Chemicals trading made easy CheMondis

Sebastian Brenner Managing Director 15 November 2019 CheMondis is a stand-alone company, neither run, governed nor represented by LANXESS

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In 2019, the Chemicals market is still largely offline

Chemicals is a $4.7 tr global B2B industry, 80% is offline

This is reality in buying and selling Chemicals

$4.7 tr

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Online (mainly Asia)

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Supplier B

Supplier A

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CheMondis is an open marketplace to connect professional suppliers and buyers of chemical products

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CheMondis was launched only one year ago

Already accomplished a lot…

Start-up setting, completely independent

from LANXESS group structures

How we started CheMondis

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CheMondis is gaining traction month by month

Fact #2 13,000+ products for use in >15 different

Fact #1 >1,000 companies active (65% buyer, 35% supplier)

Fact #3 ~€150 m transaction value (cumulated, YTD ‘19) (buyers / sellers): cumulative (avg. €55k per quote/ order):

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Using CheMondis is as easy as B2C online shopping

Professional buyers’ behavior is shifting towards online channels CheMondis customer experience comparable to well known B2C platforms All steps of the transaction take place on CheMondis platform

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Buyer A

Buyer B

Buyer …

Supplier B

Supplier A

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CheMondis is constantly expanding its feature set, working 100% customer centric

Current features:

Agreement management Search Online

Marketing (SEA) Data & Analytics Collection Credit Rating Order EDI Deal

making

Logistics / Warehousing Payment

Product Roadmap: (>100 product hypothesis)

Technical Advice

And much more… Future potential

additional features:

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Various ways to monetize trading on CheMondis

Fee per deal

Fee for trading

Membership fee

Fee for value adding services

Data & Analytics

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= minimum viable product (MVP) = advanced product

CheMondis developed a MVP within 3 months to begin the process of learning as soon as possible…

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Build

Measure Learn

Our Objective: Fast execution and continuous learning

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confidential

Live Demo

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Largest and fastest growing B2B marketplace for industrial chemicals in the western world, with strong

customer centric offers along the value chain

Unique setup, backed by industry know-how and capital

Exceptional team of skilled and dedicated experts combining chemical, digital and tech know-how

Reasons to love CheMondis

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Thank you.