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Advertising SaaS: doubling ad results (neuroscience)
SaaS: International Expansion for consumer goods
Technology: increase success of customer support
SaaS: AI-powered production tool for TV-like video
SaaS: selection of team members and development of personnel
Professional Services: Sparring Partners for CEOs
ax3
Advertising SaaS: doubling ad results (neuroscience)
ax3 founder Christopher Demetrakos is the rare case of a neuroscientist who combines next-level knowledge with a business application. He’s finishing up his doctoral thesis while leading his business, the advertising services provider Manzanita, out of Tokyo.
Christopher is a 25-year veteran of the advertising industry who saw everything there is to see in the biggest advertising company of the world before he founded his own business. Equipped with practical intelligence and the mind of a contrarian, he clearly sees how the current way of doing advertising is underperforming and outdated. His prediction: Most of what these businesses do today will be done by AI within 2 years. The only two things that AI is not able to do yet: knowing what works for what kind of customer exactly based on science and designing messages that trigger purchase decisions. This is what ax3 does! An immense advantage for marketing clients and a extraordinary opportunity for investors and/or the company that acquires the business.
Highlights
- Entry barriers: a proven and unique system that only requires further development of the user interface
- Seeking USD 3M of funding. A successful exit should be expected within 2 years
- Use of funds: re-designing the user interface, hire salespeople that just open the door for clients who already understand that they need a better version of advertising.
GüipUp
SaaS: International Expansion for consumer goods
GüigUp founder Lourdes Cuevas added an outstanding CTO to the team and they’re now digitalizing their already successful services for International Expansion for manufacturers of consumer goods.
Digitalization of expansion services targeting manufacturers of consumer goods. Starting with clients who expand into the USA/Canada/Mexico. The founder has successfully expanded businesses for 28 years, 5 years of which with GüipUp. GüipUp has been building the digital tool on top of their valuable work for the last 2 years. The processes are standardized, big parts of the software are ready and in use. There’s a big opportunity for expansion services as the USA is near-shoring/ friends-shoring consumer goods.
Highlights
- Entry barriers: the highly experienced co-founder team. The existing clients and network.
- Aim to reach annual revenues of EUR 3 million by 3Q 2026, (surpassing break-even) and sustaining a 130% growth rate over the following five years.
- Seeking € 1M of funding. The ideal strategic investor is in the business of supply chain, logistics or consumer goods
- Goal is to invoice € 2M ARR by the end of 2025
- Use of funds: team, technology, product, go-to-market strategy and marketing
SentioCX
Technology: increase success of customer support
Conversational and generative AI have sparked tremendous interest to the extent that companies have raised more than $14 billion in funding in 2023 alone. However, the missing piece is a pro-active ‘human-in-the-loop’ when customers experience friction or need urgent help. SentioCX with founder Ronald Rubens offers a conversation orchestration platform to enable a truly seamless hand-off from existing conversational AI/bots to live agents.
Highlights
- An important patent for intent-based triaging & intelligent routing for a frictionless customer experience and satisfied agents
- Seeking € 1.5M of funding (of which € 250K is committed) from a strategic investor
- Goal is to to get to € 2M of ARR in Q3/2024
- Use of funds: marketing
Nimagna
SaaS: AI-powered production tool for TV-like video
Producing high-quality videos can be costly and overwhelming. Nimagna is an AI-powered video production solution for online educators, sales professionals, and managers. It enables anyone to effortlessly produce immersive, TV-like video content with just a webcam. Nimagna’s software (“AI Director”) acts as the producer, director and cameramen –eliminating the need for complex setups or technical expertise. CEO Stephan Würmlin Stadler will showcase the tool on the call.
- A uniquely positioned tool in the growing market for video production software
- Standing out from the hype with true AI capabilities, a real game changer
- Secured 50% of investment need already, plus an Innosuisse project
- Use of funds: Invest in marketing and business development/sales
Treazrly
SaaS: selection of team members and development of personnel
Claudia Willi presents the case of treazrly®, a SaaS which is the Soft Factors System for ensuring optimum fit of person to job and to team, combined with employee development. CEOs and business leaders want the right people on the bus and in the right seat. They need to be chosen as the employer by picky professionals who then become key players over the years. treazrly helps with great matching and increases productivity AND happiness which are both important factors of top performance.
Highlights
- Achieve a balance between HardFactors and SoftFactors in every recruitment process
- Micro-learning elements offer systematic support in onboarding, communication and leadership
- Raised CHF 1.7m from private individuals and has a client ready version, with first paying customers onboarded.
- Currently seeking CHF 700k (minimum ticket size CHF 65k 0.5%) to finalise the L&D section, strengthen the core team and grow the global sales reach.
Boom
This is us! Professional Services: Sparring Partners for CEOs
Founder Dave Hertig and Boom help The Progressive CEO drive business growth. They do it by connecting these CEOs with Sparring Partners and next-level service providers who help with challenges in the areas of People, Sales, Marketing, Execution and Finance. The business model is responsive to current market needs in a unique way, which makes it a fast and lightweight business with three main revenue streams. Boom aims to provide high-value services in specific market niche, be its leader and generate substantial returns for investors.
Highlights
- Aiming to 5x the investors capital in 5 years
- Ready for market stage with a significant base of potential clients
- Low Capex expenditure requirements and low overheads
- Now raising CHF 500’00 seed capital for growth purposes