India Future Society

For Founder Institute (Founder Lab)

August, 2015

IntroductionWe 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/

Vision / Elevator Pitch

We are “The New York Times” for Future Technology

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

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)

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.

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.

Market SizeMarket 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.

Revenue modelBusiness 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.

TractionMomentum, 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-

TeamTeam & 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.)

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)

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

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

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

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

Contact

Co-founder- Siddartha S VermaPhone #- +91 9164091556Email id- siddartha.verma.uwa@gmail.com