Next Gen Wealth: Moving Beyond Philanthropy to Active Capital
Session Overview
Next Gen Wealth: Moving Beyond Philanthropy to Active Capital
Family offices and impact investors are rethinking how capital works. The shift is from passive philanthropy to active investment—deploying capital that delivers financial returns alongside measurable impact.
This session examines two areas where this shift is happening. First, next gen wealth holders moving beyond inherited philanthropy to actively managed impact investment strategies. How do they deploy capital, what returns are realistic, and how do they engage meaningfully rather than delegating to advisors?
Second, nature capital as an investable asset class. Opportunities in oceans, watersheds, and ecosystems spanning early-stage ventures to infrastructure. How family offices achieve returns while creating environmental outcomes.
Family offices, next gen investors, fund managers, and impact entrepreneurs discuss what's working and where capital is flowing .
Next Gen Wealth: From Passive to Proactive Investment
More and more, next gen wealth holders are rejecting the passive model—inherit capital, delegate to advisors, write checks to charities. They want active involvement in where capital goes and what it achieves.
This shift is driven by different expectations. Next gen investors want financial returns and measurable impact. They're less interested in traditional philanthropy that creates dependency and more interested in investment strategies that build capability and generate outcomes.
What does active engagement actually look like? Taking board seats. Building direct relationships with entrepreneurs. Structuring deals that align returns with impact. Learning to evaluate opportunities rather than outsourcing all decisions.
Where are the opportunities? Impact sectors where commercial models are emerging—climate tech, healthcare access, education infrastructure, nature capital. Areas where patient capital and risk tolerance create advantage.
Family offices, advisors, and next gen investors discuss what's working, what returns are realistic, and how to move from passive inheritance to active deployment.
Host / Speakers
Amer Vohora — CEO Ikigai Ventures
Harsh Patel — Founder & CEO Water & Shark
Pauline Borg — Founder & CEO KAIROS
Harish Haridas — Investor | Advisor | Co-Founder Healthcare, Real Estate , Sports and lifestyle Travancore Royals Football Club
Nature Capital: Investing for Returns, Not Just Impact
Nature has traditionally been the domain of philanthropy. That's changing. Family offices and investors are treating nature as an investable asset class—deploying capital that delivers financial returns alongside environmental outcomes.
Opportunities span oceans, watersheds, and terrestrial ecosystems. Investment ranges from early-stage ventures developing new approaches to growth capital for scaling proven models, infrastructure projects, and project finance for restoration and conservation.
What separates investable opportunities from grant-dependent initiatives? Where do business models work—carbon credits, ecosystem services, sustainable resource management, nature-based infrastructure? What returns are realistic, and over what timelines?
How do investors evaluate nature capital when many opportunities are still emerging? What due diligence matters—impact measurement, regulatory risk, revenue models, exit paths?
Investors already deploying nature capital, family offices exploring the space, fund managers, and environmental finance experts discuss what's investable, how to evaluate it, and where capital is flowing.
Host / Speakers
Jahed Momand — General Partner Cerulean Ventures
Maxime Nassour — Founder & CEO Saphi
Rethink Impact
Where capital and collaboration turn purpose into scalable outcomes.
Impact capital is shifting from passive philanthropy to active investment. This program examines how investors, family offices, corporates, and foundations are rethinking capital deployment—moving from traditional charitable giving to strategies that deliver both returns and measurable outcomes.
Topics include next-generation wealth holders moving from inheritance to active investment strategies, nature capital as an investable asset class spanning oceans, watersheds, and terrestrial ecosystems, corporates embedding impact into business models beyond performative CSR, foundations adapting from grant-making to program-related investments and catalytic capital, and scaling impact projects through blended finance and public-private partnerships.
Sessions bring together investors, family offices, foundation leaders, corporate strategists, impact entrepreneurs, and policymakers examining what's working, what's aspirational, and how capital moves from intention to deployment.