NexSteppe Vision

Be a leading provider of scalable, reliable and

sustainable feedstock solutions for the biofuels, biopower and biobased product industries

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NexSteppe Today

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Our Products

Biobased Products &

Advanced Biofuels

Sweet Sorghum Fermentable Sugars

Biomass Sorghum Biomass

Biopower &

Cellulosic Biofuels

Palo Alto in Brazil

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•  Annual crop •  120 day cycle •  Low moisture at harvest •  Can be grown: – During sugarcane renewal period to

provide biomass in March and April – As a Safrinha crop for mills that need

more biomass to meet contract obligations

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Why a Dedicated Crop?

•  Reliable, scalable supply

•  Production cost, not volatile market price

•  Reduced transport distance

•  Better biomass quality

Why Sorghum? •  For the grower…

–  High-yielding –  Harvest in 3-4 months –  Can be rotated with other crops –  Established agronomic systems

•  For the processor/project developer… –  Drop-in –  Broad geographic adaptation –  Heat and drought tolerant

•  For the seed company… –  Huge genetic diversity –  Rapid breeding and product development cycle –  Fast scale-up –  Established hybrid systems –  Seed propagated

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The Pipeline

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>15,000 lines screened;

hundreds of breeding

populations created

>4000 lines selected from

breeding populations and in development

>2,500 hybrids in screening

trials

>100 hybrids in registration

18 hybrids commercialized

Our Technology Platform

Germplasm & Breeding

Chemistry & Composition

Unique knowledge of impact of composition on downstream processing and resulting ability to develop process-optimized products

Industry leading diversity and quality of germplasm collection

Proprietary data management system linking information and providing insight to breeding program

World-class marker-assisted breeding program to enhance product improvement efficiency

Agronomy

NexSys

Focus on developing optimized crop management practices

Genetic Markers

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Our Investors & Clients

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Investors Customers

Demand from Around the World