CCM Energy

CCM Energy is an investment firm launched in late 2012 to take advantage of investment opportunities created by the transition to the cleaner and more efficient use of resources, particularly energy and water, in buildings. Part of the CCM Group, we have a particular interest in opportunities that leverage CCM Real Estate’s building portfolio and deep industry expertise. Specifically, we seek companies with a proven solution to green the built environment in areas such as: - Distributed generation: Utilizing building infrastructure to generate power and/or other commodities that can drive topline revenue and reduce costs for building owners - Energy/resource efficiency: Products and services that lower the operating costs of buildings by reducing their consumption of commodities such as power, gas and water - Green construction: Resource-efficient materials, processes and business models to reduce the time and expenses associated with the construction of high-performance buildings We deploy flexible capital to scale proven technology and enjoy working with entrepreneurs as well as project sponsors to develop investment structures that align incentives while creatively addressing the specific risks associated with a given investment. CCM Energy invests both equity and debt, and we employ hybrid structures to balance risk and reward for all stakeholders. We pride ourselves on being strategic, value-add investors, bringing to bear our operating and clean energy expertise, and leveraging the collective experience of our real estate colleagues to generate tangible value for our portfolio companies. As a group, we have deep experience in entrepreneurship, clean energy, venture capital and real estate, and we utilize this experience to build value for our portfolio companies by: - Actively seeking opportunities to deploy portfolio company solutions in properties owned by CCM Real Estate and its partners, providing sites for demonstration projects and helping companies achieve scale - Offering project capital in addition to corporate financing, enabling our portfolio companies to offer no-cost solutions to their customers

10 past transactions

Legends of Learning

Convertible Note in 2020
Legends of Learning is an e-learning platform focused on game-based learning to advance education. The company helps educators make their classrooms fun, engaging, and productive learning environments through research-driven, curriculum-based games. Legends of Learning uses ongoing original research to create an learning games platform filled with lessons for stronger subject mastery and classroom engagement.

Legends of Learning

Series A in 2019
Legends of Learning is an e-learning platform focused on game-based learning to advance education. The company helps educators make their classrooms fun, engaging, and productive learning environments through research-driven, curriculum-based games. Legends of Learning uses ongoing original research to create an learning games platform filled with lessons for stronger subject mastery and classroom engagement.

PosiGen

Series B in 2016
PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills. At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy.

SolarEdge Technologiesa

Series E in 2014
SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in the DC power optimizer market. The company provides module-level electronics for solar power harvesting and monitoring systems for residential, commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic installers. The SolarEdge portfolio of products includes power optimizers and a web portal for module-level optimization and monitoring, as well as PV inverters, specialized to work with power optimizers. SolarEdge envisions that every solar module will be individually managed by DC-DC module-level electronics, accelerating the pace towards grid parity and making clean energy affordable. Founded in 2006, SolarEdge established the DC power optimizer segment and is leading it with over 70% market share. By Q4 2012, SolarEdge has shipped over 1,600,000 power optimizers to more than 40 countries worldwide. With strategic partnerships across the PV value-chain from module manufacturers to integrators, SolarEdge installations can be found in five continents.

Generate Capital

Series A in 2014
Generate Capital is a finance company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions. The company operates and finances assets in energy, mobility, and water resources.

Sungevity

Venture Round in 2014
Sungevity develops remote solar designs and installation services for home solar electric systems. As solar panel prices continue to plummet, residential customers, with their higher utility rates will be among the first to benefit from solar on a pure economic basis, free of subsidies. Over 100,000 residential rooftop systems have been installed in the U.S. as of today, but continued rapid cost declines drive the opportunity to over 40 million within four years.

Direct Energy Solar

Series B in 2013
Ranked #2 on Inc. Magazine’s 2012 list of fastest growing private U.S. companies, Astrum Solar is the leading full-service home solar provider based in the eastern United States. Astrum Solar enables homeowners to easily switch to solar power for little or no money down and immediately begin reducing their electricity costs. The company’s rapid growth is fueled by its ability to provide premier customer experiences in which Astrum Solar facilitates every aspect of a customer’s seamless transition from a traditional energy consumer to a clean energy producer. Astrum Solar’s mission is to spread solar power to the rooftops of America. More and more people around the country are ready to take control of their unpredictable utility costs and reduce their electricity bills and carbon footprints. And we’re there to guide them and make going solar easy and rewarding. Astrum Solar serves homeowners and businesses in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, DC and West Virginia. We ensure that our customers get the most out of their solar panels: the most energy generated, the most electricity savings, the most beneficial environmental impact and the most joy each time they see a sunny day.

Project Frog

Series D in 2013
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco, California, Project Frog develops component buildings that assemble easily onsite, giving architects and builders a fast and cost-effective way to create beautiful and energy-efficient buildings. Project Frog is on a mission is to revolutionize the way buildings are created by applying technology to overcome the inefficiencies of traditional construction. The company’s approach results in a structure that is measurable greener and significantly smarter, creating brighter, healthier spaces that inspire better performance by the people who occupy them. The versatile ecosystem of products adapt to all kinds of uses including: healthcare, education and retail.

Aircuity

Venture Round in 2013
Aircuity manufactures integrated sensing and control solutions that cost-effectively reduce building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving its indoor environmental quality. Aircuity's first product, a portable air monitoring system known as OptimaTM, it was developed in collaboration with Environmental Health & Engineering, the primary research contractor for the EPA's Indoor Environments Division. It was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Sungevity

Private Equity Round in 2013
Sungevity develops remote solar designs and installation services for home solar electric systems. As solar panel prices continue to plummet, residential customers, with their higher utility rates will be among the first to benefit from solar on a pure economic basis, free of subsidies. Over 100,000 residential rooftop systems have been installed in the U.S. as of today, but continued rapid cost declines drive the opportunity to over 40 million within four years.
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