Investor Network Community Platform

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Professional directory platform of Investors, Founders, Venture Capitalists, Angel investors, Accelerators, Launchpads and Open Innovation.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Our team is composed of developers, UX / UI, Marketing, SEO, Marketing, Business and we developed the largest media coverage platform Cardanofeed.com, with more than 1,000,000 monthly visits and also the largest "Cardano Ecosystem" project directory (approximately 800+ projects).

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

A community that brings together those interested in investing and supporting innovative businesses in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, DeFi, Cardano, Tokens, CNFTs and with high potential for financial return.

Get to know the Cardano Blockchain Investor Network, which provides training and expands the network of participants.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

A community that brings together individuals who want to invest in startups, to entrepreneurs who develop products and services with the potential for growth in scale.

CryptoDemoDay - Event in which selected startups can present their pitch to the investor network, in order to create business connections.

Event designed to bring together startups interested in attracting investments and investors (Investors, Founders, Venture Capitalists, Angel investors, Accelerators, Launchpads and Open Innovation), in an informal way, in the form of questions and answers. This is a 30-minute meeting where companies can ask and interact with investors.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Access to capital is one of the biggest challenges in the technology environment worldwide (except in Silicon Valley).

To help the ecosystem and connect promising startups in need with investors interested in supporting innovative businesses, the Investor Network Community Platform was created.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Month 1:

• Start of platform architecture planning
• Gathering requirements and features
• Creation of the website wireframe
• Validation with key users
• Adjustments and adaptations in wireframe
• Wireframe finalization

Month 2-3:

• UX/UI studies for the website
• Creation of the first version of the interface with some screens
• Validation of requirements and features
• Adjustments in the first version of the interface
• Design and UX validation with key users
• Design tweaks
• Creation of all other screens and interfaces

Month 4:

• Attracting the first investors
• Active prospection of investors on Linkedin, investment fund sites and network
• Validation of requirements and features
• Search contacts on Crunchbase
• Platform validation with early investors
• Adjustments in front-end
• Start of front-end programming

Month 5:

• Validation of front-end programming with users
• Start of front-end and back-end integration
• Inclusion of investors in the application database
• Login and password release for investors to verify the panel

Month 6:

• Completion of front-end and back-end integration
• MVP release as a beta version for early adopters
• Validation of feedback and platform improvements

Month 7:

• Official launch of the platform
• Communication with media partners, content portals, crypto specialist sites.
• Disclosure to the projects and possible interested in fundraising.

Manage workload:

We currently have a team of 7 additional collaborators working together with our core project team. We already have other projects approved on Catalyst, so we were able to distribute and organize tasks and sprints within our development roadmap. And we also have a bank of technical professionals waiting to be hired according to the increase in projects.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

More complete details can be provided if and when we are selected by Catalyst.

Journalist: $1,200 x 4 months = $4,800

Full stack Developer (frontend and backend): 2,800 x 5 month = $14,000

Product Owner = $900 x 6 months = $5,400

Social Media = $800 x 5 months = $4,000

Marketing Assistant = $600 x 6 months = $3,600

Designer UX/UI =$900 x 5 months = $4,500

TOTAL: $36,300

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Otávio Lima - https://www.linkedin.com/in/otavioaclima/

Founder & CEO at Cardano Feed

Entrepreneur and passionate about technology, I started working at age 16 when I set up my first technology company and I never stopped. I founded some internet startups, some successful and others not so much. Started my business for 6 months in Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley, California (USA) , in Rio de Janeiro and Belem.

I have practical and theoretical knowledge in B2B and B2C e-commerce, marketplace, digital marketing, UX/user experience, navigation tests, interface, information architecture, big data, data driven, data science, web metrics , BI (Business Intelligence), open innovation, crowdsourcing, ERP integrations, digital signage/digital signage and out-of-home digital media.

I actively participate in the cryptocurrency/blockchain, DeFi, cryptocurrency, enthusiast and fan of digital currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Cardano (ADA), ZCore (ZCR), B2U coin (B2U) and Binance coin (BNB).

Felipe Barcelos - https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipebarcelospro/

Full stack and software engineer

I started studying computers at the age of 9. Always looking for ways to solve problems and generate value. All of this took me on the journey of entrepreneurship and made me open my startup at the age of 18.

In recent years, my dedication has been to improve my technical expertise with Clean Code, refactoring, TDD, DDD, design patterns, clean architecture and languages like Javascript. Using frameworks like Next JS, Angular JS, Nest JS, Strapi and a few more.

Gino Matos - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gino-matos-06296b172/

Crypto journalist & content editor

I specialize in writing. I have experience as editor-in-chief and develop journalistic articles, press releases, ebooks (I work as a ghost writer), article translations and subtitles for videos.

I have knowledge in digital marketing, content marketing and email marketing. My strongest soft skills are empathy, communication and proactivity.

Lucas Fernandes - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-fernandes-silva/

Marketing Assistant

Founder of an Education startup in 2021 in São Paulo from an insight that our current teaching model is not aligned with the needs that the job market needs. Since then, my main purpose has become to create, share and connect experiences and knowledge with people around the world, offering new opportunities to develop the skills they will need for the professions of the future, today.

Today, my biggest motivation comes from showing that any dream is possible and that there are no limits for those who really dream big, have their feet on the ground and take one step at a time. We are certainly only at the beginning of a great journey.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

No, proposals for one-off event.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

• We will give the community some sort of progress report as we go along, in the form of a monthly news release on Cardano Feed, to measure the progress of our proposal.
• We will also provide a panel to be disseminated within Cardano Feed, with the evolution of the project according to the Catalyst KPIs
• Number of registered investors: 1,000+
• View investor profiles: +5,000
• Diversity of types of investors: VC, Corporate Venture, Angel...
• Expand the project relationship network

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Success for this project can be defined:

• Contacts made between projects and investors
• Investments made and capital raised
• Testimonials and emails received about completed deals and partnerships made
• Validation of feedback and platform improvements

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is a new project.