Global Environment Fund is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed start up middle market, emerging growth, buyouts and growth equity. It seeks to invest in clean energy and environmental services, natural resources, independent power, gas distribution, consumer products and services, resource efficiency, sustainable forestry, timberland, agricultural processing, transportation logistics, and emerging markets in businesses that provide cost-effective solutions to environmental and energy challenges. Within growth equity, the firm seeks to invest in products or services in the renewable energy, energy management technologies, energy efficiency and environmental infrastructure industries that are helping to meet growing commercial demand in key sectors of the core economy such as energy generation, environmental control, urban environment, transportation and manufacturing to be more clean and efficient. In sustainable forestry, it typically makes direct equity investments in mid-sized, sustainable forest management companies those profiting from outstanding forest management practices, including the manufacture of environmentally certified wood products. In emerging markets, it seeks to invest in clean energy, integrated waste management, water and wastewater treatment, clean industrial technology, and healthcare services. The firm also invest in solar, wind, hydropower, biofuels, natural gas, energy efficiency, batteries, and green information technologies, transportation, water, and green buildings, alternative energy resources, renewable electricity, fertilizers and agriculture chemicals, air freight and logistics, business services, food, Materials, energy equipment and services, wood products, industrial machinery, agriculture machinery and equipment, retailing, industrials, consumer services, and consumer discretionary. The firm invests around the world with focus on sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on Gabon, Mozambique, Tanzania, Swaziland, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, and South Asia including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It primarily invests in the United States with focus on North America, Latin America for growth equity, in Africa with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa for sustainable forestry, and focuses on China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe for emerging markets. The firm seeks to invest between $5 million and $30 million in companies with sales value between $5 million and $30 million. It prefers taking a minority and majority stake in companies and seeks a board seat on its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investment for five years or more and seeks to exit its investments through listing on a major stock exchange, sale to a strategic buyer, or through trade sales. The firm can make syndicated investments. Global Environment Fund was founded in 1990 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in Washington, District of Columbia; Cape Town, South Africa; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Mumbai, India.