SMART ECOLOGIESBUILDING A TRULY SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY IN AN ERA OF GREAT COMPLEXITY
2016 // 2017
Smart Ecologies is a framework + platform which provides stable alternatives to evolving
business & economic systems.
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
Smart Ecologies /// core model (investable vehicle)
land restoration + development
applied & emerging innovation
regenerative asset creation
hub-and- spoke
zero footprint
renewable materials
intentional communities food water tech edu skills jobs vocations governance
traditional investment structures hybrid investment structures proactive investment structures
advanced vetting rapid capitalization stakeholder design
advanced processing rapid deployment
community design
advanced training adaptive learning
iterative design
risk mitigation asset strengthening market (co)creationa non-linear, interdependent set of methods + attributes:
data
insights
media
awareness
needs operations
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
Smart Ecologies /// regenerative investment tiers
TIER 1
TIER 2
TIER 3
real estate + land development
regenerative asset creation + I.P.
licensing & shared asset pools
collateralized debt mini-perms equity prefs clawbacks
convertibles equity prefs clawbacks
buyouts bond vehicles
cryptoequities cryptocurrencies
elastic bonds co-licensing
fairshare notes asset transfers
“SAFE”
“FUN”
“ADVENTUROUS”
ASSET THRESHOLDS
managed growth
horizontal scale
debt & capital offsetting
asset & market reinvestment
(cap-outs)
“The most effective means of local self-determination would be a well-developed
local economy based upon the use and protection of local resources, including
local human intelligence and skills. Local resources have little local value when they are industrially produced or extracted and
shipped out. They become far more valuable when they are developed,
produced, processed, and marketed by, and first of all to, the local people - when, that is, they support, and are supported by a local economy. And here we realize that a local economy, supplying local needs so
far as possible from local fields and woodlands, is necessarily diverse.”
- Wendell Berry
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
INDUSTRIAL ERA ENTERPRISE ERA PLATFORM ERA
cost per transaction + rate of scale
volume of transactions + value creation
(tangible asset threshold)
(technology inflection point)
the economy of the last 300 years at a glance…
(RESTART)
(debt-based inverse yield)
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
the economy of the last 300 years at a glance…
AXIOMS:
1. scale & growth today are no longer achieved ‘vertically’ due to thresholds in asset classes tied to extreme natural & human resource extraction that is non-regenerative
2. while corporations may sit on piles of cash, they cannot continue to profit at sustainable margins without reinvestment back into local ecologies, thereby (re)generating resources
3. when resources are (re)generated, new skills are created, new job or vocations developed, and new infrastructure in the form of food, water, energy, ideas and education is developed at horizontal scale
an unprecedented opportunity to activate ‘the big middle’
U.S. based ‘unicorns’ with billion-dollar valuations; aggregate market cap of roughly $650bb. approximately 1000
new tech jobs created every year
84
45,508 publiccompanies
147 that control everything
average half-life:
18 years
212mm-1.5bb unemployed or underemployed
people in the western world
65mm
registered small businesses in western markets undercapitalized & poorly operated
$105tt-$140tt untapped global market cap!
the middle market is an enormous investment opportunity for humanity…
(few are making big moves here…)
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
design practices must be reoriented to accommodate ‘the big middle’
HUMAN
product
service
PLATFORMecology
economy
cultural needs higher purpose
market needs higher utility
sustained solutions
informed participation
WHOLE ECOSYSTEM DESIGN
enriched experience(s)
enriched experience(s)
adaptive learning
practical application
geolocal context
asset scenarios
economic + ecological scenarios can’t just be tested
cognitively, they must be experienced (like reality) and
understood emotionally, physically, spiritually and
transactionally by each and every participant.
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (initiatives)
“FLORIDA MIXED USE PROJECT”
The South Florida project is a 52-acre, $127m true mixed use, zero footprint and renewable energy development that will house a sports team, a full recreational facility, a science wing, a technology wing, as well as vertical
farming and renewable technology components that are all on-site. The project is being developed alongside Palm Beach County’s poorest neighborhoods, with one of the highest unemployment rates in the entire state and country. The plan is to enlist the local community through unique on-boarding processes (via intricate experience design),
co-develop applied agricultural & emerging technology skills, co-design open curricula, and create new jobs. Cisco, Schneider, Siemens & Google have already agreed to be tenants & integrated partners, and will be building
their own presence to test products actively with a number of local segments and cross-county cohorts. A blockchain-based trust and reputation system is being designed to manage, share and build upon active datasets.
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
“GLOBAL INCUBATOR (SHIFT)”
SHIFT will own & occupy 40k-50k sq. ft. spaces in the select areas around the world that bring complementary stakeholders, SMEs and early stage
companies (startups) together under one roof to operate an ‘innovation lab
environment’. Human, environmental & financial resources will be synthesized
in order to build up the market ecosystem. New ideas, business
models & ecological frameworks will be tested & shared. A new, market-
driven educational system will emerge. SMEs and other larger organizations
will invest in early stage ventures directly, without the encumbrances of
a fund of an LP structure.
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (initiatives)
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
“INTEGRAL AGRICULTURE”
Matching intentional communities with agricultural pioneers, holistic bioscientists as well as emerging technologists, this initiative is designed to bring the ultimate security & trust to food production & redistribution. Various forms of data + research bundling are being
developed to improve adaptive processes, and inform more rigid scientific methods. Multiple land restoration sites are being vetted for this specific implementation.
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (initiatives)
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
“GREENHAUS”
Greenhaus is Colorado’s largest privately funded cannabis & vertical farming development, located in Commerce City, just 40 minutes outside of Denver. Recognizing the frenzy around cannabis sales (reaching $1b this year in the state alone), Greenhaus endeavors to focus on regenerative uses of the plant, the soil, the water and lighting configurations to maximize energy use in a zero footprint capacity. Four 50 sq. foot allotments will provide turnkey capability to grow, extract and regenerate products, alongside of 21 on-site dispensaries that are outfitted with grow and technology infrastructures such that entrepreneurs who lease the spaces will be enabled to transact and redistribute to local partners seamlessly. Greenhouse is being funded for a total of $35m plus, with roughly an 80/20 debt-to-equity split.
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (initiatives)
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
“CORPORATE SELF-MASTERY”
Borrowing upon years of corporate and civic innovation experience, the self-mastery initiative focuses on the inner work that is required to help stakeholders embody the kind of power and endurance that
is necessary to surface and action transformative ideas. Exile is using its STAND :: FOCUS :: CONFRONT :: EVOLVE approach (part of its Adaptive Leadership toolkit) to train people to not only
take on uncertainty in daily ritual and decision-making, but the ability to stand behind what they see as possible, such that ecology-driven, breakthrough innovations occur. The initiative is currently being implemented with several Fortune 100 companies, with the intention and implicit understanding that
these companies will be able to partner in local Smart Ecology projects in the near future.
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (initiatives)
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
“INFOCOLOGY PLATFORM”
As can be seen throughout social and digital media realms,
information quality is being challenged on all fronts.
Journalism in particular has been dying a fairly quick death.
Our infocological approach involves a new participatory
framework for sourcing, creating and sharing information with a
variety of contextual formats and ways to develop interaction models that actually allow
multiple participants to monetize their contributions. We see this effort as the linchpin in not only
allowing communities to converge around great ideas,
but to action their thinking through critical discourse.
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (initiatives)
6 primary initiatives
3 active land developments
8 new developments being vetted
12 new emerging technologies
36 new emerging public & private
processes
$162m of capital activated in the last 9 months
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
Smart Ecologies /// primary platform partners (co-development)
rapid co-production + blockchain innovation
experience design + rapid prototyping
intentional communities + regenerative wealth
participatory media + content communities
real estate finance + boutique banking
social innovation + participatory education
alternative energy + land development
corporate ecological curricula
REQUIREMENTS + COMMITMENTS:
inclusion integration
trust reputation
productivity imagination
goodwill
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (the what)
place
system
ecosystem
institutions
accelerators
edge funds
WHOLE ECOLOGY
educators
communities
companiesbanks
regulators legislators
incubators
social innovators
private investors
entrepreneurs
REGENERATIVE
RESTORATIVE
ASYMMETRIC
evolutionary joint-venture development for ecological innovation
Smart Ecologies /// a regenerative economic platform (the what)
= direct network
= extended network
Exile & its holding company (Exile Holdings) provides merchant banking & related services for transformative
companies, new ventures & emerging markets.
we focus on ecological innovation across the food, education, wellness, money, tech, media and energy domains. this a global marketplace with approximately $123t in untapped market capitalization.
we are cross-disciplinarians, with deep expertise in technology (SaaS, PaaS, data, analytics, NLP, social media, ad tech), business + industry innovation & advanced leadership practices.
we’ve been hands on in over 70 startups, built companies & platforms across 15 industries, worked in senior-level capacities with or for several multinationals, and have experienced an array of transformative moments in living and working around the globe.
the main thing we’ve learned?
develop the human being + understand real market behaviors & the rest will follow.
an evolutionary venture development group
http://exileleadership.com/
Gunther Sonnenfeld [email protected]
310.403.5498 (Palm Beach, Florida)
Andrew Markell [email protected]
503.380.0343 (Portland, Oregon)
CONTACT
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