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EssayJack expects its seed round to price at an $8M pre-money valuation

Dr. Lindy Ledohowski · EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR · Dec 21, 2020 · at 16:17

Dr. Lindy Ledohowski discusses target valuation expectations for EssayJack's $2 million external seed fundraising round.

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“Yeah, so it'll, to be honest, it'll probably be in the ballpark of around an eight million USD, you know, give or take.”

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The claim, plainly

EssayJack's seed round will probably be raised at approximately an $8 million USD pre-money valuation.

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Assessment

On December 21, 2020, then-CEO Dr. Lindy Ledohowski estimated that EssayJack would raise a seed round at approximately an $8 million USD pre-money valuation. However, EssayJack never completed an external seed round. Instead, on July 20, 2021, EssayJack was acquired by Vancouver-based edtech startup Wize (now Wizeprep) for an undisclosed mix of cash and equity after having raised approximately $340,000 USD in total dilutive capital across its lifetime. Following the acquisition, the product was integrated into Wizeprep as Wize Writer, making the completion of a standalone seed round impossible.

On July 20, 2021, Wize (Wizeprep) acquired EssayJack for an undisclosed combination of cash and equity.
EssayJack had raised approximately $340,000 USD (~$500,000 CAD) in total lifetime dilutive funding prior to its acquisition.
No external seed financing round at an approximate $8 million USD valuation was closed before the acquisition or subsequent integration into Wizeprep.

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“Right now we're looking at it's about a million USD has gone in to get us up and off the ground. So the total share, the total equity in the company to get us from sort of Hey, this is an idea. Let's get going. It's about 1.5 million USD.”

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Disclosure

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“So this year, it's a little bit more of a fifty-fifty split between our B to C or the direct to consumer and B to B, which is the institution. But in previous years, it's been more of like a ninety-tenth Between institutions being the 90% and 10% being individ…”

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EssayJack raised $500k CAD from friends and family

“Then we raised 500,000 Canadian from friends and family, so that was about 350,000 USD at the time”

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EssayJack has over 30,000 monthly active student users

“So over 30,000 students on a monthly basis are active users.”

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EssayJack has roughly 1,000 direct-to-consumer monthly subscribers

“So our monthly individual subscriber is, I think around a thousand-ish”

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In-person writing workshops converted 65% of attendees into EssayJack trials

“And then from that, we'd have, at that point, we'd have sort of 65% of the people who are in that workshop sign up. For an essay Jack trial immediately”

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