Seedlings Collective
fund cool projects that deserve to exist in the world
connect people with something bigger than themselves
Small inputs, wild outputs.
Seedlings Collective was established in 2026 with one goal: bring people together to fund the ideas the world doesn't yet know it needs.
We believe the most promising projects rarely lack passion or purpose; they lack the early believers willing to bet on them before they're inevitable.
Beyond funding, we're building a community of curious, driven people: early- and mid-career professionals who want to nourish something bigger than their day job, learn from the work happening at the edges of science and exploration, and find others who feel the same way.
That's what we're here for.
Our Team
Kristy Lam
Founder & Executive Director
Kristy is the Founder of Seedlings Collective and a multidisciplinary explorer at the intersection of science, community, and change. She believes deeply in the power of citizen science and the outsized impact that small, intentional communities can have in driving meaningful change—and Seedlings Collective is the embodiment of that belief.
By day, she serves as Chief of Staff at a fintech startup. Kristy is a member of the Explorers Club, where she gained a firsthand understanding of how critical funding is to advancing field research, scientific exploration, and resource conservation. She is also a community project member at Genspace—the world's first community biology lab. As a PADI Advanced Open Water diver, she'll be joining the Menorca Shipwreck Project this September to conduct underwater archaeological fieldwork.
Catalina Carret AGuERO
Operations Associate
Raised between Spain, the UK, and the US, Catalina comes from a background in book agenting and scouting. It's through that work that she became interested in how the arts and culture can bring people together around a shared cause.
She joined Seedlings Collective because its mission is practical and meaningful: connecting people and resources to projects that need support. She’s drawn to work that focuses on collaboration and tangible impact. In her free time and under the right weather conditions, you'll find her reading unpublished manuscripts in Prospect Park.