Two-sided marketplace connecting extraordinary professionals with US employers. We recently moved to a revenue model and it is going well - customers are signing up.
$250,000 Seed Round: $325,000 back within 18 months (1.3x), or convert to 10% equity at a $2.5M pre-money valuation.
780,000 talented professionals face H-1B rejection annually. They need O-1 visas but can't find employers willing to provide interest letters.
The H-1B visa has become a lottery with 85% rejection rates. Highly qualified professionals who invested $200K+ in US education face deportation. The current administration is making it even harder.
O-1 visas have NO lottery and NO cap - but candidates need employer "interest letters" to apply. They struggle to find willing employers. Employers don't know how to find O-1 talent.
H-1B lottery results come in April. Hundreds of thousands will be rejected and have 60-90 days to find alternatives. They're desperate and willing to pay for solutions.
We connect O-1 visa candidates with employers - and make money from both sides
What they get: AI-powered O-1 readiness scoring, document classification to 8 criteria, access to employer job listings, ability to receive interest letters
Revenue potential: 500 subscribers = $250K MRR
What they get: Access to pre-vetted "extraordinary ability" talent, one-click interest letters, no visa filing required (candidate handles their own O-1)
Revenue potential: 250 employers = $375K MRR
The big money: When a candidate gets hired through our platform, we earn 20% of their first year salary. Average salary = $155K. Average placement fee = $31,000
Revenue potential: 45 placements = $1.4M
Additional revenue: 50+ immigration attorneys in our directory. Premium listings and referral fees when candidates hire attorneys through our platform.
They provide an interest letter with ONE CLICK. When the candidate's O-1 visa is approved, the candidate can work for them without the employer ever filing a visa. It's talent acquisition with zero immigration hassle.
18 months of development. $200K+ invested. Try them yourself right now.
Evaluates O-1 eligibility across all 8 USCIS criteria. 0-100 readiness score. Auto-updates weekly.
Try itGenerates complete O-1 petition letters, support letter templates, and filing instructions.
Try itAI-organized exhibit compilation. Upload documents get USCIS-ready exhibits with cover sheets.
Try itSocial media risk scanner. Flags content that could impact visa cases. Results private to candidate.
Try itScores petition quality before filing. Identifies weaknesses. Predicts approval likelihood.
Try itOur founder's legal practice has secured visas for athletes and staff from these organizations.
Canelo Alvarez
Bob Arum's Promotion
Tyson Fury's Management
Asia's Largest MMA Org
Manny Pacquiao
NFL
NFL
NFL
Development League
Motorsports
Platform is live at o1dmatch.com. We recently moved to a revenue model and it is going well - customers are signing up.
Every figure below is pulled from live Stripe transaction data, not a projection.
Collected in the last 90 days
Approximate MRR across 10 active subscriptions
Completed paid transactions in 90 days
Composition matters, so we state it plainly: July is dominated by high-ticket one-time petition-service payments, with subscriptions the newer and smaller line. Both are real, both are growing, and the subscription base is what compounds. We add new paying subscribers every week.
Candidates in Pipeline
H-1B Employer Leads
O-1 Attorney Directory
AI Tools Deployed
$250,000 Seed Round. Two paths, investor's choice. No equity is granted in this round.
On a $250,000 investment, paid within 18 months
Elect equity instead of the cash return
A 30% return in 18 months is straightforward to underwrite. You invest $250,000 and are repaid $325,000. The math does not depend on a fundraise or an acquisition.
If the revenue trend holds, 10% of the company at a $2.5M pre-money valuation is worth far more than $75,000 of profit. The choice stays with the investor until it is made.
Returns are targets, not guarantees. All terms are subject to definitive documents.
Three scenarios based on how fast the HR team signs up employers. Forward-looking and not guaranteed.
$1.4M
18-Month Revenue
ARR: $3.75M
Valuation: $11-15M
$2.8M
18-Month Revenue
ARR: $7.5M
Valuation: $22-37M
$5.5M
18-Month Revenue
ARR: $15M
Valuation: $45-75M
First Placements
4 placements @ $31K = $124K
MRR: $62,500
Scale Phase
25 placements @ $31K = $775K
MRR: $375,000
Maturity
45 placements @ $31K = $1.4M
MRR: $625,000
$250,000 aimed at the single bottleneck: signing up employers
The talent side fills itself. Candidates find us, sign up, and pay. What the marketplace is short of is employers willing to issue interest letters and hire. That is not an engineering problem and it is not an ad problem - it is a sales problem, and it is solved by people who have sold to hiring managers before. This round funds experienced HR and talent-acquisition professionals whose entire job is to sign up employers. Every other line item exists to support them.
Experienced HR and talent-acquisition professionals hired to sign up employers. This is the bottleneck and this is the round.
Employer-side lists, outbound tooling, and paid acquisition that feeds the HR team qualified hiring managers to work.
Employer-facing workflow, one-click interest letters, and the billing and reporting the sales motion depends on.
Tools, legal, and contingency.
Immigration law expertise meets technology execution
CEO/Founder & Immigration Attorney
Licensed attorney specializing in O-1 and P-1 visas. Built multiple immigration tech tools. Swearing into DC Federal Court to litigate USCIS cases directly.
Product Marketing
Meltwater Entrepreneur School of Technology graduate. Network of thousands of developers. Leading social media and go-to-market strategy.
5+ Engineers
Aaron (Lead - O1DMatch), Yusuf (Internal), plus contractors in Brazil, India, Kenya. Full-stack Next.js, Supabase, AI/ML expertise.
Business Development
Data & Leads (Philippines)
Video Production (Indonesia)
Paralegal (DC)
Transparent evaluation of potential risks and why we're well-positioned
780K H-1B rejections annually is GROWING. Current administration making H-1B harder = more demand for O-1 alternatives.
The platform is live and collecting money - $18,745 over the last 90 days - so build risk is largely behind us. The open risk is employer acquisition, which is why this round funds HR and talent-acquisition hires rather than more engineering.
No direct competitor exists. Law firms don't build marketplaces. Tech companies don't understand immigration. We have both.
O-1 visa has bipartisan support - both parties want "extraordinary" talent. Provisional patent filed on our matching algorithm.
No two-sided marketplace exists for O-1 visas. We're building the category.
Provisional patent filed on our talent-employer matching algorithm. Defensible moat against copycats.
More talent attracts more employers. More employers attract more talent. Winner takes most.
April H-1B lottery results create annual demand surge. We're launching right before the biggest wave.
Founder is both immigration attorney AND builds technology. Rare combination that competitors can't replicate.
Ready to invest in the future of immigration talent matching?
Sherrod Seward
CEO & Founder
Email:
sherrod@innovativeautomations.dev
Phone:
(980) 403-6587
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/sdsesq
Live Platform:
o1dmatch.com