Causeartist Weekly #287 - Post-Consumer Innovation, Rainforest Beauty & $90M+ in Impact Capital
This week’s edition features AmaSKN, a beauty brand born in the Amazon, plus highlights from geothermal pioneers, products made from waste, and $90M+ in fresh funding powering everything from robotics and modular housing to biotech and skilled trades education.
Hey friends,
As we move into the final stretch of summer, we’re spotlighting brands and builders rethinking how we live, buy, and build—from rainforest-sourced skincare to post-consumer product innovation and the rise of modular housing tech.
This week’s edition features AmaSKN, a beauty brand born in the Amazon, plus highlights from geothermal pioneers, products made from waste, and $90M+ in fresh funding powering everything from robotics and modular housing to biotech and skilled trades education.
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Let’s dive in.
— Grant
Featured Interview
Some founders build businesses to sell products. Others build them to tell a story, protect a heritage, and rewrite what’s possible for future generations. For Rose Correa, founder and CEO of AmaSKN, the Amazon Rainforest is more than the source of her ingredients, it’s part of her identity.
Brazil is in her blood, and walking beneath the forest canopy, she’s always felt its heartbeat. But Rose also saw its scars: deforestation, logging, and exploitation threatening both the land and its people.
Out of that paradox came a conviction: you can’t protect the forest without empowering its people, and you can’t empower its people without protecting the forest.
That conviction became AmaSKN, a regenerative skincare company proving that beauty can be more than skin deep.
Every jar connects customers to the Amazon’s guardians, blending high-performance natural ingredients with a business model that reinvests directly into Indigenous communities.
Schools, clean water, women’s craft houses — AmaSKN is redefining what it means for beauty to create impact.
Featured Content
🌍 10 Geothermal Startups Heating Up the Clean Energy Transition
Clean, renewable, and always on—see how geothermal is going from fringe to foundational. 🔗 Explore the list →
♻️ 20 Everyday Products Made from Post-Consumer Waste
From backpacks and phone chargers to furniture and toilet paper, discover brands turning trash into treasure. 🔗 See the examples →
📰 News & Funding
Reframe Systems Raises $20M Series A to Scale Modular Housing
Funding: $20 million
Goal: Mass-produce sustainable housing modules
Impact: Addressing the affordable housing crisis through prefabricated design
🔗 Learn more →
Debut Biotech Lands $20M to Scale Bio-Manufacturing Platform
Funding: $20 million
Goal: Create sustainable ingredients for personal care and nutrition
Impact: Bioengineering clean alternatives for beauty, wellness, and food
🔗 Learn more →
Garage Raises $13.5M Series A to Reinvent Equipment Marketplace
Funding: $13.5 million
Goal: Build a modern marketplace for essential tools and gear
Impact: Supporting small contractors, tradespeople, and gig economy workers
🔗 Learn more →
Home Depot Foundation Commits $10M to Skilled Trades Education
Funding: $10 million
Goal: Empower the next generation of trades workers
Impact: Addressing workforce shortages in construction, plumbing, and electrical
🔗 Read more →
Field AI Hits $2B Valuation with Gates and Bezos-Backed Round
Funding: $405 million
Goal: Develop next-gen robotics for agriculture and logistics
Impact: Accelerating autonomy across food and freight supply chains
🔗 Read more →
Geekz Ventures Opens Applications for Pre-Seed Founders
Goal: Back diverse founders building in fintech, health, edtech, and climate
Impact: Leveling access to capital for underrepresented startup talent
🔗 Apply here →
EyeBot Raises $20M Series A to Revolutionize Vision Tech
Funding: $20 million
Goal: Build AI-powered visual intelligence for robotics
Impact: Advancing safety and autonomy in smart machines
🔗 Read more →
Grant Trahant
Founder | Causeartist + Causeartist BackOffice
Host | Disruptors for Good + Investing in Impact
Venture Partner | Pay it Forward Ventures
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