May 2023 Demo night recap
Madsto.in GoCollaborate.co.uk and DeCarbon8+ share their ideas and search for your feedback
Key insights
π Exciting announcement: High Yield and Canopy are partnering to launch a competition for a two-week UX UI design sprint, offering startups the opportunity to explore new features and functionality for their products.
π° The Indian fashion retail space is a growing market, poised to reach $35 billion in the next five to seven years due to increasing internet penetration.
π The Indian market is experiencing rapid growth and presents a significant opportunity for consumption and expansion.
πΌ By partnering with municipalities and industries, Decarbonate Plus offers a platform for carbon credit trading, enabling industries to neutralize their carbon emissions and municipalities to become greener, leading to increased investments and benefits for all players in the ecosystem.
π The MVP being built is a carbon credit marketplace that aims to promote transparency and prevent greenwashing by certifying the accuracy of carbon credit projects.
π The concept of decarbonizing requires government regulations to drive change, such as the UK's rule that all vehicles must comply by 2035.
π± Forestry producers could play a major role in carbon sequestration, potentially surpassing farms in their ability to sequester carbon.
π The event had participants from different countries, highlighting the global reach and impact of the startup community.
Startups learn the importance of listening to feedback and aligning with customer needs, while Madsto seeks funding to tap into India's growing online fashion retail market.
πΊ Startups learn the importance of listening to feedback and aligning with customer needs, while Madsto seeks funding to tap into India's growing online fashion retail market.
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High Yield and Canopy are partnering to launch a competition for a two-week UX UI design sprint, where startups can apply to explore their ideas or enhance existing products, with the winner being announced at the next demo night in June.
The purpose of the video is to address the common failure in startups of creating products that have no market need, emphasizing the importance of listening to feedback and aligning with customer needs.
Presenters express gratitude for the opportunity to present and begin their presentation.
Madsto is a fashion brand from Bangalore seeking $650,000 in seed funding to tap into the $10 billion online fashion retail market in India, which is projected to grow to $35 billion in the next 5-7 years due to increasing internet penetration.
The fashion industry in India is dominated by larger brands, but smaller brands with meaning and purpose are lacking access to capital and offline channels, presenting an opportunity for investors to look into the industry.
π Mad Store has achieved significant revenue with just one employee and plans to scale using access to capital, with a focus on the plus size market; they prioritize being lean, efficient, and profitable, utilizing technology and partnerships to launch products faster and manage inventory on platforms like Amazon.
Mad Store has achieved significant revenue with just one employee and should now focus on scaling using access to capital, with the plus size market being an area of excitement.
The company focuses on being lean, efficient, and profitable in the fashion industry, recognizing that their style and design will be copied, and they are particularly bullish on the plus size market, already reaching 45% of their sales in that segment.
Our lead tents are faster than bigger brands because we have tied up with factories, trained them with our product DNA, and split the sales to launch in a shorter time; additionally, we are cost effective and utilize technology to scale our e-commerce activity.
Indian marketplaces like Amazon are driving massive consumption and sales, so the speaker's company focuses on being present on these platforms and using technology like Unicommerce to manage inventory and orders.
The company's focus is on building a strong brand and positioning themselves in the market rather than developing their own technology, with plans to leverage existing platforms to create brand awareness and eventually tell their own brand story once they have become a sizable brand.
Neil was asked for feedback and questions on a topic, specifically the differentiator.
π The speaker emphasizes the importance of focusing on bottom wear and plus size clothing to stand out in the market, particularly in India, where competitor brands have achieved revenue growth without marketing expenses, and aims to establish a strong brand presence.
The speaker discusses the importance of focusing on bottom wear and plus size clothing in order to stand out from the competition and achieve success in the growing market.
Competitor brands have achieved significant revenue growth without spending on marketing by taking advantage of the digital market in India, and the speaker aims to establish a strong brand presence in the market, particularly in the plus-size segment.
The speaker begins their presentation by sharing their screen and confirming that the audience can see the PowerPoint presentation.
π± Decarbonate Plus is a platform that allows farmers to trade carbon credits, providing income and helping industries reduce carbon emissions, with a focus on becoming the top voluntary carbon credit in South Europe.
Decarbonate Plus is a platform that allows farmers to trade carbon credits, providing them with a new source of income while helping industries neutralize their carbon emissions, and the company aims to establish itself as the number one voluntary carbon credit in the South of Europe.
The speaker explains the MVP of a carbon credit marketplace, where users can send certificates of carbon credit projects to be certified and then trade those certified carbon credits on the market.
You can define the price and quantity of carbon credits you're selling, and the platform can integrate different commodities like methane into the market.
The biggest technical challenge for the MVP is handling the large amount of credits and implementing an automatic system, with a seamless transition expected for Portugal but a potentially trickier process for international expansion.
The speaker discusses the potential challenges and benefits of using carbon credits in a market model, highlighting the need for certification and the simplification of the process for buyers.
The speaker compliments the strength of the idea and wishes the person good luck, then asks a question to Jose.
π± Portugal is working towards carbon neutrality by 2045 and the speaker's platform aims to partner with various sectors to sequester carbon, while also presenting a demo platform for community engagement and real-time data.
The speaker discusses the concept of decarbonizing and mentions that although their social media accounts have been active for close to 4 years, they are actually relatively new, being only about one year old.
Portugal is working towards carbon neutrality by 2045 and has seen a rise in companies working with carbon credits, particularly in the forestry sector, due to the fast carbon sequestration of eucalyptus.
Forestry producers, municipalities, farmers, and potentially the sea sector could partner with the speaker's platform to sequester carbon, and various companies related to the agricultural sector can also join the platform to share revenue.
The speaker discusses the Rice Museum and expresses a desire to visit it, while also mentioning the need to stay within a time limit for the presentation.
Go Collaborate is an affordable platform that aims to engage communities and improve their places, with a team consisting of experienced individuals and a need for additional support and funding.
After 2 years of preparation, the speaker presents a demo platform that allows communities to engage in consultations and provides real-time data to clients, seeking partners, mentors, and new investment.
π The speaker discusses the potential for follow-on funding and the use of a self-serve, paid to play, SaaS model, highlighting the superiority of their product compared to Survey Monkey in terms of providing informed comment and engaging communities, and also addresses the question of how they manage and engage with people's data.
The speaker discusses the potential for follow-on funding and the use of a self-serve, paid to play, SaaS model, highlighting the superiority of their product compared to Survey Monkey in terms of providing informed comment and engaging communities, and also addresses the question of how they manage and engage with people's data.
The focus of the platform is on B2B communication with town and parish councils, communities, housing associations, and housing developers, but there is potential to explore B2C opportunities in the future.
Affordable solutions are available for communities to work together and engage, with a platform for organizations to communicate with their people and share documents, regardless of geographic location.
The speaker discusses the need to raise money to make their platform more self-served and differentiates it from SurveyMonkey by emphasizing their goal of obtaining informed comments.
We provide proper and informed comments to clients, allowing them to read and digest information before answering questions, unlike other platforms, and our quality of reporting is superior.
Outdated and cheap, but not a good experience.
πΊ The speaker discusses their digital platform that allows communities to participate in consultations and improve their lives, while also mentioning the challenges of finding product-market fit for startups.
The speaker plans to end the video with a difficult question, but there are technical difficulties with the audio.
The speaker explains that their digital platform is a simple solution that allows communities to easily participate in consultations, provide qualitative and quantitative responses, and empower themselves to improve their lives.
People are leaving London and moving to Cornwall or Portugal because they question the value of earning big money and having expensive houses, and the speaker believes that they are not over-engineering things but rather working closely with someone to ensure they are meeting goals and objectives.
Startups often struggle with finding product-market fit and end up building features for different target audiences, but in hindsight, there are some developments they wouldn't have done.
The speaker discusses how they were able to build something easily despite some rework, highlighting the under-engineered solution and their IT literacy.
π’ The competition for two UXUI design sprints is now open, participants have four weeks to submit their entries, and the speaker expresses gratitude to participants and announces the winner.
The competition for two UXUI design sprints to explore new ideas or prototypes is now live and participants have four weeks to submit their entries.
The speaker expresses gratitude to participants from various locations and announces the winner, while also encouraging reflection and learning from the event.
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