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<div class="header-inner">
<p class="header-label">Private &mdash; For Kevin &amp; Jeremy</p>
<h1>The RegenHub Basket</h1>
<p class="header-sub">A new kind of local fund — not venture capital, not a nonprofit, but a community-supported stake in the ventures growing from Boulder's most interesting coworking ecosystem.</p>
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<span>From</span>
<p>Aaron Gabriel &amp; Todd</p>
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<span>Date</span>
<p>February 2026</p>
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<span>Location</span>
<p>Boulder, Colorado</p>
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<section>
<p class="section-mark">The Model</p>
<h2>A CSA for Boulder ventures</h2>
<p class="lead">Community Supported Agriculture works because investors buy a share of the season's harvest upfront — not a single crop, but the whole farm's yield. What if investment in early-stage ventures worked the same way?</p>
<p>Instead of a SAFE into one company at a fixed valuation, you're buying into a basket: equity from multiple ventures incubating at RegenHub, bundled into a single investable share. New ventures are added as they mature. The basket grows. Your position compounds across the whole ecosystem rather than riding a single bet.</p>
<p>This is not the hyper-scale VC model where one in fifteen survives. It is a balanced growth model — one where health and growth are tracked together, and where the success of each venture strengthens every other.</p>
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<p class="csa-label">The Analogy</p>
<p>"RegenHub is the soil. Each venture is a seed. The basket is the seasonal harvest — what grows, what matures, what gets added each year. You are investing in the farm."</p>
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<p class="section-mark">The Ventures</p>
<h2>What's in the basket</h2>
<p>Three ventures are positioned to contribute equity into the initial basket. Each is a real, operating project with a founder embedded in the RegenHub community.</p>
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<p class="venture-label">Voice &amp; AI</p>
<h3>Parachute</h3>
<p>A voice-first, local-first extended mind tool — built to help people think more clearly and act more deliberately with AI as a partner. Active development, growing user base among knowledge workers, researchers, and builders. <a href="https://parachute.computer" target="_blank">parachute.computer</a></p>
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<p class="venture-label">Email Protocol</p>
<h3>Postage</h3>
<p>Blockchain-based email filtering: senders pay a small amount of USDC on Base to get their email delivered to you. Your inbox, your terms. Spam solved at the protocol layer. A web3-native utility with clear consumer value. <a href="https://postage.email" target="_blank">postage.email</a></p>
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<p class="venture-label">Legal &amp; Financial Infrastructure</p>
<h3>Habitat</h3>
<p>Deep tech at the intersection of accounting, finance, and law. Building the legal and financial primitives that enable new instruments — including, eventually, the basket structure itself. Habitat is the tooling layer that makes this whole model possible.</p>
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<p class="venture-label">Forthcoming</p>
<h3>Future Ventures</h3>
<p>The basket is designed to grow. As new ventures are incubated from RegenHub, they are evaluated for inclusion. Each addition diversifies the basket and increases the total fund value — creating ongoing opportunity for existing shareholders.</p>
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<section>
<p class="section-mark">The Structure</p>
<h2>How equity flows into the basket</h2>
<p>Each founding venture — Parachute, Postage, Habitat — contributes <strong>10% of their equity</strong> to RegenHub as a gift to the cooperative. This is not a sale. It is a commitment: the founders choosing to root their ventures in this ecosystem and share in its collective success.</p>
<p>RegenHub does not put all of that equity into the basket. It puts <strong>1–2% of each venture</strong> into the basket fund, making those shares available to external investors like Kevin and Jeremy. The remaining 8–9% of each venture stays on RegenHub's balance sheet — a growing reserve that becomes more valuable as the ventures mature.</p>
<p>This reserve is the engine of the model. As ventures appreciate, RegenHub can add further equity from its reserve into the basket, raising new capital at higher valuations without any new dilution to the founders. Each addition refreshes the fund and creates new opportunities for investors to participate.</p>
<p>Techne Institute sits outside this structure entirely — it is becoming a nonprofit, funded by grants and tuition, aligned with the long-term health of the ecosystem rather than its equity return. <strong>Techne is not in the basket.</strong> It is the reason the basket keeps producing.</p>
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<p class="section-mark">The Investment</p>
<h2>What this transaction looks like</h2>
<p>This is the first event of reciprocity — the first harvest. You are not buying into a cap table. You are buying a share of the basket: a unitized stake in the bundled equity of Parachute, Postage, and Habitat, with the expectation that new ventures will be added in future seasons.</p>
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<p class="structure-label">Your Position</p>
<p>$50k each from Kevin and Jeremy — $100k in committed capital — sits alongside equity contributions from the founding ventures, targeting a starting fund value of $250k–$500k. For those who want a larger initial position, there is room to invest more in this first season. You do not need to fully subscribe the fund; any unsubscribed value accrues to the co-op, strengthening each member's position and available for future initiatives.</p>
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<p class="structure-label">What You Receive</p>
<p>A proportional share of the basket fund. As ventures in the basket grow, your share grows with them. As new ventures are added, the basket value increases. As RegenHub's cooperative treasury holds basket shares, the whole ecosystem's growth is reflected in your position.</p>
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<p class="structure-label">How It Grows</p>
<p>Say the basket starts at $250k and appreciates to $5m as the ventures mature. Meanwhile Parachute has grown to a $100m valuation — meaning RegenHub's 10% stake is worth $10m, of which 2% is already in the basket ($2m) and 8% remains on the hub's balance sheet ($8m). RegenHub now adds another 3% of Parachute from its reserve into the basket — worth $3m at current valuation. The basket grows, the hub raises fresh capital by selling new shares, and your position appreciates alongside it. The hub still holds 5% of Parachute directly. Nothing about this requires the founders to give up anything more than they already committed.</p>
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<p class="structure-label">Multiple Funds</p>
<p>As the basket matures and its entry price rises, new funds can be created for the next generation of ventures emerging from RegenHub — cheaper, earlier, higher risk and reward. The first basket becomes an established fund; the second basket is the frontier. Investors who want both can hold both. The ecosystem produces a continuous harvest of new opportunities, not a single bet.</p>
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<p class="structure-label">Near-Term Use</p>
<p>The immediate priority is securing the third floor lease — the physical home for Techne Institute and the ventures. Beyond that, near-term investments in shared infrastructure (including high-compute local AI capacity) benefit every venture in the basket and increase the value of the whole.</p>
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<p class="scenario-label">Illustrative: Season One → Season Two</p>
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<p class="amount">$250–500k</p>
<p>Starting basket value: $100k cash + founding venture equity</p>
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<p class="amount">$5m <span>+</span></p>
<p>Basket value after venture appreciation — no new dilution required</p>
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<p class="amount">$3m <span>added</span></p>
<p>Hub adds 3% more Parachute equity from reserve, raises fresh capital</p>
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<h2>The Next Step</h2>
<p>Todd is preparing the agreement stack — the layered legal and financial instruments that make this structure real and deliverable. The goal is to have something concrete in your hands within the week: not just a concept, but a structure you can have conviction in.</p>
<p>This is the starting basket. The first season. The question is whether you want to be in it from the beginning — when the soil is freshest and the founding positions are largest.</p>
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<p class="closing-question">What if the ventures growing here were connected not just by proximity, but by a shared stake in each other's success — and you were part of that from the first season?</p>
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<p>Aaron Gabriel &bull; <a href="mailto:ag@unforced.org">ag@unforced.org</a></p>
<p><a href="https://parachute.computer">parachute.computer</a> &bull; <a href="https://techne.institute">techne.institute</a> &bull; <a href="https://learnvibe.build">learnvibe.build</a> &bull; <a href="https://wovenweb.org">wovenweb.org</a></p>
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