Evogene Ltd. (NASDAQ:EVGN) Q1 2024 Earnings Convention Name Might 23, 2024 9:00 AM ET
Firm Individuals
Ofer Haviv – President and Chief Government OfficerYaron Eldad – Chief Monetary OfficerYoash Zohar – CEO of CasterraDan Jacob Gelvan – CEO of AgPlenus Ltd
Operator
Welcome to Evogene’s First Quarter Outcomes Convention Name. All members are current in listen-only mode. Following managements’ formal presentation we are going to open the decision for the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this convention is being recorded Might 23, 2024.
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On the decision as we speak might be Yaron Eldad, CFO of Evogene; and Yoash Zohar, CEO of Casterra. Moreover, a consultant from every subsidiary might be current on the Q&A session.
That stated, I might now like to show over the decision to Ofer Haviv, President and CEO of Evogene. Mr. Haviv, please go forward.
Ofer Haviv
Hiya, and good day, everybody. In as we speak’s convention name I wish to begin with Evogene Group’s monetary and enterprise highlights from the start of the yr, proceed with an summary of Evogene’s exercise, and achievements for the reason that starting of 2024 and conclude with the achievement of our subsidiaries throughout that interval.
Following my half, Evogene CFO, Yaron Eldad will present monetary replace of Q1 2024 actions. After that, we are going to open the Q&A session. Allow us to begin with Evogene’s Group monetary and enterprise highlights that came about from the start of this yr.
In Q1 2024, our whole income reached roughly $4.2 million in comparison with $0.6 million in Q1 2023. Looking forward to the complete yr 2024 we anticipate continued income development in comparison with the earlier yr. In Q1 2024, our loss was roughly $3.8 million in comparison with $7 million in Q1 2023, a decline of roughly 46%. Moreover, our projected money use for 2024 excluding Biomica and Lavie Bio is roughly $8 million in comparison with $12.5 million in 2023, demonstrating a notable 36% lower year-over-year.
In Q1 2024 Evogene closed down Canonic’s operation, leading to an annualized saving of $1.5 million. On February 6, Evogene and Verb Biotics entered a collaboration settlement to invent probiotic innovation, aiming to supply sustainable microbial metabolites recognized to enhance human-health and mentality. On April 2, Evogene and The Kitchen FoodTech Hub by the Strauss Group established Lastly Meals, an AI-driven firm, aiming for established sustainable and environment friendly protein manufacturing in crops for the meals sector.
Evogene holds roughly a 40% stake in Lastly Meals. The brand new firm is funded by the Kitchen Hub and the Israeli Innovation authorities. These two new collaborations reveal the implementation of Evogene’s enterprise mannequin during which we leverage our expertise in new life science sector, not coated by our subsidiaries, benefiting from our companions’ experience on this new discipline. Now I wish to spotlight the principle achievements made by Evogene subsidiaries from the start of this yr.
Casterra just lately introduced settlement with African and Brazilian seed growers, securing an addition of roughly 900 tons of seeds are anticipated to meet all standing orders by the top of 2024. Biomica introduced it will likely be presenting preliminary Part I scientific trial outcomes for its BMC128 microbiome therapeutics in oncology in a poster presentation on the 2024 ASCO Convention on June 3.
Lavie Bio obtained $2.5 million, the second half of an upfront fee from Corteva and introduced a brand new collaboration settlement with Syngenta. Moreover, Lavie Bio introduced an extension to its joint validation trial with Bayer for its biofungicide following profitable laboratory and greenhouse testing. Advertising and gross sales efforts for Yalos, Lavie Bio’s first business microbiome-based [indiscernible] product are increasing in US and Canada with further crops being added for remedy. Lavie Bio anticipates 2024 revenues for Yalos to extend in comparison with the earlier yr.
AgPlenus introduced a brand new collaboration settlement with Bayer. AgPlenus might be entitled to obtain an apple fee, ongoing analysis funding, milestone funds and royalties based mostly on future product gross sales. AgPlenus additionally achieved a milestone with Corteva as its present collaboration settlement. I’ll present extra particulars on the achievement of every subsidiary later within the presentation. Allow us to now transfer to the Evogene overview, and I’ll begin by briefly reviewing our technique and enterprise mannequin. The largest problem in creating life science-based merchandise, is initially of the method within the discovery and optimization phases, discovering the candidate that meets a protracted checklist of the required standards from an enormous amount of potential candidates with the intention to attain a profitable business product. It takes a lot time and assets and the revenue of success could also be slim. Let’s discover within the center in a [high state] (ph).
Evogene is pioneer firm within the discipline of life science finest merchandise, is aiming to revolutionize the trade. Our mission is to leverage devoted large information units with cutting-edge computational applied sciences and deep life science understanding addressing the invention and optimization challenges to drive product innovation, securing our place as a pacesetter in creating options that advance immunity future.
So how can we make it occur? With funding of tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and over a decade of intense work, Evogene has created a groundbreaking platform known as Computational Predictive Biology, the CPB platform which integrates profound scientific information with public and proprietary large information and AI applied sciences. Based mostly on this platform throughout previous yr, Evogene developed three revolutionary AI tech engines, addressing the principle growth challenges of three product classes. MicroBoost AI directs and speed up the event of micro-based merchandise, ChemPass AI for small molecule-based product and GeneRator AI for merchandise based mostly on genetic parts.
The worth proposition of our AI-driven tech engines stems from the environment friendly discovering and optimization of essentially the most promising candidates, due to this fact rising the likelihood of success reaching a breakthrough product inside a aggressive timeframe and in a cost-efficient method. Our three AI tech engines had been structured to be appropriate with the super potential of all its market phase not restricted to just one particular phase. This slide demonstrates the most effective styles of market segments that may profit from our expertise.
Every tech engine is on the middle of potential growth of many product varieties, addressing the wants of various lifetimes industries. So as to seize the worth of our AI tech engine, our enterprise technique is to determine the various collaborative partnerships for all times science product growth. The companions we collaborate with are professional in particular fields that enhances our expertise. We adopted this strategy to maximise the potential of our tech engine, whereas lowering monetary and growth dangers.
Due to this fact, we fashioned partnerships by licensing or collaboration with firms positioning domain-specific information comparable to pharmaceutical or agritech, collectively we are going to develop novel merchandise, aiming to full or partial possession upon undertaking completion. We consider this technique holds the potential for groundbreaking improvements and vital monetary beneficial properties for Evogene. It is a present snapshot of the standing of our enterprise mannequin with Evogene proudly owning 4 subsidiaries firms and in further market segments not coated by our subsidiary, we now have collaborations with main firms all engaged on creating revolutionary life science merchandise.
Extra particularly, we now have two license agreements using MicroBoost AI, one with our subsidiary Lavie Bio to develop ag-biological and the second was our subsidiary, Biomica to develop medication based mostly on the human microbiome. As well as, we established a collaboration with Verb Biotics to develop probiotic product, on which we introduced this quarter, and I’ll elaborate on shortly. With respect to ChemPass AI, we had a license settlement with our subsidiary AgPlenus to develop ag-chemicals and the collaboration settlement with our subsidiary Biomica to develop medication based mostly on small molecules.
Final however not least with respect to GeneRator AI, we now have a license settlement with our subsidiary, Casterra, for the event of elite castor seed varieties, a license settlement with Lastly Meals for protein manufacturing in plant on which we introduced this quarter, and I’ll elaborate on shortly. On high of Verb’s settlement with Colours Farms for enhancing [prescription] (ph) trades and with the Horizon EU consortium for enhancing trades in Canola. I might now like to supply further particulars on the choices regarding our subsidiary Canonic and the brand new engagement with Verb Biotics and Lastly Meals.
In Q1 2024, Evogene determined to stop operations of Canonic, which specialised in creating medical hashish merchandise as a result of difficult market situation within the medical hashish sector. This choice ends in annualized financial savings of roughly $1.5 million, resorted we intend to allocate to space with better development potential comparable to funding Casterra’s wants for ongoing capital. This choice highlights Evogene dedication to stop assets administration and strategic focus in response to evolving market situations.
Initially of February, Evogene and Verb Biotics entered a collaboration settlement to advance probiotic improvements. The events will determine and designing probiotic micro organism that produce extremely sustainable portions of microbial metabolites recognized to enhance human well being and vitality. The collaboration generates glorious synergy by combining Evogene information in bacteria-based product growth, using its tech engine MicroBoost AI, with Verb Biotics entry to the genomes of virus microbial strains that help the manufacturing of microbial metabolites with very important and human well being.
It is a nice instance of the implementation of Evogene enterprise mannequin during which we leverage our expertise within the new life sectors, not coated by the exercise of our subsidiaries. We count on the collaboration to reveal the contributions of our distinctive expertise to the quick rising discipline of human probiotics a sector estimated at $55 billion in 2022 and anticipated to succeed in $114 billion in 2031. We think about this collaboration as our first step on this profitable market phase.
Initially of April, Evogene and The Kitchen FoodTech Hub by the Strauss group teamed as much as set up Lastly Meals, an AI-driven firm targeted on sustainable protein manufacturing implants for the meals sector. Lastly Meals will leverage Evogene GeneRator AI tech engines to switch plans for environment friendly protein manufacturing. That is one other instance of the implementation of Evogene enterprise mannequin of getting into into a brand new life sector — new life science sector, our subsidiaries don’t cowl.
Lastly Meals has secured pre-seed funding from The Kitchen Hub and the Israel Innovation Authority. Evogene holds roughly 40% stake within the firm. This settlement won’t require any monetary contribution from Evogene, somewhat we count on that the settlement will generate future revenues for Evogene. We consider the conversion will reveal the potential of our expertise to help the choice protein market, estimated at $17.6 billion in 2022 and anticipated to succeed in $55 billion in 2032. We want Lastly Meals the most effective of success.
I’ll conclude my replace with a evaluate of the principle achievement made by our subsidiaries from the start of 2024. I wish to begin with Casterra, Evogene totally owned subsidiary. With give attention to creating an built-in resolution to allow at-scale business cultivation of castor. Casterra Resolution purpose to deal with the worldwide demand for steady castor oil provide, primarily for the biodiesel trade. As I discussed, the corporate is using GeneRator AI tech engine to direct and speed up the event of its distinctive elite castor seed varieties.
In early 2023, Casterra entered right into a body provide settlement with E&I a number one oil and gasoline firms. Underneath the settlement, E&I has given Casterra buy order final yr, totaling $11.2 million. So far, Casterra has provided solely a small portion of the orders, primarily as a result of preliminary manufacturing challenges. Underneath the supervision of Casterra’s new CEO, the corporate’s current engagement had been seed growers in Africa and Brazil, are anticipated to supply roughly 900 tonnes in 2024, which is predicted to meet all present buy order and supply further stock later this yr.
It’s anticipated that the stability of the present buy order might be delivered within the second half of 2024. I’m glad to share with you that Casterra is now constructing its backlog ordered for 2025. Casterra stays on the forefront of creating superior castor seed varieties with excessive yield, even underneath troublesome development situations and with commerce appropriate for [mechanic] (ph) farming operations.
Now I wish to evaluate our subsidiary AgPlenus, aiming to find next-generation revolutionary safety merchandise together with herbicides, pesticides and fungicides and commercialize them by collaboration with world-leading companions. AgPlenus utilized Evogene’s ChemPass AI tech engine to direct and speed up its product growth. Main agrochemical firms dominant as we speak’s crop safety trade nonetheless, they give the impression of being to ag-tech firms to find new goal proteins and small molecules that inhibit such goal protein, serving because the energetic ingredient in business crop safety merchandise.
AgPlenus is the corporate that addressed this assembly as proven by the 2 bulletins made this passing quarter. On February 21, 2024, AgPlenus introduced getting into right into a licensing and collaboration settlement with Bayer to develop a novel mode of motion, broad-spectrum herbicide for farmers focusing on the APTH1 protein found by AgPlenus. Underneath the settlement, AgPlenus might be entitled to obtain an upfront fee, ongoing analysis funding, milestone funds and royalties based mostly on future product gross sales. Bayer could have the unique license for the event and commercialization of merchandise underneath that collaboration.
On March 6, 2024, AgPlenus introduced it has reached a milestone underneath its present collaboration settlement with Corteva to develop new herbicides by a novel mode of motion, APCO12, which was found by AgPlenus as effectively. Within the subsequent part, the collaboration we targeted on optimizing the herbicide candidates towards a business stage product. These two collaboration agreements power AgPlenus monetary stability and total positioning within the agriculture market.
I would love now to proceed with the 2 subsidiaries utilizing MicroBoost AI to speed up and direct their product growth, Lavie Bio and Biomica. Lavie Bio leveraged Evogene MicroBoost AI tech engine to develop next-generation ag-biological merchandise. On February 20, 2024, Lavie Bio signed an settlement with Syngenta for the invention and growth of recent organic insecticidal resolution. The collaboration will leverage Lavie Bio, distinctive expertise platform to quickly determine and optimize bioinsecticide candidates.
On February 28, 2024, Lavie Bio additionally introduced assembly Corteva’s licensing settlement necessities, enabling the profitable receipt of the second half superior fee of $2.5 million from Corteva totaling $5 million. Moreover, Lavie Bio prolonged its joint validation trial with Bayer for its biofungicides following profitable laboratory and greenhouse testing. The collaboration goals to deal with illness affecting fruit and vegetable worldwide.
With constructive outcomes from the primary yr, Bayer proceeded to fill experiments for additional validation. Additionally introduced this quarter on March 13, Lavie Bio partnered with service international [add] (ph) crop to combine its bioinoculant, Yalos into regenerative agriculture packages throughout the North America. These collaborations purpose to reinforce rising practices and provide tailor-made resolution to help productiveness and sustainability purpose within the agriculture trade, significantly in segments like spring wheat, Durham and oats.
This announcement and different advertising and gross sales efforts for Yalos, Lavie Bio’s first business micro-biobased product, help the penetration of Yalos in United States and Canada markets with further crops being added for remedy. Based mostly on preliminary orders and gross sales projections, we anticipated 2024 revenues for Yalos to extend in comparison with the earlier yr.
Now to Evogene subsidiary, Biomica, which specialised in creating microbiome finest therapeutics for human well being. On January 17, 2024, Biomica reached a major milestone by finishing Part I trial enrollment for its microbiome finest immuno-oncology all through BMC 128, a rationally designed consortia of 4 micro organism. Biomica just lately introduced that it will likely be presenting preliminary Part I research information of BMC128 in a poster presenting on the ASCO 2024 Annual Convention on June 3.
Biomica is now making ready for advancing to Part 2 of the scientific trial for BMC128 and already carried out a pre-IND assembly with the FDA aiming to provoke Part II in 2025. As well as, outcomes from Biomica’s preclinical research within the IBS program carried out in collaboration with New York universities, medical college had been offered at that the Digestive Illness week 2024 annual convention in Might 2024.
To summarize my half on this name, I wish to emphasize how proud I’m of the achievements of Evogene and its subsidiaries to-date, mirrored by the rising checklist of business and monetary companions, the Evogene Group is engaged with. Over the past quarter, Lavie Bio introduced partnering with two further world-leading advert firms, Syngenta and Bayer. Casterra disclosed its engagement inside E&I, a world-leading oil and gasoline firm.
AgPlenus introduced partnering with Bayer. And Evogene itself introduced a brand new collaboration with Verb Biotics to advance human probiotic improvements and likewise set up along with The Kitchen Hub by Strauss Group, Lastly Meals a brand new firm targeted on protein manufacturing in plant. Little question, these are nice achievement to begin the yr with.
I’ll now hand over the decision to Yaron, Evogene CFO, who will evaluate our monetary outcomes for the primary quarter of 2024.
Yaron Eldad
As of March 31, 2024 Evogene had consolidated money, money equivalents and short-term financial institution deposits of roughly $26.6 million in comparison with roughly $31.1 million from December 31, 2023. Through the first quarter the consolidated money utilization was roughly $4.5 million. Excluding our two self-funding subsidiaries, Lavie Bio with a constructive money circulation of roughly $0.3 million and Biomica with a money utilization of roughly $1.4 million, the money utilization of Evogene and the opposite subsidiaries was roughly $3.4 million.
As Ofer already acknowledged, our projected money utilization for 2024 excluding Biomica and Lavie Bio is roughly $8 million in comparison with $12.5 million in 2023, demonstrating a notable 36% lower year-over-year. Revenues for the primary quarter of 2024 had been roughly $4.2 million in comparison with roughly $0.6 million in the identical interval the earlier yr. The income enhance was primarily as a result of revenues acknowledged by Lavie Bio with a license settlement with Corteva and as a result of revenues acknowledged by AgPlenus for the brand new collaboration with Bayer in the course of the first quarter of 2024.
As Ofer acknowledged, we anticipate continued income development in 2024 in comparison with the earlier yr, primarily within the second half of 2024 based mostly on Casterra’s forecast for seed order provide. R&D bills for the primary quarter of 2024, that are reported internet of non-refundable grants obtained had been roughly $4.8 million and remained steady as in comparison with roughly $4.8 million in the identical interval within the earlier yr.
Gross sales and advertising bills had been roughly $992,000 for the primary quarter of 2024 and in comparison with roughly $800,000 in the identical interval the earlier yr. The rise is principally as a result of elevated gross sales and advertising actions in Casterra selling its elite seed varieties and Lavie Bio selling the gross sales of its first business product, Yalos. Basic and administrative bills had been roughly $1.7 million within the first quarter of 2024 in comparison with roughly $1.5 million in the identical interval within the earlier yr, primarily as a result of non-cash compensation to the subsidiary CEOs.
Following the choice to stop Canonic operations, we now have recorded in different bills, roughly $0.5 million within the first quarter of 2024 and primarily as a result of impairment of fastened belongings. Working loss for the primary quarter of 2024 was roughly $4.1 million in comparison with roughly $6.8 million in the identical interval within the earlier yr. The lower in working loss is principally as a result of elevated revenues. Financing earnings internet for the primary quarter of 2024 was roughly $241,000 in comparison with financing bills internet of roughly $230,000 in the identical interval within the earlier yr.
This distinction was primarily as a result of a rise in curiosity earnings and revaluation of convertible gross sales in the course of the first quarter of 2024 as in comparison with the identical interval within the earlier yr. Web loss for the primary quarter of 2024 was roughly $3.8 million in comparison with roughly $7 million in the identical interval within the earlier yr. The $3.2 million lower within the internet loss is principally as a result of elevated revenues within the first quarter of 2024 and monetary earnings, as talked about above, which was partially offset by the onetime $519,000 of different bills created by ceasing Canonic’s operation.
I might now like at hand over the decision to the Operator for the Q&A session.
Query-and-Reply Session
Operator
Thanks. Women and gents right now we are going to start the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The primary query is — are there any updates on Evogene CRISPR capabilities?
Ofer Haviv
Hello, good morning. Good day, everybody. That is Ofer talking. As you understand we take part in an important consortium that was specializing in creating CRISPR expertise, and we took a significant position on this consortium. The expertise that we established on this consortium was the bottom for our collaboration introduced late final yr with shade in creating genome enhancing expertise for [indiscernible] commerce. We even have inner exercise right here in Evogene, with respect to the CRISPR expertise for plant.
So sure, we’re energetic on this space. Sure, we’re additionally on the lookout for alternative to leverage the expertise that we develop there. And when there might be particular information, we might be more than pleased to reveal it to our buyers.
Operator
The subsequent query, how are your Casterra seed suppliers making ready as we speak for harvest, which may help follow-on orders to in ENI in 2025?
Ofer Haviv
I’ll ask Yoash, the CEO of Casterra to reply this query, Yoash.
Yoash Zohar
Sure. Hello everybody. Good afternoon or good morning and wherever you might be. So in Brazil our seed suppliers are doing this for the second yr. All of them have the correct gear and every thing is streamlined. We’re visiting there periodically. One in all our ergonomists simply got here again final week, one other one goes subsequent week. I visited the personally about 1.5 months in the past to guarantee that every thing is prepared for harvest.
In Kenya, which is popping to be our main seed supplying operation, we bought [Castegnero] (ph) from Northern Italy. It’s being shipped subsequent week out of Italy and we’re arrive in time for harvest in Kenya. We’re additionally transport the [indiscernible] and seed processing gear from India and China to arrange our personal logistical middle and the place we are going to deal clear type and again the seeds all underneath Casterra.
We’re within the technique of registering a neighborhood entity in Kenya, which is able to function as above talked about. Once more, we’re there. I personally visited every and any of our growers and the situation for seed processing and at this cut-off date, we see envision no issues within the seed processing and harvest procedures.
Operator
What issues do you consider stay excellent earlier than ENI can place a follow-on order for castor seed to be delivered in 2025?
Ofer Haviv
Yoash, can you are taking this query as effectively?
Yoash Zohar
Certain. So we can’t remark at this cut-off date about 2025 orders. I’ll solely say that we’re deep into negotiations with shoppers for many ENI, in fact, on the completely different territories, which implies Kenya and different African territories, a number of the orders going on to ENI in particular location, others are going by their primary headquarters in Italy. We’re negotiating with each. And as quickly as we now have clear orders, we are going to in fact notify everyone.
Operator
Have been 100% of the upfront fee from Bayer to AgPlenus is realized within the first quarter. And do you count on the continued R&D funding milestone funds and royalties to permit AgPlenus to be a worthwhile on a go-forward foundation.
Ofer Haviv
Right here with us, we now have additionally Dan Gelvan, the brand new CEO of AgPlenus, which I am very glad that you just joined us initially of this yr. And I’ll ask him to take the lead and reply this query. So Dan, please?
Dan Jacob Gelvan
So thanks very a lot. As Yaron stated, the complete quantity of the upfront funds had been acknowledged by Evogene on this quarter. And to the second a part of the query, the funds that we’re receiving are a major contribution to our revenues, and they’re along with different income streams that we now have from different collaborations. We’re not but money constructive from these. And we deny as we go alongside and we begin to obtain from these a number of collaborations, each the milestone funds and broads sooner or later, we might be money constructive. We proceed to broaden our collaborations with the intention to be self-sustainable within the quick time period, even earlier than we begin to obtain vital income funds. Thanks.
Operator
The subsequent query, what’s your confidence stage in filling the $10 million castor seed order by year-end? And what would be the cadence of the filling of this order.
Ofer Haviv
Yoash, can you are taking this query as effectively?
Yoash Zohar
Sure. In order we notified, we envision manufacturing of not less than 900 tons of seeds in 2024. So we can fill all of the open orders for 2024, 2023 and 2024. The cadence would be the main provide will begin in August all through December, and can in all probability kick round October.
Operator
The subsequent query, a money query. What amount of money have you ever front-end invested to line up capability for the 900 tonnes per castor. What quantity of future funding might be wanted?
Ofer Haviv
So I’ll take this query. That is one thing that Casterra is answerable for, however nonetheless I might reply it. So the explanation want, in fact if you construct a list for ongoing capital and as I discussed earlier, one of many issues that we’re doing in Evogene is investing our cash within the locations the place we see excessive likelihood of success. So one of many causes is what we’re planning on doing is that a part of the cash that we’re going to save from closing Canonic exercise, is to put money into funding the continued capital wants of Casterra.
So that is already all taken into consideration and we constructed it in a method that we will fund the wants for the stock. And after we’ll begin to obtain income from our companions, we’re going to use it to construct the stock for subsequent yr. And since we expect to begin to obtain vital amount of cash in the course of the third quarter of this yr. So we’re going to construct the stock for 2025 really beginning in 2024.
So that is how we’re going to fund our ongoing the necessity for ongoing capital initially — for this initially of the primary half of 2024, goes to be from Evogene Sources, a part of it coming from closing Canonic. Second half, it would begin additionally to be funded from income we’re going to generate from the — our present companions. As a result of what we try to do is that to begin 2024 with a pleasant stage of stock to produce the demand that we anticipated in 2025.
Operator
The subsequent query are the 900 tons of castor seed provide along with the 400 tonne growth you reported in your Q1 earnings name. Or is the full provide now 900 tons?
Ofer Haviv
So the full provide is 900 tonnes.
Operator
The subsequent query how a lot, if any of the $4.2 million in revenues had been from gross sales, seed gross sales.
Ofer Haviv
As I discussed in my half — solely a small portion from the orders we obtained in 2023 had been delivered. So from this, you possibly can perceive that solely a small portion from the income from this quarter is attributed from Casterra exercise. There are some income coming from Casterra exercise, nevertheless it’s very modest in comparison with what we expect to see within the second half of 2025 as we already disclosed.
Operator
Subsequent query. Please tackle competitors confronted by your CBP platform
Ofer Haviv
So I wish to refer on the whole, to what — why do we predict that our expertise is exclusive. I believe that what we’re doing in Evogene is that we aren’t simply constructing a competitional expertise. It is all guided and we construct it along with a bunch of biologists and chemists that truly are coming with the packages they’re going through and so they find out about which the trade is going through. And we’re actually attempting to deal with these kind of issues in utilizing our expertise.
After which after we are working with our companions, I believe and likewise with our subsidiaries, that is bringing further validation to the expertise and likewise assist us to enhance the expertise on a regular basis. And I believe, that the truth that in our firm, and that is very uncommon to see it in different places, the truth that we now have three tech engine one for genomics kind of product, then microbials after which chemistry and we’re all managing it underneath the identical umbrella. This has put us in a really, very distinctive place as a result of in biology, in Life Science on the whole, it is all related. It is all related, and you’ll simply give attention to one fragment from the large story.
So I believe that is what’s distinctive Evogene expertise. And you understand what lets our companions to be the proof. I imply, the variety of companions that we’re working with is getting greater and greater. Truly, it is actually the — our first tier kind of firms comparable to Corteva, Bayer, Syngenta, ICL and I believe that is only the start. I consider that there might be extra that we — our subsidiary and even Evogene direct goes to work with. So I really consider that we’re providing one thing completely different from what exists as we speak available in the market.
Operator
There are not any additional questions right now. Mr. Haviv, would you wish to make your concluding assertion?
Ofer Haviv
Sure. I’d wish to say thanks for everyone for collaborating on this analyst name. I believe that we had a fantastic first quarter on this yr. We’re wanting ahead to proceed and to replace you on the following achievement of our firm and subsidiaries on the subsequent analyst name. Thanks very a lot, and have a fantastic day.
Operator
Thanks. This concludes Evogene’s First Quarter 2024 Outcomes Investor Webinar. Thanks on your participation. It’s possible you’ll go forward and disconnect.
