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Science.
Technology.
What comes next.

David builds and backs ventures that expand opportunity for future generations and extend the hope and horizons of intelligent life.

The work

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  • Foundation

    Regenerative

    Sustainable future crops and low-carbon technologies: carbon credits and green energy engineered to prove their value in the world now.

    • Future crops
    • Carbon credits
    • Green energy

    Ventures

    • MacroAgri
    • Plant Force Britain
  • Capability

    Intelligence

    Education, applied intelligence and human systems that expand what people are capable of learning, building and becoming.

    • Cosmic intelligence
    • Human resources
    • Capability

    Ventures

    • Superintelligence
  • Frontier

    Enterprise

    How the next century builds, funds and scales. Precision technology, manufacturing and patient capital.

    • Precision tech
    • Funds & resources
    • Long horizon

    Ventures

    • Elektra

Mission

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Build useful resources today while expanding what people will be capable of tomorrow.

“Solving problems to enable others.”

Provisioning humanity to take its next great leap by building businesses and systems whose fruits will give future generations the opportunity and hope to flourish.

The horizon

Build for
year 100.

  1. 01 · Years 0 to 25

    Prove

    Current technology ventures, useful systems and ideas that earn their place in the world now.

  2. 02 · Years 25+

    Carry

    Knowledge, human capability and enduring communities that take the work further.

  3. 03 · Years 70+

    Beyond

    The framework for intelligent life beyond Earth, built on everything the first century makes possible.

About David

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David Swift at DIFC Innovation Hub

Profile

About David Swift

David Swift is an entrepreneur, would be technologist and long-horizon founder building ventures, startups and human capability for a more intelligent future.

Raised in the UK and now based in Dubai, David has built across technology, enterprise and agriculture. Whole-systems thinking taught him to look beyond the immediate cycle: to connect decisions, consequences and opportunities across decades.

His work and commercial experience spans across MacroAgri, Plant Force Britain and a wider portfolio of startups.

His mission is to provision humanity with the knowledge, technologies and systems that help future generations thrive, on Earth and eventually for intelligent life beyond it.

Curiosity · Growth · Optimism

Build the next
hundred years.

  • Conversations

    Keynotes and panels on building for the long horizon.

  • Counsel

    Whole-systems thinking across technology, land and infrastructure.

  • Ventures

    Partnerships, from early ideas to patient capital.

Other ventures

A broader commercial record across land, capital and community.

  • Plant Force Britain
  • MacroAgri
  • Superintelligence
  • Elektra