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Making nature-based deals close.

Deal-level financial expertise for conservation easements, impact investments, and blended capital transactions — structured from both sides of the table.

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Partners and projects include:

Both sides want the project to happen.

The challenge is the financial architecture — how risk is allocated, how capital is structured, how terms account for the realities of nature-based businesses where timelines are long, cash flows are seasonal, and assets don't fit conventional models.

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Our blended finance approach:

We evaluate fair value, model terms and outcomes, and build capital architecture that works for funders deploying resources and borrowers operating businesses.

We layer philanthropic, catalytic, and private capital so each takes the risk position that matches its mandate — philanthropic absorbing the riskiest position, catalytic in the middle, private investment in the most protected.

That's how we make deals close that conventional structuring can't.

Deals we’ve made possible:

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Protecting Agricultural Working Lands Through Conservation Easements

Once California farmland is paved over, it's gone for good — and the two best programs for saving it (state-funded SALC and DoD's REPI) demand expertise most land trusts don't have in-house. Here's how we're helping the Ag Land Trust unlock both.

Stress-Testing a Seed Orchard for the Post-Fire West

A single wildfire can demand the equivalent of a century's worth of stockpiled tree seed just to replant — and the Eastern Cascades have almost no infrastructure to supply it. Before building a commercial-scale orchard, our client asked us to stress-test whether a new commercial seed orchard could actually pencil out. Here's what we found.

Carbon Markets for Wildfire Mitigation

Small landowners are responsible for a third of California's fuel reduction goal, but they're the least able to afford the upfront costs of treatment. We're piloting two new carbon-crediting approaches with 25 landowners across 2,000 high-burn-probability acres in Northern California.

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