Aera Force: An Overview
The Overview
Aera Force Season 1 is an experimental DAO that is part venture fund, part DAO community and fully focused on helping catalyse a regenerative future for our planet. 🌏
The DAO’s first investment syndicate of 2000 ETH will invest in early stage innovations that leverage blockchain technology to accelerate a regenerative future, while building a formidable community that will shape the future. The Aera DAO is made of up a global community of climate founders, investors, scientists, and champions dedicated to bringing about a brighter future. Members of the DAO will be able to collectively source and diligence deals, decide on where to allocate capital where the biggest climate impact and returns can be achieved.
At this time, investing in the syndicate is only open to accredited investors, supported by a KYC process and on-chain verification. However, non-investors can participate and earn through bounties that benefit the community.
The Opportunity
Web3-powered companies can rapidly scale to underpin global platforms for building a sustainable and regenerative future - the ocean economy, energy management, and carbon markets (to name a few) will all dramatically benefit from blockchain-enabled innovations. The ability for web3 to offer transparent unchangeable accounting, tracking of assets, and scalability across national borders opens avenues for innovations that can drastically reduce, offset and avoid CO2 and global warming.
Particularly, the features of web3 — that companies can offer micro-payments, transparent and unchangeable transaction history, and incentives outside traditional finance — create the possibility for new business models to help usher in a net zero future.
Aera VC and Gotham Labs: History of Backing World-Changers
🌏 Pioneering climate venture fund, Aera VC, was incubated by the Aera Foundation charitable trust to accelerate a sustainable future. The Aera Force DAO is a project of the Foundation and venture fund, in collaboration with Gotham Labs. Aera VC’s fund has a history of generating extraordinary returns through backing climate breakthroughs changing the future of food, fashion, and chemistry.
🦄 Our very first investment from 2017, Solugen, creates chemicals from plants and air instead of fossil fuels. It has become one of the stars using synthetic biology to address major climate challenges reaching $1.8 billion valuation in less than 5 years.
💙 Gotham Labs is ushering in breakthrough web3 platforms such as Dream DAO, listed by Coinbase as a Leading DAO of 2021 for impact and change.
Currently, the #refi (regenerative finance) blockchain ecosystem is emerging and innovating at a rapid pace — with Regen Network, Klima, and Toucan lighting the way. We seek to accelerate regenerative startups by bringing a core team of passionate climate researchers and investors leveraging all forms of expertise, while learning from and giving the community a platform to invest in the most impactful projects. This syndicate both accelerates the success of the ecosystem and has the potential to decentralize to run upon thousands of climate scientists, founders, investors, and advocates’ programs to drive climate impact at scale.
The Future of Our Community
We are building the Aera Force community to take a small first step into the regenerative finance space but have bold dreams. Leveraging Aera’s expertise, we will pave the way investing in this uncharted area while the community grows and hope to partner with the very best web3 companies to help them scale their solutions for our planet.
In the future, many investing projects, mini-funds, non-profit activations, incubators or initiatives may emerge from the Aera Force DAO.
How Can You Get Involved?
If you want to get involved, join our discord to learn how you can contribute, follow our Twitter page, and show your support by publicizing our hard launch on February 22nd by sharing out social media.
If you’ve come across this document, we trust you are interested enough to become an early investor in the fund or join the Aera Force as an early champion.
For non-investors still passionate about shaping climate change, this is your planet and finance transition too. You could earn rewards from contributing to the Aera Force DAO and it’s startups. Email our core team or join the Discord channel to see how you can leverage your skills in technical diligence, sourcing exceptional founders, or a variety of research.