Mission
To provide competitive financial returns to investors by supplying high-yield debt capital to emerging and growth-stage companies in industries where responsible business practices produce sustainable competitive advantage.
Vision
To finance the great growth businesses in the world economy’s accelerating demand for sustainability.
Invest in Markets That Are Transitioning
“My position has always been that you build great companies by finding monster markets that are in transition.”
- Don Valentine,
Founder, National Semiconductor and Sequoia Capital
Original investor in Apple Computer and Oracle
April 2004
Green is the Next Transition
Companies “must start to recognize environmental improvement as an economic and competitive opportunity…[those] that embrace innovation-based solutions will reap major competitive benefits”
- Michael Porter, Claas van der Linde
“Green & Competitive,” Harvard Business Review
September 1995
The Market for Green is Large and Growing
“Greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”
- John Doerr
General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Founder, New Schools Fund
February 2006