Voyage Media: 1st Film/TV Incubator: Original Content For Hollywood & Sourced From The Crowd

Robert Mitas

Head of Originals

20 year producing veteran and former head of Further Films, Michael Douglas's production company. Next series, 'Ratched', soon to be airing on Netflix.

Voyage is a cool company with some great projects they’re bringing us, one of which we’re now financing. I came to Hollywood as an outsider and I love that we don’t have to use the traditional (and expensive) agent route to find great stuff, which is why we’re doubling down on our existing partnership with an investment.

Joe Newcomb

TRUTH ENTERTAINMENT - PRODUCERS OF OSCAR-WINNING DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Voyage’s services are valuable, especially for people who are working outside of the Hollywood system who have something that has the potential to go big but can’t quite break in.

Nick Rosen

Producer & Director, VALLEY UPRISING

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What does your company do?

[ROUND CLOSES NOV 15TH]: We democratize access to Hollywood! Our platform connects storytellers outside of the "Hollywood System" with A-list producers to craft market-ready projects worthy of industry investment. We’ve so far produced 7 films and TV shows (including an Emmy-winner!), executed over 200 deals, and have a thriving pipeline of projects that are partially financed and ready to go.

Where will your company be in 5 years?

The Filmed Entertainment Sector is expected to hit $118 billion in 2023, and demand for original programming is up 500% since 2014. Voyage can capture a proportionately larger share of that market and meet that growing demand with our scalable and proven approach. We believe that by disrupting the front end of the content the supply chain we are a likely strategic partner/acquisition target for a streaming platform like Amazon or Netflix.

What is Voyage Media?

Voyage is the first-ever incubator for film and television. Much like United Artists did back in 1919, our studio honors the original spark of inspiration, and puts storytellers in control of their own destinies. The platform enables storytellers from all over the world to connect with A-list producers, and together create market-ready projects. Our mission is "Creating Magnificence Together". We saw a problem where storytellers outside of the 'Hollywood system' are like the 99% of the world, and the 1% of working writers get all the access and market information. We decided to breaks those barriers down, and provides emerging screenwriters, authors, reality-show creators, or even people with a movie or television idea and that don't have an agent, or a manager, or an uncle in the business, with a credible way to access producers. To learn from them, get mentored by them, and develop market-worthy projects together. Then when a project is market ready, we help get it financed and made with our partners - and our crowd-funding effort enables us to double down on what’s already working and also invest in the quality films/TV shows that emerge on the platform.

What are some success stories of people using your platform?

Since our first crowdfunding in 2017, we've been busy! So far, we've produced 7 films and television shows from storyteller projects on our platform, including an Emmy win for VALLEY UPRISING, the faith-based indie MY DADDY'S IN HEAVEN that hit #1 on Amazon, the reality show FLIPPING MIAMI that aired on A&E, and the sports drama CHANCE, starring Matthew Modine (STRANGER THINGS, FULL METAL JACKET). We also helped develop the remake of Stephen King's PET SEMATARY that hit #2 in worldwide box office! We also have executed about 40 deals in recent months, including for ALIVE DAY, which we're producing alongside Oscar nominated Mike Medavoy (BLACK SWAN, ALTERED CARBON) and directed by Phillip Noyce (SALT, THE GIVER); and also 500 MILES TO NOWHERE, produced alongside Oscar nominated Shaun Redick (GET OUT, BLACKKKLANSMAN).

What technology is involved in running the platform.

Our technology enables storytellers to sort through, select, and schedule sessions with producers in their market. It's a matchmaking marketplace supported by technology. The backend of the technology facilitates the producer sharing information about the project/storyteller with the company, enabling the “cream to rise to the top”. Producers are effectively our curation/filtration system, which I think sets us apart from the other more 100%-tech-focused startups in the entertainment industry - ours has a very real beating heart at the center of each interaction. Ultimately, we believe that in entertainment there needs to be humans involved in collaborating and talking to one another, which is why we set up the company like we did. The technology serves those communications, both producer to creator, as well as producer to company. Producers that have been working for dozens of years in the traditional production companies have said to us, "We've never been a part a company that gets as much stuff done as quickly as you guys get it done through this new medium." Our ability as a company, because we're decentralized as a marketplace, puts us in a position where we can develop as much content as a major, multinational studio and across all the markets/genres, i.e. television, studio-sized features, indie-sized features, reality, documentary. We're capable of doing the same level of development and much more efficiently in terms of time and resources - our decentralized method of development is profitable, versus every other studio in the world has development as an expense or liability. Our vision for this next phase of Voyage is to begin aggregating data from all the interactions on our platform, enable the crowd to participate in those interactions, and therefore be able to add a quantitative tool for assessing project potential as well as provide audience insights to distribution partners.

Who benefits from Voyage Media?

It's a cool ecosystem: *Storytellers benefit from having a credible path for their projects. *Producers benefit by finding quality projects from unknowns, and also earning money by participating in the sharing economy and leveraging their knowledge and skill. *Financiers, networks and distributors benefit from the increased flow of quality projects, and with lower acquisition cost due to our more efficient, less cost intensive process. *The industry benefits from discovering fresh, original voices, and also opening its doors with a more open and friendlier way of doing business. *The world benefits from the 1000s of jobs that our marketplace platform, and each successful film and TV show creates.

What benefits do storytellers receive from Voyage Media?

We’ve proven that storytellers who use our platform, and who previously had no way in to the industry, are getting their projects developed, financed and produced quickly by working with our producers and in our system. With this crowdfunding effort, in addition to taking on new investors outside of the company, we enable our own clients to invest and own a piece of what we're up to and, in effect, a piece of a lot of projects. This creates massive loyalty by aligning our clients' futures with ours. But it also solves an inherent ‘diversification’ problem that both storytellers and 'single-film' investors face: they can invest great work, expertise, and capital into a single project and it still might not sell or make money. By investing in Voyage, it enables them to, in effect, hedge their risk across multiple projects, and with the real significant potential upside of when the projects do well, the company does well, they do well, and then everybody does well.

How is Voyage Media beneficial for producers?

They're interested in finding the diamond in the rough, and getting the first shot at something that hasn't already been around town yet. They are also interested in giving back - these are producers that have been in the industry for a long time. They've had to suffer through their own learning process, and have reached a point in their careers where they get a lot of personal and emotional value to be able to start giving back to people who are just coming up. And they're all really excited about how Voyage is disrupting the old model. Finally, they get to even out their cash flows. The independent producer in the world suffers from a feast and famine cash-flow cycle, where they work on a project for a number of years, they make some money on it, and then have to work on another project for a number of years, in order to eventually get paid. So, we even out that cash-flow by bringing them reliable and ongoing mentees and paid assignments. I think that the real value in the equation is what Voyage is bringing to the table. In addition to finding great producers and finding great creators, Voyage sets up strategic financing and distribution partnerships. So, we've become a place where they can both work on our family of creators' projects, and also bring their projects to us, in an effort to see if our partnerships can offer value.

How are you tackling growth?

We've been very busy in 3 distinct areas: 1. Successful Outcomes For Projects: In addition to now producing 7 films and TV shows and proving that the model works, the scale and quality of our upcoming productions are increasing significantly. This should yield big 'producer fee' payouts for the company and against which we have little to no expense (some call that 'gravy'). Successful outcomes and deal flow on the platform grew by 200% year over year. By recently partnering with a film and tv production fund, we are now in a stronger position than ever to ramp up successful outcomes. All of this should prove extremely valuable to shareholders. 2. Community Growth & Marketing: Since our crowdfunding, we've doubled our community size from ~50,000 to ~100,000. This creates more stories moving through the platform, more opportunities, and higher probability outcomes. Even though we've doubled in community size, we have decreased our staffing and administration expenses, which is exciting since it points to the scalability of the model. A couple recent marketing metrics we're very excited about indicate that (1) our cost per lead is dropping and (2) the time it takes to reach positive ROI on our marketing spend is also shortening. Both of these are early stage indicators of potentially inflected growth to come. 3. Producer Fee Revenue: Producer Fee revenue for the company grew by 225% year over year. As mentioned above, Producer Fees at Voyage come with little to no expense and act to increase profit margin significantly. As we've been heads down and investing in projects and quality outcomes, we intentionally cut services that didn't lead to real results for clients (and lost some short term revenue as a result). This was an important step for us to demonstrate our commitment to successful outcomes, increase our credibility, and set a course for a viable, thriving, and sustainable enterprise. Overall we are growing and profitable because we (1) increased quality outcomes and high-margin producer fees, (2) reduced marketing cost and ROI timetables, and (3) decreased staffing and admin expense.

What is your five year plan?

We have a five year vision to produce 34 movies, and 12 TV shows, to have a family of creators a million strong, and to create 123,000 direct and indirect jobs, and $2.3 billion in wages paid. Our business vision is to continue to disrupt the front end of the content supply chain, knowing that there is a future where we meet in the middle with the streaming platforms who disrupt the back end of that same supply chain (Amazon, Netflix, Google, Facebook, etc), and become an interesting strategic partnership/acquisition target.

How will you tackle growth?

We focus on two primary things: (1) growing our community and (2) getting films and TV shows made. Those are the two ends of our pipeline. A successful fundraise will be game changing on both ends in that it puts us in a position to invest in projects getting made, and the more projects that get made, the more creators will want to join us. It becomes a flywheel - the more projects get made, the more success we have, the more creators come into our platform, the more marketplace revenue, the more projects get made...so on and so forth..

How does Voyage Media make money? How will investors make money?

Voyage arbitrages the relationship between the producer and the creator in the marketplace, number one. So, our searching and filtering to find great talent and great projects is a revenue stream for us. Our revenue per user is seven times the user-acquisition cost. Our training program, and our coaching and education products are a revenue stream. Then finally, Voyage makes money when projects get made - in 3 phases (1) in the form of options and intellectual property sale, (2) producer and/or executive producer fees and (3) if the project is profitable, we make a percentage of that profit. Anyone who invests in Voyage Media is investing in a company - they can make money when the company either pays a dividend or goes through an acquisition process.

Tell us about the team. What sets you apart from others?

We spent hours, upon hours, upon hours doing an exhaustive search for our team. We were looking for people who are passionate and aligned with what we do, that come from the heart and have a high degree of integrity, and have a passion, expertise, and skill in the worlds of storytelling and film and television production. That's the corporate team. Our producers are selected for integrity and heart, ability to work well with others, and mentor. They have a real, qualified track record of success. So, I think it's our deep experience, and our breadth of diversity, and the successful track record so far that sets us apart. Ultimately, it's our commitment, passion, and heart to be solving this problem for the emerging writer, and to create a revolutionary, heart-centered way within which film and television content gets originated, and comes to market. I personally have been an entrepreneur my entire life. I've been an artist my entire life, and I've been an adventurer my entire life. It's the synthesis of those three things that have brought me where I am today. Previously, I was a professional mountain guide, and ran a successful international expedition company. Followed by running a marketplace of ghostwriters. Followed by running a successful advertising agency that served both the restaurant industry, and the entertainment industry. And now, by bringing Voyage where it is today. I've been committed to doing things differently with a thirst for adventure and coming from the heart, my entire life.

Why use equity crowdfunding? How will the funds be used?

By offering creators the opportunity to invest in Voyage Media, we’re bringing them into the fold and aligning our future with theirs. With a successful raise, we’ll be increasing investments in community growth, investing further in technology to improve efficiency, and also investing in production of quality projects. Last year we sent an email to a thousand people, asking if they were accredited investors, and if they were interested in investing in production - from that single email we identified $800,000 of funds, $200,000 of which is already in production. That was a big light bulb for us, which we realized we have the money we need in our own community to realize our shared vision. Originally we had this notion, when we started, of sharing our success with our family of creators - where they’re investing in their projects on the marketplace, but also benefitting when another creator’s projects succeeds even if there’s doesn’t . That wasn’t doable four years ago, but now with equity crowdfunding, it is. So, that's what we're super excited about.

1	2019 revenue so far up 20% year over year
2	7 film and TV projects produced (one won an Emmy)!
3	Doubled producer-fee & profit sharing revenue
4	Recently backed by a film and TV production fund
5	Upcoming & larger productions with Oscar nominated partners

1	The SEC requires the company to identify risks that are specific to its business and its financial condition. The company is still subject to all the same risks that all companies in its business, and all companies in the economy, are exposed to. These include risks relating to economic downturns, political and economic events and technological developments (such as hacking and the ability to prevent hacking). Additionally, early-stage companies are inherently more risky than more developed companies. You should consider general risks as well as specific risks when deciding whether to invest.
2	We have a small management team. While our business plan was intentionally designed to leverage the knowledge and power of our large number of contract producers, we also depend on the skills and experience of a small management team, and notably Nat Mundel. Our ability to raise sufficient capital may have an impact on our ability to attract and hire the right talent.
3	We will need more people to join our company. We will need additional employees, and people with the skills necessary to ensure we fulfill our 5-year plan. The people we bring on should come with specialized skills that will bring value to the company. There are no guarantees that we will be able to find the right people for the job.
4	Future fundraising may affect the rights of investors. In order to expand, the company is likely to raise funds again in the future, either by offerings of securities or through borrowing from banks or other sources. The terms of future capital-raising, such as loan agreements, may include covenants that give creditors greater rights over the financial resources of the company.
5	Does anyone want our services or our film/TV projects and will they pay enough for it? We will only succeed (and you will only make money) if there is sufficient demand for our offerings and projects. Consumers must think we are a better option than competitor products and priced at a level that allows the company to make a profit and still attract business.
6	We have a number of competitors. There are already companies actively providing services to consumers in our target markets (e.g., Legion M, The Black List, Slated, Stage 32, etc.). While these companies may not provide the same or even similar services, they may be able to provide services that achieve similar benefits to consumers at a lower price.
7	The company may need more money. We might not sell enough securities in this Offering to meet our operating needs and fulfill our plans, in which case we might cease operating and you will get nothing. Even if we raise everything we are looking for, we might need to raise more funds in the future, and if we can’t get them, we might fail. Even if we do make a successful offering in the future, the terms of that offering might result in your investment in the company being worthless, because later investors might get better terms.
8	Entertainment projects can be risky, often budgets run over and there are no guarantees the content will be successful in the market. The entertainment industry is generally affected by the same risk factors of other industries, but due to its nature, the production, distribution, and marketing of content can require large capital investments. Even with adequate funding, the product may fail to gain any traction with viewers.
9	We rely on third parties for production and monetization of our products. We rely on third parties such as development studios, distribution companies, TV networks, producers, storytellers, etc. for production and monetization of our products. Although we have exclusive rights with some of these partners, others may give more time and attention to other partners who are better funded or better known.
10	The potential markets for our products are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, frequent enhancements to existing treatments and products, the introduction of new services and products, and changing customer demands. The company’s success could depend on our ability to respond to changing product standards and technologies on a timely and cost-effective basis. In addition, any failure by the company to anticipate or respond adequately to changes in technology and customer preferences could have a material adverse effect on its financial condition, operating results and cash flow.
11	You can’t easily resell the securities. There are restrictions on how you can resell your securities for the next year. More importantly, there is no market for these securities, and there might never be one. It’s unlikely that the company will ever go public or get acquired by a bigger company. That means the money you paid for these securities could be tied up for a long time.
12	Our future success depends on the efforts of a small management team. The loss of services of the members of the management team may have an adverse effect on the company. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in attracting and retaining other personnel we require to successfully grow our business.

Director	Occupation	Joined
Nat Mundel	CEO @ voyage media	2004
Nat Mundel	CEO @ Voyage Media	2004
Nat Mundel	CEO @ Voyage Media	2004

Officer	Title	Joined
Nat Mundel	CFO	2004
Nat Mundel	Secretary	2004
Nat Mundel	President	2004
Nat Mundel	CEO	2004

Date	Amount	Security
	$0	Priced Round
12/2018	$61,830	Loan
06/2019	$40,000	Priced Round
12/2018	$72,500	Priced Round
06/2017	$374,533	Priced Round

Name	Nathaniel Mundel
Amount Invested	$61,830
Transaction type	Loan
Issued	12/31/2018
Outstanding principal plus interest	$61,830 as of 06/2019
Interest	0.0 per annum
Outstanding	Yes
Current with payments	Yes
Relationship	CEO/President
Payable on demand

$100,000	Marketing and PR 30% $30,000 Technology 20% $20,000 Pay Off Debt 26% $26,000 Offering Expenses and Fees (including 7% Wefunder fee) 24% $24,000 Total Raise: 100% $100,000
$1,000,000	Film and TV Production Investments 40% $400,000 Marketing and PR 10% $100,000 Technology 10% $100,000 Staffing Additions 30% $300,000 Pay Off Debt 2.97% $29,665 Working Capital 4.63% $46,335 Offering Expenses and Fees (including 7% Wefunder fee) 2.4% $24,000 Total Raise: 100% $1,000,000

Class of Security	Securities (or Amount) Authorized	Securities (or Amount) Outstanding	Voting Rights
Class B Common Stock	204,082	69,696	No
Class A Common Stock	2,000,000	2,000,000	Yes

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