Irina

Cosmin

Gus

Vali

Backend Dev

Data Science

Full Stack

Marketing & PR

TrueFamily

2

Mentors

Ciprian Amaritei

UX Trainer

Romanian Interaction Lab  

Google

Amazon

over 7 startups

(2 exited - Fashwell, Comfy)

We worked at ...

3 scientific papers

We published ...

3

More opinions,

More data,

More bias!

4

The unbiased truth is inside this black box.

2M+

articles

5.5B+

shares on 

Facebook  & Twitter

5

daily

A browser extension that shows

 contrasting views over a subject in online news

SAVE TIME

BE INFORMED

6

Fact-check on-the-go

NO STRESS

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Designed for people

• Uses Machine Learning
• Trustworthy sources

• Works on any news website
• Ranking driven by users' vote

8

Competitive Landscape

detects polarization between       articles

detects articles with same subject only

very few

sources aggregated

works

on any  website

9

Revenue

Basic

Unlimited access

Today's hot bias

Ads-free

Source whitelisting

1 bonus month

for friend or family

5 checks daily

Today's hot bias

$5/month

Free

Go-to-market

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• US press readers
• Looking for a second opinion
• Politics & Business news fans
• Swaying people
• Have low trust in media

Who?

• Influencers
• Other news aggregators
• Social media
• Word-of-mouth
• Writing articles

How?

Financials

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13

Accomplishments

IdeaJam

(pitch contest)

2nd place

22th

Feb

11th

Mar

4th

April

9th

April

3rd

June

5th

April

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Future of TrueStory

Improve accuracy

(of polarization detection)

10th

Aug

3rd

Oct

15th

Oct

20th

Nov

Go legal

(legal compliance with news websites crawling )

1st

Nov

Implement performance metrics

(retention, user habits)

Investment ready

$ 100 000

$23k Marketing

$8k/month Team

$500/month Cloud

for the next 9 months

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Goal: Launch - -> 20 000 users

That was a

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