SC Ventures Lab Crawl Panel 5: Capital Rewiring: Where Conviction Meets Growth
About the Event
The funding landscape is becoming more selective, with capital concentrating around areas of conviction. But capital alone is not enough. Access to customers, technology, strategic partners and routes to market increasingly shapes which companies successfully scale.
Against a backdrop of rapid AI investment, shifting fintech funding and growing institutional adoption of digital assets, Capital Rewired brings together investors and technology leaders to explore where the strongest opportunities are emerging, what makes businesses genuinely investable today, and how founders can combine financial and strategic support while preserving long-term flexibility.
On the agenda:
Where conviction is moving: the sectors, markets and business models attracting capital.
The changing investment bar: growth, capital efficiency, defensibility and routes to scale.
AI and the economics of scale: capital concentration, infrastructure vs. applications, defensibility and compute economics.
Fintech and digital assets: where new opportunities are emerging as funding becomes more selective and institutional adoption grows.
Beyond the cheque: how hyperscalers and strategic partners can provide technology, distribution, customer access and connectivity.
Scaling and liquidity: what it takes to build a scaled platform and how strategic buyers and exit pathways are shaping investment decisions.
Speakers:
Moderator: Mariana De Win, Investors & Strategic Relations, SC Ventures
Aakash Kapoor, Principal, Peak XV
Chan Yip Pang, Executive Director, Vertex Ventures
Ian Sikora, Head of Startup Investor Management, AWS
This panel is one of several sessions at SC Ventures Lab Crawl, a full-day event. Subscribe to our calendar to see the full lineup and RSVP: https://luma.com/scventures