Profile of 4 Green and Renewable Energy Investors

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Profile of 4 Green and Renewable Energy Investors

Here are some more investment institutions that are active in the green & renewable energy sectors. More can be found on our website under news.

Zouk

Zouk is a well-known cleantech investment firm, which has participated in deals worldwide. It is one of Europe's biggest cleantech technology funds; it recently closed $300m capital raising, mainly for clean-tech fund and also prepares for infrastructure fund.

The infrastructure fund operates differently from their cleantech fund, which focuses in technology innovations & applications.

The infrastructure fund is for funding energy infrastructure such as solar, smartgrid, wind power and other renewable energy projects.

AsiaVest Partners

AsiaVest Partners is a leading venture capital firm with US$980 million under management from global institutional investors.

The firm has invested over US$750 million in more than 120 companies throughout the United States and the Greater China region. The fund current focus sectors include technology, telecommunications, healthcare and cleantech.

AsiaVest Partners is one of the very first Asian investors that have been investing in international markets, green technology is a relatively new sector it invests. Currently, this includes Lattice Power, which develops LED components using Silicon, Solargigia, a solar wafer manufacturer and Bei Jing Lepro Seva, which manufacturers electricity saving equipment for heavy industries.

Denham Capital

Texas based Denham Capital invests in both traditional oil & gas and renewable energy sectors. Denham's Energy Infrastructure team focuses on transportation, distribution, processing, storage, and terminal operations within the energy and commodities value chains.

This includes traditional midstream assets (pipelines, processing, and storage), liquefied natural gas, fuel preparation, transportation, storage, oil field services, biofuels, biochemicals, gasification, and petrochemicals, as well as various other areas where the investment team has significant experience.

Denham's Power & Renewables team focuses on opportunities in traditional power generation, renewables, waste-to-energy, energy efficiency, combined heat and power, district heating and cooling, transmission and distribution, and other power-related investment opportunities.

Renewable energy including biofuels has been one of Denham Capital's key investment focuses in the recent years.

Annapolis Capital Ltd.

Founded in 2006, Annapolis Capital is a long-term investor of growth capital in the Canadian energy sector.

From its head office in Calgary, it has $146 million of invested capital currently under management has been committed by a supportive institutional and high net worth individual investor base, with 10% of that capital invested by Annapolis' principals and their families.

Annapolis targets investments in start-up and early stage exploration & production companies, primarily in the private domain. These energy investments include both traditional and renewable energy sectors. In terms of renewable energy projects, it looks at companies such as geothermal or other alternative fuel projects.

For more information about investors in greentech & renewable energy sectors, please check out our Global Green Investors Guide on http://researchwhitepaper.com

Thomas has been a research analyst and fund manager for over 10 years before he started ResearchWhitepaper and Money Cat Consulting. He had worked previously as senior research analyst with General & Cologne Reinsurance (part of the Berkshire Hathaway Group), Senior Research Manager with Hudson Securities specialized in IT, Telecommunications and Biotechnology. Senior Strategy Manager with Global Switch, one of the world's largest Internet Data Center companies, research manager with private equity group China Century Capital also consumer marketing specialist with American Express.
He is the author of multiple e-books and research reports both available in English and Chinese. Thomas has worked in US, Australia, UK and Hong Kong.

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