Top Reasons to Invest

Explosive Market SmartShades market growing annually at astonishing 55% within a $158B Smart Home industry.¹
Proven Demand $7 million in lifetime revenues with over 40,000 units sold.
Powerful Patents & IP 5 Patents + 3 patents pending; extremely strong and able to block the sales of copy cats. Read how here.
Cleantech Grant Awarded CAD $4 million in environmental grants to automate shades in commercial buildings, saving up to 24% on cooling and 74% in lighting energy costs.
High Profile Investors Including entrepreneurs Shawn Dougherty (co-founded mophie, sold for $100 million), and Anthony Lacavera (founder of Wind Mobile, sold for $1.16 billion).

Questions Email us at invest@helloryse.com or call us at 1-855-770-1787

Smart Shades for the Smart Home

Upgrade Your Shades
The only retrofit/after-market device designed to motorize window shades that are manually operated with a beaded chain. You can set up and automate your shades in less than 5 minutes!

Super Smart
Controllable by smartphone, voice, or set to a schedule, or integrate with leading smart-home platforms from Apple, Amazon & Google. Sensors & weather based automation to help save energy.

Affordable Luxury
Retail price of only $169, compared to alternative brands that can retail for more than $1,000 per window! We’re bringing smart shades to the masses with the most affordable solutions on the market.

High-Margin & Scalable Business Model

High-quality hardware with high profit margins and SaaS (Software as a Service) subscriptions for commercials clients that includes: extended warranty & premium support, battery replacement & servicing plans, custom software integrations (i.e. BAS & Slack) and weather-base automation for energy efficiency.

SmartShades Are Just The Beginning

Our vision is to OWN the “Smart Shade” space. We want RYSE to be synonymous with smart shade — just like what Nest is to the thermostat, Ring is to the doorbell, or Dyson is to the vacuum, we want consumers to think of RYSE when they think of smart shades! RYSE will be developing multiple products in the coming years to dominate the smart window covering category.

SmartCurtain 2023

Drapes and curtains that run on a track or rod. Drapes are popular in hotels Making a return to multi-family

SmartBlind 2024

Venetian blinds, horizontal blinds, or mini blinds Wand or drawstring control Most common in residential homes

Cordless 2024

Most popular lift control in 2019 Require users to lift or pull-down to open-and-close Large growth in the residential space for child safety

Market Opportunity

Less than 8% of new window shade purchases are motorized² due to high cost and lack of retrofits. RYSE has the potential to automate the other 92% of shades already installed in buildings and homes – that’s a lot of shades!

And the Smart Shades category is experiencing an explosive growth rate of over 55% annually¹. This market is still in its infancy, and is expected to grow to a whopping $1.47 billion by 2024, with over 80% of this growth being attributed to retrofits and replacements – our core strength.⁶

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Invest in a Greener Future

With new laws and regulations – such as the Green New Deal – governments are requiring that all new buildings be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030. RYSE SmartShades save energy in two ways:

☀️ Solar Heat Gain Management
Automatically lowering shades to block direct sunlight can reduce indoor cooling costs by up to 24%.³

💡 Daylight Harvesting
Automatically opening shades during overcast or bright weather can reduce indoor lighting costs by up to 74%.⁴

Smart Home Exits

The Smart Home industry is expected to grow at an impressive compound annual growth rate of 7.5%, growing from $158 billion in 2018, all the way to $262 billion by 2025.⁵ The industry has seen some spectacular exits, with big tech giants acquiring many start-ups resulting in large payouts for investors:

Google acquired Nest, the makers of the Smart Thermostat, for $3.2 billion, earning investors a 22X return on invested capital.

Remember Ring? They got rejected on Shark Tank, and ended up selling to Amazon for $1.2 billion. Ring’s founder then became a guest Shark on the show, with the last laugh!

Assa Abloy is a $26+ billion company⁷ who dominates door locks, purchased August, the makers of the Smart Lock to expand into the smart home!

Sold Over 40,000 Devices to Residential & Commercial Clients Worldwide.

15,000 sq, ft. hotel with 120 windows over 24 rooms
Developing 5 hotels across Canada
Access to LPs other real state properties

Eureka Hub: 4-Floor co-working space with 100 windows
Portolio of commercial offices, retail & mixed used properties with a focus on retrofitting older assets, across North America & Europe

In 2019, RYSE partnered with The Avery, a 56-story residential tower in San Francisco, to deploy their first generation SmartShades across 100 units in the building to meet ‘Americans with Disabilities Act’ (ADA) regulations.

Co-working Company with 6 locations in Toronto, Ontario.
Piloting in 51 Wolseley St, in a 14,000 sq. ft building with 55 windows across 5 floors.

Hear From Our Investors

Jeffrey Potvin — “The big opportunity with RYSE really drives down to the market opportunity. They really understand this space, and that’s going to allow them to win and allow them to attract a really good suitor.”
**– Jeffery Potvin, Supporters Fund**

“What we liked about RYSE is that it was a technology that was designed and built in such a way that it could easily integrate in many different places with little customization.”
**– Louis Dellosa, Cogito Capital**

Led by an Experienced Executive Team

Trung Pham | Founder & CEO | LinkedIn

Our founder, Trung is a foremost expert in all things related to smart shades. He is a serial entrepreneur, initially setting his sights on the investment industry and earning the CFA designation, but later identifying a crucial gap in the window blinds & shades industry, leading to the creation of RYSE.

Marc Bishara | Chief Technology Officer | LinkedIn

A technological leader, Marc previously designed a Bluetooth wearable device called “Glance” – an application that tracks the orientation and displacement of Glance in 3D space. He has also led the development of our 1st- and 2nd-gen devices, taking the products from concepts to market.

Adam Bjork | Director of Sales | LinkedIn

Adam has over 16 years of Sales Management experience with developers, integrators, property managers, and installers. He has significant experience selling motorized shades as the former regional Sales Manager for Spring Windows Fashions – the 2nd largest global window covering fabricator.

Charleston Cheng | Manufacturing Manager | LinkedIn

Based in China, and with over 15 years of experience in manufacturing and quality control, Charleston oversees all procurement and production for RYSE. He is a former manufacturing and quality engineer manager for FoxConn, overseeing production for Dell, Apple, GoPro, and Motorola.

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Sources

Smart Shade Devices Market by Distribution Channel, Technology, End-user, and Geography - Forecast and Analysis
TechNavio (2019)
State of the Industry: Blinds and Shades in the U.S.
Sundale Research (2016) (p. 6)
The New York Times Is Satisfied—24% More Energy Efficient, Too
Mecho Systems
The SCIENCE of Automated Shading | CONTEMPORARY SHADING SYSTEMS | ROLLER SHADES + LOUVER SYSTEMS | WINDOW MANAGEMENT | DAYLIGHT HARVESTING
Joel Berman (2015)
Future of Smart and Connected Homes, Forecast to 2025
Frost & Sullivan (2019)
Global Smart Shade Devices Market 2020–2024
Infiniti Research (2020)
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ASAZY?p=ASAZY

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