GET A PIECE OF UNCANNY

AI-Powered Live-Stream Production

Pivan Interactive, Inc. (d.b.a. "Uncanny" or the "Company") is a production team in a box! We use bleeding-edge AI to watch live streams and create beautiful, engaging productions for streamers so that viewers can spend less time “channel hopping” and enjoy more of the creator they love. Modern AI has given the world ChatGPT for language, Dall-E-2 for images, and now Uncanny for broadcasts. We elevate streamers to the standards of professional broadcasters by automating live-stream production for our growing community of 24,500 streamers around the world. Uncanny also helps the streamers monetize better by giving them more of what they earn. The Company is in the pre-revenue stage of development.

This Reg CF offering is made available through StartEngine Capital, LLC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment.

$96,840.04 Raised

REASONS TO INVEST

Our AI technology watches live streams with computer vision in real-time, for $0.03/hr/stream, at scale across tens of thousands of streams simultaneously to efficiently improve production quality for our streamers and their viewers.

Live streaming is the fast-growing future of online entertainment, with a market valued at $3.8 billion as of 2021 and a need for accessible professional-level production services as it continues to grow.*

We are led by a highly experienced team and backed by major industry players, including a VP of Sales at Twitch, the Co-Founder of IGN, and the CEO of T1 Entertainment and Sports.

*Information from PR Newswire (Source)

the pitch

At Uncanny, we turn streamers of all sizes into professional-level broadcasters using our AI as an automated out-of-the-box production team. We are backed by world-renowned founders and C-officers in the gaming and broadcast industries, and our technology is proven to increase the streaming experience for viewers. Better production quality means higher viewer retention, which ultimately increases multiple core business metrics for both the streamers and the platform itself. With a growing community of 24,500 users and $1.3 million already raised, we are ready to build the future of live-streamed entertainment.

Overview

A Smart, Easy-to-Use, Cost-Effective Live Streaming Production Service

Uncanny is elevating the future of live-streamed entertainment with our AI-powered production technology. We employ cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning to operate virtually in the cloud to improve the production quality of our customers’ broadcasts. We are supported by a team of industry-recognized investors and advisors, including Comcast NBC Universal, the VP of Sales at Twitch, the Co-Founder of IGN, the CEO of T1 Entertainment and Sports, the co-creator of Guitar Hero/Rockband, the Co-Founder and CCO of Human Design, and many more.

The Problem & Our solution

Low Production Quality Leads to Viewers Spending More Time Searching for Better Content

There are over 10 million live-streaming creators in the world on Twitch alone, serving over 700 million viewers worldwide, but the production quality is still essentially public access television (Source | Source).

Streamers are entertainers, but to create a compelling broadcast, you need skills – or the resources to hire talent – in graphic design, broadcast software, and videography, to name a few. This forces viewers to spend far too much time searching for better content. Higher viewer retention would mean more revenue for streamers and the platforms. In addition, platforms take far too large revenue shares, leaving no alternative ways for streamers to make money.

We use bleeding-edge computer vision and machine learning to analyze our customers’ streams and help them create professional, beautiful, and modern broadcasts, with features such as instant replays, dynamic A/V overlays, auto-clipping, and automatic half-time shows. Our product has proven efficacy, leading to up to 95% increase in followers at an average of 12%, up to 92% increase in viewers at an average of 17%, and up to 75% increase in watch time at an average of 11%.

*This testimonial may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is not a guarantee of future performance or success.

*The above testimonials may not be representative of the opinions of other experts or the experiences of other customers and is not a guarantee of future performance or success.

the market & Our Traction

Building an Enthusiastic Community in a Fast-Growing Industry

The live streaming industry was valued at $3.8 billion as of 2021 (Source). Twitch currently dominates the market and is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 22% for the next five years (Source).

We have built a community of over 24.5k users (think of that as ~25k full television channels), 35k TikTok followers, 1.5k Discord followers, and 1k Twitter followers for an estimated 50 million social media impressions. We have already raised over $1.3 million from investors including Comcast-NBC-Universal, Techstars, a VP of Twitch, the creator of Guitar Hero, and the University of Oxford. We have been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Venture Beat, and more. Recently, we were named one of the Top 10 Startups in Denver.

Why Invest

Building Foundational Technology for Live Streaming & Redefining its Possibilities

We envision our community of streamers and their audience should own the tools and platforms they use to create their content. They should have better productions that not only reflect them, but look amazing as well. They should be taking home more of what they earn. This is why we believe our community of gamers and streamers should have the opportunity to invest and be part of the platforms they use and live on.

We envision our product as an essential standard in the massive live streaming market. That includes massive opportunities in short-form content platforms like TikTok or Instagram Reels, which are venturing further into live content.

As we expand, we will also grow beyond gaming into horizontal markets such as Just Chatting, Live-Music, IRL, and Cooking streams while further developing game-agnostic features such as voice commands, facial recognition for sentiment analysis, and automatic scene changes. With our top-tier team of highly experienced leaders and advisors, we are ready to make high-quality broadcasts possible for streamers everywhere.

Uncanny 17b Disclosure

ABOUT

HEADQUARTERS

4636 BERKSHIRE PL
BOULDER, CO 80301

WEBSITE

View Site

TEAM

David Sturgeon

CEO and Co-Founder

David is a serial startup entrepreneur and has been at the forefront of technology since the early days of the internet. In the early 00s, David put his experience with SEO and E-commerce to use in various successful affiliate marketing campaigns.

In 2007 David joined his first venture-backed startup Eswarm and was quickly promoted to Head of User Experience. Ultimately, David ran the entire marketing department and helped grow it to over 40 employees.

In 2016, while Director of Operations for an enterprise-focused E-commerce agency, David created, championed, funded, and managed an internal startup building a software connection between Magento and Amazon for the first time ever. He then successfully led the efforts to sell to Magento (A global e-commerce platform, subsequently acquired by Adobe) pre-consumer launch.

He is an avid lifetime gamer and live-streaming enthusiast who spends his free time with his family.

Constantine Tsang

CTO and Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board

Constantine has been a lifelong gamer, and an astromony nerd. He graduated with a PhD in Physics from Oxford University, prior to working on NASA missions for 12 years, exploring planets in our solar system.

He has worked on missions to Venus, Mars, Moon, Jupiter and Pluto. He has been on scientific expeditions to Antarctica and the Artic Circle, which was the topic of his TEDx talk. He has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including in Nature and Science, and has appeared in documentaries for the BBC, NOVA and the Weather Channel.

He was a consultant for Northrop Grumman. He has worked on and flown in high-performance fighter jets, human centrifuges and the Vomit Comet, used to train astronauts, over 8 times. He has a FAA Pilots License in Gliders and Drones. He also has an asteroid named after him.

Eric Marcoullier

Lead Advisor | Co-Founder of IGN

Eric co-founded IGN Entertainment, now one of the biggest leading internet media companies focused on video games and entertainment, reaching more than 230 million monthly users around the world. He has advised Uncanny since the very beginning.

Since dropping out of college in 1995, Eric has co-founded a variety of companies, including IGN (IPO), MyBlogLog (acquired by Yahoo!), Gnip (acquired by Twitter) and OneTrueFan (acquired by BigDoor). Over the years, he has invested in and advised many early-stage startups, including CitizenNet (acquired by Condé Nast), Foodzie (acquired by Joyus), Intense Debate (acquired by Automattic), Pana (acquired by Coupa), Zemanta (acquired by Outbrain) and Zynga (IPO).

These days, he is a startup coach, working primarily with first- and second-time founders who have not yet established product/market fit.

Katherine Bowe Fumia

Investor | VP Sales at Twitch

Katherine is currently a Vice President of Sales at Twitch, a position she has held for the past 3 years. She has a long history of sales at media and gaming companies.

Prior to Twitch, she held various executive directorships at Gimlet Media, Pandora, Vox Media and IGN Entertainment. During her time at Twitch and Pandora, she has headed a number of high-profile marketing and sales campaigns, including a crowdsource campaign to convert a Lexus F Sports car into a gaming PC by Twitch streamer Fuslie, and promoting the release of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare with a playlist by Rapper YG. At IGN, she managed and reported on Rockstar Games.

She holds a BA in Business Marketing at California Polytechnic State University, and was an avid soccer player.

Joe Marsh

Advisor | CEO of T1 Entertainment

Joe is the CEO of T1 Entertainment & Sports. In this role, he oversees operations based in Seoul, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and is responsible for T1’s global presence and expansion into new businesses and revenue streams surrounding competitive gaming culture and lifestyle, content, and merchandise.

Joe previously served as CBO of Comcast’s Spectacor Gaming division and the Philadelphia Fusion esports franchise that competes in the Overwatch League. In addition, Joe worked closely behind the Fusion Arena, a 3,500-seat venue in the Philadelphia Sports Complex and stand as the largest new construction, purpose-built esports arena in the Western Hemisphere.

Joe currently serves as a strategic advisor to Spectacor Gaming and the Philadelphia Fusion. Joe is also a board member of Nerd Street Gamers.

Shawn Brown

Chief Evangelist

Shawn has been making content online for 9 years, and has accumulated an audience of over 300K followers for his personal brand “NoctWolfe.” His content is viewed millions of times a month, and was brought on to Uncanny in 2020 to bring our company to the masses. Shawn has been an avid gamer all his life, from playing the Warcraft RTS as a child, to Halo LAN parties in high school, to talking about video game lore to hundreds of thousands of people. Aside from gaming, his hobbies are axe throwing and archery.

Shawn has worked with many sponsors over his time in content creation, always achieving net-gain ROI for the companies he works with, as well as garnering millions of views on the products he's reviewed and promoted. Originally a middle school teacher, Shawn places a great importance on the educational value of his content while also working to help others elevate their own abilities.

Brad Morris

Lead Engineer

Brad graduated with a Bachelor of Aviation Flight Science from Western Michigan University, minoring in Computer Science with studies at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He has grown up on computers, learning to program in BASIC at the age of 9 and quickly learning C/C++ from playing and programming IgorMUD in the mid-90s. As websites became a thing, the adventures in Perl ensued. He began pursuing aviation as a teenager and earned his private pilot's license at Plymouth-Mettetal Airport (1D2) in Michigan. After many years of towing gliders and flying skydivers, he is now the Senior Captain for a private owner, flying a Gulfstream G600 around the world. But no matter where he's at, you can always find him behind his gaming laptop taking out the bad guys.

Chris Vieville

Head of Sales and Partnership

Chris hails from the frozen beaches of the Bay Area and was immersed in tech and startups from a very early age. He vividly remembers his father bringing home one of the 1st home PCs with a whopping 12 inch floppy disk drive. Naturally while he had been informed it would help with schoolwork all he did was play video games - thus was born a lifelong love of gaming. His business acumen was birthed and honed on the cold and unforgiving blacktop of his middle school playground, after he discovered what his classmates would pay to peruse that stack of magazines he found in the back of a closet. Chris has done time in the corporate jungle but is much more at home founding and leading growth focused startups. Extensively traveled and having lived on 3 continents he speaks multiple languages terribly. Chris is a firm believer in the power of play and knows the world would be a better place if we just spent more time gaming.

Anton King

Computer Vision Engineer

Anton acquired his Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota, with strong focus on deep learning and computer vision. His experience in AI is enriched through his collaboration with a team of researchers on a paper which propelled deep learning research in the animation industry. He is a lifelong gamer, playing games such as Super Mario Bros and Pokémon when he was just a child. His deep learning and videogame passions intersect often, at Uncanny as well as on a custom AI he created to beat professional Super Mario Bros players record times.

TERMS

Uncanny

Overview

PRICE PER SHARE

$2.27

DEADLINE

Apr 30, 2023

VALUATION

$13.01M

FUNDING GOAL

$15k - $1.23M

Breakdown

MIN INVESTMENT

$249.70

MAX INVESTMENT

$1,234,998.04

MIN NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERED

6,607

MAX NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERED

544,052

OFFERING TYPE

Equity

SHARES OFFERED

Common Stock

Maximum Number of Shares Offered subject to adjustment for bonus shares

Most Recent Fiscal Year-End

Prior Fiscal Year-End

Total Assets

$20,110

$78,945

Cash & Cash Equivalents

$20,110

$78,945

Accounts Receivable

Short-Term Debt

$926,452

$618,169

Long-Term Debt

$151,050

$177,025

Revenue & Sales

Costs of Goods Sold

Taxes Paid

Net Income

-$341,143

-$242,325

Risks

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.

*Maximum number of shares offered subject to adjustment for bonus shares. See Bonus info below.

Voting Rights of Securities Sold in this Offering

Voting Proxy. Each Subscriber shall appoint the Chief Executive Officer of the Company (the “CEO”), or his or her successor, as the Subscriber’s true and lawful proxy and attorney, with the power to act alone and with full power of substitution, to, consistent with this instrument and on behalf of the Subscriber, (i) vote all Securities, (ii) give and receive notices and communications, (iii) execute any instrument or document that the CEO determines is necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its authority under this instrument, and (iv) take all actions necessary or appropriate in the judgment of the CEO for the accomplishment of the foregoing. The proxy and power granted by the Subscriber pursuant to this Section are coupled with an interest. Such proxy and power will be irrevocable. The proxy and power, so long as the Subscriber is an individual, will survive the death, incompetency and disability of the Subscriber and, so long as the Subscriber is an entity, will survive the merger or reorganization of the Subscriber or any other entity holding the Securities. However, the Proxy will terminate upon the closing of a firm-commitment underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the offer and sale of Common Stock or the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 covering the Common Stock.

Investment Incentives & Bonuses*

Time-Based:

Friends and Family Early Birds

Invest within the first 5 days and receive 10% bonus shares

Super Early Bird Bonus

Invest within the first 10 days and receive 5% bonus shares

Early Bird Bonus

Invest within the first 15 days and receive 2% bonus shares

Amount-Based:

$100 | Owners Tier

Exclusive access to Uncanny Investor Discord & Special Discord Role

Uncanny Streaming Masterclass (VOD)

$150 | Bronze Tier

Use of Uncanny VIP Tier 1 for 1 Year

Exclusive Access to Creator Panel (Bi-Annual) featuring partner streamers.