Investment Summary

Icos Capital Invests In Rainmaker

On March 4, 2008, growth capital firm Icos Capital invested in environmental company Rainmaker

Investment Highlights
  • This is Icos Capital’s 2nd transaction in the Environmental sector.
  • This is Icos Capital’s 2nd transaction in the Netherlands.

Investment Summary

Date 2008-03-04
Target Rainmaker
Sector Environmental
Investor(s) Icos Capital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Rainmaker

Badhoevedorp, Netherlands
Rainmaker combines windmill, drinking water, and cooling technology into a ground-breaking innovation - producing water from air. The technology has also proven to be capable of generating fresh water from salt or waste water at competitive cost. Rainmaker is based in Badhoevedorp, Netherlands.

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Investor(S) 1

DESCRIPTION

Icos Capital is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in clean technology. Icos looks for European companies that offer new, alternative scarce resources (water, energy) and more efficient industrial and consumer products. The firm looks to provide growth capital in the form of minority investments. Icos' target investment size is €1 to €5 million. Icos Capital is headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 16
Sector: Environmental M&A 2 of 6
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 1 of 13
Country: Netherlands M&A 2 of 12
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-11-05 i-RES

Netherlands

i-RES is a developer of gasification to energy technology projects that can deliver energy (steam, heat and / or electricity) from rest streams (waste and other alternative renewable sources). i-RES is based in Netherlands.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-06-17 Ensartech

Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands

Ensartech is a pioneer in waste conversion technology. Ensartech technology is uniquely able to realize 100% conversion of all types of waste – including the most difficult and hazardous types of waste – to energy and clean base materials, thereby closing the environmental circle. Ensartech is based in Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands.

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