A December 8, 2010 report by the Pew Charitable Trust predicts that the clean power sector will be worth $2.3 trillion by 2020. Add in Impact Investments and some MBAs and it could be worth much more than that.
Hence Invest Green is now looking to start a VC venture - Invest Green Venture Capital (IGVC). The first investment would be into a new company called ecoInventors. ecoInventors would be a matchmaking service between eco inventors and oil industry inventors, and the subsequent ventures started would be financed by IGVC.
The idea is that here in Alberta Canada there are eco inventors lacking the skills to take their inventions up the development chain to market and also many oilpatch inventors who have been very successful at taking their inventions up the development chain to market. Everything in the oil industry was invented and built by oilpatch inventors at one time or another. ecoinventors would be a matchmaking service between these two groups, introducing new eco inventors to veteran oilpatch inventors. IGVC would provide eco-product development funding for new companies created from such matchmaking. My fifteen years of eco-tech research (from finding companies to list on the www.investgreen.ca website) plus financial courses taken (Canadian Investment Manager - CIM designation from CSI, also a result of running Invest Green) and many oil industry employments over a 25 year time period spanning 1980-2005 (not all spent in the oilpatch), affords me a unique ability to converse with all three sectors as would be involved in this venture - eco inventors, financial folks, and oilpatch inventors. I have eight potential projects waiting for funding.
Am needing to find a backer for this idea, one with patient capital as I build IGVC into a successful VC company. Ideally you would have $10 million to invest as IGVC start-up capital. High pressure investors need not apply. If interested to discuss this please contact investgreen2000@yahoo.com
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