BridgeFi founder Jorge Rios pitches his offline mesh networking platform to venture investors on The Pitch while demonstrating device encryption and security capabilities.
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Rios: Bridgefy leads offline communications by millions of users with no active rivals
“And I cleared up that that competitor hasn't operated. They stopped existing in 2018, and this space is not crowded at all. We are the market leader by millions of users.”
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Rios: 180,000 Devices Connected Concurrently via BridgeFi Offline
“Our record is a 180,000 devices using our technology at the same place at the same time, without a single one needing access to the internet, without a single one, no exception, no small print.”
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Rios: BridgeFi Will Probably Hit $10M Revenue in One Year
“We are fundraising so that we can accelerate and scale our growth and meet this demand and probably get to ten million dollars in revenue by this time next year.”
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Rios: Bridgefy secured a $6M, four-year contract with Istanbul
“And I think, Charles, you meant the six million dollar contract that I mentioned. So that's with the city of Istanbul in Turkey, and they're going to build a, an earthquake alerts app. This is a 1.5 million dollar Contract per year for the next four years.”
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Rios: BridgeFi aims for native integration into Apple iOS and Android
“Right now we're working on the app level, and we license the technology to apps, individual apps, but Endgame, our vision is to partner up with either Android or Apple so that you literally get an iPhone out of the box and instantaneously are able to use it wi…”
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Jorge Rios: FireChat shut down years ago and is no longer a competitor
“So regarding FireChat, they stopped existing years ago. They only had one-to-one communication, that's it. And so I can tell you with a hundred percent certainty that FireChat is, is not a competitor of ours anymore.”