yactraq overview – may 2013 jeh daruvala – founder/ceo 1 winner metadata to monetize online...
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The Problem
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*: Youtube press stats**: $1.5/minute
Online content is exploding 36M hours of video uploaded on
Youtube alone in 2012*
Indexing video is hardComputers can't process audio/videoManual processing is unaffordable
($3.2B to process Youtube alone**)
Yactraq's Solution
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Allow monetizing video through discoverability, analytics and
targeting
Customers can let their viewers browse a detailed catalog, sell
statistics and automatically target ads
Affordable Metadata tagging of audiovisual content
to allow universal indexing
Imagine a bookstore where all book content would be searchable
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Yactraq's Solution #2 (Patent pending)
Speech2Topics: A scalable cloud platform. Indexes massive volumes of video content . Applications:
• Content discovery (search, navigation and recommendation) • Targeted advertising• Content analytics (brand, usage/user profiling)
Product: Metadata (Indexing)
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Speech
Cust
omer
s *
Topics
Yatraq provides metadata from the cloud
Yact
raq
Cloud services
Topics
Yactraq hosts topic engine; customers hosts speech engine
Hybrid deployment
Speech
And
Speech
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Market Opportunity (2013-2018)
*: Youtube press stats & Illume**: As above + ComScore (extrapolation)
2 Billion+ hours of online video *(72M hours uploaded in 2012 growing 50% annually )
With no other practical method to make it discoverable
2B Unique visitors *
$2.5BIndexing market in 2018
$22B Revenues in 2018
Guarantees affordability to customers
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Market Attack Plan
Early adoptersCustomers: Long-tail content aggregators &Small visionary technology providersEarly revenues already realized with first product version
Early majorityCustomers: Technology platform providersRequires funding to expand sales & marketing and add product features
Late majorityCustomers: Content aggregators & content providersRequires funding integration with technology platform providers
Path to Market and Channels
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Yact
raq Publishers /
Aggregators
Cont
ent
Channels (video platforms) pay Yactraq for every minute of video processed
Video platforms
/Ad Tech players
Competitive Positioning
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Competitors: Yactraq:
Slow & Expensive Manual processCould become customers
End-to-end functionalityLeading to high cost structureLimited to large publishers and enterprises
Fast: Near Real-Time Scalable: full automation
Pay only what you need
Flexible deployment model
Speech Recognition Machine Learning (patent pending)
Leadership
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Founder & CEO - Jeh Daruvala22 years as entrepreneur, Investment banker & Product ManagerMicrosoft, T-Mobile & TELUS
CTO - Dr. Lee Iverson17 years R&D in pattern recognitionScientist at the Stanford Institute & Professor at the University of British Columbia
VP Bus. Dev. - Francois Modarresse25 years in media technologiesGrew businesses in excess of $720MM&A as acquirer and acquireePhilips, Dolby Labs, SkyStream
Advisory Board
Subhash BalEx sales executive at 3Com, Rockwell, SynopsisFormer entrepreneur. IPO & M&A
Randall HounsellCurrent VP of Mobility at ComcastFormerly DreamIt Ventures, Circuit City
Steven Forth25 years in entrepreneurship & management consultantCo-founder & CTO at Leverage Point
Status
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2 million+ minutes of videoin production with our first product version
1st paying customers& accolades!
Small initial funding From founder + research grants from Govt. of Canada
Require additional funding for commercial and product expansion
Capital Request
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• $1.5 million as either equity or convertible equity• Next funding round of $5 million+ in 12 to 18 months
Use of proceeds (12-18 months)
Sales & Marketing: 60%• Sales team, Event marketing, Inbound marcom
Technology: 40%• Technology team, Globalization, Speech R&D
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Investment Highlights
Massive, growing market
Unresolved pain point
$2.5B
Defensible, customer-validated solution
A team who has done that before
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Metadata to monetize online video
Contact: Jeh Daruvala – Founder/CEOMobile 604 341 [email protected]