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Green Piñata

Get smart toys for your smart kids – No shopping. No clutter.
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Republic (OpenDeal Portal LLC, CRD #283874) is hosting this Reg CF securities offering by Green Piñata, LLC. View the official SEC filing and all updates:
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Deal Highlights

  • High quality, educational, eco-friendly toy rental subscription service with recurring monthly revenue

  • Powerful recommendation engine individually tailors and optimizes toys to engage and develop each child

  • 60% monthly growth; over 2000 boxes shipped to date to over 600 unique customers

  • Sharing economy is expected to grow to $335 billion in 8 years

  • Uniquely positioned to earn promotional revenues from organic, eco-friendly baby brands


Problem

Kids get bored of toys too fast

Wasted Family budget, time and space


Green Piñata Toys — Disrupting Early Childhood Learning through Play

Green Piñata Toys gives parents what they want. It is a subscription service that ships curated, educational toys to enhance your child’s learning. Play, learn and return for more.

Capitalizing on the market trend

  • Sharing economy is booming: Estimated to be at $335 billion by 2025

  • Millennial consumers are re-thinking the value of ownership. They value:

Our Product


  • Rated #1, leading industry experts recommended for learning and brain development
  • Curation technology individually tailored for a child
  • Eco-friendly, made with sustainably sourced wood
  • Premium wooden toy brands from Europe and the US

Curation Technology — Recommendation Engine 

Powered by Predictive Analytics

  • Recommendation engine individually tailors selection
  • Analytics gathered over time on child’s preferences and parents purchasing behavior

How it Works

It’s easy! For a monthly fee, families receive up to 4 toys/month. The Toys are shipped right to their door. 

The kids enjoy the toys for as long as they like, and parents can buy the ones their kids can’t part with. When done, they pack up the green piñata box, pop on the prepaid label and hand it to the mail man.

Our Hygiene is State-of-the-art

We have sanitized and shipped more than 8000 toys and our sanitization process has made sure the toys are 100% germ-free.



Cleaning process is approved by our Scientific Expert — Hannah Gardener, PHD in Public Health from Harvard, Medical Prof. in University of Miami




Strong Trajectory and Market Adoption

Green Piñata is in a high growth phase.  With parents clamoring to subscribe, grandparents relieved to have gift options and partners seeking visibility to our subscribers, we are gaining the investment of individuals and accredited angel investors who want to be part of our success.


Parents love us!



Market Size and Opportunity


Lucrative and Expansive Business Model

Green Piñata Toys have 3 sources of revenue.

  • In 2017, we have growing revenues from Rental Subscription

  • Starting 2018, we expect to earn revenues from business partner promotions and and gifts for newborns and special occasions.




Competitive Advantage

Crushed competition and now the leading toy rental for ages <5

Our toy recommendation engine individually tailors and optimizes toys to engage and develop each child. This is a unique differentiator in the industry

Our Founding Story

When my daughter was 8 months old, my husband and I were very excited about shopping for toys for her.  At the time I had no idea that 85% of our brains develop by the time we are age 5!  We were paying several hundred dollars on toys that she only played with for a few days. The clutter from unused toys drove me crazy and we were always running out of storage space. I soon realized I was not alone and bam Green Pinata Toys was born.  Play time should be more about having fun together and less about stressing over wastage and clutter.

My team and I are very proud and passionate about building Green Piñata because of two main reasons. 1. We are solving real problem for parents - we help save money, reduce clutter from unused toys, we nurture early learning in children and we offer convenience. 2. we are doing something good for the earth - we help reduce landfill - most plastic toys are not recyclable. The Green Piñata toys are eco friendly, sustainably sourced and we teach the young generation to share and reuse. Most importantly, my team that brings passion and all the right skills necessary to make this business successful and they keep me going!

Our Mission

Fostering learning through play

We built our service on a strong foundation of insights from early education and child development specialists to deliver age-appropriate toys geared for learning at every stage.

We care for our earth

We strive to be as environmentally conscious as possible in order to give our children the best future possible. We have partnered with eco-conscious manufacturers, all of whom use sustainably-sourced wood or recycled plastic to make their products.Together, we help families go green and reduce their addition to the landfill.

We donate toys to children in need

Once our toys have been loved by our customers, we donate them to children in need.



Join Us!

Green Piñata is WAY ahead of others that are seeking to get an early lead on building a customer base of millennial parents with massive intelligence. We own the ‘play to learn’ market and our power is in the analytics and being able to be the trusted source. Wish you had discovered RentTheRunway? Here is your chance. Come, join us! Thank you for your support!
- Shiva

Deal terms


Valuation cap

$4,000,000

The maximum valuation at which your investment converts into equity shares or cash.
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Discount

20%

If a trigger event for Green Piñata occurs, the discount provision gives investors equity shares (or equal value in cash) at a reduced price.
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Minimum investment

$25

The smallest investment amount that Green Piñata is accepting.
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Funding goal

$1.07M

The maximum amount the offering can raise is $1.07M.
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Deadline
Green Piñata needs to reach their minimum funding goal before the deadline ( ). If they don’t, all investments will be refunded.
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Type of security

Crowd SAFE

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Documents

Republic (OpenDeal Portal LLC, CRD #283874) is hosting this Reg CF securities offering by Green Piñata, LLC. View the official SEC filing and all updates:
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Bonus perks

In addition to your Crowd SAFE, you'll receive perks for investing in Green Piñata.
Invest
$25
Receive
  • Receive a 50% discount on first month Green Piñata Toys subscription
Invest
$50
Receive
  • 50% discount on first month Green Piñata Toys Subscription and exclusive investor only Green Piñata Toys organic cotton T-Shirt
Invest
$100
Receive
  • Receive a $25 Green Piñata gift subscription and exclusive investor only Green Piñata Toys organic cotton T-Shirt
Invest
$250
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  • Receive a $50 Green Piñata gift subscription and exclusive investor only Green Piñata Toys organic cotton T-Shirt
Invest
$1,000
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  • 6 months free Green Piñata subscription and exclusive investor only Green Piñata Toys organic cotton T-Shirt
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$5,000
Receive
  • 12 months free Green Piñata subscription, social media shout out and exclusive investor only Green Piñata Toys organic cotton T-Shirt
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$25,000
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  • Fly to Boston (flights covered for US based investors only) and have lunch with the Green Piñata Toys team + Previous perks

Why others invested

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It's a truly great idea! I thought vaguely about this a few years ago while wining about how many things we buy, hardly use, and just throw in the trash, and asked why so many little or even highly used items can't just be traded or reused by others!

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Michael Hall
Active investor
over 8 years ago

Cognitive development is crucial in all stages of life; especially as a baby. I love every aspect about this company. Their vision inspires me!

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Jalem Correia
Active investor
over 8 years ago

The importance of children stimulating their prefrontal cortex throughout their childhood is important. Toys are a big part of a developing brain.

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Sean DuTremaine
Active investor
over 8 years ago

About Green Piñata

Legal Name
Green Piñata, LLC
Founded
Apr 2015
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Massachusetts LLC
Employees
4
Website
greenpinatatoys.com
Social Media
Headquarters
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2 Blue Jay Circle , Wakefield, MA
Headquarters
2 Blue Jay Circle, Wakefield, MA, United States 01880

Green Piñata Team
Everyone helping build Green Piñata, not limited to employees

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Shiva Kashalkar
Founder and CEO
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Shiva Kashalkar brings more than 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, marketing and big data. She has an MBA from Babson and undergraduate degree in technology.
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Morgan Kelly Burke
Chief Marketing Office
Morgan brings 9 years of marketing experience and specializes marketing to young parents for consumer brands including Care.com and Fatherly.
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Victoria Nessen
Marketing Strategist
With over 25 years marketing and sales experience, Victoria advises Green Piñata Toys on marketing strategy, digital and traditional marketing, sales and marketing operations.
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Michelle Zayas
Educational Expert and Customer Service
11 years of experience in early education and supports our customers and their littles with learning through play. Michelle has masters in early education from UMass Amherst.
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Michelle Dunn Taylor
Warehouse and Shipping
20 years in real-estate operations small business operations and arts. Michelle is passionate about creating excellent customer experience and ensures every Piñata sent exceeds customer expectations
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Jillian Johnson
Digital Marketing
Our "Jill of All Trades" here at Green Piñata Toys, delivering eye-catching email designs, as well as making the content on the Piñata Blog shine with her exceptional writing and editing skills.
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Cathleen Raffaeli
Investor, Board of Advisors
Cathleen brings over 30 years of business management & 17 years of board directorship. Her focus is on new business growth, sales and marketing and strategic turn-around.
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Barbara Russell
Board of Advisors
Angel Investor, Investment Banker, Techstar Mentor, MIT Lecturer and Startup Mentor. Her focus is on strategic growth, fund raising and future positioning.
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Kiran Kashalkar
Technology Advisor
New technology, innovation and UX/UI expert for 13 years. Masters in Science from Penn State University and MBA from Babson.
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Abhishek Khanna
Financial Advisor
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John Hennessey
Mentor and Investor
8 more team members
Shiva Kashalkar
Founder and CEO
Morgan Kelly Burke
Chief Marketing Office
Victoria Nessen
Marketing Strategist
Michelle Zayas
Educational Expert and Customer Service
Michelle Dunn Taylor
Warehouse and Shipping
Jillian Johnson
Digital Marketing
Cathleen Raffaeli
Investor, Board of Advisors
Barbara Russell
Board of Advisors
Kiran Kashalkar
Technology Advisor
Abhishek Khanna
Financial Advisor
John Hennessey
Mentor and Investor

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Green Piñata successfully raised $31,695 from 169 investors on January 16, 2018
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