How Entrepreneurs Can Change the World

1. SECFC13
How Entrepreneurs Can Change the World
September 27, 2013

2. Investing For A Better World
• Investing for profit has been common for centuries
• Queen Isabella of Spain possibly 1st
VC in 1492
• Columbus received title, 1/10 of gold and 1/8 of voyage profits
• Monarchs and landowners believed wealth endowed to them by God
• Giving to poor showing mercy to unworthy lower class
• Industrialists of the 19th
& 20th
Centuries become Philanthropists
• Defined today as private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of life
• Social Entrepreneurs of the 21st
Century investing in double bottom line
• Double Bottom Line focuses on profit and planet
• Triple Bottom Line focuses on profit, people and planet

3. World Changing Innovation
Double Bottom Line Inventions
1439 Gutenberg Printing Press
1712 Newcomen Steam Engine
1877 Pasteur Penicillin
1879 Edison Electric Light
1908 Ford Model T Automobile

4. “History shows that technology revolutions
occur about every 50 years. We believe clean
tech is at the beginning of a high-growth
period much like computing was in the early
1970s. The application of technology to
resource problems should cause profound
changes in the energy, utility and automotive
industries.”
Merrill Lynch Research Report
Clean Tech Opportunity

5. Computer/ IT Revolution
Yesterday
• Mainframe Computers
• Dumb Terminals
• Centralized CPU & Storage
Today
• Computer Networks
• Distributive Computing
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing & Storage
• Personal Computing Devices

6. Clean Tech Revolution
Tomorrow
• Distributive Power Networks
• Onsite Power Generation
• Onsite Power Storage
• Smart Power Grids
• Personal Power Generation
Today
• Monolithic Power plants
• Build to Peak Demand
• Centralized Power Distribution
• Dumb Power Grids

7. Global Problems
Global Solutions

8. Problem: Climate Change caused by C02 emission

9. Current Technology: Carbon Sequestration
PROCESS
• C02 is captured and liquified
• Liquified C02 is pumped below the surface into rock and shell formations
COSTS:
•Europe is introducing the world’s most comprehensive regulatory framework,
•Seeks to build 12 demonstration plants by 2015.
•Estimated cost $15 billion EUR
DISADVANTAGES::
• C02 can leach through the soils and resurface
into the atmosphere
• Extremely expensive
• Creates no valuable byproduct – simply waste
management

10. RTV Portfolio: Solid Carbon Products
Convert CO2 into solid carbon nanotubes through a patented, low cost, continuous flow process. Process
uses reducing agent of methane or hydrogen is combined with CO2 using a catalytic process to produces
a high grade carbon nanotubes and pure water (H2O) as a byproduct.
Water (H2O)
Nanotubes (C)
Sequestered C02 Stream Catalytic Process
By-products
RTV has invested $5M along with angels & Boston based co-investor. Total capital raised $16M.

11. Uses of Carbon Nano-tubes
• Carbon Nano-tubes (CNT’s) are a crystalline carbon
based structures
• Strongest structures known to man
• Electrical conductivity 1000x greater than copper
• Highly desirable for electronics, aerospace, the automotive
• Used as a replacement for graphite carbon fiber and metals in industrial applications.
• Current market size is est. at $300 Million USD retailing above $100,000 per metric ton in
2010.
• Market growth projected at >45% annualized rate.
• Permanent solution to CO2
• Turns CO2 from a liability into a profit center.
• Large quantities of Carbon Nano-tubes will enable a new generation of manufacturing
technology to emerge with lighter, cheaper, stronger components.

12. ProblemProblem
•Poor HealthPoor Health
SOLUTION
•Business Model
•Social Impact
•Implementation
& Management
Health Problems in Ghana:
Problem
Iron Deficiency:
-4% of infants die (or 38 for every 1000)
- 20% of maternal deaths are related to Anemia
Heme Vs. Non-Heme

13. ProblemProblem
•Poor HealthPoor Health
SOLUTION
•Business Model
•Social Impact
•Implementation
& Management
Achatina

14. ProblemProblem
•Poor HealthPoor Health
SOLUTION
•Business Model
•Social Impact
•Implementation
& Management
Achatina

15. Microfranchise Attributes:
Turn-key Farm Operation
Business model
ProblemProblem
•Poor HealthPoor Health
SOLUTIONSOLUTION
•Business ModelBusiness Model
•Social Impact
•Implementation
& Management