Seed round · Bump Brands
OAKS Advisory Group
Investment and advisory services focused on scaling software and technology services firms globally.
Investor profileBringing people, experiences and commerce together around what they love. Built on AT Protocol — with an AI roadmap connecting discovery, conversation, real-world participation and earning.
Vision
A shared interest can become a conversation, an event, a purchase, a collaboration — or a business. Bump connects these activities in one social operating system.
As people participate, their relationships, preferences and verified activity create context for more relevant experiences and opportunities.
Our vision for MIC is an AI agent that acts on that context — finding the right people, making plans, discovering products, managing relationships, and pursuing opportunities to earn.
Problem → Why now
Chat in one app, events in another, shopping in a third. Fans who want more get a like button.
Followers, sales and customer data belong to the platform. One algorithm change and it's gone.
Influencer marketplaces price reach. Brands pay up front and hope the audience is real.
The AT Protocol made identity and audiences portable but shipped no way to get paid. Whoever ships the first payments and reputation layer sets the standard.
Product · live today
DMs, groups, creator channels, challenges, games, communities, profiles
Free and paid fan access
Events and meetups IRL
Storefronts and affiliate sales
Brand deals, sponsored prizes
Pay and get paid in one place
MIC · Machine Intelligence Core
AI Agent · Beta Q2 2027MIC runs on Bump's verified transaction and reputation data — context no general-purpose chatbot has. Illustrative example.
Fans buy, join, attend; creators post and host
A sale, a ticket scanned, a deal delivered
Bump records the outcome on the profile
Top fans unlock access; proven creators earn more
Reputation comes from what you do, not who follows you. A competitor can copy a follower graph — not a transaction history.
Business model
Financial outlook
2028 plan
$20.1M
Platform revenue overtakes services — the high-margin take-rate business leads.
Projections. Assumptions in the financial model (data room).
Bump Brands · investor relations
100%+
QoQ ARR growth
150%+
Growth in users, creators & brands
Worldwide
Markets across multiple regions
5
Products in the Bump Brands ecosystem
Reported by Bump Brands, not standalone Bump Connect metrics. Reporting periods and ARR base are not specified on the source page.
Seed round · Bump Brands
Investment and advisory services focused on scaling software and technology services firms globally.
Investor profileSAFE round · Bump Brands
Serial entrepreneurs, Wall Street executives and seasoned investors with assets under management ranging from seven figures to billions.
Investor profilePublished Bump Brands backers; participation and allocations in this Bump Connect round are confirmed during diligence.
Source: Bump Brands investor relationsMarket · bottom-up
250K active creators & organizers on AT × $240 net revenue/yr
1.5M US creators running paid communities, events or deals × $1,200/yr
Annual US influencer marketing spend (eMarketer, 2026)
20+ Syndicate clients shifting spend into challenges and deals
Target 10,000 qualified AT creators by Q1 2027
40 ambassadors in 35+ states building local density
Each creator brings fans who want closer access
North star: monthly consumer spend per active creator.
Competition
| Owned identity | Chat, AI, Shop | Fan access & events | Brand deals | Verified outcomes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bump Connect | |||||
| Instagram, TikTok, Discord | |||||
| Bluesky & other AT apps | |||||
| Patreon, Whop, Skool | |||||
| Stan, Linktree | |||||
| Grin, Aspire, Shopify Collabs | |||||
| Eventbrite, Partiful |
Team
AI, blockchain and social. Multiple exits at prior companies. Consulted for Amber Group, at the time the largest crypto firm in Asia. Has worked with top influencers around the world.
Works with top influencers around the world and blockchain startups. Investment banking background at JPMorgan Chase and Santander. Paradigm Sports, Tokenizer.
The ask
38% of the seed is committed. Follows a $1,200,000 pre-seed that was oversubscribed.
Use of funds
Milestones this round unlocks
Model your check
At $24M post-money
Pre-dilution estimate. Final terms per round documents.
Diligence, front-loaded
$3M seed at a $21M pre-money ($24M post). $1.15M of the round is already raised, leaving $1.85M open. Minimum check is $25K, which buys ~0.10% of the post-money company. Use the calculator on the main page to model any check size.
Yes. A fully diluted cap table — including the option pool and pro forma for this round — is ready in the data room.
The $79K MRR is earned by Bump Syndicate, the services business (brand campaigns and tools). Brand and creator campaigns and sponsored challenges are already earning on the platform; memberships, Tix and Shop are live and scale with usage. Revenue by stream is broken out in the QoE pack.
4,000 daily active users since v2.0 launched in June 2026. Definitions, DAU/MAU, cohort retention and engagement data are in the metrics dashboard.
Live in production: chat, communities, memberships, Tix & Maps, Shop, Kollabsy & Challenges, Wallet. Roadmap: AT login & payments (Q4 2026), escrow and verified reputation (Q1 2027), MIC AI agent beta (Q2 2027), network APIs (2028).
Base: $60M (250K AT creators × $240/yr). Expansion: $1.8B (1.5M US creators with paid communities, events or deals × $1,200/yr). Context: $12.2B US influencer marketing spend.