Jatropha Plantations

Mike Vanstone · Fri, 08/06/2010 - 13:30

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Business

Business Overview:

New World Energy is a Jatropha plantation managment and development company who currently opperates in NTB, Indonesia. We have been in business for three years and would like to expand our operation to supply the unsaitable demand for renewable, nonedible feed stock to be used in the Biofuels (including Jet Fuel) industries.

Project Type:

Renewable Energy›Bioenergy

Industry:

Renewables & Environment

Project Location:

Lombok/Sumbawa, NB, 12210

Indonesia

Project Website:

http://www.newwrldenergy.com

What are your future milestones, and how much capital will you need to achieve each of the milestones outlined?:

Currently are managing and operating multiple small scale plantations on Islands of Lombok and Sumbawa. Would like to roll out two 5000 hectare plantations in the next two years. 10 million per site is required to accomplish this. Initial capital investment of 5 million would get this project started

What is your total and operating cash burn (the amount you're spending) per month? :

10K per month

How many future rounds of financing do you project? :

four

Services Desired:

Capital Broker/Dealer

Who is the Customer?:

Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel and Jet Fuel manufacturers. Customers will include: Neste Oil, Shell Oil, Mission New Energy. Boeing, Air New Zealand, Virgin Atlantic, Garuda airlines etc.

What is the Customer Pain that you are solving?:

Demand for crude petroleum based oil. Reduction in green house gas emissions that cause global warming.
Offseting carbon emissions through tree sequestering

Names of any current or recent customers:

Bosch & Siemens, Boeing, Garuda Airlines

What is the Target Market?:

Biofuels Industry. Airline industry.

How big is the Target Market in terms of Annual Sales?:

$1B-$2B

Sales/Marketing Strategy:

Demand for this type of feedstock is staggering. We currently have numerous companies requesting our oil. We cannot feed this demand with our current plantations. We must expand.
The Airline industry alone will demand 20 billion litres of oil annually to meet their requirements of 10% renewable oil in the their fuel consumptions by 2017. Current fuel consumption is 200 billion litres annually.

Provide use cases :

see above

Competition:

JatOil, Mission New Energy Biofuels, Sun Biofuels,

One-line Pitch:

Succesful Jatropha plantation and managment company seeks funds to expand it's current operations.

Business Model:

New World Energy's plan is to provide Crude Jatropha Oil to the Bio, Renewable Diesel and Jet fuel industries. We currently supply oil to Bosch & Siemens Home Appliance Division for a cooking stove that they have developed and distributed throughout Lombok.

Product/Services Overview (what does it do):

Feed Stock for Biofuels production

Technology

What makes the technology/business unique and have a defendable competitive advantage?:

We have proven agronomy with multiple succesful plantations. We have access to huge tracks of marginal land that is unfit for conventional (food) crops. Vast amounts of unemployed impoverish locals who are willing to work. Strong ties with local and federal government.

Describe in detail the technology used in the Project - Address the innovation in significant detail :

Agronomy practises are quite basic but somewhat confidential.
Seed source and genetics are very strong and local.

What are the principles of the technology? :

Agriculture

What, if anything, has been proven (and how far is this from a commercial scale)? :

Airline test flights have already been done and continue to progress. Biodiesel has and is currently being made from jatropha oil feed stock - this is a proven technology.

What challenges/risk does the technology face for commercialization?:

None

Patent Numbers (Filed/Approved):

N/A

Team

Name	Title
Mike Vanstone	DIRECTOR

Financials

Amount Sought:

$20,000,000

If raising funds, what shall the funds be used for?:

Development of a 10,000 hectare Jatropha plantation and processing facilities.

Pre-Money Valuation:

$5,000,000

Funding Received to Date:

Amount invested by Founders:

$1,000,000

Funding Stage:

Pre-Revenue

Funding History:

Funding Round	Funding Type	Funding date	Funding Source/ Investors	Amount	Pre-Money valuation
Friends & Family	Debt	Aug 2010	private	1000000	5000000