This is what resilience looks like
Resilead is a business incubator that funds entrepreneurs in emerging markets where capital is the primary constraint. A socially-driven program, Resilead provides non-dilutive seed funding through microgrants to founders building across agriculture, technology, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, delivery, and education. Funding pairs with structured mentorship in financial planning, engineering, and operations. We're stage agnostic and support ventures at their earliest stages.
We are defined by capital equality: ensuring that talented entrepreneurs, regardless of geography or background, have access to the funding and guidance necessary to scale. We believe great companies emerge everywhere. Resilead exists to find them, fund them, and help them build.
Our vision
Cultivate
Cultivation begins with idea validation. We work with entrepreneurs to refine their thinking, understand their market, and assess whether their solution addresses a real need. This phase includes exposure to case studies, competitive analysis, and cross-sector frameworks. The goal: move beyond incremental improvements to solutions with measurable value and clear market validation before capital allocation.
Strategy requires clarity and evidence. Outlining involves developing comprehensive market strategies that account for local context, competitive dynamics, and regulatory environment. We guide founders through market mapping, competitive analysis, and realistic growth timelines. Founders work through questions such as: What's the addressable market? What are barriers to entry? How does this venture differentiate? This research-intensive phase ensures founders operate with market intelligence, not assumptions. A solid strategy prevents resource misallocation and increases the probability of sustainability.
Outline
Launch is execution. Once cultivated and strategically outlined, a venture enters the market with defined timelines, resource allocation, and performance metrics. We provide ongoing operational support during this phase: troubleshooting, milestone tracking, and mentorship adjustments based on market feedback. Launch is measurable and time-bound. Success depends on the quality of preparation in earlier phases.
Launch
Sustainable growth requires partnerships. Leverage involves identifying and activating relationships with organizations and networks that expand the venture's capacity and reach. We facilitate connections between portfolio companies and our partners, enabling access to distribution channels, technical expertise, and complementary services. This positions successful ventures as platforms for complementary solutions, creating ecosystem effects and multiplying impact. Strategic partnerships are essential for achieving scale in capital-constrained markets.
Allocate
Structure enables execution. Build establishes governance systems, mentorship frameworks, and operational processes that support venture growth. We define performance expectations, establish regular review cycles, and connect founders with targeted mentorship in financial management, operations, and strategy. This phase creates accountability and clarity around what success looks like. Build is systematic and process-driven, transforming capital into structured support that enables founders to execute effectively. Without robust operational structure, capital becomes ineffective.
Scaling impact requires replicable models. Replication involves adapting successful frameworks to new geographies, sectors, and founder profiles. We test our approach in new markets, refine it based on local context, and partner with organizations that can execute the model locally. We identify which elements of our framework are universal and which require localization. Replication transforms a single incubator into a scalable approach that other organizations can implement. This is how impact compounds across regions.
Capital allocation is the foundation of impact. Allocation decisions determine how founders receive and deploy microgrants to address their most pressing business needs. We guide founders on capital deployment across product development, market validation, and operational infrastructure, rather than prescribing spending constraints. We prioritize founders in sectors and regions where capital access is most constrained and where strategic allocation can generate systemic change. Thoughtful deployment ensures that capital is directed where it generates the greatest return on impact.
Optimize
Optimization focuses on operational excellence and impact measurement. At this stage, ventures have achieved market validation and now focus on efficiency, scalability, and impact verification. We implement systems for financial performance tracking and social impact measurement, ensuring portfolio companies track both business and outcome metrics. Are ventures sustainable? Are they generating employment? What is the quality and durability of impact? Optimization is data-driven, so it distinguishes between ventures with sustainable models and those dependent on external support.
Leverage
Build
Replicate
Wilson Huang
CEO
An MIT‑founded incubator alumnus, Wilson runs a five‑figure‑revenue business and now leads Resilead's funding and portfolio.
Owen Kan
COO
A Harvard incubator program alumnus, Owen has advised several companies. At Resilead, he leads the mentorship and operations.
Kalan Xie
CMO
Kalan builds partnerships, expanding outreach, secure resources, and connecting funding and mentorship opportunities.
Kenneth Kwok
Advisor
A Wharton Huntsman alumnus, Kenneth draws on his World Economic Forum contributions to advise Resilead’s impact investing.