Philanthropic foundation (San Francisco) providing non-dilutive funding to high-impact organisations in low-income countries. Co-funds alongside venture funds on deals with measurable impact (co-funder of Biochar Industrial Group with Breega, 2026). Grants only: relevant for an impact project that is not raising equity.
BIG installs modular pyrolysis units inside food factories to collect agricultural waste and turn it into biochar: a permanent carbon store, audit-grade carbon removal credits, and a soil amendment that restores depleted farmland and boosts crop yields. Disposal cost becomes new revenue for factories.
Why they invested
Team with a decade of hands-on industrial operating experience in Nigeria (Releaf Earth, Y Combinator)
Disposal cost becomes new revenue for factories
Audit-grade carbon removal credits, a growing market
