The 400-tarea DAIA campus property in the mountains of La Vega

Dominican Artificial Intelligence Association

DAIA Innovation
Campus

A permanent home for the future of Dominican innovation — 400 tareas in the mountains of La Vega, where frontier technology stays rooted in nature and humanity.

La Vega · Dominican Republic 400 tareas · ~62 acres $3M Seed Raise

02 — The Thesis

Technology at the edge.
Humanity at the center.

The world is racing toward artificial intelligence. The Dominican Republic deserves more than a seat at that table — it deserves a place where the frontier is built. But we believe the future should not feel like a server room. It should feel like a mountain morning.

Build

An innovation hub where AI products, national models, and new ventures are created on Dominican soil.

Belong

A place the community owns in spirit — students, farmers, families, and founders on the same land.

Believe

A national symbol that tells every Dominican child: the future is being built here, and it includes you.

03 — The Land

400 tareas in the heart of the Cibao

Rolling green mountains of the La Vega property

La Vega Province · Mountainous Cibao Region · Site photography, actual property

400

Tareas

~62

Acres

La Vega

Province · Central DR

1.5h

From Santiago intl. airport

Fertile, elevated, and breathtaking — suited for agriculture programs, low-footprint capsule construction, and a destination experience that no office park could ever offer.

04 — The Vision

A destination, not an office.

Walt Disney didn't build a theme park — he built permanence: a place families return to for generations. The DAIA Campus applies that logic to innovation. Not a coworking space that closes at 6pm, but a living campus where technology, agriculture, education, and Dominican culture share one landscape — designed to still matter in 50 years.

What visitors experience

Futuristic capsule villages set into green mountains. Working farms beside AI labs. River tours, field trips, residencies, and a founding-artifacts museum that preserves the story of Dominican AI from day one.

What the nation gains

A landmark for Hispaniola — proof that a small island nation can host world-class innovation without losing its soul, its soil, or its people to emigration.

05 — Proof of Execution

We're already building — daia.do

The campus is not an idea in search of a team. It's the physical home for a product ecosystem already live and in development.

DAIA Academy

1-on-1 virtual tutoring connecting Dominican teachers with international students. Live revenue engine with automated weekly teacher payouts.

Scholar One

Student-facing AI learning app — one DAIA ID, one app that reshapes to each learner.

Educa One

Institutional management layer for schools, onboarding private colegios across the DR.

Quisqueya AI

A Dominican-context national AI model in development, deploying into every DAIA product.

DAIA Builders

AI-native incubator and accelerator — the pipeline into the campus residency.

Minnect + Intelligence

US-mentor matching for DR students, and a national command-center dashboard for Dominican signals.

06 — Campus Concept

Capsule architecture.
Zero heavy footprint.

Futuristic prefab capsule unit with panoramic glass

Prefab capsule units · Residences, labs & studios

$Elevated geodesic pod units$

Elevated pods · Classrooms & observation spaces

Movable

Units relocate as the master plan evolves — the campus grows organically with demand.

Fast to deploy

Weeks, not years. Programs and residencies launch within the first phase, generating revenue early.

Light on the land

Minimal excavation preserves the terrain, farms, and rivers that make the site worth visiting.

07 — Program Pillars

One campus. Five engines.

A

School Field Trips

Day programs for schools across the DR — students touch robotics, AI, and agriculture in a single visit. Recurring institutional revenue via Educa One partnerships.

B

Barrio-to-Campus Immersion

Two-week residential cohorts for youth from underserved communities: agriculture, nature, and technology — many experiencing the mountains, and their own potential, for the first time.

C

Entrepreneur & Creator Residency

Founders and creators live on campus, building ventures through DAIA Builders and broadcasting the campus to the world.

D

Eco-Tourism & Experiences

River tours, farm experiences, and campus visits — education tourism that funds the mission and employs the surrounding community.

E

National Innovation Events

Hackathons, summits, and demo days that make La Vega the gravitational center of Dominican tech.

08 — Community Impact

Two weeks that change a trajectory

A teenager from a barrio in Santo Domingo has likely never planted a seed, flown a drone, or slept under mountain stars. The immersion program gives them all three — then a mentorship path through Minnect and DAIA Academy so two weeks become a lifetime pipeline, not a field-trip memory.

This is already happening. We're on the ground in schools today — the campus gives these partnerships a permanent home, and gives every student a place the future lives.

Steve Solomon and Jonah Stevens with the director of Escuela Primaria Jesús Maestro in front of a Dominican flag mural

Escuela Primaria Jesús Maestro — Steve Solomon & Jonah Stevens with the school's director

14

Day residential cohorts

3

Tracks · Agri / Nature / Tech

100%

Scholarship-funded seats

∞

Ongoing mentorship after

09 — Initiatives · daia.do/initiatives

The mission is already moving

Before a single tarea is purchased, DAIA is delivering in the community. The campus doesn't start these stories — it multiplies them.

LightLink Project

The school's first computer, donated by DAIA — connected learning delivered school by school across the DR.

Pursuit of Wisdom · Yulina & family

Pursuit of Wisdom Scholarship

Yulina, matched with a U.S. professional mentor via Minnect · powered by Valuetainment — one connection that redraws a horizon.

Community Problem Solvers

When the floods came, DAIA showed up — boots in the water, helping families recover. Hands, not headlines.

10 — Entrepreneur in Residence

Our first resident is already here

Mariela Pérez Calderón — entrepreneur, creator, and the campus's founding voice to the world.

@marielapercal @marielapercal ★ 400K+ followers

Every creator who lives on campus becomes a broadcast tower — documenting mountain mornings, capsule living, river days, and Dominican innovation to a global audience. Organic reach that money can't buy, converting viewers into visitors, students, and future residents.

Creators live on campus → content reaches millions → visitors arrive → programs fill → more creators want in → the campus becomes the destination.

Award nights

On air

La vida DR

Good taste

11 — Roadmap

Three phases to a landmark

Phase 1 · Months 0–9 · Funded by this raise

Acquire & Activate

Close the 400-tarea acquisition. Deploy first capsule village, utilities, solar, connectivity, and access. Launch field trips, first immersion cohorts, and the founding residency.

Phase 2 · Months 9–24

Programs at Scale

Expand to full residency village, working farm, event pavilion, and river-tour operations. School partnerships across the Cibao. Campus reaches operating self-sufficiency.

Phase 3 · Years 2–5

The National Landmark

Innovation center, founding-artifacts museum, and Quisqueya AI research presence. The campus stands as Hispaniola's destination for technology, education, and culture.

12 — Business Model

Five revenue streams, one land

Education programs

Field trips, immersion cohorts, and school partnerships — recurring, calendar-driven revenue.

Residencies

Entrepreneur, creator, and remote-work stays in capsule units — nightly and monthly rates.

Experiences & tourism

River tours, farm visits, and campus experiences for domestic and international visitors.

Events

Summits, hackathons, retreats, and private bookings of a venue unlike any other in the country.

DAIA ecosystem

The campus as physical anchor amplifying Academy, Scholar One, Educa One, and Builders revenue.

Plus: the asset itself

62 acres of titled Dominican land — appreciating real estate underneath every program.

13 — The Team

The people building DAIA

Osvaldo Colás Gómez

Director

Elba Abreu

Legal Counsel

Luis Dorismon

Chief Learning Officer

Emelys Rivera

Controller

Jonah Stevens

Director of Educational Innovation

Kevin Joa

Software Developer

Steve Solomon

Chief Steward

Mariela Pérez Calderón

Founding Creator in Residence

14 — Use of Funds

Where the $3M goes

Land acquisition — 400 tareas, La Vega$1.00M · 33.3%

Capsule village & buildout — residences, labs, learning pavilion$700K · 23.3%

Site infrastructure — solar array, water, access road, fiber connectivity$450K · 15%

Program launch — field trips, immersion cohorts, residency, tourism ops$350K · 11.7%

Operations & team — 24-month runway$400K · 13.3%

Contingency reserve$100K · 3.3%

72%

Into durable assets — land & structures

24 mo

Operating runway funded

Ph. 2

Operating self-sufficiency target

Capital-efficient by design: capsule construction means the majority of funds become durable assets — land and structures — not burn.

15 — The Ask

$3M.

Seed round in DAIA, a Delaware C-Corporation, to acquire and activate the permanent campus of Dominican innovation.

Raise

$3,000,000

Pre-money

$12M

Post-money

$15M

Minimum

$50K

Entity

Delaware C-Corp

Backed by live products, a national mission, titled land, and a founding team already executing across education, AI, and community — this is the round that gives the Dominican future a home address.

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