Digital Publishing Business Investment Opportunities in Asia

1. A digital media and publication startup, in the pre-revenue stage, based in Kolkata. 2. Products and services include operating a news portal and YouTube channel, multilingual book publishing, magazine publishing and printing. 3. In the first financial year, we want to focus on digital media, by working on the news portal website and our YouTube channel. Later moved on to magazine publication and printing. 4. Currently, we are working on the 2 stated digital media projects. 5. Average duration of these projects will be 3 months and the value will be INR 5 to 6 Cr for both. 6. Projecting 100% ROI and 40-50% profit margins. 7. Due to the established presence of the owner in the media and journalism industry, we are expecting a good response from customers and good revenues. 8. The business has MCA registration. Some facts and achievements of the owner are: - Is a postgraduate in relevant fields, with extensive experience in journalism and digital marketing. - Awarded the Yugal Kishore Shukla Journalism award for best contribution to Hindi journalism in January 2022. - Published first Hindi novel in 2019, awarded Author of the Year literary award in 2023. - Editor in-chief of a popular literary magazine. - Extensive experience working with internationally reputed UC News and Dailyhunt.

- Founded 5 years ago as a proprietorship entity and officially incorporated recently in India as a private limited firm. - Our main business is offering publishing services for international publishers. - We also provide media services, creative design services, and software consultancy. - Business has over 10 clients and all our clients are based outside India. - Globally served clients from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Singapore, and United States. - Almost 90% of clients are with us for more than 3 years. - We have had recurring income from these companies for almost 5 years. - The director has over 23 years of experience in this industry. - We have 2 full-time employees & few part-time resources. - Generate equal revenue from digital publishing as well as typesetting. - Company is registered in Kanchipuram but the operations are based out of Chennai.

- We are a digital publishing house that owns and operates a group of websites and domains. - Our company provides clients with digital marketing, content creation, digital advertising, and development services. - Our clients are across various industries from e-commerce, entertainment, and sports. - We generate revenue from running ads across platforms for clients. Approximately, we generate a revenue of USD 400k to USD 500k annually. 80% of our business revenue comes from clients in Saudi Arabia. - We run ads across our platform programmatically using Google and other ad networks. - The business does not have any outstanding loans or liabilities. - The business has a sole owner. - The business has an operations team in Egypt while the owner as well as the sales and marketing team is in Dubai. - The website is developed and maintained in-house.

- Our business is a online business magazine that publishes articles. - We are a renowned Malayalam-language media portal that provides end-to-end coverage of the business ecosystem at various levels. We offer the most recent business news and articles from India, with a focus on Kerala. - We have 4 lakh readers for our magazine. - We generate revenue by posting advertisements for clients as well as paid-up write-ups. - On average, we have 20 to 25 monthly paid clients. - The business does not have any loans. - The business has 2 owners, with equal ownership stake. - 5,000 plus clients in pipeline to initiate the business with us and we have confidence in our success in future.

- We are an online Islamic digital library and magazine. - We cater to a niche market, have a dynamic web application, territory & language license, and white labelling. - Our plan is to increase the reach of Islamic books to a global audience in multiple languages and formats. - There are broadly 2 revenue models. The first is a subscription to schools in Islamic countries and a subscription to online Islamic institutes. - Secondly, we plan to print and supply our books to government libraries, sell licenses for both territory and language, and white labelling exports. - Our digital library and e-commerce site have just been launched recently. - Over the past few years we have sold licenses for translation of our books in a few countries especially Malaysia and Bangladesh. - As of now we have 400 books which are our own proprietary content and about 100 interactive titles. - We have reached over a million readers in Malaysia and Bangladesh. - Since this is a digital publishing company we are in a pre-revenue phase as of now. - We would like to onboard a partner who can support us financially by providing us growth capital for the initial 18-24 months on a profit-sharing arrangement with guaranteed dividends at the end of 24 months and an exit after 5 years. - This is a sole proprietorship with no outstanding liabilities.

- We are a news website with a specific travel section. - We work on a new model in the digital news market which is based on a series of travelogues. - Received a very good response from our readers. - More than 30 employees work on a freelance basis for us. - The business is operational but is not generating revenue as of now as we do not have time to schedule meeting with advertisers (the major source of our revenue). - Promoters do not have funds to sell out there outstanding content on a wider readers/viewers. They have amazing plans for expansion with fresh Ideas. The profile of the owners is good. - He almost invest his 14 years in well-known deferent media houses across the India. - In future we can come up with more languages, podcast and video stories. Right now most of the readers comes from America after India. - We have potential to lead the digital news market.

- Our company offers a proprietary digital publishing portal that combines multiple features of tech-media under one roof. - The platform is still under development stage and the business has neither commenced operations nor has generated any revenue. The expected EBITDA margin on the business is 35 percent. - The portal will be a mobile application and the user will receive multiple alerts and information that they subscribe to through Whatsapp and emails as well. - User will be charged a standardized subscription fee and can have complete authority over the kind of news and newsletters they wish to read. Each user will be shared a weekly magazine published by our in-house team of editors. - Our company will also allow content creators and media houses across the world to publish their articles and newsletters on our platform. Users can simply purchase the ones they wish to read and pay for them directly through our platform. - Currently, we have no subscribers nor any relationships with any such publishers. - Since the company is just starting out, we are yet to finalize other details about our revenue model and the scope of our services. - We are willing to dilute up to 50 percent stake of our company to the prospective investor who wishes to become a full-time working partner in the company.

- We are a digital newspaper aggregator with 10 different languages and topics on our portal. - Have tie-ups with 50 newspaper companies and we are successful in the digital space with 10 lakh viewers on our page. - We generate revenue through running ads for clients and pay per click. Currently, we have 100 clients who advertise their business, products, and services on our portal. - We are operating at a loss as we have just come up with our digital newspaper and are onboarding clients and are occurring operational costs. The promoter is handling all the expenses as of now.

- Business is involved in providing publishing and content development services. - We develop curriculum content for schools and colleges. - Business helps schools and colleges with topic-wise references. - We also provide pre-press services like typesetting, proofreading, copyediting, translations for various publishing houses. - Business develops everything in-house. - Our team has a total of 15+ years of experience in the education and publishing industry. - We have onboarded 5 clients, to whom we are providing e-notes for their curricula.

- Jakarta-based company that has been operational for 3 years. - We publish digital content related to news and entertainment and have developed a community of loyal users. - We also offer digital marketing and advertising services to other clients. - Majority of the revenue is generated from our own digital publishing and by serving our clients. - We are seeing high growth in traffic, and social media presence. - Receive 50,000,000 page views every month. - We have more than 1,000,000 followers across social media platforms. - We also do content marketing for clients and publicize their posts. - Right now for revenue we are sticking with programmatic & direct ads. - Our sales have increased due to the acquisition of government clients. - Aim to expand vertically and horizontally. - Detailed business plan, financial projections, and the pitch deck are available after connecting.

Media portal lists premium curated and original non-news contents on leadership, innovation, travel, lifestyle, sports. It's currently a start-up website and receives organic traffic of 1,500-2,000 visits per month, majorly from USA and India. Due to us being bootstrapped, we haven't been able to promote the website at a large scale. After raising funds, we would promote our brand on social media and through Google Ads. The platform has over 500 curated content and our idea is to engage users who are passionate about business, technology and travel & leisure. Revenue model: Google AdSense, ad banners on the page specific to articles. Director of the company has 20 years of experience in marketing, business and product development. Has worked in MNCs and well known companies including Usha International. Business owns the codes of the website, and doesn't own any physical assets.

- An online food content creator based in Gurgaon, that has been operating 2015. - We develop videos showcasing recipes for various cuisines on our website. - There is a library of 400 different recipes. - We come out with 1 new recipe video every alternate day. - Our business generates revenue through product placements and promoting various food brands through our platform. - We have worked with 20 brands till date.