How development becomes investable.

Back in 2024, I launched Delve In Media and I wrote a blog post. It was about how the logo, colour, palette and design came together, and it started something like this. In September, on a walk along a stretch of the river Wandle in southwest London, I was stopped in my tracks by a flash of metallic blue and a shimmer of orange. It was a rare sighting of the Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis. Catching even a fleeting glimpse of this shy little bird, with its distinctive piping call, always feels uplifting. It was particularly so that morning.   The kingfisher has always held special resonance. I was five when the brown-hooded Kingfisher, Halcyon albiventris, which is found in the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, flew into the window of my family home and hurt its wing. It’s a small bird with a brown head, a bright orange beak, and wings splashed with turquoise and black. I don’t remember the exact details, or for how long, but we kept the kingfisher in a shoebox until it was ready to…