Grow your money with solar.
- FoundedApril 2011
- HeadquartersUnited States
- FundingBetween $1 - $10 million
- Sector-FocusEnergy
- Stage-FocusProject-Based
- SecuritiesRoyalty-Based
Snapshot
Mosaic connects investors to high quality solar projects. Its mission is to open up clean energy investing and fundamentally change the way energy is financed.
Since its founding in 2010 Mosaic users have invested more than $5M in solar projects.
Deal Flow
Mosaic connects investors to high quality solar projects. Whereas stock markets, mutual funds and other forms of investments are intangible and can be adversely affected by geopolitical and other unforeseen events, solar panels, being real assets, aren’t affected for these external factors. Once a solar panel is connected and operating, it will produce clean electricity as long as the Sun shines regardless of geopolitical issues. With yield rates often at least 2-3 times higher than other comparable fixed income investments such as bonds, Mosaic’s steady returns are a great option in an uncertain world.
Fee Structure
Investor Fees
- Management Fee 1% annual platform fee on assets in the investor’s account.
Issuer (Developer) Fees
Undisclosed.
Executive Team
Billy Parish
Co-Founder, CEO
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine "Climate Hero," an Utne Reader "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
Social
Tweets by @MosaicMarch 7, 2014
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December 13, 2013
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September 2, 2013
Just after his sophomore year at Yale in 2002, Billy Parish stood before a rapidly retreating glacie
August 13, 2013
Kermit the Frog famously said “It’s not easy being green,” but when it comes to making green investments we’d have to disagree. Green debt is a quickly emerging investment product that helps finance renewable energy projects. The most popular of these …
July 23, 2013
As the costs of solar technologies decrease, the opportunities for innovative solutions to community problems are increasing. Economic hardships have hit America’s communities hard and, in many communities, electricity prices continue to rise as spendi …
July 14, 2013
Distributed Sun (D-Sun) and Mosaic, an online marketplace that connects investors to high-quality solar projects, have announced their first joint project to allow individuals to invest in a 657 kW solar installation on a charter school in Colorado and …
July 10, 2013
Mosaic has done a pretty good job of introducing the concept of crowdfunding to solar. By giving anybody the power to invest in solar projects around the United States for as little as $25, Mosaic has become a darling of the cleantech community. So far …
June 17, 2013
Select solar stocks have been on a tear lately. SunPower, First Solar and Elon Musk’s SolarCity have had increases of between 60 percent and over 100 percent year-to-date. So for those of you who think you’ve missed the solar run-up or are searching fo …
June 10, 2013
Crowdfunding Could Help Cleantech Attract Institutional Investors. Crowdfunding may be a natural fit for cleantech, where conventional early-stage funding has fallen off. Last year global venture capital flows to the sector plunged 33 percent, to $6.46 …
May 20, 2013
Mosaic have been a big success around here since we first heard about them, unsurprisingly given their innovative method of crowd-funding renewable energy solutions. It turns out that we’re not the only ones excited, though, as Mosaic have just announc …