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The companies that dominate their industries don’t fight the market head-on, they change the rules. Instead of waiting for New York or Paris to approve ride-sharing apps, Uber got drivers on the roads and users on the app.
That mentality helped them turn a $1.25 million seed round in 2010 into a $195 billion behemoth, and early investors saw huge returns when Uber went public in 2019.
Now, more than 50,000 investors are seeing the same drive from the masterminds behind Mode Mobile.
Just as Uber turned a personal asset into a revenue stream, Mode is turning smartphones into EarnPhones. Users can earn up to $1,200 per year just by using their phone as they normally would throughout the day.
With their Nasdaq ticker $MODE now secured, their pre-IPO offering at $0.30/share won’t be open much longer.
Accredited investors can learn more here and secure up to 120% bonus shares.
Challenging the status quo
The average smartphone user spends 80% of their screen time viewing ads, leading to huge profits for tech companies. Mode Mobile, however, believes that users deserve a cut of the profits they’ve helped create.
That’s why Mode Mobile developed the EarnPhone, an Android-powered smartphone that allows users to earn and save money by playing video games, listening to music, and reading the news. Priced at just $99, the barriers to adoption are low and the EarnPhone has many of the same capabilities as most mainstream smartphones, including:
- Pro-grade triple camera
- 6.52” HD screen
- 128 GB storage
- Octa-core processor
- USB Type-C fast charging
- 4000mAh 2-Day Battery
- 4 GB Ram
On top of that, EarnPhones are compatible with most major network carriers.
Users can also earn income on their existing devices as well with Mode EarnOS, an operating system that turns any smartphone into an EarnPhone.
Mode may be a pre-IPO company, but they’ve already had a massive impact on the future of data monetization by paying users real money just by using their phones.
Until now, user data monetization was reserved exclusively for big tech. But Mode has already disrupted the status quo:
- +50M users earning from their platform
- $325M in earnings driving $75M revenue
- Recently closed $46M investment round
They were even awarded North America’s #1 fastest growing software company by Deloitte.
Just like Airbnb lets users earn extra cash by renting out their bedrooms and Uber allows users to make money on their rides back home from work, Mode Mobile wants to enable its users to make money just from using their phones. However, its total addressable market could be much larger than Airbnb’s and Uber’s – currently at over $1 trillion.
While their last two raises sold out, you still have an opportunity to secure pre-IPO shares and invest in their disruption of the smartphone industry.
Disclosures
Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur.
The Deloitte rankings are based on submitted applications and public company database research, with winners selected based on their fiscal-year revenue growth percentage over a three-year period.
Uber’s valuation listed as the total market capitalization calculated as of July 1st, 2025 market close. Data taken from Yahoo Finance.
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