Santa Cruz Accelerates #11: Seeds
Santa Cruz Works is excited to share some of the applicants who have applied to our Santa Cruz Accelerates Program. We will be featuring a handful of startups each week!
Will Wiseman (left), Alba Forns (right)
Name of your startup: Seeds Renewables Inc. (referred to as Seeds)
Names of people on your team: Will Wiseman – CEO and Alba Forns – Director of Growth & Chief Climate Officer
A snapshot of the problem your startup will solve to make the world a better place:
Eco-anxiety is on the rise and many people don’t think they have the tools to make a difference. But now with Seeds, fighting climate change has never been easier. Every time you use your credit card, you’re investing your spare change into profitable and sustainable assets such as community solar and wind, energy efficiency upgrades, EV fleets and charging infrastructure, circular economy and clean water technologies. By creating an investment marketplace focused on the growing volume of the environmental movement, we are leveraging the nature of the environmental movement and deploying an unaddressed tool to fight the climate crisis – the opportunity to incentivize collective action. The options you currently have to reduce your personal carbon footprint all require a varying degree of sacrifice such as eliminating meat from your diet or making a large investment to buy an electric vehicle or energy efficient appliances. For many people these options are either too hard, too expensive or limited by their housing situation. What Seeds is doing creates a new option; one which rewards you for the more environmental action you take. By bringing the minimum investment down to just $0.01, we are bringing impact investing within reach of everyone while creating a savings account that will save the world. Seeds is empowering the public to shift from neutral bystanders into active stakeholders - essentially making every citizen a climate-conscious asset owner.
“Santa Cruz has a flourishing entrepreneurial community with a unique combination of mission driven morals and operational experience. We are excited to learn from the SC Works team and connect with fellow innovators in the community.”
To learn more about our Accelerates Program or apply, click the link below.