2024: A Year of Impact and Differentiation

As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a year filled with innovation, collaboration, and growth. At R3i, we are proud to have delivered human-led, impact-driven venture building to empower you—our founders—and fuel meaningful change.

Here’s how...

Reclaimed the Power of Genuine Human Connection

From a pool of over 3,500 global applicants, 32 exceptional companies joined us to collaborate, share, and grow.

Through our growth workshops - Meet the VC and How I Did it - Meet the Founder programs, we reignited the strength of authentic relationships—accelerating growth, amplifying impact, and creating a community grounded in shared purpose and collective success.

Elevated Your Brand

This year, 24 companies earned the Planet43 Underwriting Certification—a powerful differentiator that amplifies credibility with investors and customers. This isn’t just a badge; it signals trust, recognition, and confidence in your fundability with the R3i Capital Planet43 Investment Consortium and our LP/GP networks.

Together, through social media and conference appearances, we expanded your brand’s reach and helped craft stories that resonate with key stakeholders.

Connected You to Customers and Capital

We facilitated hundreds of matchmaking meetings, capital introductions, and grant connections—unlocking critical pathways to scale. Beyond the planned meetings, organic introductions to investors and prospects emerged globally, creating new opportunities.

Highlights:

• The Coring Company closes 5m euros in capital, 10M ARR, and scales across five continents
• FieldFactors and Matter Industries exploration of water offsets and social impact credits;
• Flexpenser AB foray into precision dispensing with the world's largest Consumer companies.

These are just some of the green shoots emerging from our portfolio.

Created Transformative Growth Experiences

The Planet43 Growth Workshops went beyond strategies and frameworks—they became spaces of transformation. Founders emerged with sharper go-to-market strategies, streamlined operations, and compelling pitches for global investors and family offices. Our “roses, thorns, and champagne moments” strengthened peer-to-peer connections and resilience, while insights from our five-time Olympian Steve Anderson empowered us to achieve our personal “Gold” with clarity and energy.

Built Deep Relationships

Thank you for trusting us through late-night calls, early-morning brainstorms, and moments of vulnerability where true growth happens. This founder-investor journey thrives on trust, and we’re honored to walk alongside you.

Powered a Thriving Ecosystem

We expanded our global footprint across LATAM, the US, Europe, Africa, and JAPAC, unlocking access to new markets and networks.

Forged Strategic Alliances

From the OCEAN Blue Economy alliance to partnerships with governments, hospitals, utilities, defense, ports, academia, and corporations, we created Climate, Healthcare, and Hydro landing pads. These partnerships deliver infrastructure and incentives to help founders scale globally.

Enabled Capital Pathways

Together, we raised $15M USD to support venture beachheads for Planet43 Consortium members and positioned our founders for a further $1–5M in Series A investments. R3I CAPITAL has partnered with Striders Corporation to launch Omusubi Capital in 2025 and drive greater access to markets and capital for our founders across Japan, South Asia, and SEA.

We also launched R3i Boundless and formed new broker partnerships with AFG (Australia), Dechequered (US), Unicorn Anchor (CH), and KMM (CH) to open diverse funding pathways, including Venture Debt and Credit solutions.

All in the spirit of accelerating capital and community to our ambitious 2043 vision.

Trained Tomorrow’s Leaders

With 180 TRIUM Angels, 19 emerging managers, and countless MBA/EMBA students and virtual interns, we cultivated a global network of strategists, business developers, mentors, and co-investors committed to driving high-impact ventures forward.

Unlocking Natural Motivations

World expert human performance coach Michelle Duval and founder of Marlee shared her journey of thirty years of scientific research to unlock natural motivations for outperformance. As a collaboration and performance AI Marlee helps to bring out the best in yourself and your team, right in the flow of work. The secret sauce behind Canva's global scale and unicorn valuations.

Building a Global Support Network

We launched the inaugural Planet43 Global Mentors Summit to scale our mentor's impact. More than 120 world-class Mentors put their hand up and offered to donate an hour to our founders in 2024.

The R3i Global Mentors Summit united world-class mentors, founders, and partners to collaborate, share insights, and empower startup growth. With interactive workshops, inspiring keynotes, and impactful networking, it was designed to build deeper people to people ties and unlock innovation across Climate, Healthcare, and emerging tech sectors.

Together, we celebrate achievements and shape the future of deeptech and impact venture building.

Partnered with SMU Cox Strategy and Entrepreneurship Program

A heartfelt thank you to Prof. David Jacobson , Prof. Arjun Singh, and the SMU Cox Strategy and Entrepreneurship program for countless hours dedicated to helping us focus on the business, not just in it. Their mentorship strengthened our growth mindset, fostered adaptability, and built resilience to tackle challenges head-on.

Delivering a 180-day post-investment competitive strategy roadmap to customers and capital, our SMU strategy teams defined where to play, how to win, and the tech stack, capabilities, and management systems to build to thrive.

It Takes a Village to Power R3i

We are deeply grateful for the ecosystem that powers R3i. Together, we’re building something extraordinary:

• Perk Partners: Your tools, services, and resources accelerate founder growth and success.
• Co-Investment Consortium: Your collaboration ensures innovation meets capital. Thank you for championing this mission.
• Government, Academic, and Corporate Collaborators: Your partnerships create landing pads, foster innovation, and unlock market access for our founders.
• TRIUM Angels: Your belief in bold ideas and active support through your networks, institutions, and corporations have been transformative.
• Venturers, Mentors, and EIRs: Your guidance, expertise, and introductions inspire and elevate our founders daily.

Thank You and Warm Wishes

Thank you for being an integral part of this journey. Together, we’ve overcome challenges, celebrated wins, and built a foundation for a future that truly matters. We look forward to benchmarking our performance and ESG impact with you in the new year and continuing this incredible work in 2025 and beyond.

Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful holiday season and a prosperous new year.

Together, we rise!

Leesa Soulodre

Founder & Managing Partner

R3i Capital | Planet43 | R3i Impact Foundation