EcoTech Visions

EcoTech Visions is a distributive smart manufacturing with an ontime marketplace focused on growing FarmTech, GreenTech, EnergyTech, SpaceTech industry, manufacturing, and marketing innovations. To help create a world where everyone can realize their potential and where businesses produce valuable green products while taking responsibility to protect the community foundations and built, electronic, and natural ecosystems that sustain their businesses and society.

At ETV, we provide co-working space and advanced manufacturing equipment for product entrepreneurs to scale by removing the three largest barriers to market entry:

1.         Eliminate the need to raise funds to cover cost of advanced equipment.

2.         Access to co-shared machinery and Robotic production lines to reduce time, cost and training for entrepreneurs.

3.         As ETV replicates throughout the Southeast and Midwest areas of the United States, our members will decrease their shipping expenses by up to 90% through the use of local manufacturing processes.

at a global scale for the leading brands who make quality green products. Currently our 52,000 square foot headquarters, located in Miami, Florida houses 26 start-up businesses. By 2021 we plan to open 5 new facilities in Southeast and Midwestern America. With each new facility, we will develop conceptual plans that attract public funding to change the infrastructure of the adjoining community such that it will become a more resilient, sustainable, zero waste and zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, diverse, well-educated, just, healthy, productive, and free society capable of successfully responding to the existence of existential threats that will be facing all communities around the globe by the second half of this century.

1. Food produced with net zero GHG emissions: Aeroponics, aquaponics, and recipes for large-scale use in zero waste and zero GHG emission communities

2. Energy:  Solar Power- eclipses and sun aspect angles, kinetic and biomass for zero GHG and zero waste communities

3. Operations Platform Marketplace technology and digital citizens boot-camp: Entertainment, communication, and networking

EcoTech will be attracting companies working on innovation in the above three areas.  We will have the following four labs available for them to ideate innovation:

·              Grow Lab:  Aquaponics, Aeroponics and vertical farming- Kitchen Lab: food innovation

·              Prototyping Lab: Laser Cutter, 3D printer, Sowing Machine, Small Robotics, and other tools and machinery for advanced fabrication and automation technologies

·              Machine Lab:  Energy Innovation, Injection Molding Machine, and Forklift.  (sections for woodwork and welding and sections for companies to have workstations)

·              BioLab:  Biotech wet and dry rooms

·              Healthtech:  data and innovation development

Assistance will be sought from the FIU Robotics and Digital Fabrication Lab (RDF) such that EcoTech Visions can facilitate the training and prototype use of Advanced Robotics and Digital Fabrication technologies.

The vision of EcoTech is to help create a world where everyone can realize their potential and where businesses produce valuable green products while taking responsibility to protect the community foundations and built, electronic, and natural ecosystems that sustain their businesses and society.

EcoTech Visions (ETV) is a vehicle to identify, launch and scale circular economy opportunities and start-up businesses with a goal of using innovation as the means to meet Paris Agreement goals to keep a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.  The best industries for this are FarmTech, GreenTech, EnergyTech and SpaceTech.  We provide the lab space to source and grow start-up businesses focused on the future of food, the consumer product market, and energy applications through: tech processes; IOT; Blockchain; AI; AR/VR ; and, battery innovation.

EcoTech Visions mission is to foster entrepreneurship and serve green manufacturing start-up businesses to ensure they are investment ready.  We equip resource-limited entrepreneurs with tools to successfully plan, launch, market, and grow green manufacturing businesses that create jobs, sustain communities, and provide solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and ensure cleaner energy.  Our programs also aim to harness and build the skills and assets of individuals in low-income so that all communities can break the cycle of poverty and enjoy a sustainable development.

ETV facilities will all be net zero waste and GHG emissions and serve as models for retrofitting circular economy communities.  Zero waste and zero GHG are our expressed facility design and operations. 

 Our programs and trainings facilitate work force and community development through STEAM education for AR, AI, Blockchain, Design, IOT coding and manufacturing techniques.   Our business model of advance manufacturing through AI Robotic supports entrepreneurs in 3 main ways:

1.         Eliminate the need to raise funds to cover cost of equipment.

2.         Access to co-shared machinery and Robotic production lines to reduce time, cost and training for entrepreneurs.

3.         As ETV replicates throughout the Southeast and Midwest areas of the United States, our members will decrease their shipping expenses by up to 90% through the use of local manufacturing processes and regional access to necessary raw materials.

We have built a solution for a green economy marketplace that curates products for consumers and businesses in which we allow them to purchase and experience an on demand platform. We source the data directly from consumers and businesses who use the platform and provide insights on rich sources of data governed by our ECOTECH Protocol that provides AI driven insights through blockchain and real time pattern recognition. We are maintaining the data through immutable records on the Ethereum blockchain to share transparency and provenance in our supply chain from vendor to POS to deliverable good/service pipeline.

AI is a critical part of our data warehouse model.  All equipment will be equipped with AI sensors to insure rapid development and iteration. 

One example of an initiative where ETV led efforts (with Florida International University (FIU), Miami-Dade College, and others) to develop ideas and initial conceptual designs at the 2019 C2 Hackathon and is leading the follow-up efforts with FIU to secure funds for a genre of C2 Games development. We have helped to develop six climate games to be AI enabled, with the goal of addressing climate change through game play induced changes in human behavior and public policy.  These genre of C2 games developers are all to be housed at ETV and will be developed in concert with FIU the University of Maryland.  

To accomplish these goals, we also teach AI and Blockchain code to insure we have developed the human capital to support the scaling of our start ups.

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1. We are growing rapidly thus access to the latest research and the worlds best minds is imperative for our success. Mentorship and challenging our assumptions to import our product are some of the most important reasons for this application to Solve.  

2. ETV is also seeking legitimacy in the marketplace for ourselves and our start-up businesses.  Solve and MIT will assist in this important goal.  

3. Finally as our success increases access to platforms to share the work is critical.  As laid out by many scholars Climate Change, sea level rise, and many other climate change impacts are urgent issues globally as well as in South Florida and many other places in the United States.  When we prove this solution can scale, access to markets through speaking opportunities will be of great value.

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NASA: Tech Transfer

Media Lab: Digital Currency initiative Licensing technology

MIT Fab Lab

Energy department: Solar and renewable tech information

Supply Chain Management:  Advisors and source team members for ETV and our start ups.

Aerospace:  Tech Transfer and program design

Our mission is to develop the facilities at a global scale for the leading brands who make quality green products.  Currently our 52,000 square foot headquarters, located in Miami, Florida houses 26 start-up businesses. By 2020, we plan to open five new facilities in Southeast and Midwestern America. 

Keeping that overarching goal in mind, ETV will strive to achieve the following goals and objectives within the first five years of operation:

·              Broaden and diversify the base of entrepreneurs; this includes introducing career paths in engineering and entrepreneurship.

·              Increase the number of technicians trained and employed in injection molding, solar technology, wind technology, robotics and digital fabrication techniques and technologies. composting and other innovations necessary to grow green manufacturing.

·              Become the first choice for entrepreneurs to start up their manufacturing businesses and for investors looking to investment opportunities in innovative and competitive products.

·              Generate a minimum of 50 living wage-manufacturing jobs in low-income neighborhoods within the investor-ready companies annually.

1.    According to SBA.org there are approximately 600,000 new businesses created each year in the United States.

2.    There are just over 32 million total businesses in the United States. Three-quarters of these businesses have no employees and consist of only the owner.

3.    Of the 5,679,967 businesses categorized in the statistics on the SBA website (as of 2007), approximately 287,654 of them were categorized as "Manufacturing" (approximately 5.06% of total U.S. businesses).  

4.    ETV is currently cash flow positive with one of the three revenue streams in place (i.e., space rental). In 2019, ETV is growing its coworking market share and equipment rental revenue streams which will give us and our investors exponential returns.

The barrier to our success is gate keepers who say they want to support disruptive technology but really are looking for solutions that fit in the pre-exiting boxes they have already defined.  EcoTech is disrupting the supply chain, a topic that is on the news every day now that Covid 19 has exposed the weaknesses in the global system of shipping and logistics.  In October, I heard the CEO of Fedex talking about how supply chain is a 50 trillion dollar industry that most don't understand and those that do are simply redoing the past hoping for a better future.   We are and AI, IOT, Blockchain solution for supply chain.  It is hard for most to get because they want us to be a green solution, real estate solution, human solution or focus on Africa.  Our team is made of futurist and moonshot people who can think big but most of the world including this application process is stuck in boxes and narrow views of innovation.  We don't fit the check boxes which anyone with sense would know is a sign of disruption but let's see how far our application gets this year.

I am from New Orleans and my entire adult life was shaped by Hurricane Katrina. Covid is just Katrina all over for people of African decent.

We keep working.  We are income positive so unlike most ideas we do not need to pander to anyone.  Just like Marc Benioff had a hard time getting people in Silicon Valley to understand Sale Force we know our solution works because was are successfully serving innovators who had no where to go before.  Just last week we received an 18 million dollar PO to make ecofriendly 30 million hand sanitizer bottles that we had to turn down because we lacked the equipment to meet the demand in time.  They went with plastic bottles which means after the pandemic is over we will be back to trying to figure out how to process tons of plastic waste.  Our solution could have prevented this and knowing this just makes us work harder.

Our foundation focuses on Human capital training and our app focuses on Job placement.

5 full time

4 part time

8 contractors

Dr. Pandwe Gibson is a scientist, entrepreneurs and investor. After founding and scaling a network of highly successful urban schools through data and technology in Post Katrina New Orleans, she dove into the business world where she started, led and scaled more than 20 successful companies. Through EcoTech Visions, she guides entrepreneurs to grow smart manufacturing for smart cities through an on demand market place powered by AI, IOT, and Blockchain technology.

Mr Metaxas ETV Cofounder played golf and taught the game professionally for 26 years until 2015. During this time, he has cultivated many long-standing relationships with top members in the fields of Social Entrepreneurship, Finance, Real Estate Development and Venture Capital.

Over the past four years Matt has consulted for many start-ups in a variety of sectors. Primarily AI and SaaS based technologies with a strong suit in capital raising, team building and strategic planning.

Pedram Nimreezi is an expert in computers and martial arts. Pedram’s IT skills are in advanced high availability distributed systems, enterprise software, integration, architecture, web development, and self-regulating autonomous systems.

His passion is in machine learning, computer vision, robotics, control theory, cyber security and physical security. He was one of the designers of the first Hybrid High availability Dedicated/Cloud network infrastructure at Rackspace over 7 years ago and have kept up with the latest advances in the design of secure systems that cannot go down, which offer 99.999999% uptime (considered a world best).

NASA: Tech Transfer

Media Lab: Digital Currency initiative Licensing technology

MIT Fab Lab

US Department of Energy: Solar and renewable tech information

Supply Chain Management:  Advisors and source team members for ETV and our start ups.

Aerospace:  Tech Transfer and program design

We have four revenue streams:

Platforms as a Service currently deployed with potential for additional profit as we scale.

 space rental, coworking & event rental, 

 equipment rental: Smart Manufacturing Labs.  

We also invest in exchange for equity in some of the start ups we house while will generate future exists for our investors and the data that comes from the supply chain though Ideations, production and delivery.

We house 26 start-ups-- All circular economy opportunities. One Example:  Earthware is a compostable cutlery product.  Our resin is being developed from waste stock of sugar, corn and potato to complete the supply chain as we expand.  In America, we currently discard over 50% of our yield due to blemishing or frostbite. In Florida, this waste stock has been linked directly to red-tide which killing millions of fish annually and pollutes our fresh drinking water. 

Instead of allowing waste stock to threaten the environment, Earthware is using this crop waste in a manufacturing process where it becomes a green consumer cutlery product. These products once produced and used-- degrade in 90-100 days unlike plastic disposable products that take between 200-300 years to degrade, if at all. This solution and lab has endless applications and benefit to the world; however, it can only exist due to our business model of co-sharing equipment-- similar to the co-work models. The introduction of technology to network locations allows the entrepreneurs who use our space to secure business-to-business contracts at a 20-30% cost saving to insure market saturation. Just as the cost of renewable energy has decreased over the past decade, at scale our model will insure locally sourced product hit and saturate the market.  Consumers want better green products that are regionally sourced and locally available.  ETV provides a streamlined framework for manufacturing of such products that are to locally access within the context of high quality walkable communities (a better circular recycle-to-market process).

As an MIT alum my advise has told me I should apply again and it is a great network of resources.

We need to raise money and grow our team so we can serve more people.

Tesla

Sales force

Of our current 26 start-up businesses, 57% are women founded. Our lead engineer is a woman. I am the ETV founder and I am a woman. In our growth plans, the lead for Dallas and Chicago are both women.  Best practice demands we promote who is best for the job and as a woman myself I have had the privilege of meeting and working with some amazing women.  Women and girls need access to technical training and access to engineers and role models. ETV provided both those solutions. Whether it is through our programs which cohort have focused specifically on recruiting women and girls to founders serving and role models ETV believes and #BlackGirlMagic and #womenrock.

ETV facilities will all be net zero waste and GHG emissions and serve as models for retrofitting circular economy communities.  Zero waste and zero GHG are our expressed facility design and operations. 

 Our programs and trainings facilitate work force and community development through STEAM education for AR, AI, Blockchain, Design, IOT coding and manufacturing techniques.   Our business model of advance manufacturing through AI Robotic supports entrepreneurs in 3 main ways:

1.         Eliminate the need to raise funds to cover cost of equipment.

2.         Access to co-shared machinery and Robotic production lines to reduce time, cost and training for entrepreneurs.

3.         As ETV replicates throughout the Southeast and Midwest areas of the United States, our members will decrease their shipping expenses by up to 90% through the use of local manufacturing processes and regional access to necessary raw materials.

We have built a solution for a green economy marketplace that curates products for consumers and businesses in which we allow them to purchase and experience an on demand platform. We source the data directly from consumers and businesses who use the platform and provide insights on rich sources of data governed by our ECOTECH Protocol that provides AI driven insights through blockchain and real time pattern recognition. We are maintaining the data through immutable records on the Ethereum blockchain to share transparency and provenance in our supply chain from vendor to POS to deliverable good/service pipeline.