The Resilience Fund aims to create a unique ecosystem of emerging climate technologies through our investment in companies with scalable solutions to address Water, Food, Energy, and Carbon Transformation.
We are emphasizing social equity and environmental justice while maximizing beneficial human and planetary impact.
Water, food, energy, and carbon transformation are interconnected in solving humanity’s needs across these categories. Each of these categories present unique opportunities, and massive Climate Tech markets are being minted within each one of these sectors at this very moment.
We at the Resilience Fund believe solutions across these categories are evolving simultaneously in the global economy, marking an important moment in history as they enter critical inflections during this decade.
There is a unique opportunity to unlock value for the planet, for Climate Tech entrepreneurs and for investors when you take a holistic approach to venture. Our hybrid model gives us the flexibility to take controlling or minority positions in Climate Tech companies that may have synergistic capabilities and value propositions to one another.
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Water
• As the climate crisis intensifies, access to safe water and sanitation are far reaching
• Water is fundamental to meeting the basic needs of all living things
• Circular economy promotes better alignment of the human water cycle with the natural water cycle through: Avoid Use, Reduce Use, Reuse, Recycle and Replenish methodologies.
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Food
• Challenge to remove food system emissions while feeding a growing global population with a finite amount of cropland
• Moving towards a food system that builds natural capital and allows nature to thrive
• Resilient food production means growing food in ways that generate positive outcomes for nature such as healthy soils, improved local biodiversity and improved air and water quality
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Energy
• New sources of energy creation and storage presents an opportunity to upgrade aging and inefficient infrastructure
• For renewable energy to be a truly clean power source, solar, wind and battery equipment must be manufactured, deployed, and decommissioned in a net zero, sustainable way
• Improvements in material energy efficiency constitute a complementary solution to decarbonization policies (e.g. building products and impact on GHG emission reductions)
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Carbon Capture & Transformation
• Opportunity to recycle carbon into usable products such as fuels, chemicals and advanced materials
• Process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it is released into the atmosphere
• Captured CO2 could also be used to create commercially viable products (includes CO2 infused into materials (e.g. concrete or plastic), converting it into biomass (e.g. biochar), or reused as an input in industrial processes (e.g. repurposed chemical inputs)
“The Resilience Fund is taking a hybrid strategy to funding climate technologies. Our goal is to intelligently integrate technologies that will work together and unlock value: value for the planet, as well as value for the investors. ”
— Mike Siegel, Founder and General Partner