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§ 00 ── EKA VENTURES · DAY 32 OF FUND II · £80M · ARTICLE 9 · TOP 5%

Fund II is thirty-two days old. Six portcos signed, twenty-four to go. The first-cohort impact-evidence regime sets the precedent for everything after. This case is about that regime.

£80M / $107M
Fund II close · 13 April 2026
AUM $200M
across both funds
Article 9
consumer-impact thesis · three pillars
Top 5%
global DPI/TVPI · 2021 vintage
~24 portcos
to source · first cohort sets precedent

article 9 · consumer impact · life × health × sustainability · sfdr 2.0 + uk sdr running in parallel

§ 01 ── THE SPINE

Three pillars. One social-objectives clause in every deal. Three different units of impact — and they have to compose twice.

THE THREE PILLARS · CONSUMER-LED MEGA-TRENDS
  • Life · access and affordability of life-essential products and services
  • Health · the shift from reactive to preventative care
  • Sustainability · resource efficiency and decarbonisation in large consumer industries
THE BINDING PHRASE · CAMILLA DOLAN

"founders creating positive system change."

— CAMILLA DOLAN · EKA VENTURES · RECURRING PHRASE
THE OPERATIONAL FRAME

Sourcing is solved — 47% of Fund I deals surfaced from 10,000 screened, top 5% global returns. The wedge sits one layer below: the impact-evidence layer.

THREE PILLARS · THREE EVIDENCE REGIMES

Decarbonisation (tCO2e, LCA), preventative care (outcome cohorts, NHS adoption), access (equity metrics, cost delta) — three non-transferable regimes the Article 9 disclosure has to compose across.

AND IT HAS TO COMPOSE TWICE

SFDR 2.0 (COM(2025) 841 · 20 Nov 2025) replaces Article 9 with three categories for 2028 entry — inside Fund II's deployment cycle. UK SDR runs in parallel.

Article 7
Transition
Article 8
ESG Basics
Article 9 (new)
Sustainable · 70% threshold · product-level PAI
THE THREAT MODEL

273 of 1,138 self-classified Article 9 funds were downgraded to Article 8 between Aug 2022 – Jan 2023. Consumer-impact carries the heaviest greenwashing-scrutiny burden in the remap. Fund II Day 32 is the moment the first-cohort regime gets designed.

§ 02 ── PER-PORTCO EVIDENCE REGIME

Each row carries a different impact unit, baseline, verification regime, and remap path.

The Article 9 disclosure composes across rows; the regime per row is set per portco at term-sheet.

anchor portcos shown per row · regime set per portco at term-sheet · uk sdr label carried in parallel

§ 03 ── TWO PRIMITIVES INTO THE STACK

Queryable Fund reads two primitives into the Eka stack — audit chain and methodology overlay. The regime stops being a memo.

AUDIT CHAIN

Every impact-evidence event — LCA delivered, clinical study published, NHS partnership signed, fairness audit dated, tCO2e telemetry batch, social-objectives clause amendment — appends to a hash-chained log, mode-tagged with an SFDR 2.0 remap target. Append-only. Never-deletable. Auditor-ready without partners reconstructing from memos.

METHODOLOGY OVERLAY · L2 YAML

Per-portco regime spec as inspectable YAML — pillar, impact unit, baseline, verification, social-objectives clause, SFDR 2.0 remap target, UK SDR label. Dolan and Coker's term-sheet judgments encoded once; the sourcing layer, the Substack rhythm, and the LP report all compose from it.

§ 04 ── THE INFLECTION

The regulatory remap lands mid-cycle. Two regimes, one fund.

01
Fund II Day 32 · six portcos signed · ~24 to source · first cohort sets the precedent.
02
SFDR 2.0 published 20 Nov 2025 · entry 2028 · remap lands mid-cycle.
03
UK SDR runs in parallel · L2 overlay carries both labels per portco.
04
Threat model · 24% of self-classified Article 9 funds downgraded Aug 2022 – Jan 2023.
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§ 04 ── THE FIRST-COHORT REGIME

Day 32 of Fund II. Pressure-test the regime before portco seven.

The substrate answers in its own voice — the same primitive we'd install on one archetype row of one Eka portco. Not a demo. The actual reasoning surface.

STREAMING · κ ≥ 0.85 · ANONYMITY HOLDS · CITATIONS BY DEFAULT

↵ to send · ⇧↵ for newline
first-principles probes:
§ END ── THE PROPOSITION

A Phase 0 PoC scoped to one archetype row from §02 — one Eka portco's actual impact-evidence regime.

Delivered as an audit-chain stub plus one methodology-overlay YAML the GPs can mark up. This case is operator-anonymous. Open-ended timing; the page stays live.

If relevant, I can send a short async questionnaire — no call needed — and build a no-charge synthetic-data Phase 0 PoC "Eka AI OS". Within two weeks, replay one consumer-impact portco's evidence chain against the SFDR 2.0 + UK SDR remap before the first-cohort regime starts setting the precedent for portcos seven through thirty.