Gaia Labs LLC, is founded on the premise that the traditional venture capital model has performed less than satisfactorily in finding solutions to the Grand Challenges facing humanity and the planet, and that to do so, requires a broader and deeper understanding of industry verticals and technology applications, but also of design and consciousness.

Unlike a traditional VC fund that operates as a blind pool and strives to allocate risk across a portfolio of investments from third party entrepreneurs, Gaia Labs focuses on building a customized focused company-building team around a designated need and challenge, and thereby eliminates to a great degree the distinction between venture capitalist and entrepreneur.

This company building deal-by-deal approach of identifying a need/challenge and structuring to solve it, yields a deeper and broader approach to due diligence and also de-risks investment, leading to fewer more focused and impactful deals with outsized returns on investment, while also meeting Gaia Labs’ financial, ecological and social impact goals.

None of this means that Gaia Labs will not take a traditional VC approach to fundraising and investment where it deems it appropriate.