13. OPPORTUNITY TEAM MILESTONES FINANCIALS Completed Core Milestones; New $ Brings Us Past Breakeven Seeking: $1.3MM COMPETITION Soft launched (content; 12/11) Completed prototype Built accomplished Board of Advisors & core team Semi-finalist: 2012 Innotribe Challenge, recognizing 10 most innovative US fin tech start-ups Accepted into Astia (10/10) Milestones Phase 1: Complete Phase 2: Launch & Beyond Raised $328K Use: $750K 6 months: full launch 4 months post-launch Finish full website: V1.0 Secure partnerships w/ 4 financial firms Secure content & distribution partners Full launch Phase 3: Positive Cash Flow 14 months Additional Use of $ Site operations Marketing General working capital Revenue: $2.6M (cumulative) 11K accounts 60K uniques / month Key hires, including CTO Site operations Marketing SOLUTION BIZ MODEL Use: $550K
Editor's Notes
I’m Amy Moses, CEO and founder of Ballooning Nest Eggs, a digital venture that will fundamentally change the process for growing kids’ wealth. First noticed a market opportunity when looking to buy a long-term meaningful gift for my nephew’s bar mitzvah. Looked around to see if financial gift options had changed since we were kids; they hadn’t. Ended up giving him a US savings bond. Imagine how exiting it was for him ; for me, gifting experience was awful . Spent my entire career building media and entertainment businesses, and saw how much better this could be done.
We solve today’s marketplace needs Consumers Traditional gifting occasions - Complete dearth of appealing $ gift options. They’re impersonal. Unless it’s cash or a check, $ gifts are inconvenient to buy. ” Who knows wehre the $ is going. Parents have no centralized resource to spur and facilitate those gifts Parents and kids aren’t connected to $ passed on across generations b/c the process is too often behind-the scenes & uncoordinated Parents unaware of accounts - Under 1/3 of grandparents coordinate grandkids’ college savings with parents. Hartford Financial Services Group Financial Firms Missing opportunities to grow their asset base b/c they’re not engaging families in their everyday lives or their broader network Weak ties with next generations are core reason why firms lose 80% of assets after the account holder passes.
Investment gifting sector is remarkably undeveloped Market With 529 assets expected to double in 5 years and trillions passing on to Boomers over the next decade, our timing is ripe Our addressable market is sizable with HHs and revenue We expect to be a $92MM business in year 5 Target Market Primary: Account holders – US Parents and Grandparents – mass affluents +
We’re upending today’s uninspired ways of growing kids’ wealth, taking investment gifting mainstream BNE is bringing much needed imagination and a 21st century relevance to a sleepy, staid category We’re the first investment gifting platform and registry for families to share childhood celebrations and build youngsters’ nest eggs Entirely new way to s pur a family’s relatives and friends to give $ gifts to kids. Think of it a social gifting . Our approach is innovative , yet straightforward : We prompt relatives and friends to celebrate the child for many different events By growing their nest eggs
We are the first venture to connect financial partners to this growth market At our core, we’re a robust social giftng platform for those partners, providing a powerful new hook to grow their AUM Interest in our platform is taking off – because social gifting and social media financial firms are now high priorities and none have figured out how to do it well or even at all. UBS and Merrill / BofA In terms of how it works, those firms, who are at the heart of our business model , still own the client relationships – advising and selling; we simply provide a whole new layer of customer interaction
Our solution vastly increases the convenience and appeal of investment gifting Themed e-cards / invitations and social media pique interest Process lets you for the first time easily gift directly into a child’s investment account Our “ magical world of investing ” kids site connects the child to each gift E-thank you cards and social media recognize generous act of gifting We close the loop with gift tracking tools Each step along the way benefits our partners From enmeshing them into the family’s celebrations to getting implied endorsements from the family to their entire network
Now why will financial firms turn to us v. doing this themselves? Simply, consumers will share information with us that they just won’t give their financial institution Themed invitations – Families don’t want their firms to have access email addresses of everyone who’s receives an invitation to their kids birthday party Social media page… Families don’t want their firms to know every time their child loses a tooth or how they’re celebrating Christmas.
We have a lucrative business model We’re an acquisition and retention vehicle for our partners They pay us fees for each new account and retained assets On one level we’re an affiliate marketing platform – an acquisition vehicle – similar to mint.com - sold for $170MM. But our far more value merits a premium price Unlike standard affiliate platforms, we build loyalty, drive repeat transactions and engage the families’ broader network Once the account is opened our relationship is just beginning. We reach our revenue goals in years 2 & 3 with these attainable consumer stats and # of new BNE clients / firm
Every aspect of our site is designed to drive transactions, strengthen relationships and spread the word. Marketing and distribution partnerships - bring us our family, who opens an BNE investment account with one of our partners. Family uses our e-tools to share their child’s celebrations with their network, prompting them to give a BNE gift. As we deepen the relationships, those gifters eventually become account holders Notice too, which steps brings us revenue – opening accounts and gifting
Our team is seasoned in core functional areas and industries Me: Spent my entire career building media and entertainment businesses Before this, I founded and ran a boutique biz dev firm, working for clients like NBC Universal and Warner Bros. I ran ad sales marketing and sponsorships for Turner Broadcasting, growing network revenue from $8M - $200M / year Karen and Bob have deep backgrounds in financial services, parent-oriented brands and digital start-ups
Right now no one is adequately developing this market The few ventures that have tried have fallen woefully short . Close competitors - one-dimensional and have dated executions Two recent entrants – smartypig and depositagift - execute better. But they’re focused on short-term savings for store purchases and adults – far different user experience
We expect to be profitable in year 1 Break-even on cash flow - 1 half of year 2 Base # of clients and conversions on stats that are in line with broader industry trends We’re planning to scale in year 3 after raising VC funds and doubling the number of financial partners to 8
Seeking $1.3MM to get us to past break-even In phase 1, we’ve reached several key milestones Prototype, fundraising and patents Core upcoming milestones: Phase 2: Complete full website Phase 3: Reach these revenue, traffic and a ccount projections
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