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ALTA VENTURES MEXICO IGNITING INNOVATION Overview Q2 2012

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ALTA VENTURES MEXICO IGNITING INNOVATION

Overview

Q2 2012

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Alta Ventures Mexico – Overview

Fund Alta Ventures Mexico Fund I L.P.

Capital $70 Million Dollar Fund

Performance First year Performance 62.5% Net IRR as of Dec. 31st 2011

Deal Profile: $1-3MM entry point, up to $7MM over life of deal ($250-500k seed deals) 20+ deals, Board Seat on venture deals

Strategy Mexico Focused Mixed Stage — Seed, Venture and Growth

Sector Focus Education, Security, IT, Non-Banking Finance, Healthcare, Consumer and Clean Tech

Team Investment team located in Monterrey and Mexico City, Mexico; US Based Back Office

LP Base Alta’s investor base is composed of more than 20 of Mexico’s leading family offices as well as prestigious institutional investors including IFC, Mexican Fund of Funds, and MIF (Inter American Development Bank)

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Funding Continuum – Filling the gap in MX

SEED/START-UP FUNDING

DEVELOPMENT FUNDING

EXPANSION FUNDING

OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT

CONTINUED GROWTH

ANGELS, FOUNDERS & SEED FUNDS

VENTURE CAPITAL – GROWTH EQUITY

PE - PUBLIC MARKETS

VALUATIONS INCREASE

BUSINESS RISKS DECREASE

MENTORING NEEDS DECREASE

$5M-20M $500K-5M $50K-500K >$20M Sweat

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Alta’s Target Investment Region: Mexico Offices in Mexico City and Monterrey

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Alta Growth Capital •  Headquartered in Mexico City • Regional Office in Monterrey •  Support for Alta Ventures Mexico

Alta Ventures Mexico Fund I •  Headquartered in Monterrey •  Regional Office Mexico City

Kickstart Seed Program •  Headquartered in Monterrey

MEXICO

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2009 2010

Disposable Income: The amount of money that households have available for spending and saving after income taxes have been accounted for Source: Frontier Strategy Group, 2010 figures

Latin American Consumer

CONSUMER Personal Disposable Income 2010

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Rising generation

Technology

Security

Clean/Energy

Gray Hair

Alta Ventures Focus Areas

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What do we look for in an investment?

1.  Management !  Looking for a great partner.

2.  Market ! Size, growth, environment, market pain

3.  Technology (Product) ! Breakthrough Innovation (Have they nailed it?)

4.  Deal Structure 5.  Momentum

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The IP Problem – Most IP wasted

!  $195 billion of annual research in Top 150 US universities

!  180,000 new patents annually

!  70% of patents go unlicensed

!  Trillions of value just sitting on the shelves

!  Technology Push is inefficient

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Increase Successful Innovation by bringing together market Insight and Invention

INVENTION INSIGHT

Science Industry

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Nail It Then Scale It

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Process driven innovation is changing the startup Landscape.

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Entrepreneurs are mis-prioritizing their activities

!ntrepreneurs are doing good things, but not doing them in the right order. More than 80% of the time entrepreneurs are ignoring customer demand the right product mix until after they have started to scale their business."

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* Harvard Business Review: Beating the Odds When you Launch a New Venture by Clark G. Gilbert and Matthew J. Eyring

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Q: How to Fix a Broken Model? A: Put the customer up front in the process

Entrepreneur has a idea

Identify Monetizeable Customer Pain

Identify Minimum

Feature Set (of the

customer)

Nail the Product…

Begin with the Customer!

(customer centric

approach)

Deliver breakthrough customer centric innovation.

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Pain Pays: Monetizeable Pain

“Any big problem is a big opportunity… No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.”

– Vinod Khosla (Kleiner Perkins)

Shark Bite VS. Mosquito Bite

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Why Start With Pain?

"  As a startup you have… ! No reputation ! No brand ! No track record ! No money ! 

"  Building your business on a monetizable pain will exponentially increase your odds of success

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The Entrepreneur’s & Customer’s Role

" Entrepreneurs innovate

" Customers validate

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Recent Investments 17

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Rhomobile (Sold to Motorola July 2011) Smartphone apps made easy

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Deal Highlights

•  Deal Source: U.S. GP Network

•  Investment Thesis: This mobile app development platform could become the preferred solution for enterprises to create and manage their apps in the red-hot mobile app market. Developer partnerships in Mexico are standardizing on Rho to expand mobile app development for Latin America.

•  Strategic Fit –  Region: Global –  Deal Terms: $1.5 MM –  Stage: Venture –  Sector: Mobile device apps

•  Highlights

–  Developers can write code once in HTML/Ruby and have it translated into native code for every major smartphone and tablet OS

–  Fastest and cheapest data sync in the world –  Web 2.0 Launch Pad winner, Fukuoka Ruby Award,

Interop Best Startup 2009 –  Mobile app market is expected to grow at 60% for

next 4 years –  Enterprise mobile app market to be $15Bn in 2015

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Revenue CAGR (‘09-’11): 628%

Segment: Mobile Strategy: Venture AVM Commitment: Up to US $3 million AVM Investment: US$1.5 million Investment date: March 2011 Investment Exit: July 2011 Exit IRR 1,900% Exit type: Sold to Motorola Solutions

Rhomobile (Sold to Motorola July 2011) Smartphone apps made easy

2009 2010 2011E Mill

ions

USD

Year

Rhomobile's Historical Performance

Revenue EBITDA

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Realized Fund Return: 3x Realized IRR: +1900% Multiple on Revenue: +30x

2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E

Mill

ions

USD

Year

Rhomobile Projected Revenues

Revenue EBITDA

Revenue CAGR (‘12-’15): 72%

•  Rhomobile is a mobile infrastructure company that provides a development framework that allows you to write a mobile app once and deploy it on all devices

•  At the end of July 2011, Rhomobile sold to Motorola. •  While Rhomobile is based in the heart of Silicon Valley, the CEO made the E|100 in

Monterrey and Alta was assisting Rhomobile in their entrance to Latin America.

Rhomobile (Sold to Motorola July 2011) Smartphone apps made easy

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Deal Highlights

•  Deal Source: MX GP Network

•  Investment Thesis: Small and medium sized import/export businesses in Mexico have very limited financing options and the approval process is slow, bureaucratic and inflexible. !MFM has pioneered an innovative financing alternative that has generated strong early traction and is poised to dominate a growing finance segment in Mexico. !

•  Strategic Fit –  Region: Mexico) –  Stage: Seed –  Sector: Financial

•  Highlights

•  Company achieved profitability 8 months after inception.

•  CEO with more than 15 years of expertise in the industry.

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MFM (Closed ‘11) Short-term foreign exchange loans without interest rate

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Segment: Financial Strategy: Venture Investment date: December 2011 Exit type: Strategic M&A, IPO

-  Operated only November and December in 2010

-  Profitable before the first year of operations

-  EBITDA Increase ‘11 to ‘12: 291%

MFM (Closed ‘11) Short-term foreign exchange loans without interest rate

* Does not take into account the converting debt, given that round price is not defined yet

2010 2011 2012E

Mill

ions

USD

Year

MFM's Historical Performance

Revenue EBITDA

EBITDA CAGR (‘12-’16): 55% Expected Multiple: 14.8x Expected IRR: 108%

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Deal Highlights

•  Deal Source: E|100

•  Investment Thesis: A SaaS platform to service clients of any size, Diverza is positioned as a market leader in electronic invoicing in Mexico. Current climate represents a land-grab to become the trusted provider of SaaS solutions to millions of companies.

•  Strategic Fit

–  Region: Mexico –  Stage: Venture –  Sector: IT, SaaS

•  Highlights

•  Transactional business model with more than 180K transactions per day (on avg.)

•  New companies registered in SAT will have to adopt the new system.

•  By 2013, Mexican companies will have electronic invoicing requirements, representing a demand for billions of invoices and associated services.

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Diverza (Closed ‘11) Driving transparency while revolutionizing Mexico’s tax collection system

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Segment: IT Strategy: Venture Investment date: September 2011 Exit type: Strategic M&A

EBITDA CAGR (‘09-’12): 363% ‘11-’12 YoY growth = 88%

Diverza (Closed ‘11) Driving transparency while revolutionizing Mexico’s tax collection system

2009 2010 2011 2012E

Mill

ions

USD

Year

Diverza's Historical Performance

Revenue EBITDA

Expected Return: 10.1x Expected IRR: 77%

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Amerimed

Segment: Clean Tech Strategy: Venture Investment date: May 2011

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Fricaeco (Closed ‘11) Hot Water for the masses. Benefits of solar energy in MX

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•  Fricaeco develops patent protected technology to make renewable energy available to mass markets.

•  Mexico’s high solar radiation is the perfect springboard to launch the product and take it to other similar markets.

•  Using strategic alliances with providers, manufacturers, distributors, Fricaeco license the technology and continues the development of other lines of product.

Expected Return: 8.8x Expected IRR: 91%

Fricaeco (Closed ‘11) Hot Water for the masses. Benefits of solar energy in MX

2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E

Mill

ions

USD

Year

Fricaeco's Projected Performance

Revenue EBITDA

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Deal Highlights

•  Deal Source: U.S. GP Network

•  Investment Thesis: uniquely positioned to seize the opportunity with its current strategy and an existing user base of more than 30 Million. By leveraging the feedback and “viral launch pad” of this existing installed base, the Company will release three innovative social games with this financing. If the company is successful creating significant traction around one of these new games, it will be an attractive acquisition target.

•  Strategic Fit –  Region: Global –  Stage: Seed –  Sector: Social Gaming

•  Highlights

•  Yearbook installed user base +30 MM

•  First company ever to receive fb Fund grant

•  Creates meaningful emotional and social interactions

•  Over 50% Facebook logins are to play games.

•  Facebook has +800 MM users.

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Juxta Labs (Closed ‘11) Cutting edge intensely social apps

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Segment: Social Gaming Strategy: Venture Investment date: November 2011

Juxta Labs (Closed ‘11) Cutting edge intensely social apps

2009 2010 2011 2012E

Mill

ions

USD

Year

Juxta Labs' Historical Performance

Revenue

Expected Return: 19.7x

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Alta Ventures Mexico Fund I

Venture Portfolio co. Excludes seed and exited

Revenues growth (‘11-’12): 2.9x EBITDA growth (‘11-”12): 23x

2011 2012E

Portfolio 2011 vs 2012

Revenue EBITDA 2011 2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E

Portfolio Projected Performance

Fricaeco Diverza Juxta MFM

2011 2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E

EBITDA

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Financial Model 30

SUMMARY OUTPUTS Pessimistic Expected Optimistic Actual

Net IRR* 19.9% 29.2% 38.1% 62.5% **

* Net IRR for LPs ** Up to December 31, 2011

-200%

-100%

0%

100%

200%

300%

400%

500%

1/28/15 6/11/16 10/24/17 3/8/19 7/20/20 12/2/21 4/16/23 8/28/24

IRR

Time

AVM Fund I Projected vs Actual Performance

Projected IRR

Actual IRR

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Due Diligence

Mentoring

Funding

Innovative Practices

Governance NISI Process

Guidance

Background Checks Deal Structuring

Alta Investment Model

CrowdSourced Deals

Collaborative & Transparent Investment Committee

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Trusted informal networks drive positive outcomes 1.  iTUESDAY www.ituesday.mx

2.  E|100 www.mvcc.mx/e100

3.  2010 MVCC – Monterrey Venture Capital Conference www.mvcc.mx

4.  Endeavour and Enlace Mentor Networks www.enlacee.org www.endeavor.org.mx

5.  MX Kickstart Seed Program

6.  NISI - MX Tech Univ (240 Universities, 350k engineering students)

7.  Redspan (CONACYT, IMPI and Universities) www.redspan.net

8.  Mexican Family Offices & Strategic Partnerships

9.  Business plan competitions: Clean Tech Challenge, ITESM…

10.  Strategic Corporate Partnerships: Spin-Ins/Spin-Outs

Alta Ventures Mexico Deal Flow Systems Deal Sourcing while Increasing Innovation Capacity & Entrepreneur Activity

MEXICO

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E|100 Deal Flow Process 34

E|100 Process

(2) Nomination Submission

(3) Peer Voting

(4) Winner Responses

(1) Request for Nomination

Sent to 15,000 Individuals

815 Entrepreneurs Identified

>2,000 Votes Cast 350 Unique Companies

Community-Wide Nomination

Entrepreneur-Only Voting

100 Total Members

“Alta Top 100 Entrepreneurs”

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E|100 – Successful Launch May 20, 2010! 35

April 20th, 2010 Quinta Real Hotel

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400+

Deal Flow Systems 36

Strategy filter

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Transparent Systems and Processes that Drive Positive Outcomes

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Applications Qtr

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Show & Tell

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Gutcheck

6 Term Sheet

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Due Diligence

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* 10 deals on Hold ** Rounded Numbers

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Alta Ventures Mexico Investment Team

Paul Ahlstrom, Partner #  Co-Founder vSpring Capital, Alta Growth Capital and Kickstart Seed Fund #  Business Dev. Director Lexis-Nexis, Reed Elsevier, Folio Corporation #  Founder/CEO of Knowlix sold to Peregrine Systems (now HP NYSE: HPQ) #  Other Exits include: MyFamily.com sold for $400 million to a private equity firm,

GlobalSimwww.globalsim.comsold to Kongsberg Maritime (KOG - Oslo Stock Exchg), Senforce sold to Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) and Altiris IPO (NASDAQ:ATRS) then sold to Symantec for $880 million (NASDAQ: SYMC) Rhomobile sold to Motorola

#  Advisory boards: Univ of Utah Tech Commercialization, Motorola VRB #  BA, Brigham Young University

Rogelio de los Santos Calderon, Partner #  Founder and CEO of Xtreme Cinemas, sold to Cinepolis #  Co-founder and CEO of Generacion Empresarial Mexicana #  Babson College Global Advisory Board member #  Monterrey Tec (ITESM) Board member #  Enlace E+E and Endeavor Mexico Board member #  MBL, DUXX Graduate School of Business Leadership #  BS, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey #  Directorships: Energryn, Diverza, MFM, Juxta Labs

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Alta Group Offices

Mexico

The Alta Group

Current: Alta Growth Capital I $75M Alta Growth Capital II $150M* Alta Ventures Mexico $70M* AUM Total Current $295M

Previous Experience Kickstart Seed Fund I $10M vSpring Capital Funds I, II, III $405M South America Private Equity Growth Fund $180M Baring Mexico Private $60M AIG Capital Partners GEM Fund $945M AIG-GE Capital LA Infrast. Fund $748M

* Target Close June 2012

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NISI Fundamentals

1.  Get into the Field

2.  Change or Fail Fast

3.  Brutal Intellectual Honesty

4.  Keep it Simple

5.  Start Small

November 4, 2011

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Everyone Wants to Be Silicon Valley 43

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Tech Com 1.0: Silicon Valley

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Everyone Wants to be Silicon Valley

Silicon Alley – New York, England Silicon Sloboda - Moscow Silicon Gulf – Davao Philippines

Silicon Slopes, Utah Silicon Oasis- Dubai Silicon Wadi – Israel Silicon Beach – Australia, Brighton England Silicon Glen – Scottland

Silicon Forrest – Portland Oregon Silicon Prairie – Illinois, Dallas Silicon Sandbar – Cape Cod Silicon etc….

Is Silicon Valley’s Success Repeatable?

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Key Drivers of Silicon Valley

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development

Industry

Financial

Entrepreneurs

Government

Research Universities Innovation

Capacity Investment Capacity

Entrepreneur Activity

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