Crowdfunder: Equity Crowdfunding

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Crowdfunder.com, the leading equity crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs

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Entrepreneurship Today

560,000 new businesses each month

28,000,000 small businesses & startups

Great time to start a business due to abundance of

cheap services, strong infrastructure, great talent.

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But Raising Investment Is Hard

Banks: no longer capitalize entrepreneurs

VCs Moving Late Stage: entrepreneurship stifled as

VCs leaving early stage deals, LPs driving shift

Long Complex Process: 6 months to raise, emailing

& corralling, knocking on doors, little guidance

Mostly Offline: majority of current investment is

driven through in person connections and meetings

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The $300 Billion Question

What happens when

investing in entrepreneurs moves online

and becomes accessible for

anyone to invest as little as $100?

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100M+ unaccrediteds (future) 9,000,000 accrediteds

$300 Billion early stage investment market

Millions of businesses around the world are fundraising today… and we

are the scalable platform for investing and fundraising for entrepreneurs

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We Are Riding 3 Massive Movements

$300 Billion Small Business $30 Billion Venture Investments

Massive Capital Markets Moving Online (JOBS Act, Internet)

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$5 Billion Exponential growth market now shifts to investment

Crowdfunding: Shift towards Investment (Equity, Debt)

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500(0) Startups Innovation ecosystems around the world are driving activity

Global Entrepreneurship Movement (Global Capital & Markets) 3

JOBS Act Opens New Capital Markets & Asset Class

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•  Companies validating on Kickstarter, then investment on Crowdfunder

•  Industry Brand Name with leading growth and top brand/media recognition

•  Scalable model growing faster than Investment Banks ever could

Kickstarter for Rewards. Crowdfunder for Investment.

Crowdfunding Meets Investing

WATCH VIDEO: $2 Billion Exit Brings

Equity Crowdfunding To The Forefront

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Rapid Growth (Non-Investment)

4-6% week over week Investor growth

10,000 businesses signed up

60,000 investors & entrepreneurs

2 x Sales over past 3 months

70% of burn covered by revenues (May)

Meanwhile Sales from our SaaS for Entrepreneurs is growing rapidly…

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Rapid Investment Growth

$23M invested in our deals

$108M in live deal flow

In just over 2 quarters of live investment on our platform…

24 Seed & Series A Deals

We’ve Funded Deals From

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Understanding Our Industry

It’s a Capital Market: This is a capital market, not an internet

niche. You must consider the size, scope, and the history of

early stage Finance and investing.

Not Winner Take All: Several market leaders will exist in this

space in key segments, with network effects for winners

Silicon Valley Isn’t Everything: There is a larger market

opportunity beyond just Tech in US.

Scalability: Broker-Dealers & Funds do 10’s of deals a year.

Crowdfunder will do hundreds short term, and 1,000’s long

term. Our model is uniquely scalable…

Our Market Leadership  

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Success From Start: TradeYa 1.  LA community identified TradeYa"2.  Deal Trended on our Network"3.  Funded in 3 day via strategic investors  

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Success in Follow On: Kueski Top Angels & VCs Invest. Our active Investor Network follows on...  

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Success in Comparison: BitVore Raised over 2 x AngelList"

Crowdfunder: $455,000 "AngelList: $200,000  

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#1 Brand on Web (Equity Crowdfunding)

#1 Rank: ‘Equity Crowdfunding’

#1 Rank: Investment Crowdfunding

#1 Rank: ‘Investment Crowdfunding’

#1 #1

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Our Growth Drivers

The #1 Google ranked site for the 2 big industry terms. SEO leader: see “equity crowdfunding” “investment crowdfunding”  

1. Partnerships & Deal Flow Committee (Quality)  

2. Organic Web Growth / SEO (Scale)  

3. Paid Marketing (Scale)  

VCs, angels, accelerators bring us quality deals for co-investment. We close deals faster with our investor network  

4. CROWDFUNDx (Pitch Contest Solution)  Virtual “pitch contest” solution for groups & local communities  

Deep industry experience in paid advertising. Profitable ad campaigns bringing 400% in 30 days via select channels.  

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Bonus Slides