Ian Deweerdt

With future generations in mind, we WILL help create opportunity for our family, friends, and community. As YOU succeed, WE succeed!

HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agriculture. We believe that farmers are the best stewards of the land and our mission to help them grow and thrive in today's challenging Ag business landscape. Our Innovation Hub help farmers discover game-changing and vetted innovative Ag products and services. Our Marketplace helps farmers improve their bottomline by cutting costs on crop inputs and other Ag products through pre-planned procurement and bargain deals on excess inventory.

Full Cycle Bioplastics tackles plastic pollution and climate change by transforming organic matter into a compostable alternative to oil-based plastics. Plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from organic waste are two of the most critical environmental challenges facing the planet. Virtually all plastic ever produced still exists, and almost one-third of plastic consumed each year directly pollutes our land, oceans, and food chain. Organic waste is the third largest man-made generator of greenhouse gas emissions and a major contributor to climate change and global warming. Full Cycle’s Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastic can be the answer to these problems. Full Cycle PHA is produced naturally by bacteria using mixed organic waste as raw material. It can replace a wide range of synthetic plastics, yet it is compostable and marine-degradable once its useful life is over. It is also cost-competitive with oil-based alternatives, creating the potential for widespread adoption and scale in both developed and emerging markets. Full Cycle licenses its technology to a variety of implementation partners – agriculture producers, food/beverage processors, composters and landfills, biorefineries, and even large campus environments. By co-locating on partner sites, Full Cycle can efficiently leverage existing infrastructure to reduce capital and operational costs. Licensed partners share in the profit from the sale of bioplastic resin and benefit by eliminating waste disposal costs, reducing their carbon footprint, and establishing a reputation as an industry leader in closed-loop sustainability. The Full Cycle solution mitigates greenhouse gas emissions, reduces plastic pollution and toxicity effects on land and in the ocean, and sustainably moves the economy towards Circularity. Change the World with Us!

At Vesper Energy, we develop, build, own and operate renewable energy and energy storage facilities across the United States. Our mission is to create high quality, high value assets that contribute to a sustainable, decarbonized future. We accomplish our mission by investing in, respecting and valuing the people, companies and communities that we work with. We are collaborative in our approach, which drives innovative solutions to society’s energy challenges.

With future generations in mind, we WILL help create opportunity for our family, friends, and community. As YOU succeed, WE succeed!

HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agriculture. We believe that farmers are the best stewards of the land and our mission to help them grow and thrive in today's challenging Ag business landscape. Our Innovation Hub help farmers discover game-changing and vetted innovative Ag products and services. Our Marketplace helps farmers improve their bottomline by cutting costs on crop inputs and other Ag products through pre-planned procurement and bargain deals on excess inventory.

Full Cycle Bioplastics tackles plastic pollution and climate change by transforming organic matter into a compostable alternative to oil-based plastics. Plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from organic waste are two of the most critical environmental challenges facing the planet. Virtually all plastic ever produced still exists, and almost one-third of plastic consumed each year directly pollutes our land, oceans, and food chain. Organic waste is the third largest man-made generator of greenhouse gas emissions and a major contributor to climate change and global warming. Full Cycle’s Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastic can be the answer to these problems. Full Cycle PHA is produced naturally by bacteria using mixed organic waste as raw material. It can replace a wide range of synthetic plastics, yet it is compostable and marine-degradable once its useful life is over. It is also cost-competitive with oil-based alternatives, creating the potential for widespread adoption and scale in both developed and emerging markets. Full Cycle licenses its technology to a variety of implementation partners – agriculture producers, food/beverage processors, composters and landfills, biorefineries, and even large campus environments. By co-locating on partner sites, Full Cycle can efficiently leverage existing infrastructure to reduce capital and operational costs. Licensed partners share in the profit from the sale of bioplastic resin and benefit by eliminating waste disposal costs, reducing their carbon footprint, and establishing a reputation as an industry leader in closed-loop sustainability. The Full Cycle solution mitigates greenhouse gas emissions, reduces plastic pollution and toxicity effects on land and in the ocean, and sustainably moves the economy towards Circularity. Change the World with Us!

Fifth Season Ventures is no longer active. Plastic pollution is a challenging area for impact investors, because the investments are difficult to source, value and understand. Fifth Season Ventures is building a comprehensive venture portfolio of solutions by investing in new technologies that create a circular economy supply chain. This approach unlocks an investment theme for investors concerned with plastic pollution and can produce substantive results with a speed and scale unachievable through philanthropy or other asset classes. We are a small team of seasoned startup executives and investors who understand the problem, the solution, and are focused on identifying successful entrepreneurs. Fifth Season Ventures is a proud signatory of The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to eliminate plastic pollution at the source & a member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.