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Spore pitch deck to raise $1m Pre-Seed round

This is the Spore pitch deck to raise a $1m pre-seed round in 2021.

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Spore develops platform for creators designed to improve their web experience.

Private chats, links in bios, and newsletters.

Many creators rely on these formats to connect with their audiences and monetize their internet fame. But often they are spread across multiple services.

That’s what Spore’s CEO, Austin Hallock, wants to change.

Spore is a new startup that emerged as a solution for rising Clubhouse stars like the NYU Girls Roasting Tech Guys group. It lets creators build a straightforward website that includes their most recent content (whether that’s tweets, TikToks, or Clubhouse Rooms).

But Spore isn’t only a landing page for a creator and their branding. The platform’s goal is to bundle a handful of the popular tools creators utilize on other platforms such as Discord, Linktree, Patreon, and Substack. Each offers a different tool. And each requires a separate site.

A core mission of Spore is to provide creators with more ownership over their audience and brand beyond the platforms they post to, Hallock told Insider.

“They can build out an actual user base of emails and phone numbers of their fans and be able to reach out to them directly,” he added.

For instance, the NYU Girls use a website powered by Spore to host live chats with their fans during their weekly Clubhouse Room. Those audience members can also tip the NYU Girls directly on Spore. And when they do, the Spore website rains money down the screen.

“Because Spore is the place that our most loyal fans exist, the people who were the ones that have been coming back time and time again wanted to show that they were there to support us,” Devin Lewtan, a member of the NYU Girls, previously told Insider.

Spore isn’t just for Clubhouse creators, though.

“We want to make it a website that’s usable or useful for any type of creator,” Hallock said.

As the new startup has evolved over the last several months, Spore is now securing funding.

Last week, Spore raised $1 million in its pre-seed round, which was led by SignalFire’s Josh Constine, a principal investor and former TechCrunch editor. The round also included investors like Goat VC and Zynga cofounder Justin Waldron.

Spore initially captured the attention of Constine in early 2021 with an email showing how Constine could potentially use Spore to connect with his Clubhouse audience, according to a screenshot Hallock recently posted to Twitter.