
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.
Judge Business School, Cambridge University
2022 Winner
Coast Haven Brokerage
Coast Haven Brokerage would be a platform-based brokerage connecting beneficiaries of ecosystems of mangroves in climate-driven storm-risk areas with insurers, investors and project developers/restoration experts with the goal of facilitating the deployment of parametric insurance to help protect and restore mangrove forests.
University of St. Gallen
2022 Finalist
Black Soldier Flies Convertible Minibonds
The Black Soldier Flies team sets forth a convertible minibond, a financial vehicle embedded in an operative framework designed to help incentivize the expansion of farming black soldier flies, boost innovation, and build economies of knowledge to lay the foundation for expanding a new market in insect protein.
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
2022 Finalist
Building Bricks Securitized-Carbon and Kiln Loan Fund
Building Bricks is a concept for an emissions-based securitized loan fund with diversified cash flows that would seek to reduce resource inefficiency and pollution caused by India's brick kilns by addressing the funding gap and incentivizing kiln owners to adopt cleaner technology.
University of Edinburgh Business School
2022 Finalist
Circular Blade Fund
Focusing on the opportunity to re-use and up-cycle wind turbine blades, the Circular Blade Fund has crafted an approach that involves a leveraged leasing and private equity fund that would help prevent wind turbine blades being wasted and put into landfills.
Columbia Business School & Yale School of Management
2022 Finalist
Methane Minus Fund
Conceptualized by the Methane Minus team, this multi-asset venture capital fund would seek to reduce cattle farming’s methane emissions by financing technological advancement and farming operations in Asparagopsis Taxiformis growth and cattle feed production.
University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2022 Finalist
Private Mortgage Fund
A private loan fund proposed by the Private Mortgage Fund team would aim to increase access to homeownership by providing small-dollar mortgage loans that have been historically underutilized by traditional banking institutions.
Questrom School of Business, Boston University
2022 Finalist
SWIF - Seaweed Investment Fund
The SWIF team concept is for a private loan fund that would provide working capital loans to seaweed harvesters to help reduce damage to the environment and tourism industry caused by sargassum blooms throughout the Caribbean.
University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2022 Finalist
Series CO2 Fund
The Series CO2 Fund ‘s vision would use a venture capital approach to provide funding for growth-stage carbon capture and storage ventures in exchange for future carbon credits rather than a traditional share of the companies' equity.
Johns Hopkins University & University of Chicago
2022 Finalist
Volumetric Injection Payments for Carbon Sequestration
This student team crafted a strategy in which pre-purchase carbon credits from unbuilt carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects catalyzes the flow of private capital and drive the development CCS technologies.