Funding the next generation of responsible businesses.
Tin Shed Ventures is Patagonia’s corporate venture capital fund, which invests in start-ups that offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Originally launched as $20 Million and Change in May 2013, Tin Shed Ventures partners with businesses focused on building renewable energy infrastructure, practicing regenerative organic agriculture, conserving water, diverting waste and creating sustainable materials.
The Tin Shed Venture fund was started out of a perception that existing models for start-up capital were broken. Traditional investors tend to focus on short-term growth and profit, then quickly flip the companies in which they invest. Tin Shed Ventures takes a completely different approach to investing. It places environmental and social returns on equal footing with financial returns and provides long-term, patient capital that helps to support forward-thinking entrepreneurs for the long haul. Overall, the Funds aim is to support like-minded start-ups that embody Patagonia’s mission statement – “We are in business to save our home planet.”
