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At LeapFrog Investments, we are thrilled to celebrate the success of our inaugural Climate Insights Forum in London — a day filled with insights, energy, and diverse perspectives from investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, all accelerating climate action where it matters most. As we all heard, we will never have this opportunity again, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.  Thank you to Mike Berners-Lee, Damilola Ogunbiyi, Steve Howard, Jeremy Oppenheim, Daniel Muldoon, Willem Huidekoper, CFA, Irina-Maria Gaman, Pulkit Khurana, Simon Davis 🚛🌍⚡️, Mikir Shah, Jake Maughan, Daniel Schnitzer, Martin Baart.  🌍 5 Key Takeaways from LeapFrog's Inaugural Climate Insights Forum in London Electrification Powers Growth; Digitisation Turbocharges New Business Models  From distributed energy to climate-smart agriculture, the combination of digitisation and electrification is paving new pathways for businesses to scale faster, reach more customers, and unlock efficiency. Emerging markets are uniquely poised to leapfrog traditional infrastructure and unlock growth with new, tech-enabled models.    Servitisation is Changing the Game  The rise of "asset-as-a-service" models is shifting incentives toward customers and driving greater resource efficiency. This is critical for making clean solutions affordable and scalable, while helping companies maximise the utility and longevity of key assets, like solar panels and batteries--a win-win-win for customers, companies, and the planet.    'Green Discounts' and Market Adoption are Reinforcing   As adoption grows, capex and financing costs will fall, deepening the "green discount" that already makes pro-climate solutions more competitive than incumbent models. This does not happen out of thin air. Policymakers play a crucial role in creating supportive markets that can further drive down costs and scale adoption.    The Investable Universe is Expanding—and Fast  Across emerging markets, the pipeline of bankable, scalable climate solutions is growing—from clean energy and mobility to innovations like climate parametric insurance. There's a clear opportunity to deploy more climate capital--if we can identify the right opportunities with greater collaboration between investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.    Time for Mission-Aligned Investors to Step Up  As geopolitical agendas shift, now is the moment for forward-looking investors to double down. Those who recognise the unprecedented opportunity that climate investing represents—and have the specialism to generate returns—must step up and ramp up investment allocations to lead the way where it matters most.   🌱 The bottom line? Climate investing in emerging markets is no longer a future bet—it’s real, a necessity, and a massive opportunity. Now is the time to scale.  #ClimateInvesting #EmergingMarkets #ClimateFinance #ImpactInvesting  

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The future will be defined by how we respond to disruption.   At B Capital, we see Resilience Tech as the next evolution of what we’ve called Climate 3.0—a more disciplined, market-driven era of climate investing. It’s about backing scalable, capital-efficient businesses with strong fundamentals, built to thrive amid uncertainty.   These companies are solving for surging electricity demand, fractured supply chains, and extreme weather that’s no longer a distant risk—it’s a daily operating reality. Behind it all is a broader imperative: Planetary Resilience. Companies that proactively manage environmental risk at scale are better positioned to protect operations, reduce exposure, and sustain high performance.   The most successful companies in this space aren’t speculative or idealistic, instead they are commercially grounded and scaling fast to meet urgent demand.   Our latest paper explores where we see real opportunity—and why we believe Resilience Tech represents the next wave of essential technologies. https://lnkd.in/g6GWiP-f

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At the crossroads of capital and culture — insights from the CultTech Investment Panel in Vienna At the CultTech Association Summit in Vienna, the investment panel — moderated by Severin Zugmayer of New Renaissance Ventures — brought together an unusually sharp mix of investors and operators: Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures), Charlotte Dryander (Sirius), and Michael Jacobsen (Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism). The discussion revealed a paradox at the heart of cultural innovation: the cultural & creative industries are vast but deeply fragmented — from museums and music to design and performing arts — and that very fragmentation often keeps traditional investors on the sidelines. Sitar Teli noted that “the internet works best when it can aggregate fragmented markets — culture resists that.” Charlotte Dryander showed how AI can start to bridge that divide by scaling one-to-one learning, while Michael Jacobsen reminded the room that culture remains an asset class of emotion — one that demands both private capital and public stewardship. At Insiber.com, part of Cohort 6 of the Culttech Accelerator, this is precisely the space we operate in. Our CyberControl platform helps cultural and creative organisations understand, control and insure their cyber risk — bringing structure, transparency, and resilience to one of the world’s most fragmented yet vital sectors. It might sound technical, even a little boring — but as the recent Louvre theft showed, having the right protection in place can be nothing short of a lifesaving asset for any institution of culture. We are there to make sure it will be available to all of them. #CultTech #CreativeEconomy #VentureCapital #AI #CyberResilience #Insiber #Vienna #CultureTech

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