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Page 1: Vive Overview - April 2016

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Vive Crop Protection Inc.Overview

April 2016

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Making a new possible in crop protection

• Privately held agtech company that renovates existing pesticides

• Uses Allosperse delivery system that is covered by 44 patents and 46 patents pending in 10 families

• 36 employees, 20 scientists and engineers

• EPA registration received

• Production facility scaled and running

Vive Crop Protection

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Strong Management Team

Keith Thomas, BASc, MA, MBA - Chief Executive Officer➢ Over 24 years of financing, restructuring and management experience, sold Vector

Innovations for 5x return

Ken Yoon, BSc, LLB, MBA, CA, CPA - Chief Financial Officer➢ Over 18 years in the finance, accounting and consulting fields, Ernst & Young, Vengrowth

Darren Anderson, PhD – Chief Communications Officer and VP, Regulatory➢ Founding president of Vive, author of 13 issued patents and 35 pending applications

Paul Thomson – VP, Product Development➢ Senior Product Development with 30+ years industry experience

Tony Zatylny, BSc (Ag) – VP, Business Development – NAFTA➢ 32 years of crop protection sales experience at Amvac, Arysta and Dow

Skip Campbell, MBA – Chief Commercial Officer and VP, M&A➢ M&A and financing investment banking, high tech experience, venture capital and

consulting background

Flavio Campagnaro, BASc, P.Eng. - Chief Manufacturing Officer➢ Over 20 years of process design, manufacturing and project management experience

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Strong Corporate Governance

Charles FischerFormer CEO of Dow AgroSciences

William LambertFormer Partner at Birch Hill Equity Partners

Warren LibbyFormer President of Syngenta Crop Protection Canada

Mark MacDonald, ICD.D.Former Vice President at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board

Neil Reid, Ph.D., ChairCo-Founder of MDS Sciex and MDS Proteomics

Amy YoderFormer President of Arysta LifeScience North America and Australia

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Founded from University of Toronto, prototype formulations

Pilot production, greenhouse trial successes

2006-2009 2009-2011 2012-2013 2014-2016

Preliminary EPA registration, field trial successes, partnerships with manufacturers and distributors

Full scale manufacturing, first product EPA registered and launching to select US growers

History – Strong Track Record of Success

Core Capabilities:• Complete delivery system: Allosperse technology, recipe development, know how• In-house performance screening and field trial administration• Consistent EPA registration process• Commercial scale Allosperse manufacturing at Vive• Extensive and growing IP suite• Asset-light infrastructure in place

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Products and Technology

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What is Allosperse?

• Nanoscale polymer particles

used as a shuttle to deliver

active ingredients to desired

target

• Made from polymers commonly

used as inerts in agriculture

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What is Allosperse?

• Hydrophobic interior holds onto AIs – hydrophilic exterior

easily disperses in aqueous media

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What is Allosperse?

• Precise control over chemistry – controls how active

ingredient inside Allosperse interacts with soil / foliage /

fertilizer carriers

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Two Main Routes for Application

Soil-Applied Foliar

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Two Main Routes for Application

Soil-Applied:

• Excellent compatibility with fertilizer carriers• Control over mobility in soil• Seed treatments• In-furrow dust-free alternates to seed treatments

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Two Main Routes for Application

Foliar:

• Excellent compatibility with foliar fertilizers, micronutrients

• Fungicides with better curative performance

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AZteroid – Azoxystrobin with Vive Delivery System

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• EPA Registration Number

89118-3, issued May 15, 2015

• 18.4% loading SC formulation –

1.65 pounds per gallon

• Label includes all established

in-furrow & foliar uses for

azoxystrobin

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Target Crops

Potato Corn Soybean

• Black dot

• Black scurf

• Silver scurf

• Rhizoctonia root and stalk rot

• Rhizoctoniadisease

• Southern Blight

Cotton Peanut

• Pythium seedling blight

• Rhizoctonia seedling blight

• Aspergillus crown rot

• Pythium damping off

• Stem rot/white mold suppression

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Corn Yield Response Starter fertilizer and AZteroid, in-furrow at planting

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AZteroid™With Allosperse

Yield increase can be achieved when combining starter fertilizer and AZteroid

Untreated Starter Fertilizer

Starter Fertilizer

& AZteroid

Yiel

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s/ac

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Broad Fertilizer Compatibility

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Fertilizers shown, left to right:Alpine Mn Alpine 10-34-0Alpine Zn OMEX 28% UANAlpine Fe OMEX 10-34-0 Alpine G24 OMEX Starter PAlpine fortified foliar Conditions: after mild agitation

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• Mixes with a wide variety of undiluted liquid fertilizers (including high P)*

• Tank mixes well with other products used at-plant

• Water based formulation for lower toxicity and safer handling

• Will not clog filters and screens

• Performs well under freeze-thaw conditions

• Will not settle out of solution and requires only minimal agitation

*Jar test should be performed prior to use with fertilizer to confirm compatibility

Advantages

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• EPA Registration Number 89118-2

• 19.3% loading SC formulation –1.75 pounds per gallon

• Label includes all established in-furrow & foliar uses for bifenthrin

Bifender – Bifenthrin with Vive Delivery System

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Target Crops

Potato Corn Soybean

• Grape Colapsis

• Rootworm

• Sweet Potato Flea Beetle

• Wireworm

• White Grub

• Corn Rootworm

• Grubs

• Root Aphids

• Seedcorn Maggot

• Wireworm

• Army Cutworm

• Armyworm spp.

• Cutworm spp.

• Stalkborer

• True Armyworm

• Rootworm

• Grape colapsis

• Grubs

• Root Maggot

• Seedcorn Maggot

• Wireworm

• Army Cutworm

• Armyworm spp.

• Cutworm spp.

• True Armyworm

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Broad Fertilizer Compatibility

Capture LFR

Vive Formulation Bifender with Allosperse Delivery Technology

Fertilizers shown, left to right:Alpine Mn Alpine 10-34-0Alpine Zn OMEX 28% UANAlpine Fe OMEX 10-34-0 Alpine G24 OMEX Starter PAlpine fortified foliar Conditions: after mild agitation

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Broad Fertilizer Compatibility Fertilizers

Capture LFR

Vive Formulation Bifender with Allosperse Delivery Technology

Fertilizers shown, left to right:Alpine Mn Alpine 10-34-0Alpine Zn OMEX 28% UANAlpine Fe OMEX 10-34-0 Alpine G24 OMEX Starter PAlpine fortified foliar Conditions: after mild agitation

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FilteringAlpine G24 (6-24-8)

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60 Mesh

100 Mesh

Capture LFRVive Formulation

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Advantages

• Mixes with a wide variety of undiluted liquid fertilizers (incl. high P)*

• Tank mixes well with other products used at-plant

• Water based formulation for lower toxicity and safer handling

• Will not clog filters and screens

• Performs well under freeze-thaw conditions

• Will not settle out of solution and requires only minimal agitation

*Jar test should be performed prior to use with fertilizer to confirm compatibility

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• EPA Registration Number 89118-4

• SC formulation contains 1.0 pounds of azoxystrobin per gallon and 0.5 pounds of bifenthrin per gallon

• Broad label for foliar uses

Fenstro – Azoxystrobin & Bifenthrin Pre-mix with Vive Delivery System

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Product Development Pipeline

Launching 2016 Proven and in productization

Early results positive, in

development

1st Generation

• Liquid fertilizer compatibility

• Strobilurins, pyrethroids, triazoles, neonics, etc.

• Multiple component premixes

2nd Generation

• Soil and thatch mobility

• Foliar coverage and rainfastness

3rd Generation

• Seed treatment

• Extended control


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