Store all data forever Christian Pflaum, CEO - Cerabyte © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Into the Yottabyte Era https://vimeo.com/87 7547091/2f9b21428d © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Cold data challenge >70% of all data is cold rarely retrieved after 90 days but stored for many decades Business Data Consumer Data AI Generated Data Government Data Scientific Data © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 3

Massive growth of Cold Cloud Data storage cost Cost explosion 2030 $200 bn 30 ZB 20 ZB 2020 2030 2025 10 ZB Gap 2030 >20 ZB Demand 50% CAGR Supply 35% CAGR © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 4

1% of global CO2 emissions Carbon Footprint 2% of global consumption Electricity Consumption 1% of global electronic waste HDD replacement every 5 years Global damage 2030 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 5

From Vision to Reality 6 https://vimeo.com/88 0519680/14efe30232 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Team Cerabyte Team Two generations creating a new standard for cold data storage Dr. Steffen Klewitz COO Sebastian Kirsch CIO Martin Kunze Founder CMO Alexander Pflaum Founder & CFO Christian Pflaum Founder & CEO Lukas Kreuziger R&D Achieving technology breakthroughs with a small team 7 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 7

+ Ceramic-on-glass sheets Laser nanoscale matrices Virtually unlimited storage media life First Principle © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 8 8

3 days @ 300°C - air Before Aging After Aging 3 days @ 500°C – SO2 - 273 °C ( 80 mK) EMP, UV & radiation Glass substrate - Temperature, EMP, UV and radiation resistant Durability © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 9

https://vimeo.com/85 9016937/1e6029f31d 10 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential Leverage Existing Scale Second Principle credit: Corning Glass Billions of Storage Media with only One Plant

© 2023 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 11 Flexible ultra-thin glass Ribbon glass 100 µm 5 µm 200 x = 1 mm 10 x = 1 mm Further scaling options Substrate type extends field of application & volume density CeraByte CeraTape 330 µm 3 x = 1 mm CeraDemo Thin display glass © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

up to 2 million bits in one shot Speed with Laser Matrix Third Principle https://vimeo.com/8596 82540/34a6d3e02b © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 12

© 2023 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential Business Development Archive Partners Platform Partners 13 Initial positive response from all approached potential partners Cloud Provider Sourcing Partners Cloud Data Center Demo System On-Prem Data Center Hyperscaler Data Center 2025 2026-27 2024 2028-30 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Technical Roadmap Development Roadmap from Demo to Hyperscaler Deployment Demo Systems 1 PB/rack 100 MB/s <90 sec to first byte On-Prem Systems 5 PB/rack 500 MB/s <30 sec to first byte Cloud Systems 10-30 PB/rack 1+ GB/s <15 sec to first byte Hyperscaler Systems 60-100 PB/rack 2+ GB/s <10 sec to first byte Cloud Data Center Demo System On-Prem Data Center Hyperscaler Data Center 2025 2026-27 2024 2028-30 14 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 14

Fourth Principle Semiconductor Technology is Paving the Way © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

© 2023 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential Visionary Roadmap Leveraging semiconductor technology to scale density and speed Roadmap Process size in nm 1 10 100 1.000 10.000 100.000 1.000.000 10.000.000 100.000.000 3 30 300 3000 Infrared Visible Ultraviolett Focused Ion Beam FIB Electron Beam Matrix 1000 100 10 Helium Ion Beam HIB 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2020 Particle Beam Matrix Laser Beam Matrix 10,000 64,500 1,000 6,450 100 645 10 65 1 6.5 0.1 0.65 0,01 0.065 Gbit/cm2 Gbit/in2 PB/rack 100,000 1,000 10 0.1 10,000 100 1 100,000 10,000 1,000 100 10 1 0.1 16 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 1+ TB/s 1+ GB/s

Cost saving Reduction of Total Cost of Ownership by 75% © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 17

100% recyclable 100% less waste 99% less energy 99% CO2 reduction Ecological impact versus HDD energy for storing data Zero © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 18

Competition 1 KB/s 1 MB/s 1 GB/s 100 GB 100 MB 100 TB cerabyte LTO-tape HDD DNA data storage 2040+ Microsoft Silica 2030+ Capacity per HDD volume Write & read speed HDD and LTO • lower speed • higher TCO Silica and DNA • lower speed • lower capacity • later launch • higher TCO Cerabyte outperforms current & emerging cold data storage technologies © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 19

Access time Data storage density Energy efficiency Cost saving Lifespan Resilience Writing speed Reading speed SSD HDD Tape Cerabyte Writing speed Access time Lifespan Cost saving Energy efficiency Resilience ta storage density Reading speed SSD HDD Tap Competition SSDs and HDDs are expensive to operate and need replacement every 5-6 years Performance Writing speed Hot Data SSD 10% of data Warm Data HDD 20% of data Cold Data HDD – Tape 70% of data Addressable Segment Data density Energy saving Lifespan Access Time Reading speed Cost saving Disaster recovery © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 20

Writing speed Access time Lifespan Cost saving Energy efficiency Resilience ta storage density Reading speed SSD HDD Tape Proposition Cerabyte outperforms all storage media on lifespan, resilience, energy & cost saving Hot Data SSD 10% of data Warm Data HDD 20% of data Cold Data HDD – Tape 70% of data Addressable Segment Access time Data storage density Energy efficiency Cost saving Lifespan Resilience Writing speed Reading speed SSD HDD Tape Cerabyte Performance Writing speed Data density Energy saving Lifespan Reading speed Disaster recovery Access Time Cost saving © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 21

TCO-analysis Cerabyte complements SSD & HDD reducing TCO for warm & cold data storage TCO: -50% Hot Data SSD 10% of data Warm Data HDD 20% of data Cold Data HDD – Tape 70% of data Addressable Segment Writing speed Access time Lifespan Cost saving Energy efficiency Resilience ta storage density Reading speed SSD HDD Tape Access time Data storage density Energy efficiency Cost saving Lifespan Resilience Writing speed Reading speed SSD HDD Tape Cerabyte Performance Writing speed Data density Energy saving Lifespan Reading speed Disaster recovery Access Time Cost saving Configuration SSD + TCO - 60% HDD + TCO - 50% Stand alone TCO - 75% © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 22

Vertical market failure – A real possibility according to experts Robotic Drive W/R Head Tape FujiFilm (80%) Sony (20%) Western Digital (100%) IBM (100%) BDT IBM Quantum Spectra Logic Key concerns of LTO tape customers - IBM - WD – FujiFilm defacto monopoly - LTO 8 patent war between FujiFilm and Sony - LTO 9 capacity increase only 50% over LTO 8 - LTO 10 might not double capacity and launch late - LTO tape operating range 15-25°C – 20-50% RH - LTO lifespan around 7,5 years (driven by change of LTO-generation) LTO eco-system LTO tape eco-system degenerated Samsung 47% Kioxia – Western Digital 26% SK Hynix – Solidigm 19% Micron 8% SSD – 3,5 market players HDD – 2,5 market player Seagate 40% Western Digital 40% Thoshiba 20% LTO –Tape IBM 100% Vertical market failure - A real possibility! © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 23 Eco-system Negative Gross Margins Decline in Revenues - Not Profitable

Archive Partners Platform Partners Cloud Provider Sourcing Partners ”Cold data storage eco-system” enables multi-sourcing supply chain driving down cost for each step of the overall value chain Eco–System Eco-System Multi-sourcing supply chain Decoding Reading Robotic Writing Corning Schott NEG AGC Sony DADC Corning AGC Von Ardenne Texas Instr. IMS Zeiss Intel BDT Quantum Spectra Logic Zeiss Nikon Mitutoyo Edmund Intel AMD Nvidia Ampere Laser Coating Substrate LightCon Trumpf Coherent EdgeWave 24 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Global patent portfolio © Australian Bureau of Statistics, GeoNames, Geospatial Data Edit, Microsoft, Navinfo, OpenStreetMap, TomTom, Wikipedia, Zenrin Unterstützt von Bing - Base patent covers 80% of global GDP and 65% of global population - Full-stack patent portfolio is covering Media, W/R Devices & Formats Full-stack patent portfolio enables fast global industrial scaling 25 25 © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Cerabyte, Inc. Steffen Hellmold Director Cerabyte, Inc. © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential

Summary Patented Technology covering 80% global GDP huge and growing Global Market Business Opportunity validated by industry partners © 2024 www.cerabyte.com Proprietary and Confidential 27

Cerabyte is a deep-tech start-up developing a new ecosystem for sustainable low-cost long-term data storage at the verified prototype system level (TRL6). Ceramic-on-Glass media using laser-matrix writing and high-speed microscope reading technology is the foundation enabling the storage of vast amounts of cold data, that is kept for decades to centuries and rarely retrieved. Leveraging semiconductor tool R&D investment, Cerabyte is uniquely positioned, to deliver sustainable, accessible, and affordable EB-scale data center rack storage solutions required for the Yottabyte era. Store all data forever © 2024 cerabyte by Ceramic Data Solutions Holding – Cerabyte GmbH | All rights reserved, including photomechanical reproduction and storage in electronic media. The use of the ideas and works shown in this presentation, or excerpts thereof, are not permitted without the express permission of the authors.

Store all data forever © 2024 cerabyte by Ceramic Data Solutions Holding – Cerabyte GmbH | All rights reserved, including photomechanical reproduction and storage in electronic media. The use of the ideas and works shown in this presentation, or excerpts thereof, are not permitted without the express permission of the authors. Christian Pflaum, CEO & Founder christian.pflaum@cerabyte.com Cerabyte GmbH Rundfunkplatz 2 D 80335 Munich Germany Steffen Hellmold, Director steffen.hellmold@cerabyte.com Cerabyte Inc. 110 Del Oro Lagoon CA 94949 Novato USA