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S2:E9 – From Funds to Capital Orchestration with Ivana Gazibara from the TransCap Initiative


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What is systemic investing, and how does capital orchestration move real dollars to real acres? 

Ivana Gazibara, Director of Prototyping at the Transformational Capital Initiative (TransCap), joins Sami and Patrick to unpack their Midwest blueprint for scaling regenerative agriculture. 

We cover TransCap’s transition map (and some of the barriers it surfaced), why another fund isn’t enough, and how a neutral platform can align philanthropy, catalytic, and commercial capital around shovel-ready deals. 

We also touch on metrics of success and why capital deployed is less important than acres impacted.

🔗 Resources mentioned in the episode

TransCap Initiative (Transformation Capital Initiative) - https://transformation.capital/

Systemic Finance for Regenerative Agriculture (Transcap article introducing the capital orchestrator concept) https://medium.com/transformation-capital/systemic-finance-for-regenerative-agriculture-b8f74845be1c

Transcap’s System Map of Regenerative Agriculture in the Midwest - https://transcap.kumu.io/financing-the-regenerative-agriculture-transition-in-the-midwest

New Capitalism Project Lab – funder collaborative supporting TransCap’s work - https://newcapitalismproject.org/

ReFED – an analog capital orchestrator - https://refed.org/

GroundBreak Coalition (McKnight Foundation) – another analog capital orchestrator - https://groundbreakcoalition.org/

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