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

Long-duration ownership structures that align with OEM balance-sheet objectives. We take principal risk on operating assets, freeing capacity for our partners to reinvest in their core platforms.

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

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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

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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.

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

Closed

Partnerships

10+

Global OEMs