The Okra team pitched this deck last Friday in Singapore and took away the PFAN Asia Clean Energy and Climate Financing award. We're now talking to investors and looking to translate the hard work of the team into closing a $1.2M round of investment over the next couple of months.
Our vision is a future where everyone has electricity and enough of it to lead productive lifestyles. The macrodata suggests 42% of new off-grid electrification is going to be from microrgrids, but it's yet to be answered how and by whom. Having spoken with many utilities and project developers, they'll tell you straight up that it's not worth their time connecting isolated villages of less than a few hundred people into costly and complex to install micro-grids. We've built our technology not for big utilities but specifically for local companies who know their own context, can identify customers who want electricity and are willing to go out there to do the installations. Our technology simply makes it easy and profitable for them to do so. The distributors install the tech and then our smart systems take over and manage the plug & play networks for them.
We value transparency, constant improvement and sharing our journey for others to learn from, so we're making our deck public for everyone to see. If you're an early stage investor looking to jump on becoming the digital interface for off-grid populations around the world, we're looking to close a round of $1.2M within the next few months to enable us to start scaling this out. We want to hear from you so if anyone has any comments, questions and feedback, reach out and we'll get in touch as soon as possible!
3. TIMES ARE ABOUT TO
CHANGE FOR THE 1.2
BILLION PEOPLE
LIVING OFF-GRID
4. 42% OF NEW OFF-GRID
ELECTRIFICATION
WILL BE FROM
SOLAR MICROGRIDS
<1 % OF DEPLOYED OFF-GRID
SOLAR IS IN MICROGRIDS
5. familiar panel
&
load ports
Okra Grid in a box plugs into
scalable microgrid
Smart software manages the
microgrids
share to
the grid
usb
charging
2g / GPRS
comms
6. SMART SOFTWARE FOR SMART
DESCOS
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE
MOBILE
PAYMENTS
<1 % transaction
costs via okra
crypto
integrations
Machine learning
optimisations &
control
strategies
Catches
maintenance
issues before they
happen
GRID
MANAGEMENT
REMOTE
MONITORING
11. OKRA
provide okra controllers +
Software as a service
DESCO
procure panels, batt,
conduct sales,
installation & mainteance
END USER
pay a network charge +
consume electricity on desired
plan
$/energy
rent2ow
n
upfront
BUSINESS MODEL
12. OFF-GRID MICROGRID MARKET 2020
1705
735
35
$990M
$1.21B
$155M
# CUSTOMERS
2475
IEA forecasts microgrid/minigrid market = $190Billion in 2030
#DESCOs Sunconnect list of DESCOS 2018
TAM - Bloomberg Off-Grid Market Trends Report 2016
TAM
$2.35B
15. R&D Lead
DYLAN LU
Authored 150+
academic papers in
electronics
engineering journals
CTO
DAMIAN VELING
Managed
automation of 1
Billion + IoT devices
(>$100M worth of
assets)
CEO
AFNAN HANNAN
Lessons from leading
3 startups & raising
300k+ capital
5+ Yrs energy
efficiency exp.
OKRA'S CAPABLE HANDS
16. Advisor
Lachlan James
Managed > $100M of
assets at Innovation
capital
Power Engineer
Oscar Aitchison
Previously
systems engineer
@ Siemens
Hardware
Engineer
Fergus
McCracken
Managed product
development for
Seeing Machines,
$60M venture
backed startup.
Electrical
Engineer
PHD candidate in
battery
management
systems at
Australian
National University
Data Scientist
Matthew Smart
Actuarial +
software
development
background with
Honours at
University of
Sydney.
Bus Dev
Louis Jolivet
Previously
corporate sales @
Euromoney
Finance
Community
Engagement
Thavry Thon
Author of
acclaimed
Cambodian Novel
'A Proper Woman'
Legal
Jim Thompson
Previously legal
council to Global
Fund Against Aids
& Oxfam
Firmware
Engineer.
Nithya Menon
Built firmware for
moisture testing +
automated
irrigation @
Proximity,
Myanmar
Advisor
Cecile Dahome
8+ years running
Sevea consulting for
social enterprise
MORE
CAPABLE
HANDS
17. 1k houses in
Cambodia
30k
households
globally
First houses
in Africa
Mar '18 2018 May '19 2019 2020
Initial Coin
Offering
$10M
500k +
households
electrified
globally
$1.2 Million
@$10M Post
Val.
10x Return
Exit 2021
ASK RETURN
19. 2. UPFRONT
PURCHASE
1. ENERGY AS A
SERVICE
3. RENT 2 OWN
Excess power feeds
into the network
Extra capacity drawn
from the network
Central Power LIne
EXTRA SLIDE - DESCOS BUSINESS
MODEL
Purchases panels
+ batteries &
trades excess with
network
Ongoing fee based on
monthly usage
2 year contract for
panels + batteries &
trades excess with
network