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Tailwind Futures invests in technologies that help corporations futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow.
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New Speakers Announced! Our Events Next Week
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Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings & Commercial Real Estate
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April 22, 2026, 9am-12pm PT in San Francisco + Livestream
SF Climate Week
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Join us for an exiting event focused on how technological innovations can mitigate risk and improve returns in real estate.
A series of panels will feature our portfolio companies Class 3 Technologies and Hohonu, as well as several other startups and innovative real estate leaders. Speakers will explore different dimensions of understanding climate risk, identifying resilience opportunities, leveraging innovative approaches and exploring alternative insurance solutions.
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View the full agenda and register now to save a spot in the room!
This event is co-hosted with Arup, Class 3 Technologies and Morrison Foerster.
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How Universities Can Work with Investors and Corporations to Bring Resilience Innovation to Market
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April 21, 2026 in Washington, DC
DC Climate Week
Tailwind Futures is co-hosting an executive workshop with Duke University during DC Climate Week to bring together university innovation offices and researchers, investors and corporations focused on accelerating adaptation and resilience technologies. Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme will present on the adaptation & resilience market opportunity and the role of university-originated innovation, followed by several panels and working sessions examining the path from lab to commercialization.
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We Have a New Blog!
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Why We Invested in DexMat
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This piece explains our conviction in DexMat which produces Galvorn, a high-performance alternative to copper. While copper relies on a water-dependent global supply chain and loses conductivity in extreme heat, Galvorn can be made in the US, from carbon nanotubes that remain durable, flexible, light weight and conductive even in extreme temperatures.
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Investing in Economic and Social Resilience: A Whole-of-Society Approach
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When businesses face climate risks, whether from damaged facilities, supply chain disruptions, or health impacts on employees, the impact extends far beyond corporate balance sheets, touching on multiple facets of society. This analysis explores our whole of society approach to investment, which means that we partner with corporations because they sit at the center of economic systems.
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From Lab to Market: Metal-Organic Frameworks
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In the second installment of our Resilience Game Changers series, we turn to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a Nobel Prize-winning class of materials with applications across water, food and industrial resilience.
MOFs are ultra-porous crystalline structures that act as molecular sponges, engineered to selectively capture specific molecules from their environment. A single gram can contain an internal surface area equivalent to a football field. First stabilized in a landmark 1999 study by chemist Omar Yaghi of UC Berkeley, MOFs earned the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and have since been synthesized in over 100,000 distinct structures, each tailored for different functions.
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Image: SEM images of metal organic framework (MOF-5) particles.
Source: Wuzong Yu, Reversed Crystal Growth
The applications to climate resilience span multiple sectors. MOF-based atmospheric water generators can extract drinking water from desert air at humidity levels as low as seven percent. Meanwhile, MOFs can selectively remove heavy metals and contaminants from compromised water supplies and early research is demonstrating their use in food packaging to extend produce shelf life by passively capturing ethylene gas, increasing the resilience of food supply chains.
Startups including WaHa and Aquaporo are commercializing MOF-based water harvesting, while BASF has begun producing MOFs at industrial scale. Leading research groups at UC Berkeley, Northwestern, and MIT continue to push the frontier of MOF performance for climate adaptation applications.
Our forthcoming report on Resilience Game Changers will map the broader landscape of hard-tech academic research and development relevant to adaptation and resilience and examine pathways to commercialization.
Reach out to share a technology you think we should feature!
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Around the World at Recent Events
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Tailwind Futures Founding Partner, Emilie Mazzacurati, and Managing Partner, Arindam Bhattacharya, met up with Bryan Guido Hassin, CEO of our portfolio company Dexmat at the Global Corporate Venture & Innovation Summit in Monterey, CA, March 24-26. He brought along a roll of Galvorn wire, a copper alternative made of carbon nanotubes!
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Climate adaptation and resilience were on display at ChangeNOW in Paris, March 29-31. Emilie met with Tom Ferguson of Burnt Island Ventures and Laura Fox from Streetlife Ventures (left) and joined the HERA roundtable on extreme heat (right).
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Accelerators, Fellowships & Prizes
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The Black & Veatch IgniteX Accelerator Program applications are open now through April 30. They are looking for technology innovators across:
- AI-Enabled Project Delivery
- Digital Twins: Planning, Optimization, Resilience
- Immersive Intelligence: Empowering the Workforce
- Decision-Ready Data for Modern Infrastructure
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The QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge is accepting applications now through April 30 for their 6-month accelerator program for resilience focused startups, offering $175,000 in equity-free funding to the cohort, including a $100K grand prize and “a real path to deployment, including a six-month virtual program designed to get your solution into a city, not just in front of one.”
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Building a climate startup? Harvard or MIT faculty, student, or alum? Join the Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, a selective acceleration program for climate ventures. Ventures receive one-on-one coaching, warm intros, and access to pro-bono legal counsel. This year for the first time, the Climate Circle offers a resilience-focused track. Resilience can cross sectors such as energy, agriculture, data and analytics, infrastructure or water. Talk to the accelerator leadership live on 4/22 or 5/1. Applications are due May 12. Use referral code: LCNTW26
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Hazelwood Network launched The Adaptation Innovation Lab (AIL) – a new pilot accelerator helping climate adaptation entrepreneurs in emerging markets grow, scale, and attract investment in partnership with First Matter, Achiiv and Foley Hoag LLP and funding from ClimateWorks Foundation. The inaugural cohort of fellows includes:
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Agriarche (Nigeria) | Digitizing agriculture to connect farmers with inputs, markets, and finance
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Satellites on Fire (Argentina) | AI-powered early wildfire detection and real-time monitoring
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Poás Bioenergy (Costa Rica) | Turning agricultural waste into biochar and clean energy to help farmers withstand climate shocks
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EcoRestore Africa (South Africa) | Locally-manufactured biofertilisers that restore soil health and protect ecosystems
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Suyana Climate Insurance (Bolivia) | Affordable climate risk insurance for farmers and renewable energy producers
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