Resilience Capital Ventures

Resilience Capital Ventures LLC (RCV) is a boutique capital advisory practice headquartered in Washington, DC, founded in 2018 by Dr. Gillian Marcelle, PhD, who was recognized on the 2024 Forbes 'Fifty Over Fifty' Investment List. Rather than operating as a conventional venture fund with a pooled LP vehicle, RCV mobilizes and catalyzes capital through strategic advisory engagements and partnerships with a network of investment firms and brokers, matching capital sources with qualified projects and sponsors and helping them become investment-ready. Target geographies are the United States, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. RCV's signature methodology is the proprietary Triple B Framework — Bottlenecks, Blind Spots, and Blended Finance — which combines financial capital with knowledge, social, cultural, relationship, network, and political capital to address capital-misallocation problems in underserved markets. Sector mandate covers telecoms, information technology, renewable energy, climate tech, smart and regenerative agriculture, fintech, health systems, and creative sectors including film, music, and digital media, with additional expertise in diaspora bonds and impact finance instruments. The team includes Bryan Joseph (contingent risk and capital management), Olumide Lala (climate finance, co-founder of Climate Transition), and Alex Ou Young (senior project management). Notable clients and strategic partners include the Government of The Bahamas, MPC Energy Solutions, the MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund, Open Society Foundations, PolicyLink, the Clinton Foundation, and the African Union. RCV does not publicly disclose a direct-investment portfolio or check sizes. The firm's advisory model positions it as a capital architecture partner rather than a deploying fund — working upstream of transactions to build the conditions under which investment can flow into markets where conventional capital structures routinely fail.