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This scientist saw reefs dying and built a business to save them (90+% coral survival rate)

👇 Comment with your questions — and tell us who we should interview next! Subscribe to the Helping Billions Podcast @ helpingbillions.org How This Scientist Turned Ocean Restoration Into a Profitable, Scalable Solution In 2014, marine scientist Vriko Yu watched a small patch of coral community disappear in just two months while diving in Hong Kong. That moment changed everything. After spending eight years in academia studying coral restoration she realized that a career could in academia would only take her so far. Someone had to actually scale the solution. So she co-founded Archireef. In this episode of the Helping Billions Podcast, Vriko shares the messy reality of building a climate tech company: the painful early failures, the "delusionally optimistic" leap to relocate across the world, and how she built a business model around regulations that require companies to measure and report their impact on nature and biodiversity. Today, Archireef's 3D-printed reef panels achieve 90-95% coral survival rates and the company works with $5+ billion corporations — from banks to port operators to real estate developers — providing not just reef restoration hardware, but ongoing data monitoring and consulting to help them navigate emerging nature-based regulations. Key Takeaways: 🪸 The road to 90%+ survival: How years of failure led to breakthrough innovation 🏭 Hardware + Data + Consulting: Why the business model isn't just selling panels 💼 Public-private partnerships: How regulation created a viable market for nature restoration 🌍 Scaling across continents: Moving from Hong Kong to UAE to access manufacturing and markets 👥 Mission-driven hiring: Why everyone on the team needs to buy into the bigger purpose 📊 Nature as asset class: Teaching corporations how to measure and value biodiversity impact 💰 Bootstrap to growth: From grants to commercial clients to institutional investors 🎯 WHO SHOULD WATCH: Climate tech founders building hardware + services businesses Social entrepreneurs navigating public-private partnerships Impact investors seeking nature-based solutions with commercial viability Scientists considering the leap from academia to entrepreneurship Founders managing multinational teams (17 nationalities across 20 people!) B2B entrepreneurs selling to enterprise clients with long sales cycles Leaders building mission-driven cultures and managing difficult transitions Anyone working in ocean conservation, biodiversity, or ESG compliance 💬 BEST QUOTES: "Our mission as a scientist is basically finding the problem, find a solution, publish, and then we move on...that was not the reason why I started studying coral." "This potentially is one of the many scalable solutions out there that can really reverse the climate damage." "It doesn't really just make business sense, but it's also for us to introduce nature as a new asset class." "We don't want to create another artificial structures to replace coral reefs. We just want to give them a kickstart. Time is now like the urgency is here." "No matter how good you are, it's impossible to build the trust overnight...finding that kind of local champion, the needle mover that really understand that buy into your solution, buy into your mission and do the work for you." "I was delusionally optimistic...but I'm also extreme. I have a thousand percent trust on the team that we will make it happen, despite there is a lot of uncertainty." "Don't assume. There's no common sense like because people coming from different backgrounds, different experience would have a different definition of common sense." 📧 CONNECT: Website: https://archireef.co/ LinkedIn:   / archireef   Want to Learn from Purpose-Driven Founders? Subscribe for conversations with entrepreneurs helping billions of people through business innovation. #coralrestoration #oceanconservation #climatetech #marinebiodiversity #3Dprinting #natureclimate #ESG #biodiversity #socialenterprise #impactinvesting #oceantech #coralreefs #climatesolutions #greentech #sustainablebusiness #naturepositivity #blueeconomy #marinescience #HelpingBillions #entrepreneurship #womenintech #sciencetobusiness