Closed Loop Partners

Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group invested in ClearCOGS, leading their oversubscribed seed round to help transform restaurant operations and tackle food waste. Danielle Joseph, Managing Director and Head of Closed Loop Ventures Group, shares insights on why we invested in the company, a leading provider of AI-powered predictive analytics that supports restaurants and consumer-facing businesses in improving their operations and mitigating food waste. Today, food costs represent 30-50% of a restaurant’s total spending on average, yet large quantities of this food end up wasted due to misaligned production. By addressing operational inefficiencies within this supply chain, food retailers could gain a net benefit of over $5 billion. Learn about ClearCOGS and their AI-powered solution to address inefficiencies within foodservice supply chains: https://hubs.la/Q03g-FRm0 #circulareconomy #innovation #sustainability #food #foodwaste #organics #venturecapital #seedround #investment #restaurants #supplychain #operations #impact

Closed Loop Partners has once again been recognized as Impact Firm of the Year (Circular Economy) by New Private Markets, alongside other leading fund managers. This is the second year in a row that Closed Loop Partners has received this recognition. For 10 years, the firm has been at the forefront of advancing the circular economy. Today, we continue to drive impact across our platform––which includes an investment firm, innovation center and operating group––and to date, have kept over 6 million tons of materials in circulation, avoiding over 17.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. We look forward to continue working with our partners toward our vision of building a waste-free world. Learn more here: https://hubs.la/Q03gqChp0 #circulareconomy #impact #award #innovation New Private Markets Awards 2023 and 2024 (impact fund management category) recognize managers that were voted leaders in impact investing across climate, financial inclusion, real estate, the food system, healthcare, education and the circular economy, and have a measurable impact on society and the environment during those calendar years. Winners for 2023 were selected in each category by New Private Markets reader votes from a shortlist compiled by New Private Markers editorial team in consultation with the market. Winners for 2024 were selected from the shortlists by a judging panel of senior editorial staff from across PEI Group’s various publications. Closed Loop Partners applied for but did not pay a fee to be considered for this award. Receipt of this award is in no way indicative of any individual client or investor’s experience with Closed Loop Partners, or of the past or future performance of any investment.

Over two years ago, Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy began to research what it takes to recover more small-format packaging, in collaboration with Maybelline New York, bolstered by the support of four additional partners—Kraft Heinz, L'Oréal, Procter & Gamble and Target. This year, we released a report with findings from our comprehensive exploration of this untapped opportunity, and our finidngs reveal viable pathway to recover tens of thousands of tons of valuable small materials––including plastics like polypropylene––from materials recovery facilities (MRFs) and glass recycling plants across the U.S. Download our report to learn more about the exciting potential of small materials recovery here: https://hubs.la/Q037kn080 #circulareconomy #recyclingrevolution #nomorewaste #packaging #innovation #collaboration #materialrecovery

This year, one of the earliest and most respected climate-focused investment firms in the world, Capricorn Investment Group invested in Closed Loop Partners' asset management business, Closed Loop Capital Management. In this episode of the New Private Markets Podcast, Capricorn investment director Marie-Céline Damnon discusses how Closed Loop Capital Management is part of Capricorn’s continued efforts to provide long-term capital to support the growth of leading asset management firms in the sustainability and climate space. Listen here: https://hubs.la/Q03g6R6G0 #circulareconomy #investment #impact #growth #sustainability #assetmanagement

Join Closed Loop Partners and 1,500+ leaders focused on advancing the circular economy at #Circularity (April 29-May 1, Denver, CO), hosted by Trellis Group. Achieving ambitious circularity goals demands actionable strategies and a powerful network. Circularity provides the tools, insights and connections needed to continue the momentum toward the circular economy. Closed Loop Partners is a proud partner of Circularity 25. Register by April 25 to save $150 plus use code C25CLP for an extra 20% off. That’s a total savings of over $750 on the Final Rate: https://hubs.la/Q03fRl7H0 #event #circulareconomy #Circularity25 #sustainability #impact

Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy recently published new findings revealing high quantities of food-grade polypropylene in recycling streams, with key insights about how to keep this high-demand material in circulation. With funding from the #NextGen Consortium and the Closed Loop Foundation, the Center for the Circular Economy collaborated with technology company Greyparrot to deploy AI-powered vision systems at four U.S. materials recovery facilities, characterizing nearly 45 million individual objects in the recycling stream. Learn what our 3 key findings were in the full report: https://hubs.la/Q03fMy1y0 #circulareconomy #artificialintelligence #AI #recycling #innovation #polypropylene

With increased global trade pressures, intensifying environmental impacts and increasingly volatile trade routes, the opportunity to transition to local supply chains is greater than ever. From our inception, Closed Loop Partners has recognized that the key to a successful local circular economy is that it must be circular. The more local each stage of production, the more value is shared within local communities, enabling an incentive structure to keep products at their highest and best use for multiple lives. Learn more about what four major positive impacts local circularity can unlock from Jessica Long, Chief Strategy Officer of Closed Loop Partners: https://hubs.la/Q03fMxKN0 #circulareconomy #localization #supplychain #innovation

Join Closed Loop Partners and 1,500+ leaders focused on advancing the circular economy at #Circularity (April 29-May 1, Denver, CO), hosted by Trellis Group. Achieving ambitious circularity goals demands actionable strategies and a powerful network. Circularity provides the tools, insights and connections needed to continue the momentum toward the circular economy. Closed Loop Partners is a proud partner of Circularity 25. Register by April 25 to save $150 plus use code C25CLP for an extra 20% off. That’s a total savings of over $750 on the Final Rate: https://hubs.la/Q03fMwtb0 #circulareconomy #circularity25 #innovation #collaboration #event

“One of the most expensive misuses of local taxpayer dollars in the U.S. is the amount of money spent disposing of recyclable materials in landfills every year. This wasteful reality costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually in unnecessary disposal fees – but it doesn’t have to be this way, “said Ron Gonen, Founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners. “We stand at the threshold of a new growth phase for American recycling. Through policy and investments that can increase the supply of recycled materials for producers, we can boost municipal revenues and eliminate the taxpayer burden of paying to bury these valuable resources – advancing a more prosperous, resilient future.” Read more insights from Ron Gonen on the future of U.S. recycling: https://hubs.la/Q03dKTJT0 #circulareconomy #recycling #infrastructure #investment #innovation #oped

Ron Gonen, Founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners, speaks with Ray Horton, Professor at Columbia Business School and Sandi Drucker Wright, Director at the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia University on what it takes to build a circular economy––an economic system that eliminates reliance on resource extraction and disposal in landfills. Across Closed Loop Partners’ three businesses––an investment group, innovation center and operating group––the firm innovates, invests and builds to optimize supply chains, advance natural resource efficiency and drive economic value. Listen here: https://hubs.la/Q03dL24_0 #circulareconomy #investment #innovation #infrastructure #recycling #resource #suppplychain #podcast