AMERICA'S MENTORING NETWORK FOR THE MILITARY

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1 AMERICA'S MENTORING NETWORK FOR THE MILITARY

2 THE PROBLEM 1.5m transitioning Veterans and 5.5m Military spouses are unemployed or underemployed. The #1 challenge facing service members is finding a job when they come home. Veterans' Terrible Job Search Experience "I applied to 200 companies on job boards, because that s what everyone told me to do." "I had no idea 80% of jobs aren't even through job boards, they're through networks." "I threw resumes at a wall to see what sticks. It's shooting in the dark. It's frustrating and isolating." What s missing in job search is feedback, advice, learning, growth, community... Source: neral_politics/november_2015/what_are_the_biggest_chall enges_facing_military_veterans

3 SOLUTION The Veterati Platform: Get Mentored, Get Hired America's Mentoring Network for the Military: Veterati started as a small idea about helping Veterans get their dream jobs that led to building the most advanced mentoring software in the market. Using our technology, Veterati is activating one of history's most powerful tribes, the United States military, and the 94% of Americans who support our military, to solve the greatest crisis of opportunity for 1.5m Veterans and 5.5m military spouses toady: finding a job.

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5 DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY Digital, Scalable Mentoring Veterati is the only mentoring platform to provide free scheduling, texts, and phone calls for mentors, service members, and military spouses. We even offer free international phone calls for service members overseas in 5 countries to connect them to mentors in the USA! Here's how our platform works

6 ANYONE CAN BECOME A MENTOR OR MENTEE IN LESS THAN 2 MINUTES

7 ALGORITHMS MATCH MENTORS SKILLS TO MENTEES' NEEDS

8 MENTEES GET ACCESS TO UNLIMITED MENTORS, ON-DEMAND Automated texts & phone calls

9 MEASURE GROWTH & TRACK PROGRESS

10 WE TRACK WHEN MENTEES LAND JOBS 15% OF MENTEES HAVE LANDED A JOB 4 MENTORS ON AVERAGE PER MENTEE

11 VETERATI MENTEES: Explore possible career paths Learn how to tell their personal story Figure out what the really want to do Work on resumes and Linkedin profiles Practice mock interviews Build confidence FOCUSED, POLISHED, AND COMPETITIVE CANDIDATES

12 CROWDSOURCING ADVICE FOR ALL PARTS OF THE JOB SEARCH I will be forever grateful to all my mentors for their time, advice and support. Through my mentors I have received LinkedIn advice, resume revisions, networking opportunities, interview prep, elevator pitch formatting, additional transition classes, reading materials, introductions to industry professionals and motivation to keep pushing. William Lu, Navy, Student Veteran 27 Mentors, Job Secured 5/16/17 View more success stories at:

13 NEW HOPE When I was feeling drained, discouraged, and downtrodden, it was Veterati that gave me a new hope and a new path to travel. As a military spouse, my biggest challenge is finding ways to maintain my career while I support my husband in his Air Force service. Moving from New York City to San Antonio made it difficult for me to find a job that really fit what I was looking for. I m so grateful for Veterati and the opportunity it gave me to connect with mentors across the country. Many sympathized with my challenge, having spouses who faced similar situations. It was great to feel heard and validated, and even better to connect with people who really cared. Aside from the fantastic advice, tips, and tricks given, I had multiple mentors who stuck with me through the months of searching they would check in periodically and even send me job postings they thought I might like. When I found a position with a company I really wanted to work for, it was ultimately the advice of a few mentors that made me stick out from the crowd and land the job. Veterati is absolutely amazing and made all the difference in my search. Susie Youd, Military Spouse 6 Mentors, Job Secured 6/12/17 View more success stories at:

14 I CAN DO THIS! I CAN ACHIEVE A DREAM JOB! I AM WORTH IT! After just my first conversation, I can already see the how the Veterati platform is invaluable to any service member or military spouse that is wanting to enter the civilian workforce and find a career that they are going to love. The perception is that finding a career is something that a person does by themselves, but with Veterati it doesn t have to be that way. Just the support given through the conversation, has given me that, hey! I can do this! I can achieve a dream job! I am worth it!. Every Veteran transitioning out of the Service should have at least one conversation with a mentor. I think that they would see a world of opportunity that is out there. Khristian Silvis, Army 3 Mentors, Joined Veterati 6/17/17 View more success stories at:

15 THE POWER OF ONE HOUR: HIRED BEFORE MY RETIREMENT DATE The longer you re in the military, the more you become a detached from how to understand civilian structure and thought. Both of my mentors helped me gain that insight to quickly assimilate into the workforce. I was able to find a great job, hired before my actual retirement date. Veterati seems overly simple with 1 hour conversations that are hosted to a schedule. However, that focused time frame of one hour was more beneficial than several long term, self sourced, one on one mentorships I had attempted on my own. In a simple word: invaluable. William Karstens, Navy, Ret. after 24 years of service 2 Mentors, Job Secured 2/21/17 View more success stories at:

16 USER GROWTH Veterati has signed partnerships with the nation's leading Veteran Service Organizations and Military Employers. Our partners are helping Veterati to reach audiences of 15m+ Service Members & Spouses. 1.5m Military Spouses 15m Military Families 1 STATES WITH VETERATI MENTEES & MENTORS 50 CURRENT NUMBER OF USERS ,000 Veterans 10k Veterans Hired 4,000 Military Officers Hiring 100k Veterans PROJECTED USER GROWTH BY K

17 One of the best first steps a transitioning service member can do is connect with a mentor. Not only to learn the process, but also to build a network of champions that will broaden your aperture of opportunities. Veterati is an easy access point that the USO can offer in remote locations such as Djibouti, Iraq, Afghanistan, or any of our 200 locations across the Globe. Anne Sprute - SVP Transition Strategy & Innovation USO

18 OUR IMPACT Veterans Mentors Employers Mentees can book as many mentors as they want. The average Veterati mentee has 4+ mentors, while some have 25 PRE-VETERATI Apply to 200 jobs, hope for 1-2 interviews, no feedback, advice, or growth POST-VETERATI Get mentored by employees from dream companies, become a focused, polished, and interview-ready candidate

19 OUR IMPACT Veterans Mentors Employers "TODAY I WAS OFFERED A POSITION AT MY DREAM COMPANY, INCREDIBLE BENEFITS PACKAGE, AND STOCK OPTIONS IN THE COMPANY. After I came home from several combat tours in Iraq, I spent 2 years searching for a job and living out of my parents' basement with my 1 year old son. Veterati was my breakthrough. My family and I could never thank all my mentors enough. Veterati is EXACTLY what veterans need to take the jump, not only to the next level, but several levels further than we are aiming for. David Bowden Army Veteran, 10 mentors on Veterati SERVICE MEMBERS & MILITARY SPOUSES CURRENTLY ON VETERATI.COM

20 OUR IMPACT Veterans Mentors Employers PRE-VETERATI 94% of Americans support the military and want to do more than say "Thank you for your service" Confirm the cell phone number we'll be calling to connect you to your mentees 80% of meetings are lost in back-and-forth scheduling. We eliminate all barriers to mentorship so you can focus all your energies on your mentees. Just have your phone on for scheduled meetings and Veterati will call and connect you to your mentee. Enter you number Get Code Please check your cell phone for a text message with your code POST-VETERATI Make a life-changing difference for Veterans and military spouses by giving career advice via phone calls, starting at just 1 hour per month I Agree to the Veterati Terms of service Make my profile live! back Set up a mentor profile in 2 minutes and you re available for any Veteran across the entire country to book you for a mentor phone call

21 OUR IMPACT Veterans Mentors Employers I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN INNOVATION CATCH FIRE SO QUICKLY Dan Savage, Head of Veterans Program, Linkedin From the moment I met them, I knew the Veterati team was different. In 6 years doing this work, I have not seen an innovation catch fire so quickly and so effectively and yet the entire Veterati team could fit into a small sedan. The Veterati team has proven President Kennedy s statement that One man can change the world, and every man should try. Doing whatever it takes to serve our community and keep their business alive, their efforts are transforming veteran transition. Before I even got off our first call, I signed up as a Veterati mentor and received my first mentorship appointment. The ease with which a potential mentor can offer their time, and with which a mentee can claim that time, is revolutionary. No longer must a servicemember or veteran summon the courage to send a cold-call or LinkedIn InMail, hoping to get a response, hoping that someone out there will be willing to help them. Today, they have click-button access to a veritable menu of mentors from whom they simply have to choose. Servicemembers can schedule dozens of informational interviews to learn about potential employment opportunities, to understand industries, and to build relationships with people who are willing to help. I always like to say that people hire people they know and trust for the majority of veterans, their networks are limited to those with whom they served. Veterati offers veterans a gateway to nearly any industry they would like to pursue MENTORS CURRENTLY VOLUNTEERING ON VETERATI.COM

22 OUR IMPACT Veterans Mentors Employers PRE-VETERATI Companies come across as intimidating and unreachable to transitioning Veterans. Employees want to give back, but how? POST-VETERATI Engage employees to support Veterans through the power of mentoring conversations It takes less than 1 week to set up your company's mentor page

23 OUR IMPACT Veterans Mentors Employers VETERATI HELPS VERIZON ENGAGE, ATTRACT, RECRUIT, AND RETAIN MILITARY TALENT. The Veterati platform makes us accessible to the people we want to hire. They've helped Verizon increase employee morale and engagement while improving our employer brand. Veterati is redefining what mentorship is able to do in the digital age." Evan Guzman Former Global Head of Military Programs, Verizon CURRENTLY IN DISCUSSIONS WITH 30 FORTUNE500 COMPANIES

24 MEET OUR FOUNDERS Diana Rau, CEO Veterati, Veteran Spouse Why Veterati: I've wanted to change the world since I was 13. After graduating Georgetown in 2012, I spent the last 5 years building companies to solve social challenges, none more meaningful than Veterati. 2 years ago, Veterati was an informal mentoring group where my friends and I would mentor Daniel's Marine buddies. One of the Marines I met, I asked him, "What was transition like for you?" He looked straight at me and said, Not good. I've been to 3 friends' funerals since I've been out of the military. They're all friends who committed suicide." More soldiers die by their own hand than in battle. It's a lonely path for the soldier coming home to no community, no purpose, no job. Anyone would struggle with this. And so for me I build Veterati to save lives and empower good people to succeed.

25 MEET OUR FOUNDERS Daniel Rau, COO Veterati, Marine Why Veterati: I decided to join the Marine Corps when I saw the twin towers fall. I wanted to keep my family safe. I served as a Marine Security Guard, protecting embassies from New Delhi to Yemen. After returning to the US, I found job search to be confusing, chaotic, and messy and saw many of my friends facing the same challenge. I build Veterati to create opportunity for Veterans to have guidance from successful professionals in a world that often seems impermeable to Veterans. I also got a bonus when I built Veterati I didn t just get a startup and a great team, I also got a wife and married Diana. So sometimes you re shooting for your dream job and end up getting your dream girl too.

26 MEET OUR FOUNDERS Thy Tang, CTO Veterati, Marine Why Veterati: I was born after the Vietnam War. My dad had to escape on a refugee boat or be killed, so I grew up without a dad for my first 14 years. After immigrating to the US, I joined the Marine Corps, became an engineer, and bootstrapped two fintech companies from $0 to $50m. I ve always felt this missing link because I didn t have any mentors. I build Veterati to give my brothers and sisters what I didn t have, so they can succeed beyond my success. This is very important to me, so I brought my top engineers who ve been with me for 10+ years into Veterati and funded them for the last 2 years.

27 KEY TEAM MEMBERS Evan Guzman Head of Marketing Evan is a nationally recognized leader with over two decades of experience in strategic corporate development, employment marketing & branding. As former Global Head of Military Programs and Engagement for Verizon; Evan s responsibilities included creation, development, implementation, and oversight of Verizon s new military engagement program and national branding efforts. Evan s passion and experience has led Verizon to receive the #1 ranking on the Best For Vets list for two consecutive years by Military Times Edge Magazine. In addition, Evan s individual efforts have been recognized by former President George W. Bush & former First Lady Michelle Obama, the White House-Joining Forces, Department of Defense, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many other reputable establishments. Ben Sandford Head of Sales Special Forces A-Team Leader. Seasoned sales executive for two disruptive technologies which developed into globally recognized brands with dominant market share (RF Micro Devices & Sarantel). Track record of building sales teams from $0 to $150m+ in revenue. Diplomat with service in multiple United States embassies in the Former Soviet Union. Graduate of West Point and Columbia U. ADVISORS Galen Buckwalter Dr. Buckwalter served as Chief Scientistof eharmony,com, Inc. Dr. Buckwalter was responsible for the design and development of eharmony's various profiling instruments and for developing eharmony's comprehensive research programs. He has applied his research expertise to the development of thestatistical model used to identifycompatible couples at eharmony. Asmore and more couples are matchedthrough Eharmony.com, Inc. services,dr. Buckwalter integrates theinformation generated through successful matches into Eharmony.com, Inc. matching model using an advanced statistical method known as neural networks. Lawrence Coburn Founder & CEO of DoubleDutch, thecategory leader for event marketing automation. Raised more than 75m in VC funding from some of the best VCs in the world including Index Ventures, Bessemer, Floodgate and Bullpen. Joshua Krammes VP of Community Engagement at Stackpath. Joshua was an executive as part of the strategy team at SoftLayer Technologies, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company that was acquired by IBM in years experience in community-building for Government, NGO s, non-profits, corporations and early stage startups.

28 "IT IS FOR US AS A NATION, TO RESOLVE THAT THOSE WHO SERVED SHALL RETURN TO A NATION DEDICATED TO THEIR SUCCESS. THEY INVESTED IN US. IT'S TIME WE INVEST IN THEM." - Abraham Lincoln, if he knew about Veterati Contact: Diana@Veterati.com