July 2025
Following our Rebuilding with Resilience in LA event at the end of June, we’ve continued a deep focus on opportunities in Los Angeles while also exploring opportunities to advance the resiliency thesis broadly. Here’s a quick, exciting recap of what we’ve been working on:
Strategic Pillar 1: Tell a compelling story about resiliency
The Resiliency Company has been leading an adaptation and resilience agenda for New York Climate Week in partnership with GARI, Tailwind, Resilience Investments, CPI, and Lightsmith Group.
The Epicenter published pieces on how AL changed their insurance market by Fortifying roofs at scale, how insurers can play a role in standard-setting amidst climate hazards, and a model of investing in resiliency to minimize flooding.
Strategic Pillar 2: Create Conditions for Success
This month was all about alignment and focus as our work in Los Angeles becomes a cornerstone of our work, mobilizing capital for resilient infrastructure. A thoughtful and thorough writeup of the road ahead was covered in ClimateProof this month.
We wrapped up our work with the Commercial Real Estate Climate Risk Management Playbook, following interviews with stakeholders from 55 organizations representing $2.468T in market value. Stay tuned for the playbook launch NY Climate Week in September!
We’ve been engaging with the city of Winter Haven, FL on financing for a $1B+ water resilience project.
We continued our summer Fellowship program with 5 graduate students who engaged in research sprints around topics like creating a database of insurance-based innovation projects; analyzing the TAM/SAM for scaling a Delta Fund model; creating an inventory of cancelled FEMA BRIC program projects to explore future opportunities to help bring in new capital to get these “scoped but stalled” projects underway.
We’re looking for partners to increase the velocity and chance of success in building the technology and operations for the Resilient home building program in Los Angeles. If you know of great venture studios or incubation hubs, please reach out!
Best,
Abby