FasterCapital Acceleration Program 5th round 2016

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The 5th round of funding started on 18th of Sep, 2016 and ended on 17th of Oct, 2016.
We had 11 startups in this round.

Auto Smart Offer - Commission Free Car Selling

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Sam Komeha is an IT professional
with more than 20 years of
experience in a wide variety of
information technology…
Sam Komeha
CEO
George Ross
Business Mentors
Sherry Abdelaaty is KM &
Communications Manager Advisor
for Auto Smart Deals, LLC.
George H. Ross is executive vice
president and senior counsel of the
Trump Organization. He is perhaps
best known as one of Donald…
With 22+ years' of experience in sales
and business development. Yasser
Komeha is the Business
Development Advisor for Auto Smart
Deals, LLC
Sherry Abdelaaty
Communications manager
Yasser Komeha

Problem worth solving
Visiting dealerships for ‘test drives’ and wasting an entire day with sales people trying to pull a fast one on you-
confusing you with numbers until they wear you down and you buy the car, thinking you got the ‘best price’.
Our solution
Auto Smart Offer was founded on the premise that there has to be a better way. In this day and age of technology,
why can’t you have the dealerships compete for your business and you pick out the best option for yourself without
the stressful sales gimmicks.
Challenge
Auto Smart Offer is a new concept business for Automotive SalesAuto Smart Offer was founded on the premise
that there has to be a better way. In this day and age of technology, why can’t you have the dealerships compete for
your business and you pick out the best option for yourself without the stressful sales gimmicks.
Idea

I spent 18 years of my career working in the IT field, initially in Egypt, then in US after marrying my wife. Getting
started early in my US career meant, I couldn't be too picky and took on mostly contract work.
When my wife fell ill, I ended up having to juggle work around hospital visits and doctor's appointments.
Understanding at first, my employer came to determine they weren't making enough money off of me with my
reduced schedule so they let me go.
I took it as a blessing and starting to look for something else. At this point, I was willing to jump into something
totally new and different. I landed up as a salesman in DarCars, Maryland.
Story
Saving customer's time and money. Auto Smart Offer was founded on the premise that there has to be a better
way. In this day and age of technology, why can’t you have the dealerships compete for your business and you pick
out the best option for yourself without the stressful sales gimmicks.
Solution

Celtris - Let’s Move Together

While pursuing Engineering in Computer Science, Harsh worked with Research
and Innovation Labs at Indian Institute of Technology…
Harsh Arora
Co-CEO
Pratick Chokhani
Co-CEO
Pratick is a computer science engineer. He was Project Associate at The European
Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN), Geneva…

With the increasing number of unfortunate incidents on road, need of on-road safety and anxiety among millions of
parents who indefinitely wait for their child at stops everyday is increased. A school bus warden managing ~40
students, each to be handed over to their parents waiting at different stops, certainly needs a helping hand, a
virtual assistant sitting alongside them to make the tasks easier and much more efficient. Because, huge collective
responsibility of schools to care for each individual child doesn’t allow space for any human error.
Challenge
We believe that humans have the basic psychological need to feel connected to each other. Lack of it has them
worried and concerned.
Last summer, after meeting the 21st anxious parent on the 12th bus stop indefinitely waiting for their child’s school
bus in the afternoon of a bright sunny day, we suddenly felt that the lack of knowledge of the status of the child on
road c eates disconnection among the parents and their children, thereby confirming our conjecture. The idea is to
provide them with peace of mind while ensuring that their children are in safe hands. Also, the improved driving
practices by constant analysis and reward appreciation will be a great motivational step towards road safety.
Idea

It all started when both the founders connected during their time at CERN, Geneva. Keen on doing something aside
from their respective jobs, they started working on mini android games in search of ideas which would help society
and could also be made into a venture. The idea was seeded when one founder waiting for a bus realized that
tracking vehicles can save lots of time. When discussed together it seemed an obvious choice as aside from saving
time, it would provide security to travelers, help improve driving conditions in the country and moreover provide a
sense of security to the parents of children.
Story
A brief about the solution proposed and its impact:
A Mobile and Web platform which keeps an eye on school transport eliminating the hardware implementation
(carry and play approach) to
• Ensure safe handover of students to their parents by automated attendance roll call at every stop.
• Eliminate waiting time at stops by notifying parents of arrival time.
• Monitor bus fleet to ensure safe driving practices and detect tran it alerts by intelligent route learning.
Solution

Cockktail - Online party constructor

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while studying at the university i
enjoyed organizing different events,
where i gathered my fellow students.
later i headed the regional…
Vadim Matviichuk
CEO, founder
Anna Kozmina
Co-founder, business analyst, manager, PR
it and economical education. i
developed accounting systems and
have experience in business
consulting and business
automatization.
linguistic, it and economical
education. worked as a university
lecturer, financial manager and a
software developer…
javascript, nodejs, meteorjs,
mongodb, mysql, angularjs, jquery,
php, phpunit, cakephp, zend
framework, linux shell, git.
Vasyl Kozmin
Co-founder, developer
Nikita Babych
Co-founder, PHP, JS developer

The main problem is that by addressing an event planning agency the client overpays a big sum of money in the
form of commission and event planning vendors (musicians, entertainers, caterers etc.) spend much time for
searching new clients, when not working with intermediary organizations.
Challenge
Cockktail is an online party constructor. It is an opportunity for a user to organize a party easily and quickly. He just
chooses from the existing scenario the type of a party, venue, his guests, DJ, decorations, invitations, refreshments,
etc. By choosing additional options, the system will prompt the user to choose from several combinations. Cockktail
cuts out the middleman in the event planning industry and offers possibilities for party vendors.
Idea

During the last 7 years I have worked on organization of different kinds of events for show business as well as
private parties. And I dreamt about a simple tool which could make my work easier and faster. I met Anna and Vasyl
at one of the parties, organized by me at the New Year's Eve. We had many common themes for communication
and as it turned out they are passionate about event organization as well. I shared my ideas with them and the
story with our friend in the USA strengthened our intentions. He wanted to organize a memorable engagement
event through an event planning organization, but it required so much money and time, that his future bride broke
up with him.
Story
Our service prompts existing scenario for the event, puts together necessary components, so that you can manage
your event yourself without extra payment to agencies, consulting companies, etc. It is a perfect platform for
earning money for event planning vendors. A separate interactive window will display all scheduled public parties,
and anyone can choose the appropriate one and join it on terms determined by the organizer. Cockktail is a simple
way to organize and manage your events anywhere, on any device.
Solution

EJaw - Game development company

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A game development specialist with
a experience in project management,
C# programming, game design and
3d modeling.
Pavlo Poltoratskiy
CEO
Dmitriy Tarasenko
Senior Developer
My career has focused around
growing businesses, networking,
creating strategic partnerships,
leading and closing deals.
Around 4 years of experience in the
industry as .NET Developer(Unity3D,
WPF). Strong knowledge of C#.
Lead artist Education: Faculty of Fine
Arts, Department of graphics,
specialty - book graphics. Skills:
digital and analog 2D, sketching…
Kristina Piltyay
CCO
Viktoriya Novoselskaya
Art direktor

Currently, similar projects are missing on mobile markets.
Although researches show interest in space theme and PvP arcades.
•Growing popularity of space theme recently.
•Revival of old franchises and new successful movies (Star Trek, Interstellar).
•PvP arcades’ successors - session arena games - moba are at the peak of its popularity.
Challenge
Describe the historical evolution of your category.
Spacewar was the first space combat video game developed in 1962. It is also the first known video game to be
played at multiple computer installations.
Then was Star Control - a video game originally released for Amiga and MS-DOS in 1990, followed by multiple ports
for wide variety of consoles. It established the basics of genre: PvP battles on space arena; the variety of ships' sizes,
maneuverability, and speed; a distinct primary weapon and a secondary ability for each ship.
Idea

EJaw is an international game development company with head offices in Tallinn, Estonia and Kiev, Ukraine . During
7 years of our operation we have had an excellent opportunity to cooperate and provided services to over 40
companies worldwide with approximately 500k $ revenue in both full game development and a partial provision of
developing and design. In 2013 it was decided to develop our own game "My Kingdom's Fall" in cooperation with
Yarky Studio. The company began developing "Spacejunk Rumble" game at the start of 2016.
In 2015, the team won a right to participate in Game Founders, thus attracted the first investment to carry on a
development of the own projects.
Story
Problem 1. Not enough addictive gameplay / metagame
Solution: The game is developing with an integrated statistics. This allows constantly observe all important metrics
and implement changes in time.
Solution

GreenCard - Secure plastic cards

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Working time: 01/07/2006 today Position: Production Manager In this post I call - Ensuring
the smooth operation of the production line of personalized cards…
Ibala Ismail
CEO

manufacture a highly secure environment plastic card: use bioplastic PLA plant source RRP petrochemical.
reduce the maps production line which consists of 5 machines with a single engine JETcard 3D.
safety concern for airports, stadiums, hotels, and hospitals, universities and schools and transport facilities:
traceability problem of access.
Challenge
GreenCard will provide secure plastic cards using innovative solutions.
The objectives in the short term is to start the business in a timely and gradually make a large portfolio of
customers
In the medium term is to arrive to take a significant share of the international market especially in Africa is a
growing market.
We are going to ensure the smooth functioning of plant (personalized cards, packaging, SIM cards, production
management, (quality control, internal auditor..).
Idea

Startup members met by a professional network to provide Tunisian market with high quality, low price cards.
For the moment, the idea of this project in its last steps so we are seeking and targeting the first ones who will be
joining me during this journey.
My background as a Tunisian man born and raised in sfax, surrounded by a family which has a lot of industrial
ideas and project going on is going to be a great asset to this project as well as my long career in this industry.
Story
As a smart card, this innovation on the credit card is easily reproducible in many sectors and actors in the world. It
allows to reduce the sector's overall carbon footprint and use of petrochemical resources and materials, while
giving a second life to plastic and metal waste nature (preservation of rare earths) for materials recovery. Reducing
the direct environmental impacts of the product durable and proven manner.
Solution

FoodStalking - World's largest Food Community & Content
Platform

He is a Mechanical Engineer & an
MBA with around 6 years of
experience, majorly into start-ups.
He cofounded couple of ventures…
Akshay Chauhan
Co-Founder
Utkarsh Chauhan
Co-Founder
She is an MBA with 4 years of
experience, primarily into Human
Resources. Her previous stint was
with Morgan Stanley in a Generalist
role.
Himani Singhal
Co-Founder
He is a B.Tech with close to 3 years of experience in software development. Most recently
with Practo, he worked on a user facing web product.

At present, food based businesses are focusing on
• Transactions (Swiggy, Zomato etc)
• Classifieds/ Restaurant discovery (Zomato, Burrp etc)
• Content (Chef at large, Cucumber Town etc)
• Community – no significant player catering to this segment of the food ecosystem
Facebook communities are the only option for users to engage with fellow foodies/users, but they don’t scale
beyond an initial set of users due to a generic product (rather than a specific product for food based interactions).
Challenge
Our idea is to build a large & engaging online food community. Food is an area that touches everyone and each one
of us has views, opinions, expertise or some thoughts related to food. The key asset of our platform will be a large
and highly engaging user base. Hence, the primary objective is to achieve that through developing product features
that enable a seamless user interaction and other growth initiatives.
Idea

We all are friends, and share a common passion for food & Start-Ups. We all share a common dream to make
FoodStalking world's largest online Food based community & content platform.
Story
Our plan is to build a smooth & robust platform (web & app)
• Catering to food based use cases of a wide variety of users
• Leveraging user-friendly features & incentivization techniques
• Powered by well-architectured data structures & analytics-based user profiling
The unique selling point of our platform is to be the one stop solution for community interaction over recipes,
reviews and personalized food queries etc for both generic users and professionals (Bloggers, Home – Chefs, Home
Bakers, Nutritionists, Dieticians, etc).
Solution

MYCO - Your Most Business Network

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Graduate of Odessa National Maritime University (Ukraine) Graduate and Fellow of Institute
of Chartered Shipbrokers (UK) Founder….
Alexander Varvarenko
CEO, Co-founder
Alexey Khomyakov
Co-founder
Technical Director at Zoltav Resources (Oil & Gas).

- Lack of networks with smart-search of contacts by industry, sector, interests (not available in Google and
LinkedIN)
- Inefficient participation in Events (Conferences, Exhibitions)
- Big piles of faceless business-cards
Challenge
MYCO is a advanced Business Network, with an opportunity of Big Data storage by Contacts, Companies and
Events. All contacts can be easily found by their geographical registration, industry, sector, interested and key
words.
In addition to MYCO Network comes MYCO Band - a unique patented devise capable of quick contact data transfer
through a handshake. This device may come in different colors or be introduced in other smart bands, to be used
on events for a more efficient interaction and growth of the MYCO Network.
Idea

Both founders have been friends long before MYCO started. The idea originated from the need to make our visits to
Conferences, Exhibitions and people search more efficient. Both our companies spend thousands of dollars for
using a dying and complicated LinkedIN network. Most of the contact there do not even respond to LinkedIN any
more. All other Messengers such a WhatsUP, Viber, Facebook, etc do not give a possibility of searching contacts by
Industry, sector and interests. It is the last which makes MYCO potentially very interesting to Advertising companies,
publicity and media.
Story
We created a unique and unilateral classification of Industries and Sectors, identical to all countries. Each new
Contact (Individual contact, Company or Conference/Event) includes his industry, sector but also interests. Users
can also search Contacts by geography and tags.
Each Conference or Event member can let its participants see a full list of attendees who registered for an event
with the help of an easy tool introduced in MYCO.
Messaging is also available.
Solution

Rikxa - Economical transport vehicles

Rajesh Kalra has more than 20 years
experience in product development
marketing sales promotion designing
& merchandising.
Rajesh Kalra
CEO
Chirag Batra
Technology Head / Head Of Technology
Eric Graham
Sr Software Engineer
Chirag hold a degree in Computer Science, started his first venture at 20 and has over
10+ years of experience Information Technology…

Possibilities are immense approximate 50 billion dollar market.and strong 50 million daily users.
Major Indian Cities like Bangalore Chennai Hyderabad New Delhi Mumbai and Kolkata have more than million Rikxa
running every day and more than 60 % of them have no working fare meters or have tampered fare meters.
At present its totally unorganized fragmented with no structure discipline consistency or quality of service.
Challenge
Rikxa is an Indian name for 3 wheeler vehicle which in South east Asia is known as TUK TUK and in India and other
countries in subcontinent is famous as most economical mode of transport.
There are almost 15 million Rikxa today in India Pakistan Bangladesh Indonesia Philippines Vietnam Thailand . Rikxa
App can serve the community most in 2 tier and 3 tier cities and towns and villages in India where there's no
organized system of transport private or public.
Idea

We have been watching the suffering of people and trouble people go thru every day and lack of proper transport
system.
Rikxa is a economical and efficient means of transport which till date is totally unorganized and government
machinery has complete failed to regulate and it has mushroomed like wild fire..
So we decided to bring some order in this unorganized sector….to give some relief and quality of service to
suffering fellow citizens and provide job opportunity to our youth from villages towns and satellite cites.
I know chirag for last 15 years and his parents ..he has been working in the It field and when the idea of rikxa was
hatched he was the ideal choice to be my co founder.(CTO)
Story
Rikxa will create at least 5000 direct & indirect job opportunity in first 8 -12 months to young man and women from
small cities towns and villages and stop migration of youth to cities.
Rikxa will join hands with micro finance organization like Gramin Bank and similar private and government backed
financial aid program to facilitate loans and training to young men and women and make them independent
entrepeunors and help Improving their life and create more self sustained micro economy. In 2 tier 3 tier cities
towns and villages.
Solution

Stylistaa - Explore fashion online

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Founder Mimi Lee clothing brand
and fashion editor at Pride magazine.
Mimi Hassan
Head of operations and fashion buying
Jerry Jenfa
Business developer and client acquisition
creative headat Genevieve magazine/
App designer for vodaphone Africa/
airttel and ARM.
sales and marketing for technology companies. Worked with Nokia, British airways and
HUAWEI.
Segun Oluwole
Co-founder, developer

We are trying to create access to markets for home grown designers and brands.
There are thousands of brands made in Nigeria and Africa that struggle to get stocked in stores globally and locally.
There consumers Who don't know the how or where to get these brands Nigeria.
Challenge
Stylistaa is the first ever interactive B2B and B2C shopping platform for all things fashion for Men, women, kids and
specialist fashion like plus sizes and maternity wear in Nigeria.
Unlike most fashion sites in Nigeria, STYLISTAA, is a team set up by industry people, who have years of expertise in
fashion industry, from visual merchandising, production, trend spotting we have it covered. We understand the
business of fashion.
Stylistaa differs from regular shopping sites in Nigeria with its intelligent and interactive technology Such as style
profiling and Quiz's which enables the stylistaa team to predict our shoppers personal style and make sure pre-
selected algorithms mainly show items that are relevant to their personal tastes which gives them more control
over their style, makes them feel like they have a personal stylist and saves them time while shopping.
Idea

We are a team set up by fashion, media and tech industry professionals.
We decided to put this StartUp together by utilizing our years of experience and contacts to change the way people
shop fashion.
We met each other through events hosted by different companies we were separately working for years ago and hit
it off.
Story
Stylistaa is a B2C platform online that will connect brands that produce In Nigeria to Consumers.
both locally and globally. The platform will also launch a B2B section that will connect brands with retailers locally
and globally.
This platform will be revolutionary to brands in Africa and make it easier for them to distribute their brands, it will
create an avenue for them to export to global markets that they wouldn't have been able to before.
80% of our brands are Produced locally and create jobs for their local community. Increasing their sales will create
more jobs for local artisans and their community.
Solution

VPN True - Choose Freedom

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Experience more than 7 years. 1,5
years worked as the deputy chief of
regional management of the bank
PAT KB Nadra…
Sergey Dzubenko
CEO
Ivan Prokopenko
Senior web developer
Vadim Yanik +380(097)2334521
vadim.yanik@gmail.com 47 years old
Education: Sevastopol National
University of Nuclear Energy…
SKILLS Development HighLoad sites,
API, APP backends (mobile, React),
daemons and services Language:
PHP, JavaScript…
Programming Languages/
Technologies •JAVA - Android. (JSON,
asynctask, make service, REST,
sockets, facebook sdk, hockey sdk…
Vadym Yanik
CTO
Kruk Yurii
Android developer

A limited number of human and material resources. To date, the team need new specialists to write software for
the platform, such as: Windows 10, MacOs, wifi router, Sony Playstation, Apple TV and others. This will allow to
capture a large part of the audience.
Challenge
VPN TRUE mobile application protects device from cracking in the free Wi-Fi world and helps to overcome site
blocking in the world of “prohibited” Internet. Application operates basing on the cryptographic data coding with
use of VPN technology. Cryptography helps to transfer information in encrypted form, that’s why provider or
hackers may not get access to the user’s PC or smartphone and receive any data. This is a background for the first
benefit of cryptography and VPN technology – full protection of bank accounts, e-mail, accounts in social networks
and other personal data from external access.
Idea

The essence of mobile application is to ensure security for the users of global Internet network.
This mobile application was launched on December 25, 2015 at Google Play Store and on March 8, 2016 at
AppStore.
During 10 months of operation we achieved over 130000 installations without use of any advertising sources. This
project is included in Top 50 of the most successful global projects of this category (from 1500 existing projects).
Story
The concept of this project provides for improvement by IT team of the mobile application destined to ensure
security for the users of global Internet network.
- Conversion - 10 % according to the results of the 1st year, 12,5% - according to the results of the 2nd year, and
15% - according to the results of the 3rd year.
- Creation of sales funnel consisting of: 5 main letters (2 - introduction, 3 - selling), 5 tutorial letters - VPN guidebook
(specifications, advantages, etc). Guide letters will be personal, sent from managers as a support and information,
and manager’s photo will be attached to each letter in order to confirm the real persons.
Solution

YakaKo - Intelligence on the Go

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Malcolm kastiro the co-founder with
vast experience in ict systems spanning
8 years. malcolm knows, understands
and appreciates….
Malcolm Kastiro
CEO
James Alituhikya
Developer
Emodek emmanuel a business man
also a co-founder. he manages to see
challenges as opportunities and
brings a focused…
James Alituhikya the lead software developer. If you can dream it, James can develop it with
Scrum project approach.
Emodek Emmanuel
CMO

UMEME has just closed all internal outlets where people were paying bills formerly.
Changing from Postpaid to Prepaid.
Is currently installing Prepaid Power meters for all households and businesses.
This is driven by Pay-as-you-consume model.
Challenge
YakaKo is an emergency Power Credit service for the clients to enjoy uninterrupted power usage.
“YakaKo” is a service that will enable and facilitate Yaka prepaid power clients who urgently need power to purchase
the power units on credit.
Idea

Malcolm Kastiro the co-founder with vast experience in ICT systems spanning 8 years. Malcolm knows, understands
and appreciates how different systems come together to offer a solution. His background is Microsoft, EMC,
Vmware, HP, Dell and IBM systems. He is a Virtualisation Certificated Professional, Microsoft Enterprise
Administrator, Microsoft Messaging Administrator among other certificates he racked up in storage and other
technologies. His passion is building systems.
Story
YakaKo is an emergency Power Credit service for the clients to enjoy uninterrupted power usage.
“YakaKo” is a service that will enable and facilitate Yaka prepaid power clients who urgently need power to purchase
the power units on credit.
Solution

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