>> Announcer: Live from Washington D.C. It's Cube Conversations with John Furrier. (upbeat music) Hi everyone, welcome to special on the ground. This is the Cube in Washington D.C. Chain of all the innovations at Peace Tech labs here in the Peace Tech accelerator here with Tania Pinto. Is SEaB Energy one of the startups here with the United States Institute of Peace? Acceleration displacement, you're one of the startups. (Tania chuckles) >> Yes, exactly. >> What do you guys do? >> Hi John, thanks for interviewing me. I'm from SEaB Energy, and we came up with ways to power in a box. Essentially, appliances that are made to tackle climate change. Extract the water content to value of water out of the waste. I don't remember-- >> And turn it into energy? >> Actually, no. The other thing that I was going to say, exactly, it's down the throat. Providing a source of energy, where the infrastructure can't reach. >> So, the Peace Tech accelerator, you're part of, What's that like here? I mean as a startup, you got to get your idea off the ground, it's a venture for good, and some applications for society with it. >> Yes. >> What's it like at the accelerator? >> Definitely. The accelerator is amazing. Lots of great people with great ideas to help us. Kickoff essentially, we are actually about to launch the kickstarter to get into India, and fund two of our systems going to a smart village there. And I'm pretty sure, all the team that is at the Peace Tech accelerator is going to help us in that direction. >> As a startup here in Venture for Good, with the Peace Tech accelerator. What are some of your challenges that you guys have that you're overcoming with the accelerator and how you guys are going to take your venture to the marketplace? >> Well, we are a U.K. based company and the U.S. market is actually our biggest and most important market, so, it's super relevant in the sense that we're being immersed in the market itself in the U.S. It gives us a different perspective on how we can expand to the U.S. So that's very important. >> Listening to the technology involve, I'll say that's seems like there's a lot of cloud there. What are you guys using for technology and how's that helping you? >> Yeah, so, we did all the research and development. We have our systems fit into shipping containers. And, we can remote monitor them, and we collect all the data. So we can, ultimately-- Actually, we are working with the AWS, to come up with the user-interface that is more attractive, so that customers can actually optimize their energy production by playing around with how their handling their own waste. >> So turning waste into energy is kind of taking something that you can turn into good, but also energy. This sounds like a great idea. Where did it come from? How does this all start? >> It's actually a fun story. The CEO and CTO of the company are a couple. They love horses. And, one day they were going to move a pony called ladybird. And, it was England, it was miserable, rainy, dark, and there was a pile of manure on the ground. And, Sandra, the CEO, told Nick, the CTO and the inventor, "How can-- "You need to come up with a way of taking this manure, "and make a light so that I can see what I'm doing "and I'm not stepping on the manure." (John laughs) And that's how the idea came up, actually. Turning poop to energy. (laughs) >> And this is great skill, became very interesting because now the challenge around a greener planet, becomes interesting if you can focus the energy of the technology. How does the technology apply to this? Can you take us through real quick on how it works? >> Essentially, it's a biological process that it's behind. It's a anaerobic digestion and it's a thing that has millions of years, and it's just giving them the right feed stock and they will make the work for us. >> How about the kickstart you mentioned. What's the plans for funding? You guys house an accelerator. How are you going to go to the market and explain how the kickstart will work? What are some of of your plans? >> Okay, so, there's... an idea that came out of UC Berkeley, that's called, Smart villages in India. And, we are one of the partners. We are doing the kickstarter to fund the first two systems that we would like to deploy there. And after we're in the first two villages, our goal is to find local manufacturing, and actually expand to all of these remote places that have no access to energy, and actually also supply the water, of course. >> So, seed the market with a little kickstart, and get in place, prototype it, get up and running, then find partners to scale it out. >> Exactly. That's exactly it. >> Wow, interesting. >> You explain much better. (laughs) >> Well you're in it. So I got to ask you, What have you learned in the accelerator? Any interesting observations that have come out of the work here? >> Yes. It's very interesting to be continuing, practicing, the way we deliver to the customer. I think our technology is a bit complicated to explain, and we tend to get too technical because it's technology. And, being with a group from all different backgrounds, actually helps us clarify and deliver a better, cleaner message. >> Awesome. 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