Algorithmic Investment Roulette
Who survives, who thrives, and who codes your future. The frameworks boards and investors need to separate technological reality from narrative risk — before the next hype cycle does it for them.
The $50 trillion question
Climate, healthcare and resource security are converging into the defining capital-allocation decision of the era — and much of the capital funding them is still trained to underwrite eighteen-month sprints to product-market fit. That mismatch is where most deep-tech capital is destroyed, and where the capital deployed correctly can define a portfolio.
The US$50 trillion net-zero energy transition, by technology. Source: Morgan Stanley Research (2019) — investment across five zero-carbon technologies to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Figures rounded; excludes water, health and adaptation.
Spent on health worldwide each year — the life-sciences and health-commercialisation pillar, and 10% of global GDP.
The global water market — resource security, the decade's quieter allocation question.
Sources: WHO, Global Spending on Health (2024), 2021 data. Global Water Markets Report 2023, McKinsey Sustainability Insights.
From laboratory brilliance to market reality.
The Technology Lie Detector
A board-ready method for separating breakthrough from breakaway — and technical reality from creative terminology — before capital is committed.
The R3i Moat Test
Six questions that separate companies that use AI from companies that convert intelligence into enduring enterprise value. AI is the accelerator, not the moat.
Strategic Syndicates
How to build coalitions of the committed, not crowds of the curious — and score every co-investor before they are on your cap table.
Deep-Tech Risk Management
Fatal versus manageable risk, milestone-based frameworks, early-warning systems, and exits planned for the scenario nobody models: the science works, the structure fails.
Four parts. One operating system.
The question isn't whether you should invest in deep tech. It's whether you're ready for what deep tech demands of its investors.
Leesa Soulodre
Founder & Managing General Partner of R3i, a cross-border deep-tech venture group operating across Luxembourg, Singapore and the United States. An investor, independent director and global technology chair with 25+ years across capital, technology and regulation — having advised 400+ corporations across 19 industries — working where frontier science meets institutional capital and governance.
Programmes for boards and investors.
International keynote
A decisive thesis, original frameworks, and a board-level call to action.
Board masterclass
The Deep-Tech Readiness Diagnostic, discussion and agreed governance priorities.
Closed-door roundtable
Chatham House facilitation for boards, sovereign allocators, investors and regulators.
Readiness Diagnostic
The frameworks as a scored board instrument: heat map, three priority exposures, and a 90-day governance agenda.