Balon Energy is supporting the development of a floating platform that uses solar energy to generate hydrogen stored in balls (balons in Bahasa) that in turn can be used as alternative fuels to diesel for coastal communities.

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Faireventures 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.

Greenwave NZ is an entity set up by Envirostrat and holds the license to implement the GreenWave model in New Zealand. Their goal is is to support 10,000 farmers, catalyzing the scaled planting of regenerative ocean crops to yield meaningful economic and climate impacts. They focus on two core offerings: training farmers and developing innovation to scale kelp farming.

GroundUp Conservation provides integrated services in biodiversity-rich landscapes to accelerate action with local grassroots organizations, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities.

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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The Kinanomics project sought to create a high-value aquaculure industry from malnourished kina that not only creates job opprtunities but supports the restoration of kelp forests and marine ecosystems.

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.

Toniic's vision is a global financial ecosystem which operates to create positive social and environmental impact. Its mission is to empower impact investors.

Alante Capital is a female-led equity fund investing into early-stage, female/BIPOC-led material, chemical, and circular innovations that can bring systemic change to the consumer industries. We invested due to the team having deep domain knowledge facilitated by an impressive network of advisors and experts, a proven financial track record from a disciplined process, and rich learning and co-investment opportunities in the material/chemical and circularity innovation space. We can also provide catalytic support for a female-funded and led emerging manager.

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.

Astia is a venture fund that invests in companies that have at least one woman in an executive role in the company who also holds equity in the company. Astia invests in women-owned companies operating in cleantech, SaaS, life sciences, and IoT sectors.

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.

EcoEnterprises, led by Tammy E. Newmark, is a women-owned fund with over 20 years of history investing in biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean. EcoEnterprises finances growing businesses that preserve and restore natural habitats, promote climate action, and support local communities while generating financial returns.

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.

Ecosoftt is a social enterprise that seeks to provide access to clean water, reduce our water footprint, and eliminate water pollution through decentralized, modular water solutions for industrial, commercial, and residential facilities.

Elucid offers farmers health/insurance coverage financed by corporates in return for collecting anonymous healthcare, social, and economic data for sustainability and compliance reporting.

EnviroStrat is a natural resource and sustainability advisor based in Auckland. It blends scientific capability and commercial experience to originate, develop, raise capital, and execute impact-focused natural resource related projects, including nature-based solutions for climate resilient, biodiversity, and water quality improvement.

MDIF is a not-for-profit investment fund for independent news and information businesses in challenging environments.

Omnivore is a venture capital firm based in India which funds entrepreneurs building the future of agriculture and food systems. A specialist food pioneer in India, they have been backing over 40 startups since 2011. Omnivore portfolio companies focus on smallholder farmers and transform food systems, making farming more profitable, resilient, and sustainable.

Ooooby (Out Of Our Own Backyards) is a decentralised marketplace for small-scale, ecological food.

Planboo is a nature-based carbon removal company that specializes in generating verified biochar carbon removal credits from agricultural and other plant waste.

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.

Spun out of SYSTEMIQ, Systemiq Capital, led by Irena Spazzapan, is a sustainability-focused advisory firm which invests in climate-tech innovations underpinned by climate science and rapid technology advances.

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.