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Parent Interviews seeks funding for expansion

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-1363" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;SND13-wk3-Parent&lowbar;Interviews-Indy&lowbar;Griffiths&lowbar;300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SND13-wk3-Parent Interviews-Indy Griffiths 300x225" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;>Business owner&comma; 19-year-old Indy Griffiths is seeking funding for his company Parent Interviews by selling shares through the crowdfunding website PledgeMe&period; He is the world&&num;8217&semi;s youngest-ever equity crowdfunder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;PledgeMe is proud to be supporting Indy&&num;8217&semi;s awesome business which is going to change the way in which parents schedule parent-teacher interviews&comma; making everyone&&num;8217&semi;s lives easier&comma;&&num;8221&semi; PledgeMe CEO Anna Guenther said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re excited someone so young is taking the entrepreneurial leap and choosing to do it different with PledgeMe&period; Indy has already achieved so much at a young age&comma; and we can&&num;8217&semi;t wait to see where he goes with some funding and his crowd behind him&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Parent Interviews is event management made simple for parents&comma; teachers&comma; and schools&period; After launching in 2013&comma; the company is now managing over 50 schools and interviews for over 23&comma;000 students across New Zealand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Guenther said on the back of their existing customers and revenue stream&comma; Parent Interviews was looking to bring their crowd in to help them grow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Parent Interviews are looking to raise &dollar;50&comma;000 to &dollar;150&comma;000 by selling 4&period;8 to13 per cent of their company&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ms Guenther said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This is a great goal for a startup with existing customers and a large international market with ambitions to scale&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Griffiths said their crowd mainly consists of parents and teachers who use Parent Interviews for their child&&num;8217&semi;s interviews&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re fans of the idea that the people who use and interact with Parents Interviews can be a part of our company as we start our global expansion&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Griffiths said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Crowdfunding seemed like the right option&comma; as it allows anyone to invest instead of a select group of investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re at a stage where we&&num;8217&semi;ve built a product already used and loved by hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers across New Zealand&comma; and now we want to grow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Our focus is to build an effective team to help lead the company into new markets&comma; and improve our website even further for parents and teachers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The number of schools and institutions in markets such as Australia&comma; the United Kingdom&comma; and the United States is massive compared to New Zealand&comma; and the design of Parent Interviews offers a &&num;8216&semi;one size fits all&&num;8217&semi; solution for event management for schools and institutions in other markets&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To invest in Parent Interviews visit <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pledgeme&period;co&period;nz&sol;investments&sol;81" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">www&period;pledgeme&period;co&period;nz&sol;investments&sol;81<&sol;a><&sol;strong> &nbsp&semi;&lpar;this link won&&num;8217&semi;t be live until Saturday morning&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To find out more about Parent Interviews at <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;parentinterviews&period;co&period;nz" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">www&period;parentinterviews&period;co&period;nz<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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