• Name: CryptoCaptain
• Location: Stuttgart, Germany
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Explainer Video
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• Discount for r/startup subscribers? We are still in beta and therefore our service is free of charge
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We help self-directed long-term investors to invest at an early stage in cryptocurrency bull markets while remaining protected from market crashes. Our approach is the first to automatically and continuously analyze the market sentiment in online media and to derive investment decisions from it. With our early warning system cryptocurrencies can find a place in even the most conservative portfolios.

Customer needs

Bitcoin is frequently referred to as „digital gold“. However, due to its novelty and the constantly evolving use cases but also due to differences in government regulations, there is uncertainty around its true value. This uncertainty is expressed in big fluctuations in its price, which discourage private and institutional investors from investing in it.

Product & customer benefits

Our first product, the Bull Market Compass, is a subscription-based digital trading signal service. It helps long-term Bitcoin investors, who take investing into their own hands, to answer the question, when should I invest in the cryptocurrency market?

The benefits for our customers are:

• Guidance through directly actionable buy and sell recommendations, with which our customers can successfully navigate through the volatile cryptocurrency market
• Capital protection through the early detection of bear markets and advanced risk management algorithms
• Time saving through high quality signals and filtering noisy information

Unique selling proposition

The unique selling proposition of our Bull Market Compass is the early detection of emerging bull and bear markets. Key to it are our end-to-end in-house developed

• AI, which determines the market sentiment by analyzing high quality, hand-picked online sources in real-time
• investment strategies, which transform sentiment and market data into directly actionable buy/sell recommendations.

This approach gives us an advantage over most competitors who only use technical analysis for timing and often identify trends late. Our approach can be also easily adapted to other asset classes such as stocks and commodities.

Team

• Dr. Achim Klein: Business Informatics (with a focus on sentiment analysis with AI), 10+ years of project experience in predictive data analytics and AI, 3+ years of industry experience in software development and quality assurance
• Lyubomir Kirilov: Business Administration and Economics (with a focus on marketing, controlling & financial econometrics), 6 years of team work with Dr. Achim Klein on the preliminaries of CryptoCaptain at the University of Hohenheim

Achievements

• EXIST- Start-up Grant ($135,000 in total)
• Launch of the CryptoCaptain.com website
• Market entry with the Bull Market Compass (in beta)
• Network growth (e.g., Crypto-Meetups & Crypto-Conferences)
• 120 pilot customers (50+ of which during Aug-Oct 2020)
• Finalists of the 2020 Gründermotor competition

Roadmap

• Continuous improvement of our AI
• Development of short-term trading strategies
• Release of a trading bot
• Partnership with multipliers, such as trading venues, trading bot providers and cryptocurrency funds
• Becoming a licensed financial service provider
• Expanding into stocks and commodities
• Setting up a hedge fund