The Hello Pal App is a social language learning app. It's as effective as Rosetta Stone, and as addictive as WhattsApp. The company is publicly traded on the OTC and CSE.
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3. What is Hello Pal?
• Hello Pal is a social language exchange
app that allows users to meet and chat
with people from all over the world, in a
completely foreign language, in minutes.
• Launched on Google Play on May 9,
2015, and on iOS in November 2015
• Over 600,000 registered users
worldwide
JUST SPEAK IT
No studying. No waiting.
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4. Speak in a
foreign language
in just minutes
In literally minutes, you
could be talking to
someone in a totally
foreign language, such
as Chinese, French or
Japanese.
And we do mean talking
- with your voice, not
just using text
translations.
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5. Using Hello Pal’s filtering
and matching abilities, you
can easily find pals that suit
your criteria.
Filter by native language,
learning language,
nationality, location, etc.
The world is suddenly a
much smaller place!
Match yourself
with pals
from all over the world
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6. First-in-the-world
Phrasebooks
Integrated into our chat system
are our unique Phrasebooks
designed for online-chatting.
Simply choose a phrase, listen to
the professionally-recorded guide
audio, and repeat after it. Then
send it to your pal!
You’ll be learning and speaking,
on the go!
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7. Powerful
translation tools
- Translate incoming text messages
- Translate what you wish to say into
your pal’s language
- Pronounce the translated text with
the help of (i) guide audio; and (ii)
romanized text for languages like
Chinese (“pinyin”) and Korean.
When not using
Phrasebooks, you can still
chat freely with your pal on
any topic and in any
language. Using the built-in
translation tools, you can:
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8. Industries
Covered
Hello Pal covers three main industries:
Language
Learning
Social /
Dating
Travel
Apps built on top of messaging increase user retention
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9. = Social Language Learning
Hello Pal caters to both serious language learners as well as the “unmotivated” group.
What Hello Pal means for each group:
Language Learner Socializer
- Opportunity to meet people
from all over the world
- Opportunity to find partner
/ spouse
- Opportunity to
improve/learn a new
language to improve
chances of the above.
- Opportunity to practice
the oral/spoken
language
- Opportunity to practice
with native speakers
- Opportunity to try out
other languages
- Opportunity to meet
locals from destination
country before traveling
- Plan out trip with help of
locals
- Experience the
destination with help of
locals
Traveler
Serious Learner Unmotivated Learner
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10. 1. Serious Language Learners
1. Job requirement 2. Career enhancement
1. For exams
2. Going overseas
3. For job prospects Unmotivated
Learners
This group is much smaller, but willing to spend
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High School / University Students Employees / Workers
11. 2. Socializers
Interest in learning languages: not high
Students and employees who:
- know it will help with exams
- know it will help career prospects
- want more self-confidence with foreigners
BUT more interested in other things, and lack motivation.
Big Motivator = Socializing
Much larger group, less willing to spend on average,
but total spend is huge
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12. 3. Travellers
Hello Pal also caters to people who like to travel,
especially backpackers.
Main concept: Make local friends BEFORE travelling
Benefits:
• Get recommendations and help when
planning trip
• Start learning simple phrases
• Finding hosts to stay with
• Finding someone who can take you around
while there
Hosts also benefit by being able to meet
foreign friends, practice speaking foreign
languages, and showing hospitality.
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13. Capitalising on Current Trends
• Globalization
– Companies increasingly having to cater to international market
• Growth in Messaging Apps
– Social networking expanding beyond Facebook to messaging apps such
as; WhatsApp, Snapchat, WeChat, etc.
Hello Pal is at the right place at the right time
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• Mobile apps
User activities expanding beyond
websites and desktop software to
mobile apps
• E-learning / Mobile learning
Like many other sectors,
education sector is starting to
experience disruption by online
services and mobile utilization of
services
14. Case in Point – MOMO Inc.
• Social app in China (now the third largest
behind WeChat and QQ)
• Location-based, for meeting new friends
• 78 million monthly active users
• Listed on NASDAQ at end of 2014
• Current valuation of US $3Bn
• Turned profitable less than two years after first
generating sales
• Branching out into creating mobile games
• Its market still confined to within China
Proven market demand, proven business model
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15. Our Direction / Strategy
Focus on Social / Fun / Games
– Socializing is primary focus, language learning is
more a ‘by-product’; but we think that, ironically,
it’s the better long term way to learn.
– Games to enhance socializing, not just for learning
– Chat is a core feature, not a supplementary one
Target Travel crowd
– Our direction is highly complementary to traveling
crowd, especially ‘couchsurfers’ and backpackers,
who are more social and keen to meet locals
– Marketing campaigns to target this crowd,
including Air BnB, TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, etc.
We have a unique / different strategy to competitors
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16. Future Revenue Model
• VIP membership
– Monthly, quarterly or yearly membership
fees
– Access VIP features eg., full phrasebooks,
no translation limits, etc.
• Advertising / Sponsorship
– Many different ways this can be done
• In-App Purchases
– Eg., stickers, premium phrasebooks
• Platform Fees
– Allow people to become teachers and
charge students
• Language Courses
– Structured courses can be provided for
serious language learners for a fee.
Current Focus on user numbers
with revenue generation later
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17. Registered Users
Android: 566,000 iOS: 53,500
Total registered users: 620,000
Daily new users: 3,500-4,000
We have achieved impressive downloads with no marketing
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18. Market Opportunity
• The total mobile learning market is expected to grow from $7.98 billion in 2015 to
$37.60 billion by 2020 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 36.3% during
the forecast period
according to Research and
Markets. Language and
social learning is expected
to be approximately 25%
of that total.
• According to industry researcher Flurry more than $101.37 billion will be spent on ads
served in 2016 to mobile phones and tablets worldwide. That’s a 400 percent
increase from 2013. From 2016 to 2019, mobile ads will nearly double again, rising to
$195.55 billion.
We have multiple avenues of revenue generation planned
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19. Barriers To Entry
What we have that can’t be reproduced quickly/easily:
• Content
– Back-end content-production system
• Quickly generating new phrasebooks, adding new
phrases and recordings etc.
• Quickly adding new scripts and recordings, and
translations
– Actual content
• Phrasebooks, scripts, vocab items
– Phrases and words, translations, literal
translations, audio recordings, for many languages
• Content from BrillKids Little Reader content library
– 8 languages, tons of picture, audio and video
• App and tech
– Some parts (eg., translation engine) can be reproduced
quickly, but not easy to do it well. Other parts would
take some time.
We have spent years building
and perfecting our technology
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20. 1. Requires expertise in both language
education and technology
– Many language education companies
– Many technology companies
– Not many language education companies which
focus on technology, and not many which provide
both English and Chinese language courses
2. Must launch in Western and Chinese
markets at the same time
– Success requires service to be launched in China
and Western markets simultaneously, so that
learners can make foreign friends.
– Company must be familiar and comfortable with
both markets.
Why is this not easy for others to do
Not easy for US company.
Not easy for Chinese company.
Difficult!
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Language education + Technology company
+
Launch in China and US
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21. • We are Education + Technology
– We are an early education company and technology
is in our DNA
– Founder’s first company was BrillKids. Through
BrillKids, our flagship product “Little Reader” for
teaching reading is powered by software and web
technologies, and has won multiple education
product awards in the US.
• Chinese and Western roots
– Through BrillKids, our main market has been the US,
and has an international team with members in
China, Hong Kong, and Europe, and partners in UK,
Canada, Australia, Taiwan
– Founder is Chinese Malaysian, living in Hangzhou,
studied in England (10 years) and comfortable and
experienced in both US and China markets
– Operating companies will be in Hangzhou, Hong
Kong and California, USA
We are perfect for the job
Hello Pal
Hello Pal LLC 杭州好语伴科技有限公司
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22. KL Wong - Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and
Director
– Background
• Malaysian, Hong Kong citizen
• Cambridge University, Law MA (1993)
• Fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese
– Entrepreneur
• Founder of Hello Pal (2014 to present)
• Founder of BrillKids , in the field of early childhood
education (2008 to present)
– Finance / Venture Capital
• Softbank Investment (HK:0648) (2001-2007)
• President
• Mainly technology-related projects in Greater China
– Dotcom
• China.com (NASD: CHINA)/ Hongkong.com (HK:8006)
(1999-2001)
• Vice President, Business Development
– Lawyer
• Clifford Chance (worlds largest law firm) (1995 – 1999)
• Specialized in China law and technology/telecoms advisory
Directors and Advisors
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23. Michael Koh Tat Lee - Director
Angel investor with rich experience in mobile and technology sector
– Masters degrees from Columbia University, US.
– Currently Chairman of Pan Asia Mining Limited (HK:8173)
– Previously Chairman of China Railway Logistics Limited (HK: 8089), CEO and
Executive Director of M Dream Inworld Limited (HK: 8100), and Vice President
of First Pacific Company Limited (HK: 0142), as well as having been with Bell
South and AT&T in the United States.
Dr. Sin Just (“SJ”) Wong – Director
Over 20 years of fund management and investment banking experience
– Past Managing Director, Capital Markets of BNP Paribas Peregrine
– Past President and Chief Investment Officer of Softbank China Venture
Investments Limited
– Has served as Executive Director and Chairman on companies listed on the
Singapore Exchange Limited, Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Malaysia Stock
Exchange
Directors and Advisors
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24. Robert McMorran – Director
Over 30 years of public company accounting experience
– Certified Professional Accountant (CPA, CA).
– Founded Malaspina Consultants Inc., a private company that provides CFO,
accounting and administrative support services to public companies
– Has held board and senior management positions with a number of public companies
since 1991 and is a director and or CFO of a number of companies
Gunther Roehlig – Director
Over 15 years of experience in the financial and investment industry
– Experience in restructuring, managing and financing junior public companies
– Has held board and senior management positions with a number of public companies
– Served as the president of Terra Ventures Inc., which held a 10% stake in the
Roughrider uranium discovery owned by Hathor Exploration. In May 2011, Terra
Ventures was acquired by Hathor Exploration – Hathor was then subsequently
acquired by one of the world’s largest mining companies Rio Tinto
Directors and Advisors
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25. Hans Xu – Large Shareholder and Special Advisor
– Key management partner of the New Margin Venture group
– New Margin is one of the largest venture capital firms in China with
over US$3 BB of funds under management both within and outside
China.
– Professional finance and business executive that has worked within
the Asian financial and capital markets for more than twenty-five
years
– Prominent and well-connected angel investor in China with highly
successful investment track-record.
– Extremely well-connected in China, and able to leverage
connections to help our project launch and grow.
– Has served as an advisor to many companies and is well versed in
domestic investment markets
– Before joining New Margin he founded and fostered several
successful companies
Directors and Advisors
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26. Current issued and outstanding:
Hello Pal Acquisition:
Private placement:
$1,750,000 CAD @ 15 c
Total issued and outstanding:
10% option plan @15c
Fully diluted:
Share Structure
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27,373,977
25,000,000
12,000,000
64,373,976
6,400,000
70,773,976
27. Investment Highlights
• Hello Pal was recently launched and already achieving high
numbers of registered users with no marketing and thousands of
new users registering daily
• Recent oversubscribed financing and no debt with low burn rate.
• Launching aggressive PR and user acquisition campaign.
Expansion of technical and marketing team
• Major Chinese shareholders with substantial financial backing
and deep business and entertainment networks
• Messaging has emerged as the new frontier of social on mobile
and apps built on messaging platforms have high user retention
and engagement
• Rapidly growing language learning market particularly in mobile
E-learning
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28. Hello Pal International
CSE Symbol: HP
FSE Symbol: 27H
OTC Symbol: HLLPF
Suite 200 - 550 Denman Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada, V6G 3H1
604.683.0911
THANK YOU
“Our detailed assessment of competitors is that there is no one major firm that is
positioned to compete with us across all education, language and Asia/North America
areas and markets with a focus on both dynamic content and eLearning. Our Assets are
more full-featured and more user fun and friendly than any other System”
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29. Hello Pal Video Tutorials
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Quick Tour
The Basics Text and Voice Messaging in a
Foreign Language
Helping Your Pal When Receiving And
Sending Messages