- Stage at entry
- Seed to Series A, with follow-ons through Series B.
- Initial check
- USD 500,000 to 1.5 million. USD 250,000 to 750,000 in nascent markets such as Central America and the Caribbean.
- Ownership
- 8% to 15% at entry, with a board seat or observer rights.
- Instruments
- Preferred equity, SAFEs and convertible notes. Minority positions only.
- Customers
- Businesses, from multinational plants to small firms.
- Impact condition
- A measurable cut in customers' energy cost or emissions, with a baseline set before we invest.
- Holding period
- 5 to 8 years. Likely buyers include energy service firms, equipment makers, utilities, industrial software companies and later-stage funds.
- Excluded
- Project SPVs, project debt, utility-scale generation, asset-owning business models, fossil fuel production and any activity on the IDB Group exclusion list.