This month, we’ve lined up inspiring masterclasses to help you grow your nature venture! Each week, an ecopreneur will be here to share their journey, wins, lessons, even the messy bits, and guide you along the way.
If you’re into leveraging freelancers as strategic growth lever, attracting mission-aligned investment, securing regenerative VC, getting help from regenerative venture studios, building for the ocean, or getting practical advice on how to grow your nature venture, all for the wild, these events are made for you!
All masterclasses are live for one hour every Tuesday and are exclusive to Wildya Premium members.
So, if you’re ready to take your biodiversity mission further with advice from those who’ve walked the path before you, hop on Wildya Ecopreneur Community and unlock these weekly sessions.
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Ready to meet the biodiversity heroes and dive into their wild topics?
November 4th – Freelancers for Nature: How to Get Maximum Value from Freelance Support with Maja Nenadov Webster / Masterclass
📅 November 4
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
You can’t do it all yourself.
But you also don’t want to hire a full team just yet.
That’s where freelancers come in, if you know how to work with them right.
In this masterclass, Maja Nenadov Webster, co-founder of Freelancing For Good, will show you how to use freelancers as a strategic growth lever in your nature venture.
She’s built an entire community around impact-driven freelancers and knows exactly how founders like you can tap into this global talent pool to accelerate your mission without burning out or over-hiring.
💡 Why it matters:
Ecopreneurs often struggle with time, budget, and capacity.
Freelancers can help, but only if you choose the right people, at the right time, for the right work.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ Why freelancers are a smart move for mission-led founders
✅ What tasks are perfect for freelancers (and which ones aren’t)
✅ When to freelance and when to hire based on your stage of growth
✅ Red flags and green flags when choosing freelancers
✅ Where to find aligned, high-quality freelancers who actually care
✅ How to brief, manage, and motivate freelancers for maximum ROI
✅ How Maja built a thriving freelance community and what she’s learned from 100s of members
✅ Your chance to ask any freelancer-related question you’ve got
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
→ Scaling your impact without scaling your burnout
→ Building lean teams with real commitment
→ Getting marketing, ops, or admin off your plate
→ Finding talent that shares your values
→ Avoiding hiring mistakes and long-term contracts
→ Creating systems that support your vision long term
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Maja Nenadov Webster is the co-founder of Freelancing For Good, the go-to community for impact-driven freelancers. After a decade in the startup and corporate world, she shifted to freelancing to align her work with her values and now helps others do the same.
Today, she helps founders and freelancers find each other in meaningful, values-aligned ways. With a deep background in marketing, community building, and purpose-led careers, Maja brings practical insights and real-world tools for anyone ready to grow their team without compromising on mission.
🔗 Connect with Maja on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Freelancing For Good
November 11th – How to Attract Mission-Aligned Investment from a Regenerative VC with Morten Koefoed / Masterclass
📅 November 11
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
Not all money is created equal.
If you’re building a business that restores nature, chances are you’ve realised traditional VC funding isn’t built for you.
In this masterclass, Morten Koefoed, Partner at Planetary Impact Ventures, pulls back the curtain on what regenerative investing actually looks like and how ecopreneurs can access patient, purpose-aligned capital that supports life, not just profit.
💡 Why it matters:
Nature-positive ventures need long-term support, not short-term returns. But most funding systems are built around fast exits, hyper-growth, and extractive thinking.
Planetary Impact Ventures is different. They invest in entrepreneurs restoring balance. Focusing on food, farming, soil, and biodiversity with an evergreen model and a radically different theory of value.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ Why traditional VC models are broken for nature ventures
✅ How Planetary is redesigning investment around planetary boundaries
✅ What patient capital is, and why it matters for your funding strategy
✅ The key traits they look for in founders before investing
✅ The biggest red flags that make them say no
✅ How to approach regenerative investors (with clarity, not desperation)
✅ Why they focus on soil, food, and biodiversity and where they see the most opportunity
✅ What purpose-aligned investing looks like in practice
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
→ Finding funding that aligns with your values
→ Building a regenerative business that can grow without compromise
→ Understanding the future of nature finance
→ Learning how to pitch to VCs that care about more than money
→ Exploring the frontier of soil, food, and climate-positive innovation
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Morten Koefoed is Partner at Planetary Impact Ventures, a regenerative investment firm based in Denmark. After over a decade in mergers, acquisitions, and corporate strategy, he shifted paths to align his values with his work. Today, he helps channel patient capital into businesses that restore nature and rebalance our economy.
At Planetary, Morten and the team invest in entrepreneurs who see business as a tool for transformation, not just extraction. They’re building a new kind of investment model: grounded in humility, inspired by biology, and focused on long-term value creation within planetary boundaries.
🔗 Connect with Morten on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Planetary Impact Ventures
November 18th – Scaling Ocean Innovation: How to Fund and Grow the Blue Economy with Jerome Ternynck / Masterclass
📅 November 18
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
The ocean holds a third of the climate solutions we need.
But too few make it to scale.
Jerome Ternynck is on a mission to change that.
After building SmartRecruiters into a global unicorn, Jerome turned his focus to the sea. His new venture, Rypples, is a permanent capital platform investing in founders who are restoring, protecting, and reimagining how we work with the ocean.
In this session, he’ll share what it takes to fund ocean innovation and build climate-tech companies that scale without compromising on purpose.
💡 Why it matters:
The ocean is a massive ally in climate action. But ocean ventures rarely make it past Series A.
That’s not a tech problem. It’s a scale problem.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ Why traditional VC models are misaligned with how ocean ventures scale
✅ What Rypples looks for in founders and opportunities before investing
✅ How to build companies that grow fast and stay true to their mission
✅ How to get funding without selling your mission short
✅ The most common mistakes ocean founders make when pitching
✅ Where the next generation of blue economy breakthroughs will come from
✅ Lessons from building an impact unicorn and shifting to investing
✅ Your chance to ask Jerome anything about scaling or raising capital
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
→ Building for the ocean, climate or circular economy
→ Navigating the funding gap between seed and scale
→ Understanding what investors really care about
→ Learning from both startup and investor perspectives
→ Getting practical advice on how to grow your nature venture
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Jerome Ternynck is the co-founder of Rypples, a permanent capital platform scaling ocean innovation. Before that, he founded SmartRecruiters, scaled it to unicorn level, and helped +140M people with his product.
Today, he brings that same energy to helping bold ocean founders go further, faster. At Rypples, he backs visionary teams with long-term capital, hands-on support, and a deep belief that we can become the first sustainable generation.
🔗 Connect with Jerome on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Rypples
November 25th – Can Venture Studios Help Regenerate Life on Earth? With John E. Cooper / Masterclass
📅 November 25
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
Most venture studios chase unicorns.
Feral Ventures chases ecosystem regeneration.
In this masterclass, entrepreneur and venture builder John E. Cooper shares how he’s building a flywheel for nature regeneration. Launching for-profit startups that restore ecosystems, reconnect people with the natural world, and build resilience in a rapidly changing climate.
The studio operates like a forest.
Each venture that matures returns insights, capital, and capacity to grow the next.
Over time, the flywheel compounds and regeneration scales.
💡 Why it matters:
Nature-based ventures often lack the time, talent, or tools to move fast enough.
A venture studio approach could be the missing link to build smarter and scale faster.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ An understanding of what venture studios are & how they can help to rewild the world
✅ A regenerative model for venture studios
✅ How to build a living idea backlog that fuels continuous startup creation
✅ Feral’s traction framework for validating and growing early-stage ventures
✅ Why profit, when designed right, can actually drive regeneration
✅ What it means to “rewild” business and local economies
✅ How to balance experimentation with long-term ecological goals
✅ Your chance to ask John anything about startup strategy, validation, and system design
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
→ Launching multiple ventures in service of nature
→ Exploring new ways to build and fund regenerative solutions
→ System-level thinking and startup-level speed
→ Turning impact ideas into operational businesses
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
John E. Cooper is the founder of Feral Ventures, a venture studio building for-profit startups that regenerate ecosystems and deepen humanity’s bond with nature. With a background spanning 12 countries, numerous startups, and a love for experimentation, John brings a rare blend of big-picture systems thinking and hands-on company building. He’s here to help rewild the world, one venture at a time.
🔗 Connect with John on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Feral Ventures
Interested in attending these events and starting to scale your nature mission? Join our Wildya Ecopreneur Community now and benefit from a 10-day free trial!
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