1. Startup Financing: Debt and Equity Crowdfunding
Plexus
Crowdfunding

2. Key Issue: small business
financing

3. • Legally offer shares in your company online
and solicit public financing for the first time
The Solution: Everything is About to
Change

4. But they don’t let you an investor make $ of a security.
Or as a startup company to raise $ without a bank or a VC.
Plexus’ target audience: Investment
Crowdfunding for the public
These
are all
pretty
awesome

5. Plexus’s Features
• One of the first Investment/ lending crowdfunding
platforms once the JOBS act gets enacted.
• Companies can have customers, friends and the general
public become investors.
• Investors can make much more $ than is offered by CDs
and other saving tools.
• The large investors pool allows a proper due diligence
and risk analysis process.
Plexus hosts all relevant financial documents for the
investors to make an educated decision.

6. Competitive Landscape-
What makes it work
An innovative idea: one of the first debt crowdfunding sites
A successful implantation of loan syndication platforms to a
debt crowdfunding platform

7. Plexus’ Pro forma budget: $134k need

8. Next Steps to Launch and Scale
•Build website including Logo
•Form Legal framework
•Facebook platform
•Mobile App
•Marketing: Baruch website, other schools, linked in, Facebook,
Twitter, Press releases, SEO, SEM,Pay per clicks, YouTube video,
Wikipedia article, Meetups, Friends’ workplace
•Venture Capital finance:
• Write business plan
• Calculate projections