Green Sprouts — Venture Capital

Our Approach

Systems-first. Human-values grounded. Patient.

We invest across climate tech and energy transition, intelligent systems, robotics and automation, health tech, infrastructure modularization, and tokenized real assets. Our approach is systems-first, grounded in human-values frameworks, and guided by a proprietary decision model that integrates venture fundamentals, long-horizon risk signals, and real-world constraints.

We invest with a 7 to 10 year horizon, partnering with founders building with long-term intent and a clear sense of purpose.

Applied Credibility

Our founder brings direct experience translating capital-intensive, high-uncertainty systems under regulation and price volatility from oil and gas economics into venture economics. Capex and opex translate to burn and build. Decline curves translate to growth decay and saturation curves. Reserve quality translates to addressable market quality. This is applied credibility across asset classes.

Human-Values Frameworks

Our evaluation model integrates venture fundamentals with a proprietary decision layer built on systems thinking, human-values frameworks, specifically Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Schwartz's theory of basic human values, and long-horizon risk signals.

Equitable Exchange

We invest in Canadian ventures that build connections both inside and outside of Canada, and we open pathways for global innovation, progress, and ways of thinking to flow into Canadian markets. This is equitable exchange of value across regions.

Non-Obvious Alpha

We see value in succession and generational transition, where founders do not want to sell to traditional private equity, where legacy businesses fail to modernize, and where values alignment matters during ownership transfer. This is a quiet but significant source of opportunity.

Investment Principles

Nine principles that guide every decision.

Each principle carries distinct meaning. Together they form a cohesive framework for how we evaluate, deploy, and steward capital.

Systems-Based, First-Principles Investing +

We evaluate ventures by examining inputs, outputs, and system interactions through human-values frameworks.

We invest from first principles, examining the quality of inputs, the integrity of outputs, and how ventures interact with the human, environmental, and economic systems they operate within. Our evaluation is grounded in human-values frameworks, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Schwartz's theory of basic human values, integrating alignment between founder values, venture mission, investor values, and the communities these ventures serve.

Translation From Oil and Gas to Venture Economics +

We apply decades of experience evaluating complex systems under pressure to venture investing.

Green Sprouts is built on decades of evaluating capital-intensive, high-uncertainty systems under regulation and price volatility. The asset class is different. The evaluation discipline is the same. Capex and opex translate to burn and build. Decline curves translate to growth decay and saturation curves. Reserve quality translates to addressable market quality. Operational leverage translates to unit economics sensitivity. Tail risk events translate to black-swan, policy, and supply-chain shocks. Green Sprouts already knows how to read complex systems under pressure. We apply that fluency to ventures.

Living Data Systems +

We build continuously evolving intelligent systems that connect disparate signals into actionable insight, augmenting intuition with evidence.

Data at Green Sprouts flows in as information and flows out as value, knowledge, and connected insight. We build on emerging intelligent systems to create live knowledge graphs that connect signals across social sentiment, commodity cycles, geopolitical events, and founder behavioral patterns, revealing connections invisible in isolation. These systems evolve continuously. Data augments intuition with evidence. Intuition gives data context. Together, within an adaptive infrastructure, they form a complete and evolving signal layer for investment decisions.

Adaptive Systems +

We favor ventures building modular, evolving systems that reorganize as conditions change.

We favor ventures building adaptive, evolving, modular systems that can reorganize as conditions change. Where tokenization removes friction in the real economy, gives agency to underserved participants, or bridges old capital with new infrastructure, that is investable territory.

Human Transition as an Investment Thesis +

We invest in ventures enabling people to transition into new forms of work, contribution, and purpose as technology reshapes traditional roles.

As technology displaces traditional work roles, how humans transition through this shift becomes one of the defining system-level challenges and opportunities of our time. Green Sprouts invests in ventures that enable this transition, building the tools, platforms, and systems that allow people to move into new forms of work, contribution, and purpose.

Capital as Infrastructure, Coordination, and Signal +

We deploy capital where it strengthens the systems it enters.

We deploy capital where it strengthens the systems it enters. Capital at Green Sprouts functions as infrastructure, coordination, and signal. Allocation decisions are grounded in where capital can meaningfully contribute to durable system formation.

Equitable Exchange of Value +

We invest with the conviction that all regions have value to offer, and capital flows as equitable exchange across markets.

We invest with the conviction that all regions have value to offer. Capital flows through Green Sprouts as equitable exchange, opening pathways for innovation, progress, and ways of thinking to move across markets and communities.

Patient Wealth Creation +

We invest with a 7 to 10 year horizon, pursuing abundance without depletion.

We invest with a 7 to 10 year horizon, guided by the belief that durable wealth emerges when capital is patient, aligned, and grounded in how complex systems actually function. We pursue abundance without depletion, building wealth that circulates and compounds human and ecological capacity over time.

Scale With Integrity +

We support growth that preserves system coherence as ventures scale.

We partner with founders who build with long-term intent and a clear sense of purpose, and we support growth that preserves system coherence as ventures scale.

The Platform

Two complementary pillars.

Green Sprouts operates across two complementary pillars: venture capital for wealth creation and a philanthropy platform for wealth stewardship.

Pillar One

Wealth Creation

Early-stage, systems-level ventures across climate, infrastructure, social transformation, and deep tech. Capital deployed with discipline, patience, and adaptability, guided by long-horizon system signals.

Where should we place capital to shape the future?

Pillar Two

Wealth Stewardship

Designed for family offices, private foundations, and individuals navigating legacy, identity, and next-generation transition. Decision-grade philanthropy through cause mapping aligned to values, systems, and geography.

What responsibility does this capital carry right now?

Capital Stack View

Green Sprouts holds a rare and honest perspective across the full capital stack: the interplay between philanthropy as a de-risking force, venture capital as a capacity builder, and the discipline to step back when neither is appropriate. This clarity positions Green Sprouts as a partner in discernment for those navigating how capital should move across investment, philanthropy, and legacy.

Young Founder Award

$100,000. No strings attached.

Each year, Green Sprouts selects one young founder to receive $100,000 as a no-strings-attached award. This is not an investment. It is a commitment to allowing an entrepreneurial mind to flourish and build whatever they choose, setting them up for success on their own terms.

Directing capital into high-impact ventures building adaptive, evolving systems for long-term wealth creation.