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Builders Initiative’s Peter Bryant Talks Investment and Philanthropic Strategy on S2G Ventures Investing in Our Oceans” Podcast


Builders Initiative is proud to work with teams across the Builders Vision impact platform on strategies that help organizations and individuals build a more humane and healthy planet. That includes the direct investment team at Builders Private Capital. Our integrated Oceans strategy includes a shared vision that was developed in partnership with S2G Ventures Oceans and Seafood Fund Managing Directors Kate Danaher and Larsen Mettler.

Our Senior Program Officer Peter Bryant, who heads our oceans philanthropic and impact investing strategy, sat down with Danaher for the very first episode of "Investing in Our Oceans" podcast to talk about his experience investing in companies and organizations working on sustainable ocean innovations and how philanthropy, impact investing, and VC can work together to support a wide range of ocean solutions. Be sure to tune in! S2G Ventures "Investing in Our Oceans" - First Episode Featuring Peter Bryant

“We believe that sus­tain­ably-man­aged and healthy ocean ecosys­tems are a pil­lar of glob­al envi­ron­men­tal recov­ery, a dri­ver of eco­nom­ic growth, and a foun­da­tion for food and cli­mate secu­ri­ty and human health. This vision cuts across a num­ber of dif­fer­ent things because it talks about the envi­ron­ment, the econ­o­my, and things that are crit­i­cal to liveli­hoods and human health for the coming decades…”

— - Peter Bryant, Senior Program Officer, Builders Initiative Oceans

“We use our mis­sion, which is shift­ing mar­kets and minds for good. On the mar­ket side, its meet­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ty where it is in its evo­lu­tion. In some cas­es, that’s grant-mak­ing to non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions to do ear­ly-stage R&D in new ideas around ocean health and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. And in some cas­es, it’s invest­ing in com­pa­nies that are doing real­ly important things…””