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BRIGHTCOM GROUP LIMITED Investor Presentation 2020

Jun 5, 2020

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Hel: +91 (40) 67449910 EEAX +91 (22) 66459677

June 05, 2020.

The BSE Limited P. J. Towers, 25th Floor, Dalal Street, MUMBAI – 400001. Scrip Code: 532368 DIN: 0014051574

The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. Exchange Plaza, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai-400051. Symbol: BCG

Dear Madam/Sir,

Sub: Investor Presentation on its M&A track record.

With reference to the subject cited above, we are enclosing herewith a copy of presentation of the Company's M&A track record.

The same is also being made available on the website of the Company at www.brightcomgroup.com.

This is for your information only.

Thanking you.

Yours faithfully,

for BRIGHTCOM GROUP LIMITED

ShoAa

M. SURESH KUMAR REDDY CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR

brightcom group limited (Formerly Lycos Internet Limited)

FLOOR: 5, FAIRFIELD BY MARRIOTT, ROAD NO: 2, NANAKRAMGUDA, GACHIBOWLI, HYDERABAD - 500032, TELANGANA,INDIA. EMAIL: [email protected] =WEB:WWW.BRIGHTCOMGROUP.COM CIN: L64203761999PLC030996

M&A TRACK RECORD

INORGANIC GROWTH (2006 TO 2010)

  • AS YBRANT TECHNOLOGIES, THECOMPANY PROVIDED BACK-END TECH AND PLATFORMS FOR THE AD-NETWORKS OF THE TIME TILL 2006
  • THE TRANSITION TO A COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL MARKETING SOLUTION HAPPENED FROM 2006 TO 2010
  • WE ADOPTED AN INORGANIC GROWTH STRATEGY BY ACQUIRING 10 COMPANIES IN THE FRONT END OF DIGITAL MARKETING
  • THE STRATEGY WAS TO BUY COMPANIES ACROSS SPECIALITIES OF DISPLAY, EMAIL, SEARCH AND SOCIAL MARKETING
  • THE IDEA WAS ALSO TO DEVELOP GLOBAL FOOT PRINT ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES THAT WERE ACTIVE.
  • WE MOVED FROM SUB-$10 MILLION BACKEND COMPANY IN 2006 TO A $100 MILLION END-TO-END DIGITAL MARKETING GROUP BY 2010
  • A TEN FOLD INCREASE USING DELIBERATE ACQUISITIONS FUNDED BY STAGGERED FUND RAISES FROM PE FIRMS

KEY ACQUISITIONS (DIGITAL SECTOR)

ACQUISITIONDATE 2007
ACQUISITION $10
AMOUNT MILLION
REVENUE $8
ACQUIRED MILLION
EBITDA $1.25
ACQUIRED MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE 8
ADVERTISINGCHANNEL DISPLAY
LOCATION LOSANGELES,CA
INTERNATIONALPRESENCE US
PAYMENTTERMS 2PART
STATUS COMPLETED

AdDynamix offered online advertising solutions to clients such as Ameritrade, AT&T, Disney, Fox Television, ING, Macy's, Office Max, Orbitz, SBC, Sony Motion Pictures, Verizon, Ford Motor Media and WebMD. They mainly specialized in Display Advertising in US markets.

ACQUISITIONDATE 2007
ACQUISITIONAMOUNT BOUNDBYNON-DISCLOSURE
REVENUEACQUIRED $2.2MILLION
EBITDAACQUIRED $1MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE -
ADVERTISINGCHANNEL EMAIL
LOCATION BELGRADE,SERBIA
INTERNATIONALPRESENCE US
PAYMENTTERMS 2PART
STATUS COMPLETED

VoloMP was a high-performance email marketing platform with rich feature set, ease of use and improved deliverability. This high end email marketing platform provided better reach and offered ROI to clients in the US markets.

ACQUISITIONDATE 2007
ACQUISITION $4.5
AMOUNT MILLION
REVENUE $6
ACQUIRED MILLION
EBITDA $1
ACQUIRED MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE 4.5
ADVERTISINGCHANNEL SEARCH/DISPLAY
LOCATION VAIL,CO,US
INTERNATIONALPRESENCE SOUTHAMERICA,US
PAYMENTTERMS 2PART
STATUS COMPLETED

MediosOne ad network provided graphical and contextual banners and targets users locally by using advanced geo-targeting technology to reach users in their native language. MediosOne's network included advertisers from many Fortune 500 companies as well as dozens of the Alexa top one thousand ranked sites. The company had publishers in most regions of the world covering over 35 content channels. They operated in South America and the US.

ACQUISITION EARLY
DATE 2008
ACQUISITION $16
AMOUNT MILLION
REVENUE $20
ACQUIRED MILLION
EBITDA $3.2
ACQUIRED MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE 5

Oridian was a leading online advertising company with over 9 billion monthly impressions, a worldwide inventory and access to millions of users in various continents, Oridian enabled Advertisers to implement effective branding as well as direct response campaigns, and Publishers to monetize traffic emanating from all over the world. It was a privately-owned top-10 network with access to over 80 million monthly users worldwide; offices in North America, France, Israel, Argentina, Germany and the UK, and representatives in Australia, Scandinavia, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands.

ACQUISITION LATE
DATE 2008
ACQUISITIONAMOUNT NON-DISCLOSURE
REVENUE $5
ACQUIRED MILLION
EBITDA $1.2
ACQUIRED MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE -
ADVERTISINGCHANNEL DISPLAY,CONTEXTUAL
LOCATION AUSTRALIA
INTERNATIONALPRESENCE AUSTRALIA,SINGAPORE,HONGKONG
PAYMENTTERMS 2PART
STATUS COMPLETED

Max Interactive Pty Ltd. specialized in banner-based web advertising, Mobile and eMail marketing with advertisers such as Vodafone, Telstra, HP, Nokia, Nissan, Citibank, American Express, Visa, Rabo Bank, Land Rover, Qantas, Jack Daniels, Newscorp, Adobe, Qantas, Virgin and Nestlé. Max's publishers included Webjet, RewardsCentral, 3 Mobile, About Seniors, MobileActive, Ski.com.au , Yakedi and Ybrant's Oridian to name a few. Max Interactive was an independent Interactive Sales and Marketing Network established in Australia October 2001.

ACQUISITIONDATE 2008
ACQUISITIONAMOUNT $8.5MILLION
REVENUEACQUIRED $7MILLION
EBITDAACQUIRED $1.2MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE 6
ADVERTISINGCHANNEL SOCIALMEDIA,DISPLAY
LOCATION BUENOSAIRES,ARGENTINA
INTERNATIONALPRESENCE LATINAMERICA
PAYMENTTERMS 2PART
STATUS COMPLETED

Dream ad group had a strong regional presence in Latin America - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico. Argentina is $ 2.5 billion advertising market with $70 million online spend. Dream ad was founded in 2003 and established in Buenos Aires, with offices in Chile, Uruguay and Mexico. dream ad counts with two Business units which were both devoted to the exclusive representation of Microsoft properties in the South Cone region of South America.

ACQUISITIONDATE 2010
ACQUISITION $36
AMOUNT MILLION
REVENUE $30
ACQUIRED MILLION
EBITDA $6
ACQUIRED MILLION
PURCHASEMULTIPLE 6
ADVERTISINGCHANNEL SEARCH/PUBLISHER
LOCATION BOSTON,US
INTERNATIONALPRESENCE GLOBAL
PAYMENTTERMS 2PART
STATUS UNDERSETTLEMENT

Lycos was founded in 1995, based on Internet search technology developed as part of a research project at the Carnegie Mellon University, and listed on the US technology market index Nasdaq in 1996.

Its contemporaries such as Infoseek, Excite, WebCrawler and AltaVista have lost out to competition from more powerful search engines like Yahoo and Google. The latter is now synonymous with Net search.

In 2000, at the height of the so-called dot-com boom in the US, Lycos was acquired by Spain's Terra Networks for $12.5 billion. Four years later, it was bought by South Korean firm Daum Communications for $94.5 million.

CAPITAL RAISED

Series A

DATE MID2007
NAME SANSARCAPITAL
AMOUNTRAISED $20MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED 17%FULLYDILUTED
INVESTORLOCATION NEWYORK,US
PRE-MONEY $125
VALUATION MILLION
INSTITUTION PRIVATE
TYPE EQUITY
INVESTMENTTYPE EQUITY
EXITDATE 2014-2017
USE ADDYNAMIX,
OF MEDIOSONE
PROCEEDS &VOLOMP

Series B

DATE DEC2007
NAME PASSPORTCAPITAL,EIGHTCAPITAL&VENUSCAPITAL
AMOUNTRAISED $10MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED 5.71%FULLYDILUTED
INVESTORLOCATION CALIFORNIA,US
PRE-MONEYVALUATION $175MILLION
INSTITUTIONTYPE PRIVATEEQUITY
INVESTMENTTYPE EQUITY
EXITDATE 2013-2016
USEOFPROCEEDS ORIDIAN

Series C

DATE LATE2008
NAME ASIAPACIFICCAPITAL
AMOUNTRAISED $22MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED 8.8%FULLYDILUTED
INVESTORLOCATION HONGKONG
PRE-MONEYVALUATION $250MILLION
INSTITUTIONTYPE PRIVATEEQUITY
INVESTMENTTYPE EQUITY
EXITDATE 2018-2019
USEOFPROCEEDS MAXINTERACTIVE,DREAMADGROUP
DATE 2010
NAME OAKINVESTMENTS
AMOUNTRAISED $20MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED 7%
INVESTORLOCATION GREENWICH,US
PRE-MONEYVALUATION $300MILLION
INSTITUTIONTYPE PRIVATEEQUITY/VC
INVESTMENTTYPE EQUITY
EXITDATE LINEDUPBUYERS
USEOFPROCEEDS SECONDARYSALE,ORIDIAN

DATE 2010
NAME ICICIBANK
AMOUNTRAISED $10MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED NA
INVESTORLOCATION NEWYORK,US
PRE-MONEYVALUATION NA
INSTITUTIONTYPE BANK
INVESTMENTTYPE DEBT
EXITDATE PAIDOFFINFULL
USEOFPROCEEDS OTHERACQUISITIONS

DATE 2010
NAME BATTERYMARCHCAPITAL
AMOUNTRAISED $10MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED 3.33%
INVESTORLOCATION BOSTON,US
PRE-MONEYVALUATION $300MILLION
INSTITUTIONTYPE PUBLICFUND
INVESTMENTTYPE EQUITY
EXITDATE 2013-2016
USEOFPROCEEDS LYCOS

DATE 2010
NAME ASIAPACIFICCAPITAL
AMOUNTRAISED $10MILLION
PERCENTAGEACQUIRED 3.33%
INVESTORLOCATION HONGKONG
PRE-MONEYVALUATION $300MILLION
INSTITUTIONTYPE PRIVATEEQUITY
INVESTMENTTYPE EQUITY
EXITDATE 2018-2019
USEOFPROCEEDS OTHERACQUISITIONS