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Q4 2024 Klaviyo Inc Earnings Call

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Participants

Andrew Zilli; Vice President of Investor Relations; Klaviyo Inc

Andrew Bialecki; Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder; Klaviyo Inc

Amanda Whalen; Chief Financial Officer; Klaviyo Inc

Gabriela Borges; Analyst; Goldman Sachs

Terry Tillman; Analyst; Truist

DJ Hynes; Analyst; Canaccord

Rob Oliver; Analyst; Baird

Elizabeth Porter; Analyst; Morgan Stanley

Arjun Bhatia; Analyst; William Blair

Brent Bracelin; Analyst; Piper Sandler

Raimo Lenschow; Analyst; Barclays

Derrick Wood; Analyst; TD Cowen

Scott Berg; Analyst; Needham

Mark Zgutowicz; Analyst; Benchmark

Brett Knoblauch; Analyst; Cantor Fitzgerald

Michael Berg; Analyst; Wells Fargo

Nick Altmann; Analyst; Scotiabank

Presentation

Operator

Good afternoon and welcome to Klaviyo's fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2024 earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. (Operator Instructions) With that, I would like to turn the call over to Andrew Zilli, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Andrew Zilli

Thanks. Good afternoon and thanks for joining Klaviyo's fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 earnings call. Our earnings press release, SEC filings and a replay of today's call can be found on our IR website at investors.klaviyo.com. With me today on the call are Andrew Bialecki, Co-Founder and CEO; and Amanda Whalen, CFO.
As a reminder, our commentary today will include non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in today's earnings press release or earnings release supplemental materials, which can be found on our Investor Relations website. Additionally, some of our comments today contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, which could change.
Should any of these risks materialize or should our assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual company results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. A description of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions and other factors that could affect our financial results are included in our SEC filings, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed today. We do not undertake any responsibility to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
With that, I'll now turn it over to Andrew.

Andrew Bialecki

Thanks, Zilli, and thanks to everyone for joining us today. At Klaviyo, we empower more than 167,000 brands around the world to leverage their data to build personalized, lasting and valuable consumer relationships across multiple channels. Our 2024 financial performance is a clear indication of our importance in driving revenue for our customers.
We had a very strong finish to the year with $270 million in Q4 revenue, up 34% year-over-year, costing a $1 billion revenue run rate as we delivered our strongest Black Friday Cyber Monday yet. For the full year, we grew our revenue by 34% to $937 million while driving nearly $150 million in free cash flow. I want to thank our partners and Klaviyos around the world for supporting our customers throughout the year, and thanks to all of our customers for choosing Klaviyo to help grow your business.
Before sharing highlights from the year, I want to touch on three defining themes for Klaviyo. First, we are a growth company and we are executing well on our strategy to deliver sustainable, efficient, long-term growth by moving upmarket, expanding internationally, adding more customers and growing with our existing customers. Second, our approach to data with the powerful Klaviyo data platform is a core differentiator and the backbone of our vertically integrated omnichannel platform that positions Klaviyo as a single source of truth for customers. Third, consumer expectations are shifting, and our data-first approach puts Klaviyo in an exceptional position to redefine the next era of consumer engagement.
Now turning to 2024 highlights. We continue to innovate and expand the capabilities of our platform, and our pace of innovation is a key driver of why companies continue to use Klaviyo. Across the company, our teams delivered more than 200 new features to help make our customers more successful and set Klaviyo apart in the market. On our marketing automation platform, we made it easier for marketers to get their jobs done faster with scheduled flows and automated campaign follow-ups.
We launched campaigns library and expanded our suite of AI functionality with features like Text AI and Email AI to inspire creativity and make it easier to create content. And we made SMS audience acquisition more effective by using onetime codes with SMS smart opt-in forms. And speaking of SMS, we now have SMS coverage in 19 countries, great progress in helping our customers reach their consumers around the globe.
We also enhanced our platform's next-generation analytics capabilities with tools like product analysis to empower marketers with real-time insights that optimize merchandising strategies and post-purchase outreach. We launched the RFM Action Center, which uses recency, frequency and monetary value analysis to provide actionable recommendations for retention, repeat purposes and loyalty. These expanded analytics capabilities help customers address the challenges of fragmented data and disconnected tools and more efficiently put their data to work.
Growing our presence internationally remains a top priority for Klaviyo, and we made great progress in 2024. We made our platform and customer help center available in six additional languages while launching local language websites and marketing efforts in certain regions. We hosted our Klaviyo London event, continued expanding our team in Europe, and recently opened up a new Dublin office, where we will build out a larger presence going forward.
Ecosystem-led growth through strong partners and integration is key to our success, and our partnership team continues to drive great results. We launched a number of new integrations with companies like Canva, Pinterest, Toast, and others and added features like the Universal Content API to make it even easier for partners to work with Klaviyo.
We also held our first in-person Partner Advisory Council, bringing together leaders from across our partner ecosystem to discuss and gather feedback on our 2025 strategy, evolution of the platform, and road maps to take us forward. And as we announced a few weeks ago, we signed a great partnership with Woo, making Klaviyo the preferred marketing automation partner for WooCommerce, replacing an older newsletter software.
With Klaviyo's built-in data platform and WooCommerce's flexibility, our joint customers have everything they need to build direct connections with their consumers and thrive in a competitive commerce landscape. This partnership represents an important step in our expansion internationally into new markets in retail and beyond retail to a diverse range of businesses from content creators to web developers, who are fostering communities and delivering value in unique ways.
Companies of all sizes are coming to Klaviyo, whether a brand-new business or a larger brand needing to modernize and consolidate their tech stack, because our platform is vertically integrated, easy to use, flexible and capable of handling even the most difficult use cases.
Having a unified view of the consumer is important to customers of all sizes, especially in the higher end of the market. Clarks, the iconic British shoe brand, chose Klaviyo to consolidate their tech stack with our vertically integrated platform with help from our new partner, AbsoluteLabs. They were using multiple vendors that require batch processing every 24 hours, making it difficult to build real-time segmentation and marketing campaigns.
With Klaviyo, they are combining data across channels, including point-of-sale and e-commerce data, allowing them to leverage segmentation, omnichannel personalization and cutting-edge AI capabilities. Front Style, a national patriotic apparel brand, moved to Klaviyo in the fourth quarter due to our fully integrated platform.
Despite being one of the largest customers with their prior vendor, they were unable to run the analytics they needed and even debated building their own CDP. Instead, they chose Klaviyo, enabling them to centralize their consumer data, run advanced analytics and leverage the insights into omnichannel engagement. Omnichannel campaigns are extremely important as companies need to reach consumers over their preferred channels.
Every Man Jack, a men's personal care and grooming company, added Klaviyo SMS, moving away from their prior vendor ahead of Black Friday Cyber Monday. Every Man Jack saw the value in leveraging a single-data platform to power their omnichannel communications, allowing them to build more personal digital relationships and a more efficient market strategy.
We continue to expand across verticals and regions, and customers with complex business models choose Klaviyo to further their digital strategy. Paramatta Eels, a rugby team in Australia, switched to Klaviyo to find a trusted data and marketing solution that was easy to use for their small marketing team, allowing them to drive more engaging and relevant personalized communications.
We also signed new or expansion in Q4 with DKNY, Ted Baker, BarkBox, CorePower Yoga, Intro Travel, Motor Culture, Reebok, Champion and more. These customers represent different products and services, but they come to Klaviyo with the same challenges. They're struggling to meet rising consumer demand while using disconnected systems and channel-first tools.
Small marketing teams are under pressure to deliver personalized experiences at scale. Siloed data makes it hard to create smart segmentation through what's working and automate easily. Their software solutions built for B2B businesses, designed for human-powered and slower sales motions, but no solution is to the challenges facing consumer businesses. No CRM platform has delivered the power needed to manage millions of fast-moving consumer interactions across multiple channels in one place until now. Klaviyo started as a database, a place for brands to understand and activate their data.
We transformed e-mail marketing from baton blast to data-driven campaigns. Over the last 13 years, we've expanded our marketing automation, solidifying Klaviyo as the leading platform for powering digital relationships, while we've always planned to extend what we did for marketing to other services and aspects of the customer journey.
The most successful consumer businesses today are creating personalized experiences by unifying their channels and data across every touch point. This new standard for consumer engagement requires integrated marketing built on an embedded data platform powered by AI and analytics. Klaviyo is uniquely positioned to drive this new era of consumer engagement.
As we look ahead, our vision is to expand our scope to power and improve even more of the consumer journey, helping brands deliver omnichannel experiences that fuel growth. In fact, our customers are already asking for us to play a bigger role in how they engage with their consumers. Build for the speed and scale of the consumer world, Klaviyo's data-first approach gives us the distinct advantage to meet the demands of this market and category in marketing and beyond.
Tomorrow afternoon, we'll be hosting a Built for B2C event, which will be live streamed starting at 4 PM Eastern. Head to klaviyo.com to register for the events and tune in to learn more about how Klaviyo is powering the next era of consumer engagement. I'm extremely proud of the progress we made in 2024.
Our vertically integrated data center platform is a key differentiator that positions to redefine consumer engagement. The product and platform we are delivering sets the stage for our growth, not only in 2025 but for the next several years as we continue to execute on our growth levers and deliver the best platform for our customers. Thanks to the over 2,000 Klaviyos for their relentless focus on our customers in 2024.
And with that, I'll turn it over to Amanda.