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The Leading
Consumer
Product
Platform
Sharpening the Tools of Trade

SEPTEMBER 2021
INVESTOR PRESENTATION           $ATER
                                NASDAQ
The Leading Consumer Product Platform - SEPTEMBER 2021 INVESTOR PRESENTATION $ATER - aterian investor ...
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Net Revenue (Annual)

                   Who Is                                                              AGR            $185.7

                   Aterian?
                                                                              72% C
                                                                                                                   $116.3
                                                                                             $114.5
                                                                               $73.3
                                                                    $36.5

                     Aterian is building the leading
                     technology powered consumer
                     product platform.                               Adj. EBITDA(1) as % of Net Revenue (Annual)

                                           Our formula for scale:

                                           Proprietary Market
                                           Analytics Software
                                                    +
                                           Agile supply chain
                                                    =
                                               Top selling
                                           Consumer Products

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    * May 2021 Q1 earnings press release
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Evolution to CPG Platform

     CPG         Manufacturer     Brand                     Wholesaler                                          Retailer           Customer

                                               Sourcing
                                                                          Finance                Production
                                               & Quality
     D2C         Manufacturer      Brand                                                                                           Customer

                                                Logistics               Distribution              Marketing

                #1 Manufacturer   #1 Brand

                                                                                                 Distribution
                                                                                    Production
                                             Sourcing &

                                                                                                                       Marketing
                                                            Logistics

                                                                        Finance
                                              Quality
                #2 Manufacturer   #2 Brand

     CPG                                                                                                                           Customer
     PLATFORM

                #3 Manufacturer   #3 Brand

                                                              Technology + Agile Operations =
                #4 Manufacturer   #4 Brand
                                                                   Economies of Scale
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Build                       Acquire                         Partner
              We Build products from the        We Acquire high caliber        We offer our Platform as a
              ground up, using Aimee™ to     profitable CPG brands. We use    Service (PaaS). Brands use
             identify market opportunities     Aimee™ to qualify existing     Aimee™ as a turnkey way to
What we do

               and automate the sales of       products to forecast future   effectively manage their sales
                products across various        growth and automate the       across eCommerce channels
              eCommerce channels, from         management of the assets           and drive better unit
              merchandising to fulfillment           once acquired               economics across their
               and everything in between                                            product portfolio

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Aterian’s CPG Platform
    Drives Efficiency
    Technology + Agile Supply Chain

    By systematizing the building
    blocks of commerce and
    investing in technology to
    automate our supply chain,
    we aim at building the
    world’s most efficient
    consumer platform.

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Say Hello
    to AIMEE™
    Commerce Operating System
    An end to end cloud based solution
    providing real time data, ML
    powered automation and access to
    operational services to streamline
    the management of thousands of
    products at scale across various
    channels.

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AIMEE™
    Platform
                                               SKUs feed data
                                                to ML engine

    Flywheel

                                                  Aimee™
                           More efficient         Engine              Better product
                            marketing,                                opportunities
    3,000+ SKUs under     product pricing                               identified
    Management             and logistics

    ~$350 million GMV ,

                                             More products reach
8                                                                               = Product (SKU)
                                            scale and profitability
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Build
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FEATURED BRANDS

                    Home       Home & Kitchen    Beauty    Consumer
                  Appliances     Appliances     Products   Electronics
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Aterian Significantly Shortens Go-To-Market Timing

                    AIMEE™                                       AIMEE™                               AIMEE™
                       IDEA                                       TRADING                            FULFILLMENT
                    GENERATOR                                      ENGINE                              ENGINE
      Aterian
      BUSINESS
       MODEL
                   Real time data        Manufacturing    Data driven automated                Dynamic inventory allocation         Marketplace
                 driven opportunity        Shipping      marketing & product lifetime   Fulfillment selection / cost optimization    Customer
                  & trend tracking       Warehousing           management                       3rd party logistics network
                                                                                                2 day ship – virtually all US

                      6–8 Month Go-To-Market Cycle        ~60 Min Marketing Cycle

                      18–24 Month Go-To-Market Cycle      3 Month Marketing Cycle

     Standard
      BUSINESS
       MODEL
                   Focus Group           Manufacturing        Agents Distributor                No Direct Distribution /              Retailer
                       R&D                 Shipping              Ad Agency                           Reseller FBA                    Customer
                                         Warehousing
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Acquire
FEATURED BRANDS

                   Kitchen     Home & Kitchen     Health     Essential
                  Appliances     Appliances     & Wellness     Oils
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M&A
     Opportunity                         “The Amazon
                                          Third-Party Seller
                                          market is larger
                                          than meets the eye,
                                                                                                       Amazon Retail
                                                                                                       $190B (39%)

     $300B Market on Amazon               and it is growing
                                          quickly                                       Third Party Sellers
                                                                                        $300B (61%)

     ●   3+ million Amazon sellers
           ●    Who lack technology
                & scalability

           ●   Limited managerial
               Experience

           ●   Limited working capital

           ●   Have built strong and
               sustainable businesses

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                                         * Sources: Company Filings, Marketplacepulse
M&A Strategy
     Growth at Accretive Multiples
                                                 “
     ●   Continued focus on US market, plus expansion to other international marketplaces

     ●   Continue to acquire 3rd party sellers with long term sustainable products
          ○   Strong social proof / High quality product
          ○   Unit economics
          ○   Limited innovation
          ○   Addressing a real need

     ●   Acquire larger targets that have strong marketplace and retail businesses

     ●   Focus on acquiring other aggregators who have hit inflection points in lifecycle

     ●   Generally only purchasing: listing, IP, assets, manufacturer and retail relationships

     ●   Limited headcount addition for Aterian (post-transition) for FBA businesses + quick
         integration - AIMEE onboarding

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Cumulative Cash Raised by
     M&A Strategy:                                                   Amazon Acquirers 2020

     Competitive Landscape
     Notable Competitors who Raised Capital
     to Acquire Amazon Brands

        Company          Amt. Raised            Stage     Revenue

          Thrasio           $1,750M           Series D    $500M

          HeyDay             $175M             Series A      ?

           Perch             $134M            Series C       ?
                                                                    Notable Debt and Equity Investors
          SellerX            $118M             Series A      ?

        Boosted
                             $87M              Series A      ?
       Commerce

          Heroes             $65M              Series A      ?

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     *Sources: Crunchbase, Marketplace Pulse, Forbes
Partner
1                   2                  3                      4

     Turnkey
     platform for
     eCommerce                    Quickly      Easily integrate         AIMEE™              Leverage

     brands                     qualify your
                               SKU to ensure
                                               SKU information
                                                and Historical
                                                                      automates
                                                                   the marketing,
                                                                                        AIMEE™ Fulfillment
                                                                                        Network to deliver
                                 program         trends into      pricing, analytics,    SKUs 1 day Prime,
                                  success          AIMEE™          and forecasting      cheaper than FBA

     The AIMEE™ platform
     automates sales and
     drives performance
     across the largest
     e-commerce
     channels &
     marketplaces

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Turnkey

     E-commerce                                               channel
                                                            integrations

     Logistics
     at Scale                         Inventory
                                    visualization
                                         and
                                                    14 Warehouses Across the US
                                                                                   Real-time
                                                                                     order
                                     forecasting                                   ingestion

     Optimized for
     oversized Products

     97%
                                                                                  Automated
                                    Same day
                                                                                   shipping
                                   pick & pack
                                                                                     label
                                   and delivery
                                                                                   creation

     Aterian Fulfillment Network
                                                            Optimized
     ensures 2 days delivery to                             warehouse
     97% of the US and 1 day                                 selection
     delivery to 76% of the US
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Thank you
   aterian.io
Massive
                                                                                                         CAGR 13.8 %

     And Rapidly
                                                      RETAIL ECOMMERCE SALES WORLDWIDE & % OF TOTAL RETAIL SALES(1)

     Expanding
                                                      Sales
                                                                                  $tn
                                                      % of Total Retail Sales

     Market                                                                             20.4%
                                                                                                     21.1%
                                                                                                                      21.8%

                                                                                19.5%
                                                                18.0%

                                                                                                                      $ 6.4
                                                                                                      $ 5.9
     Worldwide E-Commerce                    13.6%                                       $ 5.4

     Sales are expected to                                                      $ 4.9

     grow to:                                                    $ 4.3

                                              $ 3.4

     $4.3 trillion             $6.4
                               trillion(1)

       2020                     2024

                                              2019               2020           2021     2022         2023            2024

21   (1) eMarketer estimates
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