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AnyCloud Investor Presentation
1. Brian Jenkins, co-founder (brian@anycloud.co)
Andy Waddell, co-founder (andy@anycloud.co)
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
www.anycloud.co
one service to connect them all
2. problem #1 - email
email is #2 largest
photo storage service
hidden from view
unaccessible to cloud services
complex to transfer
mixture of gems & junk
9. Status: Open Beta
(~750 people)
frontend backend + APIs
credential broker
integrations
meta web service
10. Early User Reactions
The “AnyCloud Moment”
“This is sweet! …Dropbox…made it
100 times better for me :)”
“It feels effortless getting all your photos in one
place put into the same original folders you would
find them in on Facebook etc.. All easy to flick
through and at a size where you can easily find the
folder/pictures you need. I love that all your friends
photos get added as well and all your photos you
have been tagged in all easily available.”
“Nice idea! All the pics there, so fast, is
great. Good job guys.”
“Clean, simple, intuitive. I really, really like how
this website operates. It's simple for me to
access photos without having to dig through all
of my accounts... This is simple enough that my
mom would be able to use it. I don't really have
anything negative to say about this.”
“I like being able to consolidate all of my
online photos in one location.”
“It's nice to have one place to look when
attempting to find a photo - I take literally
thousands of pictures, but tend to spread them
out over various accounts due to either privacy
concerns or space limitations.”
“Great job on consolidating photo services into one
coherent overview with a good UX. Especially like
the animations when opening a folder/gallery.
Enjoyed the speed with which the pictures are
collected from the connected sites.”
“Compared to other similar sites, this was superior
in every way. I might end up using this as my new
photo integrator. Thank you.”
“I'd like to point out that this is a brilliant idea - and
despite the fact that it's in alpha it still astonishes.”
more comments here…
14. company status
fundraising provisional patent application (5)
bootstrapped by founders ($50k)
initial prototype
frictionless contribution
frictionless access
cloud-to-cloud transfer between accounts for a
single user
cloud-to-cloud transfer between two users’
accounts
cloud-to-cloud transfer from multiple users to a
single account
friends & family ($75k)
current service
raising $500k ($150k committed)
company launch – june 1, 2013
15. competitive landscape
importers
competitive advantages anycloud defensibility
mobile-only
examples: circ, revel
offers method to import content from
multiple locations into their own service
choice – user selects where to store
content
content – not just personal but all content
ever shared
convenience – any-to-any transfers
provisional patents (5 methods for
credential broker)
meta service (not just mobile) for access
& interlinking services
api for 3rd-party apps
examples: cooliris, pixable
provides browsing of photos from multiple
services
16. market size
Market Segment Number of Users
Email
Gmail
Hotmail
Yahoo!
(85% of population)
425M
360M
302M
Social
Facebook
Google+
Twitter
(62% of population)
693M
343M
288M
Cloud (general)
Microsoft SkyDrive
Dropbox
Box.com
Google Drive
(20% of population)
200M
100M
10M
10M
Cloud (photos)
Photobucket
Instagram
Flickr
100M
90M
51M
Cloud (videos)
YouTube 300M
Hi, I'm Brian Jenkins, co-founder of AnyCloud.
Behind Facebook, the second largest storage of photos in the world is…email. On average, consumers have over 500 photos buried in email. And that's a problem. Photos stored in email are 1) hidden and 2) not accessible to online services for sharing and printing. 3) It's complicated to transfer photos to the cloud and the 4) buried photos are a mix of gems and junk.AnyCloud solves all these problems. AnyCloud 1) unburies all photos from email, 2) makes them accessible to cloud services, and 3)gives users an incredibly simple way to 4) collect the gems and discard the junk.
Consumers are inundated with a firehose of photos that are shared with them through so many sources: email, Facebook, Instagram, and a multitude of photo sharing sites like Dropbox and Flickr. It's simply overwhelming to process it all.AnyCloud solves the problem of content overload. AnyCloud 1) gathers all shared photos from all sources into a queue that lets the 1) user view at their own pace, 2) engage as they wish, and 3) collect the gems they want to keep.
No matter how you look at it, content is scattered all over the place.For a consumer's own photos, they are scattered all over the place. It's in email, on phones, on computers, in social, in the cloud. Regardless of the content's location, users have a set of common actions: 1) share, 2) print, 3) store, 4) consolidate. Again, keeping the gems.AnyCloud gives users an easy way to act on content regardless of the location. Want to take consolidate all your photos across all your locations to Flickr's 1TB of free storage? No problem.
With AnyCloud, users gets to link all of their accounts together for a unified meta cloud of all content. This includes all of personal content as well as all the content that's been shared. As a meta service, AnyCloud does not provide storage so does not compete with cloud storage nor bear costs for storage.Users will always be able to connect their accounts and browse content for free.
AnyCloud is far more than just an aggregated view of content spread across different locations. The AnyCloud API that enables apps on top of the AnyCloud web service that helps users collect, organize, and have fun with all of her content.Our business model is selling specific apps that solve specific problems. Some we will build and some will be built by 3rd-party developers with a revenue-sharing model.Process all you email attachments with AnyCloud Zero.Move photos stored on your mobile to any cloud account with AnyCloud Mobile.Move photos stored on your home computer to any cloud account with AnyCloud Desktop.Watch any content from your universe of photos on any Internet-connected TV with AnyCloud TV.We will sell our own AnyCloud-branded apps as well as work with partners to bring the universe of content to their services.
AnyCloud Zero is a Mailbox-like app that, with a single swipe, puts content in its proper place. AnyCloud Zero is being develop by Felix Xiao, our summer intern from Duke, using the AnyCloud APIs. AnyCloud Zero allows users to mow through hundreds of email attachments quickly to move them to the cloud.
The technology behind AnyCloud is our 5 "credential broker" provisional patents, which allow users to authenticate multiple accounts and move content between any source and destination.The credential broker extends outside of a single user's AnyCloud. A user can extend permissions to others, so they can view or contribute with the owner's permissions. No accounts are required - users can share Facebook photos with grandma without grandma ever needing either a Facebook or AnyCloud account.
Our product is in open beta with over 750 users. We've been successfully validating our assumptions that users will connect multiple services to build their own personal AnyCloud.
Reactions so far have been awesome. We recorded our very first alpha testers and have called the initial experience the "AnyCloud Moment", when they lean forward and say "wow" as they first realize that everything's there and organized for them.The service is available at anycloud.co - we invite you to try it out and experience your own AnyCloud Moment.
The video feedback showcases what we call the “AnyCloud experience”. It’s when users lean-forward and say “cool”, “wow”, and “where do you find this stuff?”
There are 7 of us working on AnyCloud and we're got a strong group of advisors.
Our customer acquisition plans are focused on growth hacking and integrated viral components to drive customer adoption and keep acquisition costs low.
We're a few weeks away from a public launch. We're raising $500K in angel or seed financing to launch the company and build a position of strength.
