1) Aside from specific game titles, how are you different from other companies doing the same thing - specifically, Gamestar? 2) With respect to the titles you've licensed, how long does the license last and what are the renewal terms? 3) What's the exit strategy?

Thanks Kevin, great questions! 1) Want to take the opportunity to speak to Gamestar specifically, since we fully expect investors to see us next to their recent (very successful!) raise and have questions. TL;DR -- while there are a lot of similarities at first glance, we're playing in a fundamentally different space. While they're working to revolutionize the board game experience for friends and families in the home, we're working to do the same thing for friends, families, and teams that c...

I don't doubt there are hundreds of millions on people on platforms like Zoom & MS Teams. Realistically speaking, most of these platforms are used for business purposeses. What is the target for the service in terms of daily users by Q3-Q4 2022?

Hi Randall -- thanks for the question. Target MAU for end of Q3 is 132K, end of Q4 222K. You're completely right on the business use side, and we are targeting B2B (virtual teambuilding) as a core growth driver in 2022 as Gartner estimates 51% of US-based knowledge workers will be fully or partially remote by the end of 2022, and companies need options to replace team lunches and happy hours in the post-COVID world. I realize you asked about daily users, but given the nature of our platform (...

What if I am a user and want to play immediately in a random room with random people?

We've mapped out pick up games -- MVP through Discord, with our own lobby to follow -- but won't push it until we've got a critical mass of users such that this would be a good customer experience. Don't want to surface the option and then have people click in to empty rooms. We host regular "drop in" style games currently, which will be expanded as we grow!

Why not also promote this as digital board games at home? Instead of me having to buy a game, I can also have friends over and play virtually on a tv as opposed to a messy board game I have to clean up. Play from anywhere type promotion. I see you can do that.

That's absolutely a use case we support -- just cast our tabletop to any TV and subscribe, and you have access to a growing library of games for less than the cost of buying one of these games off the shelf, with the added benefits of remote players, refresh content, bring in more interactivity (audio and video), instant set up and tear down, and it's better for the environment! We're getting ready to release our FireTV app in the next few months, with other platforms to follow. We don't prom...

Hello, few questions please: 1) Statement "Founder has a prior successful exit (M&A Advisor's "Deal of the Year" for 2018)" - I would expect founders with a successful exit would have investors lining up and dropping $100K checks, instead of the lead investor went in only ...

Hi Vilem. All fair questions -- I'll do my best to answer them, and happy to connect with you offline as well if you'd be interested in diving deeper! 1. I wish it were that straightforward! We have had early angel investment out of my personal network of ~$300K, and we're raising the bulk of our seed round off platform from institutional investors, as noted in the pitch. On the prior exit, I was CEO (not the original founder, took over after the company's Series A) of Everyone Counts, a digi...

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says, "We played a lot of Jackbox games as a company during the pandemic, but ran into the issue that it really isn't built for a virtual environment. I think as more companies move to hybrid environments, there is a strong B2B sales opportunity in this space."

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says, "The games will make or break this company, so having fun, engaging, and hopefully even viral game content will be important to garnering the audience this company needs to succeed."

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I've seen first hand what can happen in the gaming space when you hit a new niche with a "right product, right time" combo. The GameApart team is hitting on some once-in-a-lifetime trends with the explosion of virtual hangouts, remote work, and birth of Zoom, Teams, and other collaboration platforms as new social ecosystems. On top of that I know James (the founder) and some of his team, and have total confidence in their ability to execute on this!

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