Strategic Initiatives to Drive Significant Improvement in Profitability in 2023

• Record Q422 revenue – 56% sequential increase
• Continued demand – expected revenue growth of >50% for FY 2023
• Technology leadership – record Sapphire XC shipments in Q422
• Strong year on year sales growth – 200% for 2022
• New customers – increased customer base by >50% in 2022

CAMPBELL, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 2, 2023 — Velo3D, Inc. (NYSE: VLD), a leading additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical metal parts, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.

“We exited the year with a strong fourth quarter performance as we exceeded our revenue forecast, added to our diversified customer base and maintained our technology leadership with the continued, successful ramp up of our Sapphire XC system,” said Benny Buller, CEO of Velo3D. “Overall, 2022 was another important and successful year for Velo3D. Despite a number of challenges, we were able to triple our annual revenue and demonstrate our commitment to innovation by further expanding our range of industry leading products. This success reflects strong execution as well as our ability to capitalize on customer’s increasing deployment of additive manufacturing solutions to produce the high value metal parts they need.”

“Specifically, we continue to see strong demand for our Sapphire family of printers as we shipped a record number of Sapphire XC systems during the quarter and commenced initial volume shipments of our next generation Sapphire XC 1MZ product. We also expanded our installed base with annual new customer growth in excess of 50% for the year. Finally, we booked $15 million in new orders in the fourth quarter and our backlog now totals $43 million. This provides significant revenue visibility for the first half of this year and positions us well to achieve 2023 revenue growth of more than 50%.”

“Looking forward, we remain very excited about the future given the significant market opportunity and the increasing adoption of our industry leading technology. We are confident that we have a clear path to profitability and our key initiatives for 2023 reflect this focus. These initiatives include programs for continued gross margin improvement, a 20% reduction in quarterly non-GAAP operating expenses by the end of 2023 as well as the benefits from the further execution of our previously announced supply chain and manufacturing efficiency improvements. Given our positive momentum coming into this year and the further ramp up of our new products, we believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the rapidly expanding market for mission critical, high value metal parts,” concluded Buller.