Vision Ridge Partners

Vision Ridge Partners advises and invests in transformative growth companies with a focus on sustainability. Vision Ridge Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in clean tech and clean energy investments in renewable energy, green building, future utility business models and advanced transportation sectors. The firm was founded in 2008 and is based in Boulder, Colarado.

Rob van Es

Managing Director

Tran, Duyen K.

COO

33 past transactions

Highland Electric Transportation

Private Equity Round in 2021
Highland Electric Transportation is a comprehensive turnkey solutions provider that delivers electric school buses (EVSB) to school districts and third-party managed fleet providers (3PMs).

Guzman Energy

Private Equity Round in 2018
Guzman Energy is a wholesale power provider dedicated to providing affordable and dependable energy to communities. Guzman Energy uses a diverse portfolio of owned and contracted energy sources to develop an optimized plan for the community based on its specific goals and needs. It collaborates with cooperatives, municipalities, businesses, and tribes across North America to create energy portfolios that are both economically and environmentally sound for today and tomorrow.

StreetLight Data

Series C in 2018
StreetLight Data brings mobility patterns to light for planners, modelers, and engineers by giving them on-demand access to the Big Data resources and processing software for transportation. Their online platform, StreetLight InSight lets its users turn anonymous location data from millions of mobile devices into customized, actionable analytics. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Loch Duart

Private Equity Round in 2018
Loch Duart primarily engages in rearing Scottish salmon. Its staff is pioneers who combine their expertise with innovation to develop our unique farming approach which continues to influence fish farming methods. These approaches include low-density farming, a unique rotational fallowing system, swim-throughs, and a high marine content feed, to ensure the best quality, care for salmon, asked for by name and enjoyed around the world.

Key Capture Energy

Private Equity Round in 2018
Key Capture Energy is the large-scale renewable energy projects that come online and intermittent resources are added to the energy mix, it is becoming increasingly important to keep the electrical grid stable. Headquartered in Albany, New York, Key Capture Energy is meeting this need by identifying, developing, constructing, and operating energy storage solutions to foster greater deployment of renewable energy, create a more stable electric grid and provide value to all ratepayers.

HOMER Energy

Private Equity Round in 2018
The HOMER energy modeling software is a powerful tool for designing and analyzing hybrid power systems, which contain a mix of conventional generators, combined heat and power, wind turbines, solar photovoltaics, batteries, fuel cells, hydropower, biomass and other inputs. It is currently used all over the world by tens of thousands of people. For either grid-tied or off-grid environments, HOMER helps determine how variable resources such as wind and solar can be optimally integrated into hybrid systems. Engineers and non-professionals alike use HOMER to run simulations of different energy systems, compare the results and get a realistic projection of their capital and operating expenses. HOMER determines the economic feasibility of a hybrid energy system, optimizes the system design and allows users to really understand how hybrid renewable systems work. As distributed generation and renewable power projects continue to be the fastest growing segment of the energy industry, HOMER can serve utilities, telecoms, systems integrators, and many other types of project developers - to mitigate the financial risk of their hybrid power projects.

Fjord1

Post in 2018
Fjord1 is a local company that offers maritime transport services. The business provides secure maritime transportation for people around the area through running ferries and passenger boats, as well as catering services and tourism-related businesses. The business also runs passenger boat services and has ties to the hospitality and travel sectors.

MapAnything

Series C in 2017
Founded in 2009, MapAnything is a location services company for your Salesforce data. Its mission is to become the world’s leading business platform for “Where” software. MapAnything provides a suite of “Where” apps and platform services to drive productivity and planning across multiple use cases. With more than 1,400 customers globally, ranging in all sizes and industries from small businesses to international enterprises, MapAnything is a Gold Salesforce App Innovation Partner. It is the recipient of Ventana Research’s 2016 Technology Innovation Award for Location Analytics and has been named a Customer’s Choice – Highly Reviewed App by users of Salesforce.

Sparkfund

Series B in 2017
SparkFund is a financial technology company that lets businesses pay overtime for energy-efficient products and services. It offers software platforms and tools that are necessary to sell products "As a Service". It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in the District of Columbia, United States.

Scoot

Series A in 2016
Scoot offered shared, electric mobility-as-a-service, including electric mopeds, electric cars, electric bicycles, and electric scooters in San Francisco, Barcelona, and Santiago. In 2012, Scoot was the first company to offer electric vehicles for rent through a smartphone app. In 2019, Scoot was acquired by Bird.

EVgo

Venture Round in 2016
EVgo provides fast charging networks for private and public electric vehicles. EVgo’s fast chargers deliver convenient, fast charges to EV drivers on the go, delivering up to 90 miles of range in 30 minutes. EVgo’s fast chargers are compatible with all EV models currently on the market that accept DC fast charging.

StreetLight Data

Series B in 2016
StreetLight Data brings mobility patterns to light for planners, modelers, and engineers by giving them on-demand access to the Big Data resources and processing software for transportation. Their online platform, StreetLight InSight lets its users turn anonymous location data from millions of mobile devices into customized, actionable analytics. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mercatus

Series B in 2016
Mercatus is an investment data management platform for private market fund managers and asset owners that need to solve the complexity of their private investment data. We offer a single platform for business users to manage the entire investment lifecycle: from deal to divestment, asset to fund, debt to equity. Mercatus is a platform that solves investment data challenges in portfolio monitoring, deal management, valuation management, and ESG. It is the only platform that enables scenario analysis and valuations at scale at the asset and fund level. With Mercatus, you will trust your data, scale your team, and make better investment decisions.

Powerhouse Dynamics

Series B in 2014
Powerhouse Dynamics is a privately held technology firm focused on using cloud-based controls and analytics to deliver energy and operational efficiencies to its customers. Thousands of locations, including restaurants, convenience stores, retailers, and others, use the SiteSage platform (formerly known as the eMonitor) to save money by centralizing control, analysis, and management of energy-consuming equipment. Engineered specifically for smaller facilities, SiteSage features powerful analytics delivered via simple online and mobile interfaces. The system continuously improves efficiency by controlling major loads, monitoring power consumption and performance of individual pieces of equipment, and tracking gas and water usage. Advanced analytics deliver actionable intelligence via diagnostics and alerts, and SiteSage’s enterprise-wide benchmarking helps identify stars and underperforming assets. To learn more about how Powerhouse Dynamics’ customers maximize energy and equipment maintenance savings with minimal staff effort, visit www.powerhousedynamics.com.

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.

Mercatus

Series A in 2014
Mercatus is an investment data management platform for private market fund managers and asset owners that need to solve the complexity of their private investment data. We offer a single platform for business users to manage the entire investment lifecycle: from deal to divestment, asset to fund, debt to equity. Mercatus is a platform that solves investment data challenges in portfolio monitoring, deal management, valuation management, and ESG. It is the only platform that enables scenario analysis and valuations at scale at the asset and fund level. With Mercatus, you will trust your data, scale your team, and make better investment decisions.

FLS Energy

Venture Round in 2014
FLS Energy opened its doors in 2006 and since then has successfully developed nearly 100 solar energy projects! Our talented industry certified teams offer complete in-house system design, engineering, and turnkey project development. As a client of FLS, you are guaranteed to receive the same high level of excellence the market has come to expect from FLS Energy associates

Simple Energy

Series B in 2014
We started this company because we want to change the world and we knew the best way to do it was to get everyday people to act like they care. We motivate people to save energy. We create data-driven software that appeals to people interests and desires, informs them about their energy use and makes saving energy social, fun, and simple. We create lasting change in the way people use energy and are building a more sustainable future.

Proterra

Series C in 2014
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

GSSG Solar

Private Equity Round in 2014
GSSG Solar is a solar-focused renewable energy investment manager that works on hundreds of solar projects around the world and invests solely in solar projects for long-term capital appreciation.

The Earth Partners

Private Equity Round in 2014
The Earth Partners offers compensatory mitigation in the form of mitigation banks and permittee responsible mitigation sites. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Vanguard Renewables

Private Equity Round in 2014
Vanguard Renewables engages in the development of organics-to-renewable energy projects. Its program provides solutions that benefit businesses, farms, communities, and the planet. The company offers two platforms: manure-only and co-digestion of manure and food waste to renewable energy platforms.

Clean Focus

Private Equity Round in 2014
Clean Focus specializes in renewable energy analysis and high-end solar installations in Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and San Francisco counties. Their mission is to provide highly customized solutions that maximize energy output, increase the return on capital invested, and shorten the payback period for residential and commercial clients.

Sun World

Private Equity Round in 2014
Sun World is a farming company specializing in fuel, oil, lubricants, and fertilizers.

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.

Mercatus

Series A in 2013
Mercatus is an investment data management platform for private market fund managers and asset owners that need to solve the complexity of their private investment data. We offer a single platform for business users to manage the entire investment lifecycle: from deal to divestment, asset to fund, debt to equity. Mercatus is a platform that solves investment data challenges in portfolio monitoring, deal management, valuation management, and ESG. It is the only platform that enables scenario analysis and valuations at scale at the asset and fund level. With Mercatus, you will trust your data, scale your team, and make better investment decisions.

StreetLight Data

Series A in 2013
StreetLight Data brings mobility patterns to light for planners, modelers, and engineers by giving them on-demand access to the Big Data resources and processing software for transportation. Their online platform, StreetLight InSight lets its users turn anonymous location data from millions of mobile devices into customized, actionable analytics. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Simple Energy

Series A in 2013
We started this company because we want to change the world and we knew the best way to do it was to get everyday people to act like they care. We motivate people to save energy. We create data-driven software that appeals to people interests and desires, informs them about their energy use and makes saving energy social, fun, and simple. We create lasting change in the way people use energy and are building a more sustainable future.

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.

Proterra

Series B in 2012
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.

Indow

Series A in 2012
Problem: Windows make buildings livable, but they also are a primary source of discomfort, noise penetration, and energy loss. The US DOE has surveyed 400 top energy efficiency technologies and concluded interior and exterior storm window rank #3 in their carbon reduction potential. Replacement and storm windows are expensive and unpleasant to purchase and install. Solution: Indow, of Portland, Oregon, provides building owners with attractive, affordable, easy to install (and remove), interior window inserts that block drafts 100%, reduce noise up to 70% and save 20% on heating and cooling bills. Our inserts are composed of acrylic glazing edged with our patented Compression Tube and press inside window frames without a mounting bracket. The product comes in seven grades optimized for different needs such as comfort, quiet, IR blocking, UV blocking and more. Market: In the US alone there are almost 1 billion single-pane windows and hundreds of millions of under-performing double-panes. Our comfort market is focused on owner-occupied homes built before 1950 with single-pane windows and household incomes of $200k to $1M+. Average net revenue of $360 per Indow insert and 2.5 million households fitting this customer profile yield a total US addressable comfort market of over $12 billion. More than 50% of our revenue is to window soundproofing customers blocking outside noise. These customers span a broader range of building types and demographics. The commercial building market potential is also in the tens of billions. There are vast international opportunities for comfort, noise, and energy efficiency. Competitive Advantage: No window insulation solution provides Indow’s unique combination of ease of installation, performance, noise reduction, cost, and aesthetics. Competing interior storm window solutions have inferior aesthetics, more complicated installation, and fail to deal elegantly with out-of-square window frames. Double-pane replacement and storm windows provide inferior noise reduction, are more expensive, and are very disruptive to purchase and install. Our competitive barriers are sustainable. We have received utility patents on three generations of Compression Tubing. Efforts to design around our patents will add complexity and cost. Our marketing is top of category and our proprietary IT system streamlines ordering, measuring, and manufacturing. We have defined an aggressive product and process development path, including the highest performing interior storm windows on the market, and the most cost effective ones. Go-To-Market Strategy: We sell the majority of residential revenue direct to customers via our inside sales team. We also maintain a dealer network focused on commercial projects in major metropolitan areas. New product development : We will transform the market through dramatic reductions in transaction costs as we make it easier and more affordable for customers from all walks of life to gain comfort, quiet, and energy efficiency. In Q1 2022 Indow is Beta testing a new product family which will streamline customer ordering and have a much lower entry level price. Our new products and transaction models will enable ecommerce sales, retail sales, and rapidly scalable sales through larger distributors with hundreds of outlets. We also have new product designs for the acoustic and commercial markets.

StreetLight Data

Seed Round in 2012
StreetLight Data brings mobility patterns to light for planners, modelers, and engineers by giving them on-demand access to the Big Data resources and processing software for transportation. Their online platform, StreetLight InSight lets its users turn anonymous location data from millions of mobile devices into customized, actionable analytics. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Proterra

Series A in 2011
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission, heavy-duty electric vehicles, enabling bus fleet operators to significantly reduce operating costs while delivering clean, quiet transportation to local communities across North America. The company’s configurable Catalyst platform is designed to serve the daily mileage needs of a wide range of transit routes on a single charge. With industry-leading durability and energy efficiency based on rigorous U.S. independent testing, Proterra products are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles. Proterra's revolutionary battery-electric transit vehicles help fleet operators abandon fossil fuels, improve environmental quality, and reduce operating costs. Together with their customers, they have prevented more than 55 million pounds of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere and avoided burning some 2 million gallons of fuel. The company was established in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California, USA.
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