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Nordic Technology Group AS

Investor Presentation Mar 1, 2023

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Wavetrain Systems AS

March 2023

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Market Opportunity Reduce risk at hundreds of thousands of level crossings world-wide

Threat

▪ Risks at rail level crossings

  • Many Level crossings are unprotected1
  • Protection of crossers is a growing concern

Solution: Wavetrain Level Crossing Protection (WLXP)

  • The WLXP detects and warns of approaching trains
  • All equipment at the crossing, simple installation, no service interruption during installation or operation
  • Detects trains through acoustic signals
  • Sensors on the rail itself
  • Continuous operation
  • Detected signals digitized for interpretation and activation
  • CENELEC SIL4 certified sensors
  • Redundancy for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety

Benefits

  • Unprecedented speed of installation
  • No service interruptions during a typical system installation
  • Competitive cost, minimal maintenance, overall certified CENELEC SIL 2/ IEC 61508, sensor CENELEC SIL4

Wavetrain delivers cost-effective risk reduction at level crossings

(1) https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2016/sc2/ECE-TRANS-SC2-2016 id05e.pdf

Market Opportunity

Wavetrain Level Crossing Protection (WLXP)

  • Around 1.000.000 level crossings world-wide addressable market
  • Euro 50 billion
  • Only CENELEC SIL2 Certified supplier world-wide
  • Growing population leads to increased traffic at level crossings
  • Growing population demands growth in rail traffic
  • Increased focus on safety at level crossings
  • Railway infrastructure owners seek solutions that can increase safety at hundreds of thousands of unprotected crossings world-wide: Network Rail (UK), SNCF RESEAU (FR), Bane NOR (N)

Railway safety is a large and growing market

Market Size and position

Market Drivers

End Client Examples

Products and Applications Wavetrain Level Crossing Protection (WLXP)

  • ➢ System to detect trains through sound interpretation of acoustic signals in the rail
    • ➢ Four sensors for a single track, eight sensors for double track
    • ➢ Connected to a single control unit with advanced and proprietary software
    • ➢ Output drives warning measures
  • ➢ CENELEC SIL2 certified for nine consecutive generations (EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129)
  • ➢ IEC 51608 certified for seven consecutive generations
  • ➢ Patented in more than 20 countries
  • ➢ Warning measures supplied upon request for selected markets (i.e.UK)

• In a conventional system, the warning cycle is initiated as the train reaches a certain place, the strike-in location

  • The WLXP does not use any axle counters or other switching devices far from the level crossing
  • It does not warn when the train is at a specific location along the tracks
  • Instead, it will analyse the sound that the train is inducing into the rails as it is rolling
  • The WLXP does not need any distant devices to achieve this
  • All system components are at the level crossing

  • Only CENELEC SIL2 Certified supplier world-wide
    • Requirement for roll-out
  • Installation time and resources significantly below competition
  • Installation and maintenance cost significantly below competition
  • No need to stop trains for maintenance or equipment replacement
    • Cost of service interruption during installation/maintenance huge
  • Autonomous, not reliant on costly enterprise interfacing
  • Type Approved UK 2022, operational system 2023
  • No known competitors in this market segment
  • Compliant with UK regulatory requirements
  • Type Approval from the UK to be cross accepted in other markets
    • Reduces time to market significantly

UK, Network Rail, WLXP Status

  • NR is in dire need of the WLXP to increase the number of protected level crossings
  • NR has patiently been awaiting Wavetrain progress for the much needed system
  • Product Type Approval for the WLXP achieved April 2022
  • NR integration of the Type Approved WLXP into their own infrastructure for operational use is being finalised by NR, expected Q1 2023
  • There are fourteen Routes making up the NR infrastructure. A Route has sole responsibility for a large section of the UK railway. All Route executives meet once a month for updates and information sharing. Wavetrain was invited and presented the WLXP at the monthly meeting in mid-February 2023
    • A rare and privileged opportunity for Wavetrain to reach out to NR stakeholders
    • Building relationships to Route stakeholders is a vital step towards sales
  • NR has confirmed the installation of an integrated system for operational use early 2023 in East Midlands, an important milestone for further sales and roll-out
  • Wavetrain estimates potential revenue for the UK market to be in the range of NOK 1 billion to 3 billion

Products and Applications Catalogue

Product Description Application Pricing
NOK
thousand
Gross
Margin
%
WLXP Train detection system for level crossings Rail sector 5001 69%
Broken Rail
Detection
Pending Rail sector

(1) Volume sales will reduce price Certain markets may require 3rd party products addons to the WLXP, i.e. warning measures, off-grid power solutions

  • Selling train detection systems for level crossings, SW & HW
  • In-house development of core safety applications for the railway market
  • Manufacturing and assembly using certified suppliers
  • Local partner or customer to install and maintain according to local requirements

Office Locations

Headquarters are based at Lysaker, Norway. Dormant subsidiaries in UK and Australia Production through certified suppliers

Management Team

Name Background
Pål Bratlie
CEO

Joined Wavetrain as CEO in March 2023

Executive Vice President for various divisions in Kongsberg Defence
& Aerospace since 2009

Pål has vast experience as an executive leader with an impressive track record in international business.

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, with a focus in microelectronics and safety, from the University of
California, Santa Barbara
Håkon Heier
Advisor

Wavetrain as CEO 2015 -
2023

CEO of Motorola Solutions Norway 2008-2015

20+ years of international management, engineering and sales in industry

Various management positions in Telenor, ProCaptura, Nera, ABB

Master of Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 1983
Ørjan Sommerseth
CTO

Joined Wavetrain in 2014

20+ years of experience Founder/ Developer of business and technology

Extensive experience from the computer science industry

Various management positions in Sysdeco, Software Innovation, EVRY

Cand. Scient. and Lecturer, The University in Oslo, Information Technology, 1995
Erik Berger
CFO

Joined Wavetrain in 2015, CEO June-Aug 2015, CFO from January 2017

20+ years' experience working with early-stage companies both in operational roles and as a PE/VC investor

Extensive international practice

Engineer Technical Cybernetics, Oslo Metropolitan University 1987 –
EUR ING 1992

MBA, EM LYON, France, 1993

NOK
million
2013A 2014A 2015A 2016A 2017A 2018A 2019A 2020A 2021A 2022P 2023E 2024E
Revenues 16,6 25,4 0 0,5 0,9 0 0 0 0 1,3 27 65
% growth - 53% - - 80% 100% - - - - 1985% 140%
EBITDA 1,5 -1,6 -19,9 -13,6 -11,6 -10,4 -14,0 -12,0 -11,6 -15,2 -19,3 0,4
% margin 9% -6% - -2.720% -1.289% - - - - -1.172% -71% 1%
  • Revenue 2013-14 is sales to Network Rail (UK) from first generation, non-certified WLXP
  • Revenue 2015-22 is sales of test systems
  • CENELEC SIL1 certificate achieved in March 2015 and CENELEC SIL2 in June 2015 from Lloyds Register
  • Numbers from the Broken Rail Application not included
  • Balance sheet 2022 preliminary in NOK million
    • Total assets: 75
    • Equity: 44,6
    • Debt: 30,4

% Shares Ordinary Pref A Pref B
NORDIC TECHNOLOGY GROUP AS 83,6 % 33 734 842 332 025 731 1 227 059 482 052
S. MUNKHAUGEN AS 5,9 % 2 361 161 839 817 573977 947 367
SKIPS AS TUDOR 2,1 % 854 104 604 104 250 000 0
lim AS 1,9 % 747 789 497 584 144 942 105 263
MOGER INVEST AS 1,3 % 535 947 390 684 40 000 105 263
Others 5,2 % 2 098 423 1 536 152 190 386 371 885
100,0 % 40 332 266 35 894 072 2 426 364 2 011 830

Risks and Mitigations

Risks Mitigations
Economic risk /
Political risk

Conservative industry, delayed
type approvals, slow market
adoption

Primary market UK has some
challenges, e.g., political
changes, strikes, price
increase, change of
organization Network Rail

The use of advisors well known in the industry

Primary market is Network Rail, UK due to lead position and market size

Cooperation with Railsupport
and Ricardo for safety certifications

Promote the product, brand and patents

Participate at conferences and exhibitions

Meet the tier one railway owners

Re-engage dormant Wavetrain UK subsidiary

Local manufacturing

Local partners
Competition
Competitors with SIL 3 and 4

New entrants with SIL 2

Do nothing

Competitive advantages, installation & cost, detection technology

First mover advantage

Patents

NR is a strong reference
Wavetrain
Wavetrain is a growth
company with outstanding
debt, limited revenue, negative
results

May need additional funding

Intellectual property rights

Wavetrain is part of the listed Nordic Technology Group AS

Wavetrain has a strong brand and international patent portfolio and is
supported by Bryn & Aarflot in related matters
Production -
Partners

Global shortage of semi
conductors and components

Trustworthy Partners

Renowned production partner(s)

Partner with companies with a relationship with the clients

Relationships with important market players

2023 Capital Increase

Share issue of Preference Shares "Offer shares"

  • NOK 40 million
  • 1. Loan from NTG to be converted
    • NOK 20 million
  • 2. Cash equity
    • NOK 20 million

Financing planned from Eksfin

  • Working capital
  • Project financing

Rights of Preference Shares "Offer shares"

  • (i) first, each of the Offer Shares shall be entitled to a distribution of NOK 9.50;
  • (ii) second, each of the Series B Preference Shares shall be entitled to a distribution of NOK 9.50;
  • (iii) third, each of the Series A Preference Shares shall be entitled to a distribution of NOK 12.00; and
  • (iv) fourth, each of the Series A Preference Shares and the ordinary shares shall be entitled to a distribution per share equal to NOK 9.50, being the amount received by each Series B Preference Shares (catch-up); and
  • (v) fifth, all shares shall receive any and all excess distributions pro rata to the number of shares

Put Option:

12 months duration

Convert Offer Shares in Wavetrain to ordinary shares in Nordic Technology Group AS (1:1)

For details see "Application Form for private placement of shares"

This document is not a replacement for a full review of the company's books, documents, certificates or accounts and is not a comprehensive review of the company's business. The document is solely made for the purpose of presenting the business plan.

Further, document is not, and should not be relied upon as, a legal opinion in relation to any matter referred to in it. This document is confidential and is privileged and otherwise protected by law as business secrets.

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