WindSail Capital Group

Date: 2021

Asset Class: Private Debt

Description:  WindSail Capital Group provides growth capital to companies advancing energy innovation and sustainability across a wide range of industries. WindSail’s unique investment approach (secured debt with penny warrants to capture upside) provides companies with flexible financing solutions that facilitate growth while minimizing dilution. It is an evergreen fund and targeting double digit returns, which it has historically delivered.

Why We Invest: By providing debt funding to early-stage companies that may not be poised for the growth path required by VC funds, WindSail contributes to additionality through targeting an underfinanced segment of the market. Their investment criteria is to focus on companies advancing energy innovation and sustainability with little-to-no technology risk that are revenue generating with strong perceived downside protection and a clear path to cash flow break even, and with supportive equity partners. We believe this is sound and should deliver impact with strong risk adjusted returns.