kindergram executive summary v2013
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Kindergram Inc.
© Kindergram Inc. 2013
Kindergram Inc. Share your best game moments with friends.
Product. Kindergram is a gameplay video-sharing app for kids. We make game & app discovery viral. Problem. Kids-related apps are facing discovery issue.
• Discovery limited to app store recommendations.
• Discovery issue getting worse as the market is getting more crowded (1M+ apps in 2013).
• Child-safe app market is getting lost in the mix.
• Discovery is a chicken-and-egg problem on app stores: need users to get visibility,
Kindergram Inc.
© Kindergram Inc. 2013
but need visibility to get users.
• Viral solution such as the Facebook sdk limited to apps for 13+yo users.
Kindergram solution. SDK
• Record: allows kids to safely record gameplay video on child-safe apps;
• Share: allows kids app developers to make users their viral evangelists on Kindergram;
• Grow: enables app publishers to grow user base;
• Simple: easy API integration of SEM/viral advertising feature.
App • Social: allows kids to safely
share gameplay videos with friends;
• Discovery: enables kids to virally discover their next favorite apps.
• Educational: allows kids to follow popular users to learn, and to improve their game experience.
App Finder • allows parents to discover
matched apps and to follow their kid’s selection up.
• introduces apps via popular gameplay videos shared on Kindergram.
• allows developers to manage their rank visibility via Kindergram SEM.
About Safety. Kindergram is 100% safe. Safe database.
• Kindergram does not entail any risk of violent images/videos.
• SDK only is embeddable by apps we certify “child-safe”.
• The “Share on Kindergram” button only is accessible from certified-apps.
=> Consequently: • None-certified apps are not
allowed to embed the Kindergram SDK.
• Users technically can’t upload videos & pictures from the Photo-Library.
• Kindergram guarantees parents that our database (gameplay videos) is fully built from apps we certify child-safe.
• Kindergram SDK makes the database 100% safe.
Safe interactivity. • No private messages. • No verbal comments. • Kids use playful emoticons to
share positive feedback. • Kids use our pinwheel button
(like button) to interact with followers.
• Kids interactivity only is about gameplay videos.
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=> Consequently: • No private information
shared. • No risk of harassment. • No private/unsafe interaction.
Our safety equation. Safe database + safe interactivity = Naturally filters adult presence. Kindergram meets the COPPA law. Goal. Make the Kindergram-certified brand a “must-have” certification for all kids related apps and grow the world’s largest online kid community. Market. According to data insights 2012:
• 1.4B kids have access to touch-screen devices.
• 77% of parents purchased average of 27 kids-related apps —> 29B+ downloads in 2012.
• Booming market. • Average app’s price: $2.99 • ~82 Billion Market.
Revenue Model. Kindergram is a free mobile app.
• SEM revenue model: developers daily manage their visibility on the Kindergam App Finder by betting on top ranks visibility.
• 5% commission via Apple Affiliate Program on premium apps downloaded by parents
via our parental notification system.
• Big data insight package for publisher members.
About Parental Notification System.
• Kindergram does not allow kids to download or purchase apps via Kindergram App Finder.
• The link to the Apple’s App Store only exists within parental notifications.
• We sent parents notifications when their child stars a wishing app.
• The notification always includes popular gameplay video to introduce an app and show parents what kids do with it.
About Adoption/Traction. Children-specific game and app publishers embed our SDK to grow user base via viral exposure to the Kindergram network.
• Partnership with child-safe marquis brands to build first apps community + popularity among developers + trust among parent communities.
• Partnership with schools of excellence using iPad in class to build first users community + trust & popularity among parent communities.
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• Aggregate child-safe apps to massively accumulate users.
• Accumulate users to massively attract more app publishers.
Opportunity. • A unique viral solution in a
booming market facing discovery issue.
• Potential to build a marquis brand among kid-friendly brands.
• Potential to become the world’s largest community of kids-related apps and of kids using touch-screen devices.
Team. Emilie Badin, founder & CEO. 4 years experience as entrepreneur & User Experience Designer, ex co-founder at La Langue Française Editions (French ebooks publisher). Graduated from Sorbonne University in Philosophy of Science. Madhura Deshpande, CTO. 7 years experience as senior developer in games for kids, sdk, and embedded devices at Leapfrog. Graduated from CMU in Technology & Engineering. Jean Giarrusso, COO. 20 years experience as Product Manager & Managing Director at Oracle, and Cisco. Graduated from MIT & Stanford in Managing Science & Engineering.
Corporate Information. Registered as Delaware C-corporation since August 2012.
Contact Information. 1737 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301. +1 415 400 6426. [email protected]
Investors, Follow us! https://angel.co/kindergram