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Resilience Reserve
Resilience Reserve is a venture capital fund founded by Chris Anderson and Rob Reid.
Resilience Reserve
Resilience Reserve is a venture capital fund founded by Chris Anderson and Rob Reid. It has made 8 investments, including a Series B investment in Positron on February 4, 2026.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Palo Alto
Corporate office
Palo Alto, Singapore, United States
Additional offices
Singapore
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What is Resilience Reserve's investment thesis?
Resilience Reserve backs companies that strengthen societal and industrial resilience against systemic threats. The firm allocates across climate resilience, cleaner foods, energy security, pandemic preparedness, and generative AI. The thesis treats resilience as a cross-sectoral attribute rather than a discrete sector, leading to a portfolio that spans nuclear fusion, alternative proteins, AI infrastructure, and biosecurity.
Does Resilience Reserve invest across stages or focus on a specific one?
Resilience Reserve operates as a multistage fund, with disclosed positions ranging from seed-stage startups to expansion-stage companies. The portfolio includes early-stage ventures like Latent AI and Positron, alongside later-stage platforms such as Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which has raised over $2 billion in total funding (per the firm, 2024). The firm does not publicly delineate reserve allocation or check-size bands by stage.
What does Resilience Reserve's portfolio concentrate on geographically?
The firm maintains investment operations in both North America and Asia. Portfolio companies are headquartered across the United States, New Zealand, and Singapore, reflecting a trans-Pacific deployment pattern. The Singapore office likely facilitates access to alternative protein and circular-economy deal flow in the Asia-Pacific region, though the firm has not publicly detailed its sourcing model.
Does Resilience Reserve take board seats or lead rounds?
Resilience Reserve has not publicly disclosed its governance practices, board representation policies, or lead-investor check-writing authority. Institutional allocators evaluating the firm for direct co-investment should inquire about its board participation rate and follow-on reserve strategy during due diligence.
How is Resilience Reserve distinct from generalist climate-tech or deeptech funds?
Unlike broad climate-tech managers, Resilience Reserve applies a resilience lens that cuts across climate, health, food, and compute infrastructure. The portfolio includes exposure to generative AI inference hardware through Positron — a company competing directly with Nvidia on price-performance — alongside regenerative agriculture and pandemic insurance, creating a concentration unlikely to appear in a standard venture portfolio. This thematic bundling means performance correlates with systemic-risk tail events rather than any single sector cycle.
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