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The Cleanest Line: Tin Shed Ventures – Funding the Next Generation of Responsible Businesses
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...
The future of clothes: These 3 startups help you rent or resell everyday items
CaaStle, ThredUp, and Trove are challenging the idea that newer is better when it comes to clothes.
As fashion churns out more ‘sustainable’ goods, why is so much made from plastic?
Recycled plastic waste is working its way into brands’ sustainable collections, but experts say there need to be better options.
Costa Sunglasses Launches Untangled Collection using Bureo Recycled Fishnets
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...
Bureo & Humanscale Launch First-Ever Task Chair Made with Recycled Fishing Nets
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
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...
NuMat and Versum Materials Announce Global Commercial Alliance
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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.
The Cleanest Line: Living in Southern Chile with Bureo co-founder Ben Kneppers
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
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
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...
Patagonia Invests in the Business of Science to Help the Environmental Crisis
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
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
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
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
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...
Introducing Patagonia’s New Venture Fund
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...