Rose Waters is the founder of Youmap, a community mapping platform that allows organizers to create and customize maps, contributors to add and update info, and users to search maps and receive alerts. Youmap launched in 2012 and has grown to 18,000 monthly unique visitors across embedded maps on 12 websites with 12-minute average sessions. Youmap is seeking $1.1 million to further develop its self-service platform and mobile apps to allow any passionate community to create detailed maps.

1. Rose Waters
Founder
build, launch and grow community maps
youmap
do not distribute

2. how it
youmap
then ...
Started

3. it wentVIRAL
18
unique visitors
monthly alerts202020embedded
websites
12 min.12 min.12 min.average sessions
,000
20,000

4. how it
WORKS
?
Organizers
create & customize maps,
validate info
Contributors
contribute new data,
update info
Users
search map data,
receive alerts

5. VALUE
Organizers Contributors
exposure, validation
Users
actionable data

6. go to MARKET
preLaunch
pilot maps: Yoga, City, BitCoin, 3DPrinting
generate 500 organizer leads
postLaunch
early adopter communities
highly viral product
social sharing built into product
product hunt, hacker news
PR, bloger connections
in uential organizers

7. market POTENTIAL
the maps will tap into any passionate community
and many more ...
vineyard map
of France
hiking map
of the Rockies
graf ti map
of NYC
cheese map
of Belgium

8. opportunities
BUSINESS MODEL
Data
up-to-date and
comprehensive data is
unique and extremely
valuable ( Yandex,Yahoo,
Facebook ... )
Referral Program
add call to action to places
on community maps ( e.g.
apply to a job, register for
class, get a trial )
S.A.A.S.
freemium model with
premium features (private
maps, branding, user data )
Highly targeted
advertising
mobile, email, web
distribution
advertising campaigns
and premium listings

9. TIMELINE
mapped in Israel
may 2012
pilots
nov 2014
self service platform
web/mobile web
march 2015
mobile
June 2015
discovery engine
nov 2015

10. TEAM
Rose Waters
Co-founder & CEO
Margaret Thatch
Co-founder & CTO
William Third
Co-founder & COO
Mark Williams
Advisor

11. SEEKING
Rose Waters, 0500.21355, rosew@youmap.com, @rosew
million
to build the
Service Platform$$111