Built From
the Ground Up
Xylo was incubated by Hasten Regeneration, founded to answer one question: What does it actually take to make community-led, landscape-scale regeneration work?
Over six years of on-ground implementation across watersheds, dryland forests, and coastal wetlands in India gave us the answer. The ecological outcomes were real and achievable. What was broken was everything around them: how funders verified impact, how capital reached implementers, how communities doing the stewardship work got recognised and paid, and how outcomes were protected long after a project ended.
Xylo is built on that learning. We co-design projects with vetted implementers, verify the outcomes, assemble the capital, and hold accountability long after a project closes, the coordination work that landscape-scale regeneration has always needed but rarely had.
Funders
Philanthropy, CSR, carbon buyers, DFIs, and government programmes that want credible, verified landscapes, without building their own verification infrastructure.
NGOs & Community Organisations
Those already restoring land and water who need capital, coordination, and fair recognition for the stewardship they provide.
Landscapes
Haryana & Rajasthan, North India
Upper Yamuna Basin
Upstream of Delhi, sustaining 40 million people
verified impact
400 million litres of annual recharge to be sustained for 10 years — enough to meet the one-day water requirement of over 7 million people.
Cumulative impact
4 billion litres of groundwater replenishment across a basin supporting 40 million people. Construction to be completed in July 2026.
Phase 2 target
Partners
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu
Indian Coastal Landscape
Up to 1,500 km of coastline
verified impact
375,000 mangroves restored along India’s western coastline. 150 tons of plastic were intercepted along the Central Asian Flyway, one of the world’s most important migratory corridors. A coastal system restored—protecting habitats, rebuilding blue carbon sinks, and supporting fishing livelihoods. Project to be completed September 2027.
Phase 2
Being scoped. Potential scale: 20,000 ha of mangrove restoration and agroforestry across India's coastline. Biochar pathway under consideration for invasive species removal, including Prosopis juliflora, converting a coastal threat into a carbon-sequestering asset. Capital requirement to be determined on completion of scoping.
capital required
Partners
Karnataka, South India
North Bengaluru Urban Watershed
India's fastest-growing tech city, facing groundwater collapse
What This Solves
Bengaluru’s groundwater crisis is man-made and solvable. A first-of-its-kind network aggregating 160,000 m3 treated wastewater to near potable standards from apartment STPs to replenish urban water bodies, designed, technically verified, and ready for capital.
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Partners
Uttarakhand, North India
Central Himalayan Landscape
Headwaters of the Ganges, home to 10 million mountain communities
What This Solves
Uttarakhand’s forests face twin threats — degradation and devastating pine needle fires. Xylo is designing an integrated landscape program that turns a seasonal hazard into a carbon-sequestering asset, restoring native forests while creating sustainable livelihoods for mountain communities.
early proof
This landscape is not new to us. Through earlier community reforestation work, we have already planted over 25,000 native trees across Uttarakhand, building the community trust and implementation knowledge that landscape-scale design requires. We are now bringing that foundation into a more integrated, investable program.
status
Scoping underway. An initial design grant will accelerate deployment to a deep, existing implementation network in the region.
Gujarat, Western India
The Eastern Gujarat Tribal Highlands
Solar-powered precision irrigation for 1,00,000 tribal households
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What This Solves
Over 74% of farmland across Gujarat’s twelve tribal districts is rainfed, leaving agriculture dependent on increasingly unreliable monsoons. Diesel pump costs absorb 35–45% of net farm income before inputs, reinforcing a cycle of crop failure, debt, migration, and land dispossession. DLSS intervenes with solar-powered drip irrigation, strengthening farm incomes and reducing distress migration among tribal smallholders.
Early Proof
Piloted by VIKAS CFD and SAVE across 25 units in Banaskantha over two crop cycles, the system halved water use to 3,500-5,500 litres per acre, eliminated energy costs through solar power, and increased cropping intensity from one kharif season to 2.5 annually. These gains more than doubled net farm income, with projections up to $3,012 by year five.
Status
A "Gold Standard" pilot that has resolved the energy-water-income nexus is currently positioned as the blueprint for wider geographic expansion.
Community-led regeneration, at landscape scale, made
Xylo connects vetted, community-led regeneration projects with the capital and accountability systems funders need to invest with confidence.
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