What is typically sought
- Growth capital
- Strategic and corporate investment
- Expansion capital
- Acquisition capital
- Joint venture capital
- Structured and venture debt introductions
Sectors / Clean Technology
Clean Technology
Technologies that improve efficiency, reduce emissions or produce energy at lower cost.
Overview
- Energy efficiency
- Industrial decarbonisation
- Process technology
- Digital energy
- Materials
- Emissions reduction
Technology businesses raise capital on a different basis from projects. There is no asset to secure against and no contracted revenue stream to model. What is being financed is commercial traction and the credibility of the route to scale.
The investors are different too. Infrastructure capital rarely takes technology risk. Growth equity, strategic corporate investors and specialist transition funds do, and each looks first at evidence of paying customers, unit economics and a defensible position rather than at the technology itself.
We consider businesses that have moved beyond demonstration and can evidence commercial deployment, and we are candid with founders when a business is earlier than the capital we can introduce.
Capital requirements
Assessment
What we look for
- Revenue from paying customers
- Unit economics at current and target scale
- Intellectual property position
- Deployment record and reference sites
- Management depth beyond the founder
- Defined use of proceeds and next milestone
Capital sources
Where introductions are made
- Growth equity and climate funds
- Strategic and industrial investors
- Family offices
- Specialist transition capital
- Venture debt providers
- International investment groups
Categories of capital, not named relationships. Fit is assessed against stated mandate on a case by case basis.
Seeking capital
Raising for a clean technology opportunity
Tell us the stage, the amount, the instrument and what the capital funds. Where the requirement is defined and the evidence exists, we will tell you quickly whether we can be useful.
Capital partners
Investing in this sector
If your mandate covers clean technology, set out the criteria you apply. Introductions are made only against them.