The pilot phase of SocioEnviro’s business operations – 6 months starting from March, 2010 - is now almost completely funded. Our investors have expressed satisfaction at the progress made by SocioEnviro in its short lifespan so far. There is an air of excitement and expectation as the launch approaches. We are scouting for investors for the next round of funding for the scale-up phase and are in advanced stages of discussion with a number of them.
Willem Klaassen, Bram Klaassen and Lucas Colleye participated on a uniqueTuktuk race battle through India and Nepal to support different charities. Although this is a different Tuktuk race than the Hybrid Tuktuk race… this three friends got the support of Enviu! They spread the word of our project and they collect funds for our support!
The three were competing against 60 other teams. The goal of this race is to travel from the southwest of India to the Himalaya in Nepal in twelve days. On the 25th of September they had reached their goal. During their journey the met a lot of people and see the most strangest things like all sorts of animals crossing the road. After all, it sunds like a fantastic experience!
Read more about their adventures on:
www.tinyurl.com/canned-dutch-this
Now the battle is over, the Battle Teams as well as Enviu and its partners will focus on the next phase. The aim of this phase is to have final demonstration models of the technologies, as well as a clear strategy on how to involve them into a social enterprise. Many plans and ideas are there that have to be funneled, checked and tested before a final business plan can be presented to the world. Most participating universities will be working towards a second model for an upgrade system which brings us another step closer to cleaner auto rickshaws. It is expected that the upcoming months we all will retreat and work on the final structure. Our aim is to have a clear strategy early 2010. A new website, focused on the new enterprise, is expected to be launched within a few months. We will keep you posted through our newsletters and hope to amaze you again within half a year when the Hybrid Auto Rickshaw Project comes back with social bang!!Thank you all for your interest and faith. You can contact Ramesh Prabhu (Ramesh@enviu.org) to ask for, drop or offer information. Together we can make this happen!
