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Our 3 dots
We work with three circles that turn a group of people into an ecosystem that learns, deploys, and changes systems for real.
Systemic capital deployment is where resources move into action. We deploymulti-capital: economic, social, cultural, and symbolic. Guided by our We Diligence and systems lenses, we think of mixing capitals to each project. Sometimes this means a single catalytic investment, other times a portfolio play or blended approach.We explore together pioneers in places like impact into play and one day, our own Impactopia(maybe chapter 11 ☺or 19).
Systemic mindset is how flows are designed. It’s the connective tissue between deployment and systems: structures, vehicles, blended instruments, side-cars, and catalytic layers that make collaboration possible. But it’s also about relationships and inner reflection. Rethinking power & ownership. Stewarding trust over years turns relationships into capital in their own right. Here, peers, founders, and allies co-create alliances, syndicates, and collective efforts that no single actor could achieve alone. We unlearn, rethink our place, think of agency, paradoxes and we embrace old and new wisdom sources.
Systemic infrastructure of the choreography of the field itself. It’s an emerging topic, and a really important one. Imagine that the new systemic investing is a living organism, how would the financial system than look like, how will the nutrients flow, who decides what, what’s the purpose of the new system and what are the protocols and shared wisdom tools used in a distributive governance and wealth system? We deep dive into this in the follow up of this primer, chapter 2.
Our dot of capital deployment
We can’t wait until systems are completely redesigned, although we very much support this, we also know that by deploying, by the narratives we can bring, by the learnings of doing well and stupid, we believe the field is formed by action.
We witness too much places where it’s only about conversation and not about getting into funding the wild things that might not all be perfect but at least innovating and pioneering on things that need to be out there or to build upon.
Think of the pioneers of today that are rethinking financial infrastructure, or governance models, or distributive models, our mental models, or community owned place base thinking to build systemic narratives, we support the crazy ones -the pioneers that build their companies, funds or initiatives while the old system is breaking down and the new is build by the pioneers.
Projects get on our list after careful relationship building, and through our extensive network, we care about founders being kind, wild, aligned with our systemic principles. Projects are explored together with explorers, some will be funded, some not or not yet. If a project is not funded, it’s because of questioning our additionality. They will still stay close to us.
Our dot of systemic mindset
Mindset is about more than how we view the world, it’s how we engagewith it. We are learning about how we can build solutions that consider the entire system instead ofit’sindividual parts. Sometimes this is in direct conflictwith our current believes, narratives. We explore that uneasy-ness. Mindset is equally important as action: exploring alternative, deeper questions.The mental models, our own mentals models. On agency, on ownership, on leadership, on trust, on lineairthinking..thesekind of topics.
There is a next chapter about this topic, but some of the topics we already explorerda bit are things like embracing uncertainty. Learn to dance with the unknown, to listen to silence, to hold paradox. Treating capital as a living lab.We wonder about our commitment to failure and learning loops. Making sure the Elephant Is in the room.
We play games (werewolves as a starter), it’s not all serious. At the Explorers Club gathering, games and creative practices are invitations to engage with consciousness. We explore each others mindset, approaches in all forms, some wilder than others. Think going from linear to systemic, control to emergence.
Our dot of systemic infrastructure
Systemic infrastructure is the choreography of the field itself, the invisible architecture of a system. We know It’s still an emerging conversation, but an essential one.
Imagine systemic investing as a living organism. How would its financial system breathe?How would capital, knowledge, relationships circulate? Who decides what, and for whom? What is the shared purpose of this new organism, and which tools, protocols, and wisdoms guide its movements?
This is where governance meets imagination. Where distributed ownership and collective intelligence replace hierarchy and control. Where shared backbones —digital, legal, cultural —enable new kinds of cooperation. Systemic infrastructure is not built once; it evolves.It’s the result of ongoing learning between pioneers such as Giannandrea Giacomo who prototype new governance models, new fund architectures, and new field backbones that allow systemic work to scale without losing its soul. It’s a fascination topic of our Explorers club. And imagine the systemic kpi’s, it’s like 800 dynamics things together. Cool!
