Re-analyze
We rebuild your project from the ground up. Every cost, contract and assumption is re-derived — not accepted — until the model can stand up to institutional underwriting.
NexusNovus
We shape projects until institutional capital can deploy.
Most never qualify — not because the projects are bad, but because nobody shaped them for the way funders actually decide.
01WATER
02ENERGY
03FOOD
04WASTE
05HOUSING
/ how we do it
We rebuild your project from the ground up. Every cost, contract and assumption is re-derived — not accepted — until the model can stand up to institutional underwriting.
Our structuring platform — institutional memory and mandate logic, codified — compresses years of restructuring work into weeks, turning fragmented project inputs into one coherent, fundable model.
One project rarely fits one funder whole. We split it into the instruments funders can actually take — each shaped to a mandate, each routed to the lender or investor built to back it.
Now funders understand it.
Who it's for
You have a real project, real work behind it, and a funding gap no one has been able to close. We start there.
We only take projects that can close. If the fundamentals can support funding, we shape the project to qualify. If they can't, we say so.
ESG-aligned impact — water · energy · food · waste · housing.
A real project — land, offtake, a feasibility study.
Ticket €10m–€200m.
Clean, KYC-ready counterparties.
Willing to be rebuilt to institutional standard.
Fossil fuels — oil, gas, coal.
Politically exposed persons or sanctions exposure.
An idea, not a project — no land, no offtake.
Grant-seeking, or "just need the money".
Below €10m, or real estate with no impact mandate.
Built for qualification, not browsing.
PROVENANCE
Since 2006, I've worked across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa, helping infrastructure projects navigate the gap between project reality and capital reality. Projects rarely fail for lack of ambition — they fail because the people building them and the institutions funding them are looking through entirely different lenses. The principles behind the Accelerator are not new — institutional logic, pattern recognition and structuring, refined over decades. What changed is the speed.
Admission
You get 90 days — the sprint from admission to a fundable structure. No more. We provide the structure; execution stays yours.
Catalytic Infrastructure Accelerator
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We accelerate impactful projects to qualify for institutional capital.
Impact sectors
Rutger de Bruijn
What we do
We shape projects until institutional capital can deploy.
Most never qualify — not because the projects are bad, but because nobody shaped them for the way funders actually decide.
/ The work
Admission
Better to know now
than spend years chasing funding it was never ready for.
You get 90 days — the sprint from admission to a fundable structure. No more. We provide the structure; execution stays yours.
Impact sectors
We work where infrastructure gaps are largest: