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The Cleanest Line: Tin Shed Ventures – Funding the Next Generation of Responsible Businesses
November 28, 2016
Today, we’re announcing a new name for our corporate investment fund: Tin Shed Ventures (formally $20 Million & Change). We will continue our history of funding, mentoring and connecting entrepreneurs that use business to address environmental...
Costa Sunglasses Launches Untangled Collection using Bureo Recycled Fishnets
May 24, 2018
Costa Sunglasses, the leader in world-class performance sunglasses and the initiator of the growing Kick Plastic campaign, is partnering with Bureo to launch its new Untangled Collection–a collection of frames made entirely from recycled...
NuMat Closes Funding Round to Accelerate Commercialization of Molecularly Engineered Products
April 26, 2018
Advanced manufacturing is getting a big boost with a new round of investment in NuMat Technologies, which is creating intelligently engineered systems through the integration of programmable nanomaterials. Closing a $12.4 million financing round led...
Bureo & Humanscale Launch First-Ever Task Chair Made with Recycled Fishing Nets
April 5, 2018
Humanscale Founder and CEO Robert King: “Our partnership with Bureo helps further our goal to achieve a net positive impact on our natural environment. The Smart Ocean task chair not only supports the health and comfort of our customers, but...
Bureo & Yerdle Nominated for 2018 Circulars Award
December 13, 2017
Tin Shed Ventures portfolio companies Bureo and Yerdle ReCommerce have been nominated as finalists for this year’s The Circulars. The Circulars is an initiative of the World Economic Forum and the Forum of Young Global Leaders, run in...
A Nanotech Startup Grows into a Big Thing
November 2, 2017
NuMat Technologies is bending the ideal gas law with a new computer-designed nanomaterial used to store gas, such as hydrogen for fuel and toxic gases in electronics manufacturing, by “adsorbing” it, or essentially gluing it as a thin...
NuMat and Versum Materials Announce Global Commercial Alliance
August 7, 2017
NuMat announces a global partnership with Versum Materials to commercialize their next-generation adsorbent technology for the safe storage and delivery of dopant gases.
Quartz: Patagonia’s venture fund is trying to find the next Patagonia by looking at startups’ supply chains
April 13, 2017
Quartz highlights how Tin Shed Ventures differs from traditional VCs. In the words of Managing Director Phil Graves, “We want companies that don’t make financial sense over the two-to-three year period, but do make sense over the long haul.”
Bureo Featured on Red Bull TV
March 28, 2017
In 2014, Red Bull TV approached Bureo to be featured in a short film project, “Creators of Tomorrow.” Filmed over the course of 2015 as part of Red Bull’s “Creators of Tomorrow” short film project, this film follows...
Bureo wins Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence
December 8, 2016
The Bureo team traveled to our nation’s capital to be recognized for winning the US Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence in Sustainable Oceans Management.
CNBC: Phil Graves, Behind Patagonia’s Social Investing
November 30, 2016
Phil Graves, head of Patagonia’s venture fund Tin Shed Ventures, discusses investing in entrepreneurs for social and ethical reasons.
The Cleanest Line: Tin Shed Ventures – Funding the Next Generation of Responsible Businesses
November 28, 2016
Today, we’re announcing a new name for our corporate investment fund: Tin Shed Ventures (formally $20 Million & Change). We will continue our history of funding, mentoring and connecting entrepreneurs that use business to address environmental...
Chemical & Engineering News: NuMat Named one of “10 Start-ups to Watch”
October 31, 2016
NuMat Technologies is betting that modifying the interiors of cylinders and other gas equipment with custom-made nanomaterials known as metal-organic framework compounds, or MOFs, can significantly improve the way gases are stored, separated, and...
Entrepreneur: These Entrepreneurs Hope to Use Garbage to Change the Way America Grows its Food
July 15, 2016
The U.S. has a ginormous, mind-boggling food waste problem. One team of entrepreneurs, investors and infrastructure builders are trying to use some of that garbage to grow more fruits and vegetables.
The Guardian: What do Apple and Patagonia have in common? Making money from solar
June 29, 2016
Businesses typically put solar panels on their roofs to support clean energy and cut emissions, but a small group of them are branching out to earn profits from selling solar electricity.
B the Change: Patagonia Invests, $20 Million & Change
June 22, 2016
Patagonia launched $20 Million and Change, a venture capital fund, in 2016 to support companies that aim to do environmental and social good. Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario, who worked as a private equity investor before joining the company in 2014,...
Boiling Point Podcast: Phil Graves, Patagonia, and $20 Million & Change
May 16, 2016
Patagonia has now continued to double-down on its commitment to planet, people, and profit by creating its own venture capital firm $20 Million and Change, which invests in environmentally and socially responsible start-ups. Phil Graves heads...
Lift Economy: Phil Graves on Patagonia’s New Venture Capital Fund
February 13, 2016
Phil Graves, Director of Patagonia’s $20 Million and Change, and Ryan Honeyman, Partner at LIFT Economy, discuss: Why did Patagonia start to make venture capital investments? What types of investments has $20 Million and Change made? What...
The Cleanest Line: Living in Southern Chile with Bureo co-founder Ben Kneppers
February 8, 2016
Patagonia’s $20 Million & Change fund was launched in 2013 to help innovative, like-minded startups bring about solutions to the environmental crisis and other positive change through business. Today, we’re introducing you to one of those...
Patagonia Partners with Buffalo Ranchers to Restore the Great Plains
August 11, 2015
Buffalo Jerky Rejects Factory Farm Model; Launches in Storesby Corey Simpson Patagonia Provisions has launched a groundbreaking partnership with Dan and Jill O’Brien of Wild Idea Buffalo to conserve and restore the grasslands of South Dakota, while...
NuMat Technologies: Investing in the Future of Energy
June 22, 2015
by Corey Simpson Most people think about energy consumption in terms of concrete usage – we use it to power things, run our cars and heat our homes. But what about the energy required for storage and distribution of…energy? Through $20 Million...
NPR: Patagonia Tests the Limits of Sustainability
April 2, 2015
On Thursday, the venture fund for outdoor clothing company Patagonia announced an investment of more than $1 million in a Swiss company, Beyond Surface Technologies (BST), that works to reduce the impact of textile chemicals on the environment....
Patagonia Invests in the Business of Science to Help the Environmental Crisis
April 2, 2015
Through our $20 Million & Change venture fund, we’re investing in a groundbreaking company working to create better chemistry for outdoor apparel that helps the planetby Corey Simpson Chemicals are a required component in achieving the high...
Patagonia & Kina’ole Invest $27 Million in Solar for Hawai’i
October 15, 2014
Investment will make clean, affordable solar power available to more Hawaii residents, who currently pay 3X average U.S. price for power from coal and oilby Adam Fetcher Patagonia today announced a $13 million tax equity investment in solar power for...
Patagonia Invests in California Safe Soil
September 1, 2014
by Corey Simpson Patagonia is a new investor in California Safe Soil. The investment was made through Patagonia’s 20 Million and Change program. This program does one thing – use “business to help solve the environmental...
Patagonia Invests in Efficient Textile Processing Company, C02 Nexus
April 21, 2014
Cutting-edge Startup Provides Enhanced Cleaning Platform Using Zero Water & Less Energyby Adam Fletcher Patagonia today announced a strategic investment in CO2Nexus, Inc., a company that has developed a sustainable method of processing (cleaning,...
WSJ: Companies Boost Start-up Spending
April 5, 2014
Patagonia was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal article titled “Companies Boost Startup Spending” focusing on the growing trend of Venture Capital funds. Below is the excerpt about Patagonia. Read the full article here.by John...
FastCo: Patagonia Launches a Venture Fund for Environmentally Responsible Starups
May 13, 2013
Called $20 Million & Change, the new fund will help spread Patagonia’s lessons about being a responsible company through investments in like-minded businesses.
Bloomberg: Patagonia’s Latest Product
May 6, 2013
The retailer mixes commerce and ideology. Its investments will, too.
Introducing Patagonia’s New Venture Fund
May 5, 2013
I don’t like to think of myself as a businessman. I’ve made no secret that I hold a fairly skeptical view of the business world. That said, Patagonia, the company my wife and I founded four decades ago, has grown up to — by global standards...