
Venture Lab
Venture Lab
Operating at the cutting-edge to explore and demonstrate technology’s potential on climate and financial resilience in emerging markets
Our Venture Lab designs, launches, and funds first-of-a-kind climate and financial resilience solutions in emerging markets.
Through our open calls for proposal, we select high-potential partners to co-create first-of-a-kind pilots that will build the evidence base for resilience in emerging markets within our Resilient Future Thesis. We focus on innovative solutions for underserved populations in emerging markets, and our pilots complement our Investment Funds to build the evidence base and crowd-in new capital to accelerate high-impact solutions.
We collaborate closely with our pilot partners to co-design and launch the pilots, and provide project management, impact measurement and management (IMM) and marketing support to ensure successful delivery throughout the engagement. Additionally, our partners receive non-dilutive capital (grants) to cover their costs.
29
3k+
pilots launched
concepts reviewed
40k+
9
people impacted
vehicles launched
Climate Lab
Building climate resilience tech for the 3.3B people whose daily lives are vulnerable to climate change
Crypto Lab
Launching real-world web3 use cases for financial and climate resilience
Humanitarian Lab
Expanding the innovation frontier with blockchain, AI and more for the 300M people in need of aid
How We Work
The Venture Lab partners with early-stage technology startups to implement pilot projects to responsibly test and validate the positive impact of their innovative solutions on underserved, climate-vulnerable communities in emerging markets
To ensure pilot success, we provide our partners with:
Expertise & Support
Domain expertise in climate tech, fintech, web3, AI & aid
Rigorous Impact Measurement & Management
User-centered design & project management
Grant funding linked to pre-defined project milestones
Scale up Opportunities
Mentorship & networking
Endline research & user insights
Dissemination through publications, events & networks
Partner & funder engagement to scale
