About Meelance Meelance is a professional networking & digital portfolio platform specifically for the media, events, and entertainment industry. It enables creative professionals (talents, artists, service providers) and businesses to connect, collaborate, showcase their work, find gigs & service opportunities in a curated way. Key features include:
- Digital portfolios / showcase pages for talents to display their work and skill sets.
- A jobs / gigs board specialized in entertainment, events, creative media.
- Networking & discovery: connect with peers, service providers, businesses.
- Tools for service providers (e.g. caterers, event planners, photographers) to list services, be discovered, collaborate.
Its mission is to bridge the gap between talents, services & businesses in the event & entertainment industries; to simplify discovering opportunities, showcasing work, and collaboration.
An Investor
,will:
- Provide Growth Capital Fund key initiatives like product enhancement (portfolio features, mobile UX, verification), marketing & user acquisition, scaling operations.
- Strategic Guidance & Network Leverage Leverage your industry contacts in entertainment, media, events to open strategic partnership opportunities (agencies, festivals, studios). Offer mentorship for growth, content strategy, marketing channels.
- Help Operational Scaling Assist with putting in best practices for marketplace operations (quality control, service provider onboarding, client satisfaction), refining monetization models, managing legal / IP concerns in creative content.
- Shape the Vision & Roadmap Participate in defining feature roadmap, expansion strategies (geographic, category verticals), platform enhancements (e.g. collaboration tools, analytics, recommendation engines), and drive toward strong competitive differentiation.
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking investors who:
- Have experience or interest in media, entertainment, creative networking, or marketplaces connecting creative talent.
- Understand early-stage tech / app-based marketplace growth, and risk/reward dynamics.
- Can commit not just capital but time/mentorship / connections.
- Are aligned with Meelance’s mission: democratizing visibility for creative talent and enabling efficient collaboration in entertainment & events industry.
- Believe in lean, iterative product development; scaling sustainably; balancing quality & growth.
Benefits
- Early‐stage equity in a niche platform with high relevance: media, entertainment & events are large, emotionally resonant & fast‐evolving markets.
- Strong differentiation: Unlike generalist freelancer platforms, Meelance is tightly focused on creative media / entertainment, with portfolios, showcase, curated job boards & service discovery.
- Upside potential as platform surfaces top creative talent & service providers: As the network effect builds (talents + service providers + businesses), value grows multiplicatively.
- Involvement in a mission-driven startup: You help creatives be seen, help events & media find quality talent more easily.
- First-mover / early mover advantage in many under-served markets**: Many geographies / subcategories (events, live entertainment, photographers, etc.) are still fragmented.
- Potential for multiple monetization paths: Premium portfolios, verified business listings, commission or fees on gigs, partnerships with event organizers, and possibly SaaS tools for creatives.
📧 Interested in joining Meelance’s journey? Let’s talk. Reach out to us at invest@meelance.com or schedule a meeting, we’d love to share a detailed deck, metrics, and roadmap.