Working Trees, Inc.

At ChangeNOW, one key theme is Deforestation-Free Supply Chains. But a backstory often skipped: When pasture degrades, family ranchers fall into a trap: low yields → low cashflow → no reinvestment. Then input-heavy row-crop ag arrives with LT financing, and the offer to lease or sell is hard to refuse. Ranch becomes cropland… BUT the cattle don't disappear. It moves. That displacement (“leakage”) pushes pressure into new frontiers — a vicious cycle. We were founded in 2022 (at Stanford GSB + Doerr) to build a better, nature-positive path: silvopasture at scale — restoring degraded pasture while integrating ~180 trees/ha (≥50% native species) to enhance biodiversity, improve drought resilience, and generate long-term timber value that can replace demand for tropical hardwoods (often illegal logging). Carbon isn’t the product — it’s the financing mechanism. Long-term contracted offtake facilitates upfront funding, so ranchers can recover their pastures, increase productivity, and build durable wealth (w/ out selling). Where we are: 2,200 ha planted across ~20 contracts • 12k ha qualified (100k+ ha total pipeline) • $100M+ offtakes in negotiation w/ tech cos. Our path: a repeatable million-hectare platform, starting with a 50k ha flagship financed via project finance. 🎵 And because humor is therapy during fundraising + offtake DD, here is a sertanejo track: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZD-Z... Sadly, we (and the trees) were busy working and are here only virtually this year, but next year hope to be there in person to share how the ChangeNOW community helped us close our round and land 3 ex-ante carbon sales! 👉 Call to action (ChangeNOW): • Seed investors to complete our round • Partners for a $50M blended-finance PF SPV to scale • Corporates for ex-ante sales or offtakes • And 😄 if you know any ChangeNOW staff, our last Q1 OKR is to get this song to #1 on the ChangeNOW Connect billboards within 24 hours (and maybe even played at the close). If you can help with any of these, comment or DM and we’ll follow up.

Here’s a story we don’t talk about enough: When pasture becomes degraded and unproductive, family ranchers fall into a trap—low yields become low cashflow, and without long-term capital there’s no way to recover the land. So when input-heavy row-crop agriculture shows up with capital, the offer to lease or sell is hard to refuse. The ranch becomes cropland… but the cattle doesn’t disappear. It moves. That displacement (“leakage”) pushes pressure into new frontiers. Working Trees is building a better, nature-positive path: silvopasture at scale—restoring degraded pasture while integrating ~180 trees/ha (at least 50% native species) to create biodiversity corridors, improve drought resilience, and generate long-term timber value that transforms the lives of family ranchers. Harvested teak and mahogony can also replace demand for hardwoods, often illegally harvested. Carbon isn’t the product—it’s the financing mechanism that helps fund the transition up front, supported by long term contracted offtake. We’ve already planted 2,200 ha with ranchers in Brazil and scaling toward a 50,000 ha flagship—designed to become a repeatable million-hectare platform with gigaton removal potential. 👉 If you want to help keep ranchers on their land, regenerate landscapes, and stop leakage-driven deforestation pressure, we’d love your support: • Investors: we’re raising our Seed round to scale the team + platform and unlock project finance for rapid hectare deployment. • Partners: offtake, project finance, upfront funding, and implementation collaborators welcome. • Introductions: if you know climate VCs, impact/blended finance, or corporate buyers, please connect us. Comment or DM to get the deck / data room link and speak with the team.