BTS Biogas gains new US investors

BTS Biogas South Tyrol, Italy, a company that designs, constructs and operates biogas plants, has raised a round of funding with a new U.S. based investor group. The acquisition and recapitalization investments were lead by Virtual Equity Partners LLC, New York City, and members Shawn Kreloff and Steve Lefkowitz, with participation from additional experienced investors.

The new funding will fuel the acceleration of BTS Biogas’s  research and development, and enable strategic expansion of the BTS Biogas European and international sales and marketing footprint.

The company is currently branching out to other countries in the European Union (EU) and has built and operated plants in the U.K., France, the Czech Republic, Poland and Switzerland. Recently the company signed plant construction deals in France, Japan and Thailand. 

"Virtual Equity Partners is excited about its investment in BTS Biogas due to the enormous market opportunity represented by the biological transformation of organic waste to energy, and the innovative technical work BTS Biogas has completed from a research and development perspective," says Shawn Kreloff, managing partner at Virtual Equity Partners. "BTS Biogas offers a unique approach to plant automation and optimization. We believe they have the best plant technology, highest safety standards and the most sophisticated support operation in the world. How often can you improve a company’s top and bottom line while simultaneously generating clean energy, remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and return valuable organic nutrients to the soil?"