Ventures & stewardship
A connected ecosystem of ventures across soil intelligence, agricultural technology, and land, coordinated so each strengthens the others.
Ananta
Capital for the living world.
Ananta, from the Sanskrit for endless. We build regenerative capital systems on the most dependable asset there is: the ground beneath our feet.
Our core question
What if capital worked like living soil, creating more life than it consumes?
Most capital extracts: it takes yield out of a system and leaves the system thinner. We are building the other kind: capital that compounds by putting energy back in. Into land. Into people. Into the systems that feed us all.
49.2°N · The Salish Sea & Fraser Delta · Home ground
Mission
To build sovereign, regenerative capital systems that steward land, strengthen people, and generate enduring prosperity.
What we do
Regenerative land & agriculture
Long-horizon investment in farmland and the living systems on it, with soil health treated as an asset and stewarded across generations.
Strategic counsel
Independent, senior-level advisory for founders and boards at defining moments: strategy, capital, governance, and the discipline to see it through.
How we operate
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Sovereign, steady stewardship first
Every asset is living ground: cared for, improved, handed on stronger.
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Regeneration over extraction
Energy goes back into the system. The system grows and is left better with every cycle. Extraction is not a strategy.
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Fewer moves
Simplicity compounds. We choose the few moves that matter, and make them well.
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Enduring prosperity
Wealth that outlasts us, measured in decades, in soil, and in people.
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We > I
We are in this together and stronger together. We support and lift each other up higher.
“Regeneration puts energy back into the system so it is stronger, healthier, and improves with every cycle.”
29.1°N · Where the river gives the land back · Mississippi Delta
Vision
A world where human communities, ecological health and economic prosperity align, grow and rise together, where the highest returns return the highest benefits, and the planet is left healthier and stronger than we found it with every passing year.
Red earth country. The colour of clay, one of six tones we borrow from the ground itself.
The people
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Karn Manhas
Founder & Principal
Founder of Terramera and a former member of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, Karn has spent two decades at the intersection of biology, technology, and capital, proving that what is good for living systems can be exceptional business.
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Jessica Pellman
Managing Partner
The operational backbone of the Ananta ecosystem: strategy, capital programs, and execution across the portfolio, with deep roots in human development and organizational craft.