BeCitizen is a leading environmental strategy consulting firm. For the past 10 years, BeCitizen’s focus has been to (i) promote the Positive Economy™ principles to a wide audience of academic institutions, political decision makers, business think tanks and media and (ii) develop Positive Economy™ business lines with private actors, either as a strategic and technical advisor, or as an equity holder in joint ventures with leading European partners. With a team of 30 engineers, BeCitizen possesses core competences in a broad range of sectors, including Agriculture, Construction & Urban Planning, Environmental Services, Industrial Applications and Finance.
Cobepa
Cobepa is a leading private equity investor in Europe that provides expansion capital to companies. It is an independent, privately-held investment company with a diversified portfolio of more than €1 bn under management. For more than fifty years, Cobepa has demonstrated its ability to successfully invest in industrial ventures. The company has an extensive experience in a variety of corporate investment schemes, including minority equity investing, leveraged buyouts, buy & build strategies, capital market operations and complex financing structures. It has invested across a wide range of industries and at a variety of corporate development stages. Cobepa relies upon a seasoned team of 10 investment professionals based in Brussels.
La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild
La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild is a Swiss private financial company founded by Benjamin de Rothschild with the aim of providing customized risk management services to CFOs and treasurers of multinationals. In addition, for the past 8 years, it has built a recognized expertise in environmental finance as evidenced by its PERF (Positive EconomyTM Rothschild Funds), which manage in excess of €600 m in public and private equity funds. In addition to BeCapital, the PERF includes the Nikko Green New Deal and Green Alley funds invested in public equities and Ginkgo, an investment fund specialized in soil remediation. Furthermore, CBR is a leader in Project Finance and PPP structurings. The company has been a shareholder of Cobepa since 2004 and of BeCitizen since 2006.partnership expertise.
