Financial Results
Total revenue for the first quarter of 2014 was $12.4 million compared with $6.7 million in the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 85%. First quarter GAAP net loss was $34.7 million, which compares with net loss of $26.5 million in the prior year period. On a non-GAAP basis, the net loss was $30.5 million for the first quarter of 2014, compared with net loss of $21.5 million in the prior year quarter. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is included below.
“Manufacturing at Clinton/Galva is progressing as planned and we are pleased to report that we have doubled the number of customers shipped to since our update at the end of February,” said Tyler Painter, CFO of Solazyme. “We made commercial progress across our consumer products, nutrition, encapsulated lubricants, and industrial oils and fuels markets. We also strengthened our balance sheet and are well-positioned to ramp manufacturing volumes and commercialize our growing portfolio of products.”