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impact focused mobile marketing platform

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mobile marketing platform

adConnect drives mobile marketing impact

“WHY PAY FOR ANYTHING ELSE?”

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adConnect puts brand action at the fingertips of an engaged audience

Coca Cola

可口可乐

Coke + Weibo = Follow.

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Rapid international growth

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Asia/Pacific and Japan

North America

Western Europe

Rest of the World

Mobile Marketing Revenue by Region, Worldwide, 2010-2015

(Millions, USD) Source: Gartner (June 2011)

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Demand for Impact, Security

“Can’t we just buy installs in China?” - Dan Riaz, head of acquisitions, Zynga

“If adConnect offered a way to buy Weibo ‘follows’, we would be extremely interested” - Rand Han, Founder/CEO, Resonance China

“Fraud prevention will be difficult in the short run but will ultimately be of massive importance to success in the industry” - Andrew Spear, Digital Innovations Director, Mindshare

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Internationalization Issues

non-Chinese apps forego Chinese revenues for three reasons:

Render

Problems

Firewall =

blocked/throttled ad traffic

Poor fill-rates

Language Mismatch

English ads in China

Poor Engagement

Impenetrable Local Services

Chinese ad providers

inaccessible

Poor Accessibility

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Secure & Simple Platform

Impact Campaigns

adConnect Targeting

Publisher SDK

adConnect delivers actions to a relevant audience

Secure ‘End-to-End’ solution eliminates fraud, middle-men

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Monetise traffic: marketing products

Drive App Buy-in

Promote Install Packages

App Buy-in

Profitable Marketing products

User Growth

App Adoption

RISK FREE

MODEL

IN-DEMAND

PRODUCT

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CHINA

adConnect

International Solution

China Installs Western Apps

adConnect

Servers

Chinese

advertisers

Domestic Apps

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Founding Team

• Strategy & Finance Background • Stanford GSB & McGill Education

Andrew Boos

• Display advertising at Yahoo! HQ • Software Engineer, McGill University

Alfred Kam

• 10yr+ professional web dev experience • Computer Engineer, McGill University

Joshua Morse

• Android/iOS device expertise • Computer Engineer, McGill University

Rex Kim

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Proposal

adConnect has bootstrapped thus far

adConnect is raising funding to go-to-market.

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Build Developer Relationships

Contact Marketing agencies

Broaden web presence

Technolo

gy Improve

release cycles

Hire Engineering Talent

Secure Patents & IP protection

Sal

es Implement

marketing strategy

Recruit experienced salespeople

Uses of Funds:

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Q& Competition?

Full Team?

Current Progress?

Projections?

Biz Model?

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Global

• adMob (Google)

• iADs (Apple)

• inMobi

• MobClix

• JumpTap

• Millennial Media

Chinese

• WiAd

• Madhouse

• Youmi

• Casee

• Wooboo

• adChina

• Julu Mobile

• DoMob

• Guohe

Fragmented Competition

China coverage lags behind demand Inaccessible to foreign publishers &

advertisers

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Roles, Add’l Teammates Andrew Boos: CEO

Business Development

Alfred Kam: COO

Innovation, Sales

Joshua Morse: COO

Lead Server Architect

Rex Kim: Software

Lead Device Developer

Leadership

Zhe Tian: Targeting Algorithms

-Ph.D at McGill University (Biostatistics)

-Experience at major cell phone network as a statistical analysis and machine learning expert

Mo Kouli: Server Development

-Computer Science Major at McGill university

-Experience in database design and application security

Key Early Employees

Arthur Kam: Web Developer

-McGill Engineering Student

-Fluent in spoken and written Mandarin & Cantonese

SJ Directo-Ahmed: Market Intelligence

-MBA Candidate, Simon School of Business

-Digital & Social marketing experience & expertise

Interns

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Support Team

Advisors

Julia Markish

Case Team Leader, Senior

Consultant,

Bain & Co.

Stanford GSB

Cornell University

Dali Kilani

CTO External Publishing

Zynga

Board Member, monADize

Stanford GSB

Morgan Kyauk

Director of M&A

Juniper Networks

The Wharton School,

University of Pennsylvania

UC Berkeley

Haas School of Business

Nathan Monk

Sr. Associate

MaRS ICE practice

UWO Richard Ivey School of

Business

Paul Mokbel

Founder & CEO

Sitescout inc.

Leading display advertising

platform

7B+ impressions

processed daily

Robert Cameron

Technical Director, Security

Intelligence

Juniper Networks

Server Security Expert

Professional Services

Robert Stewart

Corporate Lawyer

Anthony de Fazekis

IP & Patent Lawyer

Miller Thomson

LLP

Robert Gold, FCA

Chartered Accountant

Senior Partner,

Bennett Gold LLP

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Momentum

Chinese Presence

• Operating Company Established

• Licenses acquired

• Accelerator Investment

Build Server Software

• V1 release August 2012

• V2 Release October 2012

• CPI & CPA functionality

Build Front-end

• Campaign Management Dashboard

• Analytics dashboard

• Registry Frontend

Establish Publisher

Partnerships

• Four beta publishers in production

• Zynga, Rovio, Outfit7 Relationships established

Begin Beta Testing

• Strong server performance

• Critical metric collection

• 20M impressions processed

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Beta Performance

12 other brands

Brands

CF控

Beta Publishers Major Chinese Brands

20m+ impressions, 180k+ users

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Business Model & Financials Stage 1: Audience Growth

Offer advance of credit up-front, must publish

Encourage re-investment into growth (Discounts)

Aggressively recruit growth-stage apps

Growth > Revenue

Stage 2: non-App Marketers

Allow nonpublishing parties to bid for products

Aggressively recruit marketing agencies & departments

High Revenue Expectations

RTB: Pure Market Price 70/30 Rev Share

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