LP's should catalyze impact optimized return
Ripple Hosts
Kai Wagner
FASE
Oliver Yorke
Critical Capital Partners
TL;DR
The old venture playbook of high growth and fast exits is breaking down under capital constraints and global crises.
This session asks: what does success look like when resilience, not speed, becomes the goal?
We’ll explore new funding models, aligned incentives, and how investors can back companies built to last.
Designed for LPs, GPs, founders, and family offices, it’s for anyone ready to rethink capital’s role in real-world outcomes.
Topic overview
With capital markets tightening and global challenges accelerating, the growth-at-all-costs model is losing relevance.
This session explores how investors can shift from chasing rapid returns to backing long-term resilience and impact.
A resilience lens means seeing capital in the context of wider social, environmental, and economic systems.
To make this shift real, we need new metrics that value resilience alongside returns, flexible structures, shared-risk partnerships, and incentives that reward long-term outcomes.
The conversation will ask what it takes to move resilience investing from the margins to the mainstream and rethink capital’s role in building solutions that last.
What’s up for discussion?
This session will dig into how capital can evolve to match today’s realities:
Can venture move beyond high-burn, high-exit pressure?
What kinds of funding structures truly support founders building for long-term impact, not just valuation optics?
How can LPs and GPs better align incentives with outcomes that matter in the real world?
Is the market ready for return profiles that prioritise resilience over speed?
What does the “ideal LP” for impact-first or risk-bearing capital look like?
Dream outcome
Participants leave rethinking what success means:
LPs explore patient strategies, GPs see room to test new structures, founders feel investable without chasing exits, and family offices embrace their role in shaping resilient markets.
Together, we start to redesign capital allocation to serve people, the planet, and long-term prosperity.
Who should attend?
LPs, GPs, Family Offices, Foundations, and Founders.