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Clear Creek Investments
CCI structures its mandate around three interconnected resource verticals — Food, Water, and Energy — pursuing innovation and sustainability that the firm...
Clear Creek Investments
CCI structures its mandate around three interconnected resource verticals — Food, Water, and Energy — pursuing innovation and sustainability that the firm believes drives climate solutions and resiliency. The firm partners with portfolio companies across multiple stages, acting as a patient capital provider rather than a traditional time-bound fund. The investment team is supplemented by an Operating Executive Partnership that embeds leadership from Global Fortune 100 industrial companies. The firm's website identifies specific operational expertise drawn from General Electric, Ford Motor Corporation, Stanley Black & Decker and Fluidra, suggesting a hands-on approach to scaling hard-tech and resource-intensive businesses. The firm's focus on energy transition and transformation, alongside food and water, places its geographic and thematic footprint at the center of global climate-resilience infrastructure. Headquartered in Solana Beach, California, CCI operates as a private equity vehicle with a multi-stage investment posture, from venture to later-stage growth. The firm's structure and capital base are not publicly disclosed. No recent operational event, fund closing, or team expansion from the last 24 months was confirmed in available sources. CCI's structural differentiator is its explicit bundling of Food, Water, and Energy as a single mandate, which is narrower than generalist climate funds. The firm bridges this thematic focus with an operational partnership model that gives portfolio companies access to senior industrial operators — a capability that distinguishes it from pure financial sponsors in the sustainability space.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Solana Beach
Corporate office
Solana Beach, CA, United States
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What is Clear Creek Investments' core investment mandate?
CCI deploys multi-stage capital as a long-term, patient investor exclusively across the Food, Water, and Energy transition and transformation sectors. The firm focuses on innovation and sustainability that drive climate solutions and climate resiliency. It supports companies from venture through later-stage growth within those three verticals.
How does CCI's operating partner model work?
CCI's Operating Executive Partnership supplements the investment and venture teams with leadership and operational experience drawn from Global Fortune 100 companies. The firm's website lists General Electric, Ford Motor Corporation, Stanley Black & Decker, and Fluidra as sources of that operational expertise. This provides portfolio companies with hands-on guidance from senior industrial operators.
Does Clear Creek Investments participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
The firm describes itself as a multi-stage investor that deploys capital directly into companies through a partnership approach. Public sources do not disclose whether CCI also commits to external funds or allocates via fund-of-fund structures alongside its direct investments.
What investment stages does CCI typically target?
CCI states it is a multi-stage investor, indicating activity from early venture through later-stage growth. The firm does not publicly break out allocations by stage, but its long-term, patient capital posture suggests an ability to hold positions across multiple funding rounds.
Which sectors does Clear Creek Investments explicitly avoid?
CCI's public mandate is explicitly limited to Food, Water, and Energy transition and transformation. By omission, the firm does not target sectors outside those three interconnected resource verticals, such as consumer software, fintech, or healthcare.
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