Cecil Blog

How to scale your natural asset portfolio with unified data

Knowledge is power, and today’s knowledge is data. But to unlock data’s true power in scaling nature restoration, teams must first figure out how to collect, process, and distribute it. We share some of the data management solutions that can help you scale your nature restoration business.

September 23, 2022

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Team Cecil

Restoring Nature

Closing the funding gap: how nature is financing our future

As more NBS projects are finding appropriate levels of scale, private investors are beginning to take notice and allocate capital towards to these projects. In this post, Cecil Intern Marcus Rehbock explores the historic roadblocks for private investment, rising capital inflows into nature and nature as an emerging asset class.

Lost in spreadsheets: 3 data management challenges faced by teams restoring nature

Managing data to develop quality nature-based projects is no easy feat. Facing a ‘death by a thousand spreadsheets’, teams are cobbling together ad-hoc workarounds using excel, file storage systems and workflow management software to take control of their data. In this blog post, we explore why inefficient data management is holding back quality nature-based project portfolios from scale.

How we design software to restore nature

Cecil’s design process sits at the heart of our business. In this blog post, we share our human-centred, collaborative approach to problem solving and how it’s fuelling a mission to help teams restore nature.

3 ways to manage nature-based project stakeholders

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Nature-based projects work in much the same way. In this post, we explore the importance of effective NBS stakeholder management and why teams restoring nature are using technology to streamline this process.

Hello, Natural World: how tech is unlocking the power of nature-based solutions

In this piece we take a look at the technologies and the start-ups that are ushering in a new era of interaction and understanding between us and the natural world we live in.

July 13, 2022

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Harry Hely-Hutchinson

Restoring Nature

Private finance: a high-quality problem for NbS project developers

A new cohort of private financiers are driving unprecedented demand for high quality nature-based projects. We explore this new reality for the teams restoring nature and the 'high quality 'problems' to be overcome.

June 30, 2022

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Team Cecil

Restoring Nature

How to scale your natural asset portfolio with unified data

8 challenges faced by teams developing carbon projects

Over the last 12 months, we have worked alongside carbon project developers to better understand what stands in the way of their success - here are some of the most common obstacles that we’ve heard along the way.

Blue Carbon: leveraging the power of our coastlines

As the global economy learns more about its impact and dependency on nature, the search for innovative natural climate solutions intensifies. We explore Blue Carbon's role in the climate fight today and why the world’s investors are starting to take notice.

The Natural Capital opportunity

The most important challenge of our time awaits in restoring and expanding natural capital - but what is natural capital?

Introducing Michael Molitor

We’re excited to announce that Michael Molitor will be joining Cecil as a Senior Science Advisor. In this article, Michael shares with us his journey to Cecil - from contributing to the first GHG protocol in the late 90s, to advising global corporate leaders on climate solutions.

We’ve raised US$1.6M in pre-seed funding to become the global natural capital platform

We’re excited to announce the close of our $US 1.6M pre-seed round. This investment, led by Tenacious Ventures with participation from Macdoch Ventures and Global Founders Capital, will allow us to continue our mission to help teams restore and invest in nature.

Behind the scenes at our Q1 Retreat

Eezu Tan, Product Manager at Cecil reflects on our first retreat together as a founding team.

Building software to create a new climate category

We are building in public to share our learnings on the topic of 0 to 1 product building in climate tech. By chronicling our successes and failures we hope to inspire other teams to join in and build solutions for our climate and nature crises.

1,000+ NBS projects on the platform

It's been 4 months since we launched our natural capital platform with 100 projects. We've since grown that number by 10x and are proud to have over 1,000+ projects managed on Cecil.

Platform launch. 100+ NBS projects

We're delighted to announce the soft launch of the Cecil platform! 🚀 After 3.5 months of exploratory interviews, rapid prototypes and late night calls with carbon project developers from Madagascar to Mackay, we've released the first version of Cecil with our customers!

Our shared vision

Teams need to know what change they are going to make in this world. 5 timezones, 2 workshops and 1 giant cup of coffee later, we refined a purpose and set of core values that we all believe in.

Product building - we'll do it live!

The team has been hard at work, laying strong foundations for the future of this product-centric company. We've kicked off our build phase in true 2021 style, with a diverse, global & fully remote engineering and design team.

March 15, 2021

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Alex Logan