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A Global Turning Point for Circularity 🌍 #TheGlobalCircularityProtocol (#GCP) has just been launched at COP30 Brazil — marking a historic milestone for the global circular economy. Spearheaded by the WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC), and the One Planet Network (OPN) — and backed by over 50 global corporations including IKEA, Philips, and Apple — the #GCP establishes the world’s first standardized framework for measuring and reporting on circularity. ♻️ Rooted in Systems Thinking The GCP recognizes that material use and impact are shaped by interactions across four interconnected systems: corporate, environmental, economic, and social. It targets four main considerations: ✅ Close the loop – reduce virgin resource use and minimize waste ✅ Narrow & slow the loop – optimize material consumption and extend product life ✅ Impact of the loop – connect circularity to climate, nature, and social benefits ✅ Value the loop – quantify economic value and competitiveness 🤝 Built for Collaboration, Designed for Scale Circularity is systemic — it requires engaging partners, suppliers, policymakers, and value networks to close, narrow, and extend loops. The GCP facilitates collaborative action and scales circular solutions across R-strategies (refuse, rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle, recover). According to the 2024 Global Impact Analysis, the GCP has the potential to deliver unprecedented benefits across environmental, social, and economic dimensions: 🌱 76 gigatons CO₂-eq emissions reduced 🌫️ 11–12% annual reduction in PM2.5 air pollution (2026–2050) ♻️ 120 billion tons of materials saved At Regeneration.VC, we’ve been anticipating this shift. Our Circular and Regenerative Impact & Sustainability Protocol (CRISP: https://lnkd.in/eMytHwcF) — developed with Circle Economy, a GCP contributor — already measures Linear Resource Use Avoided (LRUA) across companies in our portfolio. We’re proud to be aligning with the GCP and help define the next era of measurable, regenerative impact. 🔗 Explore our latest Impact Report: https://lnkd.in/eMytHwcF 🔗 Learn more about the GCP: https://lnkd.in/eK8BVWWa #CircularEconomy #GlobalCircularityProtocol #Sustainability #RegenerativeEconomy #SystemsChange #ImpactMeasurement #CircularMetrics #ESG #SustainabilityReporting #GHGProtocol #RegenerationVC #CRISPFramework #CircularInvesting #ImpactInvesting #MeasurableImpact

Celebrating Greyparrot making headlines on CBS this week 📺🇺🇸 Reporter Bradley Blackburn visited Murphy Road Recycling’s “All-American MRF” in Connecticut, where VAN DYK Recycling Solutions helped launch Greyparrot’s first Analyzer installation in the US 🚀 Greyparrot has more than 187 Analyzer live units identifying over 100 billion waste objects across 20+ countries. These real-time #WasteIntelligence units enable recyclers like Murphy Road to substantially increase efficiency. We’re proud to back innovators like Greyparrot, redefining what’s possible at the intersection of AI, climate, and resource recovery. #RegenerationVC #Greyparrot #AI #ClimateTech #CircularEconomy #RecyclingInnovation https://lnkd.in/gxcq33Q8

BIG NEWS‼️ Regeneration.VC led an oversubscribed $10M Series A investment in Hullbot, a #DeepTech company decarbonizing maritime activity through world-leading underwater intelligence 🌊 Responsible for carrying 80% of global trade, maritime shipping accounts for 3% of GHG emissions and 80% of invasive species transfer. Driving this footprint is the drag caused by biofouling, an accumulation of organic growth on a ship’s hull and other submerged surfaces. While low-carbon fuels and electrification remain years out from scaled commercial deployment, the multibillion-dollar opportunity lies in plain sight: maintain a clean hull. Hullbot reimagines hull maintenance as an autonomous service powered by breakthrough physical AI. Proprietary underwater vision navigation system “Theia” enables the fleet to maneuver, adapt, and clean with surgical precision, while compounding subsea datasets and delivering radical efficiency improvements over incumbents. As the business soars past 1,000 paid cleanings, Hullbot has earned its gold standard reputation within the passenger ferries beachhead market. Across geographies, vessel types, and coatings, customers are confirming unprecedented 10-26% fuel savings. Series A proceeds support next-generation product development, fleet expansion, and commercial coverage in top global ports. We’re joined by a global syndicate of mission-aligned investors including Katapult Ocean, Climate Tech Partners, Oceankind, Folklore Ventures, and Rypples. 🇦🇺 Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Hullbot is led by Co-Founder & CEO Tom Loefler, an industrial engineer and naval architect by training, with support from a passionate team of roboticists, engineers, and marine enthusiasts. On behalf of Series A investors, Regeneration Principal Destana Herring joins Hullbot’s Board of Directors, with Partner Jamie Rowles serving as Board Observer. Thanks Katie Fehrenbacher and team Axios for sharing the good word! #PhysicalAI #Robotics #Oceans

🚀 Big news! Our portfolio company Colorifix just won H&M Group's New Growth & Ventures "Achievement of the Year award" alongside Klarna at H&M Group Ventures' third annual Entrepreneurs Day. By "making the impossible possible everyday,” Colorifix is rewriting the rules of textile dyeing. Using advanced synthetic biology, they’ve engineered microbes that produce color pigments and fix them onto fabrics. The result? A dyeing process that dramatically reduces chemical use, slashes water and energy consumption, and maintains industry-quality standards. Their technology addresses one of fashion’s biggest sustainability challenges—textile dyeing is notorious for massive water use and pollution. To get this award is a testament to the hard work, vision and impact-driven mindset of the Colorifix team. Congratulations to the whole Colorifix squad, recently celebrated at the Entrepreneur’s Day and Dinner ceremony in Stockholm. 🌱 #Sustainability #ClimateTech #FashionTech #ImpactInvesting #Regeneration #Colorifix #HM

AI + action = real impact… Orbisk | Zero Food Waste provides both. ✅ Meet Orbisk | Zero Food Waste, the new platform that translates food waste data into cost-saving, waste-cutting actions. Orbisk equips professional kitchens around the world with an AI and image recognition technology system to reduce food waste. The company installs a smart camera on kitchen bins to automatically identify and weigh food waste, then provides data and actionable insights to help chefs understand where and why waste is happening, and make targeted changes. The system helps businesses save money and improve efficiency while advancing their sustainability goals. Orbisk operates in the hospitality industry and works with major hotel chains such as Accor, Hyatt, and NH Hotels, as well as catering services and cruise lines such as Carnival Cruise. Orbisk lets chefs focus on what they know best. 🔪 🍳 No noise. Zero guesswork. 📊 Orbisk offers clear, practical ways to cut food waste and boost efficiency. 🌟That's the type of quantifiable impact that Regeneration.VC stands behind. #orbisk #orbiskzerofoodwaste #regenerationvc

What happens when investors, innovators, scientists, and policymakers come together to accelerate systems change? 🌏 The ReAssembly — powered by Regeneration.VC — united a global coalition of leaders rethinking production and consumption systems. From regenerative agriculture and circular design to the state of the planet and the role of corporates and family offices, this was a day filled with proof that progress accelerates when business aligns with planetary and human health. ⭐ Watch the full recap video below and join us as we continue to expand the ecosystem working for humanity to thrive within the safe operating space. --> LINK: https://lnkd.in/gs5m8tem Thank you to our partners, speakers, and attendees who helped make The ReAssembly one of Climate Week’s most inspiring gatherings: FloWater, Solgaard Design Inc., Gigablue, Phocus Creative Group & rePurpose Global. 🍃 👏 #TheReAssembly #ClimateWeekNYC #ImpactInvesting #CircularEconomy

🌿 Europe: The World’s Conscious Consumer Lab 🌿 We were thrilled to have Jamie Rowles, Partner at Regeneration VC, speak at EUVC Live powered by Woven Capital in Malmö — spotlighting why consumer climate tech is one of Europe’s biggest climate opportunities. Jamie shared how: 🍃 Europe’s 450M consumers make it a powerful testing ground for climate-forward innovation. 🍃The consumer economy (fashion, food, electronics, beauty) is a major emissions driver — and ripe for regeneration. 🍃 Europe’s cultural leadership, regulatory strength, and global brands give it a unique edge in driving circular solutions. His key takeaway: Europe isn’t just a market — it’s a living experiment in regenerative consumer capitalism. When design, values, and innovation align, what we buy can become a force for planetary good. #RegenerationVC #ClimateTech #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ImpactInvesting #ConsumerInnovation 🎧 Listen to Jamie’s full session here: https://lnkd.in/gwcDFv8b

We're so excited to share that the Greyparrot Analyzer has been named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2025! Our team is hugely proud and excited by the news! TIME is recognizing The Analyzer and its power to transform how the world sees and manages waste. The AI-powered Analyzer, now in recycling facilities across 20+ countries, scans waste in real time to generate waste intelligence - revealing what’s truly being recycled and what’s being lost. With 100 billion items analysed in 2025 alone, Greyparrot is helping recyclers recover more, brands design better packaging, and policymakers drive a truly circular economy. This is the next big conversation in climate action: moving beyond carbon and using waste intelligence to track, recover, and reuse the products we make. Incredible to see an innovation we strongly believe in making a global impact, and solidifying Waste Intelligence. 🌍 #TIMEBestInventions

This week, Leonardo Di Caprio, one of Regeneration.VC Strategic Advisors, featured Cruz Foam on his YouTube channel! The film “Built to Vanish - Circular Solutions for Generations to Come” focuses media attention on building a healthier future… for our oceans, our climate, and generations to come. Cruz Foam produces a compostable alternative to synthetic styrofoam that decomposes in less than 8 weeks. For Cruz's Founder and CEO, John Felts, the ideation process that began with building a sustainable surfboard triggered a scalable foam solution to replace millions of tons of single-use plastic packaging. From the waves 🌊 to the drawing board ✍️, Cruz Foam was born in collaboration with nature. 🌱🌱🌱 Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/eABu5mHp #RegenerationVC #biomaterials #foodwaste

We are thrilled to announce that Matter has been named a 2025 Earthshot Prize Finalist in the Revive Our Oceans category!🌍 The Earthshot Prize With more than 171 trillion microplastics polluting our oceans, the challenge has never been greater. Matter develops filtration technology that prevents microplastics from entering waterways, capturing particles in both domestic washing machines and industrial textile production. The company just brought to market with BSH (Bosch & Siemens) a consumer-grade microfibre filter for washing machines. At industrial scale, Matter’s filter is set to launch with Paradise Textiles (Alpine Group) later this year, marking one of the first integrations of microplastic capture directly into textile mills. At Regeneration.VC, we are so proud to support Matter, the third company in our portfolio to join the remarkable cohort of Earthshot Prize Finalists. Matter will be celebrated among an incredible cohort of visionary changemakers at The Earthshot Prize Summit in Rio de Janeiro this November, where the winners will be announced and receive a £1 million prize to scale their impact. Here’s to driving change where it matters most, and to the meaningful partnerships that amplify the impact of visionaries like Adam Root . 🌍 🌍 🌍 Check out Matter’s latest press release: https://lnkd.in/eEsuNnkn Watch the full announcement video on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e_x3EKCA #EarthshotPrize2025 #ReviveOurOceans