Jane Capital Partners

Jane Capital Partners is a corporate advisory and merchant banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. It works both as a principal investor and as an adviser, and it favours businesses that offer environmental benefits alongside a financial return.

What Jane Capital Partners offers

• Cross-border strategy — arranges strategic opportunities that span countries.
• Mergers and acquisitions — advice and deal-making for buyers and sellers.
• Debt and equity financing — helps clients raise capital.
• Company building — helped create the power-flow control company Smart Wires and the solar venture Meridian Solar.

Who it works with

Businesses wanting to grow organically, through acquisitions or through joint ventures. The firm has been active in cleantech for years and has run a cleantech blog since 2005.

Key facts

• Based in: San Francisco, United States
• Type: Merchant bank and corporate adviser
• Case studies: Meridian Energy, Smart Wires and Zenergy Power