Private Development Finance
A new public-private initiative to accelerate national development and support democracy in economically fragile nations
Private Development Finance
A new public-private initiative to accelerate national development and support democracy in economically fragile nations
We help companies finance transformational capital asset development initiatives.
We help companies finance transformational capital asset development initiatives.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The Journey Ahead
The global economy is on a time-constrained path to (re-)industrialisation. Development of entire new, net zero carbon industrial supply chains that span the globe is being fast-tracked. The 4th industrial revolution is proceeding with scope, at scale and speed.
Scope
“The fourth industrial revolution…is not only about smart and connected machines and systems. Its scope is much wider. Occurring simultaneously are waves of further breakthroughs in areas ranging from gene sequencing to nanotechnology, from renewables to quantum computing. It is the fusion of these technologies and their interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions.”—The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Professor Dr-Ing Klaus Schwab
The wider scope of the 4th industrial revolution will lead to technology-led disruption impacting a broader array of economic sectors, many of which are capital intensive, requiring technology-led disruptors to undertake more capital investment upfront and in larger amounts to realise meaningful economies of scale. New technologies and business models being applied to more traditional, capital-intensive industrial sectors can necessitate significant up-front investment in new production capacity. The capital-light operational scalability of the 3rd industrial revolution’s technology-led, venture-backed start-ups will be replaced with traditional capital-heavy economies of scale as the principal driver of shareholder returns.
Scale
Speed
Climate change and the need to meet net zero targets by 2050 will accelerate the pace of investment compared with previous industrial revolutions, leading technology-led disruptors to undertake more capital investment earlier in their business evolution. Climate change is expected to accelerate technology and business model adoption, catalysed by a combination of regulatory push from governments eager to meet CO2 reduction targets and demand pull from consumers eager to purchase products and services consistent with climate adaptation and sustainability goals.