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Elaine Salvador
Founding Partner
Verana Ventures
Elaine Salvador is the Founder of Verana Ventures, a climate-tech capital advisory firm helping founders raise capital, sharpen their investor positioning and connect with the right strategic investors.
She has more than 12 years of experience across investment banking, private equity and energy transition, with previous roles at Lazard, Stifel, Lightsource BP and H.I.G. Capital. Her work has spanned M&A, capital raising and investment across renewable energy, grid infrastructure, energy software, EV charging, energy storage, industrial decarbonisation and engineered climate solutions.
Elaine is also building Graciosa Climate Circle, a private deal-by-deal investor circle backing women-led climate founders across under-covered markets.
Speaking at the summit
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10:40–11:25amMon 16 NovForum StageOpen
Chaktomuk - Rails Across Borders
From Sandbox to Scale: What Does It Take for Financial Innovation to Become Infrastructure?
About this session
A sandbox can show that a financial product works under controlled conditions. It does not prove that the product can survive licensing, integrate with existing institutions, win customer trust or expand into another jurisdiction. The harder question is what happens after testing ends. The panel examines the conditions that should allow an innovation to move from experiment to licensed market participant, including infrastructure access, capital, governance and regulatory readiness. It also explores a more difficult possibility: whether successful testing in one credible jurisdiction can reduce the cost of entering another, and what regulators would need to recognise in each other's processes before regulatory portability becomes possible.
