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

3 ways to manage nature-based project stakeholders

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

Why workflow management can scale nature-based solutions

As existing environmental markets evolve and new nature markets emerge, teams restoring nature are finding new strategies to get ahead. We explore how workflow management systems can help teams scale portfolios of high quality nature-based projects.

There has never been a better time to restore nature

The shift towards nature-positive investments, policies and practices are creating compelling new opportunities for the teams restoring nature.

The dawn of nature-based reporting

Central Banks and major financial regulators are putting pressure on global corporations to disclose climate and nature-related risks. We explore this new era of corporate risk disclosure and the exciting opportunities it will provide for teams restoring nature.

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.

Cecil website & prototype

We created a new website & prototype in 7 days! Check it out.

Early milestones

If you find something that you want to change in the world, you are left with two options. 1. Tell anyone that will listen about the change you are going to make. 2. Stop talking and begin. We chose the latter.

Our purpose

We share more on why we came together to found Cecil, what we want to change and why this work matters to us.

Genesis story

After 12 months of dreaming, searching, learning, listening and collaborating Alex and Rory decided to make the leap.

January 14, 2021

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Alex Logan & Rory Oxenham

Cecil Stories

What's in a name?

We're told there is a rigorous process behind naming businesses. But when it came to naming this Cecil, we decided to follow our intuition.

December 28, 2020

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Alex Logan & Rory Oxenham

Cecil Stories

Our value proposition

Having spent the last 4 weeks understanding the problem space, the team switched gears this week towards developing a solution for our target customer.

December 15, 2020

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Rory Oxenham