Top Tier Impact during Web Summit 2026
📍Lisbon, Portugal | November 12, 2025
Accelerating Investments in Resilience, AI, and Regeneration
From conversation to capital deployment at Web Summit Lisbon
On November 12, 2025, Top Tier Impact convened investors, founders, and corporate leaders in Lisbon for a focused morning gathering on one core question:
How do we accelerate real capital flows into resilience, AI, and regenerative systems—now?
Hosted at Casa do Impacto during Web Summit week, this session was designed not as a showcase, but as infrastructure for decision-making. No abstractions. No buzzwords. Just signal.
The context: urgency meets opportunity
Climate, biodiversity, and systemic risk are no longer future scenarios, they are present-day balance-sheet realities. At the same time, AI and data infrastructure are reshaping how capital is deployed, risks are assessed, and solutions scale.
The challenge is not ambition.
It is coordination, prioritization, and execution.
This gathering brought together actors already operating at that intersection.
Opening the data: the state of Climate Tech in 2025
The morning opened with a sharp, data-driven briefing by Sofia Esteves, Head of Market Insights at Net Zero Insights.
Her overview cut through the noise:
Capital is consolidating around fewer, more scalable climate solutions
Resilience and adaptation are moving from “nice to have” to core investment theses
AI is increasingly embedded across climate tech—from underwriting to monitoring to deployment
The message was clear: the market is maturing, but speed still lags behind need.
The panel: where capital is actually moving
The central discussion, moderated by Alessa Berg, Founder & CEO of Top Tier Impact, focused on what investors are actually backing, and why.
Panelists included:
Rita Sousa, Partner at Faber
André Almeida Santos, Partner at Indico Capital Partners"]
Alice Segre, Investment Associate at MAZE
Key themes emerged quickly:
Resilience is investable when framed as systems performance, not charity
AI is an enabler, not a vertical, most powerful when embedded into real-economy solutions
Regeneration requires blended thinking: policy, capital, technology, and community alignment
Early-stage innovation must be matched with late-stage pathways or it stalls
Above all, the panel reinforced a core truth:
“The winners of the next decade will be those who can move from pilot to deployment without losing integrity—or momentum.”
Why this matters for the ecosystem
This was a working session for people allocating capital, building companies, and shaping markets.
By bringing together:
Global climate intelligence
Active venture and impact investors
Founders and operators on the ground
Top Tier Impact continues to function as connective tissue across the impact economy.
What’s next
As capital markets recalibrate around risk, resilience, and long-term value creation, these conversations are no longer optional. They are foundational.
Top Tier Impact will continue to convene high-trust, high-signal spaces where ideas become mandates and mandates become capital flows.
Because systems change does not happen by accident.
It is designed, financed, and deployed.
