The cohort includes Accounting for Nature, EQO, Inverto Earth, Robotics Cats, Veridi Technologies, 3t, Ocean Ledgers, and Dune Analytics.

Nika.eco, a Singapore-based climate tech company, has closed an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Silverstrand Capital, with additional backing from Timbul Ventures, DMV Investments, Orvel Ventures, and Ascend Network. This fresh influx of capital will enable Nika.eco to extend its geospatial infrastructure solutions beyond the carbon markets to other sectors where climate modeling is crucial.

Family offices in Singapore are at the forefront of developing innovative funding mechanisms. For instance, Silverstrand Capital focuses on impact investing in regenerative agriculture and biodiversity protection. Kelvin Chiu, founder of Silverstrand, told The Straits Times.

The investment platform also disrupts the status quo for carbon credits by bringing its own standards and framework to the carbon market since existing standards aren’t fully able to differentiate good from bad carbon. The €5.25 million investment aims to expand the company’s nature analytics and expertise and introduce additional high-quality carbon offsetting projects to the market. Ocean 14 Capital fund led the round, with participation from Silverstrand Capital, high-profile angel investors and existing investors Planet A Ventures, 468 Capital and Greenfield Capital.

In Singapore, Silverstrand Capital was founded as a family office in 2019 with a mission to scale up regenerative agriculture – farming practices that restore soil health, increase biodiversity, capture carbon and benefit local communities – through impact investing.

Co-Axis features over 70 impact opportunities from more than 40 countries. They focus on advancing the impact categories of Climate, Health, Employment, Education, and others. The opportunities are curated from partners across the Temasek Trust, DBS Foundation, and UBS Optimus Foundation ecosystems and beyond. They include A*STAR, ABC Impact, Argor Capital, AVPN, Cartier Women's Initiative, DBS Foundation, Helicap, Impact Hub Shanghai, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), Philanthropy Asia Alliance, Silverstrand Capital, Temasek Foundation, The Earthshot Prize, UBS Optimus Foundation, and United Overseas Bank. More impact opportunities will go live on an ongoing basis.

Planboo – a carbon removal company founded in 2020, dedicated to tracking and scaling biochar production in the Tropics, marked a new milestone that brings it a step closer to achieving its mission. The company closed its latest funding round, securing over $1.1 million with backing from investors like Katapult, Silverstrand Capital, Rockstart, Imaginal Seeds, and 8+ Ventures.

The Singapore-based family office has invested an undisclosed amount in Porifera, a California-based technology company specializing in the development of forward osmosis membrane solutions.

This investment was made through Porifera’s bridge funding round and will enable the company to expedite its growth in various verticals within the food and beverage sector.

Porifera's tech produces F&B concentrates which can be reconstituted where it will be consumed, without degradation of flavour, aroma, and nutritional value

Porifera Inc.’s (Porifera) low-cost patented membrane & processing technology is set to disrupt the $100B+ food & beverage concentrate market.

Davis-based biological controls company Invasive Species Corp. has closed a $2.5 million round of pre-seed funding from Singapore-based Silverstrand Capital. The company will use the investment to commercialize some existing products and develop new products to combat invasive species using biological controls rather than harsh chemicals, said Pam Marrone, executive chairperson and co-founder of Invasive Species Corp.

How can we reconcile with the challenges of a contentious carbon market, and the dire financing gap for nature? Five startups share their solutions at COP28.

CNA speaks to Silverstrand Capital about its session at COP28, featuring the critical issue of biodiversity loss and the innovators working to make a change.

Raleigh, N.C.-based climate technology company Natrx, provider of nature-based infrastructure technologies, announced on Oct. 11 that it has raised over $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round

Investor Kelvin Chiu loves to experience the natural world, be it observing wildlife on safaris or trekking in the mountains. His emotional connection with natural landscapes has motivated him to protect them. An epiphany occurred during a diving trip at Raja Ampat, an Indonesian archipelago replete with colourful coral reefs and mesmerising marine life.

Singapore-based impact investor Silverstrand Capital has today announced a new €15 million investment in Netherlands-based aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark.

SINGAPORE-BASED impact investor Silverstrand Capital has further signalled its commitment to ocean and marine causes, with an additional investment in Netherlands-based aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark.

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