Georama – an interactive travel discovery platform

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2. Georama is a real-time vicarious travel platform.
Our goal is to help anyone experience the world anywhere, anytime.
What is Georama?
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3. • What is a Vicarious Experience?
o A vicarious experience provides the ability to virtually
explore a destination in real-time via a guide.
o In a vicarious experience the guide is mobile and
can move around freely, showing viewers their point
of view.
o Viewers can interact with the guide in real-time,
asking questions and making suggestions to control
what they see – making it a highly personalized tour.
• How does it work?
o Georama provides it’s patent pending technology &
services to enable robust mobile live streaming from
a person with a wearable camera to any website or
device.
o Georama provides easy to use hardware and plug &
play software to facilitate the live tours.
o Viewers can comment and interact with the guide
via social media and/or a private system.
Georama’s Vicarious Experiences
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4. Georama’s vicarious experiences solution provides tourism
organizations an exciting new medium to inspire prospective travelers
by giving them a preview of what it would be like to visit a destination.
Georama for Travel Inspiration
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5. Georama’s vicarious experiences solution revolutionizes conference
and event sales by allowing hotels/venues to provide personalized
live tours to prospective clients.
Georama for Conference/Event Sales
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6. Georama’s vicarious experiences solution helps educational institutions
give prospective out-of-state and international students a personalized
tour of the campus when they can’t afford a physical visit.
Georama for Campus Tours
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7. Georama’s vicarious experiences can make a big social impact by
helping people experience the world even when they are physically or
financially unable to do so.
Social Impact with Georama
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Opportunity
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B2B B2C
Marketplace for real-time tours
Inspire. Educate. Entertain.
Public Tours
Private Tours
Marketing
Sales
Education
Current Approach:
Next Step (Q2 2015):

9. CEO: Nihal Advani (Chicago)
 Program Manager @ Microsoft
 B.S. in Mktg, Tennis Captain: Stony Brook
 Named Top 35 Under 35 in Travel
COO: David DiCosola (Chicago)
 Business Development @ Cars.com
 Local Biz Dev @ Google
 B.S. in Marketing: Miami University
CTO: Milan Sharma (India)
 Tech Head @ Cogniter Technologies
 12+ years of technology experience
 Computer Science and MBA
Chicago Team: 4 full-time
India Team: 11 full-time
Sam Guren (Chicago)
• Hyde Park Angels
• William Blair
Pete Peterson (Chicago)
• United Airlines
• Motorola
Mohanbir Sawhney (Chicago)
• Kellogg School
• Fortune 500 Consultant
Naresh Shahani (Mumbai)
• BMGI India
• Qualteam Consultants
Neville Taraporewalla (Mumbai)
• Microsoft India
• Yahoo! India
Team & Advisors
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10. Thank You!
www.georama.com
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Nihal Advani
Founder & CEO
nihal@georama.com
312-813-1482