VentureBeat:
“Ten years out we want lamps that use 2 percent the energy and put out the same amount of light,” Doerr said at the beginning of his talk at GreenBeat 2009 today — indicative of his interest and that of his firm, Kleiner Perk (Read More)
Solar Feeds - All Solar News 24/7:
Call my stock broker! The economy may be in a slump, butdeep-pocketed investors are still optimistic about the future ofcleantech companies. US venture capital (VC) investment in cleantechcompanies in the third quarte (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In a not so surprising turn of events, Chevron’s CEO heir apparent, John Watson, spoke out against U.S. climate change legislation — offering the party line argument that increasing regulation will jack up energy prices and l (Read More)
Earth2Tech:
Thanks to strong backing from the U.S. government, cleantech investing actually delivered a solid third quarter compared to the rest of the venture-backed sectors, including information technology and biotech. So what happens (Read More)
Earth2Tech:
The partners at venture firm Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) say there’s a dirty little secret in the current cleantech investing climate: Much of the sector has been based on modernizing outdated industrial technologies and we’r (Read More)
Solar Feeds - All Solar News 24/7:
As the climate change and energy policy bills meander their waythrough the U.S. Congress, interest in when, where and how to build arenewable energy future is still up for debate—and funding.And, a lively debate it is. In an (Read More)
Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion:
Cleantech investing was on fire in the third quarter of 2009, continuing to rebound as other sectors stayed cool, according to preliminary figures released this week by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte and Touche.The upshot: (Read More)
VentureBeat:
It’s official: cleantech is the darling of the rebounding investment market. Not only has the sector maintained the momentum it picked up in the second fiscal quarter of this year, it has emerged as the No. 1 sector in U.S. v (Read More)
VentureBeat:
A total of 274 new patents were filed for companies developing green and alternative sources of energy in the second quarter ended June 30 — the highest amount in the space to date, according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In a move demonstrating exactly how tight U.S. funding for solar is these days, photovoltaic installer Borrego Solar has taken $30 million in equity from Taiwanese cable manufacturer Walsin Lihwa. The money will give the comp (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Investment in the cleantech sector leaped 73 percent to $572 million in the second quarter. Financing was distributed across 48 rounds — a full 100 percent increase from the previous quarter, according to new analysis from Er (Read More)
Cleantech Blog:
By John Addison (7/27/09). The transportation industry is beginning the biggest transformation since Henry Ford started making cars affordable for the mass market. Hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric vehicles point to a lo (Read More)
PE Hub News: All News:
Rob Day has joined Black Coral Capital, a private equity firm focused on clean energy technologies, as a partner. He previously was with @Ventures and, before that, was with Expansion Capital Partners.Rob also writes a cleant (Read More)
Cleantech Blog:
I've now been asked enough times, that at the risk of destroying what little edge Jane Capital may have in cleantech, I finally got around to blogging our "Rules" in cleantech investing and business in general. Hopefully it (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The big story a couple months ago was how cleantech investing had fallen off a cliff in the first quarter — signaling what many feared would be a prolonged negative trend in the sector. But it looks like things have started t (Read More)
Blogs:
There are a million cleantech events in Silicon Valley - and I'm live blogging from one of them. Interesting battery news about A123, Saft, and good comments from a VC at RockportEntitled: Innovation and the Fundraising and I (Read More)
Blogs:
There are a million cleantech events in Silicon Valley – and I'm live blogging one of them.Interesting battery news about A123, Saft, and good comments from a VC at RockportEntitled: Innovation and the Fundraising and Investm (Read More)
Green Options:
At a cleantech panel about business opportunities running up to the 2012 Olympics in London, Dallas Kachan, managing director for the Cleantech Group, said that the second quarter “looks a lot like the first quarter” for cle (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Even though cleantech investing in Europe and Israel is down more than 30 percent from last year’s $1.8 billion, the sector is surpassing IT to become the second largest venture capital category on the continent (biotech rema (Read More)
Buzztracker.com - Venture Capital:
With the economic downturn that hit in full force last fall, many cleantech VCs' minds made a pretty big shift away from capital-intensive solar, EV and biofuels investments, and (to the extent that checks were still being wr (Read More)