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.
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
The $300 Billion Question
What happens when
investing in entrepreneurs moves online
and becomes accessible for
anyone to invest as little as $100?
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
We Are Riding 3 Massive Movements
$300 Billion Small Business $30 Billion Venture Investments
Massive Capital Markets Moving Online (JOBS Act, Internet)
2
$5 Billion Exponential growth market now shifts to investment
Crowdfunding: Shift towards Investment (Equity, Debt)
1
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
• 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
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…
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
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
Success From Start: TradeYa 1. LA community identified TradeYa"2. Deal Trended on our Network"3. Funded in 3 day via strategic investors
Success in Follow On: Kueski Top Angels & VCs Invest. Our active Investor Network follows on...
Success in Comparison: BitVore Raised over 2 x AngelList"
Crowdfunder: $455,000 "AngelList: $200,000
#1 Brand on Web (Equity Crowdfunding)
#1 Rank: ‘Equity Crowdfunding’
#1 Rank: Investment Crowdfunding
#1 Rank: ‘Investment Crowdfunding’
#1 #1
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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