Implantica publishes Interim Report Q3, January-September 2020

“It is with great pleasure that we provide our first quarterly report since listing on Sweden’s Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market on 21 September.”

- Peter Forsell, CEO and Founder of Implantica AG

Significant events during the third quarter, 2020

• Completed listing on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market raising SEK 1.1 billion, with trading of Implantica's Swedish Depository Receipts commencing on September 21, 2020. The offering was substantially oversubscribed.
• Increased our shareholder base with highly reputable shareholders such as Swedbank Robur Ny Teknik, Handelsbanken Fonder, TIN Fonder, Skandia and Nordea Investment Management.
• Furthered board optimization with highly experienced Tomas Puusepp, former CEO of Elekta AB, formally joining the Implantica board.
• Published successful results of the RefluxStop™ CE mark trial in medical journal, BMC Surgery.
• Enlisted Inselspital Bern, the largest university hospital in Switzerland, to be the lead hospital in our upcoming RefluxStop™ Registry clinical trial to be focused primarily in Germany and Switzerland.

Significant events after the end of the reporting period

• Exercised overallotment option raising an additional SEK 165 million.
• Implantica’s RefluxStop™ trial showed exceptional three-year follow-up results. None of the 47 patients in the study were in need of regular daily use of PPIs (proton-pump inhibitors), which were taken by all before surgery.
• Implantica completed a pre-submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for RefluxStop™.
• In executing its commercialisation strategy, Implantica recruited additional sales representatives in Germany.

July – September 2020

• Net sales amounted to EUR 27k (0)
• Operating loss (EBIT) increased to EUR 4,790k (748k) driven by listing costs
• Loss after tax amounted to EUR 4,730k (815k)
• Basic and diluted loss per class A share amounted to EUR 0.10 (0.02)
• Liquid funds as end of period amounted to EUR 90.5m
• No interest-bearing debt as end of period

January – September 2020

• Net sales amounted to EUR 126k (21k)
• Operating loss (EBIT) increased to EUR 7,291k (3,490k) driven by listing costs
• Loss after tax amounted to EUR 7,127k (3,602k)
• Basic and diluted loss per class A share amounted to EUR 0.16 (0.08)
• Cash flow from operating activities amounted to EUR -1,824k (-3,014k)

Implantica will hold a telephone conference on November 18 at 10:30 CET

To participate, please dial:

Sweden: +46850558369

United Kingdom: +443333009260

United States: +18338230587

Webcast: https://tv.streamfabriken.com/2020-11-18-implantica 

For further information, please contact:

Nicole Pehrsson, Investor Relations
Telephone (CH): +41 (0)79 335 09 49
nicole.pehrsson@implantica.com

Implantica is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market in Stockholm.

The company's Certified Adviser is FNCA Sweden AB, +46 (0)8 528 00 399, info@fnca.se

The information was sent for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, on November 18, 2020 at 08:00 a.m. CET.

About Implantica

Implantica is a medtech group dedicated to bringing advanced technology into the body. Implantica’s lead product, RefluxStop™, is a CE-marked implant for the prevention of gastroesophageal reflux that will potentially create a paradigm shift in anti-reflux treatment as supported by successful clinical trial results. Implantica also focuses on eHealth inside the body and has developed a broad, patent protected, product pipeline based partly on two platform technologies: an eHealth platform designed to monitor a broad range of health parameters, control treatment from inside the body and communicate to the caregiver on distance and a wireless energising platform designed to power remote controlled implants wirelessly through intact skin. Implantica is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market (ticker: IMP A SDB). Visit www.implantica.com for further information.