We had a fantastic final VC Fast Pitch of the year!
You can find the recording to the December 12th VC Fast Pitch at this link.
Below are short descriptions for the presenting companies. Their slide presentations are available upon request.
m00m World presented by Jordan Freda
m00m world is a massive multiplayer mobile game where players explore, play mini-games, chat with friends, express themselves through custom avatars, and build shipping container homes. Designed to foster creativity and bring people together through casual gaming fun, m00m draws inspiration from its sci-fi audio series and webcomic. Players team up with rebellious good guys and quirky shipping container aliens against a technocratic government and its evil AI brain implant. Whether building, playing, or adventuring, m00m world offers endless ways to connect, create, and immerse in a unique mobile experience. https://www.m00m.world/
Hook Security presented by Zachary Eikenberry
Hook Security revolutionizes cybersecurity training with our unique Psychological Security (PsySec) methodology, designed to actively engage and empower employees in protecting their digital environments. By blending cutting-edge behavioral science with practical cybersecurity education, we transform passive awareness into a culture of proactive defense across organizations. Our programs deliver critical knowledge and tools, ensuring employees not only understand the cyber risks but also how to counteract them effectively. Perfect for companies of all sizes looking to bolster their cyber defenses, Hook Security has proven its value, with a track record of enhancing organizational resilience and cultivating a vigilant, security-first mindset among teams. https://www.hooksecurity.co/
BlueprintMusic.io presented by Phil Ryan
BlueprintMusic.io is a revolutionary platform bridging Web2 and Web3, designed to empower artists and superfans. It integrates music experiences with the BlueprintToken, offering fans exclusive access and rewards while creating a sustainable revenue model for artists. Leveraging cutting-edge blockchain technology, BlueprintMusic.io enhances engagement, community building, and transparency in the music industry, redefining how fans and artists connect.
HealthPaaS presented by Kevin Frew and Tom Dolsak
HealthPaaS.io – A technology enabled platform company that empowers “BRANDS” with a curated and modular solution to deliver a turnkey, customizable insurance plan to their customers.
Designed for better care at better costs with better coordination through a concierge member experience, HealthPaaS solves healthcare’s longest standing struggle to extract value from an aggregation of disparate parts, lacking transparency and falling well short of effective communication or care management.
One Fifth of the US economy reports over $765B in waste, largely attributed to this administrative overhead, manual processes, outdated technology, combined with legacy incentive models that make incumbent insurance carriers resistant to change.
HealthPaaS Health Plans leverages our ecosystem and technology integrations to empower brands to design, build and administer their own custom health plans; saving employers between 10% and 35% off their healthcare spend while creating an extremely rapid and scalable regional franchise model to expedite growth while keeping operations lean.
Dozen Diamonds presented by Nicole Clark
Dozen Diamonds reimagines investing by making stock trading simple and stress-free. With our Stressless Trading Method, we transform market volatility into opportunities for consistent growth, generating extra cash on every trade. Our algorithm-driven approach eliminates the need for constant monitoring, helping you focus on what matters most. Designed for everyday investors seeking a smarter path to financial stability, Dozen Diamonds empowers you to navigate the stock market with confidence, turning complexity into clarity. Invest with ease, and let us take the stress out of trading. https://dozendiamonds.com/
RBW EV Classics presented by Ryan Morris & Peter Swain
RBW sells new build electric vehicles with beautiful classic aesthetics. RBW has a patented modular electrification platform that took 7 years and $20mm to develop and is currently selling 2 models (Roadster & GT) of electric vehicles. RBW’s B2B brand Spirit EV is beginning to sell to third parties who wish to electrify classic designs. Today there is $15bb of demand for classic EVs but only 2% of that demand is being satisfied by hand-built conversions that are not safe or high performance. www.rbwevcars.com
Presend presented by Drew Wolfer
PreSend is a patent-pending crypto transaction security software that prevents users from losing digital assets during cross-blockchain transactions. We stop platforms from losing users and revenue and protect their users from losing money coming into or out of the platform. PreSend effectively renders test/simulation transactions obsolete and is 99.9% accurate and effective. We can stop every single cross-blockchain and cross-platform crypto loss from happening BEFORE it can happen. This will benefit every single community in WEB3, all the way from SOLANA to BTC, from meme coins to DeFi, from Centralized Exchanges to wallets & payment processors, and everything in between. https://www.presend.io/
Actualization.ai presented by John Licato
Actualization.AI is an AI startup devoted to making sure that AI follows human rules. As AI Agents stand poised to fill roles all over industry, people are looking for ways to ensure they will do what they’re supposed to, and not make the kinds of hallucination-induced mistakes that can embarrass and be costly for companies. Actualization.AI’s tool framework uses a patent-pending legal reasoning technology to apply powerful test cases to find potential vulnerabilities before an AI product is deployed, so that companies can be confident. Our tool suite thus provides the cure for AI Anxiety.
Led by leading AI researcher and professor John Licato, Actualization.AI is set up to rapidly commercialize the research advances of USF’s Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning Lab. Actualization.AI has been awarded a $25K Bulls Ring Accelerator Grant from USF CONNECT, a $275K NSF SBIR Phase I award, and has been accepted into the Embarc Collective. https://www.actualization.ai
CupRoyale® presented by Ralph Brown
CupRoyale is a sports, entertainment, and green technology opportunity.
Entertainment is the fourth largest industry on the planet in terms of profit. The largest TV & Media audiences are all international sports with countries competing against countries. Soccer and racing consistently draw the largest audiences.
CupRoyale is exactly that, international racing with countries competing against countries. It is the first and only powerboat / high speed yacht race all the way around the world. Led by four-time world record holder in extreme boating, Ralph Brown. Institutional funding avenues already in place. CupRoyale is required to raise smaller capital first.
Special presentation Laurits Just of Flippa Invest
Since 2015, Flippa.com has been the #1 platform to buy and sell online businesses.
Now, Flippa Invest offers revenue-generating businesses a way to raise growth capital from the world’s biggest base of over 70,000 experienced operators and investors.
Our AI matching engine accelerates your capital raise via relevant investor intros and invitations to your dealroom, where you can engage with and close accredited investors.
If you would like additional information on these companies or an introduction to management, please send me an email to scott@blackdogvp.com
Hope you can join us on January 9th for our next VC Fast Pitch event. Learn more and register here.
Look forward to you joining us in January. Happy Holidays!
Scott Kelly
