On 23 June, the Resilience Hub returns to London Climate Action Week as a high-level gathering that brings together business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and practitioners to advance climate resilience.
The Investor Forum at the Resilience Hub creates a space for innovation grantees to connect with potential funders and investors during London Climate Action Week. Grantees from the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN), Technology for Evolving Challenges in Humanitarian Contexts (TECH4Resilience), Hindu Kush Himalaya Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs (HKH-ICE), and the Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Innovation Challenge will present their work, progress, and investment needs.
The forum includes grantee pitches and feedback rounds from industry experts, designed to foster meaningful connections and support future collaboration.
Innovators pitching at the Investor Forum
DARAJA+ AI for Sudan
Country: Sudan
Innovation Challenge: TECH4Resilience
Moe Babiker
DARAJA+ AI for Sudan uses generative AI to support the dissemination of extreme weather early warnings to communities. It addresses language and literacy barriers by producing timely, clear, and actionable audio messages tailored to specific geographic and demographic groups. Using AI, Large Language Models, and text-to-speech technology, this initiative transforms technical weather forecasts into simple, localised voice alerts.
The platform already reaches 10.5 million people in Sudan through mobile networks, radio, social media, and community channels.
Migrasia
Country: Philippines
Innovation Challenge: TECH4Resilience
Migrasia’s solution, PoAlerts, is an AI-powered hyperlocal early warning system that transforms national flood and typhoon advisories into localised, actionable alerts. Built on H3 geospatial mapping and real-time hydrological data, alerts are delivered via SMS, chatbots, and community channels designed for low-connectivity and low-income communities.
The pilot deployment is underway in Metro Manila and expanding into Jakarta and Mumbai.
Equal Right
Country: Kenya
Innovation Challenge: RAIN
Equal Right
Equal Right launched the Climate Commons Fund in Laikipia, Kenya, pioneering a “cash for conservation” model that links unconditional cash transfers to ecosystem restoration. This community-owned endowment pools conservation finance into a diversified ESG portfolio, generating 6 to 8 per cent annual returns. Direct Conservation Dividends are then disbursed to every community member, alongside an ecological performance bonus tied to verified biodiversity improvements. The model operates without hard conditionalities.
Partnering with GiveDirectly, Wageningen University and Research, the Land Banking Group, and Innovations for Poverty Action, the initiative secured $85,000.
Build Up Nepal
Country: Nepal
Innovation Challenge: HKH-ICE
Build Up Nepal
Build Up Nepal empowers local entrepreneurs to produce compressed stabilised earth bricks and build climate-smart, earthquake-resistant homes at 25% lower cost and with 75% lower CO₂ emissions than conventional construction. Every home built through the programme survived Nepal’s 2023 earthquake. Entrepreneurs typically recover their investment within 12 to 18 months, demonstrating the strength of a model built on local ownership and sustainable livelihoods.
To date, the initiative has supported 220 enterprises across 59 districts, resulting in the construction of more than 12,000 homes, the creation of 1,900 green jobs, and the avoidance of 122,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions.
Hushaid
Country: Nigeria
Innovation Challenge: TECH4Resilience
Hushaid is an AI-powered system that helps identify and prioritise health needs during climate-related emergencies, particularly for women and young people affected by floods and displacement. The platform combines individual-level SRHR risk triage with live flood forecasting, issuing tiered alerts at 90 days, 2 weeks, and 72 hours to help preposition supplies and mobilise responders before crises escalate. It is trilingual, functions offline, and is designed for rapid scaling, with each new state requiring a rollout rather than a complete rebuild.
In just five months, the team deployed the live platform and secured five agency partnerships. The first phase aims to reach 10,000 women and young people.
Green Intelligence
Country: Kenya
Innovation Challenge: RAIN and HKH-ICE
Green Intelligence
Green Intelligence empowers smallholder farmers in Kenya and Nepal with agroforestry inputs, training, and a farmer-owned digital platform that geo-tags trees, tracks harvests, and generates verified data, enabling farmers to receive direct incentive payments for the data provided and tree survival.
To date, this innovation has supported more than 1,600 farmers, planted over 520,000 trees, restored 580 hectares of land, and positively impacted more than 7,000 people.
In Kenya, the programme has engaged more than 300 farmers, planted 35,000 trees, fully deployed its platform, and established an active buyer pipeline in both Kenya and the Netherlands. In Nepal, it has supported more than 1,500 farmers, secured premium offtake agreements with European buyers, and is progressing through Carbon Gold Standard verification.