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Climate Solutions

"There is a significant gap between the capital needed and the capital currently deployed to create enduring solutions to the climate crisis. To address this financing gap will require the efforts of many players, including entrepreneurial ventures, multinational businesses, governments, multilaterals and investors. Investing in scalable solutions now is critical for the future of the planet."
—David Blood

In 2007, Generation launched its second strategy, focused on Climate Solutions. We invest in private equity, restricted public equity and unrestricted public equity. This strategy is focused exclusively on deploying capital to help solve the climate crisis.

Focus on Key Priority Areas

The climate crisis is an urgent, multi-dimensional challenge that requires business and government leaders to accelerate the development of sustainable, scalable solutions. Among the many investment opportunities in the transition from a high-carbon to low-carbon economy, Generation has prioritized four initial areas of focus for the Climate Solutions product:

  • Renewable Energy Generation and Distribution
  • Energy Efficiency and Demand Destruction
  • Carbon Markets and Climate-Related Financial Services
  • Solutions for the Biomass Economy

Strategic Value for Companies

Generation is committed to partnering with management teams to ensure long term value creation. Generation offers access to a unique network of leading experts on the climate crisis, and the edge and insight that comes with a global research platform dedicated to understanding sustainability challenges. We like to consider ourselves as strategic investors that help grow great businesses.

Growth Capital

The Climate Solutions product offers growth capital to help companies scale and deploy their solutions. We provide funding and global business-building expertise to a range of businesses. We typically do not take pure technology risk, preferring to focus on business strategy, regulation and scale up risk.

Partnering with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Generation has a strategic alliance with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) to find, fund and accelerate green business, technology and policy solutions with the greatest potential to help solve the climate crisis.

The Generation and KPCB alliance represents a landmark alignment of resources to effect global change to protect the environment. It combines the research expertise of both organizations with a track record of successful investments in public and private companies, from early stage to large capitalization business.