TerriFlux
Seed Round in 2024
TerriFlux develops an environmental resource management platform that models and simulates material, energy, monetary, and environmental flows. The platform serves inter-municipal bodies, institutions, and professional associations, providing modeling and simulation capabilities to support planning, coordination, and decision making across sectors such as agriculture and forestry. It enables clients to communicate, diagnose, and anticipate outcomes within constrained environments, helping optimize resource use and inform policy and operational choices.
Bord na Mona
Debt Financing in 2023
Bord na Mona is a semi-state company based in Dublin, Ireland, established in 1946. The company operates across six business units: Powergen, Biomass, Resource Recovery, Peat, Horticulture, and Fuels. Its activities include the procurement and supply of biomass, peat-based and renewable power generation, waste recovery, and the production of domestic fuel products. Additionally, Bord na Mona offers a range of horticultural products for both professional and consumer markets. The company's diverse portfolio reflects its commitment to sustainable practices and environmental responsibility.
IWC Group
Acquisition in 2022
IWC Group is a natural resources investment expert with deep experience in global timberland, agriculture, and responsible investment, providing diversification, inflation hedge, and capital appreciation investment opportunities to institutional investors.
With more than 27 years of experience in these sectors, the International Woodland Company currently oversees approximately USD 4.5 billion of institutional mandates dedicated to timberland investment programs worldwide. Investments have generally been made through primary funds, co-investments, secondaries, and separate accounts.
In 2017, the Group decided to grow its portfolio of services and to include agriculture as an asset class, by sharing knowledge and experience with AG-Advice ApS and Jesper Brunhøj Jensen, an agriculture investment manager with more than 25 years of sectoral experience. Together, the companies expand the Group’s natural resources services.
IWC has two main business areas: Asset management (integrated natural resources investment solutions and services) and Alternative Investments (integrated natural resources investment management, advice and discretionary portfolio management services).
Nature Metrics
Series B in 2022
Nature Metrics Ltd is a biotechnology company specializing in DNA-based monitoring for biodiversity assessment and ecological research. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Egham, United Kingdom, the company utilizes advanced genetic techniques to detect species through environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis. This includes services for identifying crested newts, testing for chytrid fungus, and conducting surveys on various aquatic species such as fish and amphibians. Nature Metrics employs methods like Metabarcoding, which sequences a specific region of DNA to identify species by comparing it to established reference databases, and metagenomics, which provides insights into species abundance and biomass within individual samples. By isolating unique genetic signatures shed into the environment, the company offers innovative solutions for monitoring ecosystems and assessing their health.
Origin Materials
Post in 2021
Origin Materials is a carbon-negative materials company that converts carbon from biomass into useful products, reducing reliance on fossil resources and sequestering carbon in the process. The platform uses abundant non-food biomass, such as wood residues, to produce a broad range of products including packaging, plastics, textiles, automotive parts, tires, carpets, adhesives, fuels, and more. It enables the production of materials such as components related to PET, para-xylene, carbon black, and levulinic acid from biomass inputs. The company targets a large total addressable market across consumer packaging, textiles, automotive, and consumer goods.
Horizonte Minerals
Post in 2020
Horizonte Minerals is a United Kingdom-based nickel development company focused on mineral projects in Brazil. The company wholly owns the Araguaia nickel laterite project, situated to the south of the Carajas mineral district in northern Brazil, which it is developing as the next significant nickel mine in the region. Additionally, Horizonte holds the Vermelho nickel-cobalt project located in the Carajas area. The nickel produced by the company is primarily utilized in stainless steel manufacturing and electric vehicle production, highlighting its role in the evolving energy landscape.
Lithium Universe
Post in 2017
Founded in Western Australia in 1996, Lithium Universe is a leading lithium company focused on production facilities and brine assets. With experienced management and a strong financial position, the company aims to fuel the electrical revolution through its low-cost lithium production.
Levistina
Acquisition in 2010
Levantina specializes in the extraction, processing, and sale of natural stone, focusing primarily on marble and granite. The company operates several quarries and seven factories, along with 28 distribution warehouses, enabling efficient production and distribution. Levantina's portfolio features over 200 different materials, with notable offerings including Spanish marbles and Brazilian granites. Its products cater to the interior design market, serving a variety of applications such as flooring, wall coverings, and countertops for both large and small-scale projects. The company exports to more than 110 countries across the European Union, the USA, South America, the Middle East, and Asia, ensuring a broad international presence.