Butterfly Network, Inc. Q2 2026 Earnings Call

Good afternoon and welcome to the Butterfly Network Second quarter 2020 Earnings call. My name is Adam and I'll be your operator for today. If you'd like to ask a question at the Q&A portion of today's call, you may do so by pressing star, followed by one on your telephone keypad. And I will now hand the floor to John Doherty to begin. So, John, please go ahead. When you are ready.

Good morning, and thanks to all of you for joining our call today. Earlier, butterfly released financial results for the second quarter ended June 30th, 2026. We also provided a business update. The release, which includes a reconciliation of management's use of non-GAAP financial measures compared to the most applicable GAAP measures, is currently available on the investors section of the company's website at ir dot Butterfly Network dot com. I John Doherty, Chief Financial Officer of butterfly, along with Joseph DeVivo Butterflies Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will host the call this morning. During. Today's call, we will be making certain forward looking statements. These statements may include, among other things. Expectations with respect to financial results. Future performance, development and commercialization of products and services, potential regulatory approvals, revenue attributable to embedded partnerships through revenue share, chip purchases or otherwise, and the size and potential growth of current or future markets for our products and services. These. Forward looking statements are based on current information, assumptions, and expectations that are subject to change and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward looking statements.

These and other risks are described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward looking statements, and the company disclaims any obligation to update such statements. As a reminder, this call is being webcast live and recorded To access the webcast, please visit the events section of our investor website. A replay of the event will also be available on this page. Following the call. I would now like to turn the call over to Joe. Thanks, John. So good morning everyone, and thank you for joining our second quarter 2020 earnings call. What a great quarter it was. We closed above the top end of guidance, delivered record revenues, gross margins and adjusted EBITDA. All above where we thought we'd end up as a result, we are raising our full year guidance, which John will share in his section last quarter. I shared that three engines of growth were emerging and beginning to reinforce each other. Focus home and community care and embedded. What's unfolding across our business this quarter shows that that flywheel is now starting to turn. And I want to walk you through each one, starting with the one that's been capturing global attention.

Butterfly embedded the world now understands why we've been so eager to share details about the embedded partnerships. We can finally unpack what a couple of our partners have discovered as possible with our technology Our vision for a new category of chip based ultrasound is unfolding right before our eyes. Mid journey's groundbreaking announcement to build a whole body scanner shocked the technology world and challenged conventional thinking in medicine. The promise of semiconductor based imaging had never truly been appreciated until now As I've said to you many times, we're entering into an era where ultrasound will be liberated from the imaging and expanding beyond the four walls of the health system and moving to where people are when they need it. Butterfly is embedded, actually amplifies butterfly's core mission of democratizing imaging by partnering with companies who share that same vision, whether it's a handheld probe, a wearable device, or a whole body imaging system. One constant remains true safe. Low cost imaging paired with massive data capture in the AI era will transform healthcare This is a chance to empower patients to better manage their well-being. While creating one of the most important advances in improving human health.

So no patients should be surprised with their health. But. Six days ago, I received a call from a dear, dear friend of mine telling me that he was just diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and it had metastasized to his lungs and liver. I mean, just diagnosed stage four. Are you kidding me? Do you know how long it takes for that primary tumor in his colon to develop? In metastasize? Could be years. Where was his MRI when? All of our employees was diagnosed with stage two pancreatic cancer. Just by chance. Had. He not had a scan for another ailment? It never would have been found since pancreatic cancer is also asymptomatic and normally found when it's too late. But now, with an unusually early diagnosis. She has a chance. These. Causes, unfortunately, aren't rare. They're happening everywhere, every day to people we know and people we've never met. The recent untimely passing of Senator Lindsey Graham from an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm, something that can be treated with life saving surgery if caught in time, is a sobering reminder that even people with access to the best resources in the world can fall through the cracks of the system.

So it's not about the imaging modality. MRI is the best imaging in the world, no question. But it's about the system, the cost, the barriers, the stakeholders. And frankly, the old thinking that screening is too troublesome for the current system. Technology is. Changing that Semiconductor based imaging, mass data processing, storage and AI will change that paradigm It'll give you greater awareness of your health journey. Help you make better decisions with your life, and be the scribe to your personal story. Another key learning this quarter is how well suited ultrasound on Chip is for neurotechnology. Probably one of the most profound uses of our chip will be the ability to image, to map, to understand, and potentially apply therapy to the brain in the future while pushing and pulling information from it. A left. Neuro showed us two major breakthroughs in the last two months. First, they demonstrated a remarkably high resolution 3D transcranial ultrasound of the brain using a contrast agent showing not. Only that imaging through the skull is feasible, but that it may ultimately offer diagnostic insights approaching those of functional MRI. Next, they revealed a new way to use ultrasound to track the movements of the tongue to discern speech.

Each. Manifestation of our technology can have global impact for health and to. Quality of life. And this is just the beginning. Everyone. Before I move to Pocus updates, I want to mention that we've signed two more embedded partnerships in the second quarter, bringing the total to 11. Two very exciting additions. One another BCI company developing a novel application and another pursuing a wearable for one of the most common areas of women's health. So shifting to our Pocus business, we had several key accomplishments. We signed six more enterprise software deals, deploying our compass AI software to enable system wide Pocus management and adherence. Many of these deals were paired with probe sales, and we expect. As the software is implemented, the growing base of probes will steadily follow into these systems. Since last year, our compass AI software pipeline has increased five times and we are seeing the benefits of that now. Compass AI is how pocus becomes part of the healthcare workflow, driving adoption, utilization, and earlier diagnosis. I'm very happy with the team's progress, and I'm equally excited about our opportunity in government sales, including VA, DoD, HHS, and other federal agencies, in the second quarter, we received provisional authorization to sell to the full VA, and we anticipate full FedRAMP certification in the third quarter, which will make us one of only 500 companies certified.

The largest purchaser of U.S. healthcare is the US government, and this channel will soon be open to us. Our government pipeline has grown anticipation of this accomplishment, and we're ready to execute on the significant opportunity ahead. Medical. Schools also continue to be an important area of strategic growth for butterfly Today, we have a presence in more than 80% of the US medical schools, and were increasingly seeing institutions move from purchasing a handful of devices to implementing a 1 to 1 ultrasound curriculum. Schools like Kansas City University are leading the way, with first year students now completing their entire ultrasound curriculum on butterfly scan lab platform. As that inaugural class completes its first year, we're already seeing insights that are helping other institutions build similar programs in Q. One we told you we placed nearly 1000 probes in the six medical schools. In Q2. We more than doubled that through four additional institutional partnerships. As these programs have expanded, we've started asking a bigger question. Well, what happens after graduation? A recent survey we conducted across our medical school accounts found that while more than half, say graduates frequently continue using Pocus in practice, nearly three quarters have no pathway for graduates to keep the device into residency, and nearly 60% don't track the graduates at all.

That reinforce our belief that there's an opportunity to better understand and better support new physicians as they transition from Pocus training into clinical practice. So that brings me to some exciting news this quarter. We entered a new partnership with the Edward via College of Osteopathic Medicine, or Vcom. It's a novel partnership model in which not only will every Vcom student have a probe train with, but we will partner on a long term longitudinal insights program as all of. You know, butterfly devices are connected to the cloud, which stores image data much like your iPhone does with iCloud. We gather performance metrics on all users that help us understand usage patterns, locations, and the types of scans being performed We're not quite ready to share the detailed logistics of the program yet, but we have been exciting plan to track and learn from the ultrasound journey that follows. A 1 to 1 medical school program. We. Made the investment to provide every incoming student with IC3 devices. While butterfly subsidized the initial distribution of IQ plus devices to get the program going. You'll see our investment reflected in the Lower ASPs. We've reported this quarter. We believe that's exactly the right investment to make as we establish what we think is a groundbreaking new model for medical education.

This partnership represents the potential of more than $10 million in total contract value over the next four years. So regarding international, you'll see that our team had a down quarter. We believe it's really no big deal as our distribution sell through is up meaningfully year over year. We had a handful of larger order shipped into quarter three, so we expect a much stronger third quarter ahead. So John will say more about this when he covers the financial results. One highlight we particularly excited about is Brazil, where we recently achieved regulatory authorization. Brazil is the largest medical device market in Latin America, and one of the fastest growing ultrasound markets in the world. Meeting Brazil's regulatory requirements is a great validation of our technology and opens the door to a significant long term growth opportunity for butterfly in the region. So I'll close out with Butterfly Garden. As planned. We've officially released our proprietary beam steering capabilities, including IQ, slice and fan, to both our garden and embedded partners, furthering their development opportunities. In the second quarter, we added a new garden partner focused on precision needle guidance with AI, and we expect three of our existing partner tools to become commercially available by year end.

Importantly, those three partners will launch with direct access into Butterfly's cloud, allowing their AI results to flow right into our users existing clinical workflows without toggling to a separate application. It's an exciting milestone as garden evolves from a developer ecosystem into a commercial AI platform. So before I turn it to John, I want to comment on our home and community care business We are ready to begin managing our first commercial state on October 1st. Over the third quarter, we'll be training all the participating nurses in the state while we finish setting up the necessary infrastructure. We are excited for this to transition from a pilot to finally implementation. We will do everything in our power to support the success of this commercial execution and plan to discuss extending this offering to other states. In the first half of 2027. We're also now in conversations to expand the service to other key partners. So butterfly home and Community Care is finally here, and we expect a revenue in the fourth quarter of 2026. With that, I'd like to turn it over to John to discuss the financial details. John. Thanks. Joe Butterfly continued its strong and focused execution in the second quarter of 2026, with an increase in revenue driven by strong growth in our embedded business.

Core was also solid with performance reflecting our increased and expanding focus on the enterprise market. Gross margin increased and we saw continued improvement in operating performance with further reallocation of resources towards higher ROI opportunities and markets Building on the operational highlights, Joe just outlined, including the large TCV contracts for comp, AI and medical education and progress toward commercializing home and community care. Let me translate these into the financial highlights in the quarter record. Revenue. Attainment above the high end of consensus and above the top end of our guidance, the highest gross margin for butterfly in its history. Adjusted EBITDA. That was above consensus, and our guidance range with improvement driven by our revenue performance, higher gross margin, and continued financial discipline and growth, in probe unit sales of 23%. With that, let me move on to our results. Second quarter revenue was a record 32.6 million, an increase of 39% year over year. Our growth was primarily driven by butterfly embedded. In addition, in core, we had strong performance in US health systems and medical schools, including a large sale to Vcom, which helped to drive strong year over year unit volume growth. Along with AI sales gaining traction breaking.

Things down between the US and international channels. During the second quarter. US revenue was 27.6 million, which was 57% higher year over year, driven by revenue from embedded, as well as solid demand in the core business. With unit sales up 23%. As Joe mentioned, international was down year over year. Total international revenue decreased by 14% year over year to 5 million in the quarter. We faced a tough Q2 comp against last year's record international second quarter, aided by tailwinds from the IQ three launch. We also had a few deals expected to close in the second quarter. Move out into the third quarter. We expect improving performance for the balance of the year. We are excited about our recent launch into the Brazil market and continuing to expand our global footprint. As I. Did last quarter and will continue to do going forward, I want to provide you with the revenue split between our core focus business and butterfly embedded. We have also included this split in our 10-q. As a reminder, the core business includes sales and related software. Compas AI, other service. And in the future, home embedded revenue currently includes one time payments, annual license fees, revenue from SOW driven development work, and chip sales to embedded partners With that, revenue for the second quarter was 21.9 million, an increase of 2% versus the second quarter of 2025.

This increase was driven primarily by growth in volume and US health and medical schools of note. And as Joe mentioned earlier, the core result includes the execution of a new strategic agreement with Vcom. This agreement. Is for four years with the potential TCV exceeding $10 million. This also included preferred pricing for the. IQ plus to help secure the larger multi-year commitment to the IQ three. This investment in the alliance with Vcom is a template for butterfly going forward to help deplete our existing excess inventory while enabling broader and deeper penetration of the medical school market. Ahead of the launch of our next generation probe in 2027. Sales of the IQ three and IQ plus in the quarter were up 17% and 33%, respectively, year over year. The. Higher year over year mix of the IQ plus in the quarter and the Vcom deal. Resulted in a 12% decrease in the ASP butterfly embedded. Revenue was 10.8 million, an increase of 439% versus the second quarter of 2025. This increase was primarily driven by the Midjourney partnership. Going on to gross profit, gross profit was also a record at 23.3 million in the second quarter of 2026. A 56% increase as compared to the prior year gross profit of 14.9 million gross profit.

Margin percentage increased to 71% from 64% in the prior year period. A 7.7 point increase. Gross margin percentage was positively impacted by the increased mix and higher margin of butterfly embedded revenue. Moving to. EBITDA and cash for the second quarter of 2026. Adjusted EBITDA loss was 1.4 million. Compared with a loss of 6.2 million for the same period in 2025, an improvement of 78%. The improvement in adjusted EBITDA loss in the second quarter was driven by contribution from higher margin revenue and continued financial discipline. Our cash and cash equivalent balance, excluding restricted cash at the end of the second quarter, was 125 million, and the use of cash in the quarter was 13.3 million. This compares to use of cash of $7 million in the prior year quarter. We are well positioned as we move forward to continue to invest in our business, in areas where we see significant opportunities for additional growth and disruption, which includes scaling or focused business through global market and market segment expansion, continued penetration of AI as a core operating system for health systems, app releases, and butterfly garden, and 2027 new product launches, continued AI and semiconductor innovation with the development of our fourth generation chip.

Butterfly embedded partnerships and moving home and community care to the commercial phase before. Going to guidance, I want to update you on the general global macroeconomic environment relative to butterfly. We continue to monitor the conflict in the Middle East and the ripple effects on the global economy, as well as pressure from tariffs in certain markets and AI driven supply chain shortages. We have mentioned in the past that there are some impacts to our business. However, they have been minor and we continue to manage through it and make the appropriate adjustments. Our second quarter 2026 results are indicative of this, and our third quarter and full year 2026 guidance include any expected impacts. I would now like to turn to our outlook for the third quarter of 2026 and for the calendar year ending December 31st, 2026. In the. Third quarter, we expect revenue in the range of 26 million to 30 million for a year over year increase of 30% at the midpoint. We expect an adjusted EBITDA loss in the range of 6 million to 9 million. For the full year 2026, we are increasing our guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. We expect revenue to be between 119 million and 123 million, an increase of approximately 22% to 26% over 2025.

We expect our adjusted EBITDA loss to be between 19 million and 23 million. Our guidance. For adjusted EBITDA in the third quarter and full year includes increased investment in key areas to support continued innovation and revenue growth in our core business and our emerging embedded business for 2026 and beyond. In summary, we had a record quarter. We had our highest revenue for a quarter ever, and we beat both our revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance. We are very well positioned as we head into the second half of 2026, and as the raised our full year guidance reflects, we look forward to continued growth this year and beyond. We remain focused on gaining share through deeper penetration of existing customers and adding new customers in our core business and expanding our ultrasound on chip partnerships. The business continues to get stronger across core focus and embedded. This is happening while we continue our intense focus on driving, operating efficiency across the business and return on investment, I continue to be excited about what is ahead for the company in 2026 and beyond. Now let me hand it back to Joe for some closing comments. Thanks, John. Looking ahead, we are making progress on all fronts in our mission to democratize medical imaging.

The mid. Journey announcement was captivating. Millions of people have viewed the announcement and it was a trending topic on X for more than a week. Technology companies of all sizes have taken notice, and while we've always believed butterfly was key to these conversations, we now have a spotlight in the discussions around AI compute and the many applications of ultrasound on chip technology. It's been an exciting last 60 days, and we finally can communicate with investors and partners about the future of our technology. Can open. With especially exciting is that our semiconductor roadmap is advancing not only in image quality, but also the ability to generate large data sets with our high speed Apollo chip and push data directly into GPUs for large scale AI processing. As new compute architectures emerge, our partners envision converging image acquisition with AI driven data interpretation, and this vision is becoming increasingly achievable. Our Apollo. Platform is moving forward on schedule. We've been investing in our chip to meet the demands of both our embedded partners and the Pocus business. We've now completed our primary design and are transitioning beyond research and into the development phase. We're on track with our scheduled commitments to deliver Apollo chips to Midjourney on time by the end of 2027.

Beginning of 2028. Just as. Is exciting, we're continuing to make excellent progress on our next generation probe that will be built on our P 5.1 chip. The first. Full prototype images are outstanding, and we're on track for a first quarter 2027 launch. IQ three already delivers best in class image quality and will remain our workhorse. While the P 5.1 builds on that foundation with the first Sigma chip to deliver harmonic imaging. This allows an even higher level of performance that's important to certain specialties like cardiology. What we've seen so far gives us tremendous confidence in what's ahead. Our P 5.1 chip is showing us better images. Specifically in cardiology, than we see from our PRS handheld competitors. If this holds true with better imaging and a handheld than our competitors, both big and small. Why would anyone buy anything other than a FEMA? We are preparing for a big launch in 2027 and will continue that momentum by entering the Cart business with IQ station later in the same year. The. Flywheel is turning. We've increased our guidance for 2026. We're adding embedded partners more frequently, and we'll be launching some key partners AI tools in the second half of the year.

By early 2027. We are planning for our sales force to have what's expected to be the best handheld imaging in the world. Compass A.I. garden AI apps, and then we'll march upstream into the health systems with the most holistic, integrated focus platform to begin tapping into the existing multibillion dollar global ultrasound cart market in health systems. On top of that, the home and community care will be going commercial. It's all coming together. I cannot be any more excited about our future. So with that operator, please open it up for questions.

As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question on today's call, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Now to join the Q, I'm preparing to ask you a question. Please ensure you are unmuted locally at star followed by one. And our. First question today comes from Josh Jennings from TD Cowen. Josh, please go ahead. Your line is open.

Hi. Good morning John. John, thanks for taking the questions. And congratulations on a strong quarter. Continue to. Add layers of revenue opportunities onto the story that flywheel seems to be turning. As you called out, one of the. To touch on embedded. And then also just the focus core growth., just on embedded and just revenue visibility with the Midjourney and Olaf announcements, how should we be thinking about the cadence of embedded revenue over the next 12 to 24 months? And should we expect meaningful contributions from additional partners beyond Midjourney before the larger chip and revenue sharing opportunities materialize? With that agreement? Josh, I'll take the beginning of that one. As we said in the past, we expected embedded to be somewhere around 7 to 8 million per quarter, and that would fluctuate a bit up or down 1 million or 2 here or there. It was down a bit in the first quarter from that. Obviously it was up in the in the second quarter, and we expect to kind of maintain that cadence. Obviously, you know, as we add additional partners and we go. Broader across embedded, you know, I would expect that to, to increase. But that's where we are right now.

Yeah. I mean, all I have is, you know, we added two additional.

Partners and, you.

Know, each of these are.

You know.

Are. Have a lot of upside to them. And so, you know, they're all research programs, they're programs where people are looking at, you know, Building new businesses. And at any point in time. They can reach a milestone and want to go. Commercial and, and that's, you know, a second bite of the apple for us. So, you know, our revenue in, in, embedded includes all of our partners, not just Midjourney. And so when we add people, there are revenue in us in the numbers, but it's when they go commercial that we can get, you know, a big pops and there'll be some stuff coming up in the future. We'll be adding more partners and I anticipate, you know, some of our current partners going commercial. So this is, you know, this is just going to layer on top of itself., it's going to grow. And, you know,, the Midjourney announcement has also opened a lot of new conversations., that are very, very exciting. Yeah, I wanted to. Touch on that. Thanks. Joe. And John, the, just the level of inbound interest accelerating following the,, the Midjourney public demonstration, the announcement. 11 embedded partners, how many additional partnerships can the organization realistically support simultaneously?

I mean, it is,, is maybe just help us understand, I mean, can you get out to, to 20 partnerships plus over time and support all of those, those efforts. Yeah, I think, you know, I don't see in, in my mind at the moment,, a limit to the partnerships, you know, because I think the beautiful part about this is that there is commonality. There is a flywheel. So we're not developing new chips for each person. And then taking on all this cost and supply chain and CapEx, it's the same chip. What we are doing is, is building a software platform that allows them to do the work for themselves., and so, and then sometimes they'll ask us to do specific work that's right on the fringe. And then we'll do it for them. But I see this evolving into something that's pretty standardized. People come in, you know, they, they license our technology, they purchase our hardware ., and. Then, you know, at some point in time, they buy chips and get licenses for software. And then if they wish some market protection and wish to purchase, you know, exclusivity, then that's when those deals get bigger.

But, you know, when I look at,, you know, companies that we emulate, you know, they have standard pricing and standard business operating procedure. And it's all into our current,, semiconductor platform. So I don't see a limit to this. I don't, we're not a job shop. I see this as a scalable, you know, core part of the future of imaging technology. And one thing that all the development work, we're also getting compensated for. So it's not as if we're if we're doing that for free. Yeah. And I think that. Thank you for saying that because I think what we've done now is, is up until I think,, the end of 25,, you know, we were, you know, we were multitasking, you know, we would go into our core development teams and have them do things for partners. What we've done since the end of 25 is kind of firewall off and build,, an organization that are dealing with our partners and we're going to continue to do that and it'll scale based upon our partner revenue. So,, it doesn't affect our, you know, our core business. We're continuing to make sure that embedded grows and embedded pace and grows at its own pace.

And home will grow at its own pace. So, you know, we're, we're becoming more mature and sophisticated. And we're, we're focusing on scaling ourselves to, you know, I think we're going to see years and years of, of growth., you know, this is a highly, highly scalable opportunity. Outstanding. And sorry to ask one last question. I was talking about, I think focus group core growth in my initial,, inquiry. But I wanted to actually touch on the, the home transition and move into commercialization. I know you've talked in the past about that being a big revenue opportunity. I'm not sure if you reiterating if I missed it on the call earlier, but how should we thinking about revenue contributions once you launch in for. Q is that baked into guidance? The updated guidance?, that you put on the tape today and, and just how can, how can that build out? And maybe what is the Tam there? I think I think it's pretty large ., thanks again for taking the questions. So yeah, home is built into our guidance. And obviously it's relatively small launching in expected to launch in October., and it will build from there.

I mean, we have, you know, multiple millions in 2027, but for this year, it'll be certainly short of that since it's only a two months. But it is a. Very large opportunity. And it's a function of how successful we are at the success in our pilot continues in our first commercial implementation. You know, why would anyone not bring it everywhere else? You know, in the country? Because, you know, we're we're helping patients,, stay in the skilled nursing facilities, reduce the revolving door into health systems, reduce the overall cost of care of these patients. And, and I think there's, you know, a whole flywheel on its own sense as it becomes understood how impactful it is to empower nurses with AI at the bedside to keep patients properly diagnosed and properly medicated as to where they are in their condition. I think it will not just be congestive heart failure. It will be a lot of other modalities. And again, this whole thing ties together because as new garden apps come out, like right now with heart focus, they not only can do, you know, a beeline scan, but they'll be able to do a cardiac echo at the bedside.

And then in the future, they'll be able to do other types of things, like deep vein thrombosis or bladder or, or others. And so it's not just about expanding it., you know, to, to more and more at risk providers. It's also about expanding the use case within those providers and building this out as a whole modality that allows people to help patients where they are. And again, that's a part of our overall mission. So,, this is a flywheel,, this does compound on top of itself. And, you know, the center of that, of that bull's eye is our, is our ultrasound on chip technology. And then as we build out new AI capabilities that grows the user base. And as we grow the user base and we have all these new outcomes, then it grows the customers to do more and more things. So,, again, this is just the beginning and it's, you know, all the things that we've been working on,, you know, we're kind of executing across the board and, and it's going to build into something meaningful. So if, you know, we don't like to commit on deals that we don't have signed,, but the opportunity,, in 2027, I think is, is real, but, you know, we have to execute now we have to delight.

Everyone. We have to, you know, show that this works and, and that this, scalable for them. And,, if, you know, if that happens, it gets real big, real quick. John. Thank you.

The. Next question comes from Chase Knickerbocker from Craig-hallum. Chase. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Good morning everyone., just a few questions from us., on the Vicom partnership. Can you speak to how the partnership with Vcom works in terms of revenue recognition, how that flows into the embedded business and going forward? Is there an opportunity to sign more of this type of deal? Yeah.

Let me just take the very first part of that. So the Vcom deal was was purely core. It had nothing to do with embedded. It was really,, you know, the sale of IQ plus IQ three and related software over an, over an extended period of time.

Does that answer did I answer the question? Chase?

Yeah, yeah. And, and yeah.

I. Yeah, I can talk more about.

The partnership.

Yeah, absolutely. So so, you know, Vcom as a desire for all their students to be able to,, learn ultrasound and have their own probe, I think there's, you know, a, you know, a growing general consensus that, you know, when you have your own probe, you can scan yourself, scan your friends, you know, you have opportunities to really acclimate,, and, and become educated. And so Vcom has made a long term commitment on an annual basis to now., stock the,, the first year. Students with, you know, the state of the art technology and brand new probes. And in order to, to, to help with their objectives of having, you know, more of the upperclassmen ,, have access, we've used our IQ plus platform., and we've subsidized,, you know, those sales into those upperclassmen. So we make it easier for them to onboard into this model. They didn't just want to have, you know, a part of their school in that they wanted to have the whole school in it. And so we've made that available. And then what happens on an annual basis is, you know, they keep on staffing or supplying the next or the first class with the most recent technology.

So,, it's a great, great, great., signal to the overall education market as you create validation of our mission, our joint mission, and they'll be, you know, another announcement in the future., they have a very novel idea., that we agreed with fundamentally and that we will be supporting ,, that, but we're going to allow them to announce it,, to their constituents and to their students. And then when they announce it, we'll educate you all on what they're doing. But, you know, because of our subsidy of the IQ plus probes that, you know, that's what kind of it was reflected in the accounting of our ESP, which is, again, for us, it's the best way to make an investment, which is to put more devices into more students hands.

Thank you for that. Additional detail., just one more follow up. Going back to embedded, could you give us some color on the components of the rev rec in the second quarter?, just think that would be helpful for, for modeling going forward.

Yeah, just, you know, and we've kind of laid this out before., you know, there's multiple parts of this. There's the initial upfront, payment, which was for ,, you know, 15. Million. There was 10 million per annum for license fees. And then there was the development work with chip sales and revenue share to follow. Once they commercialize. We recognize that revenue as we do work against certain milestones. So as we progress against,, you know, work that's related to the project, we recognize the different pieces of that. So, you know, in the fourth quarter of last year, we initially signed the deal. We didn't recognize all the 15 upfront. Obviously, we got the cash, but we released that as we do work against, you know, the, the overall project, the overall program. We made a good amount of progress against some of the milestones in the second quarter, so that resulted in, you know, the embedded number being higher than, say, it was in the first quarter. The other thing I want to I want to highlight on this. So the. Contract that we announced back in November of last year for 74 million. I wouldn't say that that that's that's not it.

In total, you know, we talked about some of this in mid-June after,, you Midjourney had their event out in California. There is opportunity for us to certainly make make additional,, revenue on top of that 74 over time, subject to the amount of work we're doing. If we do additional work related to, you know, our next generation chip. And of course, you know, when they commercialize the chip sales and revenue share, but, you know, for now, it's effectively us doing work against,, requirements for,. For working towards commercialization with them. And that allows us, as we look at that and measure the work that we're doing to release revenue in the respective quarters that we do it in.

And then just to add on that, you know, we have 11 partners. That's one., all the other 11 are,, there's revenue on software licenses, there's revenue on hardware purchases, there's revenue on semiconductor purchases, and that, you know, grows as we grow our partners. And also as our partners are in different phases, you know, they ,, you know, they will then buy more and do different things. Also, we have of our other partners, we do work for them also. And that revenue rolls into the number. So and that grows based upon, you know, where they are in their development cycle. And also, as we add new partners.

Got it. Very helpful. Thank you for taking the questions.

No problem. Thanks, Jason.

The next question comes from Ben Haynor at Lake Street Capital Markets Ben. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

Hey, good morning gentlemen. Thanks for taking the questions., first off, for me on the train and community care commercial launch here. Coming up ., you know, how large is the group that you need to train? How many patients does this plan to touch in the initial,, the initial commercial state?

So in the first state, I think we're training between 15 and 30 nurses. I don't know the exact number, but it's something within, within that scope and size and right now, until the program gets bigger, I don't think we're going to we're going to disclose a number of patients under management. I think we want to get a little more mature and a little bit more consistent., before we do that. And when revenue becomes meaningful, we'll translate, you know, what our revenue model is and what the scope is. But you know, right now, I think the first date is between,, you know, these are nurses who work in skilled nursing facilities, full time. And I think it's between 15 and 30, I think is the right number.

So it does. It doesn't sound like a situation where you need to add sort of immense training capacity. And this is something that could go ,, you know, nationwide or much broader without,, too much. On the, on the cost side for, for training purposes.

Yeah. Well, I mean, we've training is a core competency of us and we're very fortunate that, you know, one of our, best,, internal ultrasonographers has taken on the role of, of going full time into home and embedded. And she's going to do a great job. And as we, as we scale, you know, we have access one of the, you know, we have a great partner. We have several great partners in education and medical education. And, you know, we leverage our internal team,, for as much as we can do. But if we also had the wonderful opportunity to go into many states quickly., we have partnerships with, you know, state based education organizations that would be, and this is only one use case and one AI tool. So the bar is much lower than what a normal training would be. So the ability for us to scale quickly based upon all the nationwide partnerships we have with individual training organizations and some of those, some of those organizations are national and global,, we're very confident that we could do this deployment. And then, you know, once the deployment is done, we would, you know, make sure that we have the staff and the team in place., to be able to maintain that because training is not a one time thing.

You know, this the value of this program is that we are with our partners every step of step of the way for their journey, for training, training new people. Managing ,, the data, managing data transfer, managing, you know, the clinical assessments and, and the whole thing. And so we're eating our own dog food. We're, we're using our own stuff to deliver,, value side by side with our partners.

Got it. That's helpful color. And then maybe there's not an easy way to characterize this, but on the,, the butterfly garden launches that you that are slated for later this year is there anything you can share on kind of the, the commercial, the commercialization efforts that you expect from these partners? I mean, is it, you know, are they going to be making big splashes? Do they have large commercial organizations behind them ?, any, any color? There would be very helpful.

Well, I do think, I think each of these companies are, you know, smaller. You know, growth oriented companies, not these large companies as of yet. But, you know, we are going to help them become larger companies. We hope,, and I think what, you know, what we've been waiting for is,, is there FDA approvals? And also they've made ,, a. Lot of requests of us to integrate more into the platform, you know, for example, We've had people say, well, we want to use your cloud to store the, you know, our own data. And we want to be able to do other types of scans and whatnot. And so we've been building out the robustness of our garden platform in concert with where our partners wish it to be. And a lot of that now is, is kind of intersecting on the second half of the year. And I think, you know, we're going to have we're going to have three partners who will come online and we're going to have I think that's going to become a cadence now because ,, there's a lot of work happening. And I think, I think it's, it's, you know, there's what's not present in the marketplace with the consumers of the technology is how impactful AI will be for them.

And so I think each new app points to the entirety of the apps. And as you get, you know, two companies, three companies, five companies, ten companies out there. Marketing their capabilities, it builds consumer awareness. It builds an identity that, that this exists. Then there's more proof cases. And I think it's, you know, the garden creates its own flywheel. And, you know, I've mentioned in the past that I think this is the key to, you know, crossing the chasm to really getting., you know, the user base of ultrasound of point of care ultrasound to increase because the, you know, the learning curve is so high. For, you know, standard ultrasound. But as there's more AI capabilities, people get more and more comfortable in using this every day. So I think that whole garden flywheel ,, as far as getting more partners in the marketplace and turning into revenue, it turning into increased utilization, is now on the cusp of starting. And we'll have exciting launches now ,, you know, each quarter,, going forward into 27 and 28.

Great., that's for me. Thanks for all the color and congrats on all the progress.

Awesome. Thanks, Ben.

Comes from Steve Lichtman from William Blair. Steve, please go ahead. Your line is open.

Thank you. Morning., a couple questions for me, Joe., on ,, good morning., on on embedded., you've been laying out in your investor decks. The,, the many potential application areas and use cases with your current and potential partners. As you look at those buckets, those different categories, are there some that you see as generally sort of earlier in the pipeline potential or sooner, and others that might take some more time in general, or is it pretty even across the board? As you look out over the next few years?

Well, you know, there are a few partners where it is., relatively. Low fruit. So like our first of our two partners that we've announced publicly,, one was Mandara, which is a vascular robotics company,, they were more interested in using our, our current subassembly of what we have in our tech to help ,, create the type of image they need. And using some capabilities that only exist. Within semiconductor based ultrasound. And so they ,, will. Actually,, be commercial soon with butterfly., over the next, you know, I don't know, within, within the next six months, maybe, maybe sooner than that. I'll let them make their announcements. And I don't want to get too far ahead. But that that is more about using our core technology to help,, amplify some really exciting novel things that they are bringing into ,, the medical market. And then we also have another partner, Sonic Insights, that does fatty liver diagnosis., that is,, will be commercial where the bar again, is lower because they're using existing capabilities and implementing it into their systems. We then have a set of partners that are doing a lot of primary research,, and that, you know, I would say, you know, the, I think it's for us.

Neurotechnology, BCI companies now in the garden that they're doing work that is nuts., they're doing work where they're looking at, you know, ways of understanding the brain that,, have never been done before. And,, I think that has a longer timeline to seeing something in the clinical or in the marketplace because there's not only the technology of feasibility, but then there'll be, you know, I'm sure a long regulatory path,, in order to get there. Now, now, I will say, a couple people have more consumer based ideas ., you know, some are focused on chronic diseases, but some are focused on behavioral,, and so the bar might be a lot lower, but, but we'll see., and then some of them have,, really novel clinical applications that,. I think are probably easier to prove than the brain. They just have to be done. So I think there's a port just like in any portfolio. We have some things that are pretty near ,, we have some things that are probably medium term and things are, are way out and the stuff that's, you know, way out is, you know,, I think the opportunities are, are. The markets are so large, it's hard to calculate., so it's a whole portfolio of things.

And then, you know, on top of that, we're talking to, a lot of new companies in the last 60 days that we hadn't talked to before ,, that are very heavily resourced and you never know if, if one of those catches on,, it could be, you know, a Midjourney type of, you know, hit the ground running hard and that can happen at any time. The Midjourney announcement,, you know, definitely woke up or built awareness of our capabilities., you know, in the, you know, large healthcare community and also,, the big tech community and,, while a lot of our partnerships so far have been with earlier stage companies, obviously Midjourney is, you know, a medium stage company with a lot of revenue,, we're talking to a lot of,, you know, very well funded ,, companies. And you never know., one of those can, can kind of change the calculus like Midjourney did.

Really helpful. Thanks. Thanks for that color., and just secondly, on, on home care, I think you've talked in the past about the business model being different for butterfly in that channel. How are you thinking about that revenue model and what it will look like with these customers?, and then just secondly, what milestones are you looking for with this first customer to get you comfortable to kind of put the foot down on expanding to, to additional customers.

Two great questions. So,, the first question is simple., you know, we, we will charge a fee for the size of the population. We manage ,, we won't go into the mechanisms of that fee, but there will be, you know, as the patient population increases, the amount that we charge to manage that population will increase with it. So that's one set of consistent revenue. And then there will be a charge for every scan. That's done. Because there's a. Read associated to it and work that we have to do. So there'll be kind of a fixed component based upon the size of the population. And then there'll be a variable component based upon how many of the scans that are done. And as that matures, you know that that model is just very simple. You know, you add patients, then you're fixed kind of revenue goes up. And then of course, as you're adding patients, you're variable scan revenue goes up. And, and,, and as we, as that matures, we'll be able to, you know, kind of unpack that for you. What was the second half? The second question, first was the revenue. What was the second?

The milestone? Just in terms of the milestone?

Yeah, 100%. 100%. So so, you know, within this patient population., we're focusing on congestive heart failure patients., over the last decade. It's become really aware to ,, fee for service payers that there's a revolving door between nursing homes and,, health institutions. And so someone goes to a nursing home. They, they, you know, their care might not necessarily be consistent with their disease progression., they then have to be put in an ambulance sent to the hospital and, and cared for have their diuretic., managed. And then they get sent back to the nursing home. Only 3 to 6 months later to have that occur again and again and again. And so there have been now capitated payments. There have been penalties and there have been incentives on reducing the cost of care for those patients. And so what we're targeting is a reduction in admissions and readmissions for congestive heart failure patients. And, you know, nationwide. If you're a diagnosed congestive heart failure patient in a skilled nursing facility. You're going you're probably getting admitted or readmitted, you know, 25 to 35%. You'll see a readmission rate or admission rate for that population. So what we are targeting is a reduction of that readmission rate.

So we've set goals., we, we were very productive in the pilot, but it was a smaller of course, population. What they want