ENERGIZE EDGE

Portfolio Services for our Climate Leaders

About

Partnering with our portfolio to drive sustainable growth

Energize EDGE is our formalized collection of post-investment platform services established to drive value creation and preservation across the portfolio. EDGE is an integral part of how Energize adds value beyond capital investment, aligned to 5 key functional pillars.
We offer hands-on support and expertise, as well as best practices, playbooks, events and communities to enable the key commercial, operational and impact initiatives of our portfolio.

Our Five Pillars of EDGE Support

Go-To-Market

Accelerating GTM buildout, strategy development and scaling

FINANCE & Operations

Creating and preserving enterprise value through robust financial operations

IMPACT & esg

Mitigating risk and driving impact through responsible innovation and growth

COMMUNICATIONS

Communications support, PR, content and events to amplify our portfolio brands

PEOPLE

Building exceptional, diverse teams and coaching founders for long-term success

Go-To-Market

At Energize, we often say that you need to "build the engine to match the race."

Recognizing the unique customer profiles, sales cycles and buying patterns for climate companies, Energize supports the buildout of tailored GTM strategies.

Scaling leading climate organizations requires continuous refinement of go-to-market strategies, deliberate organizational development, and ongoing alignment of incentives. To support our portfolio companies, we provide hands-on support and coaching, best practice guidance, and commercial introductions. We partner with portfolio leaders to establish and refine product-market fit, organizational strategies, pricing and packaging, and efficient growth at different stages.

finance & operations

Reaching company milestones requires accurate and reliable financial data.

Energize helps our portfolio build sound financial reporting practices, effective cash management and robust FP&A processes.

Our EDGE team provides hands-on support to navigate the complexities of correctly accounting for software revenues, building accurate financial models, and managing cash throughout a company's lifecycle. We help identify key risks and opportunities in business and pricing models, collaborating closely with company leadership. Finally, we evaluate our companies’ tools and processes and support them to implement improvements.

IMPACT & esg

Impact & ESG are integral to the long-term success of enduring climate solutions.

Energize helps our portfolio companies effectively craft, measure and communicate their impact and ESG strategies.

Our investment thesis supports the alignment of financial and impact returns by backing technologies that enable the energy transition. We provide our portfolio companies with dedicated support in communicating and quantifying their impact to accurately reflect the value that these companies’ products and services bring to the world. Additionally, our EDGE team helps companies consider environmental, social and governance factors to support sustainable growth at any stage.

COMMUNICATIONS

Clear and compelling storytelling is vital to the commercial and operational health of a business.

Energize provides marketing and communications support to help portfolio companies establish market leadership, attract talent, and reach customers.

Our team offers marketing and communications assistance to portfolio companies at every stage, from fundraising announcements through key business milestones, including product releases, commercial developments and events. Energize provides support and resources across PR strategy and media relations, message development, and problem-solving for communications-related challenges.

PEOPLE

We help companies find the talent to match their ambitions.

Energize supports our founders and portfolio leaders as they grow by offering talent acquisition and retention resources.

We leverage our strong network of climate, technology and software executives as well as specialist recruitment firms to help our companies fill key roles. We support our HR leaders in implementing diverse hiring practices, shaping job descriptions and compensation structures, and providing relevant benchmarks.

100+

value creation projects completed or initiated in 2023

25%

of Energize team is partially or fully dedicated to supporting EDGE platform

50+

roles hired with Energize support