Aurum Social presentation at Seedcamp in Prague, 02.03.2010 (by Maris Pazars and Edgars Rozentals)

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Aurum Social presentation at Seedcamp in Prague, 02.03.2010 (by Maris Pazars and Edgars Rozentals) - Presentation Transcript

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  2. © AurumSocial Social Gaming Company
    • Mission/ Vission
    • Social Gaming
    • Product Portfolio
    • Product & Technology
    • How Do We Make Money
    • Strategy
    • Team
    • Competitive Advantages
    • Our Seedcamp Expectations
    © AurumSocial Contents
  3. © AurumSocial
    • Our client s’ mission: T o H ave F un
    • Our mission: To Ensure Fun
    • Vision: M ost profitable Europe-based social gaming company by 2012
    Mission / Vision
  4. © AurumSocial Real time or asynchronous on-line games that are played by users of social networks What is Social Gaming? Examples: Farm Ville by Zynga (A synchronous social game) Texas Holdem Poker by Zynga (Real time multi-player social game)
  5. © AurumSocial
    • Most complex type of social games
    • Most common type: card games
    • More on-line communication possibilities
    • compared to asynchronous
    • Higher entry barriers compared to asynchronous
    Real T ime Multi-player Social Games Aurum Social builds real time multiplayer social games!
  6. © AurumSocial Existing games:
    • Zole
    • Battleships
    • Kozel (Russian prototype of Zole: under development)
    Product Portfolio
    • 75 000 EUR invested into game server
    • platform and games by business owners
    • at the moment
  7. © AurumSocial Zole : Product Portfolio Launched: 2007 on draugiem.lv / 200 000 unique users
  8. © AurumSocial Kozel : Product Portfolio To be launched: May 2010 on Russia’s largest social network vkontakte.ru
  9. © AurumSocial Battleships : Product Portfolio Ready for deployment in draugiem.lv and other social networks
  10. © AurumSocial Main characteristics of Game Server Platform:
    • Built on C (first version on Java)
    • Uses Flash as a client side application
    • Capable of adding unlimited number of on-line users in the same game room! ( Zynga does not have it!)
    • Any type of on-line multi-user games can be added
    Product & Technology
  11. © AurumSocial User DBs of social portals (e.g. Myspace, Facebook) Unlimited number of game servers Happy players Support and admin Authorization (Open Social & APIs ) Product & Technology
  12. © AurumSocial Back-end system :
    • User management
    • Ticketing system
    • Payment tracking
    Product & Technology
    • Statistics
    • Tournament management
    • Message Board
  13. © AurumSocial Back-end: User Management System Product & Technology
  14. © AurumSocial Back-end: Ticketing system Product & Technology
  15. © AurumSocial Advantages of the Platform:
    • Tested over 3 years in the largest Latvian portal draugiem.lv (card game Zole with 20 0 000 users).
    • Open Social ready.
    Product & Technology
  16. © AurumSocial 3 types of income :
    • User payments
    • Virtual items
    • Advertisements (branded game rooms)
    How Do We Make Money
  17. © AurumSocial Example of a branded game room : How Do We Make Money Branded environment Branded virtual items
  18. © AurumSocial Strategy in General
    • General approach:
    • Market study / Market Fit ( done )
    • Proof of Concept ( done )
    • Promotion & Growth
    • Exit
  19. © AurumSocial Market Study / Market Fit
    • Detailed market study on:
    • Social networks
    • Competitors
    • Types of applications
    • Users
  20. © AurumSocial Market Study / Market Fit
  21. © AurumSocial Market Study / Market Fit Source: http://www.appdata.com/facebook/mostpopular/redirect/group_by/2 * Data from portal draugien.lv, largest Latvian social network (2 M users) Top Application Developers on Facebook, by monthly active users , Fall 2009 Developer Monthly av. users 1 Zynga 45 773 344 2 Playfish 31 535 226 3 LivingSocial 17 055 550 4 Metrogames 6 285 074 5 RockYou! 4 620 871 6 Serious Business 4 417 439 7 6 waves 3 876 375 8 Zwigglers 3 097 788 9 Fendoo 2 714 927 10 Quizopolis 2 664 239 11 Shikha 2 602 134 12 GameHouse 2 440 211 Aurum Social * 30 000
  22. Market Study / Market Fit Top Application Developers on Facebook, by monthly active users , yesterday Source: www.appdata.com © AurumSocial
  23. © AurumSocial Market Study / Market Fit Source: facebook.com , August 2009 * Data from portal draugien.lv, largest Latvian social network (2 M users) Top played on-line multi-player games on Facebook Developer Game title Monthly av. users 1 Zynga Texas HoldEm Poker 15 000 000 2 Chess.com Chess 6 500 000 3 Viral, s.r.o. Farkle (dice game) 4 500 000 4 GodGame GodGame Mahjong 3 400 000 5 Playdom Poker Palace 1 000 000 6 6Q.net Backgammon 500 000 7 Zynga BlackJack 391 000 8 GPI Poker Planet 228 000 9 Clear Games Poker with PokerBuddies 167 000 Aurum Social * Zole 3 0 000
    • 240 000 unique users (Zole)
    • Stable revenue stream over the last 12 months
    • Contracts for deploying new games
    • Professional team
    © AurumSocial Proof of Concept
    • Ad campaigns on social networks
    • Game moderation
    • Social media
    • Cross sales
    © AurumSocial Promotion of Products
  24. © AurumSocial Promotion of Products: Game Moderation Game moderation live (chat) Game moderator
  25. © AurumSocial Promotion of Products: Twitter
  26. © AurumSocial Promotion of Products: YouTube
  27. © AurumSocial Growth: Target portals
    • Hyves.nl (Benelux)
    • V kontakte.ru ( Russia)
    • Orkut.com
    • Other European / CIS portals
  28. © AurumSocial Growth: Our Goals M onthly active users Aurum Social is not about “if it will make money”, it’s about “how much money it will make”! 2009 2010 2011 2012 3 0 000 6 000 000 20 000 000 50 000 000
  29. © AurumSocial Mihail CTO / PHP Developer Annija Game M oderator Dominykas C D eveloper Sergey Flash D eveloper Kamile Designer Maris CEO Andrius CCO Edgars Innovations D irector Dream Team Social gaming is NOT just about technologies, it’s about people Aistis C D eveloper
  30. © AurumSocial Competitive Advantages
    • 3 years of social gaming experience
    • 1 year ahead of any other start-up company that would start development of on-line multi-player games from scratch
    • Personal contacts with owners of several largest social portals in Europe
    • People: management experience, menthality, technical competence
    • Cash flow from existing social game contracts.
    • What do we want to get out of Seedcamp :
    • Connections
    • Expertise in building multi-million company
    • Money for expanding the team and developing new games
    © AurumSocial Our Seedcamp Expectations
    • Contacts:
    • [email_address]
    © AurumSocial Q & As

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