Coral Vita is a startup harnessing the functions and techniques of micro fragmentation to effectively grow corals on land-based farms. Corals are broken into tiny pieces and placed near each other to trigger healing and fusion, a process that can greatly accelerate coral growth. Coral Vita developed land-based farms to have the opportunity to optimize the tanks’ conditions either to promote growth or to intentionally stress growing corals to prepare them for warming and more acidic oceans. Once the corals have matured enough, they’re transplanted into the wild and monitored. With these techniques, Coral Vita is able to grow a wide variety of species, including all-important massive corals, which serve as the building blocks of reefs but typically grow too slowly to be useful for restoration projects. Unusual in the coral restoration space, Coral Vita uses a for-profit commercial model, with the goal of finding more financially sustainable pathways to fund ecosystem-scale conservation, envisioning large-scale, high-tech, land-based coral farms in every country with a reef.