Welcome to SJF Ventures’ cleantech investment blog, cleantechinvesting.com! This site will feature regular posts about SJF’s various activities and initiatives, as well as news and views on the promising field of clean technology jobs and investment that we’ve been leading since 1999. We welcome your feedback so we can make this site as informative and interactive as possible.
If you’re new to SJF or if it has been awhile since you’ve followed us, here’s an overview: SJF Ventures is a venture capital fund headquartered in Durham, NC and with offices in New York, and San Francisco. We invest in areas like renewable energy and efficiency, organic and healthy consumer products, digital media and marketing services, electronics recycling, and outsourced business services. Also, we partner with entrepreneurs who are committed to impacting the world positively through the businesses that they are creating. Our two funds have invested in 29 companies that now have aggregate revenues of $500 million, 128 facilities, and 4,600 employees.
Our nonprofit side, SJF Advisory Services, offers entrepreneurial, workforce and sustainability assistance services to SJF prospect and portfolio companies. SJF seeks to rapidly diffuse those entrepreneurial strategies to help build a more sustainable economy. SJF has assisted 1,500 entrepreneurial companies through workshops and one-on-one assistance.
Since forming 10 years ago, SJF has been a leader in investing in companies with cleantech and green jobs innovations which drive financial performance. We invest in companies that offer good wages and benefits and that set up shop in low-to-moderate-income areas that are in need of economic and community development.
Want to learn more about SJF? Please visit our Web site, www.sjfventures.com. And stay tuned for more news and information, including reports about our “Summit on the New Green Economy,” to be held in our hometown of Durham, NC, June 2-3.
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