The Week’s Big 5
1. Policy and placemaking go direct. Policymakers, funders and other stakeholders are putting cash and control in the hands of U.S. residents to address the interlocking challenges of COVID-19, inequality and racial justice.
The Week’s Agent of Impact
Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital. Venture capitalists love to invest in disruption. Arlan Hamilton is disrupting venture capital. She created Backstage Capital in 2015 with a conviction that backing “underestimated” founders could unlock overlooked value. Initially dismissed by the VC world, she convinced investors like Slack’s
Stewart Butterfield and
Mark Andreesen to sign on to her fledgling fund. The West Hollywood-based venture firm has built a portfolio of more than 175 startups, including tech ecosystem
SilviaTerra raises $4 4 million to build a carbon marketplace from forestlands impactalpha.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from impactalpha.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Zack Parisa and Max Nova, the co-founders of carbon offsets firm SilviaTerra, have spent the last decade working on a way to democratize access to income-generating carbon offsets.
As forestry credits grow into a big, booming business thanks to multibillion-dollar commitments from some of the world’s biggest companies to decarbonize their businesses, the types of technology the two founders have dedicated 10 years of their lives to making. construction will only become more valuable.
That’s why their company, already a profitable venture, raised $ 4.4 million in external funds led by Union Square Ventures and Version One Ventures, as well as the founder of Salesforce and the driving force behind the One Trillion Trees initiative, Marc Benioff.
SilviaTerra wants to bring the benefits of carbon offsets to every landowner everywhere
The company has just raised $4.4 million from Marc Benioff and Union Square Ventures to do it
Zack Parisa and Max Nova, the co-founders of the carbon offset company SilviaTerra, have spent the last decade working on a way to democratize access to revenue-generating carbon offsets.
As forestry credits become a big, booming business on the back of multibillion-dollar commitments from some of the world’s biggest companies to decarbonize their businesses, the kinds of technologies that the two founders have dedicated 10 years of their lives to building are only going to become more valuable.