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Financing across the asset lifecycle

IDF partners with industrial companies and financial institutions to deploy capital across the industrial asset lifecycle, from construction through end-of-life.

Asset lifecycle

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Development
CONCEPT, ENGINEERING & PRE-FID
Early-stage capital for next-generation platforms, product engineering, and pre-construction development.
Product Development Funding
Funds R&D, tooling, and certification work for new industrial platforms, sharing development risk with industrial companies on defined milestones.
Asset Ownership & Strategic Capital
Underwrites long-duration ownership structures before FID so industrial companies can lock in offtake and capital alignment early.
Asset Ownership & Strategic Capital
Underwrites long-duration ownership structures before FID so industrial companies can lock in offtake and capital alignment early.
Construction & Expansion Capital
Purpose-built financing for greenfield and brownfield capacity additions, from initial site development through commercial operation.
Sales Finance
End-customer financing that unlocks commercial velocity for our industrial companies partners. Structured programs that accelerate order books without stretching OEM balance sheets.
Product Development Funding
Capital for new products, next-generation platforms, and process technologies across the industrial value chain.
Capital structure

Broad range of structures across the capital stack

Early-stage capital for next-generation platforms, product engineering, and pre-construction development.
Senior Debt
Secured term & project debt
Mezzanine
Subordinated & hybrid capital
Equity
Common & preferred
Tax Equity
Partnership & lease structures
Sale-Leaseback
Asset sale & long-term lease
ITC / Transferability
Credit monetization & transfer
Investment criteria
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$50M –$2Bn+
Stage
Development → operating
Geography
North America and select global
Hold period
Long-term / evergreen
Counterparties
Industrial companies & their customers
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Who we serve
For industrial companies
Move product, defer capex and share development risk without straining your balance sheet. We help you win customers by making your assets easier to finance.
Customer & sales financing programs
Off-balance-sheet product development capital
Build-own-operate ownership partnerships
For capital partners
Access differentiated, asset-backed exposure to the energy, digital-infrastructure and transportation sectors, sourced through our industrial companies relationships and structured for institutional risk.
Banks, private credit & insurers
Proprietary industrial companies sourced pipeline
Scalable, balance-sheet-efficient structures
How we work

Early engagement, alongside industrial companies partners.

A disciplined, four-stage process that moves quickly while protecting every party's balance sheet.
Origination
We map the industrial companies objectives and the asset's economics to a financing thesis.
Structuring
We assemble the capital stack, debt, equity, tax equity, with our funding partners.
Close
We execute documentation and funding, coordinating diligence end to end.
Asset management
We map the industrial companies objectives and the asset's economics to a financing thesis.
Track record

$50M to $2Bn+ transactions with Fortune 100 industrial companies.

Since 2015, IDF has closed 24 transactions totaling $4.5 billion of capital deployed, partnering with 10+ global industrial industrial companies across energy, digital infrastructure, and transportation.
Capital Committed
$4.5
Billion
Transactions
24
Closed
Partnerships
10+
Global OEMs