Invest in Grape ID™

Permanently Eliminate Spam on Cell Phone, Social Media, and Email

FIRST GOAL HIT (You can still invest)

$102,747

raised from 12 investors
INVESTMENT TERMS
Priced Round
$27.36M pre-money valuation
$500, $2K, $15K, $50K

Highlights

Repeat Founder

Started a prior company with $2M+ in funding or revenue

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$20M+ in potential sales with current enterprise sales pipeline of Gmail, Yahoo, Verizon, Microsoft
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Led by 11x Repeat Founders with 1 exit in cybersecurity
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$4.5 Million in pending R&D grants from the National Science Foundation.
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$285,000 Previously Raised by Angels

Featured Investor

Our Team

I started Grape ID out of personal frustration. In 2018, I was a victim of 5 data breaches & identity theft which taught me that businesses are in control of our data. They make money off our data AND put us at risk - I'm determined to change that.

Pitch

Advertisers Drive the Spam Crisis

Advertisers send the majority of spam. Spam wastes our time, creates security risks, invades privacy, and causes us to miss messages we actually want.

PROBLEM: We're Trapped

Advertisers are trapped – people ignore their ads, so they send more, hoping to make sales. This wastes their money and floods consumers with unwanted spam. They don't have a better option.

Consumers are trapped – we get so much spam it’s difficult to find the messages we want. Spam invades our privacy, puts us at risk of scams, and it feels like there’s no solution.

SOLUTION: Grape ID™ Marketplace

The Grape ID™ Marketplace allows advertisers to pay consumers to engage with their ads. Grape ID™ delivers relevant ads to users based on their interests. This direct advertiser-to-consumer advertising approach gives advertisers a better alternative than sending spam.

HOW IT WORKS: For Consumers

First, users download the app to meet Grape—their personal identity agent. Grape is like having a private AI bot to represent them on the Internet. Grape asks a few questions and verifies their identity to protect their account.

Second, users set their hourly rate so advertisers know how much to pay them (prorated per ad), then swipe to earn cash for viewing ads. Grape matches relevant ads to interested people.

Swipe right (👍) if interested in the ad (save it to favorites), left (👎) if no interest— users earn cash either way for their time!

Third, Grape gives people central access to 200+ AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Their conversations help Grape understand user interests to improve ad matching. Grape also protects privacy by hiding user data from AI providers. Chats are stored with Grape instead of various AI providers.

Click to View Demo Video (YouTube, 3 mins)

HOW IT WORKS: For Advertisers

Advertisers launch ads in minutes. They 1) describe their ideal customer profile (ICP), 2) upload their ad creative, and 3) set their bid price. 

Optionally, if they’re unsure who they’re targeting, Grape ID™ will discover who their audience is for them. The ads go live after they pass an initial screening.

Advertisers pay for engagement, not impressions

Unlike existing ad platforms that charge advertisers for views, impressions, and other wasteful metrics—advertisers only pay for genuine engagement— like a click or feedback.

Quick Demo

Click here for Demo Video (YouTube, 3 mins)

PRIVACY: Advertisers Don't See User Data

User privacy is protected by 'Identity Agents' acting as secure intermediaries within the Grape ID™ Marketplace. Identity Agents match ads to users without exposing their data. Users retain full control of their data.

REVENUE MODEL: ~30% Transaction Fee

Our marketplace charges a 30% - 50% transaction fee for each ad engagement. For example, when an advertiser pays $1 for engagement, the consumer earns $0.70 as a cash reward and Grape ID™ earns $0.30. Users receive a larger portion of the ad revenue (i.e. 70%) when they meet certain criteria that benefit others in the marketplace such as providing helpful feedback.

TRACTION

Validation

Demand for the Grape ID™ Marketplace is strong. After seeing a rough mockup, 76% of consumers and 93% of advertisers signed up to the waitlist immediately. To prove advertisers were willing to pay for the product, we conducted a two-week test and collected $1,200 in pre-launch deposits. These metrics are significant because they were achieved with make-shift mockups in 2023 with no delivery date.

Product Readiness

We launched an app March 2023 in the Play Store and App Store for testing throughout 2024. Functional prototypes for the Grape ID™ Marketplace were completed in April 2025. We will launch the Grape ID™ Marketplace within 3 months of reaching $1M funding target.

Two Phases to End Spam "Forever"

In this order, we must tackle the problems behind why and how spam exists.

  1. In Phase 1, our Marketplace directly addresses the 'why' spam exists by allowing advertisers to buy people’s attention instead of spamming them.
  2. In Phase 2, Open-Source Tools will address 'how' spam exists in technical terms. Tools like a universal unsubscribe button will be built using Identity Agent technology, then integrated with companies like Verizon, Facebook, and Gmail.

Together, these create a permanent solution to spam. 

REVENUE PROJECTIONS

Based on our model and market opportunity (U.S. only), we project significant growth, reaching breakeven ($1M revenue/month with 7,500 businesses) in early 2027 and targeting $300 million in annual revenue by 2029. (Note: These are forward-looking projections based on current plans and market assumptions, and are not guaranteed).

COMPETITION

Unlike current ad platforms that exploit user data and keep 100% of ad revenue, Grape ID™ gives users control over their data (it's never shared) and keeps around 40% of the ad revenue as a transaction fee. This model incentivizes advertisers to pay users for their attention rather than spamming them.

THE VISION

Spam is just the beginning. Once Grape ID™ reaches critical mass (targeting 50M+ users), our platform and underlying Identity Agent technology will empower individuals to solve other major digital challenges like broader privacy issues, cybercrime, censorship, and the limitations of centralized financial systems.

USE OF FUNDS

This $1.2M raise provides 18 months of runway to achieve key milestones: Launch the Phase I Grape ID™ Marketplace (Q3 2025) to generate initial revenue and user adoption; Release initial Open-Source Software components (Q1 2026) for use by communication providers; and Reach 1 Million Active Users (Q4 2026).

Of the initial $50,000 raised in this Wefunder, 92.1 % of it will be used to market our Wefunder Campaign (social media, ads, marketing contractors) and 7.9% to pay Wefunder fees.

Of the $1.235M maximum goal for this current Wefunder campaign, 18% will go to marketing, 15% to operations and overhead of the company, 59.1% to four engineers and two product owners, and 7.9% to Wefunder fees.

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Overview