Great Basin Reports 143 Revenue-Generating Customers to End Third Quarter
Great Basin Scientific, Inc.
Today : Thursday 15 October 2015
Great Basin Scientific, Inc. Charts. 24 percent customer growth in the period, sales funnel increases by 28.5 percent
Great Basin Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:GBSN), a molecular diagnostics company, today announced it added 28 new customers in the third quarter of 2015. As of September 30th, the company had secured 143 U.S. customers and had 64 evaluations either in-progress or scheduled, compared to 115 customers and 46 evaluations reported for the second quarter ending June 30, 2015, representing an increase of 24 percent and 39 percent respectively. Great Basin’s sales funnel, which represents the number of customers along with active and scheduled customer evaluations, grew to 207 at the end of the third quarter, up from 161 at the end of the second quarter, an increase of 28.5 percent.
Adoption for Great Basin’s Group B Streptococcus (GBS) test—which was commercially launched on June 1, 2015—continued to expand. The Company ended the third quarter with 66 customers and potential customers either evaluating or scheduled to evaluate GBS, a 38.6 percent increase over the customer and potential customer sites for GBS reported at the end of second quarter.
“September was the strongest month for customer acquisition in the history of Great Basin—with 24 new customers added in that month alone—showing what we believe is sustained strength in our sales funnel, and continuing demand for our Group B Strep test,” said Ryan Ashton, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Great Basin Scientific. “I’m extremely pleased with the strides we have made toward a shortened sales cycle and for achieving a 91 percent evaluation win-rate in the quarter, which adds to our confidence of achieving our customer acquisition guidance by the end of the year.” |