Nokia Growth Partners (NGP)

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NOKIA GROWTH PARTNERS An independent global growth-stage investor backing entrepreneurs focused on building a connected world. November 20, 2014

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Nokia Growth Partners is a venture capital firm sponsored by Nokia. NGP invests in growth-stage companies globally with offices in India, China, US and Europe.

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NOKIA GROWTH PARTNERS

An independent global growth-stage investor backing entrepreneurs focused on building a connected world.

November 20, 2014

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1998

20052014

Nokia Growth Partnerswas founded in 2005 asa growth stage venturefund sponsored byNokia.

Nokia has a long and successful history ofpromoting innovationthrough venturesponsorships datingback to 1998.

Today NGP’s team consistsof 12 active investment professionals in the US, China, India and Europe with a portfolio of 50+ companies and 15+ exits.

Nokia has invested over $1.6B in different venture funds over the years, NGPs total funds

under management is $700M. New funds raised in January 2013 and in April 2014.

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Market Opportunity

NGP Industry Expertize

Nokia Strategy

Nokia Growth Partners is a financially disciplined independent investor with one limited corporate partner – Nokia.

For us, the best investment opportunities lie in financially attractive markets where there is a strategic fit with Nokia and where NGP already has deep proprietary industry expertize and network.

UNIQUE CORPORATE VENTURE MODEL

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Investment Focus

Applied Data & Analytics

Connected Enterprise

Connected Car (new)

Mobile Consumer

Local Commerce

Other

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The companies NGP invest in tend to have a few million in revenues, a shipping product and at least one round of capital raised prior to NGP investment. We do around 15 deals each year and typically participate as a lead investor.

GROWTH-STAGE INVESTING

Seed & Startup Funding

Expansion Funding (Series A, B, C) NGP invests here

Mezzanine & Pre-IPO funding (Series D, E+..)

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BO ILSOEPartner

WALTER MASALINPrincipal

JOHN GARDNERPartner

ANNIE LINSenior Associate

PAUL ASELPartner

UPAL BASUPartner

ANUPAM RASTOGIPrincipal

VIVEK GOYALAnalyst

DAVID TANGPartner

LU GUOPrincipal

KEVIN LAUAssociate

ALLEN ZHUSenior Analyst

ONE TEAM – GLOBAL REACH

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With decades of investing experience, we have prepared minds and understand our sectors inside out. Our industry insight, global perspective and broad network increases the likelihood of success for the companies in which we invest.

In April 2014, we raised a $100 million Connected Car fund to aid HERE, Nokia’s mapping and location intelligence business, through developing key partnerships that can extend HERE’s business. www.here.com

CONNECTED CAR MOBILE CONSUMER LOCAL COMMERCEAPPLIED DATA & ANALYTICSCONNECTED ENTERPRISE

THEMATIC FOCUS

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APPLIED DATA & ANALYTICS

CONNECTED CAR & OTHER

MOBILE CONSUMER

CONNECTED ENTERPRISE

LOCAL COMMERCE

Chinese mobile advertising network

Programmatic media buy & digital advertising

Digital CRM data provider

Location powered online advertising

Advanced micro-optics maker

Smartphone image sensor technology

Smartphone array cameras

Power integrated circuits

Connected car services

In-store analytics for online & offline retail

Travel meta-search site

Online classi eds platform

Classi eds site in India

Digital entertainment platform

Mobile language learning

Mobile social games

Mobile social games

Mobile social games

Intelligent lighting systems

Managed IT hosting forproducts and services

Carrier grade messagingsecurity

Cloud services

Retail execution platform

Programmatic advertising platform

Open source video platform

SELECTED INVESTMENTS

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PORTFOLIO

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IPO in France 2012 IPO in Japan 2011 IPO in India 2005

Acquired by Qualcomm 2012

Acquired by NTT Data 2012

Acquired by Ebay 2011

Acquired by Nuance 2011

Acquired by Dolby 2008

Acquired by Broadcom 2007

Acquired byQualcomm 2006

IPO in United States 2013 IPO in United States 2004

Acquired by Alibaba 2014

SUCCESSFUL EXITS

Acquired by Yahoo 2014

Acquired by Reliance IndustriesLtd. 2014

Acquired by RNTS media 2014

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THANK YOU

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