Terra Ferra is building a community-powered fashion platform that leverages a social marketplace for emerging fashion designers with an engaged community of superfans.
Miami, FL, USA
One Liner
One Liner
Terra Ferra is building a community-powered fashion platform that leverages a social marketplace for emerging fashion designers with an engaged community of superfans.
What Problem We are Solving
Problem
It’s hard to start a new fashion business Hard to build an engaged community: too expensive / takes too long to build a community from scratch; Hard to get funding: no designated place to crowdfund / loans too expensive; Hard to to sell: high commissions / expensive and ineffective ads.
About Us
About Us
Our platform makes it possible for designers to collaborate on projects, crowdfund for product releases, and share future revenue with the community. We also help fashion influencers set up their lookbook-based stores within our platform.
$315k in pre-seed financing raised Q1’22 10 designers each with their communities through closed beta Founder and CEO, Maxim Nogotkov, led prior jewelry venture 0-200 stores ($80MM EBITDA) in 3 years and advised on projects with Alex Hofmann, founder of TikTok US
Venture Highlights
Highlights
Market and customer research conducted Concept and platform prototype developed
Platform Development • Product-creation module • Team module • Creatives marketplace
Active users 50+ customer interviews, 10 designers and we expect around 2500 of their superfans
We re in private beta now, pre-launch
Business Model
Business Model
We take 7% royalty from sales of products created on our platform plus 7% from pre-sales or investments
Competitive Advantage
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Unique offering to increase designer's revenue through engaging superfans in co-creation & gamified pre-sales in fashion industry.
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Users
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50
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50
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Go-To Market Strategy
Business Strategy
Initial Customer - affordable luxury fashion designer. Later - all big fashion brands. Selling at the US market. Later in Europe.
Distribution: We sell b2b to designers, generating the sales funnel through ecommerce websites databases. we educate them and their SMM teams how to engage Superfans, we share peer to peer knowledge and experience. We encourage them to bring their superfans audience from existing social media channels to better work with them on TerraFerra.(both Patreon and Substack are successfully using the same distribution strategy) We facilitate collabs between designers, cross selling products to their combined audiences via our app and email lists.
Terra Ferra is building a community-powered fashion platform that leverages a social marketplace for emerging fashion designers with an engaged community of superfans. Our platform makes it possible for designers to collaborate on projects, crowdfund for product releases, and share future revenue with the community. We also help fashion influencers set up their lookbook-based stores within our platform.
Competitive Advantage: Unique offering to increase designer's revenue through engaging superfans in co-creation & gamified pre-sales in fashion industry. Unique team including TikTok founder Alex Hoffman.
Social fashion marketplaces - LTK, POPSHOP LIVE, Verishop Affiliate platforms - Webgains, ShareASale Social e-commerce - Facebook, Instagram Creators' support platforms - Pietra, Spring Freelance marketplaces - Fiverr, Upwork Crowdfunding platforms - Kickstarter, Indeiegogo Merchant cash advances- Creative Juice, Credibly
We are open to meeting up to grab a coffee, or just to chat.
We would really enjoy your feedback and insight into our venture and would be happy to discuss anything that you are currently working on to see if we can be of service!