Is venture capital the best instrument to close the adaptation finance gap that exists in detecting climate events like wildfires?
Finance Division
Can Microsoft honor its pledge to be carbon negative by 2030?
Which investment opportunities should ResilienceVC prioritize to balance financial returns with its vision of building financial resilience for underserved individuals and small businesses?
What measures could Patagonia take to reduce emissions, in what order, and at what cost and benefit?
To honor a contracted GPU delivery with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, which power sources should CoreWeave secure, in what order, and at what cost?
What are the steps to develop and finance an infrastructure project and turn it into a profitable, long-term operating asset? And how does developing an infrastructure project differ from starting a company?
How should The Hershey Company respond to a potential acquisition by Mondelez International, and what is the company worth as a standalone business (with and without operational improvements)?
You are screening the acquisition financing of Waihonu Solar, a small solar project in Hawaii, earning fixed-price revenue under a feed-in tariff. The deal sits below your bank's size threshold, and the asset has a history of inverter failures. What is your recommendation to the investment committee: move forward, or pass? Prepare a short deal screening memo with your recommendation and the justification behind it.
What price would you pay for the project? What are the key valuation drivers and assumptions that you can change to make Highvale's bid competitive, and should you use them?
You are weighing an equity investment in Sizewell C: regulated, inflation-linked returns over 60 years, but only if it gets built. After Hinkley Point's overruns, does the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) framework, with government backing, transfer enough construction risk away from you to make this nuclear megaproject investable?