1NatCap

About Us

Built to Own the Sector's Financial Architecture

Who We Are

1NatCap, LLC is an integrated principal-investment and merchant platform for natural capital. We aggregate the commercial value chain of a fragmented sector under one financially disciplined owner.

‍1NatCap is was built to solve a structural problem: environmental markets have capital and projects but lack a disciplined institutional owner in the middle. That owner needs to originate, invest, structure, own, monetize, and informationally organize. 1NatCap does all six under one roof.

Everything we build is engineered from day one to pass public-company and bank-level diligence.

Our Origin

1NatCap emerged from Entoro Capital's decade of work in the environmental sector. The thesis is the accumulation of what an investment bank saw and could not solve without an integrated commercial owner.

Over the last decade, Entoro has structured, placed, and advised on a broad range of environmental transactions. Across that period the same pattern repeated: institutional capital had appetite, projects had merit, but the sector lacked the structural rigor that other asset classes take for granted. Voluntary carbon markets never developed institutional plumbing. Sustainability and ESG became marketing categories before they became disciplines. Sovereigns wanted to monetize outcomes without a counterparty capable of transacting at institutional quality.

1NatCap is the operating expression of that decade of pattern recognition. It carries forward Entoro's regulated capital formation capability, integrates it with principal investment, merchant activity, and market infrastructure.

Leadership

James C. Row, CFA

Managing Partner, Entoro Capital,
and Owner, 1NatCap, LLC

James C. Row, CFA is the Managing Partner of Entoro Capital and the sole owner of 1NatCap, LLC. He brings more than 35 years of investment banking experience across energy, environmental, and alternative capital markets, and has led the structuring and placement of public and private offerings across natural resources, environmental infrastructure, and hard-to-abate sectors. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Enron Corp. and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment-banking arm of the World Bank.

Mr. Row founded Entoro Capital to build a regulated financial services platform that could span the full commercial chain of complex asset classes. He holds a BS in Finance from the University of Wyoming, an MBA in Finance from Arizona State University.

Thomas Fuglesang

Managing Director, Entoro Capital

Thomas P. Fuglesang is Managing Director of Entoro Capital, LLL, and is based in Oslo, Norway.

He has spent three decades in investment banking and capital markets, with a focus on shipping, energy, and alternative assets. Before joining Entoro in 2023, he spent seventeen years as Managing Director of Absalon Capital, advising on oil services, shipping, and commodities transactions, and previously held equity sales, corporate finance, and private wealth management roles at Pareto Securities, Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Fuglesang holds an MSc in Shipping, Trade & Finance from Bayes Business School and a BA in Business Economics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

The Natural Capital Institute

The Natural Capital Institute (NCI) is our market standards and sentiment body. It is where the sector's discipline is shaped in public view.

NCI is modeled on the way ICMA and ISDA shaped their asset classes. Both were founded by market participants and both are governed at arm's length. Both endure because their credibility survives even when the rules constrain their founders. NCI is designed the same way.

NCI does not endorse or approve 1NatCap products. It is a rules body and a sentiment forum, not a product committee. Its work centers on:

● Standards: Advancing market-level definitions of quality, additionality, and admissibility for natural capital assets across the four operating verticals.
● Sentiment: Publishing sentiment surveys, market briefings, and comment letters to regulators and standard-setting bodies.

Service Providers

1NatCap operates within a coordinated ecosystem of specialized service providers. Each performs a distinct regulatory or operational function under written agreements. Fees, roles, and responsibilities are documented separately and never double counted.

This separation is a compliance requirement, not a preference. Regulated activities live in regulated affiliates. Commercial activities live in the commercial owner. Independent functions like valuation and verification are independent by design.

Provider	Role and Scope
Entoro Capital, LLC	Provides general investment banking activities including broker-dealer services, private placements, capital formation, project finance, and regulated distribution across the platform.
Clear Rating	Independent valuation and rating provider for environmental projects and credits.
Capturiant	Environmental registry, marketplace, and data infrastructure. Provides asset lifecycle tracking, standardized data ingestion, and the informational layer that supports benchmark and index construction. Verification functions are firewalled.
1transfer	Transfer agency, custody support, and post-issuance servicing. Provides the administrative infrastructure required for CUSIP- and ISIN-tagged environmental securities.

Building the Financial Infrastructure for Natural Capital

Whether you're an institutional investor, sovereign partner, project developer, or industry participant, we're building the platform that transforms environmental outcomes into institutional-quality assets. Let's shape the next generation of natural capital markets together.

This material is intended for information purposes only, and does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation or an offer or solicitation to purchase or sell any securities, funds or strategies to any person in any jurisdiction in which an offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. The opinions expressed are as of August 2026 and are subject to change without notice. Reliance upon information in this material is at the sole discretion of the reader.