SUSTAINABILITY INVESTMENT FUNDS
The Sustainability Investment Funds are managed by Reference Capital Management whose team has more than twenty years' experience investing in the rapidly growing opportunities within the sustainable economy. We believe that by creating and growing companies that leverage the attributes (market, talent, technology, capital) of the Northwest and the West Coast, these companies will deliver an excellent return to investors, be globally competitive and establish market leadership positions.
Global Opportunity
Reference Capital believes that multiple, global forces are converging creating a unique economic opportunity for businesses based on a sustainable economy. Increasing resource constraints, including energy, clean water, mineral resources, and clean air, are being driven by expanding economic development and population growth. When coupled with greater understanding of the consequences of current economic development and consumption patterns, Reference Capital believes these trends are creating strong economic and regulatory incentives that are shifting the demand curve toward cleaner, local, and lower impact products and services. In this context, Sustainability is a global market wave, potentially larger than the original industrial revolution.
To capitalize on this opportunity, Reference Capital Management has created a series of early stage funds.
SUSTAINABILITY INVESTMENT FUND 2008
Reference
Capital Management has established the Sustainability Investment
Fund 2008, LP, to focus on early stage companies,
primarily in the Northwest, that are enabling rapidly growing market
opportunities in the sustainable economy. The Fund seeks excellent
returns for investors through a portfolio whose
combined economic effects support efforts
to improve society and the environment.
The
Northwest United States and Western Canada possess strong, native
attributes that support the emerging sustainable economy. To capture
this potential, to start and grow globally competitive companies, the
Fund will focus primarily on early stage opportunities that have:
Sustainable products and resources, energy management and green technologies;
Significant impact on the sustainable economy; and
The ability to scale globally, but having compelling reasons to start locally
To help SIF
2008 portfolio companies succeed, the Fund managers will collaborate
with a group of national and regional investors and advisors from
corporations and foundations.
