Lupuna
Bridging Deep-tech and Inner-tech to reimagine how ventures, culture, and consciousness co-evolve.
Designing the Future Where Wisdom and Innovation Meet
Lupuna is a living system for civilization’s renewal - cultivating ventures, philosophies, and works of culture that reconnect technology with wisdom and innovation with soul.
A bridge between Deep Tech and Inner Tech, Lupuna weaves together ventures and explores the future of consciousness, systems, and society.
Lupuna Labs
Where the living system begins - a field for experimentation, prototyping, and emergence.
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Here, ventures, frameworks, and human development practices are co-designed and tested as living architectures - blending science, philosophy, and regeneration.
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From cultural design to venture creation, Lupuna Labs explores how growth, intelligence, and civilization itself can evolve in coherence with life.
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An ecosystem laboratory for the future of Deep Tech, Inner Tech, and Social Systems.
Lupuna Foundation
Stewardship, Catalyst & Publisher of Ideas
Lupuna guides ventures and leaders to evolve responsibly - integrating purpose, governance, and regenerative design.
We connect Deep Tech, Inner Tech, and cultural innovation to catalyze systemic transformation, and publish ideas that shape the evolution of human and civilizational intelligence.
Growth Partner for Regenerative Ventures
Lupuna acts as a growth partner for founders and leadership teams - translating the frameworks from The Living Architecture of Growth into practice.
We help ventures design growth as a living system, aligning product, brand, and culture around coherence and purpose.
Grounded in the GTM Systems Framework and the philosophy of the book, our work integrates narrative, market strategy, and organizational design into a single, adaptive architecture.
SCIENCE - SOCIETY - SPIRIT
At the Horizon of Deep Tech, Living Systems, and Inner Intelligence
Every living system thrives through balance.
Lupuna operates across three interdependent worlds that mirror this natural intelligence: Deep-tech & Hard Sciences, Living Systems & Social Sciences, and Inner-tech & Intelligences.
Each dimension focuses on a different layer of transformation - the outer systems that sustain life, the social architectures that shape culture, and the inner technologies that evolve consciousness. Together, they form a single living ecology - a design for how innovation, leadership, and civilization itself can grow in coherence with the planet and the human spirit.
Deep-tech
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Industrial Technologies
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Lupuna cultivates ventures in Deep Tech and Science - from biomaterials and food systems to climate - advancing industrial innovation that collaborates with, rather than extracts from, nature’s intelligence.
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Projects like Urban Oasis, a pioneering 1,000 sqm vertical farm in the heart of Stockholm, embody this principle - transforming urban environments into regenerative ecosystems that nourish both people and planet.
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Agri-Foodtech
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​Deep-tech
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Energy, Climate, Clean tech,
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Advanced Biomaterial
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Space-tech
Urban Oasis
Agri-Foodtech: Vertical Farming
Urban Oasis launched the first and largest indoor vertical farm in central Stockholm, breaking ground in Nordic foodtech. By growing greens indoors year-round and introducing them directly to consumers, it reimagined food security and urban sustainability.
The project combines agricultural innovation, energy efficiency, and consumer education, making healthy, locally grown food more accessible while inspiring the broader adoption of indoor farming worldwide.
Reselo
Biomaterial Science
Reselo is a biomaterial science company pioneering sustainable alternatives to plastics. Emerging from research at the Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (KTH) in 2018, it developed Reselo Rubber - a next-generation biopolymer derived from wood.
By turning a renewable resource into an innovative material, Reselo bridges cutting-edge science with industrial application, driving the shift toward a circular bioeconomy and reducing environmental impact.
Living Systems
& Social Sciences
Social Technologies
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Lupuna designs and supports ecosystems where culture, consciousness, and leadership co-evolve - from facilitator networks to developmental hubs and learning communities.
Through initiatives like Inside - a global architecture of facilitators and regenerative organizations - we explore how social design can cultivate coherence across leadership, culture, and society.
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Deliberately Developmental Spaces (DDS)
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Developmental Hubs​
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Global Developmental Ecosystems
Inside
Facilitator Network / Deliberately Developmental Space
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Inside curates and connects a global network of facilitators, hubs, and organizations pioneering a new architecture for human and cultural growth.
The Facilitator Network and Leadership Labs create spaces where personal and systemic transformation co-evolve.
Techfarm K9
Purpose-driven Coliving
Techfarm K9 was the first intentional coliving and deliberately developmental space in central Stockholm. Hosting 50+ residents across 1,200 sqm, it offered a living laboratory for new ways of community, growth, and thriving together.
Blending coliving real estate with personal development, K9 became a global reference point for future lifestyles - demonstrating how shared spaces can cultivate purpose, connection, and innovation.
Inner-tech
& Intelligences
Ancient/ Future Technologies
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The frontier of human technology is within. Lupuna cultivates ventures and frameworks that expand the inner architecture of leadership and consciousness.
We nurture the emergence of coherent, regenerative leaders who embody evolution from the inside out - through Frameworks such as the 21 Dimensions of Intelligence, where science, wisdom, and nature converge.
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​Inner Intelligence & Transformation
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Ancient Wisdom Traditions
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Consciousness
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Psychedelics & Plant Medicine
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New Concepts, Frameworks & Languages​
21 Dimensions
Human Technologies
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Inside is a platform and framework at the intersection of human potential, leadership, and systemic transformation.
Built on the 21 Dimensions of Intelligence Framework - a map and journey to navigate, remember and unlock our forgotten human technologies and new inner intelligences.​
InMap
Organizational Framework
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InMap is a diagnostic framework born from the 21 Dimensions of Intelligence - translating inner awareness into systemic insight.
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It maps the invisible architecture of organizations - their energy, coherence, and developmental potential — offering leaders a mirror to understand how consciousness, culture, and structure align.
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By measuring what was once immeasurable, InMap helps teams grow not just through performance, but through presence, coherence, and integration.
The Story of the Lupuna
Lupuna received its name from the great guardian tree of the Amazon - a being revered by the Shipibo and other forest lineages as a teacher of teachers, a protector, and a silent architect of life.
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In Amazonian cosmology, the Lupuna is considered a master tree and said to house the spirits of many plant teachers - a living cathedral of consciousness. It is not a tree one consumes, but one you learn from through presence: by sitting at its roots, dreaming beneath its canopy, or listening in stillness to the intelligence it holds.
Its teachings come not through words, but through being.
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My encounter with this spirit came during an ayahuasca ceremony in Sintra, Portugal, guided by the Niwe Rao Xobo family - a lineage of Shipibo healers whose work bridges generations of plant wisdom. Under the care of Maestra Laura and Maestra Lila Lopez-Sanchez, I experienced and connected with the living presence of the Lupuna - both as an interconnected vision and as an intelligence.
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Lupuna, the venture, was born as an expression of that teaching. It is both a Venture Lab and a Philosophical House, bridging Deep-tech, Inner-tech, and Cultural Design.
Each initiative - whether technological, social, or spiritual - grows as part of a living system, guided by the same principle the tree embodies: All that reaches for the sky must first know the earth.
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The Lupuna stands as a symbol of living intelligence - where innovation, culture, and consciousness are not separate pursuits but interwoven branches of the same tree.
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It reminds us that the future is not to be built against nature, but with it - through wisdom that is grounded, luminous, and alive.
About Esia Nathaniel
Founder of Lupuna
With two decades in venture building, and recent years devoted to bridging technology, consciousness, and cultural evolution, Esia Nathaniel moves at the intersection of science, systems, and spirit - designing architectures where innovation and inner intelligence evolve together.
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Drawing on a background in commercial growth and venture-building, he has helped science-based companies in agri-foodtech and advanced biomaterial science transition from lab to market.
His path unfolded from building ventures to mapping the invisible architectures of life - how intelligence moves through people, systems, and the planet itself. That inquiry became the seed for Lupuna - a venture lab and philosophical house cultivating the next generation of living systems, where technology and consciousness grow together.
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His work emerges from a deeper mission - to help civilization remember how to grow in coherence with life, where innovation becomes wisdom and systems, ventures, and consciousness evolve together.
Read more about Esia Nathaniel at www.esianathaniel.com
Publications
The Living Intelligence Trilogy
Designing the next Operating System for Civilization
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Civilization is outgrowing the logic that built it. Our systems - economic, organizational, technological - were designed for efficiency, not for life. The Living Intelligence Trilogy offers a new blueprint: an operating system rooted in coherence, consciousness, and the evolutionary intelligence of living systems.
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Through a fusion of systems science, adult development psychology, metamodern philosophy, consciousness studies, regenerative economics, and two decades of venture-building, Esia Nathaniel maps how intelligence organizes across every scale - from the individual to the enterprise to civilization itself.​
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Each volume explores one layer of this transformation.
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Together, these works form a cartography of the transition now underway - from system to soul, from mechanism to metabolism, from control to coherence. This is not a vision of the future, but a design for it.
Volume I
Living Intelligence
The Next Architecture of Leadership
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How consciousness itself becomes infrastructure - revealing leadership as the art of designing coherence between inner worlds and outer systems.
This volume is for philosophers, facilitators, and visionary leaders exploring the frontier where inner development meets systemic transformation.
It offers a map of how intelligence organizes through life - from mind and body to system and civilization - inviting readers to experience leadership as a form of awakening.
Volume II
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The Living Architecture of Growth
Designing Coherence in Complex Systems
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How organizations and economies can grow like ecosystems - adaptive, regenerative, and alive.
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For founders, executives, and venture architects building the next generation of regenerative enterprises.
This volume translates philosophy into practice - showing how coherence, rhythm, and alignment create growth that feels alive.
It speaks to leaders who see their organizations as ecosystems of intelligence and believe that growth is not a process to control, but a field to cultivate.
Volume III
The Listening Civilization
Designing Humanity’s Next Operating System
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How civilization learns to feel itself - integrating human, ecological, and artificial intelligence into a living field of coherence.
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For stewards of systems - policymakers, technologists, cultural architects - who are ready to integrate human, ecological, and artificial intelligence into a coherent planetary architecture.
This final volume explores civilization as consciousness-in-motion: how our collective systems can learn to sense, reflect, and evolve as one living mind.
It is written for those who know that the next revolution will not be technological - it will be relational.
Living Intelligence
The Next Architecture of Leadership
By Esia Nathaniel
In a world engineered for performance but starving for meaning, Living Intelligence invites a return to what we have forgotten - that life itself is the ultimate design principle.
This book is an initiation into a new kind of leadership - one that listens, feels, and organizes from within the living field of consciousness itself.
Through a synthesis of systems science, developmental psychology, and consciousness studies, Esia Nathaniel maps humanity’s passage from the Age of Separation into the emerging era of Living Systems - where intelligence is no longer confined to the mind, but expressed through relationships, organizations, and the planet as one coherent field.
Drawing on two decades of venture-building and cultural design, Nathaniel offers a practical philosophy for leaders seeking to bridge depth and performance, soul and structure, presence and power. The book reveals how consciousness itself can become infrastructure - how awareness, coherence, and design converge to form the next architecture of leadership.
Living Intelligence opens a pathway toward leadership that is regenerative, systemic, and alive - an invitation to cultivate the capacities of listening, sensing, and coherence that allow intelligence to evolve through us.
The Living Architecture of Growth
Designing Coherence in Complex Systems
By Esia Nathaniel
In a world accelerating toward complexity yet still governed by linear logic, The Living Architecture of Growth invites a reorientation - from managing systems to listening to life itself.
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This book reveals how growth is not a plan to execute, but a pattern to attune to - an emergent rhythm arising wherever coherence is cultivated. Through a synthesis of systems science, organizational design, and consciousness studies, Esia Nathaniel maps how ventures, leaders, and cultures can evolve from mechanical efficiency to living intelligence.
The Living Architecture of Growth reframes the Go-to-Market model as an ecological process - one that senses, integrates, and expresses value as life does. It replaces funnels with fields, optimization with coherence, and control with consciousness.
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Drawing on two decades of venture-building, Nathaniel offers a practical philosophy for founders, executives, and designers seeking to grow organizations that are adaptive, regenerative, and alive.
It’s a book about the future of growth - where strategy becomes sensing, performance becomes presence, and coherence becomes the new competitive advantage.
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Growth, in this new paradigm, is not a metric. It is coherence made visible.
The Listening Civilization
Designing Humanity's Next Operating System
By Esia Nathaniel
In an age defined by noise, acceleration, and fragmentation, The Listening Civilization proposes that humanity’s next evolutionary step is not technological but attentional - a return to the lost art of listening. Nathaniel invites readers to see listening not as a metaphor, but as the very architecture of coherence through which life, intelligence, and civilization evolve.
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Drawing from systems science, consciousness studies, and cultural evolution, the book maps how societies can grow wiser - not merely wealthier - by redesigning their infrastructures of attention. It unveils the “Listening Stack”: seven layers of collective intelligence - presence, dialogue, narrative, coordination, circulation, amplification, and synchronization - that together form a new operating system for civilization.
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Through vivid conceptual cartographies, the book guides leaders, designers, and citizens toward the emergence of a civilization capable of sensing itself - one that organizes not through control, but through coherence; not through competition, but through resonance.
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The Listening Civilization completes the Living Trilogy, following Living Intelligence and The Living Architecture of Growth, as a culminating vision for a world learning to think, feel, and evolve as one living system
An Invitation to Builders of the Next Civilization
Lupuna is more than a lab - it is a mycelial field for civilization’s renewal. We collaborate with founders, facilitators, artists, and investors who sense that humanity is entering a new developmental phase - one that demands coherence between innovation, culture, and consciousness.
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Whether you build companies, create art, design systems, or invest in transformation, Lupuna invites you to co-create the architectures of the future. If you feel the pulse of this evolution - join the circle.
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Lupuna Labs
The field of experimentation - where ventures, frameworks, and ideas grow as living systems. A bridge between science, culture, and consciousness - seeding the architectures of the future.
Lupuna Foundation
The cultural and philosophical core - shaping ideas, publications, and education for civilizational renewal.
Lupuna VC
The regenerative fund - investing in technologies and cultures that evolve planetary intelligence.