TreePower Services
Technology
Chainsaws, green-space and green investing. Integrating environmental conservation, forestry, and forestry alternatives with marketing and investor relations. It brings a little bit of sawdust into the boardroom. Not only does it allow TreePower to represent forestry investment marketing with complimentary experience in the field, it provides multiple revenue streams for the business, ensuring optimized cashflows year around.
Financials
Request business summary and offering memorandum for details on investment allocation, budgets.
| Funding Round | Funding Type | Funding date | Funding Source/ Investors | Amount | Pre-Money valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed/Bootstrap |
TreePower Services is a small business, currently operating as a proprietorship, based in the forested Kootenay-Boundary region of Southern British Columbia, Canada. Its unique busines model taps into the emerging Alternative Forestry sector in two ways: Forestry/Agroforestry Operations, and Forestry investment consulting and deal-flow.
This approach provides the security of steady monthly revenue through forestry product sales and contract work, while creating opportunties for substantial commissions through introducing and enabling deal agreements between credible developers and ethical investors.
Quarter 1, 2012: Incorporate company, register LP. Commence full-time work as CEO of TreePower. Enable 1-2 deals linked to relationships initiated in Nov-Dec 2011. New website, marketing blitz, buy capital assets, training/certification relating to Forestry skills and investment research. Hire investment research consultant. Funds released: $25,000 CDN
Quarter 2, 2012: Enable 1-2 deals. Schedule and commence seasonal work contracts related to Forestry Operations side of the business. Continue training/certification. Funds released to $25,000 CDN
Quarter 4, 2012: First 15% ($7,500US/CDN) ROI payments transferred to investor, for three years or 90% ROI, whichever comes first.
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Forestry Operations: Customers include firewood delivery recipients, Cordwood construction materials purchasers, agroforestry product wholesale buyers, Forestry services contractors (tree-planting, wildfire fighters etc)
Global Forestry Deal-flow: Clients may include investors, forestry/agroforestry project developers, brokers, and fund managers.
TreePower offers project developers a representing agent specifically dedicated to and informed about Alternative Forestry issues and opportunities. While most brokers and agents offering services to forestry project developers may have MBAs, they have rarely fallen trees themselves. We will also exercise rigorous due dilligence on behalf of investors, researching the evolving world of the New Forestry and recommending only those investments that meet key criteria and have strong fundamentals.
Forestry/Agroforestry Operations: In TreePower's first round of Firewood salvage and delivery near Nelson BC, contracted approximately 20 customers, for between one to four cords of wood per customer, at an average price of $200/cord. Is on the roster to participate in 2012 wild-fire season with Nelson BC contractor.
Alternative Forestry Deal-flow: Currently provide investor referrals to four clients: Living Forests LP (real estate, eco-forestry), Treedom Investments Ltd (Asia Renewable Resources Fund), Bedford Biofuels and Costa Rica Invest (real estate, biofuels, teak).
Forestry/Agroforestry Operations: Firewood consumers, natural-home builders (cordwood), government, wildfire contractors, silviculture contractors
Alternative Forestry Deal-flow: Project developers, fund managers, brokers, investors
Forestry/Agroforestry Operations: TreePower will be trained and certified to successfully bid or apply for contract positions, which generally require training/certification specific to chainsaw operation, falling, wildfire-control, first-aid etc. In-person networking with contract providers, application to posted available opportunities throughout British Columbia and Alberta.
Global Forestry Deal-flow: Primarily through online networking and relationships. Additionally, through organizing and attending events, hosting investor meetings, webinars.
Competitors will include experienced silviculture workers, logging industry workers, and sub-contractors applying for available forestry operations opportunities.
Relating to Alternative Forestry deal-flow, competitors would include competing projects and brokers.
TreePower Services helps communities, contractors, project developers and investors create a better future from Forests.
TreePower LP will be a Limited Partnership which provides a structured vehicle for the participation of an investor in the company's start-up and early growth phase. It will include a dedicated account for funds raised, with oversight provided by a third party, registered with TD Canada Trust.
Asia Renewable Resources Fund
Technology
5 Reasons to Invest with the ARRF:
i. We will invest in a diversified portfolio of Asian forestry assets which will provide investors with liquidity, good growth potential and minimized risk.
ii. We will promote re-forestation and the sustainable management of existing forestry resources.
iii. We will protect the interests of both fund investors and local communities.
iv. The fund enables institutions and individuals to invest in forestry, off-setting their carbon emissions.
v. We will manage investors' assets within a regulated fund with an independent Fund Board and all projects will be independently valued at both acquisition and disposal. The fund will also be audited every 6 months.
Sustainable Forestry within original forest land-bases and plantations. Community-based forestry project development. Product streams to include hardwoods (Teak, Mahogany etc), Biofuels, Rubber, Essential Oils, Biomass, Agroforestry (food crops), Carbon Credits and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). Certification with the Forest Stewardship Council.
Financials
Minimum investment is $10,000US. Funds are managed by Treedom Investments Ltd, with board oversight provided by third party KMG Capital Markets. Capital is required for project reviews and acquisitions, management and growth of forestry projects, enabling partnerships, and establishing sales channels for commodities.
| Funding Round | Funding Type | Funding date | Funding Source/ Investors | Amount | Pre-Money valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A |
Treedom Investments manages the Luxembourg-domiciled Asia Renewable Resources Fund, which provides investors with access to a specially selected group of sustainable forestry, agro-forestry and bio-energy related projects located throughout Asia, for solid preservation of capital and good additional returns over the medium to long term.
The Fund is set for official launch in February 2012, with initial expressions of interest from investors being accepted now.
The Asia Renewable Resources Fund is positioned to take advantage of rising demand for forestry industry products and services throughout Asia, primarily from China and India.
Providing Asian and international markets with better access to ethically sourced, managed and harvested original forest and plantation-based timber, biomass, and certified forest carbon credit sources. The majority of timber and forestry product streams currently being exported from Asia are contributing to a rapidly increasing rate of deforestation of the continent's original forests, contributing to emissions, reducing the capacity of Asia's forests to act as carbon sinks, and lowering the bar for the future of sustainable forestry in the region.
Investment in the ARRF will help provide a strong foundation for a diverse range of forestry developments, and help set the standard for a responsible and resilient forestry sector in Asia.
Asian and Indian markets for timber, biomass, biofuels and other forestry product streams, such as rubber. Tree-based essential oils such as Sandalwood and Oud oil. Oud is derived from the Agar tree, is an expensive and highly-sought-after product used in perfume and fragrance manufacture, and in major demand from the Middle East.
The aims of the Asia Renewable Resources Fund are
The Treedom Group of Companies is a collective of expertise, harnessed to organize and manage the Asia Renewable Resources Fund. It includes:
Equitech, Asia Forestry Management Ltd, Asia Forestry Distillery Ltd, and the PATT Foundation. Visit http://treedom.biz/who-we-are.html for further.
