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Don't just take our word for it, check out our awards.\u0026nbsp;With Fanera, fans can follow their favorite teams, build a community with other like-minded fans, and find targeted football content without the extra fluff.Now, everything fans love can be found in the palm of their hand. What else can a die hard fan ask for?🤯 Fanera is changing the way Football Fans use Social MediaFanera is a platform where fans share their favorite moments, allowing their followers to live vicariously through their snaps. On Fanera, fans are surrounded by all of their friends, family, influencers and favorite teams that all share the same passion. They can post as many football pictures, videos and memes as they want while growing their following and giving them an opportunity to engage with other fan-generated content from around the world. Fanera also uses AI to make sure fans never miss their favorite content, based on each individual’s behavior.To keep the app exciting and engaging, we introduced gamification features that allow users to gather rewards by posting, sharing, liking, commenting, and predicting scores. These activities can earn the fans points, badges, and help them collect cards of their favorite football players and add them to their roster. 💪 Made for fans, meant for clubsFanera has developed a powerful dashboard for football clubs to manage, connect and engage with their fans, creating a tighter bond within their communities.Clubs have at their disposal a powerful AI-driven dashboard within our Club Management Platform that allows precise targeting based on demographics, offering useful analytics to help them capitalize on their brand image.It’s a fan-to-fan app at its best, where clubs are able to capture their followers' content, allowing them to connect and monetize their audience beyond the match time.Fanera Top Features 🚀🤳 Social Platform: Users can surround themselves with their friends and followers, create networks, and share stories and snaps 📆 Real-Time Match updates: Get highlights, predictions, and news from around the world😎 Personalization: Fans can customize the content they want to see and interact with🈺 Multilingual Content: Fanera is available in 8 languages and covers 90% of the languages spoken during the World Cup. 🇬🇧\u0026nbsp;🇪🇸\u0026nbsp;🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇨🇳\u0026nbsp;🇸🇦 🇹🇷📊 Club management Platform: powerful dashboard to manage, connect and engage with their fan-base based on various demographics and provides useful analytics to help monetize their account. 🤖 Artificial Intelligence: Our system learns the behavior of our users over time and displays relevant posts based on their content consumption🎮 Gamification: Any activity performed on Fanera can earn the fans points, badges, and help them redeem those points for official merchandise or to\u0026nbsp;collect cards of their favorite football players and add them to their roster.This slide contains forward-looking projections that cannot be guaranteed.Fanera Revenue Model 💸Currently, Fanera incorporates three main revenue streams:Ad Manager – this tool allows clubs, brands, sponsors and influencers to create ad campaigns for their specific audienceClub Subscriptions - Though free to join and access the club dashboard, some analytics and business data will be provided as premium paid features In-App Purchases – The gamification features allows users to gather rewards by posting, sharing, liking, commenting, and predicting scores. Some of these rewards can be purchased in advance to rank-up their team line-up and place at the top of the leaderboard.The future is Fanera – World Cup 2022! 🏆The World Cup is in 528 Days, 13 Hours and 42 minutes. (Yes, we are THAT serious about football). 🤪🤩With the support and guidance of the Supreme Committee in Qatar, we are confident that Fanera will make waves during this exciting event that captures the eyes of 2.5 billion people worldwide. 👀Join Fanera in creating the next TikTok for football for fans! Football is a team sport – be on team Fanera! 🥇Fanera unites fans, clubs, brands, sponsors under one team - team Fanera! Now is your chance to be a part of Fanera’s launch into a global phenomenon. We’ve already found success on a smaller scale, but to achieve our potential and leave our mark on football worldwide, we’ll need your support and financial backing. Think of all the social platforms you wish you could have joined before they went big...that’s where we want to be headed. Don’t miss out on this one as well. 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Who are your competitors. I see the business started more than 4 years. What is the biggest challenged not to generate any revenue yet? 2. Did you get any traction from English premier league? why not? 3. What is the revenue gene...","answer":"Hello Mohammad, we appreciate your interest and your questions. 1. There are various indirect competitors. We have the major social media platforms where football is a side topic, while on Fanera, football is the focal point. There are also various apps that are targeting fan engagement (Forza, 365, Goal.com and Football Fan), however their focus is on fans consuming content (highlights, news and live scores), while we are focusing on converting our fans from content consumers to content crea..."},{"question":"Hi. Do you have a signed agreement with FIFA to be the official app for WC 2022?","answer":"Hello Vikram, and thank you for your question. Fanera (formerly SnapGoal) won the Challenge 22 Competition (a competition for disruptive sports tech startups on the Road to the World Cup in Qatar) under the tutelage of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy in Qatar (the host of the World Cup). Aside from getting a grant for $115,000 to assist us in building the app, we also have a signed service agreement when we piloted Fanera during the biggest tournament in Qatar in 2019. Although ..."},{"question":"How are you protecting your IPs?","answer":"Thank you for your question, and we appreciate your investment already. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Although IPs are challenging and expensive for early startups, in particular, the space of social media platforms, However, we took serious procedures from the beginning to ensure protecting the assets of the company. \u0026nbsp;1)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Human resources: Fanera believes in the power of talents, therefore, we reserved 10% of the company shares toward incentivizing team members and strengthen their ..."},{"question":"Have you raised any funding before this Wefunder round, and can you share that previous fundraising information?","answer":"Hi Eric, We appreciate your question. 1) Fanera raised the first round from the host of the world cup 2022, which was free of shares - $115K. which was for developing the solution and pilot it in one of the biggest football events in Qatar. https://www.qatar2022.qa/en/opportunities/challenge-22/success-stories/fanera 2) Oman Technology fund invested $150K as seed round (Convertible notes) in 2020 https://d3.otf.om/fanera Feel free to book a call with the founders to brief you further and answ..."},{"question":"This looks like a great time to build a fan engagement platform for football given the world cup is just around the corner. Q1) You mention long-term plans to add other sports after the world cup. Why do you believe it's a good strategy to broaden the fan base rather than crea...","answer":"Hi Esmaeel, Thank you for your interest and questions. Kindly see our response to your queries below Q1) Fanera’s ultimate vision is to create a social network for all fans, regardless of their differences. There’s no denying that accomplishing a major goal requires focusing on one segment and understanding all aspects of this category, followed by replication of that experience in other sports. 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