Structuring for Scale - Solving Scale-Up
The hosts:
Daniel Goldman, Clean Energy Ventures
Adelaide Morphett, IFM Investors
What is this Ripple about?
We will explore the role of corporates, insurance, commercial banks and private credit, and philanthropic capital in addressing the need to scale-up and reduce the cost of climate technologies. Innovations around financial innovations will be just as important as the climate innovations themselves.
Why this topic timely or urgent in 2026
We urgently need competitive solutions that can scale-up and disrupt large markets like steel, cement, building energy efficiency and grid decarbonization.
Key questions or challenges being explored
How can we develop risk architectures that lead to an increase in cost-effective lending to early commercialization projects.
What financing structures have successfully enabled technologies to scale.
How can corporates lend their balance sheets (and beyond) to support new technology commercialization while benefiting from lower-cost offtakes.
What role can technology and performance insurance play to enable lower-cost financing solutions.
The main tension or debate at the heart of this discussion
Technology and performance risk is perceived as an intractable challenge for which counter-parties are reluctant to engage.
Who would get the most value from attending this Ripple?
Companies at the scale-up level, commercial lenders and private credit providers, asset managers, corporates, philanthropic and catalytic capital.