It is official! Today Tailwind launched the Adaptation & Resilience Innovation Playbook! 📜 One of the topics we cover in the Playbook is where entrepreneurship and innovation are most needed within the adaptation space. For example, we cover: 💫 Bright Spots - Places where companies are forming and there is high market demand but more innovation and investment are needed 💎 Hidden Gems - Places where fewer solutions exist but demand is high and company formation and investment are an imperative 👀 Blind spots - Places where very few solutions exist, market demand is latent (but present!) and more innovation and investment are sorely needed Check out our Innovation Roadmap and the rest of the Playbook's findings on our website at: https://lnkd.in/e3asPnsv Special thanks to Autodesk Foundation Battelle Breakthrough Energy Fellows Lyda Hill Philanthropies and Shockwave Foundation for your support and to Vibrant Data Labs Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and Fors Marsh for your partnership!
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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Building the market for adaptation and resilience solutions
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Tailwind is an advisory and investment firm focused on accelerating the development and deployment of climate adaptation and resilience solutions. We are dedicated to tackling the market gaps that make it difficult to develop and scale climate adaptation solutions. Market gaps such as lack of capital, immature demand signal, and insufficient ecosystem support. We run innovation challenges and accelerator programs, mobilize capital, convene customers and innovators, and provide strategic consulting to the government, corporations, foundations, investors, and ecosystem builders. Join us as we build a resilient future.
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The countdown is ON! This Thursday 12/12 we will be sharing never before seen findings from Tailwind's Adaptation & Resilience Innovation Playbook! 🎬 We've uncovered some incredible data on the state of supply, demand, and capital in the climate adaptation innovation space and we can't wait to share it with you 📊 💫 Highlights include: - Global governmental, corporate, and consumer data on solution demand - Insight into what startups exist, which ones are receiving funding, and where noteworthy capital gaps exist - Recommendations to funders, entrepreneurs, corporations, and policymakers re: what can be done to scale the adaptation innovation ecosystem to the size of the huge market opportunity we're seeing! TUNE IN 🦻 to our Webinar Thursday to hear about our findings! https://lnkd.in/eYnqmi-P Emilie Mazzacurati Brooke Zhang David Babikian
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Tailwind is excited to announce the upcoming launch of our Adaptation and Resilience Innovation Playbook! This report will provide a first of a kind view into the state of innovation on climate adaptation and resilience globally. 🗞 🌍 The Playbook will provide critical insights for innovators and investors including: 🤝 Demand: Who are the buyers of adaptation technologies? ⚙ Supply: What adaptation tech are startups building? 💸 Capital: Who is investing in adaptation tech? 🛠 Enablers: What resources and tools are emerging to help companies and investors grow this innovation space? 🛣 Innovation Roadmap: What innovation and tech development must we prioritize to ensure resilient communities and a resilient economy? 🤓 Recommendations: What should policymakers, funders, investors, innovators, governments, and others be doing to make sure climate adaptation solutions can grow and scale? Join us on December 12th at 12pm ET / 9am PT as we review the major findings of this report. To register for our Playbook Webinar check out the link below! 🙏 Special thanks to our funders and partners Autodesk Foundation, Breakthrough Energy Fellows, Battelle, Lyda Hill Philanthropies, Shockwave Foundation Vibrant Data Labs https://lnkd.in/euRegAS4
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Tailwind Playbook Webinar . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Welcome to the world Insurance for Good! We're excited to collaborate with you on #insuretech and #insuranceinnovation 💪
Risks are growing. Unprecedented is the new normal. Insurance as we know it is under stress. While the problems are clear, implementing new approaches of risk transfer to meet the current and future moment is not easy. That’s why we’re launching Insurance for Good--a hub for the growing community of practice in the United States working on harnessing insurance for the common good. Founded by Carolyn Kousky, Acting Chief Economist at EDF, and supported by partner organizations like Environmental Defense Fund and SBP, along with cross-disciplinary experts, we believe a new way forward is possible. Insurance for Good supports communities and the public sector in reimagining insurance to meet social and environmental goals. We curate shared resources, deliver capacity-building programs, incubate open-source and innovative risk transfer approaches, and advocate for improved policy and regulation. Our aim is action. Follow us and be one of the first to join our community at https://lnkd.in/etcVASXq Thanks to our incredible founding board Helen Wiley, Jonathan Gonzalez, Carlos Martín, and Emily Grover-Kopec and to our amazing senior advisor, Kayla (Drozd) Calkins. And special thanks to Jessica Dandridge-Smith, MA, Spencer Glendon, Alice C. Hill, Reese May, Julie Shiyou-Woodard, Galen Treuer, Francis Bouchard, Bridget Carle, Jacqueline Higgins, Katie Sabo, Kate Stillwell, and Nancy Watkins.
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Please join our friends at La Isla Network alongside heat expert Monika Serrano for a webinar this Wed 10/16 on Protecting Workers from Heat Stress in the Construction Industry! 🏗 https://lnkd.in/gd5DGgM3
Webinar: When Extreme Becomes the Norm — La Isla Network
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Check out Heatmap News's new piece featuring Tailwind Co-Founder Katie MacDonald alongside some friends of Tailwind, Amy Francetic, Jay Koh and Bill Clerico 🗞
Thanks to Heatmap News for covering us in their piece published today about the imperative of developing and financing climate adaptation solutions in the face of rapidly intensifying climate hazards 🌀 #helene #milton The reality remains that the future of 🏥 healthcare, 🚰 water, 🥦 food, 🔌 energy, and 🏠 shelter will be defined by how businesses and the government envision and fund a network of justly deployed climate adaptation solutions. Thanks to Katie Brigham for laying out the state of play here! Check out the article for some thoughts from me and fellow adaptation collaborators and investors, Jay Koh, Bill Clerico, and Amy Francetic. Emilie Mazzacurati Tailwind https://lnkd.in/eGVyvH47
As Disasters Strike, Investors Turn to Adaptation Tech
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🐟 How do you invest in oceans? Don’t miss today’s webinar on Ocean Opportunities: scaling up investment in the blue economy to 2030, featuring Brooke Zhang from Tailwind. The world’s ocean economy is already worth up to $6 trillion, according to UNCTAD. Investors, insurers, and other capital providers can no longer afford to ignore risks and opportunities across fisheries, aquaculture, sustainable coastal tourism and real estate, low carbon shipping and climate adaptation and resilience. Join this webinar for global updates on the businesses and technologies that could help to rehabilitate the ocean system, boost global food production and support human flourishing with coastal adaptation and resilience this decade and beyond. https://lnkd.in/g_Fskh4v
Welcome! You are invited to join a NYC Climate Week online roundtable on Ocean Opportunities: scaling up investment in the blue economy to 2030. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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We look forward to seeing everyone out there today for another exciting day of #ClimateWeekNYC! Take a look 👀 at what our Co-Founder & Managing Partner Emilie Mazzacurati was up to yesterday with FEMA 👇
🌪️ Not everyday that you see FEMA at a sustainable investing event! Thankfully, it was not to respond to a disaster, but to talk about the role FEMA plays in risk reduction and resilience, at an event hosted by CleanTechIQ. 🇺🇸 I was interviewing Victoria Salinas, Deputy-Administrator for Resilience, about opportunities for private investors to invest in adaptation and resilience alongside and via FEMA programs. Key takeaways: 🏦 Victoria emphasized the need for more capital going towards adaptation and resilience. From revolving loans to public-private partnerships for infrastructure and resilience bonds, there are needs and opportunities across the capital stack. 🏘️ One of FEMA’ focus is community insurability: increasing coverage and making sure communities stay insurable. That includes the recent reform of the National Flood Insurance Program to make sure premiums reflect the risk, but also support to make sure the most vulnerable households can afford insurance. 🪸 Role of technology innovation: Victoria shared a great example of how FEMA-funded coral reef restoration in Puerto Rico was being accelerated by a startup that grows heat-resistant coral reefs. If you want to learn more about adaptation finance and how your organization can invest in adaptation and resilience, reach out to Tailwind’s advisory team, and stay tuned for our upcoming Adaptation Finance Primer in partnership with Climate Resilience for All.
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Catch us if you can! Lots of good events during Climate Week NYC. Special shoutout to our own event on 9/26 on Heat and Health Innovation (details below).
So many Climate Week NYC events! Where to go? Where are the events on adaptation and resilience? I won’t pretend I have answers for everyone, but this is where you’ll find the Tailwind team. 📆 Katie MacDonald Brooke Zhang David Babikian https://lnkd.in/gPPaxPbY
Find Tailwind during Climate Week NYC 2024! - Tailwind Climate
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Tailwind is thrilled to be hosting the 'Extreme Heat & Health Innovation' event during #ClimateWeek2024 in partnership with Climate Health Innovation & Learning Lab, University of Colorado Climate & Health Program, and La Isla Network hosted by NYU Tandon School of Engineering 🌡 ⛑ 💊 Come hear from experts including Kathy Baughman McLeod Jane Gilbert Monika Serrano Jay Lemery Jason Glaser (and others!) on how extreme heat is fundamentally changing public health and business and what innovators can do about it. Special thanks to Chethan Sarabu, MD and Vadim Gordin for making this event possible. Space is limited! Express your interest in attending today: https://lnkd.in/eZwreTVf
Extreme Heat & Health Innovation (Tailwind Climate Week NYC Event) - Tailwind Climate
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