In this episode, my guest is Timothy Rann, Managing Partner of Mercy Corps Ventures. He leads what is likely the only venture capital fund in the world to have emerged from within a humanitarian NGO.

After years of building businesses in fragile markets such as Cambodia, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, he and his wife moved to Jakarta, where he was recruited to help launch what became Mercy Corps Ventures. The original idea was to create “the equivalent of Google X inside a nonprofit.”

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Is Climate Adaptation VC-Backable? 🌱Despite a $300B+ annual funding gap, climate adaptation remains a blind spot for most investors. So I asked Timothy Rann, GP at Mercy Corps Ventures, to break it down for us.

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Today Gregory is joined on the podcast by Tim Rann, Managing Partner at Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV). MCV is an early-stage impact VC that backs startups increasing the resilience of underserved individuals and communities in emerging markets. We dove into the topic of Investing in ReFi in Emerging Markets.

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In episode 050, we sit down with Tim Rann, Managing Partner at Mercy Corps Ventures, and dig in to his background building businesses across Afghanistan, Cambodia, and other locales, and how he’s applying his insights in development finance to impact investing at MCV.

We cover the opportunities for uniting impact with digital product design, how Tim and the team are thinking of impact with respect to climate and financial resilience, and how LPs are thinking about crypto projects and impact. This is a great episode for founders and LPs curious about the investment opportunity in open source protocols built with the developing world in mind.

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Insurance, like many financial products and services, has thus far only benefited a few - even though it’s a key mechanism by which humans prepare for risk. The global underinsurance, or ‘Protection gap’, is US$162.5B, of which emerging economies account for 96%. Digital insurance and microinsurance are now proliferating and aiming to serve millions. How do these new products work and what is the role of emerging technologies in filling this need? Hear from both entrepreneurs and investors working towards the next-generation of insurance and resilience.

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