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MissionPoint Capital Partners is building a platform of investment vehicles that will be transformative in accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy.
- Where We Invest
- How We Invest
- Portfolio
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MANAGEMENT
MissionPoint Capital Partners supports only those managers with demonstrated track records of entrepreneurial accomplishment, domain expertise, and senior leadership experience with top-tier energy-related companies. Where appropriate, MissionPoint Capital Partners will also augment management expertise through the use of outside talent.
CONTROL
MissionPoint Capital Partners seeks significant minority or controlling equity positions in its portfolio companies. MissionPoint aims to serve on the boards of directors and, in most cases, chair the critical audit and compensation committees.
TRANSACTION TYPES
MissionPoint Capital Partners invests in the following situations:
• Expansion-stage financing, including equity to fund new product introductions, capital asset purchases, and add-on acquisitions
• Shareholder liquidity, including fund-to-fund secondaries, founder net worth diversification, and recapitalizations
• Management buyouts, including take-privates and corporate divestitures
• Business development, including corporate joint ventures and greenfield business launches (typically associated with financial services)
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Amonix, Inc., is a leading manufacturer of high-concentration solar photovoltaic (HCPV) systems for large-scale solar applications. Founded in 1989, Amonix has successfully designed, field tested and deployed the world’s only commercial-grade HCPV systems. Amonix’s HCPV systems have significant advantages over its competitors, including low levelized cost of energy, high power density, rapid field installation, and less restrictive site requirements. Its HCPV systems have thousands of hours of operating history – a track record that gives the company an important commercial lead. MissionPoint invested in Amonix in 2007 to fund the expansion of the company’s manufacturing capacity. Since that time, the company has strengthened its management team and is on track for the launch of its seventh generation product in 2009.
www.amonix.com
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APX, Inc. founded in 1996 and based in Santa Clara, California, is the largest provider of hosted power scheduling and settlement services in the nation and a major provider of environmental commodity market infrastructure services. APX serves nearly one-third of all deregulated power market participants in California, as well as substantial numbers in Texas, the Mid-West, New England and elsewhere. More than 350 million megawatt hours of power is currently scheduled and settled annually over its systems. An increasing percentage of this is from renewable power generators. APX is the largest provider of hosted wind power operation solutions in the U.S.
In parallel, APX has successfully extended its technology applications into the traded environmental commodities arena via its “Environmental Markets Depository” platform. APX’s systems support the creation, serialization, certification, compliance verification, tracking, management and trading of environmental commodities, notably Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). Every major regional U.S. REC market now deploys the APX platform, which creates and handles 50-70 million certificates per month in the mid-Atlantic region and has handled more than 700 million certificates in New England. The company is currently broadening the application of its core technology offering within the global carbon markets, where the establishment of a reliable registry and trading infrastructure is critically important to meeting future liquidity and credibility requirements.
www.apx.com
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Hannon Armstrong, LLC ("Hannon") is a world leader in the financing of energy efficiency and energy projects. Hannon offers a broad range of contract finance solutions to companies required to integrate financing into their sales offerings to governmental and commercial clients worldwide. From its start over 25 years ago in the government leasing business, Hannon has grown to offer a broad range of financial services including service contract finance, leasing, and project finance. As the principal investor in the financed transactions, Hannon helps clients increase sales by providing the contractual expertise as well as the required investment. Hannon’s clients are primarily Fortune 500 companies selling services in the energy, telecommunications, environmental, information technology, and transportation markets.
Hannon Armstrong is deeply involved in a broad range of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects across all levels of government from local to federal and across numerous commercial and institutional sectors. In addition to those efforts, Hannon has committed financing of $500MM to the Energy Efficiency Partnership of Greater Washington, a broad reaching group led by Virginia Tech, Hannon and Pepco Energy Services targeting major retrofits and efficiency upgrades. Hannon has also partnered with the Clinton Climate Initiative to provide specialty financing solutions to its Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, a global partnership encompassing sixteen of the world’s largest cities.
www.hannonarmstrong.com
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SunEdison, LLC based in Beltsville, Maryland, is a global leader in the downstream segment of the solar energy market. SunEdison’s mission is to make solar services a viable and rewarding alternative to traditional energy sources. As a developer, financier, system integrator, and owner/operator of solar power systems, SunEdison takes a fundamentally different approach to solar energy. Its customers pay only for the energy produced by SunEdison’s solar power plants. If SunEdison doesn't deliver the solar power, its customers don't pay.
SunEdison has assembled a team of seasoned solar and energy industry experts to lead the company and the global solar industry toward “grid parity” – i.e., a solar power price point that is competitive with retail utility electricity.
On November 23, 2009, SunEdison was acquired by MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a global leader in the manufacture and sale of wafers and related intermediate products to the semiconductor and solar industries. MEMC has pioneered the design and development of wafer technologies over the past 50 years. With R&D and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia, MEMC enables the next generation of high performance semiconductor devices and solar cells. With the acquisition of SunEdison, MEMC is now a developer of solar power projects and North America's largest solar energy services provider.
www.sunedison.com
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Trilliant, Inc., founded in 1985 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, is the leader in delivering intelligent network solutions that power the Smart Grid. Trilliant offers the core network infrastructure - hardware, software, and services - that enables system-wide increases in energy efficiency and reliability of the grid, while allowing utilities to improve operational efficiency and provide new services that empower consumer choice. Trilliant is a leading innovator in developing and implementing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand response, and grid management solutions, with over a million advanced meters deployed in the field.
Trilliant has more than 100 electricity, gas, and water utility customers including Hydro One, Duke Energy, E.ON US (LG&E), Northeast Utilities, Public Service Electric & Gas (PSEG), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE). Today, many of these utilities are partnering with Trilliant to upgrade and modernize their network infrastructure and expand their energy management capabilities with Trilliant’s portfolio of secure, robust, and flexible solutions.
www.trilliantinc.com
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UpWind Solutions, Inc. ("UpWind") bridges the gap between wind asset owners and wind equipment manufacturers by providing the best operations and maintenance service available in the market. UpWind’s highly skilled staff manages wind farms to their full potential while maintaining the highest levels of customer service and safety. UpWind is a factory authorized service provider with no financial ties to any equipment manufacturer ensuring a focus on optimized asset performance for the long-term needs of the client.
Upwind’s management team’s has unrivaled expertise and a proven track record in the wind industry with experience across many disciplines. Bo Thisted, President and Founder, has been a leader in the wind energy business for over 20 years, previously serving as one of the original architects of operations and maintenance and Environmental Health and Safety standards for General Electric.
www.upwindsolutions.com
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Voltaix, LLC, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Branchburg, NJ, is a global leading provider of specialty gas and liquid precursors for use in cutting-edge integrated circuits, thin film solar cells and LCD displays, with particular expertise in germanium, silicon and boron chemistry. Voltaix chemicals enable logic chips to compute more quickly and solar cells to absorb a broader portion of the solar spectrum, and they improve manufacturability by minimizing defect formation and increasing machine throughput.
Voltaix has grown rapidly in the last several years, and currently formulates approximately 400 products from 40 different chemicals. Utilizing exceptional expertise in silicon, germanium and boron chemistry, Voltaix’s products are custom designed for the most demanding applications, including: advanced DRAM computer memory; silicon germanium (SiGe) transistors for wireless communications chips; strained silicon for high speed logic computer chips (CPUs); copper enabling low K dielectrics for computer chips; and high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells.
Voltaix uses proprietary synthesis, purification, and packaging technology developed in house. The company also designs and builds their own equipment for use in its manufacturing operations.
www.voltaix.com
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