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Brown: Uncovered Made $18K Year-to-Date Against a $20K Monthly Burn

Jim Brown · “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?” · Sep 13, 2023 · at 11:04

Jim Brown discloses key financial metrics for his crowdsourced cold case platform Uncovered while answering questions from investor Elizabeth Yin on The Pitch.

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“Yeah, so we year to date we've made 18,000 dollars. We made 13,000 dollars all of last year. Burn rate is currently about 20,000 dollars a month.”

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