September Investments

sheerMe - Health + Wellness Marketplace; goTeff - the next superfood; SyncWords - live dubbing can transform the world

sheerMe - beauty + wellness marketplace - Miguel Alves Ribeiro

A founder sold his first company for 8 figures. Then became the first international hire for Zomato (employee 50), led the European operations as Head of Growth in Europe, helped bring Zomato from 50 -> 15,000 employees and to a decacorn IPO. Now, with a team that came with him from Zomato, he has started sheerMe.

Launched a year ago, the company has already surged to $1.5m GMV with 30% month-over-month growth with only $7k monthly market spend. The app and its marketplace is great. They’ve changed the game by creating a wallet system, so when they provide perks, referral money, etc. it goes back through app.

What is even cooler is that they've integrated with IG, Google, etc. so that creators and SMBs can take orders with the press of a button (watch the video). As a makeup artist you can just open an IG store and book using sheerMe on IG, or if you own your google business with its reviews, you can click one button and start booking with sheerMe on Google.

Here’s their deck.

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goTeff - Pre-seed CPG (delicious + healthy snack made from Teff) - Saron Mechale

Imagine a superfood snack that’s as yummy as it is healthy? For my sweet tooth, goTeff’s Blueberry Vanilla did the trick. In addition to being gluten-free, nut-free, vegan, and 0 added sugar, goTeff crisps offer 7g of protein and fiber per serving and 2x the amount of iron as a serving of sirloin steak.

goTeff is a superfood brand created using an ancient grain long used by champion Ethiopian runners. The Company’s first product is a snack targeting endurance athletes and health-conscious consumers targeting the $19B USD American healthy-snack market. They’ve developed a proprietary production process that won them more than $150K in grant funding, allowed them to test their first 6,000 units at a 63% margin with an 80% conversion rate at sampling. goTeff is proudly black and female-owned, founded by Saron Mechale, a Brown University Alum and native Ethiopian.

As we see enormous success is food products like Magic Spoon (just raised a $85 million series B), the time is ripe for goTeff. Only a decade ago we saw quinoa emerge on the scene as a new super grain - it is now a $61 billion market. Healthier and tastier than quinoa, teff is ready to emerge as the newest superfood.

Into healthy food and want to support the next big grain since quinoa, message me for an intro to Saron. The company is looking to raise $850k for their pre-seed.

Pitch Deck

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SyncWords - AI for live translation dubbing - Ashish Shah

SyncWords' mission is to remove language barriers from Live and On-demand Video using AI generated Voice, and Subtitles. They already have significant traction with our subtitling products which are used for live online meetings to high budget media and entertainment, having bootstrapped themselves for much of the past decade to earning $3.5M in 2021 with zero marketing budget.

Why I like SyncWords:
Most of the world’s content is produced in English but more than half of the world doesn’t speak English. Converting English into other languages will provide information, education, and entertainment to the rest of the world.
I also like SyncWords for content creators. If creators can convert their content into Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish, they’ll reach a wider audience more than 4x larger.
While other competitors are new in this space and reducing the production time of dubbed videos from months to weeks, SyncWords is able to do real-time.

Deck

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I used to call them deals,
   but I didn't like how it feels.
Financing, advising, building, and believing,
   investing is more than writing checks, 
we're a part of their breathing.
We're not just funding ones and zeroes,
    we're investing in superheroes,
These are the dreamers and stories I'm now a part of,
   founders and visions I'm sure you'll love.