#18 - Capital to thrive with the natural world, with Roland Van der Meer (Full Episode)

Guest Bio: "I bring deep experience helping develop and build strategies, processes, and teams to manage, grow and scale companies to their maximum value.  I have been passionate about finding scalable solutions to be able to begin to thrive with all of nature and this planet.  Currently, Roland Van der Meer am Executive Chairman of UpTerra, an Ag Tech company that is bringing a revolution to farming structuring water and frequency imprinting at scales unheard of before, that dramatically reduces all inputs and significantly improves yields. He is also Chairman of Amphibian Capital, a fund of funds of quantitative crypto funds, that donates 50% of its profits to Regenerative Assets.    Over the past 12 years has helped create and build three firms in sustainable real assets that now manage over $2.5B in assets across Agriculture, Energy, Water, and Waste. Equilibrium Capital, Biological Capital, and Ultra Capital. Each of these companies represents a new approach to investing in regenerative solutions that scale: Ultra Capital, investing in small and mid-size infrastructure and real asset projects that accelerate fundamental resource sustainability in agriculture, energy, water, and waste. Bio-Logical Capital, a land investment, development, revitalization, and conservation firm, and Equilibrium Capital, a sustainably-driven real asset funds manager. In the prior 20 years, he co-founded ComVentures, a venture early stage investor in the communications sector, that managed over $1.5B. My personal track record has over a 20% IRR.”   Let’s dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from your childhood, adolescence and adulthood that made you the human being that you are now.    Let’s look deeper into your career: What are your main takeaways from working for 20 years as a venture early-stage investor? Please sketch:  Equilibrium Capital, Biological Capital and Ultra Capital, Amphibian Capital   How do we bring the needed resources to regenerative projects and communities so humanity can thrive with the natural world? Please sketch some of the scalable solutions to begin to thrive with all of nature and this planet.   When you look at the current state of affairs on the planet, what are the biggest leverage points you see: Personal development, Cultural development and Systems change   How do you try and apply an integral lens in your investment approach?   Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?

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