Searcheeze (Ibrii Inc.)

Searcheeze is a trademark of
Ibrii Inc.
c/o Motu Novu LLC
101 Federal Street
Suite 1900
Boston, MA 02110

0039 06 442 448 62

Founded on: January 2011

www.searcheeze.com

Contact: Stefano Passatordi, CEO, stefano@searcheeze.com

One line pitch:
Search collaboration made easy. With Searcheeze you can collect any kind of web content from your online search results. Collaborate with others. Publish your work on your blog and social accounts.

Customer problem:
Collecting content from web search results is a hassle. Doing it with your friends and colleagues in a collaborative way is just impossible. Sharing only the best content you’ve collected is even worse.

Our product:
Searcheeze is composed of two main parts: the toolbar and the dashboard. The toolbar is a bookmarklet which runs on all major browsers and allows users to grab and collect any type of web content (text, pictures, videos, audio streams) very easily, just with a drag and drop. The dashboard is a private area, on searcheeze.com, which allows users to manage all the content took from the web with the toolbar. Thanks to the toolbar a group of users who are searching for the same topic can collect from the web directly the content they are really interested in, not just urls. Users can search in different moments, from different places. All the content they have taken will be collected in one shared place accessible by the dashboard. Into their dashboard each user can manage all the content he has taken and see all the content taken from other members of the group. They can add notes, add custom text and organize all the content. Thanks to our autopost feature, users can publish and share their work with just one click on their blogs or social accounts. The best part is that each user can see in real time what content other users have taken and can interact with it. Searcheeze can be used by a single user who is willing to collect content from the web or by groups of users who need to search about the same topic.

Our customers target and our sales/marketing strategies
Every day there are 29M searches per minute. There are more than 126M of bloggers, 17000 Universities WW, 96000 public schools only in USA, 76M of students only in USA and thousands of press agencies. All of them need to collect, organize and share content took from web pages. Especially students and press agencies they need a collaborative search system for their researches.
We will enter the market using invites with discounts, Facebook/Google advertising and viral diffusion thanks to autopost feature. We will sign distribution agreements with blogger platforms, toolbar distributors and business framework since all of them need our technology to collect and manage content from web pages.

Our revenue model
Our main revenue model is a Freemium model. Our users can use Searcheeze for free but to access advanced functionalities they have to pay $4/m. White label for businesses like press agencies and schools/universities is an added opportunity.

What is your target market? Who are your primary competitors
Our main competitors are: Evernote and Zoho Notebook. Three minor competitors: Searchteam, Springpad and Memonic. Evernote is a service to remember everything, save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Evernote got $46M in funding, 5M users and with their freemium model they closed the 2010 with $10M of revenues. Zoho Notebook is a service to create content, share and collaborate. Zoho Notebook has millions of users and has a freemium model. Springpad and Memonic allow saving and accessing anything you want to remember. Springpad got $4M of funds and Memonic got $1.2M of seed funding. Searchteam allows collaborative saving and organizing content during a web researches.

Our competitive advantage
Thanks to our internal technologies MediaGrab and Bricks, we allow our users to grab/collect any kind of content from a web page just using drag and drop. Moreover users can see in real time which content they took directly from the bookmarklet. Our competitors don’t allow to grab/collect content using just drag and drop and they don’t allow users to see in real time what they are collecting but they obligate them to visit their dashboard. Searcheeze is the only one service which allows collaborative searches, allowing groups of users to search about the same topic from different places and in different moments. None of our competitors allow collaborative searches.

Financial information:
We got $300K from an Italian VC: dPixel.
Break even at end of 2012.

• Stefano Passatordi wrote (1 year ago):

  Hi Jerry! Thank you, that's a great news. Thanks!

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• Jerry Engel wrote (1 year ago):

  Congratulations!
  You are a finalist in this year's Global Entrpreneuship Challenge in Barcelona.
  Details to follow.

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