Our 2021 in review
Merry Christmas once again to our awesome community
It’s been a wonderful week filled with smiles and laughter alongside friends and family celebrating the Christmas holiday and getting ready for the new year.
And it’s no different here at GetEquity.
As we make our plans, write those PRDs, review those strategies, we can’t help but look back at our journey which started this year.
Shall we?
GetEquity Launch
We started the GetEquity journey at the second quarter of the year with the help of our community, friends, and network.
The power of community came in handy when all we had was the initial version of our web app, a telegram group, and 4 companies we intended to list whilst also preparing for our main launch.
Through numerous feedback and several iterations, we officially launched in July 2021. With an official press release announcing our launch and pre-seed round led by Greenhouse Capital, a video on who we are, and 5 listed companies.
To say, we were just getting started was an understatement.
Listed Companies
As I’m sure you know, one major part of GetEquity is helping startups raise funds easily while allowing investors like you and I invest from as little as $10. As a full-blown entity, we initially launched with 5 listed companies, 3 of whom closed their rounds in a few days.
From May till date, we have officially listed 15 more companies on the platform with a combined total of $400,000 to be raised. From all 15, 7 companies have successfully closed their rounds.
We also launched our other solution called dealroom, a community called Herconomy used the infrastructure to raise a total of $165,000. More of our figures below.
New Features
We released three major features on GetEquity but plan to double the number in 2022😏
Gifting — We enabled all our awesome users like you to gift tokens to anyone who owns a GetEquity account in companies you have invested by using just their email addresses or username. A feature that surely came in handy during this festive season as a lot of users were able to gift their loved ones and family tokens in companies currently listed.
The DealRooms — The Dealrooms are our suite of unique investment infrastructure products and back office management tool that enables individuals, startups, VCs , communities, funds and other investors in the ecosystem manage their capital raises and investments on an accessible virtual platform seamlessly. It is a platform that enables you to organize, structure, manage and create your portfolios and deals and invest in Startups here . Here is our explainer video here
Secondary Market — We opened up the secondary market on GetEquity where you can buy and sell tokens faster. If you own tokens in companies that have closed their rounds on GetEquity, you can now sell your tokens. Once there is a matching buy request at the price you are willing to sell, your sale would be successful. You can also place a buy request for tokens in companies whose rounds you missed. If there is a matching sell request i.e someone who is willing to sell to you at the price you are willing to buy, your request will be successful.
Integrations
In order to create more seamless ways for you to invest in startups on GetEquity, we integrated a couple of payment gateways to ease transactions.
The Peer — We partnered with The Peer to allow you fund startups from your favorite fintech applications, they do this by allowing businesses easily communicate and receive payments from one another. You can fund your GetEquity wallet from any other business wallet available on The peer
FluidCoins — Being part of the first set of companies we listed, it was definitely right of us to partner with the FluidCoins also. Something about walking the talk. You can now fund your wallet using the FluidCoins gateway on our platform. With Fluidcoins, you can fund your wallet with either USDT, USDC or BUSD_BSC. However, please note this feature is currently only available outside of Nigeria.
GetEquity Talks and Ask A Founder Sessions.
In our bid to help these startups raise easily and faster, we held bi-weekly chat sessions on twitter spaces where a founder from each startup discussed and answered questions from the community on everything regarding what they are building, their goals, and vision.
This, in turn, allowed our community to get a first-hand understanding of each of these startups right from the horses’ mouth alongside viable reasons as to why they should invest in these companies.
A tradition we intend to carry into the new year for existing and incoming startups.
Traction
Here is a brief breakdown of our metrics:
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As part of our improvement to our service, we will be adding more features and roadmap on building a better way to invest and raise on our platform.
We are open to suggestions and calls. You can book a meeting with us via this link if you want to reach the team and if you have any suggestions shoot us a mail at support@getequity.io
We will share a report on how each of our portfolios are faring so far so do us one big favor, look out for our emails and announcements.
We say a huge thank you for your continuous support from the moment you joined us on this journey this year. 2022 promises to be even bigger, with your support and help we tend to make BIG, BOLD and frankly audacious moves. Like our Christmas card said, “For us, the mantra has been “ Go big or Go home” and we don’t intend to go home….”
Cheers to a wonderful 2022💪🏽
From all of us at GetEquity we say,
Thank you !!!!
