$0T
annual cost of food loss & waste to the global economy
SEED 2026
CONFIDENTIAL · INVESTOR MATERIAL
IHT Is the Biological & Data Infrastructure Layer for a Zero-Waste, CO₂e Compliant AgriFood Economy.
We deploy Bugs4Rent™Insect Biodigesters on-site at farms, greenhouses & food processors — turning their organic waste into insect protein, Frassilizer™ and verified data that regulators in 28+ countries now demand from every food company.
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countries with mandatory climate & waste diversion & GHG reporting laws
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NA agri-food exports to the EU at risk of losing market access by 2028
One Unit. Three Outputs. Zero Disruption.
Organic waste rolls in every 10 days. Insect protein, Frassilizer™ and verified data roll out.
ORGANIC WASTE IN
Farms, greenhouses & food processors save on transportation cost by dropping organic waste into an on-site managed unit
Bugs4Rent™
BSFL convert organic waste inside an IoT-monitored biodigester — 10-day cycles, no change to the site's operations
INSECT PROTEIN + FRASSILIZER™
Sold into petfood, feed & agri markets — offtake signed
VERIFIED DATA
Auditable, traceable & verified carbon & waste records — the high-margin product
- TRL-8 · field-proven across 50+ production cycles
- Patent filed · US 63/773,694 and PCT completed
- 50+ production cycles · 20+ waste streams
- 95% CO₂e avoidance, verified in an independent 2025 life-cycle assessment (LCA) by the Centre for Climate Change Management
Market Access & Compliance Drives Adoption
Global CPGs must prove Scope 3 & reporting compliance — so they push it down the supply chain. Data4Compliance generates verified, site-level carbon and waste-diversion records as a by-product of a paid organic-waste service.
CPGs, Food Majors & Retailers
CSRD, Scope 3 & market-access mandates — sustainability officers must show verified supplier data
mandates flow down
Farms, Greenhouses, Processors & Packagers
Our sites: they cut waste-management cost by 40-50% and inherit compliance without changing operations
data flows up
Data4Compliance — IHT's Compliance-as-a-Service Offering, in a Box
First to generate verified, site-level carbon and waste-diversion records as a by-product of a paid organic-waste service
Why They Can't Wait
2028
EU deadline: NA exporters must show full waste-diversion, GHG & audit compliance to keep market access
$19B
of NA agri-food exports to the EU at risk without verified & auditable data
9M+
EU farms & 289K processors caught in the same wave — the record gets built once. We're building it.
Strong Unit Economics.
Low-margin hardware seeds the network. High-margin compliance data is the product it unlocks.
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unit CAPEX
$0.0K
blended monthly revenue per unit
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gross margin
<12 mo
unit payback
Traction & Validation
- $70K revenue from 2 paying pilots — OGVG Greenhouse Growers Association (170+ members) & Bench Brewing (B-Corp and Member of Ontario Brewers Association +100 members)
- Protein offtake signed: 4,500 lb shipping now, scaling to 20,000 lb by year-end (10 units output)
- ChangeAg distribution deal — Bugs4Feed™already on farm & pet store shelves
- $550K pre-seed (GSA Ventures, Blue Ocean Angels, Firehood, Advanceo Capital, Espera Ventures) + $440K non-dilutive
- Manufacturing partner secured · 3 supplier LOIs · 3 offtake agreements signed
- Existing investors positioned to follow on in this round
$3M SEED
Four Concurrent Workstreams, Not Sequential Stages
Every dollar deploys revenue-generating, data-capturing infrastructure — in parallel from day one.
MONTH 0 → MONTH 18
Build · 30%
Niagara processing hub & ops infrastructure
Deploy & Hire · 55%
32 Bugs4Rent™units across 7 sites · 13 hires: 5 ops & engineering, 4 sales & customer success, 4 data & compliance
Data & Certify · 15%
Compliance data platform · carbon certification
WHAT $3M BUYS
7 paying waste-service customers · compliance-data buyer live & certified · 50% waste customers converted to data customer · a Series A-ready dataset no competitor can replicate
Luis Ortiz, CEO
Tamara Lockwood, CSO
Sandro Jimenez, CTO
luis@iht.ecowww.iht.eco