FinancialsPre-seedUpdated 2026-06-04
Use of Funds — Pre-seed ($600k, ~12–15 months)
The pre-seed buys milestones that re-rate the company up before the larger raise — not a full build.
| Use | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lean team (founder + technical lead + BD; Peru-anchored, partly contract) | ~$250–300k |
| Lean ROOT proof-of-concept on one ecosystem subtype on the owned 90k-ha concession (20–40 nodes, one drone campaign, eDNA samples, government-data integration, reference library v1) — no SMEAR yet | ~$120–180k |
| Legal: ring-fence the neutral data/verification entity + start FPIC + IP/TM | ~$50–80k |
| Grant applications + first-customer / Article 6.2 travel + ops | ~$50–80k |
| Buffer / cloud (NVIDIA & AWS startup credits cover compute) | ~$30–50k |
| Total | ~$600k |
The four milestones this unlocks (the seed gate)
- ≥1 signed paying data customer (e.g. an insurer paying for ROOT calibration data — revenue independent of any credit).
- Lean ROOT POC on one subtype + a demonstrated drone replication — proves "measure once, infer many".
- Conflict-free legal structure (neutral data entity separated from the credit business).
- 1–2 grant approvals and/or an Article 6.2 offtake LOI — non-dilutive capital + decoupling from any single methodology's timing.
Hitting these converts CeibaQ from "pre-everything" to a proven, neutral nature-data layer — and the seed prices well above the pre-seed.
Explicitly not in the pre-seed
The SMEAR flux supertower, the full ROOT build, land acquisition, and scaling — those come at seed, funded largely non-dilutively (grants/MDB).