The free-to-access investment research platform that anyone can edit.
Operations
Stockhub Limited is a company that’s on a mission to make more money for everyone.
Its first product is a free-to-access investment research platform. What makes the platform unique is that it's the only investment research platform in the world that can be edited by anyone.
Evidence suggest that enabling the research to be edited by anyone will, in time, result in free-to-access high-quality research on the largest number of investments. In other words, it will result in the democratisation of investment research, and in helping to make more money for everyone.
Market
In order to help make more money for everyone (i.e. achieve the mission of the company), the company has decided that the best monetisation method of Stockhub is advertising. Accordingly, here, the total addressable market (TAM) is defined as the global advertising market, and based on a number of assumptions, it is estimated that the market will grow, in terms of revenue, to $762 billion by 2024. For comparison purposes, it is estimated that the TAM as of 31st December 2020 is $578 billion. Here, the serviceable available market (SAM) is defined as the global investment advertising market, and based on a number of assumptions, the company estimates that the market will grow to $183 billion by 2024. Finally, here, the serviceable obtainable market (SOM) is defined as the global investment advertising market that is represented by the ‘Analyst’ personality type (i.e. the target audience of the Stockhub product), and based on a number of assumptions, we estimate that the market will grow to $19 billion by 2024.
Competition
The biggest competitors to the Stockhub platform, in a range of key categories, is Robinhood (category: investment platform), Goldman Sachs Research (category: investment research platform), Google Search (category: general information platform) and Bloomberg Terminal (category: financial information platform).
| Competition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What is the name of the product? | Stockhub | Robinhood | Goldman Sachs Investment Research | Google Search | Bloomberg Terminal |
| What is the main product type? | Investment platform | Investment platform | Investment research platform | General information platform | Financial information platform |
| Who is the target audience of the product? | |||||
| What proportion of the global population does the target audience represent? | |||||
| Does the product contain information on investments? | |||||
| Is the investment information of high-quality? | |||||
| Is the high-quality information on a sufficiently large number of investments? | |||||
Team
The company is led by the person who believes in the vision of the company the most: the creator of the vision. Combined, the members of the team have helped 342 million people - including one of the world's wealthiest persons - make better investment decisions and returns, and helped build some of the world's most renowned digital platforms.
Chief Executive Officer: Manos Halicioglu
Over a period of around 11 years, Manos has helped 342 million people - including one of the world’s wealthiest persons (Jim Mellon) - make better investment decisions and returns (at the European Central Bank, Burnbrae Group and Master Investor). He graduated from a world top 6 university (Imperial College) and passed both levels 1 and 2 of the most renowned investment management qualification (Chartered Financial Analyst). Mr. Halicioglu also featured in the press, including CityAM, Bloomberg and Portfolio Institutional.
Chief Technology Officer: Ravi Singh
Over a period of 10 years, Ravi has helped build digital platforms at some of the world’s leading financial institutions (Barclays, Citi and BlueBay Asset Management). He studied computer science (BSc) and intelligent systems (MSc) at a world leading University (King’s College London), and was a cohort member of one of the world's leading deeptech accelerator programmes (Entrepreneur First).
Business Advisor: Phil Hollingdale
Phil is the co-founder of a company that has 400,000 customers and £1.7 billion assets under management.
Technical Advisor: Jitesh Halai
Over a 23 year period, Jitesh has helped build digital platforms at leading institutions (including Just Eat, Asos and Credit Suisse). He studied Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London and Leadership, Strategy & Innovation at Imperial College.
Compliance Advisor: Richard Gill
Over a 13 year period, Richard has helped provide compliance oversight at investment research and trading companies (including Crowd for Angels, Align Research and Master Investor). He is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to perform functions of compliance oversight (CF10) and money laundering reporting (CF11). He is also a CFA charterholder.
Risks
As with any investment, investing in Stockhub carries a level of risk.
Stockhub Limited is at one of the earliest stages of the business lifecycle, and the failure rate of companies at that stage is usually much higher than those at a later stage.
Valuation
As at 23rd February 2022, Stockhub Limited is valued at £4 million. The company estimates that the expected return of an investment in Stockhub over the next five years is 3,000x. In other words, an £1,000 in the company is expected to return £3.0 million in five years time.
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