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Ecosa Capital is a new specialty finance company designed to fill a critical gap in the financial services market by principally providing capital to primarily non-public small- and medium-sized sustainable companies in three main markets - food & agriculture, energy, and building construction and related markets of materials, waste, and water. We originate our investments through our principal office located in San Francisco, as well as our additional offices in Portalnd, Oregon and Los Angeles. Our goal is to be the alternative debt provider of choice for sustainable companies seeking responsible and appropriate financing solutions. The concept of sustainability has been described as living off of the interest of natural capital without harming the principal. It is becoming quite apparent that treating broader social and environmental issues and corporate or entrepreneurial strategy as separate and distinct has long been unwise. Innovative practices in the area of the environment often create or enhance competitive advantage and products that address environmental scarcities have enormous market potential. For our purposes, sustainable companies are businesses whose practices, products, and services compete favorably on price and performance while enabling more efficient, productive, or less wasteful uses of natural and human capital than the next best alternative currently available on the market for the same application. We refer interchangeably to such companies as "sustainable", "responsible", "green", "environmental", "social", and double-bottom line enterprises. Our investment objective is to maximize our portfolio's total return, principally by investing in the debt and/or equity securities of sustainable, small and medium, emerging and growth stage companies. Our primary focus is on seeking current income by investing in debt securities. Where appropriate, we also seek to provide our limited partners with long-term capital growth through the appreciation in the value of warrants, options, or rights to purchase common or preferred stock that we may receive when we make debt investments in sustainable companies. Our structured debt investments will typically be secured by some or all of the assets and/or cash flow of the portfolio company. Our portfolio companies will use our capital generally to finance organic growth, equipment, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and working capital. Our investment decisions are based on extensive analysis of potential portfolio companies' addressable market(s) and business operations supported by an in-depth understanding of the quality of their recurring revenues and cash flow, variability of costs and the inherent value of their assets, including proprietary intangible assets and intellectual property.