Grant Canary is the founder and chief executive officer of DroneSeed, which reforests after wildfire using heavy-lift drone swarms. It was founded to make reforestation scalable and mitigate the worst effects of climate change. It recently acquired subsidiary Silvaseed, which has been expanded to be the largest private seed bank on the West Coast. The company is now a one-stop shop for reforestation, providing seed, seedlings, and aerial seeding and financing via carbon credits.

Grant has focused his entire career on sustainability - working at Vestas wind energy in China, the US, and Denmark and for the US Green Building Council in its infancy. He has had one prior acquisition. He founded Biosystems Co., in Bogotá, Colombia, which utilized food waste to feed insect larvae for use as industrial fish feed - alleviating overfishing pressure and utilizing food waste. He worked with the acquirer to scale that company to a 60k sq. ft. insect protein factory, which is going strong today.

Grant is a Pacific Northwest native who grew up in Oregon playing chess, then poker, then improv. By virtue of DroneSeed, he is a Techstars Seattle Alumni ('16), Mulago Foundation Fellow, and Grist list of 50 Fixers.

He's deeply grateful for the team in and around DroneSeed and Silvaseed for having put in the work to build the vision.