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LOC-AID Technologies

Location Matters™

Florida Venture Forum


February 2011
Any device, any network, any location need

LOC-AID 100% OF EVERY MOBILE FOR ANY


LOCATES NETWORK DEVICE LOCATION
LOC-AID works
LOC-AID has built LOC-AID can reach LOC-AID can locate
everywhere.
the largest global 100% of network. over 500 million
Indoors or outdoors.
carrier footprint for For any mobile devices.
GPS or CELL-ID.
location data application. No GPS chip* needed.
High accuracy or
access. No app download.
Instant Locate
No user action.
On any platform –
2G, 3G and 4G.

The world’s largest location


gateway for enterprise LBS

2 * Over 80% of wireless devices are not “smart.”


Why LOC-AID matters

Disruptive technology

Tollbooth for enterprise LBS

$150M LBS enabler

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How Do You Own Mobile Location?

1. Lock up Supply-Side
Build an inter-carrier gateway

2. Lead on Demand-Side
Focus on enterprise apps

3. Drive Volume, Value & Voice


Lead on Privacy and Location Service

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Phase 1: Build the platform in Miami

 LOC-AID’s platform is hosted in


Miami, a Tier-IV facility with N+2
power and cooling infrastructure
with Terremark
 Miami has been ranked as one of
the top-five best interconnected
cities in the world (ahead of San
Francisco)
 LOC-AID selected Miami for its
numerous telecommunications
carrier facilities, fiber loops,
international cable landings and
multiple power grids.
Phase 1: Lock up network supply

90M

48M 34M
92M

7M
58M
8M
7M

2005-2008 2009 2010 2011


US: 14M
120M
Commercially Available Int’l: 42M

Connection Underway
7M
MOU/Contract

Total Locatable Subs (MM) 7 14 62 120 120 120 212 302 344 400 407 527
Markets
Cum. % of market 31% 63% 18% 72% 83% 98% 96% 100%

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Phase 1: Build an inter-carrier gateway

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Phase 1: Achieve cost advantage

LOC-AID Xchange Gateway


Technology Investment • $10M dollars and 180 man-years in R&D, development
and engineering

Stability • Two redundant systems


• Hosted in Tier IV data center
• 99.99% uptime
• Real-time alerting to operations team

Scalability • Standard platforms and open standards


• Virtualization and load balancing built in
• Low-cost platform and business model
• Increasing volumes drive operating efficiencies

Security • Extensive privacy framework already built


• Passed “blind” carrier audit in Q1 2010

Intellectual Property • One patent issued, four pending

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Phase 1: Locate any device

Network-Based App-Based

US Addressable Subs 290 M 50 M

Adoption Hurdle NO DOWNLOAD App Install, User Action

iPhone, Android, BB,


Platform-specific App NONE: ALL DEVICES
Win, Symbian

Speed 0-6 Sec 15-35 Sec

Accuracy 5 – 500m 5 – 100m

Indoor Coverage YES NO

Downtown Coverage Ubiquitous Spotty

Battery Drain NONE Severe

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How Do You Own Mobile Location?

1. Lock up Supply-Side
Build an inter-carrier gateway

2. Lead on Demand-Side
Focus on enterprise apps

3. Drive Volume, Value & Voice


Lead on Privacy and Location Service

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Phase 2: Make it easy for developers

Single API accesses any mobile


device on any carrier network

One price per locate

One contract

One point-of-contact

Developer certification and app on-boarding

Privacy management per CTIA Guidelines

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Phase 2: Simplify the demo

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Phase 2: Focus on enterprise LBS

Demand drivers of Enterprise LBS. Value of a location look-up


 Mobile fraud management Fraud Prevention
New  Authentication and verification
Authentication
business
 Resource tracking
models Verification
 Monitoring “presence”
Analytics
 Employee monitoring
Cost Tracking

Savings  Asset tracking


Mobile Mktg
 M2M
Geoservices
 Proximity mobile marketing
Revenue  Mobile analytics Consumer Apps

and  Consumer geo-service Gaming


customer
growth  Hyper-local search Social networks
 Privacy management
0 1 2 3 4 5
Market value per ping
Source: Merrill Lynch, Frost & Sullivan, Berg Insight and LOC-AID analysis; April 2010.

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Phase 2: Build Pipeline
As of Q4 2010

Cloaked. Because
we don’t know all
of you (yet).

2009 2010 2011


How Do You Own Mobile Location?

1. Lock up Supply-Side
Build an inter-carrier gateway

2. Lead on Demand-Side
Focus on enterprise apps

3. Drive Volume, Value & Voice


Lead on Privacy and Location Service

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Phase 3: Beyond gateway services

CARRIERS ENTERPRISE CONSUMERS

Monetize capacity Increase app value Privacy management


On-ramp apps Mobile ROI/CRM LBS-centricity
Counter Google/Apple “Presence” disruption Tracking Data Mining

Focus Focus Focus


Build Platform Differentiation Universal access
Lock Up Supply New LBS Tools Data monetization
Integrate billing Pricing Advantage Market insight

Connect to Carrier Networks Build Customers and Drive Traffic Add Features and Grow Profits

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Phase 3: Beyond locates = privacy

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Phase 3: Gateway + privacy = ∑insight

Carriers Enterprise
$12bn $12bn
Process Access
Services Control
System Insight

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Experienced wireless team in place

RIP GERBER TOM STAHL DAVID ALLEN RON ZARAGOZA


President & CEO Chief Operating Officer Technology Sales
• COO: Telephia (Nielsen • Original team, location • Head of Business Mobility:
• EVP/CMO: Intellisync (Nokia
acquired for $440M) standard, Qualcomm Nokia (to AT&T, VZW, Cisco)
acquired for $510M)
• Wireless ops exec at Bell • Director-Location Products: • Int’l Sales Director: Tellabs
• CMO/CSO: Commtouch, (IPO)
South SnapTrack (Qualcomm (EMEA & LA)
• Senior mgmt roles at Digitas, acquired for $1B)
• Systems analyst: Mitre • Midwest Branch Sales
Deloitte, American Express
• Director, Samsung, Motorola Manager: Lucent
• Fluent in Mandarin
• Process engineer: Firestone
• BS Eng, Purdue; MBA, Illinois • BS Acctg., Western Illinois
• BS Eng, Duke; MBA, Haas
• BS Eng, Virginia; MBA,
• 23 years experience • 22 years experience
Harvard • 22 years experience
• 23 years experience

NAOMI MORITA JEFF ALLYN SHAULI CHAUDHURI


Development Product Mgmt. Marketing

• VP Service Delivery, iLoop • Product head for VZNavigator • VP, Global Marketing: Phoenix
Mobile Technology (PTEC)
• Product head VZW Network-
• Product Manager for Family Initiated APIs • Director, Software Marketing
Minder (Autodesk) for Nokia Enterprise Mobility
• Product leadership –
• IVR Dev for TellMe, acquired maintained and grew multi- • Director Mktg.: Intellisync,
by Microsoft billion dollar portfolio Mitek
• BS IEOR Berkeley, MS Applied • 15 years experience • MA, Ohio State Univ., MBA,
Math Santa Clara San Jose State
• 18 years experience • 18 years experience

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Backed by leading venture capital and private equity

Intersouth Partners is one of the most active and experienced venture capital
firms in the Southeast, having invested in more than 100 private companies.
Founded in 1985, Intersouth manages $780 million in seven venture capital
limited partnerships, making it the largest venture capital fund in North Carolina
and one of the largest in the Southeast. John Glushik, General Partner, is a
director on the LOC-AID board.

H.I.G. Growth Partners is the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of


H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity investment firm with over $8.5
billion of capital under management, with over 250 investments across a wide
range of industries and transactional dynamics. John Kim, Managing Director, is a
director on the LOC-AID board.

Hamilton Lane provides private equity asset management services with over
$107 billion in total assets under management and supervision, including over
$15 billion for managed accounts and $49 billion in commitments to non-U.S.
funds, principally in Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Greg Baty, Vice
President, is a board observer for LOC-AID.

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Unfair Advantages

Lowest cost operating platform

Largest gateway globally

Distribution strategy lock-up

Pricing and “margin lock”


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Why LOC-AID matters

Disruptive technology

Tollbooth for enterprise LBS

$150M LBS enabler

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LOC-AID Technologies

Location Matters™

Rip Gerber
President & CEO

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