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An emerging Life
Who we are Sciences Company
Commercialising proprietary
plant profiling technology.
That can be used to reverse
engineer a comprehensive model
of rare or high value plants.
And reconstruct the valuable
components using alternate
natural sources, in a more cost
effective and sustainable way.
Corporate
Snapshot
Listed on the ASX in February 2017
following an Initial Public Offer that
raised [A$3.5m] (ASX: ESE).
Current market capitalisation
around [A$12.5m], Net cash of
[A$4.1m].
Headquartered in Israel, with global
target markets.
Experienced Israeli and Australian
Board of Directors.
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What we do Plant profiling technology What we solve
The Virtual Plant the market need
Combine genetics, mRNA, protein
Significantly Reduce Costs
expression and phytochemical profiles
to generate a comprehensive model The cost of production for 1 litre of a specific
of targeted plants. terpene extract can be as high as US$700,000
This model is then used to reverse Esense Lab can reproduce specific terpene
engineer and reconstruct the terpene extracts at a fraction of the cost (2-10%)
profile of that plant, using alternate depending on the plant
natural sources.
Terpenes are naturally occurring
Improved supply and quality
compounds (classified as
phytochemicals) which account for the Can source target terpenes from more
flavour and fragrance of plants. Each common plants
plant has its own unique terpene Accuracy in replicating a target compound
profile.
Consistency of products compared to
The reconstructed terpene profile conventional production
exactly replicates the flavour,
fragrance and other desired Standardised products with fewer impurities
characteristics of the targeted plant.
Sustainability
ake the essence of rare plants accessible and
affordable to the broader market
Providing sustainable alternative natural
sources to the consumption of natural
occurring resources, reducing the commercial
pressure on wild populations of rare plants
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How we do it
Cracking the plant code
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Initial Focus Plant
Our target Legal Cannabis and
plant Para-Cannabis Industries
Cannabis is a very high value plant market
due to high regulatory requirements,
limited supply, and many medical and
industrial applications.
Estimated US retail sales of medical and
recreational cannabis in 2016 of between
$3.5 billion and $4.3 billion (year-on-year
growth of 17% to 26%). This is forecast to
reach $11 billion in 2020, posting double-
digit growth each year13.
Esense Labs replicated terpene profiles
have the targeted characteristics of
cannabis plants, however are not
manufactured from the cannabis plant, do
not contain any cannabinoids, and are not
considered subject to the same regulatory
regimes governing cannabis sourced
products.
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Esense Lab aims to make cannabis Esense Lab
phytochemical profiles available as a
Disrupting the scalable and commercially viable solution
Has released a highly disruptive
legal cannabis for cannabis related product manufacturers
for the first time ever, servicing the product line of reverse engineered
market growing legal cannabis and para-cannabis cannabis terpene profiles at a
industries around the world. fraction of the cost (2-10%)
depending on the plant.
The Terpene profile accounts for about 0.5-
3% of the plant, making it virtually
impossible to produce in large scale due to Can produce more than 100 litres
the cost of raw material (cannabis). per day of commercial ready
Approximately 33 kilograms of raw terpene profiles from a single
cannabis plant is required to produce 1L of production facility.
Terpenes.
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The Global E-Liquid Market is poised
E-liquids to reach approximately $32.8 billion
A promising by the year 202110, and expected to
grow to over $50 billion in 2025,
initial application equivalent to around 10% of the
actual tobacco market16.
Percentage of Adults
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Medical Cannabis
Retail sales of medical and recreational cannabis reached
Other attractive $6.7 billion in 2016 in the US, highlighting a year-on-year
growth of 30%.
cannabis
applications Total annual retail sales of medical and recreational
cannabis is forecast to reach $11 billion in 2020, posting
double-digit growth each year13. Esense Lab can provide
strain-specific terpene profiles.
Pharma
Esense Lab has an opportunity to joint venture with
pharmaceutical companies, supplying profiles for the
development of patented drugs.
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Cannabis terpene Esense Lab has introduced the worlds first
profiles are 100% natural reverse engineered cannabis
terpene profiles.
market ready
10 formulations currently available including
5 of the worlds most popular cannabis strains.
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E-Liquids and energy drinks, alcohol Topicals (Creams and lotion etc.)
Current market and other liquid applications: Esense Lab terpenes enable the creation
applications for Esense Lab terpenes can be used in the of 100% legal cannabis scented topicals.
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Cannabis Concentrates (Oil)
Cannabis oil is high grade hash (almost pure THC)
made using advanced extraction technologies and is
Current market one of the fastest growing smoking trends in the U.S.
Cannabis Medicine
While some strains are better for treating some
medical symptoms than others, cannabis medicine
today is only based on THC/CBD dosage and lacks the
dimension of strains (phytochemical polymorphism),
resulting in inferior effect.
Esense Lab could potentially be used to introduce this
dimension to future cannabis medicine.
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Esense Lab Advantage:
Esense Lab Patents (PCT) lodged
versus Patents surrounding the extraction of, analysis of and
our competitors
preparations consisting of phytochemicals.
Patents on the actual formulation of the analysed
plant (strain) based products.
Patents on the actual formulations of cannabis
strains with the other active chemical groups of
extra-cannabis origin (nicotine, caffeine etc.).
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Proprietary Intellectual Property
Our strengths Patents (PCT) filed.
Proprietary IP and Trade Secrets.
Our team has 40 years of combined experience
in the Cannabis field.
Superior Products
100% Cannabinoid free.
100% Natural and Organic and Kosher.
Food Graded by the country of origin (meeting
international WHO regulations).
100% Legal (none of the Raw materials on our end
products are regulated substances).
Shippable across the World.
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Research Capability
Our strengths We initiate active research with leading
academic institutes and Laboratories.
Abilities to conduct in-Vitro (cell cultures), pre-
clinical animal research and human subjects.
Commercially Ready
Our products have been validated and have
existing sales.
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Experienced Board
of Directors
Mr Cohen has extensive Dr de Kauwe studied a Bachelor of Mr Saad has unique Mr Megson joined the TFS Group
managerial experience across Science in Pharmacology and experience and knowledge in (ASX:TFC) in January 2005 as
numerous sectors , and a Physiology and Bachelor of Dental distribution companies across Chief Financial Officer and
commercial background in both Surgery from the University of a variety of industries Company Secretary and in 2013
private and government Western Australia. He also holds a including IT, semiconductors was appointed as GM - Human
enterprises. Post Graduate Diploma in Applied and automation. Resources and Communications.
Finance, majoring in Corporate In 2015 this role was expanded
He has a successful track record in Finance. Mr Saad is CEO of Data Tech, to GM Operations and Corporate
business development and responsible for the companys Services.
marketing, and managed project Dr de Kauwe is Director of Otsana sales growth, improved
budgets of up to $4 billion. Capital. Dr de Kauwes corporate margins and new sales Prior to joining TFS he was a
experience, coupled with his channels positioning the partner in the tax and business
Mr Cohen holds a B.A in social extensive technology, science and company as an industry leader services division of chartered
science from Bar Ilan University bio-medical background gives him in the Israeli market. accounting firm - Pitcher
and also represented the Israeli an integral understanding in the Partners. He has been a
government as chairman of the evaluation and execution of Mr Saad is also the Chairman chartered accountant for over 20
youth exchange authority in Israel. projects and assets over a diverse of Trading for Rapac years as well as a member of the
range of sectors. He is currently a Communication Group. Australian Institute of Company
Director of Race Oncology Ltd (ASX: Directors and Taxation Institute
RAC) and Ookami Ltd (ASX: OOK). of Australia.
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Advisors and
key personnel
Dr Penn holds a Ph.D. in drug addiction and stress Dr Vogel performed his M.Sc. studies at the Department of Mr Wood is a Chartered
related disorders studies from the Weizmann Institute Biochemistry of the Hebrew University and his Ph.D. at the Accountant and an
of Science, together with a M.Sc. in Electrophysiology, Weizmann Institute of Science. Between 1971 and 1973 he employee of Grange
and a post-doctorate in complex-physics, studying self- performed his post-doc studies at the National Institutes of Health Consulting Group Pty Ltd,
entrained neuronal networks. He is a member of the (Bethesda, MD) in the Laboratory of the Nobel Prize laureate Rd. which provides a unique
Israeli Society for Neuroscience and the American Marshall Nirenberg. range of corporate &
Biophysical Society. financial services to listed
Between 2001 and 2004 he served as the Chairman of the and unlisted companies.
Dr Penn was co-owner, CEO and CTO of one of the first Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute. Currently,
licensed Israeli medicinal cannabis companies and holds he is a Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of science and Mr Wood has extensive
deep knowledge of medicinal cannabis, stretching from is serving as the Head of the Adelson Center for the Biology of experience private and
genetics, agronomical and pharmaceutical properties, Addictive Diseases at Tel-Aviv University. seed capital raisings as well
through processing, extraction and chemical analysis of as successful ASX listings,
its active compounds and up to national and Dr Vogel published more than 170 scientific manuscripts. His whilst also providing
international regulatory aspects. Scientific work focuses mainly on the interaction of drugs of abuse company secretarial and
with their receptors (e.g., the opioid and cannabinoid receptors). financial management
He endorsed a national regulatory model through During the last 25 years most of the efforts of his laboratory were services to both ASX and
different state agencies, mainly the Ministry of Health, devoted to the newly emerging cannabinoid field. Among other unlisted public and private
Ministry of Agriculture, the Labor, Welfare and Health findings, his group has recently shown that cannabidiol as well as companies.
Committee, the Israeli anti-drug authority and the several other cannabinoids and their derivatives have anti-
police forensic laboratories. inflammatory properties and thus inhibit pathogenic T cells and
ameliorate the multiple sclerosis-like disease in both animal and
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Whats so special about eSense-Lab?
Summary First in-kind plant profiling technology
Has a range of commercial ready products of
superior quality and constituents
Highly scalable, low cost/high volume market
opportunities producing >100 Litres p/day
(p/plant)
Unmatched production costs to current peers
First vertical of commercialisation in one of
the most rapidly growing markets world wide
Strong Intellectual Property position, including
PCT stage patents, proprietary IP and Trade
Secret
Highly specialised and expert Board,
Management and Key Personnel
Why Invest
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What are Terpenes (Terpenoids) are naturally occurring
chemical compounds (classed as
terpenes? phytochemicals), accounting for flavour and
fragrance, synthesised by plants as well as
some insects.
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Terpenes and
cannabis
Terpenoids share a precursor with phytocannabinoids.
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Each cannabis strain contains a unique
"terpene profile14 - A naturally occurring
Terpene profiles formulation of different individual
terpenes (found also in other plants).
in cannabis
This profile is responsible for the unique
flavour and fragrance of the strain, but
the most fascinating characteristic of
terpenes is their ability to interact
synergistically with other compounds
(THC and CBD) in cannabis and their role
in determining the medical
benefits/effects of each cannabis strain.
Terpenes contribute
to the entourage
effects felt in the
body and mind
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Primary terpenes
in cannabis
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Terpenoids are Essential Oil (EO) components, previously conceived as
the quintessential fifth element, life force or spirit, and form the
Benefits of largest group of plant chemicals, with 1520 000 fully characterized2.
terpenes Terpenoids are pharmacologically versatile: they are lipophilic, interact
with cell membranes, neuronal and muscle ion channels,
neurotransmitter receptors, G-protein coupled (odorant) receptors,
second messenger systems and enzymes3.
5. Noma Y, Asakawa Y (2010). Biotransformation 13. Marijuana Business Daily (2016). Marijuana
of monoterpenoids by microorganisms, insects, Business Fact Book 2016.
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(eds). Handbook of Essential Oils: Science, 14. KC Hyland et al. Quantitation of Terpenes in
Technology, and Applications. CRC Press: Boca cannabis products using the Triple Quad 3500
Raton, FL, pp. 585736. LC-MS/MS system. SCIEX Concord, Canada.
6. Carvalho-Freitas MI, Costa M (2002). Anxiolytic 15. P Gardiner (2015). E-cigarettes: The vapor this
and sedative effects of extracts and essential oil time? Policy and regulatory sciences program
from Citrus aurantium L. Biol Pharm Bull 25: officer, tobacco related disease research
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Effects of the essential oil from Citrus aurantium
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Additional
management team
Mr Gilboa has vast experience Ms Assaf has extensive Mira Carmeli- Weissberg did her Ph.D. Dr. Maya Sapir-Mir is a domain
as the Chief Financial Officer for experience in managerial and in organic chemistry at Tel-Aviv expert in plant genetics and
numerous global companies in directorship roles within Israeli University specializing in "Oxygen metabolic engineering. She has
the fields of hi-tech, real estate, companies and government. Transfer Reactions using the extensive experience in plant
finance and media. HOFCH3CN Complex. genetics, molecular biology,
Ms Assaf is currently the Director protein biochemistry, and cell
Moreover Mr Gilboa was of global bank transfers with In 2008 Mira established the biology.
responsible for private and Payoneer, an online payment Metabolomic unit at "Agricultural
public companies in his role as services company. Ms Assaf is Research Organization" (ARO), Dr. Sapir-Mir earned an M.Sc. in
Senior Accountant at Ernst & also currently a director and specializing in identification and genetics and breeding at the
Young. member of the audit and finance quantification of small molecules using Faculty of Agriculture, Food and
committee of Zur Shamir a variety of state-of-the-art Mass Environmental Quality Sciences
Mr Gilboa has a CPA license and Holdings Ltd . Ms Assaf has also Spectrometry-based instruments and and a Ph.D. in plant sciences,
also holds a B.A in Economics held the position of CFO and chair analysis software. both from the Hebrew
and Management, specializing of the finance committee of the University of Jerusalem.
in finance, from the College of NTA, as Chair of the finance After 9 years at "ARO" Mira joined Furthermore, she has
Management in Israel, and an committee for the Port of "Eldan Electronic Instruments" as Mass conducted extensive research
LLM from Bar Ilan University. Hadera, the board of the Spectrometry Application Specialist, as part of her post-doctorate
Jerusalum Development mainly responsible for the work on the agricultural
Authority, and a member of the implementation of Mass Spectrometry- research organization (ARO) .
audit committee for KANAT. bases Instruments. 32
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