The Water Gold Rush — On-Demand Webinar Replay with Neal Bawa, CEO of Grocapitus Investments The Water Gold Rush — On-Demand Webinar Replay with Neal Bawa, CEO of Grocapitus Investments
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The Water Gold Rush

Inside America's Next Great Infrastructure Investment Opportunity

A once-in-50-years infrastructure window is opening as America races to rebuild the systems that deliver its most essential resource: water.

Billions of dollars are already moving into water infrastructure. Demand is rising. Experienced builders are scarce.

And for investors, there may be a way to participate directly in the companies positioned to do the work.

Watch Neal Bawa's full session on demand — a free educational briefing on the forces creating America's next major infrastructure cycle, the businesses positioned to benefit, and the ways an investor can participate in it — on their own, or alongside us. No investment is required to watch or to benefit from it.

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Why investors should be paying attention now

Most investors hear "water shortage" and think drought.

Neal sees an infrastructure investment cycle.

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Water infrastructure network at dusk

Texas has committed billions toward solving its water problems. Federal infrastructure dollars are moving into the sector as well. Meanwhile, municipalities and industrial users still need treatment plants, pipelines, pump stations, desalination systems and the companies capable of building and maintaining them.

The problem is that those companies are not easy to replace.

Experienced water infrastructure businesses require skilled crews, technical expertise and municipal relationships that can take decades to build.

That creates a potentially powerful setup:

More demand. More public capital. A limited pool of experienced builders.

The Setup
Demand High
Public capital High
Experienced builders Low

Rising demand and public capital, a limited pool of builders.

What you'll discover during this educational briefing

01 Why water infrastructure is emerging as an investable theme
02 Where billions in state and federal infrastructure funding are headed
03 Why the Rio Grande Valley may sit at the center of the opportunity
04 How industrial growth is adding even more pressure to regional water demand
05 Why the shortage of qualified builders could matter as much as the shortage of water
06 How private capital is already moving into water and utility businesses
07 The operating companies Neal's team believes are positioned in the path of this spending
08 How to get exposure to this theme on your own, and what we are doing about it
Houston skyline and Rio Grande Valley aerial

The investment thesis starts with four forces

01

Demand that cannot easily be deferred.

Communities need reliable water. Industrial users need it too. As existing systems come under more pressure, infrastructure must be repaired, expanded or replaced.

02

Billions in committed public capital.

Texas has made water infrastructure a major funding priority while federal infrastructure programs are directing additional capital toward the sector.

03

Scarce operators.

The workforce is aging, and the market remains fragmented. There are relatively few experienced companies with the people, relationships and operating history required to execute these projects.

04

Timing.

The capital is being committed now, but much of the infrastructure still needs to be built. For investors, that gap between funding and execution is where the story becomes interesting.

Four forces, one investment thesis
What this session is

A teaching session first. You do not have to invest with us to walk away better off.

This is an education session, not a pitch. Neal spends the hour on the data: where the money is going, why the Rio Grande Valley sits at the center of it, what a water infrastructure business actually does, and how to tell a good one from a bad one.

Most people who watch this will never invest in a Grocapitus project, and that is completely fine. You will still leave knowing how to look at this sector, which is the whole point.

Neal will also cover the ways an individual can put money into this theme on their own, without us in the middle: the listed companies and funds with exposure to water, the municipal side, and what to look for if you ever evaluate a private operator yourself.

Watch to learn
Free, about an hour, no paperwork and no obligation of any kind. Bring a notepad, not a checkbook.
Act on your own
We will show you how to get exposure to Texas water infrastructure independently, with no involvement from us at all.
Or look at what we are doing
At the very end Neal gives a short teaser of the platform his team is buying. A few minutes, not the main event.

Meet the businesses behind the thesis

During the educational session, Neal also covers what our own team is doing in Texas with this thesis, and introduces the operating platform at the center of that strategy. Two businesses, bought together: one that builds the infrastructure, one that builds the controls that run it. You will see who they are, what they do, why they fit together, and why we think this window is open right now.

One company has spent roughly 50 years building water and wastewater infrastructure in South Texas.

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Another provides the controls and automation that help those systems operate, along with recurring service and maintenance.

Together, they offer a glimpse into how investors may gain exposure to the infrastructure buildout itself.

None of this requires you to invest with us, or with anyone.

The last few minutes of the session

And a short teaser of what we are doing with it

Everything above is the education. This part is optional, and it is brief. We are in the process of acquiring the two businesses you just read about, and at the end of the session Neal shows what that platform is projected to look like for investors.

What you see below is the short version. The full version is a separate, confidential investor briefing, held apart from this replay. It has to be separate, because in that session we open the books: audited earnings, customer contracts and current operating detail on several private companies, none of which we are allowed to put on a public page or say on a public webinar. The only people invited to it are the people who watch this session.

3.3x*
Projected equity multiple
Roughly double what a stabilised apartment deal is built to return.
29.9%*
Projected annual return
Again, roughly double the range our apartment projects are underwritten to.
90%*
Of capital projected back in the first two years of distributions
After that, the projections show profit on money already returned.
15%*
Preferred return, paid before the sponsors take anything
The highest preferred we have ever offered on a deal that also has a back end and runs longer than two years.
What the projections look like on $100,000
Capital would be deployed at closing, with the first full investment year following. The tall bars in years two and three are mostly the original investment coming home.
$1,500*
Year 1
$78,399*
Year 2
$58,449*
Year 3
$34,577*
Year 4
$161,319*
Year 5 · sale
$334,244* back on $100,000
Across a projected six-year hold.
Businesses, not buildings
Returns would come from operations and a sale, not from rent growth.
You can also do this without us
The session covers independent routes into the sector too.
This replay · the education
This webinar
The sector, the money moving into it, how to evaluate an operator, and how to participate on your own if you prefer. Free, and no investment required.
Next · only if you want it
The investor briefing
A separate session, behind a confidentiality agreement. The full model, the real operating numbers of the businesses, the complete terms and the offering documents. Invitations go to those who watch this replay.
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Nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy a security. An offer can only be made through the Private Placement Memorandum.
Every figure marked with an asterisk is a projection from a financial model and it's subject to change. Not a promise, a guarantee, or a forecast. Real returns can be lower, including a loss of the amount invested.
Presented by Grocapitus
1,300+
Investors in Grocapitus projects
$300M+
Equity invested
25
Projects across 11 states and 17 metros
4,400
Units and beds
Neal Bawa
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Hosted by Neal Bawa

Neal Bawa will walk investors through the data behind the water infrastructure thesis, the capital moving into the sector, the bottlenecks that could determine the winners, and the businesses positioned to do the work.

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Inside America's Next Great Infrastructure Investment Opportunity
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