Team Wildfire

Jet engine powered wildfire killing machines for wildfire suppression as a service.

Wrote and filed three patents
Hired a great core team
Raised $500K from Tim Draper
Built a working prototype
Partnered with a robotics manufacturer
Garnered national media attention on 2 networks - TMZ, newsy
Negotiated a live-fire testing pilot program with a wildfire agency

Our customer is every governmental agencies charged with suppressing wildfires, anywhere in the word. CalFire would be a prime example.

As you know, wildfires are a rapidly increasing world-wide threat, devastating communities, habitats and business, and there’s currently no effective technology up to the challenge of suppressing them.
I founded Team Wildfire to develop and commercialize technology and tactics to fill this dire need, based on technology I developed as a Hollywood special effects coordinator.
Tim Draper invested in our pre-seed money, ($500,000) with which we built a working prototype that knocks down fire with tremendous speed and great water efficiency.
Team Wildfire holds three patents covering this technology.

Our “Hurricane on Wheels” can deliver retardants to places inaccessible to planes and fire trucks.
Team Wildfire will offer Suppression as a Service to government agencies internationally, a multi billion dollar market opportunity.
The UN forecasts a 30% increase in serious wildfires by 2050. The need for this service is strong and inflexible.
Officials at CalFire, Colorado Fire, FEMA, the National Parks Service and other agencies reviewed our demo, and predict Team Wildfire will be game changing for wildfire suppression. We start pilot trials next month.
Wildfire suppression is currently a $70B market, and growing quickly.

Team Wildfire is building next-gen wildfire suppression technology to meet the challenge of more frequent and more intense wildfires. Our core tech uses jet engines mounted on all-terrain vehicles to directly attack fires, by: removing fuels with 200 mph winds, reducing oxygen high humidity discharge, reducing heat with extreme evaporative cooling, redirecting heat with powerful convective airflow, and snuffing pyrolytic reactions with forcefully driven suppression agents delivered as airborne mist. We intend to offer Suppression as a Service to government agencies charged with fire control.

In a nutshell, everyone in the wildfire space is working on some kind of prediction or detection, working under the false assumption that once fire crews know about a fire, they will be able to suppress it. The reality is that there is currently no significant suppression technology up to the challenge of knocking down mega-fires, every country is desperate for a better solution, and that's the problem we're solving.

Based on the time that it takes to bring wildfires and mega-fires under control, there does not appear to be any effective alternative to our technology. Fire agencies currently use shovels, chainsaws, bulldozers and airplanes to combat fire, with relatively poor effectiveness.

Team Wildfire is building next-gen wildfire suppression technology to meet the challenge of more frequent and more intense wildfires. Our core tech uses jet engines mounted on all-terrain vehicles to directly attack fires, by: removing fuels with 200 mph winds, reducing oxygen high humidity discharge, reducing heat with extreme evaporative cooling, redirecting heat with powerful convective airflow, and snuffing pyrolytic reactions with forcefully driven suppression agents delivered as airborne mist.

Team Wildfire's revenue streams come from: wildfire suppression service, sales of chemistries used in this process, sales of Evacuation Route Hardening services.
Our suppression tech, in its largest iteration costs $1M per vehicle. This is the amount we can expect to receive for each 14 day deployment. This makes Suppression as a Service a very high margin service. We anticipate first deployments within 12 months, and expect 2000 units deployed internationally within 10 years.

Our business model is a subscription to our Suppression as a Service.
Fire agencies pay an annual fee to have our staffed equipment on standby, and a per use fee when the equipment is deployed.

Production facility
3 StormCells (smallest product)
1 CloudBurst (medium)
1 Hurricane (large)
Onboard talent (engineers, marketing, etc.)
Partner / acquire AI / robotics firm
Partner / acquire suppressant source
Additional patents
3rd party testing
Market testing
Deploy revenue producing prototypes

Offering up to 20% of the company for $5M, pro-rated.

In the event that every major country that's emitting greenhouse gasses miraculously stops emitting, and the planet is allowed to cool, wildfires will diminish, and our market would shrink.
There is no longer any doubt that our technology works, but our challenge is getting fire agencies to adopt something new.

I'm enrolling in the LACI incubator in 2023.

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We currently hold three patents. The first covers the use of jet engines coupled to mist injection chambers as a fixed or mobile delivery method for airborne agents. The second covers an oxygen supplementation system that allows combustion engines to operate in diminished ambient oxygen environments, such as in the vicinity of a wildfire. The third covers an inexpensive backpack mounted variant of the technology.
This IP is fully owned by the company.