A series dedicated to the startups that are accelerating the (re)creation of healthy soils, resilient food systems, and thriving communities.

We believe capital is a powerful tool with a crucial role to play in the regenerative transition. It can accelerate the (re)creation of healthy soils, resilient food systems, and thriving communities.

With that in mind- and with the intention of putting some skin in the game, not just talking or writing about it- we co-founded Gen‑Re (Generation-Re), an angel investment syndicate backing regenerative agriculture and food innovators. It is great to talk to and about great companies moving the needle in the regenerative space but even better is putting our money where our mouth is. 

We connects values-aligned investors with regenerative ventures across the food and agriculture space. We make it accessible to invest as the minimum ticket size is $1k.

In the Generation-Re series we feature some of the companies we have supported through the syndicate in the last years (including Wildfarmed, Goodsam Foods, Dirty Clean Food, MAD Capital, Cairnsprings, PES Technologies, UNDO, No Fence, Juntos, Collie.

• Toby Parkes – Mapping the underground fungi world by building a unicorn (Rhizocore
• Julia Kasper – Rewetting peatlands is the biggest climate opportunity to cut CO2 (Zukunftmoor)
• Maria Jensen – Giving cows a voice through epigenetics while improving animal welfare and profitability (Antler Bio)
• Alice Henry – Finally real money for cover crops with sustainable aviation fuel (Regenrate)
• Jay Albany – Despite the graveyard of D2C companies, it can actually work in the world’s most remote city (Dirty Clean Food)
• Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin – Why chickens are the perfect entry point to decolonize our food system (Tree Range Farms)
• Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of regenerative agriculture (Grounded Ingredients)
• Edd Lees – After 23 years in finance, a new career full of life, soil, bread and a famous DJ (Wildfarmed)
• Christian Jochnick – Why Ibiza is the best place to start the regenerative renaissance (Juntos Ibiza)
• Knut Bentzen on how to scale virtual fencing, the true enabler of regeneration (Nofence)
• Nicolas Enjalbert – Let’s disrupt the oligopoly seeds industry, currently bad for everyone, people, planet and flavour (Seedlinked)
• Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman – We need animals outside to feed the planet sustainably (Collie)
• Jim Mann – Biochar and enhanced rock weathering to remove 1B ton carbon annually and holistically (UNDO, as spin off of Future Forest Company)
• Johannes Scheibe on using carbon credits to transition from understocked and overgrazed to zero input grazing (Ruumi)
• Wiley Webb – Why focusing on wholesale buyers is the biggest leverage point in regen food systems (Permanent)
• Brandon Welch and Phil Taylor – Updates with Mad Capital on how to enable billions to flow to regen organic farmers (MAD Capital)
• Heather Terry – If you sit in a boardroom, you have the responsibility and obligation to visit the farm where the food is produced (GoodSam)

Curious about it?
If you want to know more, visit Gen-Re website or find out more on our 300th episode!