IFC's Cleantech Investment Program in a Nutshell

For over 50 years the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has led the way in private sector investing in developing countries in a wide range of sectors. The originator of the Equator Principles, IFC has also led the financial world on a wide variety of sustainability issues and has many environmental and social specialists as well as industry specialists on staff. The IFC’s Cleantech Investment Program combines our long experience of developing country markets with world class environmental and industry expertise.

The VC team supports Cleantech businesses based in, or moving to, developing countries. We look for venture to private equity stage companies with technological or business process innovations that provide long-term competitive advantage and high growth opportunities in developing markets. IFC has been venture investing since 2000 and also has a large corporate client base in most relevant sectors. This helps us deliver value to early stage Cleantech companies in a range of sectors and geographies. Key sectors include:

• Sustainable energy: energy efficiency; low-carbon energy
• Recycling and waste management
• Water capture, treatment, supply and efficiency
• Smart systems
• Clean transport
• Green buildings: design; materials
• Sustainable agribusiness
• Cleaner production technologies

The IFC Venture Capital Team
What IFC looks for
What our clients say

Cleantech Highlights

MBA Polymers Inc. MBA Polymers has a patented technology to sort high-value mixed-stream post-consumer plastics from electronics. IFC invested in MBA Polymers when it launched its commercial scale pilot plant in China. Learn more at www.mbapolymers.com

WaterHealth International Inc.  – Providing Clean, Affordable Water to Underserved Communities in Developing Countries IFC invested in WaterHealth International (WHI) when it harnessed a new “micro-utility” approach to its new, energy efficient, water purification technology. As the first institutional investor and with its reputation for rigorous appraisal, IFC catalyzed co-investments and enabled the company to expand to India and Ghana. WHI now serves over a million with affordable, healthy drinking water. In 2009, IFC committed a US$15 million loan to further accelerate WHI’s expansion in India. Learn more at www.waterhealth.com

TurboTech Precision Engineering Inc. Based in Bangalore, TurboTech designs and manufactures small scale turbines for cogeneration applications. The company opened up a new market for cogeneration when it focused on the specific needs of industrials in India. Now it is exporting to a host of other countries and exploring new applications. Learn more at www.turbotechindia.com

IFC would like to thank the following nations, without whose vision and support our early engagement in Cleantech would not have been possible:

The Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Italy and Luxembourg