ThreeG Capital, LLC

Investment focus areas include the following:

Energy sector assistance and investment that will identify and develop oil, gas or power opportunities worldwide. These include petroleum production, as well as alternative energy sources, environmentally driven energy solutions and more efficient use of energy resources.

Involvement with ThreeG is highly attractive to existing owners because of the broad array of business skills and international experience which ThreeG will bring to its portfolio and client companies. ThreeG has extensive experience in growing businesses from the early stages into substantial organizations and in providing business development assistance in overseas markets. With this experience, we focus on investments where we will add strategic value and where our active management level involvement is welcome and beneficial. We also work as needed to: define or realign strategic vision, strengthen management, introduce strategic partners, raise capital, and evaluate, structure and finance strategic acquisitions.

Smaller to intermediate size companies in niche and growing markets who need a strategic investor that can bring valuable synergies from experienced business management input, partnering, deal structuring, and marketing reach, as well as equity to take their business or project initiative to the next level of growth.

Companies with proprietary technologies in niche and growing markets where ThreeG can add value and capital to enhance growth.

Companies which seek to move their products and / or services into international markets where ThreeG has an extensive network of existing relationships.

Until recently, the energy industry wasn’t a top priority for most VCs. There are several good reasons why VC funds are increasingly focusing on emerging energy technologies in their investment portfolios. For a long time energy has been a slow-moving industry that wasn't known for technological innovation. However, the growth of exploration-related technologies to reduce finding and production costs and the deregulation of the gas and power market, along with the increase in energy costs, has spurred the need and search for new energy technologies.

As a result, a growing number of firms are devoting themselves solely to energy investments, and a handful of mainstream firms are starting to build dedicated energy practices. Investment focus areas are in new energy and sensor technologies that will exploit the growing movement towards on-site, co-gen, and distributed generation facilities and towards the increasing use of web-enabled technologies in order to monitor and ensure energy usage efficiency, quality and reliability.

The state of the energy market in terms of deregulation and unbundling (and turmoil) resembles that of the telecom sector about 15 years ago, with the potential for similar great opportunities. Once telecom was fully deregulated in the United States, the floodgates opened for a raft of new carriers and technology providers, as well as an overwhelming amount of venture capital. So far, the energy industry, which includes everything from oil and gas to electricity, is only in the first stages of deregulation.

Venture capital investment in the energy industry is steadily gaining momentum. According to one research firm, Venture Economics, investments were in such sectors as distributed generation and storage, energy controls technology, transmission systems, power quality, energy efficiency services and devices.

Not surprisingly, venture money targeted online energy exchanges and companies who are developing software and services for utilities, who will need to provide more efficiency and reliability enhancing services to retain customers in an open access market place (sound like telecom?) Other investments have been made in technologies designed to replace existing energy sources. These include fuel cells, microturbines for the distributed generation market, and proton technologies, as well as a variety of "green energy" options.