Entertainmint - A web3 native ecosystem for producing and monetizing TV, movies, and video
Entertainmint.live is one-stop-shop for creating, monetizing, and fostering community around indie content. We put both the viewer and the creator in the driver’s seat when it comes to independent video. Our platform leverages blockchain, tokens and fractional NFTs to allow fans to engage with creators and support their work and to allow creators to have greater creative control and revenues than ever before. Today’s top down streamers like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are web2 creations—a group of some 30 people at the top decide what everyone is going to watch. So much good content is missed because these people are making the decisions for us! Entertainmint is challenging the traditional streamer model with a “bottom-up” approach, powered by Web3, that allows the viewer to vote with their crypto on what they want to see AND have greater control on how they spend on what they watch. We take a percentage of our streaming revenues and put them straight back into creators, so that the more eyeballs they bring, the more they make. You can see our demo online at entertainmint.live.
Entertainmint has found a killer opening, and needs to move fast. There are already 16 major fractionalized marketplaces to date in the NFT marketplace space across art, gaming, fashion, real estate, music and sports, and they have raised over 650mm, validating the approach. Marketplace, which has fractionalized sales of graphic art and collectibles, has raised 300mm to date, and Royal just closed over 71mm in funding for fractionalizing sound files. Dibbs, for fractionalized ownership of sports collectibles, has just raised 13mm. But there is not currently a web3 native streaming for indie and video content!
Entertainmint has formed careful partnerships with the Catalyst Film Festival and Institute and over 500 creators and film industry achievers. We are starting with a database of over 650 pieces of content on day one! We are also approaching the top 30 best NFT collection art sellers and offering them funds to create a specialized set of short-form animated series’ for launch, so that viewers will be able to consume in any form and length they like! We have gated processes for content quality that include working initially with festivals (that have done pre-screening) and then using a diverse, tokenized DAO to screen and rank content so that our system can algorithmically sort on the back end.
We are moving into soft launch and testing in June 2022, and into hard launch and beta at the Catalyst Film Festival launch in mid-September 2022. A live pitch demo is being offered on Tuesday, April 5 at 10am CST, and please just contact gen@entertainmint.live with the subject header PITCH RESERVE to save a seat. You can also use this email to independently schedule a pitch at any time.
The Ratner-Thiers family is part of the RMS Family Office. Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner are veteran technology entrepeneurs and together cofounded Sittercity, which they built into the nation's largest childcare network before selling it to Bright Horizons in 2021. Ratner also served as co-director of technology for the Obama 2012 campaign and founder and CEO of Public Good, a digital marketing platform for purpose. Thiers has been an active technology angel investor with a focus on women-led companies, and has been an active actor, writer, commentator, and producer for stage and screen. She is on the board of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and has won awards for her creative work from Catalyst Festival and the New York Television Festival. She was recognized by President George W Bush as the Small Business Champion of the SBA and has won numerous industry awards for her work in entrepreneurship. She also created the Byte Size Crypto podcast to introduce women to Crypto. They live in Chicago.