Viveve Medical, Inc.
Q1 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Published: 12 May 2022

[Operator:]

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Viveve First Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Corporate Update Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Please also note this event is being recorded. And now, I'll turn the call over to Jeannie Swindle, Viveve's Senior Director of Corporate Communications.

[Jeannie Swindle:]

Thank you, operator, and welcome everyone. Before we begin, we would like to remind you that this conference call may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company. Any statement that is not a statement of historical fact is a forward-looking statement. This includes remarks about the corporation's cost, timing, progress and results of its clinical trials, including the initiation progress of and results from our PURSUIT trial and whether the clinical trial will support the intended uses for treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence or SUI in the United States, fluctuation of global market economic conditions, impact of the novel coronavirus on clinical development, regulatory review and clearances, manufacturing system placements and utilization projections, expectations, plans, beliefs and prospects. These statements are based on judgments and analysis, as of the date of this conference call and are subject to numerous important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and other filings made with the SEC, which are also available on the company's website. Also, any forward-looking statements represent management's view only as of the date of this conference call and should not be relied upon as representing management's views as of any subsequent date. Speaking today will be Scott Durbin, Viveve's Chief Executive Officer; and Jim Robbins, Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration. I will now turn the call over to Jim.

[Jim Robbins:]

Thank you, Jeannie. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining the call today. I will begin today's call with a brief review of our first quarter 2022 financial results. I will then turn the call over to Scott who will provide a corporate update. Today, we reported total revenue for the first quarter of $1.6 million from the global placement of 11 systems and approximately 2,750 consumable treatment tips. As of the end of the first quarter 2022, the company had an installed base of 895 of these systems worldwide. First quarter total operating expenses were $5.8 million compared to $5.5 million for the same period last year. The increase is mainly a result of the company's efforts to advance our Stress Urinary Incontinence or SUI development program and support are currently underway with PURSUIT clinical trial in the US as well as engineering and development work related to our next-generation products and product line improvements. As of March 31, 2022, we reported cash and cash equivalents of $14 million. Thanks. I'll now turn the conference call over to Scott.

[Scott Durbin:]

Thanks, Jim. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you again for listening to our call today. I'd like to begin today by underscoring the positive financial results and capital position of the company that Jim just reported on. Viveve's financial position this quarter is a result of the efforts of our entire organization, which maintains its focus on advancing our stress urinary incontinence program towards a potential future new indication. Our pivotal US PURSUIT clinical trial continues to be our focus as we execute the trial towards completion of subject follow-up visits by the end of the year. We have a high level of confidence in the strength of the PURSUIT study design and in our ability to execute our strategy to achieve a potential SUI indication in the United States. With the capital resources to support operations through the end of 2022, including the planned completion of the PURSUIT trial, our strategic focus and efforts in the following core areas will continue to be. First, successfully executing the currently underway PURSUIT trial for SUI and achieving positive top line data by the end of the year. If positive, preparing to commercially launch the first FDA-approved patent-protected endovaginal dual-energy office-based treatment for urethral hypermobility to improve SUI in women. Secondly, focusing our commercial and market development efforts on the U.S. and Asia Pacific regions through the expansion of our installed base targeting, urogynecology, urology and gynecology core specialties. And third, supporting our customers with successful initiatives to, continue to drive increased consumable treatment tip utilization and sales. As I previously stated, our entire organization is committed to these core areas of focus as we advance our SUI clinical development program towards a potential new indication in the U.S. I'd now like to direct my remarks to our currently underway U.S. pivotal PURSUIT trial for SUI. PURSUIT is a randomized double-blinded sham-controlled trial which enrolled 415 subjects with moderate SUI, defined as greater than 10 milliliters up to 15 milliliters of urine leakage on the one-hour pad weight test, at approximately 30 study sites in the United States. Randomized in a 2

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