We're not just funding projects. We're proving an asset class.
Decarbonizing concrete requires $40 billion a year and well-crafted public policy. Philanthropy provides the catalytic capital to absorb FOAK risk, while data-driven public agencies ensure the resulting policies are effective and affordable.
We have three distinct ways to highly leverage philanthropic dollars to unlock the industrial transition.
Leverage across the three things we do
We use philanthropic dollars where they have the highest multiplier effect—building the infrastructure, policies, and risk buffers that commercial capital relies on.
Market data
The Concrete Terminal
Support the buildout of the Venn PRI data platform, creating the baseline intelligence required to underwrite new technologies.
Market alignment
Data-Driven Policy
Empower agencies to draft policies that decarbonize concrete while ensuring the local supply chain can support it without large price increases.
Deal team with capital
Pinpointing First Loss
Use our deep market mapping to pinpoint exactly where first-loss capital can unlock specific, high-impact FOAK projects.
Build the financial market for the entire industry.
The greatest barrier to institutional investment is information asymmetry. Commercial banks won't underwrite a technology if they can't accurately price the underlying commodity or map the local supply chain.
- Through our Venn PRI partnership, your philanthropy funds the core data architecture of the transition.
- This "Bloomberg for Concrete" tracks cement pricing, forward curves, and EAC valuations across 50+ localized markets.
Draft better policy through market intelligence.
We help agencies and public policy makers make better decisions through data. We ensure that the policies you draft to decarbonize concrete are actually supported by your local supply chain, avoiding massive price spikes and keeping infrastructure affordable.
- Leverage our platform to understand what your local ready-mix producers can actually supply before writing rigid performance specs.
- Draft policies that successfully decarbonize the market without compromising the affordability of regional housing and infrastructure.
Regional Deployment Dashboard
Tracking municipality uptake of the Playbook standards.
Pinpoint where first-loss capital perfectly unlocks projects.
Program-Related Investments (PRIs) allow philanthropic dollars to act as risk-tolerant impact investments. But they only work if deployed into the right gap in the capital stack.
- We leverage our proprietary market maps to identify exactly which FOAK projects require a first-loss guarantee to secure senior debt.
- Once the technology proves commercial viability, your philanthropic capital is returned—to be scaled by institutional funds and recycled into the next innovation.
De-Risk the Bid
Underwriting the demand behind pilot facilities.
Bridge the Gap
Subsidizing green premiums during initial scale-up.
Blended Vehicles
Operating alongside our commercial fund structure to absorb early volatility and attract institutional leverage.
Tracking Leverage & Impact
Our mandate is to generate outsized returns on philanthropic capital by tracking the ratio of commercial dollars crowded into the space.
12:1
Target Leverage Ratio
For every $1 of catalytic PRI capital deployed, we aim to unlock $12 of commercial project finance.
150+
Tech Pathways Analyzed
Rigorous benchmarking ensures capital only flows to highly scalable innovations.
Policy
Public Market Signals
Funding the data architecture directly enables municipalities to establish Buy Clean guidelines.
