Takeaways

• [ ] Add a ‘Get to know you’ form like https://airtable.com/shrObZ3OEIoWLJaqm
• [ ] Finalize the MVP process below and publish with community

Overview

ReFi Circles are the decentralized collaboration accelerator for ReFi founders and investors.

Through literally hundreds of 1-1 and group meetings with ReFi founders & core contributors from projects at every stage, as well as dozens of Funders actively granting and investing in ReFi, we've built the largest and strongest values-aligned community and network in ReFi.

Both the challenges and the opportunities ahead of us in ReFi are enormous, and to go the distance, we need to go together.

A few example of ReFi Circles:

• ReFi Investor Circles - collaborating to create public goods like regenerative terms sheets, list of ReFi investors, VC office hours to refine your pitch, and hybrid capital investment circles driving investment into ReFi projects
• MRV Working Group - Making sense of the space, opportunities to get involved, and in talks with partners about running an accelerator cohort focussed on MRV
  • Partnering with Regen Network, dClimate, Open Forest Protocol, and MRV Collective
• ReFi Founders Circles - Small groups of ReFi Founders connecting in a space where others "just get it."
  • Enabling founders at every stage to build their network, collaborate on challenges, and eliminate duplicated work.

For Q3 we're using network science & biomimicry principles such as small world networks to refine & decentralize our process to form new circles, feed the wisdom & public goods generated back to the community, & to grow and nourish the circles and their members.

2022 so far:

• Met 1-on-1 with 137 Founders, and made dozens of introductions
• Held Founder’s Circle Community calls in 2 times zones, making ReFi more inclusive
• Hosted Founders Circle calls with Founders & Core Contributors from BasinDAO, Klima, New Atlantis, Toucan, DClimate, Open Forest Protocol, Questagame, Avano, Eco-token, Eden Dao, Astral, Atem, Solid World and many many others

Our objectives

In Q3, we'll be expanding our activities supporting ReFi Founders and their projects in various ways, such as:

• Creating a home for cutting edge conversations & collaborative action in ReFi
• Optimizing our Discord for ease of use, focus, connection, & discovery (and avoiding overwhelm!)