Business
Business Overview:
WindStream manufactures alternative energy systems small enough, efficient enough, and affordable enough for everyone to lessen their environmental impact while reducing electricity costs. WindStream is now shipping its innovative mass-produced line of vertical axis wind turbines for municipal, residential, commercial and off grid use, lowerring customer energy costs, while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels.
Project Type:
Industry:
Project Website:
http://www.windstream-inc.com What are your future milestones, and how much capital will you need to achieve each of the milestones outlined?:
Staffing up to manufacture 10,000 units, meeting customer sales in 2012.
How many future rounds of financing do you project? :
One final round within 12 months to enable rapid worldwide manufacturing and distribution.
Services Desired:
Capital Broker/Dealer
Who is the Customer?:
Residential, Commercial and off-grid energy consumers, worldwide
What is the Customer Pain that you are solving?:
Lack of affordable, renewable, scaleable distributed energy solutions
Names of any current or recent customers:
Buffalo Bills, NY
US Embassy, Helsinki
What is the Target Market?:
1.6 Billion people living without any access to electricity, and both urban and rural grid connected residential and commercial customers seeking affordable supplementary energy solutions
How big is the Target Market in terms of Annual Sales?:
$200M-$500M
Sales/Marketing Strategy:
Distribution Agreements with in country (worldwide) existing residential and commercial solar installers, looking for scaeleble, affordable micro wind solutions complementing/augmenting existing installed solar base
Provide use cases :
See Buffalo Bills instalation video
Competition:
Micro Wind is a category WindStream dominates; there are no known competitors at this price point, with this efficiency rating
One-line Pitch:
Connecting people worldwide to affordable, highly efficient mass produced, scaleable alternative energy systems
Business Model:
See attached PPT summary
Product/Services Overview (what does it do):
See attached power output curve
Technology
What makes the technology/business unique and have a defendable competitive advantage?:
First to market through worldwide distribution/instalation to existing customers with defendable IP, utilizing high volume manufacturing to drive down BOM
Describe in detail the technology used in the Project - Address the innovation in significant detail :
Contact for details on IP and manufacturing facility tour; units are now in production
What are the principles of the technology? :
Mass produced, highly efficient stators, generators and electronics generate low cost per watt power in light wind environments
What, if anything, has been proven (and how far is this from a commercial scale)? :
Currently in full production at Indiana manufacturing facility
What challenges/risk does the technology face for commercialization?:
Currently in full production at Indiana manufacturing facility
Team
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Dan Bates | CEO |
| Claudio Chaimi | President |
| Ryan Keating | CFO |
| Travis Campbell | CTO |
| Christopher Galazzi | CMO |
Current Investors:
Contact for current investor data
Financials
Amount Sought:
$2,000,000 If raising funds, what shall the funds be used for?:
Pre-Money Valuation:
$15,000,000
Funding Received to Date:
$4,150,000
Funding Stage:
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