Coalitions are asked to hold what no single institution can own or exit, yet no one is accountable for the connective tissue that keeps them standing. Whose balance sheet should carry it, and on what terms?
Initiatives aimed at complex systems change rarely fail for lack of ambition — they fail for lack of the connective tissue that makes them fundable, governable, and durable: who does problem discovery and structuring, what governance holds a coalition together, what financing architecture can move grant, concessional, public and commercial capital in the same direction, and what causes these efforts to break down.
Hosted by C3 Labs (UNDP) together with the Symbiocene Initiative (incubated at MIT and Georgetown University) and following directly from the session "What Capital Cannot See: A Systems Finance R&D Laboratory" where these frictions were surfaced and prototyped in real time, this invitation-only roundtable moves from diagnosis to design. It convenes catalytic-capital foundations, Asia-based philanthropy and family capital, institutional and blended-capital platforms, and peer field-builders to co-shape a shared agenda for the field of capital orchestration. We will work directly on the term sheet question of what a vehicle built for a ten-year, multi-actor transition actually looks like.
Anchored in the Thailand feasibility study and C3 Labs' emerging global systems finance track, the session lands in the same week C3 Labs officially launches its first two Country Labs, in Bangkok, Thailand and Nairobi, Kenya, making Singapore the platform's first invitation outward to partners interested in co-designing, orchestrating, or supporting ambitious, cross-sector, systems change initiatives.
