Here is our Seattle next50 Fledge LLC (the conscious company incubator) Demo Day presentation.

1. Good Evening. I am Alma Lorraine Bone Constable, Founder and CEO of TayaSola. We teach people to generate their own power. We sell parts and
provide training -- for communities to develop power solutions. This evening I am honored to share our vision with you.
Teaching people to generate their own power.
@TayaSola #Fledge

2. Vision:
At TayaSola we believe in Energy Independence. We envision how the world would change if individuals could generate their own clean power. Imagine the possibilities of a nation of children with the Knowledge to fulfill their own power needs.
Imagine the possibilities of
a nation of children with the
knowledge to fulfill their own
power needs.

3. Sunset
What do you do after the sun goes down? Read to your children, Study, perhaps work on a hobby to make extra income?

4. 1.2 Billion
For the 1.2 billion people that live without access to reliable energy, sundown means darkness.
How do they read to their children; study for exams, make extra income?

5. Kerosene Lanterns
Many choose kerosene lamps and generators. The fuel is expensive, the fumes are bad for your lungs, and they cause fires. Regular use of kerosene in one’s home -- is equivalent to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes per day! A very dangerous solution.
House lights out

6. Darkness (Alma turns on lantern)

7. TayaSola Lanterns photo - (Alma turns off lantern)
TayaSola Lanterns generate clean light for reading, studying, and income generation. Students learn how solar energy works AND how to create and maintain the products they need.
Imagine a generation growing up KNOWING how to generate energy from what is available in their community?

8. (Slide 8) Energy Independence
I have been fortunate to work in Kenya for over a decade with Cultural Reconnections. We take African American Women and join them with their counterparts in Kenya for sustainable joint ventures and infrastructure building.
Understand this is not about charity – it is about collaborative learning and strengthen communities.
Kenyan parents are worried about the same things we are: Education, health, and safety of their children. They want a better life for their children.
Mothers talked with us -- about how to provide safe, -- durable,-- inexpensive lighting for their children– while expanding their knowledge about energy.

9. (Slide 9) Teach a child to make a light
Where do we start to create Energy Independence? Teach children the principles of solar energy by having them make a solar reading light and then challenge them to innovate. And they do! For example, one Kenyan boy told me he planned to combine several of the solar panels, put them on his bicycle, to create a -- mobile -- cell -- phone -- charging station.
By now, I can hear you thinking “sounds good Alma Lorraine Bone Constable, but this sounds like charitable work. How are you going to make money? Who is going to pay you for this?”

10. (Slide 10) Opportunity
There are 7 million Kenyan households using kerosene.
The daily average expense for kerosene is 50¢ per day
This equates to $1.2 Billion US dollars spent every year -- in Kenya -- on kerosene.
Who? • 7 million Kenyan households
How much? • ~US$0.50/day for kerosene
Household
Spending • US$1.2 billion on energy

11. (Slide 11) How we make money?
1. We sell the -- TayaSola – lantern -- kits at $4 apiece. With prices driven down this low, they can be purchased by Kenyans directly out of personal savings.
2. 30% of the populous are now living in cities, and in that transition -- often one person goes first and sends money back to the village.
3. NGOs who will pay for our kits.
4. Entrepreneurs who assemble lanterns or other items they make out of these parts.
• Sell parts @US$4 / kit, retail
• Direct sales
Who pays? • City to village disbursement
• NGOs
Retailers &
Entrepreneurs • Sell assembled or novel items

12. (Slide 12) Two Customers
We are excited to announce you that we have two customers eager for these today.
Women from the Coast Province expressed interesting in purchasing our kits for their children.
As did a this business man of a half dozen stores in Nairobi.
Solar cell
Charging circuit
Battery
LEDs
Switch

13. (Slide 13) Team TayaSola
I am Alma Lorraine Bone Constable, Founder and CEO of TayaSola, I have worked in Kenya for 10 years. I have an MBA in Sustainable Business Management from Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
My two partners Mike and patrick graduated with me from BGI. They take care of operations, procurements, and marketing .
Alma Lorraine Bone Constable, Mike Greenberg, Patrick T. Rost,
Founder & CEO US Operations US Marketing

14. (Slide 14) Partners
In Kenya our -- feet -- on – the -- street comes from relationships with Cultural Reconnections.
Cultural Reconnections

15. (Slide 15) Ask
"We are seeking to raise $150,000, and specifically looking for the first $75,000 quickly, -- to begin seeding kits into the market, and -- to build -- OUR distribution channels"
We are seeking:
• US$150,000
• Distribution Partners

16. (Slide 16) Close & Vision Revisit
I would love it if you came to our booth:
put together a light
And caught the TayaSola vision:
Imagine the possibilities of a nation of children with the Knowledge to fulfill their own power needs.
Imagine the possibilities of a
nation of children with the
knowledge to fulfill their own
power needs.
@TayaSola #fledge