Feb 19
Passport Bros® International Relationships Made Easy
We have applied to join Y Combinator and we are sharing our Application Publicly as we are #BuildingInPublic #BuildInPublic movement
Y Combinator s2023
Company name:
Passports Bros
Company url, if any:
If you have a demo, what’s the url? Demo can be anything that shows us how the product works. Usually that’s a video or screen recording.
https://pitch.com/public/2236b319-88b6-4b6b-8036-5776be33138e
Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
Deel for International Relationships
What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
Getting into a relationship is complicated enough, but starting or ending a relationship overseas is far more complex.
It involves different rules, regulations, and laws from other countries.
The average Joe will not be able to gather all such information.
We are looking to educate, and simplify the whole process from finding the information to starting the process.
The risks involved will be a huge selling point.
We are also building a community and a platform (Like Deel) for Digital Noamds and Global Citizens who date across borders including short-term, long-term, marriage and divorce.
We will take care of the legal aspects of getting into a relationship s from different perspectives including but not limited to :
- Short-term relationships
- Long-term relationships
- Civil partnerships
- Marriage
- Divorce
Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?
Company Based Delaware, US, Myself Based San Francisco, US , Remote
Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founder(s). This video is an important part of the application. (Follow the Video Guidelines.)
Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.
We will build using No Code platforms
How many founders are on the team?
1
Are you looking for a cofounder?
No
PROGRESS
How far along are you?
Researched the idea
Europe:
12% of marriages in Europe are mixed, i.e. in which each spouse is of a different nationality. Typically, one of the spouses is “home” in the country where the family lives and the other is a foreigner. Such bonds are the most popular in Luxembourg and Switzerland (about 18% of all marriages)
Build a community for Global Citizens which do have 1000+ members across different platforms.
Interviewed global citizens and digital Nomads
Been following similar ideas such as Nomad Soulmates , it an app that’s like Tinder for digital Nomads which have almost 18k members
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nomadsoulmates/?ref=share
Building on my expertise at Immigration and international laws, I have picked one of the ideas which was never touched before, even the whole process is very simple and could be digitalizing very easily.
The UK government have launched an online divorce process for no-faults divorce which costs around 500 GBP and takes almost 6–9 month to be finished.
https://www.gov.uk/divorce/file-for-divorce
That’s will push other countries to do the same and it’s our time to be ready for a such a platform to help even governments digitalise international relationships.
How long has each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.
3 month
Are people using your product?
No
When will you have a version people can use?
Q3 2023
Do you have revenue?
No
If you are applying with the same idea as a previous batch, did anything change? If you applied a different idea, why did you pivot and what did you learn from the last idea?
No that’s a new completely idea which I have not used before.
If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, “accelerator” or “pre-accelerator” program, please tell us about it.
No, not yet
Didn’t apply for any other, will start working on other applications very soon.
IDEA
Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you’re making?
If you Google the term (Passport Bros) you will find thousands of articles, posts and videos about such a movement.
I’m looking to build on such hype and create a startup which will monetize such a movement which will not be in the US but also in other countries.
Getting into a relationship/dating/married/divorced overseas is a very complicated process and is mainly done manually using agents and lawyers
Whether you are bringing a foreign partner to live with you or you are moving or a foreign country to get married
My Expertise
My profile
I’m an international lawyer ⚖️
Global Remote Consulting Influencer
🛂 Hold multiple passports and residency in 8+ countries
✈️ Done business with 50+ countries
🤯 Helped 1000+ move and start businesses between countries
🧳 Lived in 8+ countries
🚢 Visited 25+ countries
More about the Passport Bros movement
🛂 Passport Bros is a social movement that has been gaining popularity on social media, primarily among men.
🛂 The movement encourages members to travel abroad and explore different cultures, as well as to form relationships with foreign partners
🛂 The goal is to create a global network of “passport brothers” who are well-traveled, open-minded, and who have an appreciation for different cultures and lifestyles.
🛂 However, the majority of passport bros claim that they are simply interested in experiencing new cultures, meeting new people, and forming meaningful relationships.
Who are your competitors? What do you understand about your business that they don’t?
In the US
- Hello Divorce Closes $3.25M in Oversubscribed Seed Round to Disrupt the Broken Divorce Process
They are only focused on the Divorce process in the US
- Hello Prenup
Founder of LegalZoom Brian Liu Joins Legal Tech Pioneer HelloPrenup
In the UK
- Amicable offers a divorce service that works with couples to help them reach fairer agreements.
They only focus on the UK market and only on divorce and separation.
There are hundreds of small agents in the US that help you process Marriage and relationships with foreign partners but there are no Market leaders who are building a Billion Dollar Startup behind the idea.
How do or will you make money? How much could you make?
(We realize you can’t know precisely, but give your best estimate.)
- Marketplace for international agents to help process the marriage/divorce applications
- we will strategize the prices based on the USD
- Access to the online community for membership starting from 99 USD / month up to 999 USD depending on the kind of support
We will charge a fee per application,
Different levels of support starting from Do it yourself up to VIP support for
- Prenup applications
- Citivl Partnerships
- Marriage agreements
- Divorce Agreements
Where will most of your initial users be located?
US
Which category best applies to your company?
Other
EQUITY
Have you formed ANY legal entity yet?
This may be in the US, in your home country or in another country.
Yes
Please list all legal entities you have and in what state or country each was formed (e.g. Delaware C Corp, Mexican SAPI, Singapore Pvt Ltd, etc.).
This might include subsidiary companies, legal entities you formed in other markets to do business, entities you created before a pivot, or legal entities you set up to employ developers or other service providers.
Passport Bros Limited (UK)
Passport Bros, Inc Delaware (coming soon)
Please describe the breakdown of the equity ownership in percentages among the founders, employees and any other stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the equity ownership of each founder and founder title (e.g. CEO).
100% for myself
How much money have you raised from investors in total in US Dollars?
Are you currently fundraising?
Yes
Please provide any relevant details about your current fundraise.
10% SAFE 500,000 USD based on a Valuation of 5 million.
OTHERS
If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we’ve been waiting for. Often when we fund people it’s to do something they list here and not in the main application.
Used to work on VISXA a platform for visa and immigration pivoted into helping Global Citizens reduced their taxes and move overseas.
🛂 Passport Bros is a social movement that has been gaining popularity on social media, primarily among men.
🛂 The movement encourages members to travel abroad and explore different cultures, as well as to form relationships with foreign partners
🛂 The goal is to create a global network of “passport brothers” who are well-travelled, open-minded, and who have an appreciation for different cultures and lifestyles.
🛂 However, the majority of passport bros claim that they are simply interested in experiencing new cultures, meeting new people, and forming meaningful relationships.
Why not join our community below 👇
🌍 Passport Bros
🙌 Global Lifestyle
🚀 Global Mindset
⚖️ Global Law
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#Passport #PassportBros #Passbros #BuildinPublic
