Past Finalists and Winners
The prospectuses and presentations of Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge finalists are not only a great reference for participating students, but are an evolving record of the evolution of the field of sustainable finance, and, in some cases, early iterations of what have now become successful ventures.
Click through each year below to see the prospectuses and final presentations that were deemed the strongest in that year of the competition.
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2015 Winner
Blue Forest
Monetizing the shared benefits of forest management in the US.
National University of Singapore, Business School
2015 Runner-up
CampoColombia
Empowering displaced farmers in Colombia through real estate.
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
2015 Finalist
Prairie Lake REIT
Financing precision agriculture in Canada.
New York University, Stern School of Business
2015 Finalist
GreenTop Capital
Leasing rooftop greenhouses in the US.
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
2015 Finalist
Floating Green Capital
Financing controlled environment agriculture systems in the US.
London Business School
2015 Finalist
Enpower Capital
Providing working capital finance to renewable energy entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Yale University, School of Management
2015 Finalist
Flood Mitigation Impact Bond
Financing flood mitigation infrastructure in the US.
New York University, Stern School of Business
2015 Finalist
Million Ton Carbon Capture Fund
Monetizing carbon capture and storage in the US.
San Francisco State University, College of Business
2015 Finalist
Moringa Tree Fund
Mitigating desertification in Ghana through farming cooperatives.
INSEAD
2015 Finalist
NearHealth
Financing rural clinical infrastructure in Morocco.