# 441 Jacob Israelow - Leaving Goldman to Invest $80M in Regenerative Farmland with Dirt Capital

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Podcast: [Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782)
Published: 2026-09-22T15:00:00+00:00
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Jacob Israelow is the founder of Dirt Capital Partners, an investment platform that partners with regenerative farmers and ranchers to help them secure long-term access to the land they farm—and ultimately own it. He left Goldman Sachs and returned to the New York area in 2012, bringing a background in real estate and investing and a growing interest in local food systems. After spending about a year talking to hundreds of farmers, land trusts and others across the Northeast, he built Dirt Ca...

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