Internet Software Company

ScanCafe

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Funding Goal
Funding Raised So Far $4,000,000
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

Company Overview

ScanCafe is an online photo scanning service that helps consumers convert their old media to a high quality digital format.

The company provides photo scanning, slide scanning, negative scanning, and photo restoration services at a fraction of the cost of historical scanning services. Free value added photo services include manual color correction, cropping, and scratch removal.

A major service differentiator is ScanCafe's policy that customers only have to pay for the scans they want to keep 50% minimum of scanned images. Thus, the process of pre-sorting images has been eliminated. This means customers no longer have to spend hours sifting through vast negative, slide, or photo archives to determine which images are worth scanning.

All of ScanCafe's technicians and graphics artists have a background in digital graphic art and/or photography. Employees also receive training and certification in the areas of color concepts and ICC profiles, Adobe Photoshop, and image restoration to name a few.

Prices start at $0.29 per negative at 3000 dpi, with higher resolutions up to 4000 dpi available. Digital scans can be saved in JPG or TIFF file format depending on the customer's needs. Black and white images are accepted, as well as newspaper clippings, letters, and paper artwork.

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Naren Dubey
Chief Executive Officer
Naren D......

Naren built ScanCafes processes and control systems from the ground up. With a decade's worth of silicon valley experience in high-tech chip manufacturing with clients like Intel and Samsung, Naren is at home with precision processes and materials. Prior to ScanCafe, Naren was VP of Product Development at Moser-Baer (worlds largest DVD & Blu ray manufacturer), where he set up a thin-film solar panel manufacturing facility. Prior to that as the Director of Applied Materials India and its global development centers in China and Russia, Naren led a team of 900 engineers and associates in building wafer-fabrication equipment with extremely high, "six-sigma" quality tolerances. Naren has applied many of those quality programs to our processes at ScanCafe.

Raised in the beach town of Goa, India, Naren holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, UPenn, and a Ph.D.

Laurent Martin
Chief Technology Officer
Laurent M......

Laurent is a serial entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience developing software and automation technology. He has built global engineering teams spanning India, the USA and Europe, and developed technology partnerships with IBM, HP, and AT&T. Laurent founded CD World to develop the first kiosk-based electronic music distribution infrastructure, authored the first pan-European digital rights management applications, and was a key contributor to IBM's Tiger Shark supercomputer streaming platform. Before founding ScanCafe, he applied his expertise to proteomics at Syrrx, later acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

Laurent has a Masters in Software Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Father of two, he speaks four languages and would like to live out his days windsurfing or heliboarding. Also, he is the one around the office to settle all arguments about f-stops.

Pete Solvik
Director
Pete S......

With more than 20 years' experience on leadership teams of successful, high-growth information technology companies, Pete S...... applies his background and perspective to helping entrepreneurs form and build successful businesses.

He joined Sigma in 2002 where he invests across the entire spectrum of information technology products and services.

Pete joined Sigma following a very successful 10-year career at Cisco Systems as senior vice president and CIO, and founder of the Internet Business Solutions Group.

During his tenure from 1992-2002, Cisco achieved wide recognition for early and aggressive use of the Internet, e-commerce and information technology.

During Pete's time at Cisco, the company experienced explosive success, growing from $200 million to more than $20 billion in annual sales run rate.

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Funding Goal
Funding Raised So Far $4,000,000
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

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ScanCafe

Burlingame, CA 94010, US

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