Catalysing regenerative business while liberating the thrill of being human

An ecosystem of change makers & pioneers

The key to regenerative business development and venture building lies in generous collaboration and radical co-creation. This is why we have built an extensive network of pioneers - both the Thinkers and the Doers - who we have selected into our ecosystem of conscious change makers.

Entrepreneurs & business leaders

Researchers & experts

Investors & family offices

Creatives & innovators

Start-ups & growth companies

Big corporates & venture labs

OUR CRAFT

Synthesize

Exploring opportunity
& compounding insight

Catalyze

Curating & implementing
for positive impact

OUR DREAM

A world where businesses enable people & planet to thrive together – a progressive and regenerative world where the more you give, the more you get back.

OUR PORTFOLIO & PARTNERS

Examples of companies and projects we co-create and catalyze

NORDIC SEAFARM - REGENERATION FROM THE OCEAN. Nordic SeaFarm is leading the industrialization of European Seaweed as a B2B player providing this super ingredient into food and biomaterial solutions. Visiting their farm on the Swedish west coast is magical. The future is already here. It is just unevenly distributed.

HOUDINI - EXPLORE WITH RESPECT. Houdini is a sustainability innovation trailblazer reshaping the apparel industry through circular design thinking, business model innovation, and strategic partnerships. Their mission is profound; helping us all reconnect to nature.

THE BOOK SYMBIOS.
To look upon waste as a resource is the new business logic. Our colleague Emma has written the book Symbios (Symbiosis in Swedish) together with Tobias Jansson to share examples and tools to enable this great opportunity. — THE BOOK SYMBIOS. To look upon waste as a resource is the new business logic. Our colleague Emma has written the book Symbios (Symbiosis in Swedish) together with Tobias Jansson to share examples and tools to enable this great opportunity.

IKEA - DEMOCRATISIZE SUSTAINABILITY. Ikea is a global force for people and planet positivity. They aim to make sustainable products available and affordable for all people. Will they become the first multinational that manages to transform itself to net positive and 100% circular?

ROSENDALS TRÄDGÅRD - FROM FARM TO FORK. Rosendals Garden is a unique platform and a special hub for people and the business world to explore, enjoy, and dig deeper in important opportunities and questions involving the circular economy, regeneration, and the future of food.

MASTERCARD - ENABLING A GREAT DECOUPLING. With a global sustainability innovation LAB in Stockholm and a global ecosystem of banks, merchants, and partners - Mastercard aims to drive growth while enabling billions of people to consume more sustainably and explore regenerative lifestyles.

POLARBRÖD - A BITE OF THE FUTURE. Polarbröd is a family force for bringing sustainable solutions and amazing bread concepts from the North of Sweden to the rest of the world.

FÄRSKING - NO JUNK JUST FUNK. Färsking is a Swedish foodtech start-up on a quest to provide future generations with healthier food products and services.

OUR METHOD

The Multi-X

The multi-x is our symbol and our method; it stands for the exponential marriage between purpose and profit, and it stands for the way we operate:

GENEROUS COLLABORATION

Through connection, engagement & trust, we build relations and long-term partnerships that drive joint business development and value creation.

RADICAL CO-CREATION

By bringing together and cross-fertilizing some of the most brilliant businesses and people across relevant fields, we explore & create innovative solutions for exponential positive impact.

CONSCIOUS IMPLEMENTATION

We catalyze authentic action by helping build the teams, governance, and capabilities needed to innovate and scale progressive solutions that accelerate business growth and transformation systemically.

A LETTER FROM COEST

The Coest team joined forces because of a common determination that business must be a force for good. It was founded in Sweden by a group of business developers, company builders, investors, creatives and sustainability geeks who want to make sure the good guys win massively and have positive impact by operating in harmony with our planet and our society.

To tackle the biggest challenges of our time, we need long term thinking as well as short term action. It is not an easy and straight forward journey. It´s a quest we take together in order to unleash the human spirit and our full potential. It is time to fundamentally remake business and now unleash the generous and heroic spirit of business.

We believe that the secret sauce in transformation lies in the intersection and sweat spot between different ideas and capabilities. That is why Coest have created a unique hybrid across the fields of sustainability, leadership, brand, and business development; they all must work together to create transformation and extraordinary companies.

Transformation needs to happen on a systemic scale. This requires co-creation and collaboration within and beyond any one company. We have therefore created an epic ecosystem of business executives, experts, researchers, investors, creatives, artists etc. Together with this crew and the most ambitious in-house executives and teams, we compound insight and catalyze progress exponentially.

We only work with people and businesses that have truly committed to becoming positive forces in the business world. From early start-ups, to middle sized businesses ready to go big, all the way up to specific innovation teams with solid mandate to create change in the largest enterprises, even municipalities and cities. We maximize their potential and we call them our partners in quest. We look for systemic change and transformation and real (societal) value creation.

We invest everything (heart, mind, soul, capital, creativity) into businesses and people who are creating products, services, solutions, and business models that contribute to a better, smarter, and

a more conscious sustainable world.

Together with all our partners in quest we will ignite positive change during the coming decade. With radical innovation and conscious action we make the good guys bigger and the big guys better. Collectively we are part of the movement that will drive the business world into the future; in a way that we can be deeply proud of.

By 2030 we will (perhaps as the first company in the world with this stupid or brilliant promise) close all of our offices for a year-long well-deserved break. This will happen just after a crazy week-long celebration with all the people and businesses that have been on this ride with us. There will be music, drinks, food, tears, laughs and lots of magical memories with great people. Together we proved multiple times that purpose is the reason for being and profit the fuel that enables us all to keep working on our purpose, to expand it, and to be the very best we can be. Until that day, we all have some work to do.