Gene Pache Ed Keible Chief Operating Officer Executive Chairman Omaha, NE 68144 Cornelius, NC 28031 Gene@tempoquest.com Ed@tempoquest.com 402 578 1722 650 224 0296 www.tempoquest.com www.tempoquest.com WEATHER FORECASTING ON STEROIDS
AT A GLANCE • Market for customized forecasts is > $8 billion annually • More rapid and accurate forecasts can dramatically o Improve business profitability o Reduce societal risk; e.g. Juno Debacle in NYC • TQI’s AceCAST ™ software provides these improvements • 30% of software completed to date • Management and programming teams in place to complete remainder • A low capital, high margin business
PROBLEM • Current forecasting technology is outdated, slow and inaccurate (3 hours delay from data collection) • Slow, inaccurate and imprecise forecasts are a problem for many industries, e.g. transport and transportation • Currently, users are unable to rapidly reduce business risks as weather shifts occur
OUR SOLUTION TQI is developing proprietary AceCAST ™ tools to be run on high performance computers delivering: • 3X improvement in accuracy • 10X reduction in data processing time (that which takes hours today will take minutes)
TQI AceCAST ™ FORECAST PRECISION Precipitation Forecast 20 mins using 1 GPU core 20 mins using 100 CPU cores Current WRF Forecast AceCAST ™ WRF Forecast
MARKET* United States Rest of World Total available market *1 $5 billion $3 billion Available user seats *2 8K 19K Total customer base *3 1K 1.9K
TECHNOLOGY • AceCAST ™ is based on the most used tool, WRF (weather research and forecasting) software • AceCAST ™ is WRF coded to run on high performance GPU accelerators, e.g. NVIDIA Tesla™ • AceCAST ™ is customizable by market and client seat
MARKETING MODEL • Targeting high value verticals • Software as a service • Annual license fee per seat • Upgrade fees • Fee-based hardware usage
INITIAL TARGET CUSTOMERS Weather Critical Verticals have Hundreds of Seats: • Transport i.e. UPS, Fed Ex • Transportation i.e. United, American, Southwest, Delta • Energy traders i.e. Calpine, Royal Dutch Shell • Reinsurance i.e. Munich Re, Swiss Re • Sovereign nations are a longer term target
HIGH OPERATING LEVERAGE • Minimal staffing & capital expenditures • Hardware provided by commercial cloud enterprise • Outsource programming and “help desk” • Sales by established regional reps • Target current WRF customer base
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Enterprise Client Forecast Forecast Provider Customized Accuracy Speed NOAA Panasonic Weather Weather Company Metra Weather AccuWeather
TIMELINE J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
OUR TEAM Ed Keible, Executive Chairman and CEO • Raychem (Fortune 300) executive VP; 20 years • Endwave, start-up CEO & Founder, 15 years, IPO and sale • Director / Advisor of several other start-ups and IPOs Gene Pache, Chief Operating Officer • Five years weather related start-up management, COO, founder, GeoMetWatch Corp • Founder of several start-ups; software, internet, weather satellite instruments • Fortune 500 senior executive; 15 years; ITT Corp, Nashua Corp, Raychem Corp Allen Huang, PhD, Chief Technology Officer • “Distinguished Scientist” at University of Wisconsin, SSEC • 25 years experience in developing satellite and forecasting software • World leader in using accelerators in weather forecasting models
ADVISORS Don Berchoff, Metra Weather, Vice President & GM Americas, • Former Director, Science & Technology, National Weather Service • COL USAF (Ret.) 25 Years U.S. Air Force Meteorologist Fred Thompson, Collaborative Communications, Inc, President & CEO, • Award Winning Advertising and PR Executive • 30 Years Madison Ave Advertising, PR Experience Stan Posey, NVIDIA, Inc, HPC Program Manager, Solutions in Earth System Modeling, • Manager NVIDIA High Performance Computing Strategy for Earth System Modeling David Crain, PhD , GeoMetWatch Corp, President & CEO • PhD in Atmospheric Science • 25 Years Experience in Satellite Meteorology Dan Pepper Pepper Consulting, President, CEO, • 25 Years Experience, Software Development, Marketing
ALLIANCES Space Science & Engineering Center, SSEC, University of Wisconsin, Madison • World’s premier developer of algorithms for satellite meteorology projects. NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara • Developer of GPU accelerators and CUDA programming language METRA Weather New Zealand • Provides businesses weather intelligence GeoMetWatch Corp, Ft Wayne • Developer of hyperspectral sounder constellation in geosynchronous orbit Hyper Sensing, Inc., Madison • Commercial algorithm developer and consultant to industry
FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS TempoQuest YR 1 YR 2 YR 3 YR 4 YR 5 YR 6 YR 7 Financial Projections R & D R & D Operations Operations Operations Operations Operations # Customers 0 1 4 18 33 43 53 # of Seats 0 10 208 1828 3324 4349 5384 # of EMPLOYEES 2 2 11 20 35 45 55 REVENUE $0 $100K $11.1M $38.8M $69.6M $90.1M $110.9M EXPENSES $2.4M $1.8M $3.3M $8.1M $12.9M $16.9M $20.4M PROFITS -$2.4M -$1.7M $7.7M $30.6M $56.7M $73.2M $90.5M
INVESTMENT REQUIREMENT $5 million in two parts: Mmm$10mill • $3 million for product development to beta testing in 2017 • $2 million for contingencies and revenue acceleration EXIT STRATEGY • IPO or • Acquired by major weather forecast provider (most likely)
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