OOMI Crowdfunding

1. Here's What You Don't Know About Fundraising That Could Save You Time, Energy and Money How 3 Crowdfunding Platforms are Changing the Paradigm The digital age has bought fundraising to our fingertips and made raising money easier for nonprofit organaizations and businesses worldwide. With a plethora of online crowdfunding platforms to choose from, fundraising for nonprofit organizations and fundraising for small business ventures has become easier although for both the backers and fundraisers, there are many challenges. First a little background on crowdfunding; crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over US$34 billion was raised worldwide by crowdfunding and $34 Billion have been raised through crowdfunding worldwide in 2020. 78% of successful crowdfunding campaigns exceed their funding goals. An individual crowdfunding campaign raises an average of $568. The Challenges with Crowdfunding ⦁There are no guarantees for backers, hence they can only rely on and trust the founder of the campaign they support; ⦁High fees and hidden costs; ⦁Creating a campaign is expensive and legally challenging; ⦁Large projects with a budget for PR and marketing overshadow smaller campaigns and projects with a liimited budget; ⦁Rather than investing time and money in sales or product development, founders spend invaluable assets on creating landing pages and advertising campaigns from scratch; ⦁Market fragmentation negatively affects potential backers; 1

2. ⦁According to statistics, 80-90% of projects that raised funds did not release their product to the market. As a result, a huge number of people lost not only their money and their faith in crowdfunding. ⦁Traditionally, a crowdfunding platform acts as an intermediary and the decision-maker. It has the power to decide which projects are worthy of funding. This tradition still takes place in many platforms, even blockchain based however our #1 pick has designed a code that decentralizes this decision making and funds all projects in its Que.. With blockchain technology and tokenization, crowdfunding is not only easier and less expensive its also trustless. The beauty in Decentralization: Nonprofit organizations and startups are no longer beholden to the rules, regulations, and whims of the most popular crowdfunding platforms on the internet. Literally, any project has a chance of getting visibility and getting funded. Any project using a blockchain-based crowdfunding model can potentially get funded. Also, any person with an internet connection can contribute to those projects in a trustless way. Blockchain-based crowdfunders wouldn’t have to worry about the “fraud” that has plagued modern-day crowdfunding projects. Instead, Smart Contracts enforce funding terms: There are several ways in which blockchain-enabled smart contracts could provide greater accountability in crowdfunding. Primarily, these contracts provide built-in milestones that would prevent funds from being released without provenance as to a project or campaign’s legitimacy. This prevents large sums of money from being squandered by those who are either ill-intended or not qualified to run a crowdfunding campaign. This list of the top 3 fundraising platforms that have addressed these issues to help fundraisers receive funding without exhorbant fees, waiting for backers or a large marketing budget: 1. www.OOMIFunds.org - is a crowdfunding site built on blockchain technology with its own cryptocurrency, which tokenizes the entire funding process through a smart contract attached to its OOMI token. The OOMI protocol is a Stellar Smart Contract on the Stellar Blockchain designed to allow nonprofit organizations and small businesses fund each other's project by collateralizing their project with the equivalent of $120 USD - $3,040 USD in Stellar Lumens, 2

3. Bitcoin or Ethereum. The amount of OOMI tokens a fundraiser purchases determines the amount of funding to be received according to three cunding pools worked into its protocol. A fundraiser can receive the equivalent of $40,000.00 (Forty-Thousand USD in Stellar Lumens XLM) to as much as $250,000.00 (Two-Hundred Fifty Thousand USD in Stellar Lumens XLM). Thereby eliminating the need for an angel investor or backer to fund projects. and exceeding the average amount of money typically raised on traditional crowdfunding platforms. Nonprofit organizations, NGOs and Startups alike can help each other while helping themselves. The platform is run by OOMI token holders and governed through the OOMI DAO, a decentralized autonamous organization. This solves the issue for backers since the system is closed ended and funded by others collateralizing their own projects. It's a very unique idea that is going viral and has the potential to solve many of the issues with traditional crowdfunding platforms. Crowdfunding is a massive and ever-expanding industry. One can easily get lost on how to start and how to run a successful crowdfunding campaign. However with OOMI there's no need to spend marketing dollars to find backers. The system is marketed by its strategic partner, levelupadvisors.com with a full salesteam, social media marketing campaigns, celebrity endorsements and much more. The levelupadvisors.com e-learning system for entrepreneurs is designed to help small to medium sized businesses start or scale any business. The OOMI 3

4. DAO was developed with the students of levelupadvisors.com in mind. The e- learning platform helps students fund their businesses. Pricing: Besides the collateral required to start the campaign, up-front fees are nominal compared to other platforms that can charge as much as $1000+ per month with no guarantees of funding. Additionally, the OOMI DAO has settled on one flat fee of $3,500 for each funded grant. For more information go to www.oomifunds.org 2. www.gitcoin.io -Gitcoin provides grants for developers and consists of a community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. People come to Gitcoin to develop their future, and the future of the open internet. Gitcoin Grants uses quadratic funding, ensuring that projects doing the greatest public good get the most support. Whereby projects are selected according to the committee. Pricing: Gitcoin grants is free, although we do deduct a 0.00001% fee from each grant contribution to cover the gas costs of running our subscription subminer. 3. https://wefunder.com - Backers can invest as little as $100 USD and fundraisers are mostly small businesses. The platform was released in 2012 and has become very popular in the media being the first platform to accept Bitcoin. 4

5. Pricing: Since wefunder is a traditional crowdfunding platform that also accepts bitcoin, its not a decentralized blockchain based exchange and charges based on SEC regulations. For Reg CF, Wefunder charges 7.5% of the total fundraise, only if successful. For instance, if a company raises $100,000, we charge $7,500 upon close. For Reg A+, we charge a flat fee of $375K. This is 7.5% on a $5M raise. It accepts the funds in terms of US dollars and maintains a stable funding process. When the bitcoin investors claim for reimbursement, it is provided as per the current market value of the coin. Their website claims that around 625,350 investors raised funds around $137 million for 386 startups. References Ahmed Banafa, Author the Books: Secure and Smart Internet of Things (IoT) Using Blockchain and AI Blockchain Technology and Applications References 1. https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/economy/business/how-blockchain-is- 5

6. revolutionizing-crowdfunding/ 2. https://due.com/blog/a-new-era-of-crowdfunding-blockchain/ 3. https://www.disruptordaily.com/blockchain-use-cases-crowdfunding/ 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding 5. https://www.crowdcrux.com/crowdfunding-statistics-in-2020/#: ~:text=%2434%20Billion%20have%20been%20raised,raises%20an% 20average%20of%20%24568. 6