TrustOptix was formed in 2013 to create an authentication and anti-counterfeiting system for the $8 billion counterfeit market. It uses nanoscale circuitry embedded in materials to authenticate products throughout the supply chain. It has received a state grant and is seeking a $5 million Series A investment to continue prototype development, equipment acquisition, and manufacturing. The company aims to provide solutions to counterfeiting issues faced by the defense, art, and other industries.

1. • Formed in August 2013 as a counter-measure for an $8
billion counterfeit market, inclusive of Defense
Electronics & Fine Art
• Create a just-in-time authentication and anti-counterfeit
ecosystem to ensure complete authentication
throughout the entire supply chain
• Nanoscale >33 active circuitry, such as RFID, writable
memory, and multilayered covert security properties
• Recently received endorsement for grant, and State
Seal of Approval from VT’s State Office of Economic
Development and Senator Patrick Leahy’s Center for
Emerging Technology
Investment Opportunity
Investment Size: $5.0 mm
Type of Security: Series A Preferred Stock, with 1x
liquidation preference
Use of Proceeds: Prototype delivery process
Standardization and R&D refinement
Capital equipment acquisition
Manufacturing processing
Deployment Roadmap
2013
Aug – TrustOptix Proof-of-Life Study Commences
Sept - Product Differentiation / IP Teaching &
Trade Secret Completion
2014
Jan - DARPA‐SN‐14‐22 Proposer’s Event
March - Venture Peak Pitch/
Art Ant-Counterfeiting Symposium
June - DoD Supply Chain Interest
July/Aug - Prototype completed, Trade Secret
Formalization; & Mosys.com Alliance
Sept/Nov - Pentagon & GSA meetings
2015
Feb - First product to DoD Customer & Art Title
Insurance Company
June - Employment : up to 150 High-Wage
professionals
Key Attributes
• Nanotechnology Insertion – Proprietary
Digital DNA technology is added to the
customer’s semiconductor design, adding
secure covert information or active circuits
to their designs, traceable anywhere along
the supply chain, inclusive of RFID
circuitry
• Digital Signature – Unique output digital
signatures, allows for validation and
authentication, which can be combined with
our other two products
• Readers – Application depended, optical,
digital or X-ray microscope custom readers
have been developed, and are available in a
variety of configurations, to meet
production volume, portability or other
special requirements
• Track & Trace – Cloud based secure
system to follow every step of an object,
stores either on premises or at TrustOptix
• Licensing opportunities
• Engineering Integration As A Service
Option
Market Dynamics
•Since 2007 US counterfeited goods have risen 100x,
costing the US economy between $200 - $250 billion per
year, and over 750,000 jobs
•Annual National Defense Authorization Act 2013, selling
into the DoD supply must have Anti-counterfeit
measures, parts must have Individual Unique Item
Identification Systems (H.R. 4310-196 Section 807)
•DARPA – RFP for (DARPA‐SN‐14‐22)
•Fine art market: over $40 billion in sales in 2007
• Estate and Liens on works of Art are becoming more
common, with little traceability and clear chain of title an
issue. Title Insurance Companies Demand Solutions.
Competitive Landscape
Company Technology Overt Covert Digital Foresnic Track Trace Ease to defeat Flexibale substrate
Trustoptix Semiconductor Very Hard No
Applied DNA Sciences Plant DNA
Nano Holes Yes
Dupont Holographic Hard Yes
Taggants Moderate N/A

2. Management Team
Michael J. Kipp – Chairman, Former CEO of Suss MicroTek, CEO of SMART Holding USA & CEO of Strategic
Advisory Services. SussMicrotek, Swisher Hygience.
Mark Renkert – Vice Chairman, Chairman of SMART Holdings USA, previous Board Level Advisor: RSM McGladrey,
Technical Advisor, Carlisle Tensolite, Judd, Sumitomo, Hosokawa Micron, Haemonetics, Lockheed Martin
Tripp Murray – Chief Executive Officer, proven in raising capital for technology start-ups. Investment Banking Capital
Markets. I-Bankers Direct, TM Capital, PWC.
John Mayer – Chief Financial Officer – formerly worked at Bain Capital, and held Senior Finance Advisory positions at:
Maytag Corp., Blodgett Oven and Accumeter Laboratories (Norddon Corp.)
Gary Kejelleren – Director of Technology Integration, former senior level executive positions at General Dynamics &
leading edge US Government Technology Migration Projects
Gregory Kogut – VP Anti-Counterfeit Military Electronics, a West Point Engineering Graduate has held senior executive
titles of major US corporation and a distinguished US Army Officer & Veteran
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