CleanTech Investing Due Diligence

CleanTech investing has proven to be a difficult task for many investment firms with low ROI’s and few exits; some very smart people have made some questionable decisions regarding investment opportunities in the CleanTech space.

Why is this?

In part we believe it’s due to the complex nature of technology offerings within the CleanTech space – many of which require an engineering understanding not typically held within the investment community. Some investment groups use SME’s (Subject Matter Experts) to bridge this gap however, these often come from academia and lack the commercialization experience or they are semi-retired industrial experts that prefer not to do or don’t have access to the latest evaluation techniques. Either way, the key issue is ensuring a complete and impartial answer to the question -

Should this technology be commercialized?
- rather than -
Can this technology be commercialized?

C12 Solutions provides a rapid technology assessment service based on our years of experience in developing technologies in the energy, chemicals, refining, fuels and other related sectors.  We leverage our experience designing, installing, commissioning and commercializing technologies with a sophisticated technology assessment process.

Our process incorporates:

  • Technical risk analysis: identifying the key technical hurdles to an investment opportunity and assigning a likelihood of success to overcoming these
  • Strategy canvas: determining the key factors of competition and advantage with respect to alternative solutions and technology offerings and creating a clear strategic map of the opportunity
  • Financial assessment: providing an impartial verification of a technology’s development and commercialization costs, OPEX, CAPEX, tax incentive and commercial pricing assumptions
  • Intellectual property: creating an intellectual property map of related intellectual property filings, strength and potential value of owned and competing patents and potential threats and patenting opportunities
  • Grants and Regulatory: provides an overview of current and future Federal, State and other grant and funding opportunities as well as regulatory changes that can affect the successful implementation of a technology

We utilize patent mapping, Monte-Carlo modeling, fundamental and kinetic analysis, process modeling and sector trend analysis and then translate this all into terms the investment community understand.  Using our service will improve your investment portfolio – we will help you select investments that make the most sense!

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