India Future Society aims to be "The New York Times for future technology." It provides news and information about emerging technologies and connects businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers. It has 52,000 website hits and is gaining traction on social media. The founders are raising $100,000 to expand the business by improving the user experience, conducting marketing campaigns, and hiring employees. Unlike similar organizations, India Future Society will create business profiles, enable collaborations and investments, and promote future technologies to generate revenue and jobs in India.

1. India Future Society
For Founder Institute (Founder Lab)
August, 2015

2. Introduction
We are India Future Society
Founder- Avinash K Singh (pursuing research in Taiwan, software engineer, MS in CS),
Associate – Live120Plus, Technical Consultant- MbSci, Member of Advisory board-
Lifeboat foundation
Co-founder- Siddartha S Verma (growth, marketing and strategy),
Education: B.Tech. - CUSAT (Kochi, India), M.Sc.- UWA (Perth, Australia),
Employment: IBM (India), TCS (India), Stanford (US)
Website- www.indiafuturesociety.org
https://angel.co/india-future-society/

3. Vision / Elevator Pitch
We are “The New York Times” for Future Technology

4. Market- general public, high school students, bachelors and masters students,
academic, entrepreneurs, researchers in different domain, businesses, investors,
angels, VC’s
Customer feedback-
Dr. Ilia Stambler-
“India Future Society is a trusted partner truly dedicated to promotion of emerging technologies
in India.”
“I have known Mr. Siddartha S Verma for more than 3 years, having extensively collaborated
for the promotion of emerging technologies and longevity research, within the framework of
India Future Society where he is one of the founders and leaders, and within the International
Longevity Alliance where he is one of the foremost international activists. Mr. Verma is a true
“Renaissance man”, a highly skilled and versatile engineer and physicist, having a broad and
forward looking technological and social vision. Ilia Stambler, PhD. Founder - International
Longevity Alliance.”
Value proposition

5. Offering- News about Future Technology, Longevity Science, access to unique information,
able to create profile of businesses, opportunity for collaboration and investment, mobile app and
career opportunities
Benefits- Public get to know news, they can generate revenue by publishing on our website, can
collaborate internally and invest in other businesses, boost to Indian economy
Alternatives and differentiation- World Trans-humanist Association, Oxford Transhumanism
and Emerging Technology), Dutch Future Society, Harvard College Future Society, Future of
Humanity Institute, IEET, Startup Britain, Startup America, Startup Italia, Startup Greece. We are
different as we really aim to make businesses collaborate, publish on our website, create profile
of businesses, open investment opportunities, mobile app and creating jobs for young India.
Proof- We have been running and collaborating for last 3 years with success. People who
collaborate with us are happy to contribute too. After generating funds, we aim to implement our
goals with full momentum.
Costs- We are raising $ 100,000 (or more) with $ 500,000 valuation.
Capability- Present- Founder, Co-founder, Advisors, team members and existing authors
Future- Investors, suitable team members (software engineers, marketing associate, web
designers)

6. Impact/ value we deliver to customer- future technology news, business and
entrepreneur profile, investment opportunity, connecting to investors, revenue generation and
creating employment
Prospective customers- Start ups, Accelerators, Longevity community, Venture capitalists,
angel investors, media, politicians, banks, technology organizations (NIC-India, NASSCOM,
Indian Angel Network, TiE Bangalore, IEEE), Companies (Intel, Google), Research institutes,
NGO’s, Businesses in various domains (Lifestyle, Architecture, Fashion, Hotels, Clothing,
Jewellery, Eyewears, Footwear, Electronics, Fragrance, Grooming, Watch, Lingerie and Sleep
wear, Perfume, Bags, Belts and Wallets, Baby care, Baby toys, Kids sports, Cookware, Dining,
Lighting, Home décor, Bed and Living, Photoframe, Books, eBooks, Movies, TV shows,
Stationary, Gaming, Music, Car and bike accessories, Outdoors, fitness, Lubricant and oil)
For business, individual and investors who needs our services, the India Future
Society is a valuable tool that benefits them. Unlike StartUp Britain we will have profile
of businesses, we promote future technology, will connect to investors, create
employment on a larger scale.

7. Customer value proposition:
Partners- as of now, we have International Longevity Alliance (Israeli Longevity
Alliance) as our official partner. We collaborate with following websites too-
futureday.org and humanity plus. We aim to have big multinational companies as our
partners in near future.
Internal departments- Founders, team members, advisors, authors
Employees- We have 25 team members. We are not paying anybody yet, so all are
volunteering as of now. We aim to recruit people to do tasks for us, which will also
create employment opportunities (as mentioned in earlier slides too).
Suppliers- None as of now.

8. Market Size
Market Approach & Strategy: How you grow your business-
• Since we are a unique idea, we expect to grow fast.
• By improving user experience and making website user and business friendly
• By having more hits on our website, making and deploying android and iOS app,
digital and social media ads, team expansion, unmatched differentiated web
algorithm, publishing in reputed national and international journals, viral marketing,
use our highly skilled force and conducting events (with sponsorship).
• Collaborating with clients/ customers and connecting with prospective customers
• By providing investment opportunity to investors
Market Opportunity: Define market size & your customer base: (Know, or at
least attempt to predict, the size of your target market)- We aim to have 500 paid clients
in next 1 year and improve our website hits to 10,00,000 . We will have free, basic, gold
and platinum membership with different features for users/ clients/ customers.

9. Revenue model
Business Model: Key Revenue Streams- How are you planning to make money?
Show a schedule when you expect revenues to pour in.
Free website- access to some information about other clients/ customers, all our news
Basic membership- able to post about your business/ organization in our website
Gold membership- able to post about your business/ organization in our website
+ access to information about all clients/ customers
Platinum membership- able to post about your business/ organization in our website
+ access to information about all clients/ customers/ investors/ angels/ VC’s + opportunity for
collaboration/ investment/ follow up investments with them
In coming 6 months, we can show clients/ customers and in 1 year from now, we can show
revenue being generated.
Investment: Your ‘Ask’ for funding, Basic use of funds- Minimum we are
looking for $ 100,000 (or more) , with valuation of $ 500,000.

10. Traction
Momentum, Traction, Expertise: Your key numbers-
We have 52,000 hits so far, until June, 2015
We have 100 hits per day
We have amazing momentum on social media with some of our posts reaching
visibility of up to 200 people.
Tractions graph below-

12. Team
Team & Key Stakeholders (Investors, Advisors)
Avinash K Singh- Founder (development of website, taking care of software),
Siddartha S Verma- Co-founder (growth, marketing and strategy)
Gaurav Pathak (Software engineer in KPIT Cummins), Vishal Singh (Software
engineer in Continental automotive), Kush Kumar (Business Analyst, TCS,
Philipinnes), Vivek Anand (Entrepreneur and convener of Hyderabad Entrepreneur
Society), Sangeeta Patra (Business Analyst, TCS, Philipinnes), Shahnawaz Alam and
Zoamma Hussain (volunteer), Thomasn Damberger (Ph.D., Germany), Manoj Surya
(Entrepreneur)
Advisory-
Dr. Ilia Stambler, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Zoltan Istvan, Vivek Gupta (NIC, New Delhi),
Dr. Raghuraj Singh (Professor), Elena Milova, Dr. James Hughes (Ph.D.), Dr. Kim
Zolez (Professor at University of Alberta), Natasha Vita More (Ph.D.)

13. What you are looking for
• Funding
• Networking with great minds (entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists)
for business opportunities)
• Employees (who can deliver tasks for us)
• Expanding our business
• Meeting like minded people
• International exposure
• Sponsorship
• Fast growth
• Adopters of our idea
• Recommendation from recognized Indian and international bodies- Indian
Government, Department of Science and Technology (DST)

14. What need do you fill? Other solutions (What problem are you trying to
solve? Is it really a problem?)
Yes. No organization like us exists in India. We are trying to solve the problem of
promoting future technologies, creating database of start ups, businesses, assist them in
promoting themselves, connecting with other businesses, entrepreneurs and investors.
This leads to employment opportunities and revenue generation.
Closest to us: Start Up India (http://www.startup-india.org/ ), Start Up Britain, Start
Up America, Start Up Greece- (but they don’t talk about future technologies)
World Transhumanist Association, Oxford Transhumanism and Emerging Technology,
Dutch Future Society, Harvard College Future Society, IEET
Problem and Current Solutions

15. What makes your solution special? How are you different from others?
Describe how are you planning to solve the problem. How does your
product or service actually work? Show some examples.
• We are a mixture of means of publishing, and we promote unique contents which is
vastly liked. What we aim to do in future is even more unique since no such
organization exists.
• We are planning to solve the problem by marketing strategy, hiring intelligent work
force and connecting with prospective customers (as listed in earlier slides too).
• At present, we work by just publishing content, organizing events round the year,
collaborating with advisors to assist us in growth.
Product or Service: Your Solution

16. What are the alternative solutions to the problem you are trying to solve?
Start Up India (http://www.startup-india.org/ ), Start Up Britain, Start Up America,
Start Up Greece- (they don’t talk about future technologies), World Transhumanist
Association, Oxford Transhumanism and Emerging Technology, Dutch Future
Society, Harvard College Future Society, IEET, KurzweilAI.net (we are aiming for
revenue on an even larger scale).
These mentioned in earlier slides too.
Competition

17. This deck/formula was distilled from a variety of sources:
•Crowdfunder Co-Founders & Investors
•500 Startups / Dave McClure
•Sky Fernandes
•Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn & Greylock
•Amplify LA
•TechStars
Thanks & Attribution

18. Contact
Co-founder- Siddartha S Verma
Phone #- +91 9164091556
Email id- siddartha.verma.uwa@gmail.com