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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.

July 29, 2022

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Team Cecil

Restoring Nature

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.

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.

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.

May 4, 2022

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Alex Logan

Restoring Nature

3 ways to manage nature-based project stakeholders

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.

Building software to create a new climate category

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.

Cecil website & prototype

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

March 9, 2021

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Alex Logan