Emerging real estate and clean technology ventures often face funding constraints. High start-up and capital costs; complex, evolving regulations; and prolonged project development timelines challenge the traditional venture capital model of capitalization. The right capital is out there. We have successfully secured tens of millions of dollars in both equity and non-dilutive capital for private companies and public-private partnerships seeking runway to test and scale climate solutions.

One of the nation’s leading clean technology incubators faced complexity and confusion trying to prioritize pilot concepts. The concepts were inherently complicated, and furthermore the set of high-profile public and private stakeholders that conceived them presented sensitivities. We established a decision-support model, including a quantitative and qualitative scoring system that ranked the pilot concepts based on cost-benefit and relative “ROI” of each idea. This evaluation model built needed alignment among the large group of government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and public utilities to advance on implementing the pilot concepts.

An AI-enabled image technology company faced uncertain regulation in how its camera solution might be used by City governments to regulate traffic flow. No clear policy on use of automated cameras for parking and curb management existed…So we drafted it.  We conducted deep research and interviewed government, corporate, advocacy, and community stakeholders to develop a “first-ever” municipal policy on the use of image technology and data to regulate use of the curb space.

A foreign OEM sought to rapidly increase their share of EV’s sold, as well as define a new use case for their new, compact class of personal EV. Even more, they wanted to realzie these goals by making their vehicles accessible to lower income communities. Over months of ideation and user engagement, we devised a program involving a new model for EV care share in the US. This model tied the car share to affordable housing, and offered residents subsidies for trips. We aligned the goals of the OEM with housing developers, healthcare insurers and providers, and transportation companies to design the program parameters.

A leading electric bus and charging services company faced confusing and conflicting school district procurement laws and regulations across multiple states. We not only mapped exact procedures for school district purchases of electric buses, but also identified ways that the company could optimize its offer and win against competitors by leveraging an obscure, localized permissions in school purchasing regulations.

Transportation regulators, research institutions, and private mobility companies all wanted to make the case for managing streets and curb space to favor electric vehicles and smaller modes of transportation for deliveries. They anticipated their enforcement design would benefit the environment (and other public interests - safety, etc.). But they lacked a method to measure and demonstrate impact for electrified goods movement. We built a detailed, but simple data collection and analytics framework for the public-private partnership. These tools provided an empirical way for the public-private partnership to track and report results of their freight and transportation policy change.