Regeneration.VC

Welcome to the family! We are incredibly excited to announce we have partnered with Sky to takeover management of a impact investment portfolio previously incubated by Sky and formerly known as ‘Sky Ocean Ventures’. 🏆 We’ve long admired this groundbreaking portfolio as an early exemplification of our circularity-driven thesis and have already co-invested in UK champions Greyparrot and Matter. 📍 This is a big step for us to expand our European presence, and we are humbled to be able to support this exceptional cohort of founders and companies already delivering top venture performance. 👀 Across our three fund portfolios, Regeneration now counts nearly forty companies driving meaningful environmental and economic outcomes within consumer industries. Check out the portfolio to see the latest additions!

Algae Cooking Club and Freaks of Nature- the two latest brand launches from our portfolio company, Squared Circles- are turning up the heat, literally. 🔥 Algae Cooking Club continues to impress, earning recognition as one of The Future 100 Innovators by The Future Laboratory. This prestigious list highlights global disruptors, activists, and change-makers redefining industries. Known for its algae-based, lower-impact, omega-packed, and high-smoke point cooking oil, Algae Cooking Club has expanded its lineup with savory, infused oils, including Gochugaru chili oil and garlic & shiitake mushroom oil. 🌊 Freaks of Nature, the ocean-safe skincare brand designed for outdoor lovers, is taking things up a notch. Their latest campaign is a refreshing reminder to embrace the wild, step outside, and find inspiration in the natural world. #consumerclimatech

🇳🇱 Orbisk | Zero Food Waste, our latest portfolio addition, is hitting headlines 🎉 ps: Regeneration.VC Partner Martijn Lopes Cardozo just joined as Board Member! Last week, the company won the H&T Award in the startup category at H&T, Salón de Innovación en Hostelería, a prestigious event in the hospitality industry. This award celebrates groundbreaking innovation in hospitality, tourism, equipment, and services, attracting renowned chefs and industry experts. Orbisk | Zero Food Waste works with many hotels and commercial kitchens worldwide to reduce food waste by leveraging artificial intelligence. #innovation #foodwaste

Which solutions are top-of-mind in 2025 for investors in circularity? Regeneration.VC Partner Jamie Rowles recently spoke with ClimateHack about which technologies are on his radar. Here are three key areas he's watching: 🔍 Materials (re)design: Material discovery is at the start of a major shift from trial-and-error experimentation to AI-enabled automation and enrichment of each stage of the discovery cycle. We are most excited about high-throughput discovery of materials with desirable climate properties, such as recyclability and low energy consumption during production. 🪫Circular (e-)REEs: With increasingly reliance on key critical rare earths and minerals - start-ups aggregating, disassembling and refining everything from mining tailings, batteries, magnets and compute infrastructure to the growing piles of consumer e-waste will bring more much needed circularity-driven resilience to these supply chains. 🌾Circular bioeconomy in agriculture: Reducing food waste and replacing animal proteins are two huge climate levers. Efficiently extracting waste proteins from the vast quantities of agricultural residues can both reduce food waste and further increase the sustainability of the protein transition. 📢 Check out other top investor priorities here: https://lnkd.in/e3iB5xmS

🙌 Greyparrot has been named one of the 2025 #GlobalCleantech100 for the second year in a row by Cleantech Group! In 2024, Greyparrot Analyzer units detected over 40 billion waste objects, shining light on resources discarded globally. 🌎 ℹ️ Greyparrot's 2024 AI Waste Analytics Report shares insights from 55 recovery facilities across 20 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. The report identifies two major missed opportunities for the recycling industry: 📦 Waste fibers – Like paper and cardboard, these are the most common recyclables sent to landfills and incineration, accounting for 56% of unrecovered residue material by total mass. 🧴 Recyclable plastics - Accounted for 18% of the residue waste by total mass. With Greyparrot, recyclers, packaging producers, and regulators can leverage AI to transform more waste into resources. #recycling #AI #wastemanagement

Nature Coatings enters the beauty industry with biobased carbon black. We are very excited about their launch in Walmart and selection as finalists in the Cosmetics & Toiletries Allē Awards. Traditional carbon black in cosmetics contains carcinogenic organic contaminants and has an unjustifiably high carbon footprint. Congratulations to Nature Coatings and Jane Palmer 💪

🗽 Fresh from our New York team, today we are launching a summer internship program focused on impact investing and planetary boundaries with our partner Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) at Columbia University. The program connects top graduate talent from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and other graduate programs with leading VC investors and their portfolio companies. 📌 Register by February 15, 2025 🔹If your firm is interested in participating, use this form: https://lnkd.in/g-3WCjQJ 🔹If you are a Columbia University student, use this form: https://lnkd.in/gvjQX56Y “We have been working with Greta and the Regeneration team for more than a year now, and they have been a very special partner to SIRI. We are super excited to launch with them this first-ever Regenerative Systems VC Internship Program here at SIPA and Columbia. In today’s world, it is essential to educate and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors to work towards planetary and human health. This impact VC summer internship program aims to do exactly that. We very much look forward to continue expanding our partnership with Regeneration.VC in the future.” Caroline Flammer Ph.D. | Founding Director of SIRI, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, and Columbia SIPA’s Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs "When I learned about the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative at SIPA, I had to connect with Professor Caroline— and this is how everything started. Their work on system-level investing pushing for a deeper understanding of complex systems is critical in our work as venture investors, and so is bridging academia with real-world change. I am pleased to create this opportunity for students who want to work for something that gives back more than what you put in. Excited for everything else to come with Caroline at SIRI and my broader engagement with Columbia.” Greta Bertozzini | Regeneration.VC Associate

CES 2025 News! 💡 New product launch from our portfolio company Ambient Photonics Lenovo launched a Self-Charging Bluetooth Keyboard with Ambient Photonics groundbreaking tech that allows it to charge through indoor ambient light instead of using disposable batteries. This product won Lenovo a spot on the How-To-Geek's Best of CES 2025 Keyboard award. Partnership after partnership, Ambient advanced photovoltaic cells are demonstrating that light technology, when harvested effectively, works and is definitely more convenient to consumers than changing batteries. The keyboard will launch this Spring 2025. #CES2025

Regeneration.VC is thrilled to welcome Narina Mnatsakanian as Partner and Chief Impact Officer. Narina is a true pioneer who has been championing sustainable and impact investing for nearly two decades including key roles with the United Nations and leading asset managers. Most recently she was Head of Impact Investing at UBS Asset Management where she led the development of impact framework, and advanced listed and private markets impact strategies. Prior to UBS, Narina worked at Van Lanschot Kempen as Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing and portfolio manager of the Kempen Global Impact Pool, an Article 9 multi-asset impact fund of funds. Narina will be based in Amsterdam joining officially on February 1 and will work closely with our growing international team and portfolio companies. We also extend our gratitude and congratulate Katie Hoffman who is leaving Regeneration.VC to take on a new role as General Partner at SOSV. Katie has played a key role in building Regeneration.VC and our rigorous impact measurement framework and we look forward to our continued collaboration. “We are truly excited and honored to welcome impact visionary Narina Mnatsakanian as Partner and Chief Impact Officer of Regeneration.VC. A very special thank you to Katie Hoffman, a catalyst in our firm and impact strategy, and the very best for an exciting new chapter with our friends at SOSV. ” Michael Smith, Regeneration.VC Co-founder and General Partner #impactinvesting #circulareconomy #consumerclimatech

Don't miss the The Impact At Scale Podcast With Zal Dastur interviewing our Amsterdam based partner Martijn Lopes Cardozo If you would like to have answers to these questions: ❤️🔥 How do you get attention when pitching a VC? 🪴 Where is climate VC heading and how does Regeneration.VC operate? ♻️ What is the role of circular economy and consumer brands? 🗺️ What are the underserved market and white spaces? 💲 What are some of the new evolving business models? Then this is the episode for you. For the full episode, please find the links in the comments. #circulareconomy #impactinvesting #podcast