All Entries Tagged With: "Cleantech"
Ira Ehrenpreis on the State of the Cleantech Industry
PALM SPRINGS, California — Reporting from the Clean-Tech Investor Summit. Ira Ehrenpreis is the cleantech partner at VC-investment firm Technology Partners. For the eighth year in a row, Ehrenpreis is serving as the Conference Chairman of the Clean-Tech Investor Summit today and tomorrow in Palm Springs, Ca. He has been investing in cleantech since long [...]
Cleantech VC Investments in November Near $500M
The $ 200 million round for Better Place leads the month and perhaps the year in greentech VC funding rounds. More than 18 funding rounds for greentech firms closed a total of more than $ 450 million in November. Solar Power Reel Solar (San Jose, California) raised $ 15 million in venture funding according to [...]
Khosla Fund IV Closes at $1.05B, Half Destined for Cleantech
By now you might have heard that Vinod Khosla has raised his fourth general investment fund coming in at a cool $ 1.05 billion. More than half of that total could be steered toward cleantech firms. It's notable because 1) It's Khosla Ventures, 2) It's a billion dollars, and 3) It's a VC fund closed [...]
Green VC Up, IPOs Hurting in Q3: Cleantech Group
The cleantech sector saw an uptick of venture capital investment in the third quarter, despite the backlash that’s come in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy. But continued market volatility and poor third-quarter IPO performances paint a dire forecast for cleantech companies looking to enter the public markets through the rest of the year. That’s [...]
Cleantech IPOs On Deck: Mascoma, BrightSource, Enphase, and More
Mascoma, a biofuel and ethanol startup just filed their S-1 registration with the SEC for their initial public offering. The firm is VC-funded and is one of four biofuel companies interested in reaching the public markets. This year a number of biofuels firms have made it through the IPO window including Codexis (Nasdaq: CDXS), Amyris [...]
Peter Thiel Doesn’t Like Cleantech VC, Mankind
Peter Thiel, known as the "Don of the PayPal Mafia," declared clean technology a “disaster” at Venture Beat's TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco. OK, folks, go on home. Stop all this saving-the-world, green-energy stuff. It just isn't working. Thiel has spoken. Thiel is a billionaire libertarian hedge fund manager and venture capitalist who [...]
The 3 Hottest Cleantech Sectors
The following are three reports covering some of the hottest cleantech sectors: wind, solar, and algae biofuels.In each section, you’ll find growth targets for the respective industries, policy guidance, and a few investment recommendations.This report is your gateway to what will be a $45 trillion profit machine by 2050. Investing in Solar Technology Solar energy [...]
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