GEF Capital seeks to invest in operating businesses where our capital can support both actual or expected revenue and earnings growth while also catalyzing a positive environmental impact. Over the tenure of our firm and previously while we were employees of Global Environment Fund, we have developed relationships and experience in certain sectors and industries that we believe align strongly with our dual goals. These include operating companies that enable clean energy or improve energy efficiency, that are reducing the amount of waste we generate or water we use, that build products using fewer or more efficient materials, or that take action to improve the quality and conservation of our land.
To help generate the financial returns that we seek, we apply core pillars of private equity investing:
Value
Seek value in specialized businesses
where current market perception misprices
key assets or businesses
Operational
Find opportunities to serve as a value-added partner to management or company
founders to drive operational improvement
Growth
Identify secular, macro and regulatory
trends that will allow for outsized growth
dynamics
Efficient capital
Bring efficient capital solutions to areas
where none existed, thereby unlocking
value