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Introduction
In every major success story somewhere, at a crucial point in time the entrepreneur was provided with critical funding to finance the company’s growth, a place to operate from and access to experienced executive management to lend a helping hand. Welcome to JPF Venture Fund 1, LP.
JPF Venture Fund 1, LP is a growth equity fund. The Fund intends to invest a significant portion of its assets in U.S. and U.K. domestic small capitalization companies that, in the Fund’s view, represent attractive growth investment opportunities. To provide the Fund with a potential exit strategy at the earliest possible time, the Fund’s General Partner will manage the ‘going public’ strategy for all of the companies invested in by the Fund (Companies we invest in are sometimes referred to as a ‘Portfolio Company’).
The Fund will invest in privately held companies operating in the humanitarian, renewable energy, clean-tech, environmental or socially responsible manufacturing, distribution, service sector and technology industries with a focus on businesses that are primed for rapid expansion if they had the funding, including those whose main business includes:
- Clean/Renewable Energy
- Biofuels/Waste Management
- Water Management
- Resource Efficiency
- Sustainable Living
- Environmental Services
- Internet/Media
- Green Transportation
In most, if not all cases, portfolio companies receive the benefit of hands-on management assistance from the Fund’s General Partner and/or from the considerable experience and expertise of the Fund’s Limited Partners.
Environmental Tech
Environmental technologies will play a vital role in both mitigation and adaptation of the impacts attributed to climate change, energy and resource depletion. On a global scale, individuals, corporations and governments have identified that the use of new environmental technologies is essential to address our impacts on the environment.
Greenhouse Gas
To bring climate change to a halt, global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced significantly.
In its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that, without further action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the global average surface temperature is likely to rise by a further 1.8-4.0°C this century, and by up to 6.4°C in the worst case scenario. Even the lower end of this range would take the temperature increase since pre-industrial times above 2°C - the threshold beyond which irreversible and possibly catastrophic changes become far more likely.
Projected global warming this century is likely to trigger serious consequences for mankind and other life forms, including a rise in sea levels of between 18 and 59 cm which will endanger coastal areas and small islands, and a greater frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
Climate Change or Global Warming?
The term climate change is often used interchangeably with the term global warming, but according to the National Academy of Sciences, "the phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps convey that there are [other] changes in addition to rising temperatures."
Climate change refers to any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer). Climate change may result from:
- natural factors, such as changes in the sun's intensity or slow changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun;
- natural processes within the climate system (e.g. changes in ocean circulation);
- human activities that change the atmosphere's composition (e.g. through burning fossil fuels) and the land surface (e.g. deforestation, reforestation, urbanization, desertification, etc.)
Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage, "global warming" often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities.
