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Clean Technology: Technologies that offer dramatic improvements in resource productivity, creating more economic value with less energy, less materials, and less waste. These technologies significantly lower cost and improve profitability, with short payback periods. We invest across diverse sectors of the economy, including: Energy, Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Water & Wastewater and Transportation. Expansion Stage: We define expansion stage as $2-20 million in revenues, able to scale to over $50 million in revenues, and ideally at, or close to achieving, profitability. Risk Management: Risk management is at the core of our firm’s activities. We seek to manage risk for our investors by offering: • portfolio diversification away from IT and life sciences; • expansion stage investments, which have historically performed better on a risk-adjusted basis; and • active entrepreneurial engagement with each portfolio company.