Application — Social Impact Ventures

Email Address

Company Name

Company URL

http://

If you have an online demo, what's the url?

http://

Where is your company located?

Please describe your company in 140 characters or less.

Please enter the url of a 1 minute video introducing the yourself or team.

http://

For each founder, please list: name; age; email address; personal url, github url, facebook id, twitter id; employer and title (if any). List the main contact first. Separate founders/owners with blank lines.

Please tell us in one or two sentences about the most impressive thing other than this that each founder has built or achieved.

Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (noncomputer) system to your advantage.

Please tell us about an interesting project, preferably outside of class or work, that two or more of you created together. Include urls if possible.

How long have the founders/owners known one another and how did you meet?

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making or doing?

What's new about what you're making or doing? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)?

Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?

What do you understand about your business that other companies in your industry don't?

How do or will you make money? How much could you make? (We realize you can't know precisely, but give your best estimate.)

What stage is your business?

How long have you been working at it? (In months)

How will you get customers?

If funded, which of you will commit to working exclusively (no school, no other jobs) on this project for the next year?

For founders who can't, why not? What level of commitment are they willing to make?

Do any founders have commitments in the future (e.g. finishing college, going to grad school), and if so what?

Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? Will any be working as employees or consultants for anyone else?

Are any of the following true?

If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.

Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

2021 APPLICATION