Post by SecondMuse Capital

How do you build and invest in something that no single sector produces and no single investor can hold? That was the question our Senior Director, Natalia Arjomand, explored at the Brain Lens Investing plenary at the 2026 Skoll World Forum, where a global group gathered around brain capital, the combined value of brain health and brain skills. 🧠 Brain health and brain skills are shaped at every stage of life by food, housing, education, work and healthcare, all at once, so no single investment theme can hold that complexity, and no single investor can either. This is why we believe brain capital calls for systemic investing, an approach designed to: - Work across sectors rather than fund point solutions - Move more than one form of capital, including philanthropic, public and private - Target the high-leverage points where one input can shift health and economic trajectories for decades When coordinated this way, the returns do not just add up. They compound. That same principle ran through the convening, captured in this reflection from Melani O'Leary at Grand Challenges Canada: https://lnkd.in/epxXXdmt