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Accelerating Fish Growth Nissim Chen | Ph.D., M.B.A., Founder & CEO
October 2018
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Food Challenge: Feeding a Growing Population
Population Growth
Water & Land Resources
Urbanization
Middle Class Growth
Life Style & Diet Change
Growing demand for food Need to increase food production & efficiency in sustainable manner
20% animal protein for additional 3B
Primary animal protein source for 1B people
Consumption per capita more than doubled since 1960’s
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Addressing a Key Challenge of a Growing Industry
Source: FAO 2016
26%
39%
50%
Fish production for human consumption
AquiNovo addresses this challenge
Aquaculture Key challenge: Sustainable Increase of Fish Yield
* Percentage of aquaculture production from total fish production
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Disruptive Technology Accelerates Growth
Proprietary short peptides
Enhances growth
Administered via feedControl
AquiNovo peptides
Non-GMONon-hormonal
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Value Proposition
Faster growth
Lower total production costs
Less exposure time to catastrophic events
(disease, weather)
Increase revenues
Enables more growing cycles
using same infrastructure
Shorter timeto market
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Significant Achievements
$1.5 Million InvestmentGlobal leader: animal nutrition & health
PoC Tilapia – Lab scale Positive initial safety data Successful transition from lab to field scale PoC in field scale Salmon lead identified (in-vitro) Commercial production process under development First strategic partner:
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Targeting Large Markets in a Growing Industry
Catfish3.9 M
Carp
30.5 M
Tilapia5.9 M
1st target
Salmonids3.4 M2nd target
Over ~US$ 550 million addressable market potential (2022)
Finfish Market > 54 million tonnes (2016)
Top four farmed fish consumed by humans Fish production ( Million tonnes 2016) 3rd target
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Working With The Market
Go to Market Strategy Manufacture, sell peptides to fish feed producers
Feed producers
Incorporate AquiNovo products into their feed
Sell to end users: hatcheries and fish farms
Ongoing dialog with end users and potential customers
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AquiNovo’s Senior Team
Nissim Chen; Founder & CEO. Ph.D., M.B.A. >17 years’ experience in technologycommercialization and international business development in biotech and ag-bio industries;formerly VP BD at FuturaGene Group; Director BD at Ramot - Tel Aviv University technologytransfer company; Ph.D., biology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; M.B.A., Tel Aviv University
Freddy Shaviv, Head of Production, Expert manager with proven track record in strategicplanning, production, and operations in pharmaceutical and chemical industries; former CEOChemAgis and Agis Industries; served as board member of various biotech firms; M.Sc.mechanical engineering Ben Guryon University, B.Sc. chemical engineering Technion.
Limor Ziv, R&D Manager, Ph.D., Expert Scientist in the field of fish endocrinology and neurologywith strong scientific track record as well as lab establishment and management; B.Sc. and M.Sc.in Animal sciences from the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew university, Ph.D., biology, Tel AvivUniversity
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Inventors & Expert Advisors
Prof. Berta Levavi-Sivan – Senior Advisor Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; world renowned specialist of aquaculture; B.Sc. in life science, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Zoology from Tel Aviv University; research focused on the endocrine axis that leads to fish reproduction and introduction of new species to Israeli aquaculture; 91 publications; 2 patents
Prof. Berta Levavi-Sivan Wins 2017 Kaye Innovation Awardhttp://hatcheryinternational.com/research/a-new-way-to-grow-fish-faster/
Prof. Chaim Gilon – Senior AdvisorProfessor Emeritus of the Faculty of Science, Hebrew University; globally recognized expert in organic chemistry; co-founder of/consultant to several biotech companies; research focused on molecular mechanism of memory, development of technologies for conversion of bioactive peptides and active regions in proteins into drugs, and signal transduction therapy; 270 peer-reviewed publications; 40 patents
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Disruptive Technology For a Growing Market
Sustainable Increase of fish yields:
non-hormonal
non-GMO
easy-to-use feed additive
Immense markets
Increased farmers revenues
Less exposure time to catastrophic events
Strong IP position
Highly experienced team
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Raising Additional Funds
Poised to meet the industry’s key challenge and capture tremendous market opportunity