Complete List of 30+ Diverse Sectors
Current direct investment priorities include almost anything that’s regenerative, renewable, circular (net zero or net negative waste) and sustainable. Examples:
- Energy: utility-scale or aggregated Commercial & Industrial (C&I)-scale solar/PV, storage, wind power assets, waste-to-energy, efficiency, etc.
- Waste-to-Value: various pathways to renewable energy/fuels (such as hydrogen) and/or materials, including pyrolysis/gasification or AD/biogas, which can deliver multiple value streams
- Food Systems: regenerative agriculture / no till / rotational grazing / organic and grassfed or ways of alleviating food insecurity
- Commercial real estate: Affordable housing, smart communities/cities, innovative building materials such as timber bamboo. See below for more.
These renewables-related and clean industry sectors currently qualify for project financing through In3’s investment programs, whether or not the technology pathway is commercially proven or “first of a kind” (FOAK).
If you don’t see your project space, want to know how we define “proven”, or are working with a combination of technologies (some commercially proven, others not), use contact us to relay your question(s). For venture capital or advisory services. All services.
In3 project capital qualified industry specializations:
- Affordable Healthcare / natural, holistic, accessible
- Affordable Housing and efficient, “green” building; see 16, below
- Agricultural Value Chain — specialty or commodity products, sustainably produced or grown and harvested with positive social and/or environmental impacts. Compost, fertilizers, biochar …
- Precision agriculture & greenhouses
- No till and soil carbon farming (carbon capture and storage)
- Next-generation feedstocks for sustainable fuels
- Bioenergy (liquid or solid biofuels), Biomass/Biorefinery and Waste-to-Value (for energy, advanced industrial biomaterials, etc.); see 28 & 29, below
- Commercial Real Estate (CRE); see 16, below
- Concentrated Solar (CSP)
- Energy Efficiency (such as LED lighting retrofits), often in combination with other solutions
- Green Hydrogen & Fuel Cells (see #20 below for other storage, or complete list here)
- Geothermal
- Hydroelectricity (small scale preferred, such as “run of the river” — no reservoirs except when the surrounding environment and fisheries can be protected)
- Landfill Gas (anaerobic digestion for biogas)
- MicroGrids — especially for village-level electrification, expanding or extending the electric grid or adding new customers via standalone (baseload) systems
- Mobility
- Charging stations and depots
- Electric buses and truck fleets
- Electric vehicles, motorcycles
- “Green” hydrogen vehicles & sustainable fuels for marine, aviation, farming equipment…
- MRF – materials recovery facilities including recycling, upcycling, resource recovery
- Nature-based Climate Solutions, mostly carbon/CO2e, credits/offsets, strategic innovations
- Real Estate — master-planned communities, commercial, mixed-use, affordable/green housing
- Regeneration of Soils and “Climate Smart” Agriculture and sustainable food systems
- Solar, Ground Mount (utility-scale), Solar/PV, Solar Thermal, etc.
- SMR Nuclear (small modular reactors)
- Storage
- Storage – Battery (such as Battery Energy Storage Systems or BESS, often used for electric grid services)
- Mobile storage such as hydrogen fuel cells
- Storage – Compressed Air
- Storage – Mechanical or Thermal (such as molten salt)
- Storage – Pumped Hydro
- Sustainable Cities — “Smart Cities” tech including fiber broadband (FTTX) and innovative urban designs, public transportation, traffic flows, street lighting, solid waste management, walkable communities, or other solutions
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Sustainable Power — see individual topics including Bioenergy (topic 4), CSP (6), Geothermal (9), Hydroelectricity (10), Solar (18), Tidal/Wave (27/28), Waste-to-Energy (31) and Wind (33)
- Sustainable Transportation, including commercial-scale electrification (EVs, charging infrastructure, … high performance industrial materials, battery alternatives like hydrogen fuel cells), sustainable & renewable fuels or biofuels, usually from waste. See also, “Mobility”
- Tidal Power (hydrokinetic)
- Wave Power (hydrokinetic)
- Transmission Lines – AC or HVDC
- Waste materials recovery
- Waste-to-Energy or Waste-to-Value — pyrolysis, gasification, biogas/AD, etc.
- Biomass feedstocks — anything that grows, from food-related wastes to opportunities in fire prevention, composting and biochar, conversion of animal wastes, diseased forests, sawdust, sludges, etc.
- Fossil carbon — “carbonaceous” materials, such as rubber or plastics, or mixed municipal solid waste, that embody recoverable and reusable elemental carbon and/or energy.
- Sustainable Water & Waste
- Water Distribution Systems
- Water Reclamation, Filtration, Production
- Waste Water Treatment
- Water Resource Management
- Water use reduction / efficiency / conservation — drought-tolerant and low-water crops (such as chickpeas), limiting tillage, drip irrigation systems, aquifer recharge systems, well water cleanup, etc.
- Water Distribution Systems
- Wind Power — onshore/offshore, floating, etc.
- XPRIZE winners (more) such as biochar, super-green building materials, other breakthrough cleantech, infrastructure such as energy-efficient (LED) lighting retrofits, Lighting as a Service, “smart” buildings and energy management
Not seeing your area? Ask us!
But with 30 qualified sectors; please do not bring us:
- Conventional Energy — Oil & Gas, conventional nuclear, coal, fracked natural gas
- Gambling, tobacco, weapons, defense industries
- Chemical agriculture or feedlot livestock — we will suggest more sustainable alternatives to avoid using petrochemical pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or other practices that add POP chemicals to the biosphere (in violation of the Stockholm Convention), or use water unsustainably, require mass-scale tillage or otherwise make climate change worse.
- Conflict diamonds or other gems (definition) extractives that cause social and/or environmental harm (we will consider making an exception if there are healthy working conditions and a nominal environmental footprint).
Geographic focus: we work primarily in the Americas (including the USA), Africa, developing Asia / Pacific, Europe … including these emerging/developing countries.
Stage of Project Readiness: Under our Completion Assurance Program, projects do NOT need to be shovel-ready.
If seeking venture capital (not project finance), please use our Readiness and Investment Navigator (RAIN) assessment to obtain your pre-qualification scores then contact us for next steps.