Investor Deck: Infrastructure for events

INVESTOR PRESENTATION • SEED ROUND

Infrastructure for event accessibility & inclusion.

Live captions and translations on a device you already own.

Saamer Mansoor

Founder & CEO

saamer@conferencecaptioning.com • conferencecaptioning.com • +1-214-683-9508

Have you ever been to an event and…

couldn't hear the speaker?

couldn't understand their language?

just nodded along?

ConferenceCaptioning!
The only answer!

Real events · Bali, Indonesia

10,000 people. One English speaker. Six languages.

LIVE · 10,000+ attendees

Mandarin Bahasa Thai English

4

languages on screen at the same time

6

languages on attendees' phones

<1s

Under 1 second latency

“It seems like a no-brainer for every conference to use this technology.”

Tom Phillips, Faculty
Apple Developer Academy Detroit

The attendee experience

Scan a QR code. Read in your language.

Organizer setting up ConferenceCaptioning on a phone

No app. No headset. Any phone.

The core problem

Live events leave people out.

37M

US adults have trouble hearing

68M

US residents speak a language other than English at home

TODAY'S STATUS QUO: most events skip accessibility and inclusion because of cost.

Why it's still unsolved

Today's options break at the event.

🧑‍💻

Human captioners

✕Costly, booked weeks ahead
✕One language, no backup

☁️

Cloud AI

✕Needs a $2,500–$5,000 conference-hall internet line
✕Adds delay, and dies when Wi‑Fi dies

Every option fails somewhere in the room.

Our value proposition

We fix each one.

Costly, booked weeks ahead

$150/hr. Book today.

One language, no backup

65+ languages. 0.5s backup.

Needs a $2.5–5K internet line

Runs on-device. No internet line.

Adds delay, dies without Wi‑Fi

Under 1s. Works without Wi‑Fi.

How it works

All AI runs on one device in the room.

PATENT PENDING

🧑 🎤

Speaker

sound board audio

→

💻

Organizer's laptop or tablet

Our software runs here. No internet.

1

Speech to captions

2

Translate

3

Send

Under 1 second

🖥️ Venue screens

📱 Phone: English

📱 Phone: Español

📱 Phone: 中文

Runs on a laptop or tablet the conference organizer already owns. Multiple languages, chosen for your event

Proof

We tested many. Here’s one, published in full.

One of our public tests

97.2%

words correct

<1s

speech to translation on screen

0.5s

failover activates

65+

languages available

Traction

Paying customers in six countries. No sales team.

$35.3K

annual recurring revenue

6+

countries

20+

cities

1M+

words captioned & translated

Trusted by

Venues & hotels

AV companies

Non-profits & associations

Education, culture & faith

Market opportunity

Every event with a stage and a screen.

Now

Conferences & summits

$120M

US market: ~25,000 organizers × $4,800

How we make money

$150/hr per room, or $4,800/yr unlimited

$150M

US market: ~30,500 plans × $4,800

How we make money

Annual plans per campus, agency or company

Then

Classrooms, worship, civic meetings

$560M

US market: ~470,000 rooms × $1,200

How we make money

Discounted annual plans for recurring rooms

Demand is built in: ADA · Section 508 · EU Accessibility Act · 37M US adults with hearing trouble · 68M speak another language at home

Business model

Rooms bring us in. Subscriptions keep us.

Per room

$150/hr

Pay per room, by the hour

Unlimited

$400/mo

Annual plan, $4,800/yr

Non-profit

Discounted

Priced by need

Low overhead

The AI runs on the customer's device, so there is no AI cloud cost.

Built to scale

Every new room adds revenue without adding infrastructure cost.

Competition

Built for the live room. One to many.

GoodOkayBad

Feature	ConferenceCaptioning	Human captioners	Cloud AI
Works on-site	Good	Okay	Bad
65+ Languagespick quickly from your device	Good	Bad	Good
Quick failover	Good	Bad	Okay
Secure on-device	Good	Good	Bad
Multi-room conference	Good	Bad	Okay
Low cost	Good	Bad	Okay

How we sell

Two in five demos
become customers.

Every 5 demos, 2 sign

Multiplier

AV companies

One partner brings repeat events with different organizers.

Direct

Event organizers

Non-profits, associations, governments, corporations.

Inbound

Search

Recommended by Google AI search for in-person conference captioning.

“Easy to use and simple to integrate into our existing setup.”

Michael Goggins, AV Professional, Michigan State University

The team

Prior success: $0 to $2M ARR together.

Saamer Mansoor

Founder & CEO

Built the product: $0 to $35.3K ARR
Prior success: CTO at TonDone ($0 to $2M ARR); bootstrapped a company to $500K a year

Chris Cotter

Incoming CRO

Prior success: first go-to-market hire at 3 startups
Newcode: $3M to $10M ARR in 6 months

Advisors

Colleen Hau

Product & investment

Exec. Director, NewLab Detroit

Jaymey Butler, CMP

Events

Director of Events, ARL. Paying customer

David Webber

Technical

Founding engineer, StockX

Vaseem Mahboob

Finance

CFO, Kestra (Nasdaq). Ex-CFO, Endologix

Hiring with this raise: 2 sales reps · 1 engineer · compliance & security · fractional CFO

Financial projections

$57K to $5M in five years. Profitable in 2029.

$K	2026	2027	2028	2029	2030
Sales	57	300	1,100	2,407	4,994
Gross profit	12	120	462	1,059	2,247
Gross margin	22%	40%	42%	44%	45%
Operating expenses	30	520	700	900	1,344
Income before tax	(18)	(400)	(238)	159	903
Year-end ARR (est.)	40	255	845	1,555	3,440

SalesGross profitIncomeLoss

Burn

$656K

Total losses 2026–2028, covered by the $750K round, with about $94K left at the low point. Profitable from 2029.

Projections. 2026 is a full-year estimate; 2027 assumes the round closes early in the year. We are at $35.3K ARR today. ARR assumes about half of sales are subscriptions.

The ask · $750K

$750K to $1.1M in sales by 2028.

Where the $750K goes · $35.3K → $500K ARR in 18 months

Sales & marketing$350K · 47%

2 sales reps · marketing & events

Product$150K · 20%

1 engineer · product development

Ops, compliance & finance$250K · 33%

Founder & ops · compliance · fractional CFO

Our share of the market

Year	Sales	Share of
2028	$1.1M	0.9% of Now ($120M)
2030	$5.0M	1.9% of Now + Next ($270M)

2028 inflection point: sales $1.1M, losses shrinking

Stay conservative

Grow on our own revenue. Profitable in 2029, no more capital needed.

Raise more

Put more into marketing and product to take the Next and Then markets.

Exit strategy

Built to be acquired within 5 years.

Buyer 1

Event software platforms

Buyers: Eventbrite, Cvent

Similar deals

Eventbrite bought Ticketfly: $201M (2017)
Blackstone bought Cvent: $4.6B (2023)

Buyer 2

Event producers & AV

Buyers: Informa, Freeman, GES

Similar deals

Informa bought Ascential, the Cannes Lions and Money20/20 owner: about £1.2B (2024)
Truelink bought GES, exhibition and event services: $535M (2024)

Buyer 3

Large software companies

Buyers: Zoom, RingCentral, Verbit

Similar deals

RingCentral bought Hopin’s events products: $15M upfront, up to $50M (2023)
Verbit bought VITAC, captioning: about $50M reported (2021)

What buyers have paid

1.7×

Eventbrite, revenue multiple

7.3×

Cvent, revenue multiple

$8.5M–$37M

Our 2030 sales ($5.0M) at those multiples

Everyone deserves to understand the room they're in.

With your support, we'll make that true.

Saamer Mansoor

Founder & CEO

saamer@conferencecaptioning.com conferencecaptioning.com

Background: live captioning at the NJEA Convention, Harrah's Resort, Atlantic City, NJ · August 2026

10,000 people. One English speaker. Six languages.

Scan a QR code. Read in your language.

Live events leave people out.

Today's options break at the event.

Human captioners

Cloud AI

We fix each one.

All AI runs on one device in the room.

We tested many. Here’s one, published in full.

Paying customers in six countries. No sales team.

Every event with a stage and a screen.

Rooms bring us in. Subscriptions keep us.

Built for the live room. One to many.

Two in five demosbecome customers.

AV companies

Event organizers

Search

Prior success: $0 to $2M ARR together.

Saamer Mansoor

Chris Cotter

Colleen Hau

Jaymey Butler, CMP

David Webber

Vaseem Mahboob

$57K to $5M in five years. Profitable in 2029.

$750K to $1.1M in sales by 2028.

Built to be acquired within 5 years.

Event software platforms

Event producers & AV

Large software companies

Saamer Mansoor

Two in five demos
become customers.