FISCAL 1Q'23

UPDATE

JUNE 14, 2022

COLUMBIA GLACIER • Alaska, USA • August 13, 2021

Disclaimers

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this presentation are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, the Company's ability to capture market opportunity; whether and when the Company will be able to execute on its growth initiatives; whether the Company will realize any of the potential benefits from strategic acquisitions; whether the Company will be able to successfully build or deploy its satellites, including new satellites that are in development; whether the Company will be able to continue to invest in scaling its sales organization and expanding its software engineering capabilities; how the Company will execute on its partnerships and contracts and how the Company's partners and customers will utilize the Company's data; and the Company's financial outlook. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "seek," "may," "will," "could," "can," "should," "would," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "strategy," "opportunity," "aim," "continue" and similar expressions or the negative thereof, or discussions of strategy, plans, objectives, intentions, estimates, forecasts, outlook, assumptions, or goals, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on the Company's management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to them. Because such statements are based on expectations as to future financial and operating results and are not statements of fact, actual results may differ materially from those projected. Factors which may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: the Company's limited operating history making it difficult to predict its future operating results; the Company's expectations that its operating expenses will increase substantially for the foreseeable future; whether the market for the Company's products and services that is built upon its data set, which has not existed before, will grow as expected; the Company's ability to manage its growth effectively; whether current customers or prospective customers adopt the Company's platform; whether the Company will be able to compete effectively with the increasing competition in its market from commercial entities and governments; the Company's ability to continue to capture certain high-value government procurement contracts; the Company's ability to obtain or maintain regulatory approvals and/or adhere to regulatory requirements, including those related to the Company's ability to operate as a government contractor with the required security clearances; changes in government policies regarding the use of commercial data or satellite operators, material delay or cancellation of certain government programs, government spending authorizations and budgetary priorities; changes in general global economic conditions, the Company's operations (including the development, launch and operation of satellites) or other unforeseen circumstances that may alter or delay the Company's ability to perform under future contracts and may impact the renewal and final profitability of such contracts; the cancellation of contracts by the government and any potential contract options which may or may not be exercised by the government in the future; whether the Company is subject to any risks as a result of its global operations, including, but not limited to, being subject to any hostile actions by a government or other state actor; the Company's international operations creating business and economic risks that could impact its operations and financial results; the interruption or failure of the Company's satellite operations, information technology infrastructure or loss of its data storage, whether by cyber-attacks or other adverse events that limit its ability to perform its daily operations effectively and provide its products and services; whether the Company experiences any adverse events, such as delayed launches, launch failures, its satellites failing to reach their planned orbital locations, its satellites failing to operate as intended, being destroyed or otherwise becoming inoperable, the cost of satellite launches significantly increasing and/or satellite launch providers not having sufficient capacity; the Company's satellites not being able to capture Earth images due to weather, natural disasters or other external factors, or as a result of its constellation of satellites having restrained capacity; if the Company is unable to develop and release product and service enhancements to respond to rapid technological change, or to develop new designs and technologies for its satellites, in a timely and cost-effective manner; downturns or volatility in general economic conditions, including as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic, including any variants thereof, or any other outbreak of an infectious disease; the effects of acts of terrorism, war or political instability, both domestically and internationally, including the current events involving Russia and Ukraine, changes in laws and regulations, or the imposition of economic or trade sanctions affecting international commercial transactions; the loss of one or more of the Company's key personnel, or its failure to attract, hire, retain and train other highly qualified personnel in the future; the Company's ability to raise adequate capital, including on acceptable terms, to finance its business strategies; how rules and regulations in the Company's highly regulated industry may impact its business; if the Company fails to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting at a reasonable assurance level; and the other factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and any subsequent filings with the SEC the Company may make. Copies of each filing may be obtained from the Company or the SEC. All forward-looking statements reflect the Company's beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this presentation. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. The Company's results for the quarter ended April 30, 2022 are not necessarily indicative of its operating results for any future periods.

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Disclaimers

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This presentation includes Non-GAAP Gross Profit, Non-GAAP Gross Margin, which is derived from Non-GAAP Gross Profit, Adjusted EBITDA and certain non-GAAP expenses, which are non-GAAP performance measures that the Company uses to supplement its results presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating its operating performance, as they are similar to measures reported by the Company's public competitors and are regularly used by analysts, institutional investors, and other interested parties in analyzing operating performance and prospects. Further, the Company believes such non-GAAP measures are helpful in highlighting trends in the Company's operating results because they exclude items that are not indicative of the Company's core operating performance. In addition, the Company includes these non-GAAP financial measures because they are used by management to evaluate the Company's core operating performance and trends and to make strategic decisions regarding the allocation of capital and new investments.

Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation from, as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Specifically, these measures should not be considered as an alternative to cost of revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, operating income, net income, or any other performance measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP or as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of liquidity. The non-GAAP financial measures presented are not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by U.S. GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies. Further, the non-GAAP financial measures presented exclude stock-based compensation expenses, which has recently been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, a significant recurring expense for the Company's business and an important part of its compensation strategy.

Definitions of these non-GAAP financial measures and certain reconciliations are included in the appendix to this presentation.

Financial Outlook

The Company has not reconciled its Non-GAAP Gross Margin outlook, which is derived from Non-GAAP Gross Profit, and Adjusted EBITDA outlook to their most directly comparable GAAP measures (gross profit and net loss, respectively) because certain items that impact gross profit and net loss, such as stock-based compensation expenses and (in the case of Adjusted EBITDA) depreciation and amortization, are uncertain or out of the Company's control and cannot be reasonably predicted. The actual amount of these expenses during the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2023 will have a significant impact on the Company's future GAAP financial results. Accordingly, a reconciliation of Non-GAAP Gross Margin outlook and Adjusted EBITDA outlook to gross profit margin and net loss, respectively, is not available without unreasonable efforts.

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