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Investor profile

Ron Gonen

Founder and CEO, Closed Loop Partners

About

Ron Gonen built his investing career around the circular economy starting in 2002 when the concept drew dead silence from Columbia Business School classmates, and later served as New York City's Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation under Mayor Bloomberg where he managed large public budgets and built citywide recycling programs. He designed Closed Loop Partners to span multiple asset classes—from venture to private equity plus an in-house innovation center—so he can identify bottlenecks anywhere in circular supply chains and apply the specific type of capital needed to unlock them, while deliberately raising from major consumer brands as strategic partners to co-design pilots and syndicate large infrastructure financings. Ron Gonen built his investing career around the circular economy starting in 2002 when the concept drew dead silence from Columbia Business School classmates, and later served as New York City's Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation under Mayor Bloomberg where he managed large public budgets and built citywide recycling programs. He designed Closed Loop Partners to span multiple asset classes—from venture to private equity plus an in-house innovation center—so he can identify bottlenecks anywhere in circular supply chains and apply the specific type of capital needed to unlock them, while deliberately raising from major consumer brands as strategic partners to co-design pilots and syndicate large infrastructure financings.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Materials
Food
Ag
Climate
Logistics
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $1M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Africa
LatAm
India
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Canada
Israel
ANZ
MENA