Advisory

What Drives Us

Our team is focused on addressing three large market failures to enable better, faster, and cheaper adaptation and resilience solutions.  

• Innovation Gap: Current climate adaptation and resilience solutions often fail to leverage innovation in technology and science that could power better resiliency outcomes through efficiency gains, higher performance and better systems. 
• Capital Gap: Adaptation technology companies have insufficient access to flexible and appropriate capital to launch and scale their businesses. The vast majority of early stage funding in the climate space goes to mitigation companies. 
• Demand Gap: Governments and corporations who understand their climate risks still struggle to identify and procure the solutions they need to address those risks. Without a clear demand signal and with uncertain funding for adaptation programs, solutions providers struggle to chart a path to market.

What We Do

To address these gaps, we provide strategic advisory services and market intelligence to corporations, financial institutions, foundations and startup founders looking to grow the market for adaptation and resilience solutions. 

• Strategic Planning: we work with corporations and financial institutions to identify strategic priorities, address their exposure to climate risk, and build new products and services to serve evolving market needs.   
• Technology Scouting and Market Intelligence: we leverage our extensive market knowledge to provide targeted research on the landscape for technologies and relevant use cases.  
• Ecosystem Development: We work with visionary funders, ecosystem builders, and solution buyers to map out and build the future of the adaptation innovation ecosystem.
• Innovation Challenges & Partnerships: We run bespoke innovation programs that identify the need for emerging adaptation technologies, accelerate and support prototyping and piloting, and establish partnership and commercial agreements.

Who We Work With

Corporations

Corporations need resilience technologies to reduce their exposure to the physical impacts of climate change and protect communities. Many corporations also have a timely opportunity to offer new products that minimize these risks for customers and society at large. We can help you assess your next strategic innovation opportunities in this space, design impact-oriented internal and external innovation programs, and access and collaborate with startups and innovators. 

Private Investors & Banks

We work with impact and commercial investors looking to put capital to work towards adaptation and resilience solutions and companies. We help early-stage and growth investors develop or refine investment theses, identify opportunity areas, connect with other investors and innovators in the space, and address go-to-market and scaling challenges for portfolio companies. Our team also works with large financial institutions and banks to identify new product and opportunity areas while navigating and understanding the unique features of this dynamic and expanding market. 

Philanthropy & Ecosystem Builders 

Visionary funders, universities, research labs, incubators, foundations, accelerators, community organizations, and fellowship programs all have a critical role to play to support the development of an innovation ecosystem for adaptation and resilience solutions. We work with foundations to identify systemic changes that will accelerate positive change at scale, and with universities and ecosystem builders to embed adaptation and resilience into existing or new incubators, accelerators and curricula. We partner with other ecosystem builders on projects, programs and outreach efforts to advance our mission and elevate others’ work. We are a thought-partner to those developing their plans to enter the climate adaptation innovation space. 

Startups 

Startups that tackle emerging climate adaptation opportunities face unique challenges, ranging from finding supportive investors to overcoming procurement challenges to disrupting industry incumbents. We can help you navigate the market, establish product-market fit, refine your business model, raise capital, acquire customers, and overcome challenges such as developing your go to market plans and/or acquiring government customers. 

Have a challenge or opportunity beyond what we described above that you’d like to speak with us about? Please contact us.