We are excited to welcome Single.Earth into the Icebreaker family!
Ecosystem services as a new tradable and liquid asset class
What if nature could be used as a financial instrument like gold? In a way, nature is like gold — we can’t mass-produce it and its supply is limited. However, gold seems to be valued over nature, even though the latter is essential for our survival.
“One of the reasons why nature and biodiversity have not been successful as an investment instrument is its low liquidity. We are used to selling and buying the raw materials nature produces but do not financially value its impact as a habitat to all living creatures, including ourselves,” Merit Valdsalu, Co-Founder and CEO of Single.Earth.
Turning the largest natural resources as tokenized virtual goods
Our new portfolio company Single.Earth is a platform that trades natural resources as tokenized virtual goods, such as carbon allowance and biodiversity offset. The new service enables forests, wetlands, and other natural resources to generate profit without being sold as raw materials. Tokenization of the natural resources makes healthy ecosystem services a new tradable and liquid asset class. Read more about the team’s mission from the Reuters article here.
“Our goal is to integrate natural capital, biodiversity, and carbon into the existing, commonly known and used financial market principles,” Merit Valdsalu, Co-Founder and CEO of Single.Earth.
Single.Earth marketplace opens a new era for investment instruments, which help their customers to save the world by accumulating wealth and value in something inevitable for our survival on this planet — nature. Read more about Single.Earth’s approach here.
Single.Earth is a fintech startup from Estonia with strong links to the green tech and deep tech space.
Single.Earth is a fintech startup from Estonia with strong links to the green tech and deep tech space, an international team of diverse backgrounds, driven by the passion to save the natural world.
Single.Earth was founded by Merit Valdsalu, an early team member at Pipedrive, and Andrus Aaslaid who was one of the masterminds behind making Estonia world-renowned for its e-government.
Jaan Priisalu, former head of Estonian national cybersecurity, recently joined Single.Earth as the Blockchain advisor; Jesse McCrosky, ex-Google, and ex-Mozilla, joined as the Chief Data Scientist. The team has doubled in the past six months and will continue its rapid growth to disrupt the current economy with nature-backed banking.
Invitation to join the movement
If you share Single.Earth’s enthusiasm to save our planet, you simply need to take the next steps;
- Head over to Single.Earth to sign up
- Fill our global nature reserve map with hearts and help us choose the first areas in need of immediate protection
- Share your actions with others and invite them to join the movement!
No special rules or limitations apply — it can be a forest threatened by clear-cuts near your home or a wetland that’s about to be dug up on the other side of the world. If it’s nature in danger and important to you, the team at Single.Earth wants to know!
Welcome to the Icebreaker family, team Single.Earth!
