Tag: investors

Marcel de Berg – Water is a more important cooling factor than the heat of carbon

1st August 2023 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Water Cycles 0 Comments

A conversation with Marcel de Berg, founder of Green Water Cools, about the cooling potential of green water, avoiding regrets and focusing a bit of our attention and resources on restoring water cycles, biodiversity, and more.

After 25.000 hours of research Marcel concluded that the cooling potential of green water fare out paces the less heating of CO2 reductions. So why don’t we switch on this massive airco cooler? What is holding back the systems investors, the investors pension funds, insurance companies, etc. that rely on a thriving global system which seems to be under threat?

Luni Libes – Building a Warren Buffet style portfolio while serving 1M African smallholder farmers

10th January 2023 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

A conversation with Luni Libes, serial entrepreneur and investor, about the enormous opportunities of African food companies and on buying from smallholder famers and selling into the local regional markets. We also discuss why the traditional venture capital model doesn’t make any sense and a holding company does, plus why and how he wants to take the holding company public in a few years’ time.

200th EPISODE Emma Chow in conversation with Koen van Seijen – Regenerating ourselves before working on regenerative agriculture and food

3rd January 2023 koenvanseijen Beyond Food, Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

The 200th of this podcast sees Koen van Seijen in conversation with Emma Chow, former head of food at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Emma Chow, former head of food at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, she’s back on the podcast to talk about her journey, her burnout, coming back from the Amazon to London and re-engaging with the food space. In a second part of the interview, though, Emma and Koen switch mics with Emma becoming the host and asking Koen about his lessons learned over the past 200 episodes.

Stephen Hohenrieder on investing in mature food companies and help them go further and deeper

1st February 2022 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 0 Comments

Stephen Hohenrieder, founder of Grounded Capital Partners, joins us to discuss a different approach to capital—by treating the symptoms of an unhealthy system rather than incentivizing them.

Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch, the first investments of Mad Ag’s $10 million fund

25th May 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 5 Comments

Phil Taylor and Brandon Welch of the Perennial Fund and MAD Agriculture just closed their fund of $10 million and the first four loans are out of the door, with many more to come. We discuss in this episode what they have learned about skin-in-the-game transition finance and partnering with farmers.

Marcus Link, Regen farming isn’t enough, we need regenerative enterprises

30th March 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Investor Stories, Nutrient Dense Food, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 4 Comments

A new conversation for the series on New Foundation Farms with the CEO Marcus Link, author of “Farming Smarter” about how farming using regenerative approaches is not enough and how New Foundation Farms is building a regenerative AgriFood enterprise on a thousand acres in the UK and raising 20 million to do so.

Soil Builders, for robots not all weeds are created egual

2nd March 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 1 Comment

A check in with Brent Kessel, investor in the New African Farmers bond, plus a deep dive with Ben Scott Robbinson of the Small Robot Company into the role of small robots in regenerative agriculture and why not all weeds are created equal.

Dan Miller on crowdfunding and its key role in regenerative agriculture

9th June 2020 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 3 Comments

Is investing in regenerative agriculture and food only for large investors? An interview with Dan Miller, founder of crowd investing platform Steward.

Catherine Tubb, why precision fermentation completely disrupts industrial animal farming by 2030

10th December 2019 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 6 Comments

Catherine Tubb of RethinkX is the co-author of the “Rethinking Food & Agriculture” report. Will precision fermentation really be 100 times more land efficient, produce 10-25 times more feedstock and be 10 times more water efficient? And what does it do with nutrient density and healthcare?

Andrew Voysey, Why the EU Taxonomy on Sustainable Finance matters to all regen investors?

22nd July 2019 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture 2 Comments

Andrew Voysey is head of Business and Government Solutions at Soil Capital. We spoke about the EU Taxonomy on Sustainable Finance.