Global Environment Fund Management
VC Fund
Chevy Chase, United States
Global Environment Fund Management is a VC fund in Chevy Chase focused on Energy and Forestry. Established in 1990, the Global Environment Fund (GEF) invests in businesses around the world that provide cost-effective solutions to environmental and energy challenges. The firm manages private equity dedicated to clean technology, emerging markets, and sustainable forestry, with approximately $1 billion in aggregate capital under management.GEF's investors include prominent endowments, foundations, family offices, and pension funds.
- Total investments:
- 69
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries Global Environment Fund Management invests in
Stages Global Environment Fund Management invests in
Countries Global Environment Fund Management invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Series B
- $5.4M–$24M
- Private Equity
- $1.4M–$265M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 13 (19%)
- Forestry 11 (16%)
- Renewable Energy 9 (13%)
- Agriculture 8 (12%)
- Manufacturing 8 (12%)
Stage
- Private Equity 48 (70%)
- Funding Round 9 (13%)
- Series B 3 (4%)
- Series A 2 (3%)
- Post-IPO Equity 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 19 (28%)
- India 13 (19%)
- Brazil 6 (9%)
- China 3 (4%)
- Hungary 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Alipt Sharma
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Anibal Wadih
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bekezela Ncube
Associate, GEF Advisors Africa
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Associate, GEF Advisors Africa | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Philo Tran
Principal, North America
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Principal, North America | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rajesh Pai
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmalogist d.o.o distributes pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and offers regulatory registration services for healthcare products. | $16.4M / Debt Financing / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| "ESDS Software Solution Private Limited" started operations in the year 2005 from a small office on College Road, Nashik. Initially ESDS was into outsourced hosting support business and offered backend technical support to the customers of web hosting companies from US and the UK. ESDS then changed the line of Business in the year2007 and chose to step into web hosting business. ESDS now has more than 30000 Customers worldwide, a significant amount of them being corporate entities relying on their Internet presence and Government Organizations from India and abroad. ESDS has indigenously developed the concept of a high specification; carrier-neutral and fully managed Datacenter in the state of Maharashtra, and has successfully turned their vision into reality. ESDS is a group of Web Hosting companies based in India, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The complete infrastructure in Nashik including the Datacenter is fully-owned by ESDS without any mortgage.The state-of-the-art ESDS Data center is the first Green Datacenter in India with negligible sensible heat load in a country where ambient goes above 40°C. ESDS support managed hosting, managed servers, server racks & cages, co-location and system security including Co-location, Managed/Unmanaged Dedicated Servers, Cloud Computing, on-demand Grid/Virtualization Computing, Application Services, Datacenter consultancy and Turnkey solutions to build a Datacenter. | Private Equity / Jun 05, 2018 | ||
| Optimoz is at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive enterprise transformation. With expertise in Generative AI, Cloud Solutions, and Health IT, we empower organizations to overcome complex technical challenges and unlock new possibilities. Our innovative solutions enable enterprises to harness breakthrough insights forsmarter decision-making, enhance productivity and agility, and accelerate solution development with precision and reliability.At Optimoz, we go beyond technology by providing the leadership, experience, and proven processes necessary to maximize the value of your enterprise’s capabilities. Our integrated security approach ensures protection across infrastructure, platform, and application layers, while our focus on optimization reduces operational costs and mitigates enterprise risks.Whether it’s reshaping healthcare IT, advancing cloud infrastructure, or driving innovation with Generative AI, Optimoz is your trusted partner in achieving transformative outcomes. Let us help you redefine what’s possible for your enterprise. | $2M / Series A / May 22, 2018 | ||
| Luminae has been in the market for 10 years and has established itself as an absolute reference in the national lighting and energy efficiency sector. Luminae has grown from 70% to 80% per year over these 10 years and today is the largest lighting company for Retail in Brazil, also having great performance in other segments such as Industrial,Logistics Sheds, Educational Establishments, Pharmacies, among others. many others. It was a pioneer in the implementation of a LED lamp factory in Brazil in 2014 with 100% of its own investment, bringing automated machines from Japan and having the advice of the largest LED manufacturer in the world, the Japanese company NICHIA, which is also the creator of LED technology. | Private Equity / May 01, 2017 | ||
AGV Logistica
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AGV Logistica is a logistic service company that provides warehousing and transportation solutions, serving the animal health and human health industries but also fast-moving consumer goods industries. It supports a more efficient protein supply chain and contributes to healthier food products. | Private Equity / May 01, 2016 | |
| Tecverde is an innovative company in the construction industry in product, process and business model. Our main goal is to make people's lives easier, simplify the process of design, acquisition and construction of a property. Tecverde offers quality of life and sustainability at super competitive prices. We work with wood frame constructiontechnology, used in Germany, USA, Canada, among others. This technology allows us to build 6 times faster than conventional concrete and masonry construction, with up to 90% waste reduction and 80% CO² emission. Through an intelligent design process and industrialized production, we offer high quality products and excellent levels of comfort, improving the quality of life and generating value for our customers. | Private Equity / Dec 01, 2015 | ||
| ReNew Power is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, owns, and operates utility-scale wind, solar energy, and hydro projects. It has a total capacity of more than 10GW (including projects in the pipeline), ReNew Power’s solar and wind energy projects are spread across 110+ sites, with a presence spanning 8 states in India, contributingto 1.4% of India’s power capacity. Consequently, this has helped to avoid 0.5% of India’s total carbon emissions and 1.1% of India’s total power sector emissions. In 10 years of its operation, ReNew Power has generated almost 1 lakh jobs, directly and indirectly. It was founded by Mr. Sumant Sinha in 2011 and is based in Gurgaon, India. | $265M / Private Equity / Oct 27, 2015 | ||
| ReNew is India’s leading decarbonization solutions company listed on Nasdaq (Nasdaq: RNW, RNWWW). ReNew's clean energy portfolio of approximately 13.7GW on a gross basis as of March 31, 2023, is one of the largest globally. In addition to being a major independent power producer in India, ReNew provides end-to-end solutions in a just andinclusive manner in the areas of clean energy, value-added energy offerings through digitalization, storage, and carbon markets that increasingly are integral to addressing climate change. For more information, visit https://www.renew.com | $265M / Private Equity / Oct 27, 2015 | ||
| We are an integrated solutions provider of industrial wastewater reuse and zero liquid discharge (“ZLD”) solutions, with an inhouse position across the value chain including design, component manufacturing, installation and commissioning and operation and maintenance (“O&M”) including digitalization solutions including Internet ofThings (“IoT”) technology for analysis of customer data. | $16.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 14, 2015 | ||
Global Woods
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Global Woods is a plantation company that operates forestry concession. The company also focuses on the development of the Uganda forestry sector and served as a training site for many of the hundreds of smallholders who have established their own plantations across Uganda in the past decade. | Private Equity / Mar 01, 2015 | |
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FAQ
What does Global Environment Fund Management invest in?
Global Environment Fund Management invests primarily in Energy, Forestry and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 69 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Global Environment Fund Management's check size?
Global Environment Fund Management typically joins rounds of $5.4M–$24M at Series B and $1.4M–$265M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Global Environment Fund Management participates in.
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Who are the partners at Global Environment Fund Management?
The team at Global Environment Fund Management includes Alipt Sharma (Managing Director), Anibal Wadih (Managing Director) and Bekezela Ncube (Associate, GEF Advisors Africa), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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