But there may be positively, I believe, a number of the local weather round pluses, we additionally really feel that has modified and kind of shifted in the direction of profitability, which implies that there are much more conversations round outsourcing technical competencies.

I believe operators understand that managing a full turnkey technical and product stack is materials, which some issues modified our pivot to their enterprise. So they’re trying to companion with somebody that can’t simply present them with that, but additionally some ancillary providers, managed providers, and we now have all that at hand. So we’re simply — we wish to make it possible for we companion with like-minded operators that may obtain scale in native markets. So, the chance and the pipeline is unquestionably there, and it is positively wholesome. We simply have to make it possible for we wager on the correct companions and so they wager on us. It’s been a really wholesome previous couple of months, I might say.

Unidentified Analyst

Okay, nice. And then, simply on the proprietary content material, I believe you guys talked about in your press launch this morning about 22 proprietary video games to be launched by way of the steadiness of the yr. Maybe give us a way of how the previous releases have been — have gone? Obviously you guys are seeing robust traction there. But how these — the learnings from these video games will be form of translated to new markets? Because I believe you guys have talked about there is a degree of customization that is required for each single title that is launched. So possibly any learnings you have taken out of your present portfolio you can form of apply to new markets and the way that might doubtlessly speed up?

Yaniv Sherman

Yes, you are completely proper. I believe sport improvement and content material improvement is unquestionably an artwork kind and it is very knowledge-pushed. So, our major focus is taking the preliminary deployment that we have had. And as I’ve talked about, we have seen some preliminary success from the Atomic Slot Lab content material deployed like Egyptian Magic and some different key titles. And they are not simply demonstrating early success, however they’re additionally permitting us and enabling us to begin constructing a knowledge set that we will each share with companions, but additionally take again internally and see what works and what does not and if is extra difficult than simply the sport itself. The math behind it, the RGS, the sport server and the way in which it is designed, all kinds of options and functionalities and a few complementing participant engagement options.

So I believe one of many best property that we now have exterior may be very confirmed and inventive sport improvement workforce. Content improvement workforce has additionally our strategy to knowledge in the way in which that we have constructed it. This is unquestionably one thing kind of a flywheel we’re trying to begin implementing in North America on the success that we have had in Europe with it, distribution that we have had with it to reinforce that distribution in North America and begin gathering a knowledge set that may allow us to develop proprietary personalized or typically tailored content material for these markets. And in some circumstances, it is even kind of a state-by-state tweak you may embark on. But that’s positively a significant focus for us going ahead. The proprietary half is not only the artwork or the mathematics, it is also the info set that you simply’re capable of accumulate after which develop towards that.

Unidentified Analyst

Okay, nice. And then, final one from me, and I’ll cross the road right here, guys. Just on the Italian market, that looks as if I believe the U.S., we have got sense of the place that is going. You mentioned you are seeing some good traction within the U.Okay. I suppose the following frontier would form of be the Italian market. How do you see that market form of enjoying out for you guys, simply given its measurement and breadth?

Yaniv Sherman

The second is, if I keep in mind appropriately, it is the second largest market. So it is positively one thing that we have to have a tendency to only — we’re additionally aware of the analysis that we have to put in Italy, very like Central Europe. Actually Italy can also be divided into two submarkets in the event you have a look at this, Southern Italy and Northern Italy which are considerably totally different when it comes to buyer preferences. All-in-all, it is also very localized. The land-primarily based market has kind of put a sure taste to video games, content material that you simply see in numerous venues, very distributed and native incumbents are very efficient there that we’d look to companion with, nevertheless it requires totally different knowledge units.

We’ve had some early success in different markets the place we have taken Central European developed so focus our content material, each develop internally and in addition aggregated or a few of our unique content material and we had been capable of adapt it to localize it to different markets. But it’s, let’s name it, extra of a midterm to longer-time period focus as a result of, once more, it is rather like its measurement is, it is close to measurement, it requires some particular consideration. So I might assume that the video games that we developed in the direction of that market could have a neighborhood taste, native payout, RTPs and so forth. And naturally, the technical integration concerned available in the market itself is one thing that we might want to focus on, however let’s examine that kind of mid to long term, simply to make it possible for we now have our assets centered on our key progress markets.

Unidentified Analyst

Great, thanks. And Yaniv, congrats on the function, and searching ahead to working with you. Best of luck guys.

Yaniv Sherman

Thank you. Thank you very a lot. I respect that.

Operator

This concludes the Q&A portion of at present’s name. I’ll flip the decision again to Mr. Spielberg for any closing remarks.

Yaniv Spielberg

Yes. Thank you everybody for becoming a member of this morning, and we hope that you simply loved the presentation. And I’d prefer to, like as [indiscernible] mentioned, we welcome Yaniv Sherman to the workforce, so congratulations on that. We’ll converse once more in three months on our Q3 presentation. Thanks, everybody.

Operator

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