Toby Parkes - Mapping the underground fungi world by building a unicorn

Описание: In order to save and more importantly restore biodiversity we don’t need biodiversity or carbon credits; we need biologists to find super profitable business models within the magical deeply complex world of nature. It's the case of Toby Parkes, founder and CEO of Rhizocore, with whom go deep into the third, mostly ignored, and much more complex kingdom: fungi. 

We talk numbers that matter to forest managers: commercial sites often lose 15–25% of trees in year one, native mixes 35–50%. Across 70+ sites, Rhizocore’s locally sourced pellets consistently cut losses in half and add roughly 20% in height and girth, with outsized benefits under drought. We also explore the bigger vision: a frozen library of hundreds of strains that powers not only forestry but new lines like nutrient capture from farm runoff and wastewater. Think high-throughput screening for fungi that strip nitrates and phosphates fast, plus future prospects for enzymes and therapeutics- practical ways to put ecology on the balance sheet.
More about this episode.

00:00 Toby Parkes
01:13:17 What is the one thing smart investors, who want to invest in
reg ag and food, should remember
01:15:12 What would you do if you were in charge of a 1B investment
portfolio tomorrow morning?
01:17:18 If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing, what
would that be?