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COMPANY PRESENTATION Q4/2H 2020
Øivind Horpestad, CEO Elop March 8, 2020
Q4 Highlights and subsequent events
- Announced acquisition of Simplifai
- Product launch December 8th
- Strong growth in Simplifai MRR
- Established presence in East Asia
- Building extensive customer pipeline
- Bank sector breakthrough for Simplifai's digital employee technology
Q4 highlights Subsequent events
- Completed acquisition of Simplifai
- Identified NOK 30 million in synergies to be realised in 2021
- Delivering on the Simplifai expansion strategy:
- Asia breakthrough contracts in India and Singapore
- Strategic distribution partnership in Middle East
- Breakthroughs in Norwegian public sector and online retail segment
- Executive leadership team in place driving and delivering synergies and growth. Appointment of Group CEO, CPO and CTO
- Developing industry partnerships and collaborations for wider technology application areas
- 48% increase in requests year to date
Elop group in brief

Solutions to inspect, monitor and manage infrastructure
Unique technology for inspection and analysis of critical infrastructure
Provide asset owners with solutions that improve safety, extend asset lifetime, minimise total lifecycle cost and environmental footprint.
Data-driven and AI-based solutions for inspection and predictive maintenance of critical infrastructure
Joint global expansion plan
Shared resources
ELOP AI business unit
Develops automation solutions using artificial intelligence to help clients across numerous industry sectors to grow efficiently
Digital Employee solutions that automate labour intensive work processes
About Elop
- Strong technical team in Norway, Ukraine, and India
- Regional commercial presence in Europe, Middle East and South Asia



Concrete is the worlds most used construction material
…and it is a major contributor to current environmental challenges as 8% of the world's CO2 emissions come from the concrete production

Maintenance of critical concrete infrastructure is a growing global concern
Concrete is the most used construction material worldwide with aging structures and prolonged neglect driving up the maintenance cost...

… and an increasing number of incidents is putting safety on the agenda, highlighting the need for better tools to monitor structural integrity

Keeping concrete structures safe, sustainable and financially viable 7
Consequences of being unable to monitor infrastructure cost-effectively
For society, infrastructure owners and users




Short infrastructure lifetime
Costs of building new infrastructure Accidents that could have been prevented
High CO2 emissions from production and construction
Elop Insight
Elop Insight is the world's first rolling, ultrasonic scanning solution for concrete inspection.
The unique, patented technology enables smart and unparalleled efficiency of scanning for a large variety of concrete structures, such as bridges, dams, tunnels and buildings.
Elop Insight
The live 3D visualisation of the concrete structure on the scanner screen, shows elements and defects such as cracks, air pockets, voids, delamination and rebars in real-time.
Elop Insight






Major benefits to key stakeholders

Key stepping stones for Elop to succeed
Introducing new technology to create a new high growth market
Credibility
- Demonstrating tech
- Bringing AI competence inhouse
- Field demonstrations
- х Developing industry partnerships
- х Major reference clients
- х Demonstrating different applications areas
Success stories
- х Successful field projects х Global distribution
- х New technology applications
- х New geographical markets
- х New industries
- х Demonstrating stakeholder value
Recognition
- х Exponential sales growth
- х International expansion
Awareness
- Euronext listing
- Commercial launch
- Building sales pipeline
- Solutions marketing
- First technology demonstrations
- Initiating commercial partnerships
- х Proactive international marketing
- х Industry events
Elop Trading update


Inspection / Consultancy / Contractor companies – Asset Owners
Examples of dialogue and customer engagement
- Negotiations for multiple service cooperation agreements
- Active dialogue with larger contractors, Engineering and international Inspection companies for Proof of Technology projects and trial periods.
- Covid-19 impacts practical challenges in relation to Customer demonstrations
Exploring industry partnership opportunities:
Railroad inspection Dam inspection




No effective inspection
Nearly 3 billion sleepers worldwide (1)
twice a year (3)
Deterioration, abrasion, and cracking are the main problems related to concrete sleepers (4)
Need for faster and more efficient inspection
Appx 58.700 large dams worldwide, 41% in China (5) tool today Regulated to Inspect
At least 1,680 dams across the US are rated in poor or unsatisfactory condition (6)
Most constructed between 1930 and 1970 with a design life of 50 to 100 years. Signs of aging after 50 years
94,000 dams in China are ageing (7)
5, 7, 8 "SOS by UN scientists on the world's largest, aging dams"
6 "At least 1,680 dams across the US pose potential risk" - Associated press: 7 Ageing Water Infrastructure: An Emerging Global Risk" UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health
1, 2, Spanish National Research Council
- 3, BaneNOR (Norway):
- 4, Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers
Keeping concrete structures safe, sustainable and financially viable 15
Exploring industry partnership opportunities:
Cooling tower inspection Bridge inspection

Cooling towers are used in power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants and
natural gas plants (1)
Condition assessment of cooling towers is challenging due to their size, geometry and operational constraints (2)
Surveyors need remote systems (3)
The frequency of visual inspection of natural draft cooling towers ranges between 3 and 6 years. (4)
In the US 47,000 bridges are in urgent need for inspection and maintanance (5)
Aging bridge base Growing maintenance Backlog (6)
Inspection is a highly manual process (7)
Concrete integrity below surface hard to detect and today's tool often fail to properly detect issues (8)
1, Harmon.com 2, 3, 4, Evaluation and Repair of Natural Draft Cooling Towers 5, The Global Wind Energy Council: Supply Side Analysis 2019 report 6, 7, 8 Research report for Elop from Boston Consulting Group
Effective inspection of railway sleepers
Nearly 3 billion sleepers worldwide (1)
Regulated to Inspect twice a year (3)
Deterioration, abrasion, and cracking are the main problems related to concrete sleepers (4)
Need for faster and more efficient inspection

4, Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers
Effective inspection of dams
Appx 58.700 large dams worldwide, 41% in China (5)
At least 1,680 dams across the US are rated in poor or unsatisfactory condition (6)
Most constructed between 1930 and 1970 with a design life of 50 to 100 years.
Signs of aging after 50 years - 94,000 dams in China are ageing (6)
No effective inspection tool today

5, 7, 8 "SOS by UN scientists on the world's largest, aging dams"
6 At least 1,680 dams across the US pose potential risk - Associated press:
Effective inspection of cooling towers
Cooling towers are used in power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants and natural gas plants (1)
Condition assessment of cooling towers is challenging due to their size, geometry and operational constraints (2)
Surveyors need remote systems (3)
The frequency of visual inspection of natural draft cooling towers ranges between 3 and 6 years. (4)
1, Harmon.com 2, 3, 4, Evaluation and Repair of Natural Draft Cooling Towers

On track to deliver on our growth plan

Transforming data into unique insight to construction industry stakeholders
Simplifai in brief
Hire Digital Employees to support your staff. They are available 24/7 every day of the year. They work quickly and efficiently and can process large amounts of customer inquiries.

Norwegian AI Company HQ in Oslo, 90 FTE's

Services: Digital Employees
Core: Standardized Solutions, ≈ 90% Automation Grade, Quick Implementation and ROI 90% SaaS

Tech: AI, Natural Language Technology, Natural Language Processing (free-text)

Products: Emailbot, Documentbot, and Chatbot

SaaS Business Model: Building recurring and scalable revenue model
Key stepping stones for Simplifai
Capturing a high growth market

Building sales pipeline
Awareness
Initiating commercial partnerships Solutions marketing Auditions and tendering Building products as part of commercial cooperation
- Establishing close
- industry tech approval,
- Recruiting world class
- Solutions available on recognised marketplaces
- Develop commercial partnerships
- International breakthroughs (i.e. India, Singapore)
Recognition
- х Exponential sales growth
- х Widespread international
- х Recognized as leading vendor within natural language-based business
Simplifai: speedy and cost-efficient global expansion strategy
Home markets; Direct sales and several non-exclusive partners
Other markets; Establish presence and customer base quickly through strategic agreements with strongly incentivized distributors
Leverage India as commercial hub for direct sales and partner support for ME and APAC
International partnerships
- Microsoft Geo-Expansion program
- Strong regional partners
- Advanced or early stage discussions with partners in several regions

Simplifai – trading update
• Significant negative impact from Covid-19, but grew recurring revenues by ~50% from Q4 2019 – Q4 2020
-
Total revenues 2020: NOK 11,2 million 2020
- ARR share of revenue doubled to ~38%
- EBIT result NOK –23,9 million
-
Increase ARR share to 50%
- Strong increase in growth rate
- Expand into new industries
2021
- New partnerships; OEM, resale and distribution
- Entry into new geographical markets


The future of SHM
Cloud based


Smart automation

Predictive analysis

~1000
Becoming a NOK billion revenue company
- 2025 target Establish Simplifai as a global ISV within AI business process automation technology
- Establish Elop technology as an industry standard
~11
Revenue, MNOK
• Benefit from Simplifai AI capabilities to build next generation structural health monitoring system
Gradual shift towards contracted recurring software revenue
Be a world leading provider of preventive maintenance through data analytics and software solutions
2025 target
>80% ARR based on annual recurring license fees from SaaS offering

Summary and outlook
Summary Outlook
- Delivering on go-to-market strategy Awareness, credibility, success stories
- Solid lead pipeline
- On-boarded Simplifai capabilities, driving synergies and support further growth on AI business line
- Identified NOK 30 million in synergies to be realised in 2021
- Simplifai headwind on sales, partnership and market entry
-
Growing ARR share
-
Continued strong and growing interest level in Elop's ultrasound technology
- Expect to enter industrial partnership in Q2 2021
- Covid-19 restrictions may continue to impact Elop's ability to perform live demonstrations
- Strong MRR growth from Simplifai expected to continue
- Planned market entry for Simplifai into new geographical markets in Q2, and shortened sales cycles

APPENDIX
Elop Condensed statement of profit and loss
| Amounts in NOK | 2. half year 2020 |
2020 | 2. half year 2019 |
2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reveues | - | - | 20,042 | 29,692 |
| Other operating revenue | - | - | - | - |
| Total revenue | - | - | 20,042 | 29,692 |
| Cost of Sales | (133,731) | (144,512) | (31,373) | (51,896) |
| Employee benefit expenses | (6,363,898) | (9,452,849) | (1,304,761) | (3,183,566) |
| Other operating expenses | (10,714,931) | (21,015,519) | (8,524,267) | (9,856,101) |
| Depreciation | (376,532) | (419,982) | (19,770) | (27,120) |
| Operating profit/(loss) (EBIT) | (17,589,092) | (31,032,862) | (9,860,129) | (13,088,991) |
| Financial income | 76,614 | 76,873 | 6,473 | 14,981 |
| Financial expenses | (149,460) | (260,511) | (252,503) | (378,411) |
| Net financial items | (72,846) | (183,638) | (246,030) | (363,430) |
Share of profit (loss) eqity - accounted investees
| Profit (loss) before tax | (17,661,938) (31,216,500) |
(10,106,159) | (13,452,421) |
|---|---|---|---|
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------ | -------------- | -------------- |
Income tax benefit (expense) -
Profit (loss) for the period (17,661,938) (31,216,500) (10,106,159) (13,452,421)
Elop Condensed balance sheet
| Amounts in NOK | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Assets | ||
| Non-current assets | ||
| Intangible assets | 28,689,977 | 12,372,858 |
| Property, plant and equipment | 1,366,825 | 256,400 |
| Right of use assets | 7,253,367 | |
| Total non-current assets | 37,310,169 | 12,629,258 |
| Current assets | ||
| Inventory | 164,488 | - |
| Trade receivables | - | 12,865 |
| Other current receivables | 10,439,111 | 1,314,629 |
| Share capital/premium receivables | - | 49,210,504 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 116,271,534 | 8,014,384 |
| Total current assets | 126,875,133 | 58,552,382 |
| TOTAL ASSETS | 164,185,302 | 71,181,640 |
| Amounts in NOK | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Equity and liabilities | ||
| Equity | ||
| Share capital | 3,515,146 | 2,001,324 |
| Share premium | 181,219,901 | 27,781,676 |
| Other equity reserves | 4,571,922 | 53,566,186 |
| Retained earnings (deficit) | (54,663,812) | ######### |
| Total equity | 134,643,157 | 59,901,876 |
| Non-current liabilities | ||
| Non-current liabilities to financial institutions | 4,821,429 | 4,910,714 |
| Non-current lease liabilities | 5,325,940 | - |
| Total non-current liabilities | 10,147,369 | 4,910,714 |
| Current liabilites | ||
| Other loan | - | 2,000,000 |
| Trade payables | 9,852,790 | 1,550,282 |
| Current tax liabilities | 1,270,640 | 643,570 |
| Other current liabilities | 8,271,346 | 2,175,198 |
| Total current liabilities | 19,394,776 | 6,369,050 |
| TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES | 164,185,302 | 71,181,640 |
Elop Condensed cashflow statement
| Amounts in NOK | Total 2020 | Total 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Profit before tax | (31,216,500) | (13,452,420) |
| Adjustment for: | ||
| Depreciation | 419,982 | 27,120 |
| Share-based payments expences | 216,240 | 4,286,593 |
| Net interest paid | 176,874 | 356,681 |
| Changes in net current operating assets | 3,595,955 | 3,476,791 |
| Paid tax | - | |
| Cash flow from operating activities | (26,807,449) | (5,305,235) |
| Payment for property, plant and equipment | (1,304,168) | (226,620) |
| Payment for intangible assets | (16,317,121) | (5,560,073) |
| Cash flow from investing activities | (17,621,289) | (5,786,693) |
| Net repayment of other debt | (2,089,285) | 1,746,506 |
| Net interest | (176,873) | (308,939) |
| Capital increase received funds | 154,952,046 | 17,500,000 |
| Cash flow from financing activities | 152,685,888 | 18,937,567 |
| Net cash flow | 108,257,150 | 7,845,639 |
| Cash and cash equivalent at the beginning of the period | 8,014,384 | 168,745 |
| Cash and cash equivalent at the end of the period | 116,271,534 | 8,014,384 |