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  Welcome to the Founders Club!   Leapfunder was co-founded by >70 active Angel investors. They are called the Founders Club. They shape Leapfunder strategy. This offer of investment is for the current Founders Club, as well as for potential new members.   (If you are a member of the Founders Club: some of this you know already.)   The Founders Club are investors who have invested in us, and use us to build their portfolio. This offer of investment is an invitation to join that Founders Club. You will have the opportunity to contribute your ideas so we can enhance our product.   Leapfunder aims to enable early stage high-potential companies to raise equity online from a pool of informal investors. For this Leapfunder has developed online investment tools that are designed for the combined needs of the companies and the investors.   Since the launch in July 2014 Leapfunder has passed € 13 Mln raised in > 70 companies with ca. 70% successfully funded.   Over 2017 Leapfunder covered 68% of its operating expenses from cash revenue. It would have been possible to run cash neutral, if it weren’t for the international expansion plans.   During 2017 Leapfunder obtained regulatory clearance to operate in Germany. Leapfunder plans to expand beyond Germany to all Northern Europe, possibly followed by France.   Leapfunder handles account management, business development and compliance from Amsterdam and Berlin. All software development has been outsourced to India. All social media is run from Barcelona.   The Leapfunder products has two parts: i) the Leapfunder Note is a robust financial security that makes it easy to bring together larger numbers of equity investors. It can be used by all relevant legal entities in Germany and the Netherlands. Also Leapfunder has developed ii) the Leapfunder Hub, an online social network for investors, to facilitate building syndicates and deal discovery. The IT architecture of this online social network allows its use in almost any EU jurisdiction.   Leapfunder facilitates investment by: Providing a social networking community on leapfunder.com Providing software that allows the start-up to execute the investments online A standardized legal structure, which small investors can rely on   Leapfunder aims to benefit from an investment transaction only if the start-up is successful. The fee for Leapfunder therefore has two parts: a % cash commission on each successful transaction a % of share options in each startup that uses Leapfunder Leapfunder can exercise its share options at any time   The cash commission is intended only to cover costs, whereas the options aim to lift Leapfunder into profitability.   Leapfunder is not a crowdfunding website. Its start-ups typically aim to work with 10-20 informal investors, who are investing between E5-50k each. Investors can look at the full information on each deal by invitation only. We emphasize in all our communications that Leapfunder offers an online form of classical Angel Funding.   In order to accelerate the expansion into the German market Leapfunder is aiming to raise approximately EUR 200,000 with this round. This should give a runway of approximately one year.  

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Music data innovation starts here  NoticeSound is primarly a technology provider. They now want to establish a data-driven organisation to screen demos submitted by artists and new talent. The goal is to receive 200-300 demos per week. All the tracks will be screened by a panel of listeners using the NoticeSound technology. The aim is to use collect and own the data about the tracks to accurately assess the likelihood of success where the track to be released. By identifying the potential success of a track in different segments, the users (both artists and music professionals) can understand the value of tracks and the ways to market it.    Business model The fee that NoticeSound asks is two folded :  Artists will be able to upload tracks to the system for free. However, if they pay a fee they will get access to the detailed analysis of how their tracks on the market would perform and insights how they can best reach their target group. Insights are new trends, buying behavior, social media channels and also socio/demographic insights.   Publishers, record companies and radio stations will pay to access the data because it will give them access to a large number of potential new artists without the need to pre-screen all their tracks. This will allow them to quickly focus on those artists that will perform well and the insights will assist them to market those artist that matter.   Intelligence The system uses a machine learning approach to improve the performance of predictions. The post-release success of the tracks can be used to automatically adjust the different variables. To choose which variables are needed and validate our research a cooperation is started with with one of the largest (media) research companies in the world. Together with them, we are able to choose the correct variables.    The use of this model helps to protect the system from copying. It won't be easy to copy because only we know the different weight for each variable. If the predicition would only be based on static survey data, the model could be easily copied by competitors.    Track record  The technology has proven success by testing for companies such as Sony and Giel Beelen to assist them in the decision-making process to choose the single of the album or scout new (international) artists. The bar graphs displays 10 tracks with the NoticeSound rating among a representative sample of the Netherlands, where you can see the track Mamacita had a low score. Once NoticeSound zoomed in on the rap scene, it became clear it was attractive within this specific market. The tracks was a number one hit in the rap scene with over 2,9 million views on YouTube.    We are now going to start with one of the biggest dance labels in the world who receive around 1000 tracks per week and would like to have a NoticeSound rating for each track.    Marketing A key requirement for success is to ensure we recruit upcoming artists as well as sufficient music lovers for the panel. The marketing strategy for this consists of :  We start a collaboration with a sales & marketing agency to create a buzz. They are a firm that specialises in placing attributed advertisements across 300 different social media channels from which they own the admin rights.  One of the most famous Dutch Radio DJs, will also promote the company both to music lovers and new artists.