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Hi 👋 ,  my name is Twama Nambili, and I am the founder and CEO of Aeone. At Aeone, we help you build communities and buy or sell influence. Let me explain.

1 in 4 American kids plans to be an influencer, and the creator economy will reach $480 billion by 2027. 

Now, I want you to meet Chloe. A content creator with 5,000 highly engaged (deeply trust her opinion) followers on Instagram. Brands are willing to pay for this engagement, but she doesn’t know how to find them or what to charge. She spends countless hours slaving away, manually designing media kits (a crucial resume for content creators) and sending cold emails to no avail. Her alternative? Subscribing to over 10 different tools she can’t afford. Chloe dreams of becoming a full-time creator and getting her time back.

Meet Chioma. A talent manager at XYZ Talent Agency, managing 200 influencers. She struggles to find a place to seamlessly manage their talent roster, pitch brands, and get reliable campaign performance data.

Last but not least, meet Brad, a Marketer at Epic Sneakers. He wants to hire 800 nano and micro influencers to generate a buzz for a new launch, but he doesn’t have time to scroll through various social platforms to find them. And like Chioma, doesn’t have a way to track the performance of each influencer in the campaign.

A Nano Influencer is a social media content creator with 1K - 10K followers on any social platform. A Micro Influencer is a social media content creator with 10K - 100K followers on any social platform.

Enters Creatr by Aeone. A powerful AI-powered platform that's building over 10 tools into one, making it easier for content creators and talent managers to connect with brands and monetize their audience. Creatr's vision is to elevate and inspire the global creative economy and bring the next billion creators online.

In less than 10 minutes, Chloe can create an automated and auto-updating media kit (resume for content creators) that lives in the web, that visualizes data from her various social media platforms, all on one page. She loves that she can pick a custom URL, showcase her past work, and can now easily send her media kit link to prospective brands when pitching herself. The best part? Brands trust the data in her media kit because Creatr pulls it directly from those platforms. She’s also able send invoices and get paid anywhere in the world.

Chloe can do all of this and more, all in one place and at a fraction of the cost. But this is just the beginning, as we have features (such as campaign management and analytics) for talent managers and businesses in our product roadmap.

The future of marketing is digital, and influencer marketing will play a pivotal role in this new economy. The market opportunity is massive. Yes, we start off niche - focusing on nano and micro social media influencers, but our long-term vision is two-fold: One, to serve anyone who has influence that they want to monetize. Think newspapers, TV stations, Magazines, celebrities, athletes, media companies, Radios, etc.  Two, to serve the businesses (SMEs) looking to pay for that influence. 

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Definitions

Content Creators vs Creators, vs Influencers

Creatr targets creators with influence. A creator is a person or thing that brings something into existence. An influencer is a person or thing that has the ability to influence the opinions and behaviors of others. A content creator is someone who creates content for public distribution or consumption. Content creators are a type of creator. Not all content creators are influencers (i.e. most UGC creators), not all influencers are content creators (i.e. top CEOs, political leaders, major scientists, renowned artists), and not all influencers are social media content creators (i.e. Beyonce, Christiano Ronaldo, Brad Pitt). People often confuse the word “influencer” to only mean social media content creators. However, social media content creators are just a subsegment of the influencer umbrella. 

People also frequently confuse the term “content creator” to exclusively mean “social media content creator”, but social media content creators are just a subsegment of the content creator umbrella. A content creator is someone who creates content for public distribution or consumption. Therefore; a radio is a content creator, a TV station is a content creator, a newspaper is a content creator, an author is a content creator, a film/movie production studio is a content creator, a musician is a content creator, and the list goes on.

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87% of influencers (nano and micro) are underserved, and we initially target underserved locations.

Aeone is disrupting the Creator Economy space.

Friends, I have lived and breathed the problem I’m solving as a Nano influencer for 8 years. But that’s about to change. Having left my home country, everything I’ve ever known, and even a multi-six figure salary to build Aeone full-time; I’m all in. I’m backed by a strong team of engineers, designers, and advisors. I’m not just proud of this team, I have the utmost confidence in my team.

And as for my background, I hold 2 Master's degrees, have 15 years of experience, and am a former Senior  Product Manager at Amazon, managing software tools used by over 1.4 billion sellers -  in a product that generates hundreds of billions in revenue annually. We are scrappy, and built an intricate Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with just $12 thousands of my savings and sheer determination. Some teams raise millions in VC funding and teams of 10 to build what we built. We did it for $12K. Imagine what we could achieve with more financial support. We have over 90 users with no marketing spent…

and our vision towards building a mission-driven global tech company is unwavering. I’m used to being underestimated and overlooked, and yes, I know as a Founder and CEO – I don’t fit most VC’s definition of a successful tech founder. But that’s not enough to stop me.

I’m a doer – relentlessly so, I’ve built a team of doers, and building a community of doers which I am inviting you to be a part of. And guess what? Together, we are going to make it happen – to build Aeone into global tech company that brings the world closer together and creates genuine value for society through solutions like Creatr. We are not just another influencer marketing platform, we are building software for what the creator economy will look like at scale.

We are raising 2.9 million dollars to build our team, build out our B2B features, and help scale our MVP to 20,000 users and 1 million dollars in ARR in 12 months – and to reach 1 millions users by 2027. This industry requires rapid iteration and shipment. We not only need to catch up to the competition, we need to beat the competition. 

For revenue, we charge subscription and transaction fees.

We are nothing without our community and customers, and today we are inviting our community to invest in our shared vision. But please, understand that investing in startups is inherently risky. Please don’t invest anything you can’t afford to lose.

The minimum investment is only $100, a priceless chance to be a part of something big, a part of history. Join us in building a mission-driven global tech company and let's make the seemingly impossible, possible together! Because that’s what we, as doers, do.

And if you still have doubt, I live by the motto that "it always seems impossible, until it's done"” – Nelson Mandela

Let's build the future together!

Sincerely,

Twama Nambili

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