Curve Curve Crowdfunding Pitch Deck
Curve Curve Crowdfunding Pitch Deck
a better bank.
It’s this.
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Curve cannot guarantee that interested retail investors from Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands will be able to invest due to local restrictions on
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THE
FINANCIAL
SUPER APP
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* Operating System
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“Have been a long term user of “Efficient service, a simple and intuitive
Curve and my experience has been application. This is the best.”
outstanding. Love the idea, customer “I use Curve a lot but
service was great every time, the Anonymous, 2021 have recently been hugely
convenience of just one card is impressed with their customer
superb, the features of cashback / care. In the app you can
fee-less fx / loyalty cards are brilliant, ‘chat’ to an agent, and you
having all of this in one package and a will get help within minutes
nice app is just awesome! Won’t ever during operating hours.[...]
go back to conventional paying.” So impressed that I’ve just
upgraded myself and wife to
WHAT OUR
A.L., 2021 Curve Metal.”
Anonymous, 2021
CUSTOMERS
SAY?
“This is one of the reasons, I do “Genius solution to a full wallet. All my cards (even
love @imaginecurve so much!!! other countries) are linked to my Curve card and I
You are and you always going can leave all of them at home. Amazing.”
to be my Top One Card. I do use “I love love love Curve!!!
Curve almost for everything!! I absolutely love my Curve K.E., 2020
And I happy and proud to be a Metal card! Carrying just the
#CurveMetal Can’t wait until one card round is so much safer
#CurveCredit be available” and convenient”.
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CURVE IS GROWING.
FAST.
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2M+ customers
We grew 116% in 2020, with very low spending on marketing.
Most of our growth comes from customers sharing the love and spreading the word!
Today
8x in 2 years 2.2M
Organic
Referral
863K
Affiliate / Partnerships
Paid
55%
274K Organic
At Launch & Referral
(Jan-2018)
99K
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STAYING POWER
The more our customers use Curve, the more they spend with us.
75% 65%
200%
50%
53%
150%
25%
0% 100%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month Month
Note: Analysis based on all cohorts that completed 12 months since launch in January 2018. Retention measured from month + 1 following the first completed transaction. Retention includes cohorts from January 2018 to March 2019. Retention with Covid impact includes cohorts from April 2019 to April 2020. Spend per customer measured from the first month following the first completed transaction.
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Covid-19
£3B
£2.6B
Covid couldn’t
£2B stop us
GTV kept rising despite lower customer
spending thanks to strong customer growth.
£1B
£0B
Jul-18 Jan-19 Jul-19 Jan-20 Jul-20 Jan-21
GTV (Gross Transaction Volume): Value of transactions completed through the Curve platform.
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The Opportunity
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limited to
$120B
$800B
one market...
Addressable market
$1.7TN $300B
1) McKinsey, Global Banking Annual Review 2020 (2019 data). 2) Allied Market Research, Insurance Brokerage Market Outlook (2019 data). 3) Assumes 2.5% of the Crypto trading volume (across the top-9 centralized and decentralized exchanges) as of 2020 ($534bn according to CoinGecko). 4) Beroe: Loyalty Programs Market Trends (2019 data).
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5y
Connecting
experiences
3y
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GBIT
Open Banking
Crypto
Rewards
Controls Cast
WE’RE BUILDING
ONE HELL OF AN
Security
ECOSYSTEM.
Killer FX
Insights
Credit
Expense Management
Connect
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R.I.P.
Wallets
(1690-2018)
Add your credit cards, debit cards,
and loyalty cards to Curve and lay
your wallet to rest.
Note: Mastercard and Visa cards, with additional card networks to be added.
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All your
cards on
tap
Curve makes your cards work with Apple Pay, Google
Pay or Samsung Pay, even if your bank doesn’t support
them. This means all your cards become contactless
automatically, and you can go completely
cardless altogether.
Note: Mastercard and Visa cards, with additional card networks to be added.
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GO BACK
IN TIME
Never pay with the wrong card again.
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Freedom
from fees
Pay and take out cash abroad without being
charged and dodge your bank’s lousy exchange
rates with killer FX rates.
Fair usage limits and weekend charges may apply to any foreign currency or ATM transactions abroad, outlined in our Curve Card or Samsung Pay+ Terms of Service.
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SWIPE
to pay later
Curve Credit(1) mimics Point of Sale (“POS”) or Buy
Now Pay Later (“BNPL”) credit, but with an integrated
unrivalled customer experience, without the need
for merchant relationships. Customers can simply
select a transaction from the transaction history on
their Curve app and swipe to turn it into a short term
instalment loan(2).
(1) Currently in Beta. (2) Subject to eligibility and terms
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Panoramic views
See what you’re spending across all your accounts.
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Don’t sweat
the BIG
stuff
With Curve Fronted, you can pay your taxes and bills with
your credit card where it’s not accepted. And you can
do it a lot cheaper than competitors. In fact, Curve Metal
customers can do it totally free.
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Offers you
can’t refuse.
We are making Curve the most rewarding way to
pay with cashback offers of up to 20%(1) from the
world’s most exciting brands. And that’s on top of
rewards you may earn from your underlying cards.
(1) Note that certain cashback offers may be higher on occasion but will generally not exceed 20%
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YOUR MONEY.
YOUR RULES.
Self-driving car(d)
We’re building a ton of autopilot features
to make Curve the smoothest way to pay.
Turning on Anti-Embarrassment mode
lets you select backup cards so you can
avoid declines. Curve Cash Auto Spend
lets you pay automatically with the
cashback you’ve earned – you’re
in control.
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PAY ON TIME,
EVERY TIME.
Never miss a due date with reminders to
help you pay your bills on time. Auto bill
payments and statement analysis will let
you know where your money goes.
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Curve Cast
Instantly “hand over” your card to another Curve user to Or equally share a business
make a purchase in a secure, private and controlled way. card with employees.
Business
Families
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Hello
Crypto We’re going to bring crypto to
the masses. Buying, selling,
sending and spending with
your crypto balances –
instantly, and all in one place.
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CURVE CONNECT
Your (Super) App store for money
A built-in marketplace that will allow customers to discover and compare
financial products and instantly connect the ones they want to Curve.
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Everybody
wins
Curve Connect is a win-win for our
customers and partners alike. Partners get to
access millions of new customers and Curve
customers get to discover and connect to
more rewarding financial products instantly.
No trawling through comparison sites or
hopping between 20 different apps. Curve
truly becomes the one-stop shop for all your
financial needs.
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WE’RE COMING
TO AMERICA
WHY
OW ?
W HY N
They need it. They have $784bn in consumer They don't need to change behaviour.
The average American has credit card debt, and no one is Americans love cashback credit cards(3)
at least 7 cards(1) doing anything about it(2) and that works for us
Contactless penetration lags behind Europe: 1/3 of Too many banks for XPays to work with:
Americans have never made a contactless payment(4) 4,374 FDIC insured commercial banks(5)
1) Includes debit, credit and store cards. Experian and Statista (2020).
2) Experian (2020).
3) 57% of US adults have at least one rewards credit card, with cash back cards being the most popular (43%) according to a survey conducted by creditcards.com (2018).
4) Paysafe (2021).
5) FDIC (2020).
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THE (SUPER)
TEAM
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Talent across
the Board
Bobby Aitkenhead Tom Bradley Mike Burns Cuong Do Anju Patwardhan
Co-founder and Managing Former CEO and Partner Partner at Gauss Ventures Former President of the Former Managing Partner at
Partner at IDC Ventures. at Oxford Capital. Former with more than 20 years of Samsung Global Strategy CreditEase Fintech VC Fund,
He has over 15 years of Partner at DN Capital and experience in technology Group. Before Samsung, one of China’s largest fintech
experience in financial Draper Esprit. Chairman start-ups and private equity. Cuong was the Chief venture funds. Anju formerly
services, launching, growing at Push Doctor, and non- He also served as Partner Strategy Officer for Merck, held global leadership roles
and exiting tech ventures. executive director at at Alara Capital, Managing TE Connectivity and Lenovo at Citibank and Standard
Moneybox and Oxford Director at Guggenheim and served as a Senior Chartered in Singapore.
Biotherapeutics. Partners, and Managing Partner at McKinsey
Director at TL Ventures. & Partners.
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NOW SHOW
ME THE
MONEY
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1
Card Transactions
2
Premium Subscriptions
3
Platform Products
When a Curve card is used for a While Curve is aiming to maintain a Curve as a platform offers and looks to
payment transaction, Curve receives free product, it provides premium tiers add products and services, generating
interchange income from on a subscription basis with additional additional revenues. These include:
the merchant. features and at different price points. credit, rewards, crypto and various fees
(e.g origination, brokerage etc.) on new
products in the pipeline.
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Revenue Mix
by Product Premium
Card Card
Premium
UK & EEA
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SUMMARY FINANCIALS
2020A 2021E 2022E 2023E 2024E Notes and assumptions:
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Join Us
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Curve Ownership(4)
Crowdfunding pre-money
valuation: £591.7M(1) Founder 21.2%
1) Series C latest post-money valuation. The total amount raised in our series C was £72.5m GBP in cash and capital commitments. We have agreed with an investor to reduce their
Crowdcube Nominees Limited 2.0%
existing commitment by up to £5m, dependent on the amount raised in this crowdfunding round. Should the crowdfund raise less than £5m, the existing investor will provide the balance.
Anything raised in addition to £5m will be fresh capital.
2) Series C latest share price.
3) Curve valuation increased by 2.9x vs. 2019 crowdfunding pre-money valuation of £202m; Curve share price increased by 2.2x vs. 2019 crowdfunding share price of £3.9586.
The difference between the increases in valuation and share price is due to dilution, which is mainly driven by the expansion of our Employee Share Option Pool (ESOP).
4) Pre crowdfunding fully-diluted ownership of Curve OS Ltd, as of 30 April 2021.
5) Includes Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP). Total 100%
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WHAT OUR
INVESTORS
SAY? “I am a customer of Curve
before Crowdcube. Using the
“The Curve product is innovative. The business model product, I see the benefits
and focus on financial data versus providing a pure play and would be passionate to
banking service. This really sets them up to be the Amazon continue investing. I would also
of Banking understanding their customer better than want to invest more than last
others, thereby allowing them to leverage that data and time as I can see the benefits
pivot into different Financial Service areas such as PoS and growth of what Curve
Financing aka Curve Credit. My pleasure to aid them in have done with my previous
their journey!” investment.”
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APPENDIX
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Pricing (Per Month) Free UK: £9.99 EEA: €9.99 UK: £14.99 EEA: €14.99
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Footprint
Latest Valuation Number of
Company (£BN)(1) Valuation Date Customers(2) Valuation/Customer UK EEA US
Neo Banks
1) Converted to GBP as of announcement date. 2) At the date of the announced valuation, except for Chime (customers as of Feb-21). Curve’s number of customers as of end Mar-21.
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Key Definitions
• Customers: Unique customers who signed up for an account with Curve
• Gross Transaction Volume (GTV): Value of transactions completed through the Curve platform in a
given time period
• Revenues: Income from card transactions, premium subscriptions, and platform products (e.g. credit
interest income, Fronted fees, commission on crypto transactions, etc.)
• Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA): Revenues less cost of sales
and operating expenses
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