Case Studies

Client: Filmmaker Alex Muñoz and Producer Beverly Santicola Background: Alex and Beverly were seeking funding to produce Escape, a documentary about the harsh realities Native American youth face living on a Reservation. Alex had founded … [Read more...] about Escape, an award-winning documentary

Client: Applied Gaia, Inc., a Texas-based firm in the renewable energy sector Background: Applied Gaia develops biomass machines that produce renewable energy and salable, environmentally beneficial by-products. The company had a … [Read more...] about Applied Gaia

Client: A startup firm that sought to break into the transit management sector. Background: The firm’s two principals had a broad range of experience in the transit management sector, but their firm was at the startup stage. The company … [Read more...] about Transit Solutions

Client: The nonprofit organization with a contract to manage meeting facilities at Marconi State Park in California. Background: The nonprofit had a longstanding contract with the State of California to manage meeting facilities and … [Read more...] about Marconi State Park

Client: Genesis Industries (Santa Monica, California) Background: A group of film industry professionals with a keen interest in renewable energy and sustainable development had designed a small-scale biomass-consuming pyrolysis machine. … [Read more...] about A $1.1 million award to deploy a demonstration project for a renewable energy technology

Client: Confidential Background: A group of technology researchers in the Bay Area had developed a highly innovative data server technology that uses just a fraction of the energy of a traditional server, using just one-quarter of the … [Read more...] about A $9.2 million award to commercialize an innovative data server technology