Investing in what we depend on.
A $5M philanthropic vehicle paired with a $50M investment fund — building a regional portfolio in one of the most consequential bioregions in North America.
A financial model built around real places.
Most capital treats a region as a list of separate deals. We invest the way a place actually works — food, water, energy, housing, land, and local business — so each dollar strengthens the next. North Carolina is our flagship; the model is built to travel.
One of the most consequential bioregions in North America — compounding economically, and rich in natural capital.
#1
Growth + business
U.S. state for net domestic migration, and CNBC's #1 Top State for Business 2025.
$20B+
Committed industrial capex
EV and critical-minerals investment, anchored by Toyota's largest battery plant outside Japan.
2.5M
Watershed
People who depend on the Catawba–Wateree watershed.
The deeper economic and ecological case, we share in conversation.
Separate by design. Parallel in purpose.
Two vehicles, built in parallel. Catalytic philanthropy unlocks the deals markets can't yet price — the fund follows with patient capital to scale them.
The catalyst
$5M
Philanthropic vehicle
First-loss protection, recoverable grants, and ecosystem grants — de-risking the fund and seeding what markets won't reach alone.
Alongside it
$50M
Resilient Futures Fund I
Income, growth, and venture capital deployed as one coordinated portfolio across the regional system.
Four areas, one connected chain.
Capital flows from soil to building to home as a single regional strategy.
01
Circular Materials & Industry
Closing the loop on regional supply chains — turning byproducts into inputs for the next industry up the chain.
02
Real Estate & Housing
Workforce and mixed-use housing that keeps the region affordable as it grows, anchored in walkable places.
03
Food & Agriculture
Regenerative producers, regional processing, and the distribution that connects farms to the markets nearby.
04
Health & Wellness
Preventive, place-based health and well-being — the human infrastructure a growing region depends on.
How the portfolio is built.
The fund deploys across three return-and-risk profiles as one coordinated portfolio, with the catalytic vehicle feeding pipeline into all three.
Income
Real assets & infrastructure
Land, housing, and circular industrial assets that generate cash flow and anchor the regional balance sheet.
Growth
Regional operators
Established businesses across food, materials, and health that scale within the bioregion.
Venture
New regional infrastructure
Early-stage companies building the systems — processing, logistics, energy, data — a resilient bioregion will run on.
The catalytic vehicle de-risks and originates deals across all three sleeves.
Built on a decade in the region.
Nearly a decade on the ground in North Carolina — authoring public-sector strategy and capitalizing local enterprises — led by a cross-disciplinary team built to do real deals in real places.
Kathryn (Katie) Hoffman
Partner · Fund Lead
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Eva Gladek
Founder, Metabolic
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Jennifer Germaine
Partner · Real Estate
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Raj Kalia
Partner · Investments
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Co-Lab partners
MetabolicBlueprint for ImpactEnvision CharlotteDark Matter Labs
Back the catalytic layer. Or come in alongside.
The $5M philanthropic vehicle is what makes the rest possible. We'd welcome a conversation with partners ready to move first — for investment or for philanthropy.