Urbanimmersive Inc. (“Urbanimmersive”, the “Company” or “UI”) (TSX
VENTURE: UI) (OTCQB: UBMRF) today announced accelerated growth plan
and provides business updates.
Growth Acceleration Plan
On June 16, 2021, the Company's Board of
Directors held a work session during which they reviewed and
approved a growth plan which aims at accelerating Urbanimmersive's
revenues and profitability. While the new plan will still be
focusing on increasing organic SaaS business revenues for 3D tours,
property websites, floor plans and UiMeet3D subscriptions, the plan
will now allow Urbanimmersive's management to acquire
well-established and profitable real estate photography agencies in
selected territories, both in North America and globally, with the
goal of integrating in all of their photography services a UI SaaS
product.
Urbanimmersive is uniquely positioned, due to
its extensive technology portfolio and solutions, to become a first
mover in this vertically-integrated plan which proposes convincing
synergy potentials while being immediately accretive. The Company
will launch this new plan with the acquisition of a select group of
four photography agencies for which two of them have already signed
a binding LOI. Those first contemplated acquisitions have generated
cumulative pre-synergies revenues of $2.4M based on their last
fiscal year figures, including $1.7M for the two with a signed LOI,
and during very low inventory of homes for sale.
The acquisitions would be paid with a mix of
cash and shares. The founders and/or owners of those targets and
the Company will be closely aligned and will both benefit from
continuing to grow their business. The Company will not need to
raise funds to proceed with those acquisitions and will still have
sufficient liquidities post-transaction to further extend the plan
and continue to grow the business organically. The closing of those
acquisitions is expected over the next few weeks. Based on the
results of the post-acquisition synergies achieved, the Company's
management could decide to accelerate the number of acquisitions
with a growing funnel of targets.
The real estate residential and commercial
photography industry is a highly fragmented industry shared by
part-time, full-time and multiple-photographer businesses and
represents $2B in total revenues based on UI's management
estimates. Well-established photography businesses generally
operate high-volume transactions and generate between 40% to 60%
gross margins serving multiple and loyal clients. It takes many
years to build a real estate high volume photography business and
many owners who succeed to do it have very limited exit
options.
Urbanimmersive's strong technology portfolio
along with the corporation publicly traded shares puts the Company
in a unique advantage to real estate photography owners looking for
an exit. The Company's brand reputation and continued recognition
by some of the largest North American real estate and technology
organizations also provide a perfect blueprint for photographers to
know that they are selling to a growing and highly reputable brand
in the market.
"This new growth plan allows us to become a
fully vertically-integrated business, blending the best of the two
worlds of being a SaaS business and a tech-powered real estate
photography agency. Beginning to execute this plan now will
continue paving the path for us to be a first-mover in this
vertical capacity, and thus allow us to continue driving growth to
solutions that makeup the core of who we are — a technology
Company. This direction is perfectly aligned with our management
values of generating profitable growth while demonstrating the
forward, innovative thinking of our Board of directors for
accelerating the growth", stated Ghislain Lemire, CEO of
Urbanimmersive.
General Business UpdateThe
Company’s overall business continues to progress healthy as we
onboard new clients, extend our reach with new partnerships and
increase 3D tours revenues by 30% year-over-year. As the Company's
sales still perform during a period of historical low inventories
of properties for sale, management believes the Company would reap
the benefits of back to normal economic conditions.
Some of those recent highlights are included
below:
Second Patent Application for
UiMeet3DThe Company, through its patent agent Norton Rose
Fulbright, has filed a second patent in the U.S. for its UiMeet3D
application for upcoming features to be released which enable a
filter application on live audio stream in image-based 3D
environment, controlling automatically audio output of several
streaming live video sessions based on the location of each of the
video feeds within a digitalized 3D environment. This second
patents adds up to the first U.S. patent application filed on March
8, 2021 with regards to an innovative way of displaying multiple
avatars in a digitalized 3D environment.
"We are very pleased to have filed a second
patent application in the U.S. with regards to UiMeet3D. When
considering the uniqueness of our interactive 3D meetings
(UiMeet3D) using avatars, its strong demand so far and great
potential, we want to make sure to protect further our investments
in technologies, product developments and intellectual properties.
We will also continue to evaluate whether additional patents
applications filings are relevant in the near future as we progress
with our innovations and improvement of our 3D solutions”, stated
Ghislain Lemire, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Urbanimmersive.
3D Dollhouse FeatureOne of the
most requested feature of a 3D virtual tour technology is the
capability to showcase a home for sale as a dollhouse toy. The
Company is pleased to announce that it has completed the
development of such feature and will start rolling out dollhouse
view soon for all 3D tours ordered with a floor plan. This
improvement will enable Urbanimmersive 3D tours to compete
head-to-head on basic features with the largest 3D tour brands in
the market.
Bright MLS®The
Company has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
with Bright MLS’s real estate service to integrate and offer its 3D
solutions (3D tours, UiMeet3D) within their platform. Bright MLS is
a leading multiple listing service (MLS) that supports over 95,000
real estate professionals who in turn serve the more than 20
million homeowners. In 2020, Bright MLS’s customers facilitated
$116.3B in real estate transactions through their system. The
integration of the Company's 3D tours into Bright MLS systems is
progressing and could lead to new business opportunities for
reaching more MLSs organizations. For more information, please
visit www.brightmls.com.
First 3D Tour of a Large Retail
ChainBrault&Martineau (TSX: GBT), one of the
largest furniture and electronic appliance retail chain in
Quebec is now using Urbanimmersive's 3D tour to showcase one of
their new retail stores. The 3D tours produced for this store has
required more than 1,000 scans which made of it the largest 3D tour
ever produced by Urbanimmersive.
3D Apartment Portal3D Apartment
real estate portal, recently announcing a full integration with a
competitive 3D tour brand, just started providing Urbanimmersive's
3D tours with the goal of promoting the use of UiMeet3D. This
confirmed Urbanimmersive's 3D tours capacity to compete
head-to-head with the leading brands and gain market shares.
Industrial Sector
ProgressionThe Company has also progressed into the
industrial 3D tours markets. The Crime Scene Investigation
department of the Province of Quebec has recently notified
Urbanimmersive that they will move ahead with the acquisition of
the Company offline 3D tour technology for the remote investigation
of selected crime scenes.
Fredericton Fire Department has selected
Urbanimmersive's 3D tours for their remote investigation of fire
incidents having already purchased the hardware from our
Immersolution division and successfully completed their first
projects.
The Company 3D tour technology has been selected
by large industrial manufacturers in Mexico with one of them
already having successfully completed a first 3D tour of their
plant further confirming the technological edge of Urbanimmersive's
offline 3D tours.
Regarding Mexico business developments, the
Company's is pleased to announce having successfully shipped and
sold its first 360 camera gears.
Term Loan RenewalThe Company
has renewed for an additional two years both its cash flow and
building term loans with current outstanding balance of $1,070k and
$894k, under the same terms and conditions, and which would now
mature in December 2023.
Investor Video Conference
Call
UI will be hosting a video conference to discuss
those business updates and answer questions at 4p.m. (ET) on June
22, 2021. To participate to the video conference, please use the
following link: https://urbanimmersive.zoom.us/j/93887834495
TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed this press
release and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of
this press release.
Urbanimmersive
Urbanimmersive is a SaaS business management
solution that provides mission-critical solutions to visual content
providers serving the real estate residential, commercial,
construction, and local business markets. Urbanimmersive’ platform
helps customers to increase operational productivity and delivering
the full potential of visual content creations through leading-edge
websites builder tool, AI-backed image indexing, robust file
transfer systems, and interactive visual technology solutions. The
firm's core technology is a 3D emulator powered by a visual content
recognition post-production algorithm that delivers online and
offline alternatives to traditional 3D engines for the creation of
immersive digital environments. Learn more at
urbanimmersive.com.
Caution of Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this news release, other
than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking information
that involves various risks and uncertainties. Such statements
relating to, among other things, the prospects for the company to
enhance operating results, are necessarily subject to risks and
uncertainties, some of which are significant in scope and nature.
These uncertainties may cause actual results to differ from
information contained herein. There can be no assurance that such
statements will prove to be accurate. Actual results and future
events could differ materially from those anticipated in such
statements. These and all subsequent written and oral
forward-looking statements are based on the estimates and opinions
of the management on the dates they are made and expressly
qualified in their entirety by this notice. The Company assumes no
obligation to update forward-looking statements should
circumstances or management estimates or opinions change.
For more information, please contact:
UrbanimmersiveGhislain Lemire President &
CEO 514-394-7820 X 202ghislainlemire@urbanimmersive.com
Simon Bédard, CA, CPA, CFA, MBAChief Financial
Officer514 394-7820
X 224simonbedard@urbanimmersive.com
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