aCROSS

created by [email protected]

Key Partners

  • Google
  • JPL
  • Space agencies
  • Research agencies
  • GTNexus
  • Apple
  • Tizen
  • Nvidia
  • Research universities
  • Conferences

Google

Tango

JPL

Space agencies

NASA, CSA, ESA, NASDA...

Research agencies

Nviso, Pebbles interfaces, LemOptix, LS Research ((laser direct structuring) antenna units to IMA (in-mold antenna), Cassidian, Microsoft Research

GTNexus

Apple

Tizen

Nvidia

Research universities

Purdue, Otago, Canterbury, Massey, Sydney, Victoria, MIT, Caltech...

Conferences

OZCHI (Adelaide 2013), CHINZ (Christchurch 2013), Sensors Applications Symposium (Queenstown 2014), Mobile World Congress and 4YFN (Barcelona 2014), Reno Air Races, Burning Man...

Key Activities

  • Improving peoples lives
  • Kickstarter and research
  • Saving peoples lives
  • Prototyping and protecting IP
  • Licensing
  • Attracting A+ players

Improving peoples lives

Removing menial tasks (moving cargo, skydive launch)

Kickstarter and research

Conferences, Universities, Research agencies and Market Validation

Saving peoples lives

Medical rehabilitation, life saving smart vehicles (ventilation, defibrilation, firefighting)

Prototyping and protecting IP

Outside the box innovation

Licensing

To shareholders and those outside the business...

Attracting A+ players

Retain and grow the brain trust and co-operative shareholding

Value Proposition

  • Unique and valuable
  • Saving peoples lives
  • Automation
  • Innovation
  • IP
  • Faster, smaller, and more reliable
  • Bundles of products that deliver value
  • UAVs
  • Simulation platform
  • HUD
  • Parachute drop platform
  • 3d instagram blinkfeed
  • Eye tracking natural user interface
  • Entertainment
  • Incredible design

Unique and valuable

Saving peoples lives

Automation

Farm, space, cargo

Innovation

For the shareholders, as a co-operative. We can build it faster together.

IP

Eye tracking, navigation, flight control, simulation, materials, gesture...

Faster, smaller, and more reliable

Bundles of products that deliver value

UAVs

Hexacopter, Martin Jetpack, and into space: Cargo platforms, Remote sensing platforms, Projected AR platforms, aFROS (from programmable fire extinquisher to R2D2...)

Simulation platform

Martin Aircraft Company

HUD

Sunny Optical, others...

Parachute drop platform

Martin Aircraft Company

3d instagram blinkfeed

Capture footage from vehicles, and customise presentation

Eye tracking natural user interface

Whether for 'window' shopping, vehicle automation...

Entertainment

Games for Martin Aircraft Company, others, do in 3d before doing in the RealWorld

Incredible design

Axial flow gyro, antennae (IMA), fireproof battery (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Office of Naval Research).

Customer Relationships

  • Type of relationship
  • Co-operative company structure
  • Glenn Martin - Martin Aircraft Company
  • Eric Matson - Purdue University
  • Abbott laboratories
  • GTNexus, Nvidia Mobile

Type of relationship

Co-operative company structure

Protect, grow, the brain trust. Create value for shareholders.

Glenn Martin - Martin Aircraft Company

Simulation and entertainment platform.

Eric Matson - Purdue University

Sales channel for fire fighting robots in North America.

Abbott laboratories

Prosthesis trainers

GTNexus, Nvidia Mobile

Eye tracking graphical user interface

Customer Segments

  • Simple users and paying customers
  • Aerospace firms
  • Hardware manufacturers
  • Retailers
  • Media and content providers
  • Multisegment
  • Smartphone companies
  • Advertising agencies

Simple users and paying customers

For who do we create value

Aerospace firms

Civilian and military

Hardware manufacturers

Camera, graphics, networking...

Retailers

Those selling through smartphones using eye tracking or 3d imaging

Media and content providers

Linking print to digital media

Multisegment

3d instagram blinkfeed and cloud social products using m8+, and tango+

Smartphone companies

And those delivering platforms: iOS, Android, Tizen...

Advertising agencies

Those that will use the products in campaigns for multiple customers

Key Resources

  • People, people, people
  • Eric Matson and Eric Matson's network
  • Timothy Llewelynn and Timothy Llewelynn's network
  • JP Lewis and JP Lewis' network
  • UAVs
  • Max and Max's network
  • Holger Regenbrecht and Holger Regenbrecht's network
  • Martin Aircraft Company
  • Guil Magalhaes and Guil Magalhaes network
  • Face meshing and eye tracking IP
  • Smart phones (m8+, tango+)
  • Vuforia and smart terrain
  • Gaikai and gaming anywhere
  • Amazon EC2
  • VUW ubergrid
  • VMX, others...
  • Sales and Marketting

People, people, people

A+ players, too many to mention here.

Eric Matson and Eric Matson's network

Timothy Llewelynn and Timothy Llewelynn's network

JP Lewis and JP Lewis' network

UAVs

Hexacopter, various others...

Max and Max's network

Holger Regenbrecht and Holger Regenbrecht's network

Martin Aircraft Company

Peter Coker

Guil Magalhaes and Guil Magalhaes network

Face meshing and eye tracking IP

Whether from Nviso, JP Lewis, Tango or custom development

Smart phones (m8+, tango+)

Make for smart vehicles

Vuforia and smart terrain

Gaikai and gaming anywhere

Amazon EC2

VUW ubergrid

VMX, others...

To acquire...

Sales and Marketting

Andrew Fairfax and Barry Stott

Channels

  • Touch points
  • Martin Aircraft Company
  • Conferences
  • Google
  • Kickstarter
  • Vuforia
  • SGI
  • Key resources

Touch points

Martin Aircraft Company

IPO

Conferences

OZCHI (Sydney 2014), CHINZ (Wellington 2014), Sensors Applications Symposium (Croatia 2014), with Eric Matson (New Zealand, 2014), Mobile World Congress and 4YFN (Barcelona 2014), Reno Air Races, Burning Man...

Google

Project Tango

Kickstarter

RealWorld, aFROS...

Vuforia

Featured developer

SGI

Successor Generation Intiative

Key resources

Personal networks

Cost Structure

  • Air travel
  • Conference admission
  • Internet and rental premises
  • Legal and IP

Air travel

Cost of fuel, or tickets

Conference admission

Unless publishing

Internet and rental premises

50 Brendan Beach, Pukerua Bay, Wellington

Legal and IP

Formation of co-operative, annual audit, and protection and transfer of IP and shareholdings between transacting parties.

Revenue Streams

  • Who and how?
  • Martin Aircraft Company
  • Kickstarter
  • Grants and scholarships
  • Shareholder divestment as an alternative to acqui-hire
  • Entertainment
  • GTNexus, Nvidia Mobile, Microsoft Research, Google, JPL, Dragonx...
  • Saatchi and Saatchi
  • Brokering HR
  • Defense

Who and how?

Martin Aircraft Company

Shareholding, contract or IPO

Kickstarter

Pledges

Grants and scholarships

Shareholder divestment as an alternative to acqui-hire

Entertainment

Games, and 3d instagram blinkfeed

GTNexus, Nvidia Mobile, Microsoft Research, Google, JPL, Dragonx...

Eye tracking natural user interface, UAV's, sensors and algorithms

Saatchi and Saatchi

Advertising and product revenues: Games, 3d instagram blinkfeed, prosthesis trainer, UAVs, sensors and algorithms

Brokering HR

Glass door

Defense

Secure document management using HCAR

Brainstorming Space