My education in GIS/Natural Resources and Environmental Biology led me on a unique path to where I am today. As a wildlife biologist/GIS Specialist working for the USGS and FWS, I gained an appreciation for what laid ahead in funding environmental/conservation causes. I was rewarded with two A journal publications. A particular paper that caught some attention was published in a small ornithological journal in year 2005 related climate change and the onset of early Eastern Bluebird egg laying in Southwestern Wisconsin. I've worked and lived in the Dakotas, MN, WI, IL, AZ, and N.C. I've spent a considerable amount of time working with GIS/Ornithological applications across the country in several capacities assisting in top tier journal data and statistical analysis, PhD dissertation work for students at N. Dakota State University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.My second career started in management on the Stock Options floor in Chicago with Merrill Lynch and later Sage Clearing firm. I managed a small group of talented financial market employees into a dedicated trading and long term investment firm. By adding experienced investors in the startup company market, we were able to turn our small initial investments into a multi-million dollar firm. Our focus is to supply equity principally to those companies who are involved with improving our environment.More recently, we have just funded our 50th startup company. Expectations are focused on management experience and qualifications, then cash flow rather than income which separates us from the crowd. There is no substitute in our minds for a qualified management team who has the expertise in their companies.We helped bring several private companies go to public markets in Canada and U.S. We look forward to our growth potential and increasing returns each year. In any risky start-up funding we run the risk of losing some companies that just don't measure up to the competition and fail. We caution all investors in the equity markets and more specifically in the environmental field of potential losses in a difficult IPO environment. All to often, we are led to believe that these startups have significant potential, yet fail after going public with little funding and questionable growth potential.