Consultoria Meraki

We work to channel capital toward regeneration and conservation in the Global South, empowering communities and restoring ecosystems where it matters most.

Meraki Impact is an impact-first advisory firm guiding capital toward regenerative and conservation outcomes. Focused on global regenerative food systems and impact investing in Latin America, we apply a systemic lens to capital allocation. Founded in the Netherlands, with offices in Amsterdam and São Paulo (Brazil), and over a decade of cross-regional experience, we connect investors to high-quality opportunities that generate long-term social, environmental, and financial value.

Our Vision & Mission

In delicate times within our polycrisis, when climate change threatens to break the fabric of our societies, we act with a sense of urgency and a deep-rooted conviction that we must focus our attention on the Global South and the objective reality of land restoration.

This is the region that holds, at the same time, the greatest vulnerability and the greatest potential for ecological restoration. We know from experience that a dollar invested in impact in the Global South generates far more positive outcomes than a dollar invested in the Global North.

Our vision is a balanced, ecocentric society living in harmony with nature, with significantly reduced inequalities between hemispheres. We pursue this vision by advancing the transformation of sistemas alimentares as a key pathway to ecological balance, with regenerativo agriculture serving as a central tool to restore landscapes, strengthen communities, and support life on Earth.

Our Work & Philosophy

We ground our advisory services and investment strategy in the regenerativo principle of Seva—selfless service to life. Guided by inter-being, relational responsibility, e planetary care, we place capital e human endeavor at the service of nature.

Our work is driven by a simple question:
How can capital serve nature e support planetary regeneration?

We advise investors, families, enterprises, e foundations in designing and managing portfolios that support nature, foster life, e deliver returns across asset classes, aligning capital allocation with long-term ecological and social value creation.

Our Offerings

Inspired by nature’s intelligence e efficiency, we design tailor made investment processes that allow capital to flow purposefully e effectively, while strengthening your organization’s thematic expertise e regional grounding.

We work alongside your investment team, combining rigorous due diligence with a hands-on learning journey that builds internal capacity, deepens understanding of local ecosystems, and supports confident decision-making.

Unlike traditional advisory models, our objective is to transfer knowledge e build autonomy, working as mentors until your team is fully equipped to navigate the complexity independently.

Regenerative Investment Strategy

We help translate your investment strategy into an actionable mandate based on the three horizons methodology, spanning the full spectrum of capital — from philanthropy to sustainable investments — with a special focus on systemic impact investing.

Ecosystem Integration

We guide our partners through the complexity and richness of regenerative investment opportunities, with their many branches and pathways toward balanced impact and financial returns. Using locally adapted financial instruments and our extensive network, we identify high-quality impact opportunities and support our partners in crafting investment strategies aligned with their impact ambitions and return expectations. Through our “mycelium approach,” we help build your team’s knowledge and direct relationships within the ecosystem—including local infrastructure—so your organization integrates seamlessly with trusted partners.

Pipeline Generation

Based on your specific mandate, we build a pipeline of opportunities across all asset classes and the impact spectrum. We take a systemic approach, seeking initiatives that connect multiple Sustainable Development Goals. Addressing these goals as interconnected, rather than separate, generates more effective and transformative impact.

Investment Due Diligence

Our team collaborates closely with your investment team to perform thorough due diligence on each opportunity before it reaches your investment committee. This process doubles as a learning journey, building your internal expertise in the local ecosystem.

Management Services

We provide local portfolio management, aiming to give your team full confidence and autonomy for future investment activities. Unlike traditional advisory services, our goal is to develop your expertise until our support is no longer needed. Acting as a local translator, we facilitate integration until your team is fluent in both the impact culture and the local investment landscape.

Case Study

We provide the local expertise required to effectively invest in an ecocentric economy, maximizing impact while delivering balanced financial returns.

Food Systems
Direct Investment

Flora Regenerative

Brazil produces 40% of the world’s Arabica coffee, representing a billion-dollar industry. Eduardo, Flora’s founder, was among the first to recognize that most of Brazil’s coffee is produced in a non-sustainable way, relying heavily on monocultures. These traditional practices are increasingly challenged by climate change, which not only threatens yields but also amplifies environmental impacts.

In 2021, Meraki Impact made a direct investment in Flora, an innovative coffee operator in Brazil focused on agroforestry and regenerative practices. Since then, Flora has made consistent operational progress, successfully validating its model for sustainable coffee production, resulting in a valuation 1.43x Meraki’s initial investment. Through extensive trial and error, five native plant species were selected for the agroforestry system, each serving a unique role. The model can also be mechanized, addressing Brazil’s growing labor shortage and enabling scalable management.

Thanks to these innovative practices, Flora has been able to sell its coffee at a premium in Europe, Japan, Australia, and other countries, a price that most other farmers cannot achieve. This premium reflects international recognition for Flora’s unique approach, combining high-quality coffee production with regenerative and sustainable practices.

In 2025, with continued support from Meraki Impact, Flora established a partnership with a Dutch roastery. The collaboration aims to target B2B customers seeking agroforestry coffee with full traceability under the Flora brand, following a Farm-to-Cup approach. This partnership represents the next step in scaling Flora’s impact, linking sustainable production to global markets while promoting environmental stewardship and social development.

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Food Systems
Fund

EcoEnterprises III

Small and medium enterprises in Latin America’s nature-based sectors play a critical role in conserving ecosystems, enhancing biodiversity, and supporting rural livelihoods. Yet they are often excluded from traditional financing, limiting their ability to scale regenerative practices and sustainable supply chains.

EcoEnterprises Partners III, managed by a women-led team with a 25-year track record, builds on EcoEnterprises’ long history of impact investing, which began in 1998 with its first fund launched in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. Its mission is to direct capital toward organizations that protect globally significant ecosystems through productive activities, restoring biodiversity, mitigating climate risks, and strengthening rural territories. The fund provides tailored mezzanine debt and growth equity to community-based businesses and SMEs connected to smallholders, enabling them to scale regenerative practices in sectors like sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, the blue economy, ecotourism, and circular systems.

Meraki Impact invested in EcoEnterprises III in 2019 and continues a collaborative approach, leveraging its Brazil footprint to help the fund navigate local markets and enhance impact outcomes. As of Q3 2025, the fund manages 13 active companies with $96.8 million in commitments, protecting over 13.3 million acres and mitigating 547,000 tons of CO₂e, benefiting more than 124,000 smallholder farmers and marginalized groups.

Its portfolio includes companies like ProNuvo, a Costa Rican circular economy pioneer that produces high-quality insect protein from Black Soldier Fly larvae, upcycling agricultural waste to reduce landfill methane emissions while generating organic fertilizer. Another notable example is Sambazon, a leader in sustainable açaí production, which has transformed the market by promoting agroforestry-based practices and recently surpassed $100 million in revenue, demonstrating that regenerative supply chains can be both profitable and impactful.

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Food Systems
Direct Investment

Groundworks BioAg

Traditional agriculture is currently trapped in a cycle of inefficiency and environmental strain, a challenge we encountered firsthand through our own farm projects in Brazil. Farmers face soaring input costs, yet up to 80% of applied phosphorus fertilizer becomes chemically “locked” in the soil, rendering it inaccessible to crops. This inefficiency forces a dependence on synthetic inputs that degrade soil biology, pollute waterways, and drive carbon emissions, leaving global food systems vulnerable.

Recognizing the urgent need for scalable, nature-based solutions, Meraki invested in Groundwork BioAg in 2021 as a co-investment with The First Thirty. As our first investment in Israel, we leveraged trusted members of our global network to support the due diligence process, giving us the confidence to explore and invest in a new geography. Since our initial investment, Groundwork has continued to scale its operations and strengthen its market position, culminating in a subsequent funding round that valued the company at 2.7 times our original entry valuation.

The solution lies in the “Queen of Biologicals,” mycorrhizal fungi. Groundwork’s proprietary Rootella® inoculants extend plant root systems by up to 100x, physically unlocking trapped nutrients to deliver three profitable outcomes from a single input. This agronomic breakthrough allows farmers to reduce phosphorus fertilizer application by up to 40% while simultaneously increasing yields.

Beyond these economic gains, the fungal network catalyzes the formation of mineral-associated organic carbon that is durable for centuries to millennia. Building on this healthy foundation, the Rootella Carbon program is registered under Verra’s VM0042 v2.0 protocol. The program not only verifies high-impact sequestration, with recent cohorts averaging 2.88 tCO₂e per acre, but also shares up to 70% of credit revenue with growers. This transforms agriculture from a system of extraction to one of regeneration, where farms are profitable and soil becomes a primary solution to the climate crisis.

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Forestry & Biodiversity
Fund

Fama/Gaia Sociobioeconomia

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in Brazil’s socio-bioeconomy often face significant challenges in accessing credit. Despite their potential to generate environmental and social impact, many of these organizations are excluded from traditional financial markets due to perceived risk, lack of collateral, or limited operational history. This gap limits their ability to scale productive activities that protect ecosystems, generate income, and strengthen local communities.

Managed in partnership by Gaia Impacto and Fama re.Capital, Fundo Sociobioeconomia is a private credit fund specifically designed to address the underfunding of Brazil’s socio-bioeconomy. Its mission is to channel capital toward organizations that protect ecosystems while promoting productive activities, creating a multi-biome credit model that strengthens territories, reduces inequalities, and preserves biodiversity.

The fund provides financing to socio-bioeconomic organizations traditionally excluded from credit markets, provided they demonstrate operational and productive maturity to safely absorb credit. Projects financed must contribute to biodiversity protection and help reduce social and economic disparities.

Launched in mid-2024, the fund has already supported 13 projects—including honey, cocoa, açaí, and multi-product companies and cooperatives from smallholders, impacting over 4,000 people. By offering average annual interest rates 13 percentage points below equivalent market rates and maintaining near-zero default rates to date, the fund provides fair and affordable credit to organizations that protect ecosystems and strengthen local communities.

Beyond financing, Fundo Sociobioeconomia enhances the effectiveness of its support through technical assistance, ensuring that capital translates into tangible improvements in income and quality of life for marginalized groups. The fund exemplifies how private capital can be leveraged to foster both environmental sustainability and social impact.

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Forestry & Biodiversity
Direct Investment

Simbiose

The Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse biomes in the world, spanning from northeastern Brazil to northern Argentina, has lost 80% of its original cover due to agriculture and logging. Precious hardwoods such as brazilwood and Brazilian rosewood have been depleted, underscoring the importance of innovative approaches like Symbiosis’s model, which restores degraded land while producing sustainable native hardwoods in partnership with nature.

Founded in 2008, Symbiosis is a restoration and timber company that received its first investment from Meraki Impact in 2021. In its most recent funding round, the company was valued at 2.5x the original valuation at which Meraki invested, reflecting strong operational progress and investor confidence.

The company restores degraded land by producing hardwood from native Brazilian species and has vertically integrated the entire production process, from species selection to the final product. Since 2010, Symbiosis has been collecting, banking, and planting seeds from mother trees of various native species. A key element of its success is its own nursery, with the capacity to produce 5,000 seedlings using region-specific genetic material, ensuring that restoration efforts are both ecologically appropriate and highly effective. Since then, the company has been developing more efficient and sustainable agroforestry designs by analyzing how different species interact and grow more effectively, accelerating landscape restoration while making the investment opportunity more attractive.

Symbiosis’s first planting included 160 species on permanently protected land, and its restoration efforts have continued to expand. Today, the company conserves 40% of its land as natural, multispecies forest, while responsibly managing the remaining area for hardwood production. In 2024, Symbiosis received investment from the Apple Restore Fund, managed by Goldman Sachs, as one of three projects focused on scaling nature-based solutions for climate change, with the goal of gradually expanding the project to 100,000 hectares. The company is preparing to begin selling sustainably certified timber starting in 2026, once its own state-of-the-art sawmill is operational.

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Sustainable Living & Water
Fund

Vinci - Water

The universalization of sanitation services in Brazil is a national goal, driven by the approval of the New Sanitation Legal Framework in 2020. At that time, over 100 million Brazilians still lacked access to sewage collection, and around 35 million people remained without access to treated water, underscoring the urgent need for expanded investment and innovation in the sector. The law established ambitious targets to achieve universal access to clean water and sewage services by 2033.

Vinci Water and Sanitation is a private equity infrastructure fund whose strategy is based on building a diversified portfolio of infrastructure assets in the water, sewage, and waste management sectors.

The fund currently manages one of the largest water and sanitation concessions in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Rio+), encompassing 18 municipalities and serving a population of approximately 2.6 million people. Since commencing operations in 2022, this investment has directly addressed the sector’s deficit by committing R$ 4.7 billion toward infrastructure modernization over the concession period. Early results demonstrate significant social impact, including the regularization of water supply in historically underserved areas and the inclusion of over 100,000 low-income families in the Social Tariff program, ensuring that the universalization of access is both physical and financial.

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Our global portfolio

Our Team

“Solutions must be born out of the cultural
and ecological uniqueness of a place
— its people and its bioregion.”
-Daniel Christian Wahl

DEFINIÇÃO DE MERAKI: Fazer algo com alma, criatividade ou amor; colocar algo de si no seu trabalho.