414 Laura Ortiz Montemayor - What if healthy economies meant drinkable rivers

About this episode

Laura Ortiz Montemayor discusses the vision of healthy economies represented by drinkable rivers and her work in regenerative finance.

The healthiest economies will show up with drinkable rivers. That is the image Laura Ortiz Montemayor works backwards from — every Monday morning, every investor meeting, every slide deck. Laura is a regenerative finance strategist, founder of SVX Mexico, and co-founder of LARIS — the Latin American Regenerative Investment Summit. This is her third time on the show, and a lot has happened since we last spoke. LARIS 2025 sold out — more than 200 people, billionaires, farmers, and practitioners...

People in this episode

Host: Koen van Seijen

Guest: Laura Ortiz Montemayor

Topics covered

• regenerative finance
• sustainable economies
• environmental health
• investment strategies
• Latin America

Keywords

• regenerative agriculture
• drinkable rivers
• sustainable investment
• LARIS
• SVX Mexico

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SVX Mexico, LARIS

More episodes of Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

• 427 James Barrett - Europe Doesn't Have a Water Problem, It Has a Retention Problem · June 9, 2026 · 23 min
• 426 Ivana Gazibara - Deploy $1.4 billion in catalytic capital to transform the Midwest agricultural system · June 2, 2026 · 1h 17m
• 425 Daniel Vidal - How to build a zero-waste restaurant with deep ancestral Mexican roots · May 26, 2026 · 29 min
• 424 Benedetta Kyengo - The Green Revolution stole her paradise, now she's bringing it back through syntropic agroforestry · May 22, 2026 · 1h 15m
• 423 Chris Locke - Fermentation is the future of food · May 19, 2026 · 36 min
• 422 Pablo Usobiaga - Building nature's favourite restaurant in Mexico City · May 12, 2026 · 56 min