Please describe your proposed solution.
<u>Market-fit SaaS upgrade based on our learnings and progress through F6 & F8</u>:
Both our problem identification and its proposed market-fit solution has been backed by the research, developments, testing and commercial launch of the Cooperativa Local team during 2 years of progress and support from four Catalyst Fund6 and Fund8 proposals ($71.850 dollars total funding) and a world's top-10 tech accelerator: Start-Up Chile. During this time, we have collaborated with over 300 potential clients of this proposal, such as 200 cultural agents, 150 artists, 30 city governments, public transportation system and over 10 private venues.
At 2022, Cooperativa Local launched its web3 cultural platform that aims to seamlessly onboard the same agents we aim to serve on this F11 proposal, but from this point, we will serve agents distributed worldwide. Cooperativa Local started its journey at the Latin American market, and because of that it has sensibly approached Web3 adoption, adapting it social and blockchain technology to the emerging markets necessities. Our F8-backed multi-chain web-app built on DeSo Blockchain offers the traditional social-network features Metamask log-in, Cardano tags and filters, an integrated crypto-wallet able to swap cryptos, NFTs, POAPS, an event billboard, a creative marketplace and other thematic tags/filters. Since its launch, it has achieved several KPIs and milestones in terms of platform use, exhibitions, partnerships, B2B proposals, collaborations, and social media growth. The platform has generated 85,000 interactions from 1,300 visitors, 300 of which were non-web3 adopters that have used Web 3.0 features for the first time through our friendly platform.
We have produced 9 physical multi-chain exhibitions on some of the most importan cultural venues of LatAm, such as GAM. We have also executed phygital-VR exhibitions such as 2023 Global Pizza DAO Party Chile, nd partnerships with benchmark Web3 brands such as NounsDAO, Snapbrillia and Metacorral, among others. At NFT.NYC 2023 we exhibited and meet with agents sharing intentions and objectives. We counted over 1.200 attendees, 150 participants and renowned NFT artists.
<u>Vision of our Start-up</u> (Specific Fund11 Proposal comes afterwards)
Due to all our collaborations and leads with private and public physical agents, we intimately involved ourselves in all aspects of a trendy cultural event (with Web3 experience) design, funding, producing, execution processes. We identified that Cardano would maximize its impact by powering -through Fund11- an accesible market-fit service of event ticketing, integrated with trendy brand experiences.
Event ticketing and sponsorship are the most suitable market where Cardano could get a massive market-fit approach in the entertainment industry, while trendy brand experiences are easily integrable with this ticketing model, making it possible for us to offer fair on-chain commercial opportunities to all the stakeholders of event producing, as well as audiences. Historically, brands have been the main sponsorships for the entertainment industry, and they happen to be numerous, diverse and of multiple industries that -through us- could provide their first entertaining on-chain experience for their audiences of potential customers.
This strategy would mark the first steps of our end-vision: creating a strong market-fit event-producing global network, able to onboard producers, brands, artists, workers and audiences to Cardano. This platform will decentralize and enhance on Cardano the deals and contract-execution between six different stakeholders: (A) Event planners, (B) Event producers, (C) Brands, (D) Venues, (E) Artists and (F) Audiences: during the twelve stages of event-producing:
- Preliminar event proposal: Event planner proposes offer with considerations and needs.
- Event planning communications: producers, brands and venues respond and start modular communications and negotiations.
- Producing deals and contracts: deals are agreed between agents, into contracts.
- Artist booking: artists are booked, into contract.
- Pre-event contracts execution: payments as producing is delivered according to deals.
- Ticketing: tickets are available.
- Marketing Campaign: event is promoted, brands as sponsors..
- Event experience: event happens, brands as sponsors.
- Post-event contracts execution: event profit are distributed according to deals.
- Post-event content: is distributed and the experience can be extended on our multi-chain cultural platform.
- Open 360º feedback cycle report: from all stakeholders.
- Private performance operation AI-analytics report and public reputation: will be made available on the platform.
<u>Specific Solutions of our Fund11 Proposal</u>
As explained above, our vision and F11 roadmap will start by approaching a market-fit basis, through trendy web3-powered decentralized (6) on-chain Ticketing plus (7, 8) decentralized brand sponsorships and event-experiences.
(6) <u>Cardano-powered Smart Ticketing</u>: event planners, producers and artists will be able to easily offer tickets for their events, powered by Cardano in order to provide simplified managing, traceability, authenticity, transferability and data analysis, as well as a secondary market that eliminates scalping and combating frauds. Moreover, they will be offered to easily include an entertaining set of web3-experiences for buyers, such as NFTs, POAPs and limited on-chain merchandising, using our already operating web3 cultural platform build with Fund8. By the last quarter of our F11, we will be able to approach a global market and generate revenues that integers a fees from $1 dollar per ticket.
(7-8) <u>Trending Brands Phygital Experiences and Marketing Campaigns</u>: event planners and producers will be able to register to offer brands (and viceversa) to sponsorship events and provide (or request) either monetary funding, budget or sampling for the joint-marketing campaigns. Communications will be free through chat, but also modular and templated in order to drive a standard of clear negotiations and agreements on Cardano smart-contracts. These brand campaigns will also be able to include the web3-experiences that our platform already delivers. By the last quarter of our F11, we will try a market approach that 5% commissions of the event-sponsorship deals.
(11-12) <u>Reports: 360º Feedback and AI-powered Performance Analytics:</u> Both products will integrate insightful reports. On one hand, we will promote and deliver 360º Feedback Reports which consider the opinions and experiences of all stakeholders related with our event-ticketing and brand experience SaaS, as well as internal business-operations analytics with AI-insights for event-planners and brands. Morover, a public reputation score that will be generated to signal the quality of our stakeholders, what's crucial to achieve the product decentralized market-fit by the last quarter of this proposal 1-year roadmap.
<u>Our clients share the same desire</u>: showcasing at events is fundamental for brands, cultural organizations and artists, but most can't access suitable deals with venues and producing: inefficiency that minimizes the potential market to which they could expose and offer. Events are diverse in themes, scales and locations, as well as artists, brands and venues. Events are unique opportunities to engage with customers, audiences and partnerships, creating lasting awareness and building loyalties or a sense of community, what can translate into increased sales, reputation, reach and retention. Even more, web3 features serve as a differentiator that can push their success forward. Thus, aggregating these opportunities in a decentralized market on Cardano and complementing it with an extended web3-social experience can foster convenient scales of technology adoption.
<u>The ticketing and event market are adopting technology at high-rates and doubling their market volume every 5-years</u> : According to Statista, the global smart online ticketing market is anticipated to grow to USD 34.8 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 15.6%, while the global online event ticketing market is expected to grow from USD 77.49 billion in 2023 to USD 97.36 billion by 2028. Mordor Intelligence quotes that the growth in these ticketing products can be attributed to the fundamental millennial population and their preference for convenience. On the other hand, VMR states that in 2020 the commercial event market was valued at USD 886.99 billion and it is predicted to grow 147% to 2.2 trillion USD with a CAGR of 13.48%. This market including includes concerts, festivals, sporting experiences, corporate events, to trade shows and conferences. Following the same trend, Researchdrive estimates that by only combining the global market of sponsorships for festival and sports events, they will grow 50% and sum USD 160 billion by 2028.
Our start-up aims to expand from the Chile even market to LatAm and the rest of the world: Chile is known for hosting huge annual events that celebrate art, music, sports, literature, dance, and culture. According to the Annual Statistics Report 2019, between 2015 and 2019, 23,436 concerts were carried out in Chile, with more than 15.5 million attendees, an increase in 14.5% between the years 2015 and 2018. On a larger regional scope, the updated case of the Latin American market is promising, resulting in a projected market volume of $473.90 millions USD, and as quoted by ANARA: 'Mega events such as Lollapalooza continue to attract major local and international names, drawing publics of over 100,000, and with sponsorship from the beer, food and telecommunications companies', referring to Lollapalooza and other massive festivals happening in Chile, Brasil, Argentina, México and Colombia.