Venture Creation


Bringing Clean Technology & Sustainability Innovation to Market >>

NextEarth Group specializes in identifying and transforming early-stage clean technologies and sustainability innovations into commercially-viable companies. Tightly focused in our approach, we hand select innovations that, quite simply, have the potential to enable positive change around the world. Enlisting a dedicated team of world-class industry experts, scientists, corporate and intellectual property attorneys, partners and investors, we create and build companies that drive these transformative discoveries to the global marketplace.

Our portfolio companies aim to advance sustainability, provide integrated value to customers, improve quality of life and create robust financial returns. By sharing resources, relationships and best practices across multiple companies, NextEarth Group maximizes portfolio performance. Ultimately, our objective is to maximize each company’s potential for ROI and social and environmental benefit.

We also work with a very select group of outside ‘growth-ready’ companies to accelerate their achievement of meaningful market scale. Drawing upon the resources and network of NextEarth Group we are able to significantly improve the positioning and growth-curve for high-potential clean technology companies.

Our Process >>

We are primarily dedicated to commercializing early-stage discoveries, solutions and technologies from leading research institutions and universities. Technologies are evaluated along a number of dimensions, including:

  • Significant positive environmental/social impact
  • Novelty
  • Time to market & reasonable cost
  • Significant unmet need
  • Intellectual property position & protectability
  • Scientific credibility

Our evaluation period involves significant market research, scientific and environmental impact review, and legal analysis. If technologies pass our stringent evaluation and fit all the necessary criteria, we proceed to rapidly increase the value of the technology and drive it to market. Our incubation and launch process is comprehensive and tailored to fit each particular technology, focusing primarily on the following:

  • Procurement of startup funding
  • Conducting extensive market and industry research
  • Designing comprehensive lab-to-market business plan and corresponding ‘breakout’ strategy
  • Patent filing; securing and strengthening existing intellectual property
  • Designing robust IP strategy and portfolios for creating long-term value
  • Building an operational and advisory team of eminent scientists, industry leaders and entrepreneurial managers
  • Planning and implementing key value driving experiments, prototypes and/or demonstration projects
  • Designing long-term R&D programs
  • Initiation and creation of high-level validating partnerships and collaborations
  • Assembling syndicates of co-investors and positioning the company to have the broadest impact through strong revenue generation, public financing or acquisition.

NextEarth Group is currently incubating a number of companies scheduled for launch in 2010 and 2011. Our 2010 portfolio includes the following companies: