1. Social learning and career platform
Cyri Jones & Reza Ghaeli
Founders
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Key Employees Advisors Technology
WordPress, BuddyPress
SaaS delivery model
Canadian Hosted
Users
Zen Portfolios: 8000
District Sites: 4000
Founders Investors Financials
Pre-seed:
$155K BCIT
Commercialization
Assistance Program
and funds invested
by founders
Seed:
Raising $670K
Cyri Jones
CEO
Canadian Web Hosting (in-kind)
$180K Committed
Matthew McKinney, CWH
Nkosi Kumalo, KSM Technologies
Novak Rogic, Web Strategy, UBC
Brent Calvert – Sales & Marketing
Boone Gorges – Development Lead
Raymond Hoh – Sr. Developer
Joseph Fall – LMS Integrations
Brad Howe – Infrastructure
Reza Ghaeli
CIO
Located in North Vancouver
Launched 2013
288 East 1st Street, North Vancouver
3. Products and Services
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• social learning networks to K-12 school
districts
• Portfolio, learning and recruiting
platform to post-secondary students.
• Careers and jobs recommendation
engine
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8. K-12
• Moving to a system of personalized learning but
few tools to implement
Big problems
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9. Post Secondary
• Losing relevancy – difficulty preparing students for the
modern world
• Lack of data required for evidence based decisions
• Facing intense pressure to help students be more career
ready
Big problems
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10. Students / Workers
• Online presence and social connections critical
• One third of all students unemployable based on
what shows up on Google
• Technology literacy gaps
Big problems
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11. Employers
• Skills gap, cost of bad hire -- $10,000+
Government
• Labour market inefficiency
• Reduction in economic output due to
skills gap -- 5-10%
Big problems
Sources: CMEC, Teulings and Gautier (2011)
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20. K-12
900 - School Districts
15,500 Schools
5.5 - million students
Post Secondary
346 – Universities and colleges
10,000+ - Undergrad and grad programs
806,000 - Full time students
Recruiting Numbers
Cost of bad hire - $10,000+
Reduction in economic output due to skills gap – 5-10%
Target market – Focus on Canada initially
Sources: CMEC, Teulings and Gautier (2011)
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Open Source
• Mahara, Sakai
Proprietary
• Pebble Pad, Pathways, Digication
LMS
• Desire2Learn, Canvas
Social Learning
• Edmodo, Google Apps
Web Tools
• WordPress.com, Weebly
Recruiting Tools
• LinkedIn
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Team Member Role
Cyri Jones Founder & CEO
Brent Calvert Sales & Marketing
Reza Ghaeli, Ph.D. Data Scientist
Boone Gorges Lead Developer
Joseph Fall LMS Integration
Brad Howe Hosting
Infrastructure
37. Competitive Advantage
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Open source approach
• WordPress, BuddyPress
Data model
• Continuously improving, machine
learning
Sales and marketing team
• Deep domain experience, quick
moving
Regulatory advantages
• Temporary privacy barriers for US
competitors
38. Business Model
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K-12
• Set up fee, recurring monthly revenue,
managed but custom install per district
Post Secondary
• Set up fee, recurring monthly, industry
subscriptions
• SaaS
Employers
• Recruiting services
Exclusive deals
• Locks up data stream
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45. Employers can search directory and filter
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46. Before viewing full portfolio, summary available
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47. To dig deeper, can view full portfolio
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49. Social learning capability, complements or replaces LMS
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51. Financials
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Asking for
• $850K at $2M pre-money valuation
Getting
• Opportunity in large, growing market
• World class management and devs
• Existing market traction and $300K
sales pipeline
• Exit within 5 years at target of $50M+,
15x P/E
• 20x ROI target
• Opportunity to positively impact
education
53. Follow up investor meetings at Zen Portfolios office,
288 East 1st Street, North Vancouver
Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 1 pm to 3 pm
Thank you for your time and consideration
cyrijones@zenportfolios.ca
604-783-8601
