The latest in smartphone and simulated reality technology ("Articulated Naturality Web") from China. A successful capital raise by AP Corporate Finance.
Articulated Naturality Web Capital Raise by AP Corporate Finance
1. MOBILE ARTICULATED NATURALITY WEB OPPORTUNITY
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2. AP Corporate Finance LLP (“APCF”) and Amalfina Ltd (“Amalfina”) have been engaged by QderoPateo Communications Limited,
Cayman Islands, to act as joint mandated lead arrangers and as such have produced this information memorandum.
APCF & Alamlfina are managing the fundraising process on behalf of QderoPateo Communications Limited, and as such can be
contacted by an interested party with regards to this business venture.
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3. CONTENTS
CONTENTS
TRANSACTION DETAILS PAGE 5
OVERVIEW PAGE 5
THE OUIDOO SMART PHONE PAGE 6
MANAGEMENT TEAM PAGE 7
THE ANW VISION PAGE 8
UNLIMITED APPLICATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES PAGE 8
FINANCIALS PAGE 9
DE-RISKING THE OPPORTUNITY PAGE 9
CONTACT US PAGE 10
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4. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
TRANSACTION DETAILS FINANCIALS
OVERVIEW DE-RISKING THE OPPORTUNITY
THE OUIDOO SMART PHONE THE ANW VISION
MANAGEMENT TEAM UNLIMITED APPLICATIONS & OPPORTUNITES
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5. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: TRANSACTION DETAILS & OVERVIEW
TRANSACTION DETAILS OVERVIEW
• A unique opportunity to invest into the creators of a new industry
TARGET CLOSING February 2011 and technology revolution. An investor would be investing at the
birth stage of a new industry.
• QderoPateo Communications Limited (“QPC”) is the founder of the
Mobile Augmented Reality & Articulated Naturality Web (“ANW”).
INDUSTRY
Articulated Naturality Platform
• ANW is set to revolutionise the way consumers experience the world
Investment into a leading wide web, moving interaction from text and images to full immersion
Augmented Reality and into the web using mixed reality technologies.
INVESTMENT DESCRIPTION
Articulated Naturality
technology company. • The ANW revolution is seen to be as large a step as the proliferation
of social networking media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc).
ESTIMATED HOLD PERIOD 36 months • No other competitor has assembled the required technologies (both
software and hardware) to run ANW on a mobile handset.
• QPC is currently developing a handset series named Ouidoo, a set of
EXIT STRATEGY IPO of the investment vehicle
data storage methodologies to support 3G/4G, and a Software
Development Kit (SDK) for third party applications.
• QPC has obtained (via collaboration and IP acquisitions) several
DEAL REQUIREMENT USD 5 million
cutting edge technologies in several disciplines including:
Planar recognition and Tracking (SLAM)
Object recognition and Tracking
EQUITY ON OFFER 7.50% Marker and markerless based AR tracking and mapping
3D Object modeling
3D Visual rendering
3G web data storage
IMPLICIT VALUATION USD 67 million • The integration of the above technologies forms the basis of the
ANW experience.
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6. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: OVERVIEW & THE OUIDOO
OVERVIEW (CONTINUED) THE OUIDOO SMART PHONE
• QPC has also assembled a working phone, based on a special
chip with excellent computational and visual rendering
capabilities and low power consumption.
Well positioned for Augmented Reality/ Articulated
Naturality technologies on a handset.
One of the lowest power consuming handsets among
smart phones.
Raw rated computational power exceeds any
competition. The computational power rating actually
exceeds most laptop and desktop computers.
• QPC’s handset, the “Ouidoo” phone, is the only smart phone
available that has the computational power (and low power
consumption profile) to host the ANW platform.
• For a full understanding of the ANW concept, please view the
following 3 minute video (essential for a full understanding):
http://www.realareal.com/articulated-naturality-web-anw-
revealed
• QPC has received a letter of intent from China National Postal
& Telecommunications Appliances Corporation (“PTAC”) for an
initial order of 1 million handsets (pending final signature in
Feb 2011).
• PTAC is a state owned corporation.
• When this order is processed, QPC will deliver a USD 165
million EBITDA for this contract alone over 24 months. The Ouidoo handset will be manufactured by Kinpo Group, the
world’s second largest OEM plant.
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7. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: MANAGEMENT TEAM
MANAGEMENT TEAM MANAGEMENT TEAM
Steve Chao – CEO & Co-Chairman, QPC Zhou Huan – Chairman, QPC China
• Named by Business Week magazine as one of “Asia’s Best • He holds the post of Chief of Science and Technology at the
Young Entrepreneurs” in 2009. Bureau of Post and Telecommunication Department, Chairman
• The visionary behind QPC, Steve has created the Articulated and President of DaTang Telecommunication Industry Group,
Chief of Telecommunication Science and Technology Research
Naturality Web, the Institute of Augmented and Articulated Academe of Information Industry Department.
Urban Planning (IAAUP), and the Vision Harbour ANW Industry
• Professor Zhou holds a number of other senior positions at
base in Tianjin China. He is the founder of World ANW Forum. corporations across China.
• Steve is the master integrator of mobile marketing, mobile • Professor Zhou is one of the famous “Eight TD men” who
technology, augmented reality, mixed reality, mediated reality, helped introduce TD-SCDMA to the commercial market as the
mobile internet and next generation vision based application industry’s new standard and was crowned the “Father of TD
platforms. Industrialization”.
Henry Yau, CFO & Co-Chairman, QPC Charles Yang – COO and Co-CTO, QPC China
• Henry has major experience in M&A transactions and • Charles was the Brigadier General of the Communication
completed over 300 deals in company acquisitions and Bureau of the PLA (People’s Liberation Army), General Staff
department.
divestitures (with 8 deals over USD 1 Billion).
• He was responsible for the organizing, commanding and
• Henry has founded the Head offices of Philips Lighting and KFC management of PLA’s radio communication and as principle,
in China, each of which are billion dollar operations in China. participated in the construction of the Mobile Communication
• For the past 20 years, Henry has been working with investors in Bureau of General Staff which is in charge of the mobile
Greater China and operating the investee companies for the communication planning and construction of PLA.
investor. • Starting from 1988, Charles has presided over the planning and
• Henry has degrees in Computer Science from Northwestern building of the first satellite communication network, the first
pager network and first cluster dispatch network in China.
University (completed Ph.D. program course work), an MBA
from University of Chicago, J.D. from DePaul University, and a
DBA from Renmin University. Henry is a CPA and U.S attorney. George Huang, - Co-Founder, QPC
• Henry, as CEO of an Opervesting company, has in the past • George is the founder of Acer and is also currently Vice
Chairman of Acer.
created one of the top 20 supercomputers in the world. He is
also credited with a few key patents crucial to the QPC
operation.
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8. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE ANW VISION
THE ANW VISION UNLIMITED APPLICATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES
• Whilst QPC has assembled and integrated the correct SATELLITE
technologies to make ANW a reality, it realises that no single MAPPING
corporation or other entity can ever own the entire ANW COMPANIES
experience. GAME
DEVELOPERS
INTERNET
• The above is akin to the creation of the world wide web. The
SEARCH
creators developed the infrastructure and then opened it up to PROVIDERS
the rest of the world. Subsequent growth and evolution has
been a result of the additions and collaborations of individuals,
businesses and governments across the globe.
• QPC has created the infrastructure via it’s ANW Software ADVERTISERS
ANW
Development Kit (“SDK”). This SDK will be made available to
information providers, developers and any other interested ANW CAPABLE
WEBSITES
parties to develop ANW specific products or provide the
information required to make the ANW as rich an experience
SDK
as possible.
• The difference to the quoted world wide web example is that INTERACTIVE
access to the ANW SDK will be via licensing fees (hence LEARNING
generating additional revenues to QPC). In addition, QPC TOOLS
maintain control over the environment that the ANW THE WORLD
experience is hosted on.
• QPC has created the industry, and in the next few years will
become a market leader and point of entry into the APPLICATION
information interaction revolution. DEVELOPERS
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9. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: FINANCIALS & DE-RISKING
FINANCIALS DE-RISKING THE OPPORTUNITY
Forecast:
• Detailed financial model available upon expression of early De-risking factors for an investor:
stage interest.
• QPC has a letter on intent from China PTAC for 1 million A condition precedent of equity drawdown will be that the
Ouidoo handsets (possibly increasing to 3 million handsets). China PTAC order (1 million handsets) must be signed either
• EBITDA from the above order alone (excluding all other prior to, or contemporaneously with, final equity
commercial operations) is estimated to be USD 165 million documentation. This provides comfort that the PTAC deal is a
over 2 years (this forms the basis of the valuation). certainty prior to (or simultaneously with) QPC drawing down
• Total forecasted year 1 and 2 revenue is USD 62 million and on the investor’s funds.
USD 466 million respectively for the Chinese operation.
• Total forecasted year 1 and 2 EBITDA is USD 11 million and USD QPC will provide the incoming investor senior ranking status to
154million respectively for the Chinese operation. claims on all dividends to USD 5 million, hence the investor’s
cash is returned first. When this is achieved (within 12
Use of investment proceeds: months), dividend distributions will revert to pro-rata
shareholdings.
• USD 3.5 million to fulfill required registered share capital to
meet Chinese regulations.
• USD 1.5 million for further acquisition of Intellectual Properties De-risking factors for QPC:
or low percentage investments into the various AR labs to
strengthen affiliation. Owing to the magnitude of QPC’s achievement, it has attracted
offers of equity from several corporations (including
Valuation Vodafone).
• Current valuation of USD 67 million is predicated on the above
PTAC contract only, no other income has been taken into QPC is hesitant to offer a large corporate a large shareholding
account. (owing the resultant control and strategic direction issues).
• Upon drawdown of the USD 5 million equity required, the PTAC
deal becomes a certainty. QPC has made the decision to make this tranche of funding (for
• Present Value of USD 165 million EBITDA over 2 years (using 7.50%) available to non-corporate investors.
10% as the cost of capital) is USD 136 million (so USD 68 million
per annum). QPC is planning a pilot ANW project in the busiest commercial
• Valuation represents a 1x multiple of discounted forecast district in Taipei, Taiwan, which serves as a model ANW site for
annualised EBITDA over the next two years. global ANW experience expansions.
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10. TRANSACTION TEAM
AMIT PATEL
Managing Principal
AP Corporate Finance LLP
T: +44 (0) 7791 224 126
E: amit@apcorporatefinance.co.uk
SUNAY SHAH
CEO
Amalfina Ltd
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E: sunay@amalfina.com
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CONTACT US
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