
What Is a Private Investment Fund?
Learn how private investment funds pool investor capital to pursue a defined strategy across companies, projects, real assets and other private-market opportunities.

Learn how private investment funds pool investor capital to pursue a defined strategy across companies, projects, real assets and other private-market opportunities.

Learn how infrastructure investing provides capital for essential physical assets and systems, including energy, water, transportation and environmental infrastructure.

Learn how private real estate investments provide exposure to physical property and how investors may seek returns through income, appreciation and property improvement.

Learn how venture capital finances early-stage and growing companies developing new technologies, products and business models.

Learn how private credit provides debt financing outside traditional public markets and how investors may earn returns through interest and repayment of principal.

Learn how private equity provides capital to privately held companies and how investors may participate in their growth and long-term value creation.

Learn how Regulation Crowdfunding allows eligible companies to raise capital online from both accredited and non-accredited investors.

Across the environmental economy, investors are increasingly finding opportunities outside traditional public markets.

Often referred to informally as a “mini public offering,” Regulation A provides an exemption from traditional SEC registration that allows eligible companies to raise capital from the public through an offering that has been qualified by the SEC.

Regulation D is a framework under U.S. federal securities laws that allows companies and investment sponsors to raise capital through certain private securities offerings without conducting a traditional SEC-registered public offering.