Max Tselevich

Los Angeles, CA (USA)
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Box-O-Mania, Inc.

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Location: Los Angeles
Industry: Retail/Clothing
Year Founded: 2009
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Description: Box-O-Mania is a unique toy concept with a larger purpose. Have you ever played with an empty lage cardboard box? Practically every adult in the western world and beyond has an extremely memorable and fond childhood recollection of playing with an empty appliance cardboard box. Girls and Boys alike make spaceships, fire and police stations, hospitals and houses, stores, offices, cafes, etc. The possibilities are endless with just a little imagination and an empty cardboard box. Box-O-Mania is all you need to get started building your very own creation that will be unlike anyone else's. And every time you make a purchase at Box-O-Mania, a part of that money will be used to help build a real home for someone in need. Since Anastasia Tselevich was 6, she wanted her dad to help her open this company, but they didn't really do anything about it for many years, until one day when she came to him and said: "Dad, I really want for us to open Box-O-Mania so we can sell cardboard playhouses, but there are thousands of kids and families out there who don't have a real house and no roof over their head, much less a playhouse. I figured that those of us who can afford Box-O-Mania products will be able to help someone get a roof over their head and a safe place to call home just by purchasing one of our playhouses. I can't even imagine what its like, not having a safe place to call a home, but I told my dad that we can certainly try everything humanly possible to make a difference in someone else's life and let others help us, because I know that many of you feel the same. " Thus, Box-O-Mania was born. Everytime consumer buys a playhouse box from Box-O-Mania, he/she will be helping build a real house for someone who really needs a roof over their head (a large part of proceeds from every single playhouse box will go toward building safe, durable and free homes for those in need). Social Entrepreneurship is on the rise like never before and (URL removed)us received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in "social businesses". Imagine a product line consisting of three different sized cardboard boxes (Small, Medium and Large) that fold and unfold neatly, offer complete interconnectivity between each other (to create larger structures), have doors and windows and are completely customizable into anything your imagination allows. Our boxes come with paint and roller brushes for the walls as a starter kit. We will offer an additional product line of accessory kits to encourage imagination and creativity: Boxpital - A hospital kit that includes attachable red cross and hospital signs, along with a play stethoscope; Box Office - an office space out of your box; Box-O-Ship - Create any kind of ship your imagination lets you! Fire-Box - a fire station kit! Box-Police - a police station kit! Box-O-Home - Create your own cozy home. No box will be the same. Kids will join to have Box-O-Parties - where they bring their own boxes, build and connect Box-O-Towns, have contests and design their own boxes right online before they make them. Box-O-Mania Playhouses are manufactured right here in the US from 100% recycled paper and are completely recyclable at the end of their life. That's a truly exceptional example of an environmentally sustainable toy. Box-O-Mania, Inc. is primarily interested in receiving capital from: -Equity Funding (Venture Capital, Angel, Private Equity, etc.) We would like to use the funds that are raised for the purposes below: -Operating/Growth Capital (Payroll, Sales & Marketing, etc)