startup everpix investor and pitch deck to vc & investors
DESCRIPTION
After failing to raise a Series A funding, the 2-year-old photo service shut down in November 2013. The founders decided to release on Github (https://github.com/everpix) all the uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and business data about their users, photos, sales, costs and more, so similar businesses don’t suffer the same fate. Here is their last investor pitch deck (more easy to read here than on Github).TRANSCRIPT
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33Cube, Inc. 2013 – Confidential
Everpix Executive SummaryAugust, 2013
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Team, Advisors & Investors
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Founders – Pierre-Olivier Latour – Execution
✤ Sold motion graphics technology Quartz Composer to Apple in 2003!
✤ Built dedicated team in Graphics & Imaging Group!
✤ Made it the standard for motion graphics on OS X from iPhoto to Final Cut Pro and even original Apple TV!
✤ Designed & built Discover iPad app for Cooliris!
✤ Reached #1 free iPad app (1.5M+ downloads at the time)!
✤ Chosen by Apple in top 10 free Lifestyle iPad apps of 2010!
✤ Founded a 10 person game company while studying at EPFL in 2000!
✤ Micro-Engineering MS from EPFL/ Stanford Robotics Lab
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Founders – Kevin Quennesson – Science
✤ 2 MS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Vision!
✤ Trained with the fathers of wavelets!
✤ 10+ years of experience in imaging maths and tech!
✤ Published in top conferences!
✤ Brought Apple graphics technologies to the next level!
✤ UI foundations & Graphics in first iPhone and iPad, and in Mac OS!
✤ Innovative Computer vision, UI and machine interaction patents!
✤ Wrote Cooliris' Adjitsu new 3D & Physics immersive ad platform (sold to Amobee)
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Founders – Wayne Fan – Design
✤ Visual designer at frog design, an international design consulting firm!
✤ Interaction designer at Odopod, an award winning digital agency in San Francisco!
✤ Designed and develop interactive installations for Facebook!
✤ Clients include Intel, Google, Disney, AT&T, Sling Media, FedEx, RIM, and Sony!
✤ Bachelor of Arts, UCLA Design | Media Arts
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Employees
✤ Jason Eberle (Web)!✤ Developed at Odopod, an award winning digital agency in San Francisco!✤ Clients include Sony, IWC, Yahoo, Ford, DonQ, and YouTube!
✤ Sameer Sundresh (Infrastructure)!✤ Developed distributed architecture, optimized search, coordinated recruiting at Pattern Insight!✤ Ph.D. in Computer Science !
✤ George Leontiev (iOS)!✤ Worked on the rendering and interaction framework behind Apple's iWork suite!✤ MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, specializing in Language Technologies!
✤ Kyle Mercury (Imaging & QA)!✤ Jacek Szydłowski (Windows – Remote contractor in Poland)
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Consultants
✤ Julie Supan for product positioning and marketing!
✤ VP Marketing Consultant Dropbox!
✤ VP Marketing Consultant Airbnb!
✤ ex-Senior Director, Marketing & Communications YouTube!
✤ Marketing consultant for TuneIn, Flipboard, Nasty Gal, Weebly…
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Angel Investors / Advisers
✤ Bertrand Serlet!
✤ ex-Apple SVP Software Engineering aka “father of Mac OS X”!
✤ Michael Herf!
✤ Picasa co-Founder
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Venture Capital
(Neil Rimer)
(Dave McClure)(Nuno Gonçalves Pedro)
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Financing ($2.3M Raised)
✤ $800K raised in convertible notes (late 2011)!
✤ $1M Series Seed (July 2012)!
✤ $500K Bridge Convertible Note (May 2013)!
✤ Index Ventures & 500 Startups!
✤ Structured as an “advance” on Series A to start scaling up
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Our Vision
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Time to Aim Beyond Photo Sharing
✤ Essentially solved technically: every possible option or combination exists!
✤ Has reached its pinnacle in simplicity with Snapchat!
✤ Only 1% of consumers said “sharing photos with friends and family” when asked what frustrates them the most about their photo collection
Source: Google survey of 1,500+ consumers representative of the US population done April 2013
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Every Moment Will Be Captured as Photos
✤ Apple, Google, Samsung, HTC… have excelled at simplifying the capture of life’s immediate moments!
✤ Anyone can spontaneously take quality photos of almost anything, anytime!
✤ Even camera manufacturers are still innovating to stay in the game!
✤ Rising interest for cheap DLSRs, new Micro Four Thirds systems…!
✤ Whole new world with GoPro, soon Google Glass, and longer term wearable computing
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A Tsunami of Photos
✤ People truly enjoy taking pictures – the easier it is the more they take!
✤ 92% of consumers do not feel like they take too many photos!
✤ Average Everpix user already has 10,000 photos on the service today!
✤ Adding close to 1,500 photos per year and accelerating!
✤ 500M+ photos are shared per day on average so far in 2013
Source: Google survey of 1,500+ consumers representative of the US population done April 2013!Source: Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2013
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We have a New Problem on our hands
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The Photo Mess
✤ In today consumer’s mind, photos are considered a “disorganized mess”!
✤ 77% most frustrated about their photos because of lack of organization, finding the ones they want, and enjoying them more often!
✤ 68% want to browse their photos more often!
✤ 53% of consumers store their photos in multiple places!
✤ 23% don’t even know in how many places their photos are stored!
✤ Mass market problem, across demographics
Source: Google survey of 1,500+ consumers representative of the US population done April 2013
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An Ideal Opportunity
✤ Big market of mass consumers ready for disruption!
✤ Consumer cloud storage products deal with “files” and don’t come close to solving this !
✤ Hard problem that demands lots of innovation!
✤ Solving it requires the right combination of technology, science and UX!
✤ Big companies still focused on creation, social and sharing!
✤ Organizing and surfacing not being tackled yet
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We are building the consumer photo platform to effortlessly get people’s life photo collection into shape
and automatically surface what inspires them.
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Everpix Solves the Photo Mess
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Significant Undertaking in Past 18 Months
✤ State of the art image syncing pipeline with proprietary image optimizations!
✤ Patent-pending industry-leading image analysis for real-life photos!
✤ Native high-performance apps for Mac, Windows, iOS & Web!
✤ Scalable infrastructure to process and continuously organize massive amount of photos!
✤ Currently 80+ servers in Amazon cloud
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Everpix v1
✤ Launched March 2013 (first press outreach – limited beta before that)!
✤ Only desktop & web acquisition channel (mobile UA not in place)!
✤ Already 40,000+ users who synced 275+ million full-resolution photos!
✤ Up to millions of new photos per day (peaks at the level of Flickr or Photo Bucket)!
✤ 84% of these synced photos are new to the cloud (i.e. from desktop computers)
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Already Very High User Engagement
✤ 75% of new users perform the key action of syncing a photo!
✤ 10,000 photos synced on average (i.e. users sync their entire life photo collection)!
✤ 45% of free users sync more than 1,000 photos!
✤ 53% of free users (with photos) engaged with Everpix in last 7 days (72% for 30 days)!
✤ 97% of subscribed users engaged with Everpix in last 7 days (99% for 30 days)
Engaged: Used Web, iOS, Mac, Windows Everpix apps or opened a Flashback email
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Users Love Everpix
4.5 stars average on ~1,000 ratings and reviews worldwide
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Representative User Testimonials
✤ I have literally (and I mean that literally) had "sort out your photos" on my to-do list for months. Everpix has got it done for me with pretty much zero effort. [Martyn Pysanczyn]!
✤ Got Everpix. 2,000 images in order, de-duplicated and available […]. Now I take more photos because I know they'll be seen and enjoyed for many years to come. [Blarmski]!
✤ I blew my mom away this weekend when she was telling a story about me the first computer I bought in college and I was able to pull up a 20 year old photo from my iPhone in all of 7 seconds. That's pretty darn amazing. [Steven Mavros]!
✤ For the first time I can actually browse through my huge personal photo library. It brings a smile every time I swipe through photos of my son from when he was small. [A2iphone]
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Users Spend Money on Everpix
✤ Way above average subscription rates for a freemium service!
✤ 13.1% subscribers among all users signing up!
✤ 21.2% subscribers among users syncing 1,000+ photos (30.1% for 5,000+)!
✤ People who try Everpix are impressed and subscribe fast!
✤ 50% of monthly subscribers subscribe within 1 day!
✤ 50% of yearly subscribers subscribe within 3 days
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Everpix Revenue Model
✤ Core service pays for itself through subscriptions!
✤ Free for photos taken in the last 12-24 months (depending on bonuses granted)!
✤ Unlimited with Subscription $49 / year or also $4.99 / month!
✤ Variable infrastructure costs already covered today by subscription income!
✤ Print products like cards and books provide complimentary revenues!
✤ Real potential of licensing BD deals e.g. operators for $1 / month / seat
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Significant Inbound BD Interest
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Photo Mess Awareness Rising in the Press
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Journalists Endorse Everpix
✤ 21 journalists signed up for Everpix in the past few months (mostly from 1:1 meetings)!
✤ 19 synced photos (16,000 photos on average)!
✤ 15 active in last 7 days (17 in last 30 days)!
✤ Some enthusiastic journalists waiting to cover Everpix!
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We are creating the next opportunity in the consumer photo space and positioning ourselves to lead it
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Everpix in Action
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Desktop Uploaders
Folders, External HDsiPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Folders,!External HDs, Connected Cameras
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Web Services
Facebook (Albums & Tagged Photos of You) Instagram
Flickr (Sets)
Picasa Web (Albums) Gmail (Inbox Only)
Twitter (Publishing Only)
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Camera Roll Upload (iOS & Android)
Works around iOS background apps limitation with geofencing
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Demo
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Unique Tech and Science
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Built for Scale
✤ Need to sync entire life photo collection of each user (often more than 10K photos)!
✤ Vast majority of today’s digital photos are offline!
✤ Unique syncing technology designed for entire photo collections!
✤ 5X faster than competition, no crazy broadband connection needed!
✤ Upload thousands of optimized full-res photos with all metadata in hours not days!
✤ Sync entire libraries like iPhoto, Lightroom or Aperture including metadata in one click
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Everpix Image Pipeline
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High-Fidelity JPEG Optimization
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Technological Bets Paying Off
✤ Average image size close to 500 KB!
✤ 5X space and bandwidth savings!
✤ Absolute savings grow with sensor size!
✤ Close to 30% duplicates detected!
✤ Compounded extra space savings
Average Optimized Image Size in MB
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0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
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JPEGs
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Industry Leading Image Analysis
✤ Foundation of Explore and Highlights today!
✤ Goes beyond object detection!
✤ Also aesthetics, composition, saliency, subject distance from camera...!
✤ We understand what people see and like in their photos!
✤ Let us get their photo mess into shape and surface the most inspiring photos
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Proprietary Transform from Images to Features
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Building the Visual Vocabulary of Real-World Photos
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Scale + Science + Design = Everpix’s Lead
✤ Spent last 18 months laser-focused on building the photo platform of the next 10 years!
✤ Built the team who can best solve the Photo Mess!
✤ Put in place significant barriers of entry for competitors with hard science & scale
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Next 18 Months
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End of Year Goals
✤ Upgrade to 4th Generation infrastructure (increase capacity by 10X)!
✤ Go big for Christmas / New Year with mainstream exposure!
✤ First pass at mobile user acquisition channel!
✤ Get a large BD deal ongoing!
✤ First pass Android client
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2014 Goals
✤ Scale to millions of users!
✤ New platform features!
✤ Favorites & Printing!
✤ Smart Search!
✤ Public API!
✤ Movies!
✤ Everpix Pro (monetize further most demanding users)!
✤ Full Android client
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New Hires (double current team)
✤ Infrastructure Engineer!
✤ Marketing Director!
✤ Business Development!
✤ 2 Android Senior Engineers!
✤ Image Analysis Research Engineer!
✤ Senior Sys Ops Engineer
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Financial Projections
✤ Double the team to ~12 employees ($150K / month in payroll)!
✤ Assuming 50% savings on variable infrastructure costs!
✤ 76% gross margin on subscribed users!
✤ 63% gross margin taking into subsidized free users!
✤ Cash flow positive at 1,000,000 signups (including fixed costs)
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$5M
Series A Financing