A director is rehired at half their salary.
A marketer is glamorizing their coaching gig.
A design lead does eCommerce deliveries.
Carbon is up, forests are coming down.
You keep your head down. You need this job.
Get rich, then give back. That was the playbook:
Build a nest egg for a comfy retirement.
Deep down you know it's no longer the dream.
The dream is humanity. You know what's at risk.
It's up to you. Save the world or die trying.
In the investment world, between taking and giving, there's something that’s neither yours nor theirs, but ours: there’s common ground.
In the middle between making money and giving back, the nest egg is collective.
Imagine a world where the money is yours alone, but the profits are yours in community.
Equity begins when wealth collects in a pool that stays where it is. Like a home for a family, or a potluck for a team, value coordinated in a commons can be used, and re-used, by the beneficiaries of that commons, for as long as the collective can sustain it.
When builders build in common, former competitors become allies. Society becomes an ally. Nature becomes an ally. We don’t exploit them and they don’t exploit us. Our work is protected and we protect theirs. We co-invest, and we’re co-involved in common outcomes, and when everyone is involved, there’s nobody left to exploit.
We don't tie founders to investor control and we don't lock them to prescriptive philanthropy. In between investment and charity, the commons is calling for capital.
Returns on financial, natural, and social capital are common property in the collectives that we fund. Our role is to keep our collectives on the middle path; to keep money, nature, and people at the service of regenerating each other before any gains are extracted.
We fund and incubate collectives of founders that pool regenerative assets; assets that connect, thrive, and provide. This is our mission. We invest time and money in collectives because the assets we value most are the assets we have in common.
We operate in the new middle, between doing well and doing good.
Contact us for: