VegTech™ is the technology and innovation that utilizes at least one plant ingredient to create a more efficient, animal-free food and materials supply system: part of a global, secular trend.

We believe that the global supply system is on the cusp of a shift that will revolutionize how we produce foods and materials. This secular trend is driven by the need to produce food and materials more efficiently and with a reduced environmental impact.

Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact that traditional agriculture, food, and materials production have on the environment, their health and animal welfare. They want to buy products that address these concerns.

The VegTech™ EATV fund is actively managed and a pure-play in plant-based innovation companies and the companies that support them.

We are an actively managed fund covering a dynamic market and a dynamic industry. We spend a considerable amount of time investigating, researching, evaluating, and vetting the companies that are part of the fund to ensure that they qualify for inclusion.

The fund’s fees are in line with thematic funds and naturally higher than typical index funds that simply follow a published index.

As an example, an investment of $10,000 in EATV would have an expense of $75.

The strategy of the fund is to invest in companies that are actively innovating with plants and plant-derived ingredients in the global supply chain, and that produce primary products that are animal-free. These companies positively impact planetary, human, and animal health.

VegTech™ Invest Management Advisory focuses on companies they believe will be the leaders, enablers, disrupters and beneficiaries of a global shifting food and materials supply system towards plant-based innovation. They believe this is a long-term, secular trend.

Sasha is a plant-based private and public investor. He worked at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, did his postdoctoral fellowship at Northeastern with a joint affiliation with Harvard, and did a Doctorate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business focusing on time series analysis of organizational growth. You can read more about our team here.

Ethos has certified VegTechs^TM Invest’s Plant-based Innovation & Climate ETF, EATV (NYSE: EATV), as carbon neutral. This is the first ETF that Ethos has certified as carbon neutral based on the impact of innovating to replace animal products by providing plant-based innovation solutions for a more resource efficient and less damaging food and materials supply system.

The Plant-based Innovation Certification considers carbon emissions avoided across the full lifecycle of plant-based proteins and products. The certification is not intended to indicate “absolute” zero emissions, but rather the relative impact when compared to meat and other alternatives.

In order to identify emissions reduction potential, Ethos reviewed a variety of lifecycle analyses (assessments of the carbon footprint of a product over its entire "lifecycle") from the University of Michigan, Boston Consulting Group, and others. These analyses quantify the typical emissions reduction associated with converting from beef to plant-based meat, implementing green vertical farming, investing in plant-based products and innovations, and making other transitions to plant-based industry.

Ethos compared the estimated carbon footprint of the holdings in EATV (the Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions that EATV is responsible for through its investment in each holding) with the expected impact of emissions that are avoided for each holding. Based on this analysis, Ethos determined that the aggregate carbon avoidance potential of all EATV holdings was greater than the estimated carbon footprint -- i.e., an investment in EATV results in a net reduction of carbon, when considering the expected emissions avoided.

“With EATV, VegTech™ Invest offers a unique strategy that seeks to capitalize on the new food revolution paradigm of Plant-based Innovation and Alternative Proteins. EATV's investment approach seeks groundbreaking solutions that address the global food and material supply system that work toward stabilizing food insecurity and reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Ethos is proud to partner with VegTech™ Invest as we take actionable steps toward a net-zero economy,” says Ethos’ Dan Carreno.

Powered by YourStake, data reveals that an individual’s investment in EATV may have 4.4 times more impact on their animal welfare footprint than their plant-based diet alone.

As an example, a $10,000 investment in EATV for five years would mean not being responsible for the death of 8047 animals killed by public meat companies. That is 4.4 times the number of animals impacted by one person’s diet change in the same time frame, as compared to diet numbers from the Vegan Calculator. These statistics are as of Sep 30th, 2022.

YourStake data also reveals that EATV does not invest in agricultural producers and traders linked to deforestation.