Terra Prima is a venture capital and private equity firm that helps entrepreneurs turn breakthroughs within emerging Renewable and Sustainable Life and Physical Science Technologies into world-changing businesses.
3. OUR VISION
Terra Prima Partners is a Private Equity firm that helps
entrepreneurs turn breakthroughs in the impact sectors:
into game changing businesses that will change the world.
• Energy • Resource Efficiency
• Water • Life Sciences
• Sustainable Agriculture • Infrastructure
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4. THE OPPORTUNITY
Increasing population and consumption is driving up global demand
for food, energy, water and health solutions
Unprecedented demand and urgency is driving innovation,
investments and breakthroughs. Capital and expertise is needed now
more than ever.
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“It takes 1,000 tons of water
to make one ton of grain and
7 tons of grain to produce one ton of beef.
Population, Calories & Consumption
POPULATION AVERAGE CALORIES PER PERSON FEED GRAIN NEEDED - All Indexed back to 100 in 1970 5
6. Shrinking arable land
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1950
1987
Today
2040
Population in Billions Arable Land in hectares / person
Population Arable land
1950’s 2.5 Billion 0.4 hectares p.p.
Today 7.1 Billion 0.2 hectares p.p.
2040 9.3 Billion ??
30% of the world's arable
land will be unusable by 2020
50% may be unusable by
2050
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7. Water scarcity
1 billion people lack enough water to
simply meet their basic needs.
~ World Health Organization
4,100 kids
will die
TODAY
from
water
related
diseases
We are extracting fresh water at rates up
to 100 x the natural replenishment rate.
Already 1.4 Billion people (20%) live in areas where
the limits of sustainable water use have already been
reached and 80 countries are reporting water shortages
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8. Energy Consumption
1965 2000 2035
Source BP Energy Outlook 2035
Energy consumption by region
• Primary energy demand set to
increase by 41% between 2012
and 2035
• Growth almost exclusively from
emerging markets
• Key sectors will focus on
industrial energy efficiency,
agriculture, transport &
infrastructure optimization
• Renewables, shale gas, tight oil
and other new fuel sources in
aggregate grow at 6.2% p.a. and
contribute 43% of the increment
in energy production to 2035.
Energy technology is a key
investment theme
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9. Infrastructure investment will
Global Population
Growth
7 billion people today growing to >9 billion +
by 2050
Environmental Impact
A focus on replacing dirty generation with
low-emission sources
Urbanization
Urban dwellers account for more than half of
China’s population
Funding Gap
Cumulative global infrastructure spending
2013 – 2030 is est. at $57 trillion
Aging Infrastructure
Average age of government operated
infrastructure in the USA is 25 years
Emerging Markets
China will spend an est. $11 trillion on
infrastructure over the next 20 years
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10. KEYS TO SUCCESS
With offices in New York, Boston & Toronto, associates in Europe, the
Middle East & Asia, our network of thought-leaders and decision-
makers in emerging technologies is unparalleled.
We believe that our access to proprietary intelligence from our
network, COMBINED with our experience in building businesses gives
our portfolio companies a pronounced competitive advantage
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11. Our Advantage
One core mission
4 totally committed partners
100+ years of experience in building
businesses and delivering value
1500+ investments made by this team
100% commitment to our mission
plus the desire to do good, give back
and add value at every step
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12. opportunities, business insights and
global access derived from 100 plus years
of our own entrepreneurial experience
WE WORK WITH THE BEST
OUR CORE MISSION UNITES US
The Terra Prima team strives to build
win-win relationships with our
entrepreneurs by leveraging the
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14. WE SEEK INNOVATION IN THE FOLLOWING:
Nanotechnology (bio and
material),
Clean Water Technology and
Real Assets,
Water Conservation and
Treatment,
Clean Power Technology &
Generation,
Energy Efficient Infrastructure
Distributed Energy Storage,
Renewable Power Services,
Transportation, Materials,
Recycling & Waste,
Next-Generation
Transportation
Sustainable Agricultural
Technology
Health & Life Sciences
TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
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16. THE FOUNDERS
ANRIC BLATT
Co-Chairman
DR. JILL WITTELS
Chief Technology Officer
LAURALOUISE DUFFY
Chief Operating Officer
JOSEPH DUGGAN
Co-Chairman
committed
dedicated
partners
determined to
make a difference
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17. • Focused on fund operations, finance, business management,
compliance, regulation
• Day to day management of corporate entities, banking relationships
• Oversight & management of fund structures, cash management,
NAV’s, Investor reporting & service provider performance
• Focused on evaluation, comparison and stress testing of
technology, engineering & process
• Deal flow, sourcing and developing investment opportunities
• Board representation
ORGANIZATION
• Focused on fund management functions, fund
structuring, portfolio construction,
• Negotiation with service providers, distributors
• Marketing, sales and business development
• Macro & quantitative research
• Investment due diligence
• Focused on investment management process with
portfolio companies
• Coordinating with attorneys, due diligence,
accounting , valuation metrics
• Negotiation of investment structure and closing
documentation
• Developing exit strategies and follow on financing
for portfolio companies
JOSEPH DUGGAN
Co-Chairman
ANRIC BLATT
Co-Chairman
Working with entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, boards and
management to unlock value and create incremental value,
exits and deliver sustainable returns to investors and
partners
DR. JILL WITTELS
Chief Technology Officer
LAURALOUISE DUFFY
Chief Operating Officer
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18. JOE DUGGAN
- Founder & Chairman of The Belair Group of companies
- Kingsdale Capital Corporation
- Counsel Capital Corporation
- CIBC Securities
- Chemical Bank
Proven entrepreneur in financial services
Experienced investor, business builder,
investment banker and team builder
CO-CHAIRMAN
30 year track record in all aspects of
investment banking, including venture
capital, merchant banking, project finance.
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19. ANRIC BLATT
- Founder and Chairman: Global Fund Exchange Group
- Founder, CEO and CIO - Infiniti Capital AG
- Director - Infiniti Capital Partners PLC
- Director - Forsyth Partners
- Regional Director - Kenmar Global Investments
- Portfolio Manager - Horwath Financial
Experienced business builder, fund
manager, macro investor in emerging
markets, commodities, energy, water,
agriculture & scarce resources
CO-CHAIRMAN
20 plus year track record of building asset
management businesses
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20. JILL WITTELS, PHD
- CEO, Sostenuto Strategic Advisors
- Founder & Strategic Advisor, Owl Biomedical
- L-3 Communications
- Innovative Microtechnologies Inc.
- DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Highly acclaimed and regarded
engineer, scientist and business
executive.
BSc & PHD from MIT
Chief Technology Officer
35 year track record of commercializing
technology and building companies
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21. LAURALOUISE DUFFY
- Partner & CEO , Global Fund Exchange
- Director & Co-Portfolio Manager, Earth Wind & Fire
Fund, AquaTerra Fund
- Partner & COO, First New York Securities
- Managing Director, EGS Securities
- Managing Director, Croesus Capital Management
- Partner & COO, Argonaut Capital
Proven background and hands on
experience in numerous fund
management businesses
Chief Operating Officer
23 years operational experience running
operations, due diligence, administration and
compliance of fund management businesses.
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22. MANAGING DIRECTORS
Peter FusaroJohn Wisniewski Robert Ferri
Senior private equity, infrastructure
and energy investment manager
with deep experience in the oil, gas
& power generation sectors.
Experienced in developing and
negotiating energy and
infrastructure deals all over the
world.
18 years of energy industry
experience in the broader
infrastructure space. Previously,
John was a fund manager &
director of Infrastructure
Investments at Arcapita Bank,
Bahrain. Prior to this he worked for
ExxonMobil and has experience in
LNG, pipelines, power generation,
water treatment, district cooling.
Chief strategist for clean energy,
natural gas and water technology
initiatives. He has been involved in
the launch and expansion of some
of the world’s most successful and
game changing technologies of our
time.
Peter is a professor at Columbia
University teaching renewable
energy project development and
finance. He is on the advisory board
of both the University of Michigan’s
Erb Institute for Global Sustainable
Enterprise and Bard College’s MBA
in Sustainability.
He co-founded the Energy Hedge
Fund Center in 2004
Since 1997, Robert Ferri has been
co-founder, director or shareholder-
advisor of two-dozen private
companies and served as strategic
counsel to 75 publicly traded
companies.
He has managed initiatives to
enable approximately 50 significant
public-market transactions.
He frequently assist in the re-
architecting of companies in
transition, whether they are in high-
growth, turnaround or resurgent
stages.
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23. MANAGING DIRECTORS
David MurrinDr Xingxing Liu, PhD Joseph Endoso
Dr Liu has a long and distinguished
career as a professor and
consultant in China and the United
States.
He has been a professor at Beijing
University and the Cadre College of
Central Government and a
consultant at Monitor Company. 10
years ago, he founded Beijing
Wayland Consulting Company.
LiuDr.
Liu is an independent director on
the boards of directors of a publicly-
listed Chinese chemicals company
and a mutual funds company. He is
also an expert member of the
evaluation commission of the
Chinese SEC.
David Murrin has spent the past 25
years in the world of financial
markets. From 1986 to 1993 he
joined JP Morgan’s first European
Prop desk.
In 1993 he founded Apollo Asset
Management, and in 1997 he co-
founded Emergent Asset
Management. As CIO he was
active in the firm's private equity
business, he co-founded Emvest,
Emergent's African land fund and is
an active investor in global
agricultural markets.
David is a highly acclaimed
speaker, commentator and author of
“Breaking the code of History”
Joseph Endoso is the founder of the
RedBridge Group, a boutique firm
specializing in cross-border equity
private placements and M&A/
corporate finance advisory, focused
raising capital and finding strategic
partners in Asia and the Middle East.
Previously, Joe was MD of
Technology Investment Banking and
Global Head, Semiconductors, for
ABN AMRO; MD Technology
Investment Banking — IBJ
Securities; General Partner for IBJ
Strategic Investments; and Senior
Vice President—US Energy, Utilities
& Project Finance, for Fuji Bank
Securities.
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24. MANAGING DIRECTORS
Carl Safina, PhD
Conservation pioneer and MacArthur fellow, Dr. Carl Safina, we show how nature,
community, the economy and prospects for peace are all intertwined. He has a PhD in
ecology from Rutgers University, is the author of six books, and more than a hundred
scientific and popular publications on ecology and oceans, including featured work in
National Geographic and The New York Times.
Dr. Safina co-founded Blue Ocean Institute in 2003. He now works mainly to help highlight
and explain how the ocean is changing and what that means for wildlife and for people.
Safina lectures extensively in the United States and is author of over one hundred
publications.
His books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, Voyage of the Turtle, Nina
Delmar: The Great Whale Rescue, The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an
Unnatural World, and A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout.
His new TV series, Saving the Ocean, premiered on PBS in April 2011. Carl Safina's
conservation work has been profiled in the New York Times, on Nightline, and in the Bill
Moyers television special "Earth on Edge."
He is a recipient of the Pew Scholar's Award in Conservation and the Environment, the
Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal for literature, the National
Academies Communications Award, Chicago's Brookfield Zoo's Rabb Medal, and a
MacArthur Prize.
Carl Safina is an adjunct full professor at SUNY's Stony Brook University (SBU) in the
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. He also teaches in SBU's innovative Center
for Communicating Science as a visiting professor.
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25. ★ Immediate need is to reach $2M of total need of $10M.
★ Seed investors already put in $400k
★ LOI from strategic partner for $1.3M for Series A
★ Two current investors have agreed to additional $450k for Series A
INVESTMENT
Value Proposition: provides small molecule drug manufacturers tools for dramatic cost savings combined with significant time reductions
and higher product quality.
★ Process time reduction from 300 to 43 days.
★ Unit operations reduced from 21 to 13, Excipients reduced from 5 to 2
★ Ratio of input to output reduced from 25-100 to 15
★ COGS (Capex + OpEx) reduced 30%, Footprint reduced 10x.
IP: Core Technology developed at MIT; AAAAA has license for world wide rights except for Novartis.
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
AAAAAA Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
Health/Pharma
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
★ “in-house outsourcing”. Still being socialized.
★ Roadmap to market starts with each customer with a Design Phase:
select the product; lab validation as needed; complete simulation;
proposal to go forward.
★ Next phase is a joint project with the customer to build a non-GMP
unit
★ Final phase is full GMP implementation.
BUSINESSMODELMATURITY
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26. ★ Provides dramatic savings when combined with both old and new technologies for generating cooled air for building environments
★ Units can be retrofitted to existing HVAC systems, or built into new ones
★ Partnered with a major US supplier/manufacturer/installer of HVAC systems
★ Company would be the exclusive provider of the cartridges.
★ Successful demonstration projects in Israel and in Texas
★ US Market for equipment & cartridges in the $1-10B range.
INVESTMENT
Value Proposition: Significantly reduces the cost to cool (and somewhat less so to heat) buildings by cleaning the air of CO2 and VOCs
(volatile organic chemicals) thus eliminating most of the 10-20 air flushes of the building per day. The unit fits into rooftop HVAC
systems, and the filters cartridges are the razor blades.
★ Can reduce electricity costs up to 50%
★ Can substantially eliminate introduction of outside pollution.
★ Failsafe reverts to existing operational mode.
Core Technology developed in Israel, IP from MIT AND DOE, sorbent IP from DOE and USC. Founded 2010
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
BBBBBB, NEWTON, MA
Energy/Building Operations
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
★ $1.4M raised 2011, post money value of $4.1M
★ $0.5 added Feb 2013
★ was seeking $2-3 M Series B.
★ Expected break-even in 2015.
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27. INVESTMENT
Provides significant reduction in costly destructive events on transmission lines; increased ability to manage efficiency (lower cost) use by
end customers
Provide the Electric Power Industry with the information and analysis they are currently lacking to permit:
★ Energy efficiency through improved measurement/management of transmitted/distributed power
★ Network security
★ The information required to react in time to prevent destructive events at substations.
★ Lower capital equipment costs.
Core Technology licensed exclusively from the US Naval Research Lab; continually filing significant IP based on design and application.
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
CCCCCCC, WASHINGTON, DC
Energy/Transmission
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
★ Equipment sales of products include High Voltage EPC (Electrical Phenomena Cluster), GPC
(Geomagnetic Phenomena Cluster), APC (Acoustic/Vibration Cluster), TSC (Temperature/Strain
Cluster), High Performance Microphone/Acoustic Array.
★ High Performance Monitoring [Intelligent Distribution Transformer] (probes+electro-optics+A/D
+base processing) measures temperature, pressure, acoustics, strain, current (via magnetic
field), voltage (via electric field)
★ Data collection and eventual sale
★ Eventual management platform
★ No direct competitors
★ Partnership with Bonneville Power Authority
BUSINESSMODEL
★ Company has significant runway in product expansion in existing market as well as products for
new markets.
★ Delivery contracts expected in 2014; plus additional demo/field trials.
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28. INVESTMENT
Value Proposition :
★ Provides grid managers with meaningful real-time demand side throttle while assisting frequency stabilization; end users realize
cost reductions.
★ Assists especially with management of episodic renewables like wind. IP: Developed in house.
IP: Sophisticated, high speed, real time modeling and forecasting capability to take advantage of electricity demand and pricing
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
DDDDDDD, Boston, MA
Energy/Grid Management
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
Four Revenue Streams
★ Energy arbitrage to deliver low cost power to residential customers
★ Management of their furnaces to decrease total energy use.
★ Grid service agreements for Ancillary Services
★ Agreements with wind producers to use their power for customers when they are shut off from the grid.
BUSINESSMODEL
★ Ran first pilot project winter 2012-2013 in Pennsylvania, which also brought in first revenue
★ Winter of 2013-2014 completed additional pilot projects in
• Maine
• Dublin, Ireland with SSE/Airtricity
• Likely Germany: A Draft agreement for German pilot sponsored by CLENS, Stiebel, and Wuppertal Stadtwerke
★ $0.2M Revenue in FY2013; projecting $1.4M in 2014 ($750k under contract).
★ Raising a bridge now European Strategics are interested once they have the results of the recent pilot projects
★ Once bridge is complete, seeking $4-5M by Q3 2014
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29. INVESTMENT
Value Proposition: Uses cyanobacteria to grow sucrose for manufacture of biofuel ethanol and chemicals cheaper than through
agriculture, without the use of arable land, and recaptures CO2 from the atmosphere. Complements agricultural production with steady,
predicable source.
IP: Both the sucrose production process and the bioreactor for growth are owned by the company
★ Completed lab scale testing, Completed 3 months of greenhouse testing in CA and IL
★ Pilot program in FL: indoor testing with 1meter reactors; outdoor with 5 meter reactor which has been up and running for 3 months.
Over the course of 2014 they will up the output to commercially viable levels, beating surgarcane and corn costs by the end of 2014.
★ Next step is outdoor demo adjacent to sugar mill or other CO2 source.
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
EEEEEE, NJ
Energy/Agriculture/Biofuels
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
★ Work with strategic partners to set up production plants
associated with end use of the product.
★ Finance plants and set product – sugars - in a b-to-b model
Competition:
★ Agricultural waste for ethanol production.
★ Food products for ethanol production.
BUSINESSMODEL
★ $9M raised to date; last close Dec 2012 $10.75M post.
★ $2.5M bridge to Series B with 15% discount, 8% interest was
converted to Series A-2, with post valuation of $13.6M.
★ Raising a new bridge of $2M with 25% warrant and 10% interest
to carry to Series B.
★ $15-20M series B will be raised by year end 2014; Braemar,
Cultivian, Middleland and Battelle all will participate.
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30. INVESTMENT
Value Proposition: Real-time on the road emulsification of water with diesel fuel produces
★ IP: Miniaturized Cavitation Process for fuel/water mixing.. Filed in the US and filing in Europe
★ Improves fuel economy, horsepower, and torque 20% to 30%,
★ While reducing emissions by over 15%.
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
FFFFFFF, Michigan, MI
Transportation/Efficiency
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
★ Sell hardware, starting with fleet operators.
★ Expand to Europe
★ Expand to other diesel road vehicles.
BUSINESSMODEL
★ $3.6M invested since Feb 2012
★ Zurich Bank is providing purchase order financing
★ $800k to extend their seed round. Valuation of $10M.
★ Expects to be profitable in 2014.
★ Likely will need a series A.
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31. INVESTMENT
★ Licensed key technology exclusively for these markets form Swiss pump manufacturer;
★ Filed additional IP for reformulation of standard drug.
★ Value Proposition: Significantly reduces the cost to provide care to patients requiring fluid reduction (first application) and major
antibiotics (second application); drug/device combination using well-established drug and new delivery device.
★ Reduces hospitalization – re-admissions in particular, and associated Medicare penalties.
Company:
Sector/Subsector:
IDEAS
GGGGGGG, Cambridge , MA
Health/Patient Management
IP/BREAKTHROUGH
★ Two-component design is razor/blade model.
★ Same device can load from standard drug vile; safety features included.
★ Distribute and commercialize as pharmaceutical using established wholesalers.
★ 8-10x COGS pricing.
★ FDA agreement for relatively quick approval based on drug level in blood.
BUSINESSMODEL
★ First full devices being produced April 2014.
★ Pump – key device - in production for other application/markets.
★ First product is for Furosemide – 2016 launch.
★ Second product is for Cefriaxone – also 2016 launch.
★ $950k prior to Jan 2014 - seed money all as convertible note.
★ Needed $3M to reach Clinical Stage company in Q2 2014 and $6M to reach Furosemide NDA submission in 1Q2015.
★ Closed on $16M in March 2014 from 5am and Lundbeck Ventures.
★ If not sold by 1Q 15, may need another $10-15M to pass break even.
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32. MACRO to MICRO
We actively seek out investments in ‘must outcome’ sectors / industries essential
to the continuation of human life, like sustainable agriculture, water, energy,
utilities, infrastructure and medical & health related industries.
A disciplined approach will always prevail.
We seek out visionary entrepreneurs and technologies
Focus on emerging technologies that will effect fundamental change
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