Regrow: Anastasia Volkova
🧑🌾🥬 Regenerative Agriculture, 🌎Climate, 🚀 and more!
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Anastasia Volkova, co-founder and CEO of Regrow.
Regrow’s mission is to make resilient agriculture ubiquitous. On every acre. Globally. Our vision is for agriculture to be driven by science and technology to restore the environmental balance globally to nourish the population and be equitable for everyone. Environment. People. Equity. In that order.
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
“We want to monitor all of the world’s agriculture because our mission is to turn all agricultural air of the land into resilient production…”
- Anastasia Volkova, co-founder and CEO of Regrow
Find Anastasia on LinkedIn, and check out Regrow’s website here.
🥃 What we (both) drank during the episode: Gimlets.
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
👩🌾Regrow
👩🌾Bolster
👩🌾Goterra
👩🌾Loam Bio
👩🌾Rapid Aim
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧠Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance
📚The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz)
📚The Startup CEO and The Startup CXO (Matt Blumberg)
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[00:00] Intro
[01:33] Drink of the Show
[03:18] SVB Fallout
[04:50] Anastasia’s Mother and God-Mother
[05:25] Growing up in Ukraine
[07:52] Black Gold
[08:58] The World's Agricultural Hubs
[10:54] The Breadbasket of Europe
[12:36] Anastasia's Technical Degrees
[13:47] Aerospace in Europe
[15:20] Working in Startups
[16:04] Time at Buddhist Monastery
[17:16] All the Languages
[20:05] Growing as a Person
[22:39] Power of Words
[23:47] Learning Curves
[25:08] Working on Farms
[27:09] How Many People Advising a Farm
[29:13] Data Points
[32:02] Why Care About Agriculture?
[33:37] Climate Impact on Agriculture
[34:48] Incentives
[36:35] Geographical Changes from Climate Change
[38:40] What is Regenerative Agriculture?
[41:47] We’re Losing Topsoil
[42:51] How Long To Fix Topsoil?
[44:51] What Regrow Does
[45:37] Remote Sensing
[49:02] How Regrow Translates Information
[50:20] Partnerships and Collaboration
[52:21] Machine Learning and AI
[54:49] Carbon Credits
[57:04] Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance
[58:44] Best Agricultural Land in US
[01:00:11] 3-5 Year Goals
[01:01:44] Don’t Drink With Aussies
[01:02:35] Book Recommendations
[01:05:20] Loved Startups and Founders
[01:07:40] Shoutout to Australia
[01:08:28] Final Thoughts
[01:10:41] END