Quick Information
- Name of Startup: V LOCATORS
- Year Founded: 2016
- Website: VLocators.com
- Type of company: Find the missing B2C & B2B
- HQ Location: CINCINNATI, OH REMOTE
Startup Founders:
Ed Burns Sr – CEO, Marketing, Funding and janitor
Nelson Schroth – Software development mgr.
Jeff Tucker – Programmer engineer
Startup one-liner:
AI Missing Search Platform
Problem the startup solves:
For decades a missing person search has been done the same way, from posting on phone poles or charity websites. There posting are no more than a picture and basic information, name, last address and date last seen.
We have what is called a free standing AI platform that works with our extensive data about the person and then combined creates a demographic targeted marketing campaign.
Some successes:
7-year-old boy missing 18 mos. we found him in 5 mos.
Young adult missing almost 6 years, we found him in 6 mos.
Older brother missing for 31 years, we found in 5 mos.
Progress and Current Status:
Active and CEO is the only one working in individual cases, as well as funding search and all marketing. All 17 cases except for one have been successful.
What is an Inspiring Story about the Startup?:
What they’re saying about us?
• Pre-money valuations are $3.1 Million / Gust.com
• Most fundable / Pepperdine Business Review
• Outranking all competitors while still in Beta and strong AI, this hasn’t happened since 2007 / Alexa.com 2018 – 2022
• It will have a market value of $500+ Million after funding within 3-4 years and your strong AI applications / Google Sr. Program Engineer retired
Some of our successes and remember we’re NOT A CHARITY:
• 7-year-old boy missing for 18 months we found in 5 mos. In Mexico
• Young adult missing for almost 6 years we found in 6 months Texas
• The hardest worked just as well. Sisters looking for older brother, haven’t seen in 31 years, we found him in 5 months in UT
A majority of our success has to do with our Free-Standing AI Platform, meaning not part of the web and it work with the analytics
of the missing person and allow us to come up with demographic targeted individual marketing plan.
What is a Company the Startup Looks Up to, and Why?:
Kroger – Marketing program 90% of suppliers pay.
They create a marketing campaign with 4 to 6 OEM’s
All OEM’s are in all campaigns and gain store positioning as well but this process was defined in early 1990 and is visible on social media as well but started with Facebook
The Company in Four Years Will Be…
The FBI state that 600K go missing yearly and our interest is only 2% of the mkt. 12,000. 12,000 Sponsor fees X $2,500 = $30 Million and successes like these: Some of our successes and remember we’re NOT A CHARITY:
• 7-year-old boy missing for 18 months we found in 5 mos. In Mexico
• Young adult missing for almost 6 years we found in 6 months Texas
• The hardest worked just as well. Sisters looking for older brother, haven’t seen in 31 years, we found him in 5 months in UT