| Description | Techstars helped realize the value of Mast Reforestation's unique financial model for funding and executing reforestation projects. This discussion will showcase how Mast’s mission to scale reforestation comes to life through our vertically integrated reforestation model. From seed to seedling to reforestation services and carbon-removal-based financing, Mast is helping landowners affected by wildfires maximize the value of their land through ecological restoration and securing financial rewards for responsible forest stewardship. Hear Mast CEO Grant Canary explain how this unique model for reforestation will continue to evolve as it helps regenerate climate-resilient, CO2-removing forests.
Grant Canary is founder and chief executive officer of Mast Reforestation, the largest vertically integrated reforestation company in the U.S. Grant has focused his entire career on sustainability—working at Vestas wind energy in China, the U.S. and Denmark, and for the U.S. Green Building Council in its infancy. He spent close to a decade founding and building a prior company in Bogotá, Colombia that utilized food waste to feed insect larvae for use as industrial fish feed— alleviating pressure on overfishing of small fish, utilizing food waste, and providing a protein source for farming fish to increase world food supplies most efficiently. Grant is a Pacific Northwest native growing up in Oregon, who then attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, and followed with a masters degree at Politecnico di Torino Italy, and then Universidad de la Sabana in Bogotá. Grant is a Mulago Foundation Fellow and a climate tech investor, and Mast is a Techstars and Elemental Excelerator cohort company.
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Fundamentals for Startups is a weekly one-hour lecture series featuring notable experts who share startup-related information, experience, and insights with our entrepreneurial community. From raising capital to scaling to exit strategies, these seasoned guest speakers deliver valuable content designed to help startups and entrepreneurs thrive. Lectures are typically 30-40 mins, followed by open Q&A.Each lecture is filmed, live streamed and archived on CoMotion’s Startup Training Videos page. These lectures are open to the public and you do not have to be currently affiliated with the UW or a startup to join. Lunch is provided while supplies last. Please register at the link above for web access information and to help us plan accordingly. We hope you can join us! |
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