Biodiversity Business Incubator
Business incubators are institutions that provide technical or financial services to strengthen startups and early stage enterprises. Incubators can support companies with an explicit commitment to biodiversity by hosting them in their premises and facilitating matching capital from angel investors, state governments, economic-development coalitions and other investors.
Biodiversity enterprise funds
Biodiversity Enterprise Funds are highly flexible investment funds that provide debt or equity to companies that sustainably use or protect biodiversity, such as sustainable agriculture and forestry, non-timber forest products, and ecotourism. Funds are structured to cover the typically unmet capital needs (debt, equity, quasi-equity) of a wide range of biodiversity-related businesses. They are for-profit investment vehicles that provide financial returns to their investors.