Conservation International Ventures

AGRI3 Fund is offering credit enhancement instruments and technical assistance to support the transition to more sustainable agricultural value chains and to prevent deforestation. AGRI3 Fund provides guarantees to commercial banks and other financial organizations, as well as subordinated loans to customers.

Blue Ocean Gear designs and builds GPS tracking buoys capable of surviving the brutal operational demands of the modern fixed gear fisher. Our patented SmartBuoy product suite allows fishers, aquaculture farmers and ocean scientists to track and monitor data from their gear anytime and anywhere, enhancing operational efficiency and profitability by reducing fuel costs and lost gear while gaining previously unavailable insights into the local ocean conditions. Our 'IoT for the oceans' also directly address the environmental impacts of lost gear and entanglements.

Sway is a clean tech startup scaling seaweed-based, home-compostable packaging. Their patented products match the vital performance attributes of conventional plastics and are designed to plug into existing infrastructure, enabling scale and massive impact. Unlike plastic, however, their materials are made from an abundant, regenerative resource and decompose into healthy soil after use. In 2023, Sway won first place in the TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize. In 2021, Sway also won the Beyond the Bag Challenge sponsored by Closed Loop Partners and a consortium of major retailers. Sway’s solutions have garnered recognition from Vogue, Condé Nast, Forbes, Business Insider, and Fast Company. As a member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and 1% for the Planet, Sway is working holistically to scale their product for a thriving, equitable future. Sway is headquartered in the California Bay Area. Learn more at swaythefuture.com.

SafetyNet designs, builds, and tests light emitting devices to increase the selectivity of commercial fishing practices, which helps making the industry more sustainable. It is building LED systems to enable experimentation into how light can segregate between ages and species of fish, and intends to apply that knowledge to create a simple set of lights to help fishermen catch the right fish.

JALA is transforming the shrimp industry by offering a vastly improved management system. With data-driven farming in mind, the company aims to get farmers to make decisions based on actual data. For that reason, its system provides water quality monitoring, and planning and reporting tools, complete with a decision support system so farmers can initiate the right treatment at the right time, based on data that has been collected and analyzed. All the data from every farm using the system is automatically sent in for collation and review in order to gain valuable insight into the industry as a whole. This data can be broken down into farm performance, production levels, and disease patterns across regions, species, and managers. Using data, JALA will make sustainable and profitable shrimp farming a common practice.