Company presentation of Open Garden

1. YUFAN SUN
(YUFANSUN)
You are the Internet

2. Products
FireChat FireChat Alerts MeshKit

3. FireChat
• Communicate without network
• Anonymous

4. “FireChat is sneakily subversive
and quite possibly the most
important thing to happen to the
Internet since 1995.”
TIME Magazine April 2014

5. History
co-founded in 2011
Bluetooth
Wi-Fi
March 2014
FireChat
iOS + Android
2012
OpenGarden

6. Sept. 28th - Oct. 1st
Protests in Hong Kong
2+ million chat sessions
Largest mesh of its kind
June 2014
Iraq
40,000 downloads
in one weekend.
Government blocks access to
major social media networks.
500,000+ installs
March 2015
Storyful launches first live
open newsroom on
FireChat
FireChat used for live
news gathering
around the world.

7. September 2016
MeshKit
June 2016
FireChat Alerts

8. Financial Info
•Funding:
• $2 million, Sep 2012
• $10.8 million Dec 2014
•Revenue: $7 million
•Over 5 million monthly active users
•Number of employees: 11-50

9. Business model
• Freemium business model
•Extra features like VPN access for business users
•Help companies build similar functions

10. Secret Source

11. Competition
iOS Android Private
message
Group
chat
FireChat ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
The Serval
Mash
✓ ✓
ZombieChat ✓ ✓

12. Prediction
• Difficult to beat Messenger/WhatsApp…
• But …
•People without network access
•Protests
•Fragile communications infrastructure

13. Thank you!
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"Connecting the next Billion Mobile Devices." Open Garden.
N.p., n.d.Web. 02 Oct. 2016.
Garden, Open. "Open Garden Launches Disaster-Proof
"FireChat Alerts""Open Garden Launches Disaster-Proof
’FireChat Alerts’. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Oct. 2016.
Lardinois, Frederic. "FireChat Brings Private Group Chat to Its
Off-grid Messaging service." TechCrunch. N.p., 08 Aug. 2016.
Web. 01 Oct. 2016.
Lardinois, Frederic. "Open Garden Raises $10.8M Series A
Round To Double Down On Its Off-Grid FireChat."TechCrunch.
N.p., 18 Dec. 2014. Web. 01 Oct. 2016.
"Open Garden."Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d.Web.
30 Sept. 2016.
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