Braze, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRZE) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call September 7, 2023 4:30 PM ET
Company Participants
Christopher Ferris - Head, IR
William Magnuson - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
Isabelle Winkles - CFO
Conference Call Participants
Ryan MacWilliams - Barclays Bank
Jacob Titleman - Goldman Sachs Group
Michael Berg - Wells Fargo Securities
David Hynes - Canaccord Genuity
James Wood - TD Cowen
Arjun Bhatia - William Blair & Company
Matthew VanVliet - BTIG
Nicholas Altmann - Scotiabank
Taylor McGinnis - UBS
Brian Schwartz - Oppenheimer
Brent Bracelin - Piper Sandler & Co.
Robert Morelli - Needham & Company
Yun Kim - Loop Capital Markets
Operator
Welcome to the Braze Fiscal Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Christine, and I'll be your operator for today's call. [Operator Instructions]. I'll now turn the call over to Christopher Ferris, Head of Braze Investor Relations.
Christopher Ferris
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today to review Braze's results for the fiscal second quarter 2024. I'm joined by our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Magnuson; and our Chief Financial Officer, Isabelle Winkles. We announced our results in a press release issued after the market closed today. Please refer to the Investor Relations section of our website at investors.braze.com for more information and a supplemental presentation related to today's earnings announcement. During this call, we will make statements related to our business that are forward-looking under federal securities laws and the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our financial outlook for the third quarter ended October 31, 2023, and for our fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, our planned product and feature development and the benefits to us and our customers there from, including our AI features, the potential impact and duration of current macroeconomic trends, our anticipated customer behaviors, including vendor consolidation trends and their impact on Braze and our long-term financial targets and goals, including the anticipated period in which we may generate positive non-GAAP operating income and positive free cash flow. These statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and reflect our views only as of today. We assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.
For a discussion of the material risks and uncertainties that could affect our actual results, please refer to the risks identified in today's press release and our SEC filings, both available on the Investor Relations section of our website. I'd also like to remind you that today's call will include certain non-GAAP financial measures used by management to evaluate our ongoing operations and aid investors in further understanding the company's fiscal second quarter 2024 performance in addition to the impact these items have on the financial results. Please refer to the reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP included in our earnings release under the Investor Relations section of our website. The non-GAAP financial measures provided should not be considered as a substitute for or superior to the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.