DCard Ghana
Ghana - 1 Year(s)15%
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OVERVIEW:
WELCOME TO THE CONTACTLESS EXPERIENCE
DCard easily helps grow your professional relationships with a contactless experience. No physical contact is required to send or receive a virtual business card.
THE PROBLEM:
Always Up to date
The contact info is always up to date. No more scratching out your phone number when you get a new one.
No Resource Waste
Digital business cards are always with you. No more running out of cards.
Save Trees and the Environment
No more cutting down of trees to make paper which ends up at landfill sites, producing methane gas. S
THE TIMING:
Web of Things
Today, we are all trying to digitalize our lifes and so the usage of new technologies is also increasing.
COVID-19 still Rules
During the pandemic lockdown and now, people are avoiding physical contact with each other, and at that time and now, the digital business card really helped. Digital business cards are turning out to be a better alternative to physical business cards.
DCard is a digital business card, an easy way to share your contacts and grow your professional relationships.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICESAllows the easy creation of QR code for business, staff ID or visiting card which make first great impressions. Share your digital business card with anyone using a QR code or send it via email, a link, and more. QR code can be downloaded and printed on anything like flyers, newsletters, or a billboard.
dBoss Smart Cards:
dBoss Card is an NFC & QR Code enabled smart business card service connecting the DCard digital business card service to the physical card.
Simply share your contact details with anyone with just a tap on any NFC enabled smart device or scan of your QR code.
A future planned value service to expand the card service by linking other services like a digital CV, HealthTech, insurance, etc to the card.
CUSTOMER CATEGORY:
Freelancers&Startups We've identified and initiated strategic partnerships with freelancers and startups working from co-working spaces across Ghana.
BusinessCommunities We've identified and initiated strategic partnerships with professional business communities who uses printed cards.
USE OF PROCEEDS:
- Product Development:
We will use some of this money to beef up our product and engineering team so we can ship faster.
- User Acquisition:
We need to accelerate our user acquisition efforts.
- Working Capital:
Some of the funds will remain in company accounts as working capital to beef up our netting off reserves.
- Technology Investment:
We need to accelerate our technology investment efforts.
- Market Expansion:
We intend to expand our offering to all Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, and USA & Europe to make a real connection between Diaspora and Africa.
How DCard Makes Money:
Our business model is based on subscriptions and sales of the dBoss Smart Cards.
Competitive Advantage:
Simple Design, Organize, Edit and Share
Dcard digital business cards are easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone or computer. Easiest way to categorize your managed resources. No apps needed.
Interactive Business Cards
DCard allows the attaching of media and interactive links to your custom business cards.
A great way to gain a competitive edge.
Cost-Effective & Dark Mode
Dcard digital business cards are a cost-effective way to get your brand into the hands of your clients. All your vCards support dark mode as well.
Custom Domain &Tracking Pixels
Connect your own domain or use our predefined ones. Facebook, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Quora tracking pixels available.
MARKET SIZE
The global digital business card market size is expected to register an exponential growth due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A digital business card is also known as a virtual or electronic business card.
TEAM STORY:
The birth of DCard happened when we lost the opportunity to get contact details of a potential investor we pitch, who was waiting for his ordered printed cards after updating his contact.
Few months after, we have partnered with institutional organizations like CCIFG- France Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ghana, Kutana Africa, SG bank INNOV8 and others yet to be named.
Now, we're expanding continental, targeting whole of West Africa, some selected East, Central, Southern and Northen African countries.
WHO'S BEHIND?
Gasby Group is a Pan-African leading technology organization offering Fintech, E-commerce, Business Intelligence Technology, Health Technology and Real Estate enabled solutions and services across Africa.
Our style is to lead with empathy and come together as a team to have a positive impact on the communities we serve. That’s why our values revolve around putting design first, setting the bar high, and doing what’s best for businesses and the continent.
We deliver HITECH transactional services, systems integration and managed services, ICT outsourcing services, strategic and technical consultancy, and a comprehensive range of enterprise-class managed cloud services coupled with an interest in general business solutions and services.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to create Africa's most innovative technology enabled services and products oriented ecosystem; a powerhouse to help drive developmental change across Africa.
OUR PROMISE
- Gasby Group is very much in-tune with the perculiar needs of the Ghana and African Startups and the SMEs sector. As the sector keeps changing, we keep ahead of our clients' needs by being innovative in the services we offer.
- We focus on making it convenient for SMEs and startups to access resourceful technologies as tools for their businesses using web, mobile, social media platforms and many more channels in reaching the most elusive of clients.
- With a plethora of skills and expertise, Gasby Group is the best and right choice to fulfil every SME and startup needs. Well qualified team to match and manage specific job/role requirements.
- Having served and worked with different brands with various needs, we have cultured the ability to discern distinct demands that we fulfil consistently.
We pride ourselves on hiring exceptional talent -- our team members come from a wide variety of top-tier African tech companies, professional services firms, and industry leaders.
To continue our rapid growth, we're looking to bring on people who are passionate about our mission and excited to work in a small startup environment. We have competitive salary and stock options and great benefits.
Term Sheet
General Risks and Disclosures
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