VUniverse

VU is unique in focusing on user tastes and preferences without bias toward paid advertisers. Quickly find where to stream your favorites and discover new movies and shows you never would have known about otherwise.

Closed SAFE at $1M
MVP in Beta on both Android and iOP app stores
1800 registered users
11,000 customer waitlist
Content from 27+ streaming services, including Netflix, HUlu, Disney+, etc
Registered Trademarks
Featured on NASDOQ TV's #Tradetalks
SXSW Innovation Award Finalist (2020)
Pepperdine Most Fundable Company Semi- Finalist (2020)
The Startup Pill's top picks for the best Video Straming startups 2021

Product Development  $100,000 40.0%

Intellectual Property  $25,000 10.0%

Legal Privacy Experts $12,500 5.0%

Customer Acquisition $100,250 40.1%

Intermediary fees $12,250 4.9%

 

Evelyn Brady-Watters, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Evelyn is an executive producer in both the entertainment content and advertising worlds. She co-founded The Golden Trailer Awards with her sister in 1999, creating an award show to recognize the best in film trailers. Evelyn graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business from Hillsdale college. She currently is active with the school and serves on the Alumni Board for Hillsdale College as well as serves on the board of the Nashville Film Institute.

Monica Brady, Founder and President
Monica is Executive Producer and Co-Founder of Trailer Central and The Golden Trailer Awards, which have annually recognized the best in filmed entertainment previews for the past 20 years. In 2017, Monica wrote, directed, and produced the feature film Above All Things, and was recognized in the Annual New Directors Showcase by SHOOT Magazine as a ‘director to watch’. Monica studied at Oxford and earned a dual Film and Business degree from NYU’s Tisch School of Film and Television Production before beginning her career with the esteemed Jim Henson Productions.

Ryan McManus, Co-Founder
Co-founder Ryan joins VUniverse from MoviePass, where he led product development from inception through its acquisition in 2018. He successfully established a profitable business model, designed and built the first native Android application, and functioned as the company's analyst.

Judith Byrnes, Operations Officer
Judith (Jude) Byrnes brings a wealth of software management experience to Team VU. She’s led software teams from concept to worldwide deployment in the Department of Defense and private sector.

Joey Adarkwah, Chief Technology Officer
Joey is a results-oriented technology leader who brings over 2 decades of experience to VUniverse. He joins VUniverse from MoviePass, where as CTO, he led all software engineering efforts.