Who we are
We’re more than Advisors
We’re your partners and guides
Multiplier is a boutique advisory services firm. We work exclusively with clean energy, cleantech, climate-tech and sustainability-focused companies to help them make smart decisions about their capital needs, product development, management team, revenue ramp, and the structure and timing of their exits.
Our two principals are deeply experienced, highly successful investors, advisors, former C‑suite executives and government officials.
We’ve been there.
We’re here to help make sure
this doesn’t happen to you:
We believe that too many young firms raise capital the wrong way and in the wrong amounts. They occasionally do R&D and add features that don’t always add to the sale price. They sometimes lack a clear sense of what a successful and realistic exit looks like.
As a result, founders and entrepreneurs don’t always reap the rewards of their labors. And some great technology gets truncated, absorbed or disappears.
We’ll get you there, too.
Partners
Jigar is one of the country’s best known energy entrepreneurs, investors, and strategists.
Named to the 2024 TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people, Jigar most recently served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, the federal government’s clean energy investment vehicle.
He transformed the agency, leading a tenfold increase in loan authority and deploying $108 billion in debt financing for clean energy and advanced transportation projects.
Prior to his government service, Jigar co-founded and was President of Generate Capital ($10B AUM), which largely invented low-cost, infrastructure-as-a-service financing.
He also founded SunEdison, where he pioneered third-party power purchase agreement solar financing, and eventually sold the company for almost $400 million.
Jigar was the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. He began his career in business development for BP.
Jigar has been on the boards of NYSERDA, the Center for Sustainable Energy and Spower (now part of AES).
He is the author of the book “Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy” and was a founding co-host of the Energy Gang podcast. Jigar currently co-hosts the popular podcast “Open Circuit” from Latitude Media. Tune in!
Jonathan is one of the nation’s leading clean economy investors and advisors. He is Chair of the Global Sustainability Platform at Apollo Global Management, one of the largest private equity investors in the world, where he helps guide the investment of up to $100 billion in sustainability-related companies.
Jonathan was the first head of the Loan Program Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. He led groundbreaking investments in utility-scale solar, wind and geothermal projects, financed the first nuclear power plant to be built in the U.S. in the last 30 years and was the first major investor in Tesla.
Jonathan has also served as Senior Advisor at Guggenheim Partners, a $350 billion investment firm and bank, where he worked with global cleantech and climate-tech companies.
He is on the board of National Grid (NYSE: NGG), a British utility and one of the 300 largest companies in the world, and chair of Terram Labs, a rapidly growing supplier of sustainable packaging solutions.
Jonathan has been an advisor to, or been on the board of, over 20 cleantech and climate-tech companies, including NextEra and ICF.
Earlier, Jonathan was Managing Partner of Tax Equity Advisors, making solar investments for Fortune 500 clients; Managing Director and COO of Tiger Management, one of the country’s largest hedge funds; and the co-founder of Core Capital, a top tier venture capital firm. He has also served as Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Secretaries of Commerce and Interior.
Jonathan is a former Chair of the Board of American Forests, the country’s oldest forest conservation group and was on the board of the Federation of American Scientists. He began his career at McKinsey and Company