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XXXX. is a multi-national fintech company headquartered in London with offices in Canada, USA, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Founded in 2022.

Summary - Nature Fintech

XXXX is a disruptive fintech company for the natural asset economy - building natural infrastructure for capital markets and communities.?

Who we serve:?

1. Investors - consumer, HNWI, family offices and institutional.?
2. Communities and foundations.??
3. Indigenous nations, governments, and corporations.?

Challenge

The financial system is not currently configured to finance large system-level capital projects for nature. Venture capital, private equity and other institutional investment vehicles are unable to reach far enough upstream to unlock natural asset innovation - the misalignment in the system exists for the following reasons:?

1. Scale - Projects that protect, restore and improve the productive capability of ecosystem services have tended to be too small and piecemeal to attract large private and institutional investors, and come with a large number of participants making it difficult for these organisations to engage with.?
2. Risk/ Return - Externalities have not been fully transparent or priced in, making it incredibly difficult for fund managers to find investments at scale that offer market level returns and certain ecological performance. There are also multiple sources of debt and equity, each often with their own risk profile and expectation of return.?
3. Timeframes - Longer-time horizon projects with innovative solutions for accruing the benefits from improving the productive capability of ecosystem services are often not compatible with the timeframes in which private finance expects a return.
4. Policy & Taxes - There was a mindset that externalities could only be addressed through policy and the approach to date has been policy based with taxes and regulation, but this has resulted in major underfunding:?
5. Biodiversity - $600-800Bn?
6. Climate change - $3-5Tn
7. With a circular economy this becomes an order of magnitude more
8. There is pushback against taxes, project developers don’t see the benefit in the cost?
9. ESG, SRI, Impact Investing - ESG is greenwashing and ineffective in shifting capital flows to large nature-based projects; Philanthropy cannot move capital fast enough; Impact Investing has not delivered the pricing in of externalities
10. Markets for Carbon, Biodiversity, Green Bonds - Artificial markets that do not generate the amounts of capital needed
11. Natural Capital Frameworks - Do not focus on the underlying asset that is valuable which is required to transform the amounts of capital for large nature-based projects?
12. Degrowth Narrative - “Not practical” for investors?

Solution

A high trust and efficient system that leverages the public markets to enable capital to flow into real assets that serve people and the planet while delivering solid and safe returns on investment.?

New investment vehicles that generate large upstream capital flows for natural infrastructure projects and which are accessible to consumer investors. Enabling critical local projects that support ecosystem services, viable industries, local jobs as well as provide sovereignty and economic rights for communities, and governance to protect the commons.?

Our solution allows for aggregation of ecosystem services and stakeholders at scale and access to innovative products and liquidity that build trust with non accredited investors and financial institutions.?

Sovereign Natural Asset Companies (sNACs) - Based on the NAC but with a focus on local sovereignty - a percentage of the rights to the productive value of ecosystem services is reserved for the local communities in that area.

SPACs - To acquire businesses for local benefit.

Sovereign Natural Asset Funds (sNAFs) - Project specific funds mandated to protect the commons for local communities.?

Local Sovereignty Index -?

Stakeholder Management System - High trust system that aggregates multiple independent ecosystem services and stakeholders for each natural area to provide accountability, reporting, compliance and outcomes at the scale required by capital markets.?

Data & Analytics Tool-?

By using their money to invest in nature-based, socially responsible companies and sell stocks when they think a company is not serving the best interest of people and the planet, retail investors start to change the financial and economic systems as well as reverse the climate and ecological crisis.

XXXX is leveraging the work of the Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG) on Natural Asset Companies that was developed in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and IDB, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), leading accounting firms, and Bob Herz (FASB). This provides the groundwork for natural infrastructure as an asset class by focusing on the underlying asset that is valuable.?

Natural asset companies open up opportunities and provide the data to give retail investors what they need to make better-informed decisions regarding the allocation of resources, transforming the amounts of capital allocated to nature-based projects en masse.?

Market - Natural Asset Economy and Nature Markets?

The total asset value of nature’s economy is close to 8X greater than the entire asset value of the traditional economy.?

The $95 trillion global economy depends 100% on nature and what it produces. Nature-based markets, including agriculture, voluntary carbon credits, conservation projects, and nature-based solutions for carbon sequestration, could be worth more than $7 trillion per year, making them equivalent to 8.6% of global GDP (Taskforce on Nature Markets Report - ‘Nature in an era of crises’).?

Business Model?

The business of XXXX is to deploy investment opportunities rooted in local sovereignty resulting in a better financial future for our clients and community wellbeing.?

Our local investment strategy guarantees XXXX first mover advantage, attracting "all"? investors seeking the addition of local investing for the first time to their portfolios through our unique fintech and risk mitigated offerings.?

To accomplish our mission we operate a for profit and a nonprofit. Two entities independently governed that function in tandem, and pursue a common mission of local self-reliance and share a common vision of local sovereignty through wealth creation and community wellbeing.

The business of the for profit asset manager is to operate as an investment management company with a mandate to deploy investments en masse at the local level supported through our “unique to us” pre-existing global network.?

Investment Management Company (asset managers)

• Sovereign Natural Asset Companies (sNACs)
• Sovereign Natural Asset Funds (sNAFs)?
• Special-purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC/CPC)
• Search Funds
• Revenue: Fee for service

The business of the non for profit is to be our continuous improvement engine focused on building the ecosystem of local projects, partnerships, unrestricted grants, and global resources (for example: governance, tool stacks, stakeholder coordination, authentic trust by design, leading under pressure coaching, venture builder network, rapid applied research commercialisation, kitchen table approaches, etc) as well as an evolving focus on industry standards and the continuous implementation and improvement of local investing best practices. For example: our local sovereignty index and local investment thesis.??

Non Profit?

• Project & Resource Marketplace
• Local Sovereignty Index
• Stakeholder Management System
• Data & Analytics Tool?
• Community Engagement
• Unrestricted Grants
• Revenue: Product licencing, service fees, and unsolicited donations

Questions: [email protected] or 017789661250