A smarter way to search.

1. Rajiv Salimath
www.goasterisk.com
rajiv@goasterisk.com
617.840.0716
New York, NY
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2. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY
Asterisk is a smarter way to search.
DEVICE
INDEPENDENT
PERSONALIZED
SEARCH AND SHARING
STUNNING USER
EXPERIENCE
FIRST POINT OF
USER
ATTENTION

3. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY

4. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY
Getting 10% of the global Search market by driving content to where the user is
Drive traffic from the leading browsers, Disrupt the search market by capturing
devices, and operating systems through user attention first
the Asterisk + Bing engine
IE, Chrome,
Firefox,
Safari
Windows, Desktops,
Android, Macs,
OSX Tablets

5. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY
Jan Feb March April May June
50000
USER GROWTH
• Partnerships with sharing companies like Pinterest, Pocket etc.
• Partnerships with Reading Apps like Flipboard, News.me etc.
• Targeted Advertising
20000
• Meetup Sponsorships
• PR campaign with industry journals
• SEO and Facebook Marketing
10000
• Partnership with NYU
Local
• Marketing on browser
600
web stores
0
200
100 0
0
6 MONTH PROJECTION

6. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY
Product Roadmap
Empower users
to use their
influence on
Enable users to topics to get
track how they personalized
influence their pricing for
community, and commerce
which sites are
Smarter Search shaping their
solution on opinions on
desktop and their topics of
mobile interest
platforms

7. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY
What they’re are saying
Asterisk* changed the way I discover new information. It really is a
smarter way to search! – Hans Reichstetter, CEO | Gyrobike
The intuitive user-experience is what made Asterisk* stand out to me.
Now, I don’t have to leave the page I’m on to get the results that I
want. – Matt Resnick, Creative Director | Casserole Labs
Asterisk* is a powerful new application that has the potential to
seriously disrupt the static search market. – Ashish Jaiman, Startup
Evangelist | Microsoft

8. WHAT IS ASTERISK MARKET SIZE GROWTH PLANS COMPANY
EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT TEAM CURRENT INVESTORS
Rajiv Salimath, CEO, CTO OMNICapital
Background:
CEO, Amperion
Partner, Global Internet Ventures FUNDRAISE
Dr. Marc Weeber, Chief Scientist
Raising $600K in
Background: Convertible Debt
Postdoc researcher in Computational
Linguistics and AI
Stephen Vallimarescu,
Marketing and Business Current Investors
Development Director participating for
$400K
Background:
Founder, All Things Go
Kirsten Gronberg,
User Acquisition Guru Explosive growth
opportunity in a
Background: highly lucrative
User Community Manager, CMP.LY space