# Company Overview and Traction **Rimau.ai Pte. Ltd., Singapore.** Incorporated **June 2026**. *Rimau* means tiger. Brand identity: tiger, forest green and orange, shipped with rimau.ai live. Positioning line: **"Audit-ready every day of the year — the layer that makes palm oil legible. MSPO compliance first."** > [!note] Timeline, clarified on the 18 Aug 2026 call > The deck's "eight weeks from incorporation" is the corporate clock. In the founders' own account they are **about four months in** on Rimau, with roughly three months of active work — and the **Sandakan/Sabah discovery trip has only just finished**, with a return trip planned. Treat the company as ~4 months old, not ~2. ## Eight weeks from incorporation to this 1. **LOIs signed with three palm oil facilities in Sabah.** Validation partnerships built to convert; [[Rimau/Fantasi Generasi - The Anchor Estate|Fantasi Generasi]] is the anchor test bed. 2. **Co-build agreement signed with [[Utopia Studio MoC|Utopia Studios]]** — the Qatar-based venture studio. Gulf investor meetings through August and September. 3. **Advisors in the room from day one** — Dave Gouldman (founding team at QuickBooks, now CEO of ladera.ai) and Colin Tan (former legal counsel, Wilmar International). Product scale-up and industry law. 4. **Nine field-discovery sessions** on estates and mills. See [[Rimau/Field Discovery Method]]. 5. **Technical founder building full-time.** Interface first. 6. Active conversations across East and West Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. ## Team | | Role | Background | | --- | --- | --- | | **Staniz Stanislaus** | Chief Executive, Singapore | Strategy, partnerships and fundraising. First venture out of **Stanford**, then Australia, where he and Marc built **Bizsec** (corporate compliance) together. | | **Marc Wong** | Co-founder, Ground Operations, Sabah | **Family are medium holders** — grew up visiting estates and mills. Accounting and finance in Australia, completing his **CPA**. First venture in 2022 building booking engines for local hotels; strategy consultant for a university charity; ran sell-side valuation in a **student-managed investment fund** (US$100–200k live portfolio). Owns the design-partner pipeline, field validation, and the accreditation research. | | **Jonathen Cheng** | CTO, Product and Engineering | **Final-semester computer science student at NUS**; ~6 years writing software since his diploma. First internship in defence at **DSTA**, then **Schneider Electric** and **HPE** — software with some hardware integration and operating systems. First venture. Drives technical direction. | > [!tip] The read on the team > Deep, genuine ground access and a coherent compliance background — and a young bench. Two of the three are still completing studies (CPA, final-semester CS), and the CTO's first venture is this one. The mitigation is the studio relationship and the advisor panel; the thing to watch is execution bandwidth once the [[Rimau/Plantation OS - The ERP Question|ERP scope]] lands on a single full-time engineer. > [!note] The founder track record > This is their **second compliance company**. The first — **Bizsec**, a corporate compliance platform — closed its round at a **US$12.5M post-money** valuation and is being taken to market through channel partners. That number is the valuation anchor being carried into this raise. ## Roadmap — phases, not promises Every phase has an exit test. ==Decide nothing about scale until the exit test passes.== | Phase | Horizon | Contents | | --- | --- | --- | | **000 · Foundations** | Now | Brand, agreements, money rails, narrative | | **001 · Wedge** | A quarter | Paying design partners live | | **002 · Proof** | 2–3 quarters | 10+ paying sites, certification-body partnerships, raise-ready books | | **003 · Scale** | ~a year | Certification decision, EUDR module, ISPO adjacency | | **004 · Ecosystem** | Multi-year | The operating system for a sustainable palm industry | ## Related - [[Rimau MOC]] - [[Rimau/Investment Snapshot]] - [[Rimau/Business Model and Go-To-Market]] - [[Utopia Studio MoC]]