Events

MaRS Climate Impact

December 2-3, 2025 | Toronto, Canada

MaRS Climate Impact brings together the world’s foremost tech and finance leaders to speed up the adoption of climate solutions.

Join us at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto or online on December 2 & 3, 2025 for two days of interactive panel discussions, thought-provoking debates, company demos and more. Brooke Zhang, senior associate at Tailwind futures will be attending the event.

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Cleantech Spark: Tokyo

December 3, 2025 | Tokyo, Japan

Frank Freitas will be in Tokyo on December 3 for Cleantech Spark, an exclusive event bridging Japanese markets and global cleantech innovation. Learn more and request an invitation.

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Symposium on the Design, Construction, and Operation of Energy-Efficient Buildings

December 8, 2025 | Berkeley, CA

This one-day symposium will explore the role of materials across the building lifecycle and spotlight technologies and strategies to dramatically reduce buildings’ operational energy demand. The symposium will convene leaders from academia, industry, and startups to share research breakthroughs, scalable solutions, and commercialization pathways for high-performance construction and operation.

Emilie Mazzacurati will be attending.

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Interviews

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The Adaptation Playbook: Innovative Strategies for Climate Resilience

December 20, 2024 | America Adapts

In this episode, Doug Parsons chatted with Katie MacDonald, co-founder of Tailwind, a pioneering firm dedicated to driving innovation in climate adaptation. Katie and her team at Tailwind are at the forefront of helping companies tackle some of the most pressing climate hazards—think wildfires, heat waves, and more. And now, they’ve taken it a step further …
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Climate Proofers: Tailwind Climate’s Adaptation Playbook

December 17, 2024 | ClimateProof

Extreme weather shocks may be on track to inflict some US$560bn or so of losses on listed companies every year by 2035, but so far very little early investor money is going into adaptation and resilience (A&R) solutions. That’s according to new analysis by Tailwind Climate, an adaptation-focused advisory and investment firm, which last week released a 112-page playbook on …
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Catalyst: The Rise of Adaptation Tech

September 5, 2024 | Latitude Media

Cutting emissions is essential to avoiding the worst of climate change, but we also have to deal with the impacts of climate change happening now. Fortunately, there’s a growing list of technologies that could help us adapt — and potentially turn a profit for investors, too. Will these emerging adaptation and resilience (A&R) technologies take …
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News

Class 3 Technologies Secures $3.5M to Scale Next-Generation Climate Risk and Resilience Software

October 14, 2025 | PR Newswire

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Class 3 Technologies (Class 3), a startup pioneering the next-generation of climate risk and resilience modeling for the built environment, today announces the close of its $3.5M seed round led by Powerhouse Ventures alongside Sustainable Future Ventures and Tailwind Futures. Spun out of the global engineering and built environment consultancy Arup, Class 3 exits stealth with Iris …
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FieldFactors raises €1.65M to scale innovative rainwater capture systems across Europe and Latin America

July 1, 2025 | Field Factors

FieldFactors, the Dutch startup turning rain into a local resource, has raised €1.65 million to expand its innovative rainwater reuse systems. The funding round, which was oversubscribed, drew interest from investors across Europe, the US and Latin America. Led by Dutch impact investor Connect the Drops, the round also includes participation with Tailwind Futures, Amplifica …
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The Business Case For Climate Adaptation

April 8, 2025 | Forbes Media

Tailwind’s Emilie Mazzacurati spoke with Jamil Wyne for the Forbes article, The Business Case for Adaptation. It sets the stage for the state of adaptation & resilience investment and where demand for solutions is growing using Tailwind data. Excerpts include: Why is there a gap? “While there is no single reason that can explain the …
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Investment in adaptation startups ‘remains glaringly low’

December 12, 2024 | Latitude Media

New research by Tailwind Climate finds funding gaps in the adaptation space, even as investor interest starts to consolidate. The adaptation and resilience investment space is amassing investor interest — but still has big funding gaps slowing its evolution.  A new report, published today by the investment and advisory firm Tailwind Climate, has found that when it comes …
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As Disasters Strike, Investors Turn to Adaptation Tech

October 11, 2024 | Heatmap

As the southeastern U.S. recovers from hurricanes Helene and Milton, the destruction the storms have left behind serves to underline the obvious: The need for technologies that support climate change adaptation and resilience is both real and urgent. And while nearly all the money in climate finance still flows into mitigation tech, which seeks to …
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