Renewal Funds emerged from a philanthropic experiment to deploy an entire inheritance for environmental change, spinning out from one of North America's earliest mission-driven family offices where the same team previously backed pioneers like Stonyfield Farm and Seventh Generation. The fund fills a specific financing gap for capital-efficient climate and circular economy businesses that are too early for infrastructure investors but past seed stage, focusing on five defined pillars: energy transition, mobility, food systems, zero waste, and natural resources.