This is for everyone in the group who ever wants to reply, but if you could share
a little bit of your insights into what you're looking to deploy into and why, or
if you're looking for deal flow, feel free to share what specific types of deals
you're looking for, or if you're looking for a service provider, please feel free to
share that as well. I'm sure lots of people in the group would like to know.
- Yeah, I can start. Yeah, for us, you know, no pun intended, our sandbox is pretty
small. We do business in the state of Hawaii. So we're real focused on business and
commercial services, especially anything involving hospitality or construction or
anything. Hawaii has a real aging infrastructure, so anything we can do to take
advantage of that. Thank you. Yeah, so we invest globally anywhere that you have
exposure to reducing pollution in some facets. So some of our key areas, we invest
in green shipping, for instance, and decarbonizing the maritime industry. We invest in
ocean data products and software. We have satellite companies as well. We do
alternatives to plastic circular economy, how we're keeping the plastic out of the
ocean, how do we make stuff that isn't impactful for thousands of years when we use
it for minutes. And we invest in a bunch of different kinds of pollution, reducing
technologies around aquaculture and sustainable fisheries. So fastest growing form of
animal protein is aquaculture. How can we make it more sustainable though? It has
some reputational risk. It definitely needs some support there. So yeah, happy to get
into a few of the the specific companies. We do have one that do want to mention
called Ho Honu here in Honolulu as well doing flood risk monitoring. So I'm going
to be visiting with them tomorrow. If anybody wants to come along happy to have
lunch with them as well. But yeah, we're looking for deal flow in that space. We
run accelerator and then the investments arm as well 100 to 250k checks into these
companies And we've done 70 investments into 44 companies So the applications on our
website and happy to get a deal from from you guys as well the company that you're
checking out tomorrow Are you vetting? What's the focus of that? Yeah, we invested
in them already Otherwise, I probably won't promote them. I guess I'm just kidding.
Ho Ho news great And as you know flood risk is a huge impactful thing.
You've seen four, one in a thousand year floods happen within the last week. A lot
of you have exposure to real estate and infrastructure around the world investments,
okay? Do a lot of you know the environmental risks to those investments? And that's
what Ho Hoan is doing for entire city governments, entire counties in Florida and
Texas. They have hundreds of sensors that they put around around the world on
coastlines and in flood planes, and they can monitor the flood risk for you in
specific detail. They can also tell you the tides in specific detail if you're a
surfer, data nerd, et cetera, right? And then they use that data and they sell that
to governments and these B to G recurring revenue sources. So the ocean data side
is a huge part of the investment place. It's pretty resource -light as well. A lot
of what we do is hardware, but it's low -cost sensors and then they get these big
contracts. So, yeah, coastal flood risk monitoring is a big deal.
And Ho Ho Nu is one of the cool players in the space. - Got it, thanks Matt. So,
we love investing, that's it. Early stage investment and we love co -investing with
other people. If anybody else is looking to invest, we invest all over the world
and we just look for warriors. For us, everything is about the current venture
model. For a long time has all been about bias and bias towards where somebody went
to school or who somebody knows or who their mommy and daddy knows or if they've
got somebody who's in Andreessen, maybe they can give them like a unicorn for their
birthday. And so for us, we wanted to turn that on its head and see if we could
actually turn the bias towards the customer and bring things back to how they used
to be, which is where customers adore product and want to drive through with
founders who are incredible executors who spend every single minute of the day
adoring their customers. We find those fenders, we'll go to work with them. When I
say we buy cheap, you don't get that for free. We bring in all of our growth
actors, so anyone who is a fender, loves fenders, loves investing or early -stage
investing, we want to partner with. Thank you. We just focus on digital assets and
the next generation of financial investing, so that's our focus. And then we wait
for the companies to rise to the top. There's tens of thousands, literally, that
have ICOed over the last five years, and so we don't even start getting interested
until they get into the top 100 of the market capitalization. Thank you.