Invest Smarter, Together
At Rapunzl, we have a simple mission - to empower individuals to invest smarter together.
We use our social network to find the best movies, music, and restaurants. So why don’t we use them when we invest?
We are building a web-based investor community that allows users to either simulate a portfolio or link a live-trading account in order to:
- Discover and learn from top investors
- Share percentage performance with friends they trust
- Crowdsource investment ideas from a transparent community
- Trade directly through the platform with their existing brokerage account
The Market & Our Product
There is already precedent for users wanting share opinions, crowdsource investment ideas, and trade stocks on mobile devices.
That’s why we created the Rapunzl platform - a investor community which allows users to share, discuss, discover, and compete. The Rapunzl leaderboard allows friends to gauge their skills against the larger community and by introducing weekly, monthly, and annual cash competitions for top performing portfolios, we have gamified the stock market in order to drive consistent user engagement.
Recent Success
In the past 3 months since our public beta launch, we have had exhilarating success that we only expect to increase as we roll-out the full Rapunzl platform.
Since end of April, we have:
- Grown organically to 750+ early-adopting, simulated traders at a rate of 15+% per month
- Been named one of the top 5 apps to watch by Bank Innovation
- Spoke to the CEO of Technori on WGN Radio
- Received coverage in On the Money magazine
- Delivered the keynote presentation at Ariel Community Academy’s Financial Capabilities Summit
- Joined Chicago Public Schools Financial Literacy Committee and spoke at their Financially Fit in 2017 Conference
- Joined the State of Illinois Comptroller’s Millennial Board for Fiscal Responsibility
- Partnered with One Stock One Future to further our mission to foster financial literacy.
- Prepared to launch the full Rapunzl platform end of August.
Path to Monetization
There are massive opportunities to monetize a user base. Revenue will be generated by:
- Selling aggregated data analytics to financial institutions
- Incorporating in-app advertising for simulated users
- Licensing the platform to classrooms as a financial literacy tool
- Integrating third-party services as part of a premium subscription service
Growth Prospects
Valuations based off of the number of users a company has vary. Snapchat’s market cap indicates a user is worth ~$135 whereas Facebook’s market cap indicates a user is worth ~$215.
For comparable social companies involved in the FinTech space, we see very high valuations per user because these companies are growing rapidly and have access to valuable financial data similar to Rapunzl. EToro, the social network for futures and options trading in Europe founded in 2008, is valued at over $100 million with only 200,000 active users.
This is evidence of the massive opportunity present with investing in a early-stage social network such as Rapunzl which is launching the full platform with competitions, news, and live-trading in August, 2017.
Team
We are a team of socially-conscious investors who decided that we need a platform to share our investment ideas and performance. Our founders, Brian Curcio and Myles Gage, met freshman year of high school and quickly became friends by talking about stocks and financial markets. They both pursued jobs in finance until one day they realized the disparity of financial literacy across their friend groups.
They saw the high returns of Wall Street trapped in an ivory tower away from the ordinary investor. They decided to form a collaborative investing platform to help ordinary investors find extraordinary opportunity in each other.
Brian Curcio graduated from Amherst College in 2017 with a degree in Mathematics and is passionate about connecting individuals and challenging the notion that investing is private. Brian believes transparency on the Rapunzl platform will foster a collaborative investment experience unseen in the current marketplace. Brian works closely with developers, designs new features, and manages company initiatives as the platform continues to scale. He is an avid follower of all things Fintech and believes in technology's power to revolutionize the status quo of the financial industry.
Myles Gage is a recent graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and holds a degree in Finance. Upon attending an elementary school with an investment based curriculum on the southside of Chicago, he realized the importance of financial literacy eventually becoming an ambassador on the subject through an investment club he participated in during high school. He now works in the financial services sector in the city of Chicago but has always been heavily involved in helping the community and inspiring others to learn the importance of investing.
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Use of Proceeds
If the offering's maximum amount of $500,000 is raised:
Use | Value | % of Proceeds |
---|---|---|
Compensation for Directors, Officers, and Promoters | $23,500 | 4.7% |
Working Capital | $352,000 | 70.4% |
Debt Repayment | $100,000 | 20.0% |
Intermediary fees | $24,500 | 4.9% |
Terms
This number includes all funds raised by the Company in this round on Netcapital. This is an offering of Netcapital Units, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in Rapunzl Investments, LLC. This offering must reach its target of at least $10,000 by its offering deadline of October 30, 2017 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
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- Oct 31, 2017Primary offering finalized, sellingunits
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