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Finance and Investment

Finance and Investment

Finance decides who gets to build. The terms on which capital reaches a founder, a household or a region shape what that place can become, and those terms are set by people who can usually justify them.

What we want to help solve

  • Credit priced so that being short is the most expensive way to live
  • Capital that will not reach founders without existing networks
  • Products whose margin depends on the customer not understanding them
  • Short horizons crowding out patient, productive investment

The questions it raises

  • Could this price survive full disclosure to the person paying it?
  • What happens to the borrower's position after the transaction?
  • What is patient capital actually willing to wait for?
  • Where does this margin genuinely come from?

Shifts reshaping this domain

  • Embedded finance
  • Alternative credit data
  • Blended and patient capital
  • Real-time payments

Competencies formation develops

  • Credit and risk judgement
  • Investment analysis and diligence
  • Financial inclusion design
  • Governance of capital allocation

The Finance and Investment council

Coming soon

Councils open where we have the faculty, participants and research capacity to run them properly. When this one opens it will carry mentors from the domain, published research, roundtables and reported outcomes. None of that exists yet.

Industry mentors
Recruiting now
Research
Not yet published
Roundtables
Not yet scheduled
Reported outcomes
Not yet published

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