Ed Keible Gene Pache Executive Chairman Chief Operating Officer Omaha, NE 68144 Cornelius, NC 28031 Gene@tempoquest.com Ed@tempoquest.com 402 578 1722 650 224 0296 www.tempoquest.com www.tempoquest.com THE WORLD’S FASTEST MOST PRECISE FORECASTS
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Table Of Contents Summary High Operating Leverage 15 4 Investment Highlights Comparative Analysis 16 5 At a Glance Timeline 17 6 The Problem Our Team 18-19 7 Our Solution Advisors 20 8 TQI AceCAST Alliances 21 9 Products P&L Projection 22 10 Market Market Expansion 23 11 Technology Investment Requirement 24 12 Marketing Model Exit Strategy 24 13 Initial Target Customers 14 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
SUMMARY TempoQuest, an Independent Software Vendor, ISV, is developing a suite of software tools which accelerate the processing and improve the precision of regional weather forecasts. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS • TempoQuest is allied with NVIDIA, a leader in GPU computing • Addressing a multi-billion dollar untapped market with an identified customer base • Series A funding round is fully subscribed • Initial product to be introduced in 3 months • Team with unparalleled technical expertise and domain knowledge PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
AT A GLANCE • Market for customized forecasts currently > $8 billion annually • Market is primed for disruptive change,explosive growth • More rapid and precise forecasts can dramatically - Improve business profitability - Reduce societal risk; e.g. JUNO debacle in NYC • TQI's AceCAST software provides these improvements • 30% of software coding complete • Upon software release TQI is a low capital high margin business PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
THE PROBLEM • Current forecasting technology is outdated, slow and imprecise (e.g. 3 hours delay from data collection) • Slow, imprecise forecasts are a problem for many industries, e.g. airline transport, renewable energy, electrical grid management • Currently, users are unable to rapidly reduce business risks as weather shifts occur PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
OUR SOLUTION TQI is developing proprietary AceCAST tools to be run on high performance computers with GPU* accelerators delivering: • 3X improvement in precision • 10X reduction in data processing time (that which takes hours today will take minutes) *GPU, Graphic Processing Unit, accelerators developed by NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
TQI AceCAST ™ FORECAST PRECISION Precipitation Forecast * 20 mins using 1 GPU core 20 mins using 100 CPU cores Current WRF Forecast AceCAST ™ WRF Forecast *WRF, Weather, Research, and Forecasting, processing model PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
PRODUCTS AceCAST ™ DataCAST ™ • • Faster more precise regional Acceleration of data insertion weather forecast into model processing ChemCAST ™ HurCAST ™ • • Accelerated and more precise Highly rapid prediction of air quality forecast hurricane strength and landfall location PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
MARKET United States Rest of World Total Available Market*1 $3.0 Billion $5.0 Billion Available User Seats*2 11.7K 20.1K Total Accessible Annual Market*3 $500 Mil $800 Mil (for AceCast product only) Notes: 1. Wharton Study 2. NCAR Data 3. TQI Estimate PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY • AceCAST ™ is based on the most used weather forecast tool, WRF (weather research and forecasting) software • AceCAST ™ incorporates user interfaces that are transparent to CPU WRF users • AceCAST ™ is WRF coded to run on high performance GPU accelerators, e.g. NVIDIA Kepler™ , Pascal™ • AceCAST ™ is customizable by market and client seat PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
MARKETING MODEL • Targeting high value verticals • Software as a service • Annual license fee per seat • Pay per run • Fee-based hardware usage PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
INITIAL TARGET CUSTOMERS Weather Critical Verticals have Hundreds of Seats: • Utilities, Renewable Energy i.e. Next Era Energy, San Diego Gas & Electric • Transport i.e. FedEx, UPS, DHL etc … • Agriculture i.e. Monsanto, Climate Corps • Energy/Traders i.e. Calpine, Royal Dutch Shell , Tanaska • Sovereign Nations are a longer term target i.e. Japan, China, Korea PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
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