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The Model

We found, fund, and accelerate the companies that make regeneration investable.

RDC is both capital and operator. We raise blended, evergreen capital through the Planetary Regenerative Trust, then deploy it across three lanes — and stay on as the operating hub that helps each company grow.

The Five Capitals

Every investment measured across five forms of capital

Recognized under VLAS, the Verified Living Asset Standard, which defines when a verified improvement in a living system counts as an asset, across all five capitals, not just the financial one.

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Natural

Soil, water, biodiversity, carbon.

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Human

Health, knowledge, capability.

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Social

Trust, community, governance.

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Built

Infrastructure that gives back.

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Financial

Durable, recirculating returns.

Measured under VLAS

The Verified Living Asset Standard defines when a real improvement to a living system, such as soil, water, forest or habitat, can be recognized as a finance-grade asset. VLAS verifies the claim before it is recorded and tracks the asset through its lifecycle, so each capital is measured against a documented starting point, not an estimate.

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How Capital Moves

From catalytic capital to outcomes across five capitals.

Capital in

Catalytic capital, the Planetary Regenerative Trust and other LPs all flow into RDC, the operating hub that deploys capital into enabling companies.

1 · CAPITAL IN2 · NETWORK AND ACCESS3 · OUTCOMES, RETURNS Catalytic capitalGrants, concessionary The Trust (PRT)One blended Unit Other LPsFamily offices, funds RDCOperating hub The Place FundProjects, access VLASPrograms, access Your companyCapital plus the networkNaturalHumanSocialBuiltFinancial surplus reinvested
1 · Capital in
Catalytic capitalGrants, concessionary
The Trust (PRT)One blended Unit
Other LPsFamily offices, funds
RDCOperating hub
2 · Network and access
The Place FundProjects, accessVLASPrograms, access
Your companyCapital plus the network
3 · Outcomes, returns
Natural
Human
Social
Built
Financial
↺ Surplus is reinvested through RDC
We are not

A generalist fund chasing yield, a grant-maker accepting concessionary loss, or a badge for greenwashing. Regeneration and return are underwritten together — or we pass.

We are

A patient, operating capital partner that founds and holds for the long horizon — and stays inside the Nexus fund to help the company grow.

Acceptance Criteria

What a company needs to join the Nexus fund.

We back early and growth-stage companies whose success compounds the capacity of living systems. Five things tell us a company belongs in the Nexus fund.

Accelerates the mission

The company measurably advances PRT and the Trust's mission — not adjacent to it, but because of it.

Measurable across five capitals

Impact is legible in natural, human, social, built and financial terms — verifiable, not narrated.

Fits a lane

Clear placement in Lane A, B or C — so it plugs into the Nexus fund's verification, capital, and reporting.

Covenant-aligned

Founders who will accept mission-locked governance — the place is never sacrificed to the return.

Enabler leverage

Stronger inside the Nexus fund than alone — its growth lifts the whole portfolio, not just itself.

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