GFIR — the Global Fund for Innovation and Resilience — was founded in 2026 by three people who believe families displaced by climate-driven natural disasters deserve a faster, more direct kind of help. We focus on emergency response and alerts: getting immediate cash assistance to those affected, and keeping the world informed when disaster strikes. We'd rather tell you what we're trying to do than overpromise what we already have.
These are the rules we hold ourselves to — and the ones our partners and recipients can hold us to in public.
When a disaster strikes a community we serve, we move quickly — but we never trade speed for the dignity of the families on the other end.
We send digital cash transfers straight to families as soon as we can. They know what they need first — rent, food, medicine, transport — better than we do.
Every dollar moves through secure digital channels and local mobile money networks already trusted in the region.
The point of every dollar you give us is to reach a family who needs it. We'll publish exactly how we use what comes in.
We're new, so we don't have a track record yet. What we have is a commitment to share our work, our numbers, and our mistakes in public.
We help families recover after the disaster strikes. Our longer-term ambition is to add early warning, so help arrives before the storm does.
GFIR was founded in 2026 by three co-founders. Our team is growing — we're building this in the open and bringing on the right people as we scale.
Go brings 20+ years in sustainable finance and policy, including roles at the World Bank, leading global partnerships and resource mobilization. At GFIR, he applies that experience to building the partnerships and funding pathways that make mobile-based climate resilience possible for vulnerable communities — starting with our first 200 families in Pakistan.
Taewook is an engineering leader with 10+ U.S. patents, building and scaling technology across fintech, defense, medtech, and philanthropy. As Partner and CTO at LCS7, he leads technical due diligence and engineering strategy for a global portfolio. At GFIR, he guides the technical architecture behind our mobile alerts and digital cash systems — making sure they're secure, verifiable, and built to scale across regions.
Larry is a technology executive with 15 years of experience building scalable, AI-driven systems across full-stack development and cloud infrastructure. As CTO of GFIR, he leads the design of the mobile-first platform — the early warning alerts, biometric registration, and digital cash infrastructure that put protection in the palm of a family's hand.
Founders' bios will be added to this page as we make them public. If you'd like to work with us, the contact page is the best place to start.
