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You don't need a green thumb for the Fluora LED houseplant, now on Kickstarter. This unique LED houseplant provides an immersive experience at home.
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Years of experience creating state-of-the-art lighting activations have led us to be able to create technology that is an order of magnitude more dynamic, exciting, and interactive than anything on the market.
We go beyond a typical hardware business model - and will create a software ecosystem where other lighting manufacturers can license our software. Hello, Scalability.
Overview
We’ve dedicated our lives to creating magical moments that inspire joy.
Our team is a group of artists, designers, and engineers who create immersive experiences with cutting-edge LED Art and technology.
Over the last 10 years, our founding team created one-of-a-kind art installations all over the world, from Oslo, Norway to Honolulu, Hawaii, and Coachella to the Super Bowl through our work with Symmetry Labs.
We are on a mission to make this magic more accessible - bringing experiential lighting into homes and businesses around the world. With our flagship product Fluora, as well as our plans to evolve into a software-based business model - we think we can illuminate a unique market opportunity.
The Problem
Traditionally, immersive art and sensory experiences have been limited to events and activations. Our vision is to expand these experiences into more intimate spaces and make them more accessible.
Existing smart lights just aren’t dynamic enough to provide these experiences - so we had to make our own.
THE Solution
We bring our lighting into all 3 dimensions. This unlocks an unbelievable amount of new and exciting form factors for light fixtures. This, combined with our lighting software produces volumetric algorithmic animations that are unrivaled, invoking many more emotions, feelings, and textures than traditional lighting can.
The canvas for these animations can be as small as a single Fluora, or as expansive as an entire home.
There's a lot this technology can do, like...
Our first product on this journey is Fluora, the Magical LED Houseplant.It is a mobile-app controlled volumetric led lamp in the form of a houseplant, and a proof of concept for the future of lighting.
With Fluora, every LED on every leaf is mapped in 3D space to really bring it to life. And with a 360-degree viewing angle, it delivers a fully immersive experience. We call it True 3D Lighting.
This technology is not just limited to the hardware we can make ourselves.
We plan on licensing this technology to other companies that make lighting products and becoming the dominant interactive lighting control software on the market.
We can become the engine that wirelessly runs all lighting fixtures in the home as one cohesive canvas
We have a business model similar to other hardware companies with revolutionary products (think Oculus, Sonos, GoPro). However what makes us unique is our software can be licensed to other lighting manufacturers - so we are not only limited by the hardware we make in-house.
At the moment, our business model is based on traditional product sales, but we are evolving to a software-based business model that can grow at a much faster rate. This involves creating a successful product line, and then going out and licensing our technology to other lighting OEMs.
The Market
Immersive entertainment has traditionally been created at events and in public, like concerts, new wave art museums, and theme parks. These experiences, like Area15 and Museum of Ice Cream, are the heartbeat of millennial and gen Z culture, and make massive waves on social media. We’re bringing them into the home in the form of storytelling with light, both on its own, and combined with our mediums.
Global spending on Immersive Entertainment was valued at $61.8 billion in 2020 (source). And the smart lighting market is hot and growing fast - valued at $12.72 billion globally in 2020, and expected to grow at a rate of 20.26% for the next 4 years and reach a value of $37.41 billion (source).
Most other advanced smart lighting or digital art on the market is flat and two-dimensional, which limits its potential to transform the surrounding environment. The market is ready for more dynamic lighting, and there is a lot of open playing space in terms of entertainment we can create in the home, and licensing this tech to other manufacturers.
So, the immersive entertainment market, meet the smart lighting market. We think you two will get along great.
A recent study found that between March 2020 and January 2021, 70% of consumers have reported making changes in their living environment due to spending more time at home during the pandemic, and more than half (51%) have reported purchasing at least one smart device during that period. (source).
With Fluora, we feel we have created a product that is singular, something that people have never seen before, and fits right in the middle of two industries with a brand new, work from home -inspired demand. Just one Fluora can transform your entire home environment.
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Our Traction
Fluora is our flagship product, a proof of concept for the future of home lighting. Our company has lit up since Fluora’s launch.
● We’ve sold and shipped $350k+ in product
● We've gained 15k+ followers & newsletter subscribers
● Have validated Initial Product Market Fit & Economics
Our second product, Fluora Mini is well underway and anticipated to launch before the end of 2022.
We feel this product will be a slam dunk in the consumer space.
Based on our learnings and experience launching and marketing Fluora, and talking to customers, we’ve created a streamlined product that is 80% of the experience at 40% of the price.
This will allow us to go downmarket and sell to a much larger consumer base.
*The above, Fluora Mini, is a future product, demo version. Product is still currently under development and is not yet available on the market.
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Why Invest
*These testimonials may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is not a guarantee of future performance or success.
*These testimonials may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is not a guarantee of future performance or success.
We have spent the last 2 years re-imagining our immersive lighting technology for the home, successfully launched our first product, and honed in on product-market fit. Now we are ready to scale things up and really make a splash in the consumer market and cultural zeitgeist. We hope to be able to license our technology to other lighting manufacturers and become the dominant interactive lighting software on the market.
We are turning heads of giants in multiple industries
In the next few years, we see ourselves…
With this raise, we plan to develop, manufacture, and launch our second product, Fluora Mini, which we feel will be a huge success, and gain global distribution. We will also be able to take our animation engine and mobile app to the next level, finance future production runs, build more momentum with our brand, and ramp up marketing, content, and integrations. Digital art is going mainstream, invest now and help us shine a light on what we think is a new market.
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Company | : | Color and Light Inc |
Corporate Address | : | 201 Athol Ave #401, Oakland, CA 94606 |
Offering Minimum | : | $9,995.56 |
Offering Maximum | : | $999,997.48 |
Minimum Investment Amount(per investor) | : | $294.32 |
Offering Type | : | Equity |
Security Name | : | Class B Common Stock |
Minimum Number of Shares Offered | : | 1,766 |
Maximum Number of Shares Offered | : | 176,678 |
Price per Share | : | $5.66 |
Pre-Money Valuation | : | $5,002,138.20 |
*Maximum Number of Shares Offered subject to adjustment for bonus shares. See Bonus info below.
Company Perks
Time-based
Fluora Family Bonus
Invest within the first 72 hours and receive 7% bonus shares
Super Early Bird Bonus
Invest within the first week and receive 5% bonus shares
Early Bird Bonus
Invest within the two weeks and receive 3% bonus shares
Amount-Based
$1,000+ | Fluora Growers Club I
$75 off the purchase of a Fluora
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$2,500+ | Fluora Growers Club II
$150 off the purchase of any Fluora
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$5,000+ | Fluora Growers Club III
Free Fluora Mini + Stand (Shipping Winter 2022)
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$10,000+ | Fluora Growers Club - Silver
2 Free Fluora Mini’s or 1 free Fluora + Stand(s) (Shipping Winter 2022)
10% off all Fluora products for 2 years
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$25k+ | Fluora Growers Club - Gold
4 Free Fluora Mini’s or 2 free Fluora + Stand(s) (Shipping Winter 2022)
10% off all Fluora products for 2 years
+2% bonus shares
Meet the Fluora Founders
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$50k+ | Fluora Growers Club - Platinum
4 Free Fluora Mini’s or 2 free Fluora + Stand(s) (Shipping Winter 2022)
15% off all Fluora products for 2 years
+4% bonus shares
Meet the Fluora Founders
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Curate an animation to go in the Fluora app for all users to be able to use
*All perks occur when the offering is completed.
The 10% StartEngine Owners' Bonus
Color + Light will offer 10% additional bonus shares for all investments that are committed by investors that are eligible for the StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. OWNer's bonus.
This means eligible StartEngine shareholders will receive a 10% bonus for any shares they purchase in this offering. For example, if you buy 100 shares of Class B Common Stock at $5.66 / share, you will receive 110 shares of Class B Common Stock, meaning you'll own 110 shares for $566. Fractional shares will not be distributed and share bonuses will be determined by rounding down to the nearest whole share.
This 10% Bonus is only valid during the investors' eligibility period. Investors eligible for this bonus will also have priority if they are on a waitlist to invest and the company surpasses its maximum funding goal. They will have the first opportunity to invest should room in the offering become available if prior investments are canceled or fail.
Investors will receive the highest single bonus they are eligible for among the bonuses based on the amount invested and time of offering elapsed (if any). Eligible investors will also receive the Owner’s Bonus in addition to the aforementioned bonus.
A crowdfunding investment involves risk. You should not invest any funds in this offering unless you can afford to lose your entire investment. In making an investment decision, investors must rely on their own examination of the issuer and the terms of the offering, including the merits and risks involved. These securities have not been recommended or approved by any federal or state securities commission or regulatory authority. Furthermore, these authorities have not passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this document. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not pass upon the merits of any securities offered or the terms of the offering, nor does it pass upon the accuracy or completeness of any offering document or literature. These securities are offered under an exemption from registration; however, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has not made an independent determination that these securities are exempt from registration.
Hi everyone,
We’ve raised over $40k in the first week and a half of our campaign! We’re excited to hit this milestone and keep pushing forward. We’ve still got our early bird bonus share offering active for another 3 days - invest now to take advantage of it!
In other news, we recently announced our second product, Fluora Mini. Our fans are buzzing about it! Click the link to learn more get on the waiting list for our presale.
Lastly, we wanted to share the Fluora blog with you. Check out the blog to learn more about our team members, and Biophilic Design in the home. More to come soon!
~ The Fluora Team ~
Today is your last day to receive 5% bonus shares when you invest in Color + Light. Check the countdown on our homepage for expiration.
If you combine this early bird bonus with the StartEngine owners bonus of 10%, giving you a potential 15% bonus shares if you invest today!
Some other fun resources to learn more about our company & philosophy:
~ The Fluora Team ~
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