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

Join us as a founder, pilot partner, or funder. Let’s create a more resilient future, together.