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Founders Antón Chalbaud (CEO) Matías Paterlini (CTO) Claudio Cohen (Sales & Mktg) Numbers of Employees: 18 Funding: USD 1MM Revenues 2012: USD 1MM Clients (Traction) American Express, Banamex (Citibank), TV Azteca, Clarin, Walmart, Backus, Quilmes, Turner Broadcasting, Alto Palermo, Cablevisión, Buenos Aires Government, and more. Alliances / Partners The Fan Machine was the first company selected by Facebook as a Preferred Marketing Developer for Latin America back in 2011. Our Mission We want to help marketers to SAVE TIME & MONEY in their internet Marketing efforts. What we want to become We will become the best solution for executing digital marketing campaigns on international markets. The Opportunity Internet marketing is changing fast. Social Networks are being the center of the web, and new tools are needed to take full advantage of the new platforms available in this new scenario. We were the first company selected by Facebook as a Partner back in 2011, and we are still the only PMD platform in the Facebook Ecosystem to offer a Turn-Key Applications solution in Portuguese & Spanish. We are already working on expanding our product offer to other areas (Getting in the Ad Spend business). The market size is huge since each year more and more dollars shift from traditional advertising, to digital advertising, and Social keeps getting a bigger share of that money. The Market Current investors - V-TEX (Leading e-commerce platform in Brazil). - Angel Investors: Chile global Angels, IAE Business Angels, NXTP Labs. Comparables - Wildfire - BuddyMedia We are targeting Latin America on a first stage. We already have sales teams working in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil (where we'll be focusing this year). We also plan to launch Chile and Colombia later this year. We know Social Networks may be global, but marketing execution is Local. - We want to enter the Brazilean market fast, now that there are few players, and even fewer with PMD Status with Facebook. - The rest of Latin America is the low hanging fruit we believe we can get pretty fast. The Product It's a SaaS Social Marketing Platform in the form of Turn-Key Facebook Applications you can have up & running in minutes on your Facebook Page. We are expanding our market by offering new solutions, we are about to launch Publishing (or Community Management) Tools, Social Analytics Tools, and the biggest of all the opportunities: we are getting into Social Advertising. Business Model We sign yearly contracts with our clients, who pay a monthly fee to have access to our platform. We are mainly a technology company, and our software is sold in an Enterprise Software as a Service sales model, where we host the solution and the client uses our services through a web interface.