This year, the UpLink Investor Community welcomed 35 new members through a combination of challenge-linked engagement and curated outreach. These included investors engaging in the Nature Returns Challenge, developed in collaboration with the Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate and supported by Mercuria and its investment vehicle, Silvania. New members brought diverse approaches to capital deployment, including regionally anchored strategies, blended and catalytic capital tools and a focus on unlocking investment in undercapitalized solutions operating at the intersection of commercial viability and environmental outcomes. To complement relationship-led engagement, UpLink also piloted a data-informed matching process, the Venture–Investor Connect, designed to improve alignment between ventures and investors based on shared impact themes, sector focus and strategic priorities. In its first iteration, 61 ventures and 21 investors participated, with each investor receiving a small number of tailored matches. The pilot generated insights into how structured data can support more intentional engagement while preserving the trust-based dynamics essential to early-stage ecosystems. Investor engagement was further deepened through curated, high-trust convenings that emphasized peer exchange, learning and collaboration. This included participation in 3-Space, hosted by Rothschild in partnership with UpLink, Impact Venture Capital and Better Society Capital. The convening focused on addressing structural barriers and cultivating collaboration to advance critical solutions, bringing together investors and ecosystem actors to explore how capital can effectively support innovation at scale. In parallel, UpLink co-convened the Family Offices and the Future of Purposeful Capital breakfast with SUR Multi-Family Office (Banque Saudi Fransi) in London. The session brought together family principals, next- generation leaders, philanthropists and values- driven investors in a candid, peer-led discussion on stewardship, governance, identity and the evolving role of capital in driving long-term societal outcomes. Conversations highlighted a growing shift towards catalytic and systems-oriented capital, the increasing influence of next-generation leadership and strong appetite for trusted platforms that enable collective learning and collaboration across regions. Across these engagements, early outcomes included sustained follow-on dialogue among investors and ecosystem partners, increased interest in future convenings and qualitative feedback underscoring the value of neutral, high-trust spaces for alignment and learning. Together, these interactions reinforced the Investor Community’s role as a connective layer within the UpLink ecosystem, supporting shared understanding, cross-regional exchange and more intentional approaches to deploying purposeful capital. Uplink Annual Impact Report March 2026 18

UpLink Annual Impact Report 2026