CORPORATE PRESENTATION

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• CORPORATE PRESENTATION

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COMPANY PROFILE
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COMPANY

• Incorporated in 2001 as a proprietary concern,
  Richcore has been successful in developing many
  widely accepted formulations and has become a
  well known brand in the market.
• Headquartered in Bangalore, India with a liaison
  office in St. Louis, USA.
• Richcore is funded by Ventureast Fund Advisors
  (India) Pvt Ltd (http//ventureast.net).
  Ventureast is an early to growth stage venture
  fund with its domestic offices in Hyderabad and
  Chennai. It focuses on emerging sectors like
  Lifesciences, Health and Telecom.
• We are an application research oriented company
  specializing in integrating and commercializing
  the best biotech inventions and discoveries.
• Creates products and applications, which are
  tailor made for specific industry needs.
• With a complete range of enzymes for the Food and
  Beverages, Animal Health Nutrition, Sugar,
  Distillery, Paper, Detergent, Leather, Textile,
  Wastewater treatment and other industries,
  Richcore is a one-stop solution for the enzyme
  requirements of these industries.
• Our strength lies in our team members who have
  experience in various industries and first hand
  knowledge of the working parameters of each
  process.

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BOARD MEMBERS

• A first generation entrepreneur, founder and CMD
  of Richcore Lifesciences, Mr. Subramani is an
  engineer/MBA with over 8 years in the biotech
  industry and has spent most of his work life in
  new product development and technical services of
  industrial enzymes and specialty chemicals.
• A textile engineer, from Govt. SKSJTI Bangalore,
  an alumnus and erstwhile president of the
  Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club, of the
  Indian school of business (ISB), Hyderabad, he
  was a member of Biocons Marketing and technical
  services division.

• Leading biotechnologist at the university of
  Boulder Colorado, Prof Kompala is Richcores
  technology mentor.
• Well known to be a prodigy in cell culture based
  research and manufacturing, Prof Kompala has
  several projects on hand which can be explored as
  Richcore gains ground.
• He is a B Tech. from Indian Institute of
  Technology, Madras, India and received his MS PhD
  from Purdue University. His research interests
  lie in recombinant mammalian cell culture and
  tissue engineering and while his teaching
  interests are in several areas of bioprocess
  engineering.

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RICHCORES BOARD MEMBERS

• Gp Captain R. N. Sharma, is a retired Commanding
  Officer from the Indian Air Force (IAF) with
  experience in training and supply chain
  management.
• He manages production and logistics.
• An engineer with enormous experience in
  communication, supply chain and operations
  management, he has spent his last 10 years with
  IAF as a trainer and has headed several technical
  training institutes of the IAF.
• He brings maturity, operational strength and
  training expertise to the operations of Richcore.

• A PhD from Cranfield University, UK , Prof
  Ramachandran taught Strategy and Entrepreneurship
  at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad
  for 15 years before he joined the Indian School
  of Business Hyderabad in 2001.
• He has spearheaded a number of activities,
  including the setting up of the ISB K-Hub, a
  semi-virtual incubator and Society of
  Entrepreneurship Educators.
• He has held several important positions
  including, Member, National Advisory Committee on
  Science Technology Entrepreneurs
  Parks/Technology Business Incubators, Government
  of India (since 2003), Advisor, Union Public
  Service Commission, Government of India (2000),
  Co-convener, Vision for Venture Capital Industry,
  Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of
  India (SEBI)(1999).
• He is a consultant to several growth
  organizations, and has conducted workshops for
  both medium and large firms especially in the
  bio-tech pharmaceutical industry.

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PRODUCT PROFILE
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PROPRIETARY PRODUCTS ARE THE SOUL
PRODUCTS OVERVIEW

• We formulate enzymes procured from different
  manufacturers as per end user requirements.
• Following enzymes are used for varied
  applications viz. Amylases, Amyloglucosidases,
  Catalase, Glucanases, Hemicellulases, Lipases,
  Pectinases, Proteases and Phytases.
• The finished products comprising of just one
  single enzyme or a combination of several enzymes
  are generally blends of basic enzymes and several
  additives.
• The formulations developed are proprietary to
  Richcore and we are in the process filing
  patents.
• Our target industries comprise Sugar and
  Distilleries, Animal Health Nutrition,
  Textiles, Pulp and Paper, Detergents, Leather and
  Beverages (Tea, Coffee, Fruit Juice).
• To know more about our novel products introduced
  / to be introduced write to info_at_richcoreindia.com
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PORTFOLIO OF PRODUCTS

• Textiles
• Biopolishing
• Biowashing
• Desizing
• Peroxide killer
• Alcohol
• Grain processing
• Molasses Fermentation
• Animal Feed
• Cocktail broilers
• Phytase

• Textiles
• Effluent treatment
• Alcohol
• Biomethanation
• Biocomposting
• Molasses storage
• Animal Feed
• Ruminant (milk yield)
• Bagasse processing
• De oiled rice bran

• Paper Pulp
• Bio-refining
• Bio-pulping
• Detergents
• Bio-destainers
• Leather
• Bio-soaking
• Dehairing
• Degreasing
• Bio-bating

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INNOVATION INDEX

• We have recently ventured into strategic tie-ups
  with various enzyme manufacturing multinational
  companies, for product development, marketing and
  distribution activities .
• Broadly the scope of the collaborations include
  application research, formulation development,
  branding and marketing.
• Richcore has also entered into an in-principle
  agreement with Dr Palani Swamy, MD of Rusni
  Distilleries, owner of several patents for
  production of sweet sorghum and technology for
  manufacturing alcohol from sweet sorghum syrup.
• Richcore will provide all the necessary enzymes
  for alcohol production from sorghum by all
  parties which buy the technology.
• Dr Palani Swamy has issued more than 10 licenses
  of his technology to companies in the
  Philippines, Africa and other developing nations
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• Richcore will also provide research co operation
  to develop alcohol from cellulose in association
  with Dr Palani Swamy.
• Further, we have signed an MOU with Sir M
  Visveswaraya Institute for technology, who have
  agreed to allow Richcores research team to use
  their high end research facility and staff for
  product development and pilot production of
  enzymes.
• Also, currently a bio-composting project is being
  developed in association with them.

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INNOVATION _at_ RICHCORE
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COMPLEXITY IN ENZYMES

• Produced from
• Bacterial
• Fungal
• Plant
• Animal
• Viral
• Enzyme action specific to
• Growth medium (strain)
• Target Substrate
• Temperature
• pH
• Time (activation and action)

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ENZYME SOURCES AND CHARACTERISTICS ARE VARIED

• ATCC .

• Bacillus .

• Bacillus subtilis

• ATCC 4527

• Sp. .

• Glucoamylase

• Sp. E.coli

• Amylase

• Bacterial
• Fungal
• Plant
• Animal
• Viral

• ATCC 9800

• Bacillus megatarium

• Bacillus licheniformis

• Sp. Bacillus

• ATCC 11560

• Protease

• Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

• Sp. Pseudomonas

• Cellulase

• ATCC 102

• ATCC 9789

• Bacillus stearothermophilus

• Sp.

• Lipase

• Bacillus .

• ATCC ..

• n( organisms ) x m ( species ) x t ( sub species)
  x q ( strains ) to produce an enzyme

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UNDERSTANDING ENZYMES

• Study enzymes with our supply partners
  (commercial and non commercial)
• Strain and characteristics
• Specificity
• Stability
• Activity
• Side activities
• Current uses and applications
• Alternate uses
• Support to vendor partners

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SYSTEMS THINKING PRODUCTS FOR ALL LINKS IN THE
VALUE CHAIN
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APPLICATIONS ARE EVER EXPANDING
SYSTEMS THINKING IN EACH SEGMENT
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INNOVATION PROCESS
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MARKET SPEAK
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FEEDBACK AND COMMENTS

• Richcore is an outstanding partner, we at
  Jubilant are pleased to recognize Richcore as a
  strategic sourcing partner in our continuous
  journey on the path of progress.
• - Shyam Bhartia, Chairman and Managing Director
  - Jubilant Organosys.
• We are proud of your achievement, it is easy to
  have ideas, but very difficult to make them work,
  you have made the difficult happen.
• - Kapil Sibal, Honorable Minister for HRD
  Govt. of India.
• Richcore is full of promise, personally I feel
  Subramani is an inspiration to many and is doing
  a fine job in shaping Richcore.
• - Neeraja Shetty, CEO - Formulations, Sami Labs
• Richcore is a fine example of technology
  entrepreneurship in India. They have proved that
  innovation is possible even with meager
  resources, we are proud to endorse their efforts.
• - H.K. Mittal, Advisor Head (NSTEDB) -
  Department of Science and Technology, Govt of
  India
• We find the interactions with Richcore very rich
  and we look forward to having a longstanding
  relation with them.
• - Dr H.G Nagendra, Professor and HOD of
  biotechnology - Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of
  Technology

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AWARDS RECOGNITION

• Mr Subramani Ramachandrappa has also been chosen
  as the Honorary Ambassador for the DST-Intel
  India Innovation Pioneer Challenge in partnership
  with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.
• SuBBu, CMD, Richcore Lifesciences Pvt Ltd was
  profiled in a study conducted by the National
  Knowledge Commission, 2008 on 'Entrepreneurship
  in India'.
• Richcore has also been declared the Champion of
  champions by DST (Department of Science and
  Technology- Govt. of India) Intel India
  Innovation Challenge 2006.
• Coverage by Business World (August 2004) states
  that, Subramani 'Rich' Ramachandrappa is a legend
  in B-school circles. Mr. Subramanis business
  idea and plan has won several awards, some of
  them being
• Second prize, Asia Moot Corp Business Plan
  Competition AMC Hawaii 2004.
• First prize, Indian School of Business, Business
  Plan Competition ISB 2004.
• First prize, New Venture Challenge University of
  Nebraska - Lincoln Nebraska 2004.
• Runner up, Thunderbird Global Business plan
  competition 2004.