Concrete Transition Capital

    Building the capital market for lower-carbon concrete.

    Concrete is over 8% of global emissions. Lower-carbon solutions already exist. What is missing is a market that can price them, fund them and pull them through. We build that market by doing three things.

    What we do

    We do three things.

    Each one on its own is useful. Together they are a capital market: money that can move, data that can price, and demand that can pull.

    Deal team with capital

    Structures and funds the projects that put lower-carbon concrete in the ground.

    How we invest

    Market data

    The Concrete Terminal: plant, mix and price data across the cement-to-concrete supply chain to underwrite how and where materials move.

    Open the Terminal

    Market alignment

    Brings together producers, buyers and policy to create the pull for lower-carbon concrete.

    How we align the market

    A capital market for lower-carbon concrete

    One of threeDeal team with capital

    We structure and fund the projects.

    Low-emission cement and concrete plants are too large and slow for venture capital, and too novel for conventional project finance. We build the capital structure that sits in between, and we run the deal ourselves: origination, technical diligence, structuring, close and monitoring.

    Blended capital stack that absorbs first-of-a-kind risk and lowers the cost of borrowing.
    Underwritten revenue merchant demand we can measure as well as contracted offtake, so projects are financed on cashflows rather than hope.
    Execution support from pilot through commissioning and into operations.

    How a deal runs

    1
    Originate
    Find the projects that can actually be built, and the ones that cannot.
    2
    Diligence
    Technical & financial validation against real supply chain intel & relationships, not a pitch deck.
    3
    Structure
    Informed underwrite on contract and merchant revenue + a capital structure a lender will accept.
    4
    Close and monitor
    Through commissioning and into operations, with the data fed back.

    The same team does all four.

    In concrete you cannot hand a project between an originator, an analyst and an asset manager and expect it to survive.

    Two of threeMarket data

    The Concrete Terminal.

    A digital twin of the cement-to-concrete supply chain, so the market can keep everything it values about concrete and eliminate the carbon.

    Plant, mix and price data across every link from kiln to jobsite, priced across 31 countries and every cement plant on earth. If you cannot measure it, you cannot underwrite it.

    Keep three. Eliminate the carbon.

    Functionality
    KEEP
    Scale & availability
    KEEP
    Low price
    KEEP
    Carbon
    ELIMINATE
    Quarrysourcehaul distanceCement plantclinker factor · GWP$/tonTransitmiles · modeReady-mix plantmix design · EPD$/CYTransithaul radiusSitespec · biddelivered cost
    The Terminal holds data at every link, quarry to site: what each plant can pour, what it emits, what it costs, and how far it has to travel.

    3,630

    Global cement plants

    31

    Countries priced

    186

    Import trade routes

    14,300+

    Ready-mix plants mapped

    70,000+

    EPDs connected

    Three of threeMarket alignment

    We create the pull.

    Producers will not build capacity without demand. Buyers will not commit without supply. Policymakers are nervous to tighten GHG limits without seeing both. The Terminal helps all three see the whole system, so they know what each needs to do to unlock the others’ decarbonization.

    Producers

    Cement makers, ready-mix operators and novel SCM and ACM producers who need firm, forward demand before they will invest in capacity.

    Buyers

    Developers, contractors and corporate buyers who need supply they can specify, source locally and defend on cost.

    Policy

    Economic data cities, states and agencies use to write rules that the local supply chain can actually meet without a price shock.

    Concrete Ideas

    Our thoughts on the market.

    What actually blocks low-emission projects from becoming bankable, and the contracts, data and counterparties that unlock scale. Written for the people who have to sign something.

    Six months of published research behind the three things we do, in the open, with the arguments and the numbers we are working from.

    Concrete Ideas, beside an I heart green concrete badge cast into a concrete wall

    Why we only do concrete.

    Most climate investing follows a generalist playbook: find technologies, write checks, wait for adoption. Concrete does not work like that. It is a localized, highly regulated liability product, and generalist capital underestimates execution risk. Specialization is not a limitation here. It is the strategy.

    A spot market, priced job-by-job, locally, with limited forward visibility
    A regional recipe, constrained by feedstocks, logistics, codes, and field conditions
    A liability product, where performance risk and reputational risk govern decisions
    An industrial system, where execution and commissioning risk can kill even proven technology
    Read why we are vertical
    Concrete production facility

    One team, three things.

    Operators, investors and market builders. The same people structure the capital, build the Terminal and sit in the room with producers, buyers and agencies, because in concrete you cannot outsource any of the three.

    Genevieve Sherman

    Genevieve Sherman

    CEO

    A recognized leader in sustainable finance product and market design, with a proven track record of launching and scaling impactful businesses. 2023 ACEEE Champion of Energy Efficiency.

    Prior: Connecticut Green Bank, Greenworks Lending, Nuveen Green Capital
    Advanced degrees from MIT and Columbia University
    Miles Haladay

    Miles Haladay

    CMO

    A recognized leader in sustainable development, known for his deep expertise in concrete, construction, technology, finance, and carbon markets. His multidisciplinary approach is shaping the transition to low-emission concrete.

    Prior: Carbon Title, Viewpoint, 10 Branch / Haladay Family Office
    Yale University; J.D., University of Oregon School of Law
    Jennifer Louie

    Jennifer Louie

    Investment Committee (External)

    Investment professional with deep expertise across private markets and corporate finance, with global experience leading U.S. and emerging market debt portfolios.

    Prior: Merrill Lynch, Whitecap Advisors, SMBC, Closed Loop Partners
    B.S., Finance & Economics, Binghamton University
    FJ Selosse

    FJ Selosse

    Credit & Investments

    Experienced investor across debt, real assets, infrastructure, private equity, derivatives, public equities, and venture — bringing 8+ years of impact and sustainability focus.

    Prior: Barclays, Overland/Coastal Capital, TPG/NatureVest, Provenance/Avalon Capital
    MBA, Berkeley Haas; M.S., Financial Engineering, NYU; B.A., Economics, École Polytechnique
    Wesley Garner

    Wesley Garner

    Credit & Investments

    Climate tech credit analyst focused on hard-to-abate sectors, with transaction experience across federal agencies and Fortune 500 counterparties.

    Prior: U.S. DOE LPO, Banyan Infrastructure
    MPA, Energy Finance, Columbia; B.A., Economics, William & Mary

    Let's build the market.

    Capital, data or demand. Tell us which side you are on and we will show you the other two.