Investors, grant-makers, banks and business schools, met in Oslo earlier this month to boost capital flows and ecosystem support for social ventures taking on global challenges. Here are some takeaways.

Take more risk. Foreign investment is highly concentrated in six African countries and 80% of the money is looking for safety and scale from day one, said Julio Garrido-Mirapeix, a partner at KPMG Kenya. “People are not taking risks. Philanthropic money has a key role in taking risk and financing risk.”

Stop this mantra on scale. “We need to focus and discuss much more around why we are here and what is happening on the ground,” said Paul Streets, CEO of the Lloyds Bank Foundation.

Match capital to needs. Classic fund managers apply criteria that don’t match real social economic needs. NESsT’s Roxana Damaschin-Tecu said the firm is talking with the European National Board for Impact Investing about what type of capital is needed by entrepreneurs to multiply their impact.

Read the full article about the takeaways for venture philanthropists by Romy Miyashiro at ImpactAlpha.