Who is behind Madrid 2050°
Who We Are
An initiative convened by Dark Matter Labs and seeded by xCO. We are not a think tank — we exist so that things get built.
Dark Matter Labs is an international non-profit building the institutions, instruments and infrastructures for a more equitable, caring and regenerative future. It redesigns urban, financial and institutional architectures to respond to systemic planetary challenges.
- Building systemic-change institutions
- 10 yearsBuilding systemic-change institutions
- People across the team
- 70+People across the team
- Offices, global presence
- 5Offices, global presence
Related Dark Matter Labs work
xCO is a formation studio that converts diffuse, systemic risk into underwriteable commitment, providing the missing institutional layers — governance, sensing and learning, legal and financial instruments, verification rails and adoption pathways. Madrid is its anchor proof of concept for city-scale heat governance.
Team
The people building it
A cross-disciplinary Dark Matter Labs team spanning strategy, finance, design and civic technology.
Indy Johar
Co-founder, Dark Matter Labs
Alicia Carvajal Rowan
Strategic Designer, Dark Matter Labs
Joost Beunderman
Co-founder, Dark Matter Labs
Malik Lakoubay
Co-Steward of xCO, Dark Matter Labs
Sofia Valentini
Urban Data & GIS Specialist, Dark Matter Labs
Oliver Burgess
Portfolio Engineer, Dark Matter Labs
Gurden Batra
Civic Tech Lead & Design Technologist, Dark Matter Labs
Anahat Kaur
Art direction and Design, Dark Matter Labs
