A growing community of impact-aligned funds, companies, and non-profits writing new stories
Regenerative Agriculture
We aim to co-create regenerative food systems that minimise waste and protect our vital soil. Food is where nature intersects with human needs. Our focus on regenerative agriculture recognizes food as one of our major sources of energy. Regenerative agriculture is a broad term which covers any approach to food production which cares for the soil, avoids harmful pesticides and herbicides, and takes responsibility for any waste generated. Transforming our food systems is one of the most important ways we can heal our relationship with the planet.
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The Arfak Coffee Project is a sustainable agroforestry project in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua, which aims to bring economic and environmentally positive opportunities for the local indigenous Papuan community. The project operates in a globally significant biodiversity hotspot in Papua and is rooted in local agroforestry traditions, integrating conservation and the cultivation of indigenous crops (buah merah).
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Biodynamics New Zealand is a member-based organisation that promotes biodynamic agriculture by providing education, training, certification, and resources for farmers, growers, and gardeners. It advocates for holistic farming practices that improve soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience while supporting a community of biodynamic practitioners across New Zealand.
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Calm the Farm helps farmers prove the environmental outcomes they achieve on their land with data and sell these in the NZ Climate and Nature Market. They also provide access to finance to speed up the transition to regenerative practices. Calm the Farm is part of Toha Foundry.
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Ebier Suth Cokran, located on West Papua, Indonesia, plays a vital role in the global cacao supply chain, a food system in need of radical transformation. Founded in April 2022, it is owned and driven by the local community of Ransiki with the vision to breathe life into an old commercial cacao farming estate that became dormant in 2005, bringing back jobs and local prosperity. With a 100-year government permit to manage 2,000 ha, they conduct regenerative farming through dynamic agroforestry, utilizing multiple species to optimize ecological processes and mimic natural ecosystems.
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Ecoflora Cares envisions a world where people and nature thrive in balance, and where everyday choices help regenerate the planet. Ecoflora is a certified B Corp based in Colombia that develops innovative natural colors and ingredients from the country’s rich botanical biodiversity. With a net positive impact business model, we work hands on hands with rural communities to sustainably grow and harvest Non-Timber Forest Products, supporting fair livelihoods while conserving tropical forests.
Our flagship product is Jagua Blue, the world’s first acid-stable natural blue color, derived from the native fruit of Genipa americana. Through research, science, and ethical trade, we also offer other high-value natural ingredients for the food and beverage and cosmetics and personal care industries. By uniting biodiversity conservation, biobased innovation, and social development, we aim to ensure that color, culture, and nature flourish for generations to come.
Hohonu is protecting communities from future flooding. Rooted in Hawai‘i, Hohonu combines real-time sensors with cutting-edge data analytics and software to help communities anticipate and respond to flooding before it happens. Hohonu’s mission is to democratize ocean and water-level data by developing accessible tools that have long been out of reach for frontline communities. In doing so, Hohonu empowers local leaders, governments, and businesses to protect their people, infrastructure, and future.
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GRANT PERIOD CONCLUDED
Fairventures Social Forestry is a project creating reforestation and sustainable timber value chains launched in Indonesia in 2014. The project distributes commercial timber seedlings and trains local farmers to plant trees and restore degraded land for economic use for the local communities, improved biodiversity, and carbon sequestration capacity.
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Greenwave Aotearoa (GWA) is a not-for-profit organisation driven to establish a regenerative, replicable, and scalable seaweed farming model that is farmer-centric and aligned with Māori values. Launched with a 3-year pilot lead by EnviroStrat, GWA aims to establish a new aquaculture sector in New Zealand by addressing regulatory hurdles, operational uncertainties, and commercial risks. Greenwave Aotearoa looks to collaborate with farmers nationwide to develop robust cultivation capabilities and scale a sustainable supply chain.
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Ooooby is a steward-owned platform for small-scale food producers to sell fresh and artisan food online. Their mission is to put 'small-scale' back at the heart of the food system. They empower farmers to own and control their supply chains by establishing food hubs that sell directly to local and regional customers at or near retail prices. By simplifying the complex logistics of food distribution, Ooooby helps farmers cut supply chain costs in half, resulting in better profits for the farmers and more affordable prices for customers. They envision a coordinated trading network of independent farms, food hubs, and customers, serving as the cornerstone of an emerging decentralised food system with the reach and range to rival traditional centralised operators.
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Pai Seedlings Foundation works to regenerate ecosystems, empower local communities, and foster sustainable livelihoods in Northern Thailand. Through our Educational Farm, we cultivate ecological literacy and experiential learning for children and youth. Our Regenerative Farmers Project supports Karen and local farmers in transitioning to organic farming, strengthening food sovereignty while restoring soils and building resilient incomes.
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Planboo is a global provider of biochar carbon removal, committed to fighting climate change and fostering global equality. Their pioneering technology equips landowners in the tropics to digitally Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) carbon removal in real time, generating reliable carbon credits that help businesses achieve their net-zero targets. Planboo’s impact is far-reaching both in binding carbon, improving soil health, and increasing farmers’ incomes. Their projects have been supported by tech giants such as Spotify, Klarna and Workday.
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Toha seeks to accelerate the investment and work to regenerate our planet in response to climate change. Their work focuses on this by making regeneration valuable by creating the underlying infrastructure of a market that values, incentivizes, measures and rewards the actions needed to regenerate the planet.
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An educational charity based at Piwakawaka Farm, Whanganui, dedicated to regenerating the land and waterways of Te Awa Tupua while supporting community mental health and wellbeing. Offers courses in permaculture, regenerative horticulture, organic farming, and ecological restoration.
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A grassroots community education organization (operating as Aotearoa Permaculture Workshop) teaching people how to design resilient lives, communities, and ecosystems through permaculture principles.
Protecting Biodiversity
We aim to conserve, restore, and regenerate our natural ecosystems. We also want to build net-zero, biophilic environments (cities that learn from nature and live in harmony with it).
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The 30x30 Southeast Asia Ocean Fund is a collaborative impact fund that supports efforts to protect 30% of Southeast Asia's marine ecosystems by 2030. It provides grants to local NGOs, civil society organisations, and research institutions to advance inclusive and effective marine conservation through activities such as capacity building, policy development, sustainable financing, research, and community-led conservation, with a strong focus on empowering coastal frontline communities.
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A Little Wild is a soil and biodiversity restoration project on 138ac of oil palm land in Johor, Malaysia. Ultimately, they want to share knowledge with consumers and landowners, so as a society we all become more conscientious stewards of nature, and to show that it is possible to feed the planet without destroying it.
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Aqua-Spark invests in small and medium-sized companies operating in the aquaculture sector, with the aim of moving the industry towards healthy, sustainable, affordable production with comparable financial returns.
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ASRI (Alam Sehat Lestari) is an Indonesian non-profit that uses a planetary health approach to conserve tropical rainforests by improving the health and livelihoods of local communities. Through initiatives such as mobile healthcare, sustainable livelihood programmes, and community-based conservation, ASRI reduces pressures such as illegal logging while protecting biodiversity and supporting the wellbeing of forest-dependent communities.
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EcoEnterprises Fund is a trailblazing, women-led impact investment firm with over 25 years of experience backing nature-based businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean. Blending tailored growth capital with value-creation services, the Fund empowers bold, high-impact entrepreneurs to scale their operations while maximizing financial returns and delivering measurable environmental and social outcomes. With deep roots in biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and social equity, EcoEnterprises Fund champions gender-inclusive enterprises that partner with local communities to drive lasting, tangible results across the region.
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EnviroStrat is an end-to-end natural resource sector advisor and impact investment project. The organisation tackles complex environmental challenges with innovative, practical solutions, combining scientific expertise with commercial experience. Their focus is on developing, financing, and executing impactful projects that yield environmental, social, and financial benefits. They have pioneered several groundbreaking initiatives in New Zealand, including regenerative ocean (seaweed) farming, restorative scallop aquaculture, and Kinanomics.
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GroundUp Conservation provides integrated services in biodiversity-rich landscapes to accelerate action with local grassroots organizations, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities.
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Hohonu is protecting communities from future flooding. Rooted in Hawai‘i, Hohonu combines real-time sensors with cutting-edge data analytics and software to help communities anticipate and respond to flooding before it happens. Hohonu’s mission is to democratize ocean and water-level data by developing accessible tools that have long been out of reach for frontline communities. In doing so, Hohonu empowers local leaders, governments, and businesses to protect their people, infrastructure, and future.
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Mana Blue Planet seeks to support businesses that drive ocean health and regeneration in Asia. It supports ocean positive businesses towards their pathway to profitability and growth through various use cases of debt finance.
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Oceanus Conservation, based in the Philippines, is dedicated to safeguarding coastal and marine ecosystems that are vital for both biodiversity and communities. As champions of blue carbon habitats such as mangroves and seagrasses, they integrate science, community leadership, and advocacy, to strengthen local stewardship of coastal habitats that safeguard biodiversity and buffer against climate change. Their projects focus on empowering communities through training, research, and sustainable livelihoods, ensuring that nature and people thrive together.
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The Panya Project is a Thailand-based intentional community and education centre that promotes sustainable living through permaculture, natural building, and experiential learning. It delivers courses, internships, and volunteer programmes that equip individuals with practical skills in regenerative agriculture, ecological design, and community living.
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Rai Matak is a national agroforestry program working with smallholder farmers across Timor-Leste to plant, grow, and care for trees on their own land. Delivered through trusted community-based partners, the program provides farmers with ongoing incentive payments to maintain trees, strengthening livelihoods while restoring degraded landscapes and biodiversity.
Building on more than a decade of local experience, including Ho Musan Ida’s WithOneSeed program, Rai Matak is designed to scale nationally. Our long-term vision is to work with thousands of farming households to regenerate forests, improve soils and water systems, and return the majority of program value directly to communities through long-term, community-led stewardship.
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River Aotearoa Charitable Trust is a New Zealand charitable organisation that works to revitalise and promote Indigenous knowledge systems, values, and worldviews. It supports initiatives that strengthen Indigenous approaches to caring for people and the environment, with a particular focus on restoring relationships with nature and advancing Indigenous-led stewardship.
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The Kinanomics project sought to create a high-value aquaculture industry from malnourished kina that not only creates job opportunities but supports the restoration of kelp forests and marine ecosystems.
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A registered charitable not-for-profit mobilizing climate action with communities across New Zealand. Runs the Auckland Climate Festival (285 organizations, 400+ events, 2021-2023) and the Future Search Wananga, cultivating a regenerative climate action ecosystem.
Power & Equity
We live inside a relational, meaning-generating universe. But modern life has drifted far from this reality. Our systems now produce more signs —more information, narratives, metrics, promises, and abstractions — than any nervous system, community, or ecosystem can meaningfully metabolise. We believe that our task is to clear the noise — to reduce the unnecessary sign-load that crowds out our capacity to attend, to relate, and to perceive what is already here. We exist to help people and communities rejoin the living cosmos in a sane, grounded, relational way.
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Astia is the global pioneer investing in companies led by women. Today's most impactful high-growth companies are led by inclusive teams. And yet, only 3% of venture capital is invested in women-led companies. Astia invests in high-performing women-led companies that solve global problems. For 25 years, Astia has carved a unique path to source, screen and invest in top performing, innovative companies, solving real-world problems, that include women at the helm. They are a different type of venture firm, investing in a very different way. They provide investment, access to networks, and market analysis. Their history of exceptional performance and deep domain expertise, coupled with a global community of advisors, has made them the chosen partner of bold visionaries. They are driven by a commitment to address gender and racial disparities in venture capital and level the investment playing field.
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Beyond Social Services is a Singapore-based community development organisation that empowers disadvantaged children, youths, and families by strengthening neighbourhood support networks. Using an asset-based community development approach, it delivers programmes focused on family resilience, community wellbeing, youth development, and volunteer engagement to help communities become more self-reliant and connected.
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The Centre for the Study of Social Inequality (CSSI) is a research centre at Nanyang Technological University dedicated to advancing multidisciplinary research on social inequality. It conducts research, fosters academic collaboration, and promotes public engagement to improve understanding of inequality and inform evidence-based policies and practical solutions.
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Elucid offers farmers health/insurance coverage financed by corporates in return for collecting anonymous healthcare, social, and economic data for sustainability and compliance reporting.
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Founded in 2014, Energy Action Partners (ENACT) is an international nonprofit organization committed to promoting community development and sustainable energy access through collaboration and capacity building. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ENACT operates across South/Southeast Asia and East Africa, with extensive expertise in rural development, capacity building, and energy access.
ENACT’s flagship achievement, the Community Energy Toolkit (COMET), is a participatory energy planning tool deployed in over 100 communities across Fiji, Nepal, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Somaliland, impacting more than 13,000 households and 100,000 individuals. Now an independent start-up, COMET continues to innovate in community-scale electrification.
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Governance From Below is a non-profit organisation that promotes community-led governance by empowering children and adults to share leadership in decision-making. It advances inclusive, neighbourhood-based development through child participation, sociocratic governance, and initiatives such as the World Children's Parliament to strengthen democratic participation and the common good.
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GUI is a Singapore non-profit organization that connects people with nature, one another, and themselves. Its core ethos is driven by the spirit of community.
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Heading for Change sets forth an inspired set of investments and grants to advance equity for women and girls and activate solutions to climate and biodiversity challenges—to the benefit of all.
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MDIF invests in independent media around the world that provide the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies. Founded as a not-for-profit investment fund, MDIF’s financing and strategic advice help media in countries where reliable news and information is under threat to build strong and sustainable businesses, strong enough to hold governments to account, expose corruption, and provide a platform for debate.
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NGL is a community of people passionate about transforming our current global crises into a world that works for all, based on principles of collaboration and willingness. They are committed to embedding nonviolence, as a set of approaches, applications, principles, and practices that they call “the NGL framework” into all they do.
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NVC Rising is a global Nonviolent Communication movement nurturing and growing networks of connection, learning, and joined creation between NVC practitioners around the globe.
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Post Growth Institute is an international non-profit organisation that promotes post-growth economics and supports the transition to economic systems that prioritise social wellbeing, ecological regeneration, and economic justice over continuous growth. Through research, training, movement building, and organisational support, it helps communities and organisations develop more equitable and sustainable economic models.
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SoFA is a non-profit that helps organizations, communities, workplaces, and collectives learn how to organize in a decentralized way and make their decisions with equity, efficiency, empowerment, trust, and transparency, based upon sociocratic principles of governance.
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A progressive, people-powered, crowdfunded community campaigning organization founded in 2014. Mobilizes 600,000+ New Zealanders on rapid-response, multi-issue campaigns to shift public opinion and policy toward a fairer society, economy, and democracy for people and Papatuanuku.
Liberation Spaces
Liberation Spaces are glimpses into a world where the process of decolonisation has reached deep inside us, composting unhealthy expressions of power from within. These are sites of ongoing experimentation that aim at transforming consciousness and casting off our mind-forged manacles. This area covers spiritual communities, schools, retreat centers, and metamodern tribes. They are refugia of collaboration and partnership, good ruins and relics for a more beautiful world, and exotic nurseries for imaginal seeds.
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Aya Caspi is a certified trainer within Non-Violent Communication Organization (NVC). Aya has been sharing the work of NVC internationally via online classes and in-person retreats. She continually grapples with the joys and challenges of being raised in Israel and finds deep open hope in applying NVC to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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GTDF is an arts/research collective that collaborates around different kinds of artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.
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Happen Films is a New Zealand documentary filmmaking organisation that produces films showcasing regenerative living, ecological restoration, and community-led solutions to environmental and social challenges. Through storytelling, it aims to inspire individuals and communities to adopt more sustainable and regenerative ways of living.
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Starter Culture is dedicated to supporting the earth-centric, inner-led change and relational cultures needed to go beyond systemic injustice and to support social and ecological change and deep cultural transformation.
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Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School is an independent Steiner (Waldorf) school in New Zealand that provides holistic education from early childhood through secondary school. Grounded in the Waldorf curriculum and Aotearoa's bicultural heritage, it integrates academic, artistic, practical, and nature-based learning to develop creative, compassionate, and socially responsible learners.
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Founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in 1998, the legally recognized U.S. governance body for the Plum Village mindfulness tradition - overseeing Deer Park Monastery (CA), Blue Cliff Monastery (NY), Magnolia Grove Monastery (MS), Parallax Press, and the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation, offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and mindful living.
Indigenous Allyship
A new synthesis of science and Indigenous wisdom must be sought. Indigenous cultures retain knowledge and practices that are vital to the repair of our relationship with Mother Earth. They teach us how to honour animals and plants as our equals, not as inferior beings for us to control and exploit. When we approach the natural world with humility, we will be amazed at the bountiful flow of gifts that will come to us in the form of food, medicine, song, art, spirituality, and joy. We want to mobilise and protect Indigenous communities wherever they exist, and connect them to each other in networks of support and alliance.
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Bob Brown Foundation is an environmental campaigning organisation dedicated to protecting wild places and wildlife. Founded by environmentalist Bob Brown, this feisty foundation takes defiant and effective Action for Earth, combining direct action on the frontlines, stopping destruction through the courts, and conducting critical science to save habitat for threatened species.
Powered by dedicated individuals around the country, the foundation draws inspiration from Bob Brown’s enduring message: “We’re up against it at the moment, but history is full of episodes where people stood against a tide that was wrong and changed it.”
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The Huni Kui Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest embody ancestral wisdom and a way of life that honors the interconnectedness of all beings. As guardians of the forest, they preserve sacred knowledge and traditions that sustain both their communities and the land they steward. They are currently leading projects to strengthen cultural resilience, develop infrastructure to support their ways of living and education, and ensure environmental, food, and water sovereignty.
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Mitra Bumma partners with Indigenous tribes in Indonesia, celebrating their rich heritage and supporting their essential role in nurturing the world's forests and the remarkable biodiversity within them.
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Native Allies Society of Malaysia exists to support the Orang Asli (indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia) on their journey to self-determination and meaningful societal participation, and is guided by the conviction that meaningful inclusion can only be achieved within the parameters of a culture of alongsideness and empathy; and the recognition that Malaysia will only reach her full potential when all who calls her home have equitable opportunities to flourish and contribute to her thriving.
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A Ngai Tahu-led indigenous social innovation lab (also known as Maori Futures Collective / Maori Future Makers) designing solutions to increase Maori participation, success and progression in education and employment, building an inclusive, cohesive future for Aotearoa.
Semiotic Degrowth
We live inside a relational, meaning-generating universe. But modern life has drifted far from this reality. Our systems now produce more signs —more information, narratives, metrics, promises, and abstractions — than any nervous system, community, or ecosystem can meaningfully metabolise. We believe that our task is to clear the noise — to reduce the unnecessary sign-load that crowds out our capacity to attend, to relate, and to perceive what is already here. We exist to help people and communities rejoin the living cosmos in a sane, grounded, relational way.
Others
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Alante Capital is a female-led venture capital fund investing in early-stage climate tech, AI and enterprise software companies that unlock systemic change, enabling a circular and regenerative future for the fashion, home and outdoor industries.
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At One Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in a world where humanity becomes a net positive to nature. They do this by backing companies with early-stage disruptive deep tech that has the potential to upend the unit economics of established industries while dramatically reducing their footprint on the planet or pioneering industries that are actively regenerative.
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At One Ventures Fund II is a US$375 million early-stage deep-tech and climate tech venture capital fund managed by San Francisco-based At One Ventures. Led by Tom Chi, the fund backs startups developing disruptive technologies that restore planetary health and reset damaging industries like construction, energy, and agriculture
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GoodFor is a New Zealand sustainable retail company that operates package-free refill stores for food and household products. It helps consumers reduce waste by offering refillable pantry staples and sustainable lifestyle products while promoting low-waste, circular consumption through education and community engagement.
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Omnivore is an impact venture capital firm that supports visionary entrepreneurs driving agrifood innovation, climate action, and rural transformation. Omnivore pioneered agritech investing in India, and over the past decade, the firm has backed over 40 startups transforming agrifood systems and rural communities.
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Reath is transforming how businesses eradicate plastic waste. Since plastic packaging makes up 70% of the waste in the UK, we started there. To reduce packaging waste, Reath has developed a software solution that makes it easier for businesses to produce and use reusable packaging, instead of single-use.
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Systemiq Capital is an early stage B2B climate tech VC based in London, investing across Europe and North America. They invest into start-ups with system-change potential across four critical climate themes: sustainable food and materials, clean transport, climate intelligence and finance and climate restoration. They support them with connections and resources from their network which is amplified through their partnership with Systemiq, the world's leading independent climate advisory firm.
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A US nonprofit (est. 1998, Marina del Rey, CA) that produces and promotes charitable activities encouraging world peace, supporting underprivileged people (especially women and children), environmental preservation, and cultural preservation through education, culture, and the arts.