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Yactraq Overview – May 2013 Jeh Daruvala – Founder/CEO 1 Winner Metadata to monetize online video
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The Problem Slide 2 *: Youtube press stats **: $1.5/minute Online content is exploding 36M hours of video uploaded on Youtube alone in 2012* Indexing video is hard Computers can't process audio/video Manual processing is unaffordable ($3.2B to process Youtube alone**)
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Yactraq's Solution Slide 3 Allow monetizing video through discoverability, analytics and targeting Customers can let their viewers browse a detailed catalog, sell statistics and automatically target ads Affordable Metadata tagging of audiovisual content to allow universal indexing Imagine a bookstore where all book content would be searchable
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Slide 4 Yactraq's Solution #2 (Patent pending) Speech2Topics: A scalable cloud platform. Indexes massive volumes of video content. Applications: Content discovery (search, navigation and recommendation) Targeted advertising Content analytics (brand, usage/user profiling)
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Product: Metadata (Indexing) Slide 5 Speech Customers * Topics Yatraq provides metadata from the cloud Yactraq Cloud services Topics Yactraq hosts topic engine; customers hosts speech engine Hybrid deployment Speech And Speech
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Slide 6 Market Opportunity (2013-2018) *: Youtube press stats & Illume **: As above + ComScore (extrapolation) 2 Billion + hours of online video * (72M hours uploaded in 2012 growing 50% annually ) With no other practical method to make it discoverable 2B Unique visitors * $2.5B Indexing market in 2018 $22B Revenues in 2018 Guarantees affordability to customers
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Slide 7 Market Attack Plan Early adopters Customers: Long-tail content aggregators & Small visionary technology providers Early revenues already realized with first product version Early majority Customers: Technology platform providers Requires funding to expand sales & marketing and add product features Late majority Customers: Content aggregators & content providers Requires funding integration with technology platform providers
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Path to Market and Channels Slide 8 Yactraq Publishers / Aggregators Content Channels (video platforms) pay Yactraq for every minute of video processed Video platforms / Ad Tech players Video platforms / Ad Tech players
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Competitive Positioning Slide 9 Competitors:Yactraq: Slow & Expensive Manual process Could become customers End-to-end functionality Leading to high cost structure Limited to large publishers and enterprises Fast: Near Real-Time Scalable: full automation Pay only what you need Flexible deployment model Speech Recognition Machine Learning (patent pending)
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Yactraq Financial projections ($ thousand) Slide 10
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Leadership Slide 11 Founder & CEO - Jeh Daruvala 22 years as entrepreneur, Investment banker & Product Manager Microsoft, T-Mobile & TELUS CTO - Dr. Lee Iverson 17 years R&D in pattern recognition Scientist at the Stanford Institute & Professor at the University of British Columbia VP Bus. Dev. - Francois Modarresse 25 years in media technologies Grew businesses in excess of $720M M&A as acquirer and acquiree Philips, Dolby Labs, SkyStream Advisory Board Subhash Bal Ex sales executive at 3Com, Rockwell, Synopsis Former entrepreneur. IPO & M&A Randall Hounsell Current VP of Mobility at Comcast Formerly DreamIt Ventures, Circuit City Steven Forth 25 years in entrepreneurship & management consultant Co-founder & CTO at Leverage Point
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Status Slide 12 2 million + minutes of video in production with our first product version 1st paying customers & accolades! Small initial funding From founder + research grants from Govt. of Canada Require additional funding for commercial and product expansion
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Capital Request Slide 13 $1.5 million as either equity or convertible equity Next funding round of $5 million + in 12 to 18 months Use of proceeds (12-18 months) Sales & Marketing: 60% Sales team, Event marketing, Inbound marcom Technology: 40% Technology team, Globalization, Speech R&D
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Slide 14 Investment Highlights Massive, growing market Unresolved pain point $2.5B Defensible, customer-validated solution A team who has done that before
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15 Metadata to monetize online video Contact: Jeh Daruvala – Founder/CEO Mobile 604 341 6217 jeh@yactraq.com jeh@yactraq.com
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