Hey there! I’m Veeraj and my co-founder, Aakruti, is raising for our startup, Puzzl, the new, smarter, and better way to do business for freelancers.
Terms: https://www.sendeck.com/doc/2d3518ca-30b6-466f-9cc2-a29fa9b1a813
Our Product – Puzzl makes customer journeys efficient and effective for freelancers with an effective CRM platform. Puzzl's tools will allow a freelancer to start the customer journey with lead generation tools for email and social channels and finish the journey with integrated invoices that are easy to sign and manage.
We have begun by creating lead generation tools. We will then build out our CRM/Sales dashboard, contract templates, and more. Our goal is to create a solution that allows freelancers to use a single tool to start and finish sales and ensures customers feel comfortable and satisfied. A major step after full platform development will be including payment processing within invoices, this will allow us to be closer to our TAM and allow for a stronger platform.
Problem – Freelancers have tedious, unorganized, and inefficient customer journeys. Current freelance tools only focus on helping maintain operations rather than focusing on customer management, satisfaction, and conversions. Freelancers want sales pipelines built for them. They want effective and consolidated customer management to increase their customer satisfaction. They want to be pros.
Why now? 36% of Americans are full-time freelancers. 50 million+ active freelancers as of 2020. Gig economy is producing 1.2 trillion USD annually.
TAM - We’re planning on charging $10/month for our basic plan, $15/mo for our essentials, and $30/mo for our premium plan. Each plan has the option to add a team member for an additional $5/month/per user. As well as a 1% fee on payments processed with Puzzl Payment (expansion goal) We are targeting freelancers. Our TAM: $1.2 Trillion (Freelancing space/Customer management), SAM: $100B, SOM: $20B
Team – Aakruti is a current sophomore at UC Berkeley and Veeraj will be a sophomore at USC, both intended BA. We founded ourselves in 2020 as an affordable social media agency to support local small businesses during covid. During this time, we learned how important businesses wanted to create content efficiently while making meaningful customer relationships to grow their business. So, we decided to pivot to a startup to make a platform that allows businesses to manage their customer journeys from the first step to the last one. We have been working on this platform for the last few months.
Raise – Raising $500,000 pre-seed; SAFE
We’re looking for both angels, funds, and VC - if interested, please contact us. [email protected]