Hi friend,
I'm thrilled to announce that we hit our target on Seedrs, on the exact 4 year anniversary of me launching the original MVP no less: Halloween! (A comment could be made here about my lack of social life, then and now… but let's not dig too deeply into that.)
We will continue to collect funds until either: 16th November OR we reach £300k total invested. So if you know anyone who might be interested in what we're building, please forward the link to them: https://www.seedrs.com/tutti-space
We will continue to collect funds until either: 16th November OR we reach £300k total invested.
As we have the money we need, we're not looking for much, but we want everyone who has supported us so far to have shares from the “day one” valuation. So if you'd be open to putting in a nominal amount, have a look here: https://www.seedrs.com/tutti-space
(there are different restrictions/minimums for different countries, so email me if you have any questions)
It is amazing to be able to say that we are now joined by over 200 new investors from a massive variety of backgrounds, which is awesome and fits perfectly with our company ethos.
For a little backstory: I chose the name Tutti because it is written in sheet music for orchestras, when the orchestra is supposed to play together - in my mind, and in music, it means “All together.” The colourful logo is supposed to give a similar feeling: a sense of inclusivity - that anyone and everyone is welcome.
This crowdraise has enabled me to make one of my dreams for Tutti a reality: To enable anyone, from any background, to get involved and to help us build a powerful company which stands for inclusivity, creativity, integrity, and the democratisation of creative resources (starting with space).
The future is very exciting!
Now let's crack on with the usual updates.
- Despite my 110% focus being on the crowdraise, we've had one of our best months in terms of bookings - the marketplace has just run itself. We also had our single largest booking.
- Completed bookings: 28
- Largest single booking: £5,040.00 for a 2 day video shoot.
- A number of our locations were used by Fabio D'Andrea for a new music video starring Rose Leslie that's focusing on supporting people with Multiple Sclerosis alongside charities MS Society & Overcoming MS. We'll of course share it when it's released.
- We received some well timed PR/external coverage:
- Product
- Organic marketplace traffic continues to grow thanks to:
- Ed, Esther, and Jules creating relevant content for our audience
- Bhaskar and Dharmil working to increase the speed of the site (still got some work to go)
- Work is under way to build a much more comprehensive payment system into Tutti. This will give hosts:
- Better oversight on status of individual payments
- Simpler tracking of payments for accounting
- We got held up on our intelligent phone system, but that's next.
- Listings
- Despite doing zero outreach for new venues as my whole focus has been fundraising, we've had 20 new locations sign up this month organically.
- We had a borough in London express interest in listing ALL their locations on Tutti - that'd be 100+ locations.
- Events
- I gave 2 presentations at Marketplace Risk, that were both very well received:
- One was an honest deep dive into my journey building Tutti so far, with 20 mins for questions that I answered as honestly as possible for the young founders in the room.
- The other: I was invited by Dasha Timbus of CastingForm to join her and talk about the possibilities of merging tech & the creator economy. We had a fascinating chat for 30 mins, and answered audience questions from 2 different viewpoints.
- I attended Sifted Summit and Property Portal Watch, and met so many amazing founders working on awesome companies
- The serial founder/investor behind Property Portal Watch gave Tutti a massive shoutout in one of his opening presentations, so I kept on having conversations with people throughout the summit who already knew about Tutti - a very weird, but nice feeling.
- Finally, I'm still utterly blown away by the number of amazing founders, friends, investors, and colleagues who have shouted about Tutti (too many to list here), across LinkedIn, Facebook, Newsletters, and more. Thank you!!!