NexusNovus — Sustainable Infrastructure
Founded by Rutger de Bruijn and co-led by Mark van Houten, NexusNovus is a global clean-tech infrastructure company focused on sustainable energy, waste-to-value, and biogas solutions. With operations spanning India, South Africa, and the Netherlands, NexusNovus is pioneering decentralized infrastructure models that integrate modular biogas technologies, IT-enabled project oversight, and digitally driven operational control systems.
With a robust project pipeline and global expansion plans, the client sought to raise project-linked structured debt for the rollout of multiple next-gen biogas plants. Despite a clear roadmap, they encountered significant resistance from traditional banks and NBFCs, who were reluctant to underwrite non-traditional renewable energy assets due to limited technical expertise, risk-averse policies favoring solar and wind, and misalignment between bank risk models and emerging cleantech dynamics.
- 01Complex project viability assessment due to non-traditional infrastructure models.
- 02Absence of large-scale precedents for biogas in private-sector debt markets.
- 03High perceived risk from lenders due to lack of mainstream comparables.
- 04Need to present NexusNovus not just as a project developer, but a platform player with replicable tech and execution capability.
Secured 3 competitive term sheets with interest rates below 2% and an optimized 85:15 debt-to-equity ratio, enabling NexusNovus to scale its sustainable biogas infrastructure across multiple geographies with minimal equity dilution.