gnito: warm intros open doors
Post on 17-Oct-2014
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Good things begin with a warm intro! The Gnito iPhone App helps entrepreneurs get introduced to US Accredited Investors. Simple and powerful search using name or twitter handle. Find mutual connections, get introduced or simply connect on your platform of choice.TRANSCRIPT
problemmanaging cross platform identities and contacts
solutioncross-platform identity management and insights
app
Early Prototype
Where’s the Value?in a noisy space, we need to distinguish ourselves
@bwertz‘an insanely noisy space, need
to get significant traction before we would be
interested?’
@JSCournoyer ‘what is your ‘secret sauce’?’
@ronbodkin ‘deliver something of real value’
CompetitorsRapportive only works on
chromegnito is x-platform
Xobni only works for contacts
gnito is unrestricted
Hootsuitefocus on
streams, not identity
gnito intersects identity & privacy
Refresh.io similar, focus on contacts
gnito focus: people you
want to meet
How is Gnito different?• Competitors focus on contacts, we focus on people you want to connect with
• Competitors assemble social data, gnito builds on social data with cross-platform connection & communication tools
• Gnito adds ‘reality mining’ tools to social data• Data insights, visualization, presentment, ‘telling a story’
• Initial simple deployment: “Warm intros made real simple”
‘Angel hack’demonstrate value, for entrepreneurs seeking
investment
@jonramey focus on traction, traction traction
@tomwilliams ‘target high value users and gain trust’
@danmartell the best damn advisory board ever
Do One Thing Well‘Angel Hack’: remove barriers, facilitate intros
‘warm intros made dead simple’simply connect
our technology
Cascading search
Business Model
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a5890c2c2cc0
• Freemium Model – In-App payments
• Enterprise Webservices & API Gnito adds ‘reality mining’ tools to social data, ‘connect with your audience’
• Scale First, Gain Traction, value @intersection: identity /data
199 / Mo 299 / Mo 499 / Mo uniimited
Scale first
superpowers for entrepreneurs & angels
MarketPlace
Content Marketing•Product, Product, Product: connect Entrepreneurs with Angels, via AngelList API
• Analytics, Attract, Engage, Measure, Improve
• Entrepreneurs, Networkers, Devs, Angels
• Tech Bloggers, PR-campaign, Guest Blogging..
• Hackathons (fb, AngelHack, g+, other)
Messaging Strategy
• Targeted Influentials• Developers, Entrepreneurs• Networkers, Journalists• Tech Bloggers, PR-campaign• Hackathons (fb, g+, other)• Content Marketing strategy
TeamGuenter GluckCTO, webservice & data servicesManuel LogoiretiPhone PlatformMatthew PeakeDesign, UX/UI, Branding, Robb Millerlegal, biz, product manage, Story
Status & Timeline •Prototype, landing page (Aug ’13)•Team assembled (Sept ’13)• (Dec ’13) - Prototype Released! •Launch MVP March 31•1,000 beta-users by June :)•100,000 users by Sept :}
Opportunity- Seed Round, limited spots- Great opportunity, team, product- favorable terms - please see AngelList/Gnito- Potential ‘Anchor’ identified ($50K)- ‘tag along’ discussions also ensue with several high-profile AngelList players- x-border opportunity (Reg D - US Accredited investors only)- We love Montreal tech community!
angel.co/gnito & gnito.me@gnitome [email protected]