Why Invest in Opportunistic Infrastructure Resilience?
Large Opportunity
- $100-150 trillion in total climate aligned investments over the next three decades
- $3-5 trillion being spent per year globally in climate
- Companies grow organically and through multiple acquisitions
Attractive Growth
- Growth in companies that facilitate resilience is at an inflection point
- Aging Infrastructure
- Growth in demand for power driven by AI, data center, electrification of the economy and population growth
Strategic Approach to Success
- Industry Focus
- Organic Growth
- Buy & Build
Symbiome’s understanding of the industries and sub-verticals it targets allows us to:
- Develop themes to identify attractive companies to proactively source deals often outside of processes
- Use our industry expertise to have an efficient diligence process
- Acquisition offers carry the credibility of industry veterans, providing sellers with confidence in our ability to close a transaction
- Industry contact networks drive value creation
Symbiome looks to drive organic growth by pursuing multiple strategies:
- Business expansion (product extensions, new business lines, new geographies, new target segments)
- Digital value creation (AI strategy, data strategy, digital transformation)
- Human capital (broad based ownership programs, talent recruitment development and retention)
- Improved operations (sales force effectiveness, channel optimization, marketing ROI optimization, digital marketing, supply chain optimization, back office design and scalability, footprint optimization)
Symbiome drives growth and creates value by pursuing add-on acquisitions:
- Mapping out a list of targets before a platform is acquired
- Integrating acquisitions into platform company system, sales, accounting and other functions
- Working with management to identify ideal add-on acquisitions that advance the platform’s strategic growth objectives
- Ensuring targets share a culture of shared values, mission-focused philosophy and commitment to excellence
- Identifying cross-selling, technology and geographical synergies, in addition to cost rationalization
Symbiome Investment Criteria
- Companies headquartered or with significant operations in North America
- Controlling stake or significant minority
- Opportunistic Infrastructure and Buyout
- Platform for consolidation
- Defensible position in the marketplace
- Clear growth strategy
- Diversified, high quality customer base
- Stable end markets with limited cyclicality and risk of disruption
- High return on invested capital
- Strong and aligned management teams with a clear vision to execute on an agreed strategic plan
