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The ask
Back the machinery, not one of its outputs
CEMI.ai group round · US$750,000 · September 2026 · cemi.ai/investors
Money into an initiative funds that company's plan. Money into CEMI.ai funds the platform, the labs and the pipeline that every one of those companies runs on.
1. Round terms
CEMI.ai · group level
| Level | Group — the shared platform beneath the portfolio |
| Stage | Operating; the portfolio is built and live, commercialization is under way initiative by initiative |
| Round size | US$750,000 |
| Instrument | Priced equity in CEMI.ai, the group entity that holds the initiatives. No SAFE, no convertible note, no valuation cap |
| Pre-money / post-money | US$3,750,000 / US$4,500,000 |
| What the round buys | 16.7% of CEMI.ai |
| Runway | 24 months |
| Minimum ticket | Not set |
| Close | Open. No close date is set |
| Contact | invest@cemi.ai |
Commercialization is the group's weakest point. This round funds a shared commercial engine that works for every initiative at once, rather than asking each of them to build one alone.
The terms live in one file — public/investors/round.json — and every figure on this page renders from it, never retyped. The fields that are still empty there are empty because nothing has been decided about them: the minimum ticket, the ticket tiers, the close window and the exit paths. This page says so rather than filling them with a plausible number.
2. Valuation
US$3,750,000 pre-money, US$4,500,000 post-money. It is CEMI's own estimate and an opening position, not a market multiple: no comparable is cited on this page, so none is claimed. It is the house convention every CEMI round uses — pre-money five times the ask, post-money six times it, the full round 16.7% — applied at group level.
Why not lower. Group equity carries CEMI.ai's holdings in every initiative as well as the platform beneath them. The initiatives raising today publish their own rounds and their own valuations on their own sites, and the portfolio page links to each; the group sits above all of them. The platform, the pipeline, the persona engine, the registries and the publishing stack exist and operate today, built before any outside money — a lower price would value work that is already done as though it still had to be attempted.
Why not higher. At group level there is no published revenue, no run rate and no signed commercial engine — commercialization is precisely the weakness this round funds. Asking more would be asking an investor to pay today for the machine the money is meant to build. CEMI also publishes no total addressable market, for the same reason it cites no comparable: it has no citable source for one, and an uncited figure is worth less than the refusal.
3. Use of funds
Four lines, summing to one hundred per cent of US$750,000 over a 24-month plan — an average of US$31,250 a month. This is the plan the round is asked for, stated as a plan and not as a measurement.
| Line | Share | Amount | What it pays for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial team | 50% | US$375,000 | A commercial lead and a partnerships and public-sector lead, both working across the initiatives rather than for one of them. |
| Pilots to contracts | 20% | US$150,000 | The budget that turns the initiatives' pilots into signed contracts. |
| Shared marketing operations | 20% | US$150,000 | Content, campaigns and events run once for the portfolio instead of once per initiative. |
| Operations and reserve | 10% | US$75,000 | Running the engine, and the margin that absorbs what a plan does not foresee. |
| Total | 100% | US$750,000 | 24 months |
4. Ticket tiers and dilution
Tiers and a minimum ticket are not set. When they are, each tier will state what the investor gets beyond equity — the reporting cadence, naming in the cap table, information rights, pro-rata, and any observer seat — because a tier table without rights attached is not a tier table.
One dilution figure is published, and it is the only cap-table figure this kit publishes: at the stated post-money of US$4,500,000, the full US$750,000 round is 16.7% of CEMI.ai. A ticket's share is its amount over that post-money.
5. What we are not raising for
This is the part that makes the rest credible, and it can be stated today because it does not depend on the amount.
- Not to build the platform. It exists. The pipeline, the persona engine, the registries, the publishing stack and the portfolio are operating today, built before any outside money.
- Not to train foundation models. CEMI builds on models it does not own and treats that as a supplier relationship; the durable assets are the personas, methodologies, registries and editorial canon, which are portable.
- Not to buy growth. The group's entry mechanic is a three-week trial a client pays for only if they continue — a conversion route, not a media budget.
- Not to hire a large payroll. The operating model is a small permanent core with an on-demand bench of certified specialists, leveraged by AI staff. Money that turns that into headcount would undo the thing being invested in.
- Not to fund the social-impact arm. That work has its own openly published, fully costed ask and its own funders. Investment capital and grant capital do not cross.
6. Minimum viable close
No minimum viable close and no target window are set; the round is open. CEMI's position is that the group does not need a round to keep operating — the portfolio was built without one — so the round is structured to accelerate commercialization rather than to cover survival, and a minimum, when it is set, will be stated as the smallest amount that still buys that acceleration.
7. How this round relates to the initiative rounds
Each initiative raises at its own level, for its own plan. CEMI.ai raises at group level, for the shared platform, the labs and the pipeline that every initiative is built on. An investor may enter at either level, and the two amounts are complementary, not alternatives: money into an initiative funds that company's plan, money into the group funds the machinery all of them run on.
Initiatives that are raising today publish their own terms on their own sites, and the portfolio page links to each.
8. Entity and jurisdiction
Corporate structure and jurisdictions are being formalised; a Delaware non-profit incorporation for the social-impact arm is under consideration. The vehicle for the group round is part of that work and is not yet settled. An investor should ask about it, and the FAQ says so plainly.
9. Revenue
What is sold, who pays, and every price CEMI publishes — quoted verbatim, with the page that publishes it — is set out on the revenue page. Revenue to date, run rate and per-client billing are not published and are available on request.
10. Next step
Write to invest@cemi.ai and say which level interests you. For commercial or partnership conversations rather than investment, business@cemi.ai is the right door.
cemi.ai/investorsFinancial terms, revenue and detailed materials are available on request. Figures describe capacity built and operating today; forward-looking statements are identified as such.