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FRONTIER DIGITAL VENTURES LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2017

Nov 2, 2017

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Capital/Financing Update

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ASX Code: FDV

3 November 2017

Acquisition of Jumia portfolio businesses

Frontier Digital Ventures Limited (“Frontier”, ASX: FDV) today announces the completion of multiple transactions to significantly upgrade its portfolio of market leading online classifieds businesses in Frontier markets.

Highlights

  • Acquisition of 3 online property classifieds portals from Jumia, a major online classifieds group in Africa

  • 3 acquired portals are all existing competitors to Frontier’s current investments in Ghana (meQasa), Nigeria (ToLet) and Angola (AngoCasa)

  • Frontier will proceed to merge all traffic, listings, agents, advertisers and revenues onto its existing portals and create 3 new clear market leaders

  • As consideration for the deal Frontier will sell Afribaba and pay US$500k to Jumia

  • Transaction significantly strengthens Frontier’s overall portfolio by creating 3 market leading investments and providing an exit for Afribaba

  • The acquisition highlights Frontier’s privileged access to corporate opportunities and its ability to transact quickly to add value for its shareholders

Frontier’s CEO and Founder, Shaun Di Gregorio said: “This transaction was a rare opportunity in the online classifieds space, and we are pleased that Jumia, a major African classifieds investor, reached out to Frontier with a strong desire to acquire Afribaba and complete this transaction.”

“The ultimate result for Frontier shareholders is that we have exited Afribaba and created 3 new market leaders in property verticals across 3 key African markets. meQasa is now a clear market leader in Ghana. ToLet is now a clear market leader in Nigeria. AngoCasa is now a clear market leader in Angola. Our businesses are now in a significantly improved position to commence rapid monetisation in their respective markets.”

“It also demonstrates the strength of our entrepreneur-led online classifieds model, which provides a significant advantage over competitors which are fully owned and operated remotely by major online classifieds groups, who lack the requisite local expertise and network.”

Frontier Digital Ventures Ltd 39-8 The Boulevard, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +60 3 2201 0790 www.frontierdv.com

About Jumia

Jumia, formerly known as African Internet Group, is a major online classifieds investor operating across Africa. Its portfolio contains investments in 23 countries and has been operating since 2012. Jumia was launched with the support of Rocket Internet, MTN and Millicom

Jumia assets acquired

Under the agreement, Frontier will acquire Jumia’s 100% interests in Jumia House Ghana, Jumia House Nigeria and Jumia House Angola (“ Jumia Assets ”). The Jumia Assets have strong listings, sessions and advertiser customer bases and retain strong competitive positions in each of their 3 respective markets. The monthly sessions comparison of each of the Jumia Assets is provided below in Table 1.

Table 1: Monthly sessions (June 2017, Google Analytics)

Ghana
Nigeria
Angola
Ghana
Nigeria
Angola
Ghana
Nigeria
Angola
63,011 256,845 12,788
69,993 124,036 28,934

Rationalisation of Afribaba

Frontier has agreed to sell Afribaba to Jumia in return for the Jumia Assets. The decision was made given Jumia’s significant interest in acquiring a market leading classifieds horizontal platform in West Africa and from Frontier’s perspective has facilitated the creation of 3 market leaders in Ghana, Nigeria and Angola.

Transaction structuring

Frontier has completed a number of successive transactions with Jumia, meQasa, ToLet, AngoCasa and Afribaba to ultimately vend the Jumia Assets into its existing investment.

Table 2: Transaction overview

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Portfolio out Portfolio in Result
#1 position
86% (from 66%) interest
#1 (from #2) position
US$500k
39% interest
#1 (from #2) position
75% (from 60%) interest
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Frontier Digital Ventures Ltd 39-8 The Boulevard, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +60 3 2201 0790 www.frontierdv.com

Integration process

Under the agreement, the Jumia Assets will commence redirecting all traffic through to meQasa, ToLet and AngoCasa. All existing listings will also be migrated on to Frontier’s platforms. There will be a comprehensive customer migration process over the next 2 months where existing dealers and agents will be offered new contracts or a roll forward of their existing contracts with Jumia Assets.

It is expected that the integration process will complete within a 6 month timeline.

Portfolio optimisation

The transaction with Jumia has significantly upgraded Frontier’s overall portfolio of market leading online classified investments. Frontier now has 12 investments at the monetisation stage (up from 10), and has reduced its investments in pre-monetisation stage businesses (now 3) and the growing operating metrics stage businesses (now 2). The transaction is also a clear demonstration of Frontier’s portfolio optimisation process in action.

Table 1: Frontier’s current portfolio and key metrics

Frontier
ownership
(%)
1H 2017
A$000 Revenue
(100% basis)1
Target markets
Target
population
(m)
Companies currently monetising
Zameen
30%
5,068
Pakistan
189
Encuentra24.com
42%
3,299
Central America
23
Pakwheels
37%
643
Pakistan
189
iMyanmarhouse
43%
452
Myanmar
54
Infocasas
31%
428
Uruguay,Paraguay,Bolivia
21
AutoDeal
33%
412
Philippines
101
Hoppler
21%
376
Philippines
101
Propzy
21%
284
Vietnam
92
LankaPropertyWeb
48%
129
Sri Lanka
21
carsDB
76%
71
Myanmar
54
ToLet(upgraded)
39%
162
Nigeria
182
meQasa(upgraded)
86%
46
Ghana
28
**Pre-monetisation stage **
~~ToLet~~
~~39%~~
~~162~~
~~Nigeria~~
~~182~~
~~meQasa~~
~~66%~~
~~46~~
~~Ghana~~
~~28~~
Kupatana
31%
75
Tanzania
53
Moteur
49%
71
Morocco
34
Angocasa/Angolacarr(upgraded)
75%
0
Angola
25
Growing operating metrics
~~Angocasa/Angolacarr~~
~~60%~~
~~0~~
~~Angola~~
~~25~~
Casamozambique
42%
144
Mozambique
28
~~Afribaba~~~~(removed)~~
~~65%~~
~~42~~
~~West Africa~~
~~61~~
carWangu
60%
1
DR Congo
77
  1. Converted to AUD at an exchange rate of 0.753 AUDUSD

Frontier Digital Ventures Ltd 39-8 The Boulevard, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +60 3 2201 0790 www.frontierdv.com

For more information, please contact:

Shaun Di Gregorio

Chief Executive Officer Tel: +60 17 207 6221 Email: [email protected]

About Frontier Digital Ventures Limited

Frontier Digital Ventures is a leading operator of online classifieds businesses in underdeveloped, emerging countries or regions. With a track record of building and supporting market leading online businesses, Frontier Digital Ventures are experts in the online classifieds space with a particular focus on property and automotive verticals and general classifieds websites. Its portfolio currently consists of 17 leading companies, operating businesses across 20 markets. With the extensive support offered to the local operating companies, coupled with their own energy and work ethic, Frontier Digital Ventures is bringing outstanding companies of global significance to their full potential and setting a new global standard of excellence in the field.

Frontier Digital Ventures Ltd 39-8 The Boulevard, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +60 3 2201 0790 www.frontierdv.com