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Back to Episodes“Announcing Spring: a Venture Studio and Fund for Animal Welfare Tech” by EitanF
Description
Why building and backing Welfare Tech companies may be one of the most promising things we can do for billions of animals.
I used AI to assist in writing this post, but I’ve rewritten it extensively and endorse it.
- Announcing the launch of Spring Innovation Fund, a not-for-profit venture philanthropy studio and fund built specifically for Welfare Tech: technology that improves animal welfare in ways that make commercial sense for producers to adopt.
- We think Welfare Tech is unusually promising: neglected, cost-effective, fast-acting, and scalable, with a large amount of low-hanging fruit; and we address some of the leading objections below.
- Three ways to get involved: Spring Works (engineers & builders), Spring Studio (ideators & entrepreneurs), and Spring Ventures (companies & investors).
1. Why we built Spring
I’m Eitan, a long-time EA who spent most of a decade working on turning cultivated meat from an idea into a real field, including founding Mission Barns. Now, I’ve teamed up with Milo Runkle — co-founder of the Good Food Institute, New Crop Capital, Joyful Ventures, among other groups — to found Spring Innovation Fund, together with Nate Crosser, who spent years as an agtech and biotech VC.
Welfare Tech is [...]
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Outline:
(00:12) Why building and backing Welfare Tech companies may be one of the most promising things we can do for billions of animals.
(01:07) 1. Why we built Spring
(04:14) 2. Why Welfare Tech is high-impact
(11:06) 3. Why for-profit companies?
(12:47) 4. Objections
(18:38) 5. Who Spring is for
(20:57) Notes
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First published:
June 30th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.