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2. Teymour Farman-Farmaian. Co-Founder, CEO
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2003-9
2009-11
2011-12
CMO & CRO.
Scaled 3X to $500M run rate.
Launched Spotify social apps and
features
Sr. Director- Partnerships + Sales
Operations
GM Partnerships. Helped launch over 20
social apps/ games.
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At Spotify, I saw how users loved playlists as a
way to get recommendations
However, I also wanted lists of friends’
favorite restaurants, bars and places….
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On the way in, Planzio gets you to:
Connect with friends Add places to a list
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Once in, Planzio gets you to keep adding to lists
Lists are a critical driver
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For our users, Planzio is the place for local info
Yelp- reviews from
unknown people
Foursquare- recommendations
by computer algorithm Planzio- friends’ lists
8. • >7,000 places have been listed on Planzio.
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Users love listing places…
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Planzio then enables you make plans in Fb Messenger
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2. To Fb Messenger
From Fb
Messenger
10. • With no marketing spend
• Importantly, engagement rate is outstanding:
– 20-25% of monthly users return daily (DAU/ MAU)
– This indicates stickiness and…drives virality
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Planzio is on its way to 10,000 downloads
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Planzio can monetize via referral fees
OpenTable
+ other affiliate programs:
- Fandango (movies)
- TicketNetwork
- Venmo (money transfer)
12. • It delivers unique valuable
content (friends lists &
recommendations)
• It solves a real
problem…that of
collaborative planning
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In sum, Planzio delights because:
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We also have a second app:
Party@
14. • Leverages Planzio’s back-end.
• Enables users to create, and share Parties in chat.
• Enables businesses to post real-time offers and
happy hours.
=> Party@ gets ~500 installs a day (~15,000 in first
month)
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Party@ is an experiment that:
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Party@ lets you “Share where the party is.”
User picks
location and
creates GIF
Posts to
Facebook
Messenger
Friends reply
with a GIF
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Management & Funding
17. Team
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Teymour Farman-Farmaian. Co-Founder, CEO
Until 7/12 Spotify CMO (owned subscription business). Scaled 3X to $500M run rate.
2003-9 2009-11 2011-12
Joe Noon. Co-Founder & VP Engineering
Until 4/11 Senior Staff Software Architect with Threadbox and
Apple IOS version.
Josh Becker. Co-Founder & Board Member
CEO, Lex Machina. Helped build User Communities: Dice.com (NYSE:DHX), Vista
Research (sold to S&P), BD at SimplyHired, Agile Software.
Jeff Bolton. Senior Software Engineer
IOS, Web, back-end. BSc Physics.
Aleksandar Bozic. Software Engineer
Android.
18. • Deep Nishar: SVP Product, ex-LinkedIn. Ex-Google.
• DJ Patil: VP Product, RelateIQ. Ex- LinkedIn.
Forbes- top 7 data scientist
• Cadir Lee: Ex-CTO, Zynga, CTO & Co-Founder,
Support.com
• Rob Bailey: CEO Datasift. Ex-SimpleGeo.
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Advisors
19. • Institutions:
– DCM, Maveron, 555 Capital
• Angels
• Teymour
• Series A kicks off Q415
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Raised $1.8M
20. • To fund:
– Continued development (burn rate is $40k/mo)
– Monetize via referral fees
– Scale to the first 100,000 users across both apps
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Looking to raise $500,000
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Planzio Data
Appendix
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Planzio: 77% of our users are women
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Planzio’s users are aged 18-24.
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Planzio users 2.5X more active than on other SNs
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~60% of Planzio’s users are “Social Influencers”
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Planzio users are social networkers
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Thank you for your attention.
Questions?
Feel free to reach out.
Teymour@planzio.com