Private Sponsorship Pitch · Pilot 2026

Twenty Schools. €25,000.
Six Months.

Back the founding pilot of Blastbeat V2 — the AI-mentored Event Social Enterprise platform that turns classrooms, sports clubs and youth groups into real businesses.

After 23 years and 360,000 students across 11 countries, the model is proven. The pilot is what gives us the real-world data to unlock the next €2.25M seed round — and bring this to 50,000 students by the end of 2027. This is the moment the founding patrons step in.

23 yrs
Proven model
11 countries
Lifetime reach
360K +
Students reached
75 / 25
Profit split rule
The Ask

A Pilot You Can Underwrite.

Twenty named schools. A free €1,250 six-month licence for each. Each licence twinned with one sponsor who gets a named, measurable relationship in return. Sponsor one school, sponsor five, or back the whole cohort.

The Pilot Maths

Schools in the cohort20
Licence per school€1,250
Duration6 months
CountriesSA · UK · IE · RW
Students reached~1,400
ESEs produced20+
Climate projects funded20+
Full cohort total€25,000

Or sponsor a single school at €1,250. ESG / BBBEE SED / Section 18A eligible via the right CAN entity for your region.

What you take home

This Isn’t a Donation. It’s a Receipt.

Every sponsorship comes with named, verifiable artefacts — not vibes. Built for audit, board reporting and storytelling.

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Tax-efficient giving

South Africa — Section 18A. UK — UK charity arm + Gift Aid. Europe — Climate Actions Now Ltd (Ireland).

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A named twin school

You don’t fund a budget line. You twin with a specific school by name — chosen with you, named on the certificate.

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Verifiable impact report

Term-end report tied to your named school: students reached, profit generated, climate project funded, UN SDGs touched.

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W3C-aligned licence credential

A signed, tamper-evident digital licence certificate — held in your name, valid for legal and audit review.

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Story-ready content kit

Photos, film clips and your school’s Blastbeat TV episode — ready for your LinkedIn, your annual review, your boardroom.

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BBBEE SED & ESG aligned

South African sponsors: full BBBEE Socio-Economic Development spend recognition. ESG: SDGs 4, 8, 9, 13, 17.

Why now

Six Reasons This Is The Moment.

  1. 01
    Blastbeat V2 just shipped. The mobile-first, AI-mentored platform built with Trixta OS goes live in pilot schools on 18 May 2026. Twenty-three years of analogue Blastbeat became a product.
  2. 02
    The 23-year track record is verifiable. 360,000+ students, 11 countries, the Coca-Cola era in Ireland, the O2 Arena UK final, the Japan Foundation still running — this isn’t a thesis, it’s a continuation.
  3. 03
    The €250k seed tranche is the trigger. The 20-school pilot validates V2 at scale and generates the KPI evidence (adoption, completion, IA1/IA2 impact deltas) needed to unlock the next €2.25M from a wider seed round.
  4. 04
    Three legal homes — one programme. Climate Actions Now RSA (Pty) Ltd in South Africa, Climate Actions Now (UK) charity for UK Gift Aid, Climate Actions Now Ltd (Ireland) for Europe. Sponsor through the entity that fits your tax position.
  5. 05
    The Trixta OS leverage. Infra, AI, payments and platform plumbing are solved. Pilot capital goes into content, sales and country expansion — not engineering. Lean unit economics from day one.
  6. 06
    The path to 50,000 students. 8-month pilot (~1,400 students) → seed close → 2,000+ institutions / 50,000+ learners by end of 2027. Profitable scale, not project funding.
The team

Built by People Who’ve Done It.

Founder & CEO

Robert Stephenson FRSA

23 years of Blastbeat. Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awardee. Fellow of the RSA. Built it in Dublin, scaled it to The O2, ran it in Japan, restarted it in Cape Town.

CTO & Co-Founder

Tumelo T. Ncube

Technical co-founder. Builds and runs the V2 stack with Trixta. Web, app, AI mentor, the admin rail and the credentialing layer.

Platform Partner

Trixta OS · Mark Levitt

The AI-and-events OS Blastbeat V2 is built on. Met Robert at Lisbon Web Summit; platform infra, AI orchestration and payments come from here.

Group Entity

Climate Actions Now

The three-entity legal group — Ireland Ltd, UK charity, RSA (Pty) Ltd. Holds the licence IP. Issues the verifiable credentials. Reports the impact.

Next step

Thirty Minutes with Robert.

Most pilot decisions get made in a 30-minute Zoom. Email or WhatsApp Robert directly — he’ll come back with two slots within 24 hours.

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