Climate CEOs: Scaling Startups
Climate PE & Project Finance: Sustainable Infrastructure + Ultra-HNW Connections
31 Oct 2024
Jason Scott backs food, water, energy, transportation, and waste projects with hybrid private equity, combining corporate and project finance while emphasizing relationships and mindful leadership.Spring Lane Capital is a private equity firm specializing in providing hybrid project capital for sustainable infrastructure and energy projects. DevEngine Partners partners with project developers by providing development capital and hands-on development support to de-risk sustainable infrastructure projects.CREO is a "secret club for billionaires" that connects ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices to investment opportunities in sustainability and clean energy.In addition to co-leading these two organizations, Jason has extensive experience in sustainable finance, including roles at Renewable Resource Group, Acumen Fund, Generation Investment Management, and Encourage Capital. In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways.Why he likes to invest in both corporate and project finance at the same companyWhat “venture infrastructure” means as a climate finance nicheThe importance of relationships vs. transactionsHow he learns to balance in life by surfing in the ocean🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:Jason - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonascott/CREO - https://www.creosyndicate.org/DevEngine Partners - https://www.devengine.dev/Spring Lane - https://springlanecapital.com/📈 JOIN EFI’S CLIMATE CEO PEER GROUP:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — Join North America’s top private peer group community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. We’re a community of 85+ CEO Fellows, Alumni Allies, and Mentors (investors and post-exit CEOs) representing over $30B of market value or financial assets for climate solutions. Apply here: https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com📣 READ EFI’S NEWSLETTER:Join over 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators who get our three-minute read about changing the world through startups, finance, humor, and wisdom. https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com✍🏼 LEAVE A PODCAST REVIEW:To help more people discover the climate tech CEOs and investors we interview, please take one minute to review or rate this podcast. Since we don’t take any sponsors for this podcast, we appreciate this small gesture of your appreciation. Here are instructions: https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviews🤔 PODCAST HOST:Dr. Chris Wedding is the founder of EFI (climate CEO peer groups), cofounder of Terraset (carbon removal), Senior Advisor at Javelin Capital (investment banking), Board member at World Tree (regenerative forestry), Board Advisor at DG Matrix (next-gen power electronics), Duke & UNC professor, ex-private equity investor, ex-investment banker, occasional monk, father of three, 2x ax-throwing champ (huh?), Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2006 (Google it), and super humble guy (as evidenced by this long bio).
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