
Kevin Kennedy
Thank you, Henri, Fanglu, and our CITIC Capital sponsors.
Moving on to Page 7. As a part of the management team, it is a privilege to introduce you to Quanergy. My perspective is informed as a leader having operated large, public companies, completed over 100 acquisitions, and led an important optics company, that is JDS Uniphase.
When I joined Quanergy, there were three compelling company observations that aligned: a very large total available market, a unique and disruptive technology, and the opportunity to create value with a focus on execution and scaling.
With me today is Pat Archambault, our CFO, a former Goldman analyst who covered the automotive sector. Not here on the call, but key to what we will discuss, is Quanergy Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer, Tianyue Yu, who is responsible for driving technical execution.
Now, on to the next page. Quanergy develops smart LiDAR solutions that provide real-time 3D insights for the automotive and IoT markets, including industrial automation, physical security, smart cities, and smart spaces. The Company’s vision has not changed, that is, to democratize 3D perception, and it required a new generation of sensor to do it.
The Company developed a disruptive solid-state LiDAR technology called optical phased array; a platform crucial for high volume economics, reliability, and performance. The early backing by important names in the automotive and IoT technology sectors was driven by the potential of the OPA architecture. Our technology is backed by 30 issued and pending patents.
We engage the market today with three related product categories: mechanical LiDAR for the IoT market, 3D perception software that enables IoT solutions, and solid-state sensors. Both sensor technologies will augment and disrupt existing 2D technologies and as yet unserved markets. Our growing customer and partner base is served by roughly 100 employees, 50% of which are in R&D.
Moving to Page 6, investment highlights, really focus on five factors. The market for 3D sensors providing context for automation/autonomy is vast. We align with estimates in the range of $27 billion by the end of the decade. 3D perception is about existing and new markets seeking rich data — that is, distance, direction, velocity, shape, classification, tracking. And 3D perception can save lives, time, and be monetized.
The second factor is Quanergy has uniquely developed an optical phased array technology that is solid-state, CMOS based, and inherits optimal traits of cost, performance, and reliability as volumes scale. This is what matters to the auto market.
Today, the Company engages new and transitioning markets with an important footprint of product assets; integrated sensor software, high performance mechanical and solid-state sensors. These are markets where there is a growing reach of automation. That is, the IoT market for smart infrastructure and spaces, security and industrial automation, which are large and growing today. The large verticals of the IoT market will be a bridge to the adoption of the auto market.
Our point of departure, and this is really the fourth factor, is an inflection point for growth. In the past year, public investment in standalone LiDAR companies grew by almost $18 billion to enable the next phase of growth for those firms that reached a transition point. Our OPA technology moved from being indoor capable to yielding both short range products for the outdoor applications and security, as well as outdoor demonstration of the technology to 100 meters.
In short, efficacy was demonstrated. A strong year of 10 new product introductions brought the engagement of over 90 trials and evaluations. That is 10x the customer engagement from over one year ago for the IoT market.
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