{"id":302,"date":"2021-12-14T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/?p=302"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:12:26","slug":"our-investment-in-closed-loop-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/2021\/12\/14\/our-investment-in-closed-loop-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Our investment in Closed Loop Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide is-light is-style-adk-banner\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-light-background-color has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-317\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Grass-23316409.jpg\" style=\"object-position:0% 53%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"0% 53%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Grass-23316409.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Grass-23316409-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Grass-23316409-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Grass-23316409-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Grass-23316409-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"our-investment-in-closed-loop-partners-venture-capital-group-to-usher-in-a-circular-economy\">Ushering in a circular economy<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s linear economy\u2014where we extract resources, make something, use it, and then throw it away\u2014creates an amazing amount of waste. Yes, waste in terms of energy and materials, but also waste in terms of a missed opportunity for delivering greater value to consumers, companies, and brands.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The circular economy movement, on the other hand, embraces a totally different model. In a circular economy, producers instead use and reuse a product (or its components) at&nbsp;the&nbsp;highest value for as long as possible, rather than creating a single-use product that ends up in the landfill. Reuse, refurbishing, remanufacturing,&nbsp;recycling,&nbsp;and upcycling are just some of the ways businesses are turning waste from linear supply chains back into valuable products.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re still a way off from a fully circular economy. Fragmented supply chains, high costs of switching production methods, and a lack of standardization&nbsp;from&nbsp;today\u2019s linear&nbsp;ways&nbsp;are among the challenges holding up the evolution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"embracing-circular-practices-in-business\"><strong>Embracing circular practices in business<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Autodesk Foundation, we invest in technologies and solutions that overcome these barriers to change. Autodesk, too, has an outsized role to play in helping its industries make better design decisions, use better materials more effectively, and use data to discover circular production capabilities. We know that 80% of a product\u2019s environmental cost and performance is locked in from the start, at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/views\/circularity-begins-with-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">design and conceptual phase<\/a>.&nbsp;So&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;critical&nbsp;that designers, product&nbsp;developers, and manufacturers&nbsp;have tools that consider a product\u2019s end-of-life value&nbsp;from the very beginning.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-09-at-8.35.38-AM-1024x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-09-at-8.35.38-AM-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-09-at-8.35.38-AM-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-09-at-8.35.38-AM-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-09-at-8.35.38-AM.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><br><br><em>Figure&nbsp;1. Traditional, linear models compared to the circular economy model. As our colleague Zoe Bezpalko, Autodesk Sustainability Strategy Manager, puts it, &#8220;circularity is the North Star of sustainability, with circular design at its core.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are convinced that&nbsp;businesses that embrace circular practices\u2014while staying aligned with their shareholders, customers, and communities\u2014will be tremendously valuable in the long run. And the startups overcoming supply chain fragmentation and helping these companies innovate and remain transparent to their stakeholders will be equally valuable. That\u2019s why we\u2019re excited to announce our&nbsp;$1 million investment&nbsp;in Closed Loop Ventures&nbsp;Group\u2019s&nbsp;Fund II, a&nbsp;$50+&nbsp;million&nbsp;venture capital fund investing in&nbsp;early-stage companies developing breakthrough solutions for the circular economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-closed-loop-ventures-group-s-fund-ii\">Why Closed Loop Ventures Group\u2019s Fund II?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.closedlooppartners.com\/funds\/closed-loop-venture-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Closed Loop Ventures Group (CLVG<\/a>) is the venture capital arm of Closed Loop Partners (CLP), a family of funds investing in innovations across plastics and packaging, food and agriculture, fashion, and supply chain optimization technology. Closed Loop Partners differentiates itself from other funds with its targeted thesis on circularity, its distributed fund strategy across asset classes, its deep partnerships with local governments and municipalities, and its bench of corporate limited partnerships (LPs).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Autodesk Foundation was one of the first corporate LPs in CLVG&nbsp;Fund I in 2017. Since then,&nbsp;CLVG has built a leading portfolio of 19 companies, ranging from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/articles\/personal-finance\/102015\/series-b-c-funding-what-it-all-means-and-how-it-works.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pre-seed to Series A funding stages<\/a>, across material science, robotics,&nbsp;agritech, sustainable consumer products, and advanced technologies. Companies like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebiogas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HomeBiogas<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amprobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AMP Robotics<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/algramo.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Algramo<\/a>&nbsp;are validating the thesis that business models that turn waste into value, or avoid waste altogether, can create immense value for businesses, communities, and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In addition to earning top-tier growth and returns, the CLVG portfolio has in aggregate mitigated 380,000 tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub>e, reduced 305,000 tons of waste, saved 545 million gallons of water, and created 344 jobs*.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Scaling our support&nbsp;alongside&nbsp;the Closed Loop Ventures Group expands the portfolio&nbsp;and systems&nbsp;approach needed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. And, importantly to Autodesk and the industries it serves, it scales emerging design and manufacturing approaches that make circular design possible. Take&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.partsimony.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Partsimony<\/a>, a CLVG&nbsp;Fund II company, for example.&nbsp;Parsimony&nbsp;enables hardware companies to build intelligent manufacturing supply chains by unifying engineering specs and&nbsp;manufacturing&nbsp;supply chain data. In&nbsp;doing so, Partsimony can provide valuable insights around which manufacturers to&nbsp;partner with, what designs to consider, and how to create more resilience in the supply chain.&nbsp;Taken together, the insights&nbsp;make the entire manufacturing industry more efficient and resilient, enabling manufacturers to also source more local, sustainable materials.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Closed Loop Partners was founded in 2014, the term \u201ccircularity\u201d didn\u2019t exist outside niche sustainability conferences. Today, it\u2019s a regular part of research agendas, business plans, and corporate strategies. But there\u2019s more work to do. We believe that working with Closed Loop&nbsp;Partners to&nbsp;help scale their venture capital&nbsp;portfolio can usher&nbsp;in a&nbsp;new era of environmental, social, and business value for&nbsp;Autodesk, our customers, and&nbsp;the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"our-collaboration-to-accelerate-the-transition-to-a-circular-economy\"><strong>Our collaboration to accelerate the transition to a circular economy<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all companies in our portfolio, CLVG, along with&nbsp;its&nbsp;portfolio, have&nbsp;access to Autodesk software solutions, Autodesk pro bono consultants, and Autodesk industry networks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Autodesk Foundation is excited to offer Autodesk resources to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Learn more about how low-carbon innovations can&nbsp;mitigate&nbsp;the negative impacts of climate change&nbsp;and usher in a decarbonized economy&nbsp;in the Autodesk Foundation\u2019s impact brief.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-button--autodesk-blue-solid\"><a href=\"https:\/\/damassets.autodesk.net\/content\/dam\/org\/assets\/2019\/autodesk-report-low-carbon-innovation.pdf\" class=\"\n            MuiButtonBase-root MuiButton-root\n            wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\n            \n            \n            \n            MuiButton-contained\n        \">\n\n        <span class=\"MuiButton-label\">\n            \n            \nRead the brief\n\n            \n        <\/span>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>*As of Closed Loop Partners\u2019 2020 impact report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s linear economy\u2014where we extract resources, make something, use it, and then throw it away\u2014creates an amazing amount of waste. 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