onora llc | Application Preview
O’Nora LLC is a startup floral business seeking a $283,884 government grant to support its first year of operations and lay the groundwork for future expansion into biotechnology and sustainable floral chemical production. The business is currently online and operates through BloomNation, serving the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area with plans for national reach in canvas art sales.
In its first year, the company aims to establish a better-designed e-commerce site, rent a workspace for flower arrangement and storage, hire and train an assistant designer, offer educational workshops on floral design and sustainability, and increase revenue by 30%. A portion of profits will be donated to children’s medical procedures through Operation Smile.
O’Nora LLC focuses on sustainability, innovation, and customization. Customers can design their own bouquets by uploading photos or providing descriptions, choose the specific types and colors of flowers, and customize cards and artwork. These features set it apart from competitors like InBloom and The Garden Gates, which offer less personalized and more traditional services.
Long-term, the company plans to evolve through multiple stages: establishing a brick-and-mortar shop, building a perfumery, and launching a research lab for plant-based medicine and floral-based chemical products. As part of this vision, the company is building a proprietary flower database for future development of AI tools and biotech research. Plans include collaboration with academic institutions and researchers to generate data and studies related to floriculture and sustainable practices.
O’Nora’s founder, Norah Almadani, is uniquely positioned to lead this venture due to her background in chemistry, environmental engineering, and floral design. The company’s focus on artistry, customization, sustainable development, and eventual entry into the biotech and perfumery sectors supports the case for funding its growth and innovation.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 332368310
Location: DALLAS, TX, United States
Length of Operation: 1-5
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: Less than $100k
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: YES
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Funding Usage
The first-year growth strategy will be generated from online sales of bouquets, unique floral designs and floral installation services including the sales of retail goods, cards, and canvas printed art work. The primary market will be the greater DFW area and North Texas for floral sales. For the canvas art products the sales will be nationally. The goals for the first year growth is to establish a well organized e-commerce website with desired features and buttons to better market the products and services. For example, buttons to allow customers to select their desired flower and upload pictures of their desired bouquets. Renting an off-site operational office to allow for flower storage and arrangement. Hire and train one team member by Month 3, an assistant designer that can act as operation coordinator. Reach 50+ participants through workshops in 12 months. The workshops will dive into floral design topics, green waste management and will survey the community to custom design the workshop to attract an audience and more customers. Increase earned revenue by 30% through expanded services. O’Nora is committed to sustainability by promoting green waste recycling and resource management established on product life cycle practices. We celebrate cultural artistry by blending in creativity with floral design. Through advancing technology with a flower database and supporting community programs, we create pathways for employment and growth. Partial of our revene will be dedicated to operation Smile in assisting with children cosmetic costs. I am seeking startup and operational capital of the amount $283,884 to fund the first year or the business. The capital will cover material and supply ($25,980), operations ($51,828) and staffing ($41,742) and transportations ($ 35,000).
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Business Plan
- The business currently has an e-commerce platform hosted on Bloomnation with the objectives of delivering flower arrangements to customers and grow the business with online sales to generate revenue to expand to a brick and mortar shop by providing sustainable floral arrangements and botanical education. The goals of this phase is to expand to include new line of products and to enter to the perfumery and biotech market. The current phase needs the following to reach to expand to the next phase - Establish the brand name through social media, third party sales markets, participating in floral related expos. - Attract and employ floral designers/floral artists - Establish relations with the floral industry, local and state floral associations by participating in memberships, and small business podcasts - Gaining sponsorships - Participating in floral design workshops - O’Nora LLC will initiate the data collection for stage III (Research Lab for Plant-Based Medicine and Production) during the initial phase of the business in stage I (Online Floral Delivery) (Current stage) by constructing a flower database with comprehensive information on the retail flowers to build the knowledge for next stages of the business. The database will be constantly updated with data and will be used for future utilization for building Large Learning Models (LLMs) for AI business use. - Plans include collaborating with industry and academia after the data collection steps in research proposals, and working alongside researchers and students to generate articles with research results. The Future Phases of The Business Stage II: Brick and Mortar Shop Stage III: Perfumery Stage IV: Research Lab for Plant-Based Medicine and Production The company seeks investors for the next plan stages of the business. The business has been open since December 2024 and we operate online only and market our products through BloomNation, the online service that provided us with the website onora.llc. Its owner and manager is Norah Almadani. Norah is a chemist, an Environmental engineer and also a florist designer. She operates the business alone, from design to delivery. The plan for the business is to grow into a perfumery and further grow into a sustainable chemical production company with its floriculture farms, having an on-site research lab. Future plans includes gaining large amount of capital to establish floral chemical, physical and image databases to prepare for the biotechnology market.
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Self Identified Competition
InBloom Strength: service providing subscriptions 3,6,12 month, the plants, the extras (retail gift supplies), funeral ready flowers, bride and groom ready flowers, flower care tips Weakness: clients returning dead indoor plants The garden gates in Dallas They provide bouquets selected by the inhouse floral designer that is posted online and they provide full wedding and occasional floral services. Sustainable product map, employee development are not within the company policy. The distinction: Onora llc will provide and is Art oriented, with limited addition arrangements (one of a kind), inhouse made cards, client places flower delivery in advance (year calendar) client has the option to customize their own bouquets and select their own flowers by uploading a photo or in written description. A database with the floral information and tips to care of plant - Customers get to upload floral images of their wish to be fulfilled by our floral designer. They also can select the and choose the flowers amount and color they want to deliver. Cards and art work can be customizable per customer wishes, where personal messages can be printed on the card instead of being hand written. - Product and Services Research and Development Plans
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