Seed Round · SAFE · Now Open

A $40B+ market.
Built for trust.

End-of-life planning is one of the most underserved, high-need markets in the world. Serene Legacy is building the platform every family will one day rely on — and we're raising to turn a complete design into a live product.

Investment Snapshot · Confidential
$40B+
Addressable Market
Estate planning & legacy
$19.9M
Cumulative Revenue
2026–2030 projection
Q2 2028
First Profitable Quarter
61,953
Projected Active Clients
EOY 2028
Pre-Round F&F (closed) $70.8K raised
Tranche 1 SAFE · Q3 2026 $415K
Tranche 2 SAFE · Q1 2027 $1.0M
Post-money cap $6.0M · 25% ownership

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Market Opportunity

A large, urgent, and deeply underserved market

The estate planning and digital legacy market represents a $40B+ addressable opportunity in North America, with no dominant digital-first platform. The broader end-of-life services ecosystem — spanning healthcare, legal, financial, and grief support — extends this opportunity substantially further.

Existing solutions fail families at every level. Estate attorneys are expensive and one-dimensional. Document tools are transactional and emotionally tone-deaf. No platform addresses the full journey — from organizing practical affairs to preserving memories and supporting families through transition.

Meanwhile, 73 million Baby Boomers are entering the phase of life where planning is most urgent. Their adult children — managing parents' affairs while beginning to think about their own — represent a second massive cohort arriving right behind them.

The demand is real and growing. We are not in the business of creating it. We are in the business of serving it at the exact moment it peaks — through the professionals and institutions families already trust.

$40B+
TAM in estate planning & legacy management — no dominant digital-first platform exists
80%
of adults 55+ have no will or estate plan — the core unserved customer
Only 27%
of adults have documented end-of-life wishes — despite 90% saying it matters
73M
Baby Boomers now entering peak planning years — the largest cohort in US history
Distribution Strategy

Why B2B2C wins where direct B2C failed

The behavioral barrier to end-of-life planning is real — and our go-to-market is built entirely around bypassing it.

Investor Q&A · Founder Response
"Every stat in your deck proves people know they should plan and don't. How do you get them to actually use your product?"

We've deliberately designed around the behavioral barrier rather than trying to overcome it through marketing. The core insight is that behavior change happens at trigger events — a cancer diagnosis, a parent admitted to hospice, an estate attorney sitting across from a 65-year-old client.

Our go-to-market is built entirely around capturing those trigger moments through B2B2C partnerships with the professionals already present at those inflection points. We are not asking people to seek us out. We are being handed to them — by their hospice nurse, their estate attorney, their financial advisor — at the exact moment they are ready to act.

This means we are not in the business of creating demand. We are in the business of serving demand that already exists, at the moment it peaks. That is a fundamentally different and more capital-efficient model than direct B2C.

Trigger-moment distribution

Estate attorneys, hospice directors, and senior living counselors already have the trust. We give them a tool to hand clients at the exact moment the client is ready to act.

Capital-efficient acquisition

B2B2C dramatically lowers CAC compared to consumer advertising. Partners refer pre-qualified, high-intent users — families already in the decision mindset.

Durable competitive moat

Distribution relationships with hospices, senior living facilities, and attorneys are built on trust and workflow integration. Once embedded, switching costs are high and replication is slow.

Testable bet with clear signal

We will know within the first six months of B2B2C outreach whether partners will adopt us. If they do, the acquisition economics are transformational. The milestone gates our T2 raise.

Business Model

Three diversified revenue streams

A direct B2C subscription anchors recurring revenue while two additional channels create a scalable, diversified SaaS business.

Layer 1 · B2C

Consumer Subscriptions

Direct-to-consumer tiered plans. A free tier drives acquisition; the Complete plan converts at $149/year with strong retention — users who store documents and memories rarely leave.

Essential — Free, drives awareness & acquisition
Complete — $149/year, full platform access
Family — Custom, multi-generational households
Premium tiers for storage, concierge & family sharing
Layer 2 · B2B

Partner Licensing

Referral partners — estate attorneys, hospices, financial advisors — pay a per-seat or revenue-share fee for white-labeled or co-branded access. This channel dramatically lowers CAC while expanding into pre-qualified audiences.

Per-seat or revenue-share licensing model
Co-branded & white-label options available
Target: 50 active sponsors by EOY 2026
T2 milestone: 10+ paying sponsors + live product
Layer 3 · Marketplace

Service Marketplace

Connections to attorneys, funeral homes, assisted living facilities, and other service providers generate affiliate and referral revenue as users act on their plans — creating a monetization layer that grows with user engagement.

Affiliate revenue from vetted service providers
Referral fees when users engage professional services
Revenue grows naturally with platform usage
No incremental cost per transaction
Revenue Projections

Path to profitability

First revenue Q3 2026. First profitable quarter Q2 2028. Sensitivity analysis confirms profitability at 50% slower growth.

Year Revenue Expenses Net
2026 $67K $215K ($448K)
2027 $1.07M $2.13M ($1.06M)
2028 $3.92M $3.54M +$380K
2029 $6.63M $5.00M +$1.62M
2030 $8.17M $6.03M +$2.14M

Source: Business Growth Model v7, Feb 2026. For discussion purposes only.

$19.9M
Cumulative revenue 2026–2030
61,953
Projected active clients, EOY 2028
Q2 2028
First profitable quarter — confirmed at 50% slower growth
Pre-Revenue
Current stage · Design complete · Product in development · First revenue Q3 2026
Competitive Landscape

Differentiated where it matters most

Competitors address fragments of the problem. Serene Legacy is the only platform that unifies the practical and the emotional — with a B2B2C channel no incumbent can easily replicate.

Platform Price Document Vault Memory & Legacy Circle / Executor B2B2C Channel
Serene Legacy Free – $149/yr ✓ Full ✓ Full ✓ Full ✓ Core GTM
Trustworthy $20/yr ~ Basic ~ Limited
Trust & Will $900 one-time ~ Legal only
Quicken LifeHub $48/yr ~ Basic ~ Limited
On our moat — an honest answer: Right now, our moat is execution speed and a deliberate positioning choice that incumbents cannot make without cannibalizing their existing business. Trust & Will is a legal document platform — building an emotionally intelligent life companion is not an adjacent feature for them; it's a different company. Over the next 18–24 months, our moat becomes the B2B2C partner network: distribution relationships built on trust, training, and workflow integration that are not replicable quickly. Beyond that, our moat becomes data — a user who has organized five years of family history in our vault does not switch platforms easily.
The Raise

Join us at the
founding round

We are raising a two-tranche SAFE seed round totaling ~$1.49M at a $6.0M post-money valuation cap. Tranche 1 funds product completion and initial B2B2C outreach. Tranche 2 — gated on 10+ paying sponsors and a live product — funds scale.

The founding team of seven has invested ~$70.8K in sweat equity and is deeply committed to the mission. We are looking for investors who believe every family deserves a better way through life's most important chapter.

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Pre-Round · Friends & Family Closed
$70.8K
6 investors · 1,416.59 shares @ $50/share · Q3 2026
Tranche 1 · SAFE Open Now
$415K
6,917 shares @ $60/share · Q3 2026 · Funds product & B2B2C launch
Tranche 2 · SAFE Q1 2027
$1.0M
16,667 shares @ $60/share · Milestone-gated: 10+ paying sponsors + live product
SAFE Terms Summary
InstrumentYC Post-Money SAFE v1.2 · Valuation Cap Only
Post-Money Cap$6.0M
Total Raise~$1.49M · 25% implied ownership
Discount RateNone (Cap Only)
Pro Rata RightsOptional · side letter available
Governing LawNew Hampshire · NH RSA 293-A · Attorney reviewed
IncorporationNH C-Corp · NH RSA 293-A
Use of Funds

Lean and milestone-gated

Capital is deployed in two tranches, with Tranche 2 gated on product launch and partner validation — ensuring investor capital is not committed before the model is proven.

Tranche 1 · $415K · Q3 2026

Product launch & B2B2C validation

  • Product completion & AI features$90–120K
  • Sales & B2B sponsor outreach$60–80K
  • CEO / CTO partial salaries$45–60K
  • Legal, compliance & contingency$70–90K
Tranche 2 · $1.0M · Q1 2027

Scale product, team & marketing

  • Product expansion, hiring & scale$280–350K
  • Marketing & working capital$210–250K
  • Legal, compliance & contingency$70–90K (shared)

Gated milestone: 10+ paying B2B2C sponsors + live product

Key Risks & Mitigants

We address the hard questions directly

Pre-Revenue Execution
No revenue yet

Product completion milestone gates the T1 tranche. First revenue targeted Q3 2026 — the same quarter as T1 close.

B2B2C Validation
Partner channel unproven

T2 raise is gated on 10+ paying sponsors. Partner conversations are underway. We will know within six months if the channel works.

Growth Assumptions
Projections rely on adoption

Sensitivity analysis confirms Q2 2028 profitability even at 50% of projected growth. The model is not contingent on best-case adoption.

Competitive Response
Trust & Will has $50M+

T&W is a legal document platform. Building an emotionally intelligent life companion would cannibalize their identity and revenue model — it's a different company, not an adjacent feature.

Security & Compliance
Storing sensitive documents

HIPAA-compliant architecture designed from day one: encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access controls, audit logging, data residency controls. NH attorney review completed.

Payment Fee Drag
Platform fees at 27%

Direct billing reduces effective payment fee to ~2%. Web subscription reduces App Store / Google Play fee dependency for the majority of revenue.

The Team

Seven founders. One shared conviction.

The Serene Legacy founding team brings together technology, product, business modeling, finance, healthcare, and domain expertise — and every one of us has personally experienced the chaos that the absence of a tool like this creates.

Michael Ziebell
CEO & Co-Founder

Decades of experience building mission-driven ventures. Former CEO of Cambridge Transportation Labs and Associate Director of Business Development at IRBM. Focuses on companies where the mission he builds is one he fully embraces.

Jeff Kimball
Co-Founder & Board Member

25+ years launching and scaling mission-driven organizations in healthcare, grief, and civic engagement. Raised over $50M for non-profits. Former aide to Senator Jay Rockefeller and Vice President Biden. President of The Healing Center.

Vinod (Vince) Grover
Co-Founder & CFO

Finance and operations leader with experience managing $500M+ budgets and scaling distributed organizations across nearly 2,000 employees. Previously at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw a $550M Technology and Facilities budget.

Pankaj Som Chaturvedi
Co-Founder & Board Chair

"The innovator and instigator" of the team, driven by a lifelong commitment to advancing human empathy. Background in early-stage ventures spanning blood banking, clean energy, urban infrastructure, and sustainable agriculture.

Alok Kapoor
Co-Founder & Board Member

Technology and business leader specializing in financial services infrastructure. Former Head of Technology Infrastructure at both Fidelity Investments and Merrill Lynch. Founder & CTO of Indivisible Partners.

Jonathan Boutin
Co-Founder & Board Member

Founding member of Boutin Lowman PLLC with 20+ years of legal and corporate experience spanning business law, litigation, estate planning, and real estate. Admitted to state and federal courts in NH and MA.

Sumit Ayush Puri
Co-Founder & Board Member

30 years in healthcare and insurance, leading technology teams across multiple countries. Founded Prana Wellness to address healthcare gaps. Former CIO at Max Healthcare and Management Consultant at PwC. Author of The Longevity Circle.

Seven co-founders across technology, product, business, finance, healthcare, and professional services. What makes this team right for the problem is not a single founder's personal tragedy — it is the fact that every one of us looked at this problem from our professional and personal lives and arrived at the same conclusion: this needs to exist, it needs to be built with empathy and rigor, and no one has done it right yet.

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