Crux
Crux modernizes how capital is raised and deployed into clean and critical infrastructure by coordinating a single process across the full capital stack. The company provides market intelligence, regulatory interpretation, and proprietary transaction data to sharpen investment decisions, while also structuring, underwriting, and managing tax equity, preferred equity, and debt through its registered broker-dealer. Its platform connects qualified developers with investors and embeds proprietary intelligence directly into transaction workflows.
- Financial Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Clean Technology
- Software Only
- Regulatory & Compliance Technology
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Raising capital for clean energy projects means assembling it one provider at a time—a slow, opaque process, with soft costs alone running 5–7% of a financing. Deploying capital means endless origination, mispriced risk, and returns left on the table when working without the market's full picture.
Solution
Crux modernizes how capital is raised and deployed into clean and critical infrastructure by coordinating a single process across the full capital stack: the right capital from the right partners, with lower transaction costs. The company provides market intelligence, regulatory interpretation, and proprietary transaction data to sharpen investment, structuring, and risk decisions, while also advising and co-investing across the stack. Its platform connects qualified developers with investors, and it structures, underwrites, and manages tax equity, preferred equity, and debt through its registered broker-dealer. Unified market intelligence and technology power every transaction, so decisions are sharper and execution is more efficient.
Target Audience
Primary customers include corporate tax investors, institutional capital providers, banks, developers, manufacturers, sponsors, tax advisors, syndicators, and legal teams engaged in clean energy transactions.
Features
- Proprietary transaction dataset built from negotiated terms of real transactions, including tax credit transfer agreements, tax equity and preferred equity structures, debt, and insurance
- Capital cost benchmarks across the stack—credits, debt, tax equity, and preferred equity—by technology and structure
- Policy and regulatory tracking, from IRS guidance to FEOC and compliance, interpreted in real time
- Technology platform that embeds proprietary intelligence directly into transaction workflows for streamlined diligence and execution
- Advisory services across both sides of transactions, coordinating tax equity and preferred equity alongside
- Investments team with $50B+ in combined transaction experience across tax, project finance, and credit