Introduction
We pay off student loans with debt-free income share agreements (ISA). We also offer a resources marketplace with various career and other resources to optimize earning potential and improve quality of life.
The Defynance investment opportunity lets you get in on the ground floor of a unique student loan refinancing solution designed to help solve the student debt crisis and empower financial freedom for our customers, investors, and users.
Deal Highlights
- Earn dividends - When Defynance become profitable, our shareholders will start earning dividends.
- Solve the student debt crisis - We believe that no one else is directly tackling the student debt crisis with a debt-free student loan refinancing solution.
- Join our debt-free movement - Defynance is just starting. We have plans to expand and grow our offering and you may help define our journey. Plus, we'll be sure to thank you!
Problem
Sadly, student debt today is pervasive. It has become a full blown crisis! Its negative impact reaches across the demographic, racial, and income spectrum.
Here are the big numbers:
- $1.6+ Trillion of student debt growing 10% annually
- More than 45+ Million student loan borrowers
- 2nd largest consumer debt behind mortgages but more than credit cards and auto loans
- 70% of college students leave with student loans; many without even graduating
- Student loan refinancing has strict approval criteria and mostly requires co-signers
Additional reading:
- Student Loan Debt Statistics – Updated July 2020
- 5 facts about student loans
- Debt Nation: The faces and lives behind America’s student loan crisis
- America's Student Debt Crisis is a Civil Rights Crisis," New Research Concludes - Progressive Party USA
- Read. Vent. Inspire. Share student debt stories
- Paying student loans by becoming a "sugar baby"? "What Would You Do?
Solution
Defynance eliminates student debt and invests in the earning potential of our customers with our debt-free ISA student loan refinancing and investment platform, which has the following core offerings and benefits:
Debt-free ISA student loan refinancing
- Multiple ISA terms from 5 to 15 years
- Always affordable payments
- Removes student loan debt from credit report
- Automatic payment deferrals if income falls below $25,000
- Scaling payment cap
- Prepayment and buyout options
- Cash back at the end of the ISA
Impact investment fund
- Open to accredited investors
- Generates passive quarterly income from all ISA contracts funded
- Has low volatility with projected growing returns
- Dynamic correlation with the market has recession hedging properties
- Tax deferral benefits
Comprehensive resources marketplace
- Career guidance, recruitment, upskilling, networking, and jobs
- Entrepreneurship resources, support, and education
- Credit building and repair
- Financial tools, widgets, resources, and education
- Wellness support for mental, spiritual, and physical health
Business Model
One Time
- Student Loan Refinancing Customers pay a processing fee
- ISA Refinancing Fund Investor pays a sales charge
Recurring
- Monthly servicing fee from each income sharing payment
- Quarterly fund management fees
Future Revenue
- Plan to monetize resources marketplace in 2021
Market
We plan to target the higher end of the student loan spectrum by refinancing Graduate PLUS, Parent PLUS, and private student loans.
The student loan refinancing market is largely untapped because existing lenders have:
- Strict approval criteria
- Require co-signers
- Very few banks refinance student loans
Defynance is not a lender. We invest in the earning potential of our customers. We offer:
- A debt-free refinancing solution
- Always has affordable payments
- Offers consumer protections
- Does not requires a co-signer
- Gives cash back at the end of the ISA
Progress
What have we built?
- First ISA refinancing contract
- Application to funding to servicing process
- Customized ISA approval criteria
- Algorithm for ISA pricing and risk adjustment
- Online platform pilot with early beta users
- Career and more resources marketplace
- Fully functional mobile app prototype
- ISA Refinancing Fund structure
- First paying ISA student loan refinancing customer
- More than 70 applicants without marketing
Media mentions
- Featured Founder: Farrukh Siddiqui of Defynance - Embar Collective 2019
- RedPerit’s Defynance is out to disrupt the student loan market - Catalyst 2019
- Defynance: Tampa startup takes on student loan crisis - 83 Degrees 2019
- Tackling Student Loan Debt with Farrukh Siddiqui's Defynance | Startup Report - St. Pete Catalyst 2019
- Farrukh Siddiqui Red Carpet - Synapse Summit 2020
- Plan Out Your Bootstrap” The Inventive Journey Podcast for Entrepreneurs w/ Farrukh Siddiqui - Inventive Journeys Podcast
Team
Our day to day team consists of engineers and business development staff all focused on one thing: freeing people from their student debt.
Farrukh is a seasoned financial executive, social entrepreneur, and innovator with 30 years of diverse professional background in product development, technology, marketing, sales, business development, operations, and social impact. He has a consistent leadership track record of achieving results by empowering staff, demanding organization wide accountability, and technology innovation.
The Defynance team is comprised of a diverse group of young professionals who are passionate about solving the student debt crisis. Coming from engineering, marketing, research, and business development backgrounds, the team brings a wide variety of skills necessary for the constantly pivoting nature of startup growth. They have successfully contributed to creating a unique debt-free income share agreement solution to tackle the student debt crisis and are constantly working to efficiently execute Defynance technology, operations, business development, and marketing strategies and tactical plans.
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Advisors
Use of Proceeds
If the offering's maximum amount of $1,070,000 is raised:
Use | Value | % of Proceeds |
---|---|---|
Management | $223,459 | 20.9% |
BD & Marketing | $410,684 | 38.4% |
IT & Systems | $80,852 | 7.6% |
Product | $179,154 | 16.7% |
Legal & Compliance | $59,619 | 5.6% |
G&A | $44,801 | 4.2% |
CF Marketing | $15,000 | 1.4% |
CF Review | $1,500 | 0.1% |
Net Capital Fixed Fees | $2,501 | 0.2% |
Intermediary fees | $52,430 | 4.9% |
Terms
This number includes all funds raised by the Company in this round on Netcapital. This is an offering of Common Stock, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in Defynance Holdings, Inc.. This offering must reach its target of at least $10,000 by its offering deadline of January 29, 2021 at 11:59pm ET. If this offering does not reach its target by the offering deadline, then your money will be refunded.
If the offering is successful at raising the maximum amount, then the company’s implied valuation after the offering (sometimes called its post-money valuation) will be:
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Financials
These financial statements have been reviewed by an independent Certified Public Accountant.
SEC Filings
The Offering Statement is a formal description of the company and this transaction. It’s filed with the SEC to comply with the requirements of exemption 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933.
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