StartupWind

Learn, Incubate, Mentor, Scale

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Security Type
Common Stock
Categories
Education, Technology, Service Businesses
Min Investment
$250
Location
CUPERTINO, CA
Offering Date
October 05, 2022
Expected Close Date
March 06, 2023
Target Raise
$10.00K-$1.23M
No. Investors
49
Security Price
$2.25
Valuation
$26,052,750
Website
startupwind.com
Number of Employees
14
Cash
$73,503
Revenue
$252,313
Short Term Debt
$172,224
Cost of Goods
$0
Long Term Debt
$41,000
Net Income
$-74,835

Company Description

StartupWind is the AI-Powered SMB Innovation & Mentoring Platform for a market of 30 million Small Business & Startups owners and we help them acquire critical business skills they lack. Over 10,000 small business owners have used the platform to gain business skills using 40+ video-based courses, self-service accelerator programs, business planning tools, and connection to 1,200+ of mentors. StartupWind also helps universities, state economic agencies & SBDCs with digital tools that allow them to help thousands of SMBs in their region.

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Key Deal Facts

StartupWind’s mission is to empower small business owners with the critical business skills they typically lack so that they thrive and become the growth engine for their communities. Unlike dozens of isolated tools and websites, we believe StartupWind offers a single unified Innovation & Mentoring platform that allows the SMB owners to acquire the right business skills when they need it.

We are targeting a market of 30+ million SMB owners in the US comprising a large addressable market estimated to be worth $36 billion.*

We have proven market validation with over $250K ARR (annual recurring revenue) in 2021 and 25,000 engaged users, 10,000 small business owners, 1,200 mentors and 2,000 course enrollments on the platform. In addition to bootstrapping StartupWind, our leadership team has helped build and grow products at TriNet, Workday, Saba, Sun Microsystems, and BEA/Oracle. We also bring highly-experienced advisors including 2 public company board members.

Management Team / Advisory Board Bios

Professor Mohanbit Sawhney



Member, Board of Advisors


Associate Dean of Innovation at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Board Member at Reliance Jio Infocomm (NSE: RELIANCE)
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Sanjit Singh Dang



Member, Board of Advisors


Chairman UFirstCapital
Former Investment Director at Intel Capital
Investments & Exits: Palantir (IPO 2020), Pinterest (IPO 2019), DocuSign (IPO 2018), Pensando (acquired by AMD for $1.9B in 2022), BodyLabs (acquired by Amazon 2017), Voke (acquired by Intel 2016)
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Dr Elizabeth Xu



Member, Board of Advisors


Member, Board of Director, Remark Holdings (NASDAQ: MARK) 
Former CTO at BMC Software
Adjunct Professor at Stanford University 
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.
















Ido Sarig



Member, Board of Advisors


Former VP of Marketing at Intel / Wind River
Former Venture Capitalist at TWVC
Former VP of Marketing at Mercury Interactive (acquired by Hewlett Packard)
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Karen Steele



Member, Board of Advisors


SVP of Marketing at Near
Former SVP/VP of Marketing at: VMware, Marketo, Saba, and Informatica 
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Craig Cook



Member, Board of Advisors


Director & Head of Global Alliances at Google 
Former VP of Alliances at SAP
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.
















Robert C Wolcott



Member, Board of Advisors


Chairman TWIN Global
Professor at Kellogg School of Management & Chicago Booth School Business School
Angel Investor in 20+ startups including Indigogo and StartupWind
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Mahesh Rajasekharan



Member, Board of Advisors


CEO, Cleo Communications
Former COO of SumTotal, VP at i2 Technologies
Partner, Globe Private Equity
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.
















Ned Stabler



Member, Board of Advisors


CEO, Techtown Detroit 
Vice President for Economic Development at Wayne State University
Former VP of Economic Development at Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Madhukar Govindaraju



Member, Board of Advisors


CEO, Numly
Former SVP/Head of Engineering at TriNet (NYSE: TNET), Saba, Microsoft
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.















Sure Madnani



Member, Board of Advisors


Vice President, American Express
Deputy General Manager, IBM Global Business Services
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.
















Stephanie Sims



Advisor


Founder Finance-ability
Former executive at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers 
Works on average 1 hour a week for the company.
Amount Raised : $308,946
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