Investment ProfileInvestment Profile
Element endeavors to be a financial and strategic partner to our portfolio companies. Our objective is to provide growth capital and strategic guidance to help proven management teams achieve their full potential.
Today, Element manages more than $800 million in three funds dedicated to investments in established high-growth businesses.
COMPANY SIZE
The companies we typically invest in have +$10 million in revenue, are profitable or have clear path to profitability, and have enterprise values between $20 million and $250 million.
INVESTMENT CANDIDATES
Element invests in high growth companies with the following attributes:
- Offer innovative products and services that solve significant problems in one or more of the following sectors: energy and power, water and environmental controls, chemicals and advanced materials, or general manufacturing and industrial
- Are led by strong and experienced management teams that have a desire to build substantial companies
- Have a proven business model and a history of generating commercial revenue
INVESTMENT SCENARIOS
Element typically invests between $10 and $40 million per transaction and can lead or participate in larger syndicated deals. We are very flexible when it comes to financial structure and are comfortable in minority or majority equity positions. Element invests in the following scenarios:
- Capital for organic growth or product expansion
- Acquisition financings
- Secondary sales to provide liquidity to existing shareholders
- Management buyouts
- Leveraged buyouts
- Corporate divestitures or spin-outs
- Industry consolidation or roll-ups
- Take-private transactions
- PIPEs
BUSINESS SECTORS
Element continues to develop a diversified portfolio of businesses in the following sectors:
Energy & Power: Alternative/Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Energy Efficiency, Energy IT & Infrastructure, Energy Storage, Demand Response (DR) & Demand Side Management (DSM), Power Electronics, Transportation Fuels and Motive Power, E & P and other oil & gas Technologies.
Water & Environmental Controls: Water Management and Conservation, Water & Wastewater Treatment, Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Emissions Control
Chemicals & Advanced Materials: Agricultural Technologies, Petrochemical Replacements, Green Building Materials, Industrial Biotechnology, Materials Reuse & Recycling, Specialty Chemicals
Manufacturing & Industrial: Industrial Components and Capital Equipment, Infrastructure Technology, Process Control, Supply Chain Management