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Archive: "How to Save a Planet On a Budget" Part 3 - Lessons For Cleantech
This third hour focuses on the venture capital environment for cleantech. Cleantech VC Environment, Moderated by Jesse Jenkins Featuring: Will Coleman, Scott Edward Anderson & Dan Shugar [read more]
Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Venture Capital
As a venture capitalist, I review hundreds of business plans each year and physically meet with roughly a hundred entrepreneurs seeking capital. I have the advantage of doing this through the eyes of someone who has been on the other side of the table, having raised venture capital for my own start-up before becoming a VC. And while there are certainly numerous exceptions, there are themes I see across cleantech start-ups that are not specific to their technology or market but which nonetheless impede their ability to raise capital. Here is the top five… [read more]
Solar Companies Turning to Corporate Partnerships For Capital
For many start up companies, venture capital financing remains one the signature corporate events in the history of the company. Not only does venture financing provide the company capital to advance their product but it is also somewhat of a stamp of approval that your company is worthy of venture capital attention. Venture... [read more]
The Smart Grid and Venture Capital
Tis the season for the final flurry of business conferences before the Christmas holiday. Last week I attended a Venture Capital Summit and an event focused on Emobility. Emobility covers electric vehicles (EVs) and electrified transportation for individual or mass use. There were two common messages within these... [read more]
Small Nuclear Dow? Wall Street primer on SMR financing by Tamar Cerafici
By Tamar Cerafici Infocast held a gabfest for small nuclear proponents last week, promising an opportunity for small modular reactor (SMR) vendors and suppliers to understand how the future of their industry would be shaped by banks and venture capital firms. It’s high time that the SMR bandwagon includes the financiers who’ll really... [read more]
Valley of Death Alive and Well for Clean Tech Firms
More and more clean energy businesses are becoming trapped in the clean energy technology "Valley of Death"--the research phase after proof of concept but before commercial production--where companies often need continued funding to survive. Unfortunately, as a result of the bad economy and a lack of venture funding, "that valley is... [read more]
Golly GE: a smart way to spur innovation
Take the creativity of countless startups, the heft of a big corporation, $200 million in prize money, savvy venture capitalists, the power of digital media and the wisdom of crowds. Put them together and you have the ingredients of GE’s Ecomagination Challenge, a promising way to speed innovation towards a smart grid, clean energy and... [read more]
6 Chacateristics of a Perfect B2C Energy Efficiency Company
4 weeks ago, Green Light Distrikt Boston had an event, ‘Energy Efficiency: Why is the Low Hanging Fruit so High?” The speakers discussed what they’re working on and why, if energy efficiency (EE) has such high returns, the adoption of these behaviors and technologies seems to be happening at a snails pace. Based on the presentations... [read more]
Awaiting clean tech’s “Netscape moment”
John Doerr, the brilliant and hard-charging venture capitalist, has told me several times that clean tech is still awaiting its “Netscape moment.” What he means, I think, is that investors will get excited about start-up companies across a range of so-called clean technologies — solar, wind, biofuels, energy efficiency,... [read more]
Partying like it’s 2008: Green tech investment surges
This post first appeared on Grist. Green tech is back in the green. Global venture capital investment in green technology companies reached $4.04 billion in the first half of 2010, exceeding – slightly — the record set in the boom year of 2008, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte.... [read more]
How to Build a Cleantech Company Without Huge Investment Capital: A Case Study
While many cleantech companies require very large amounts of capital in order to get to market, there is a quiet group of cleantech companies bucking that trend. Companies like Heartland Biocomposites (Green Building Materials), RealTech (Water Testing) and TerraLUX (LED Lighting) all built significant and growing businesses... [read more]
The Week in Green Energy: Tracking The Green Dollar
This week, industry groups released a slew of optimistic reports that highlighted the robust health of the U.S. clean energy sector. In 2009, U.S. solar capacity grew by 29 percent, according to the Solar Energy Industry Association. Wind, according to the American Wind Energy Association, was up by 40 percent. Geothermal... [read more]
Clean Energy Trends 2010: Hope Springs Eternal
Green shoots are starting to poke up out of the ground in my yard, a sure sign that Spring is on its way. Hope springs eternal for the cleantech sector as well, according to the folks who bring us the Clean Energy Trends annual report, despite the downturn in the overall economy and failure at Copenhagen. The 2010 report was issued... [read more]
Where there be a Bloom boom?
photo: Todd Woody In Wednesday’s New York Times, I have a story on Bloom Energy, which has revealed its fuel cell technology with much fanfare after remaining in stealth mode for eight years: SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A Silicon Valley company is claiming a breakthrough in a decades-old quest to develop fuel cells that can supply affordable... [read more]
Bloom Energy makes the news
Another Silicon Valley start-up out to solve the world’s energy problems, promising “clean, reliable, affordable energy anywhere.” Sounds good, hope they can deliver. Today’s energy-problem-solver is Bloom Energy. The company has been around since 2001, quietly developing what it claims is a new fuel-cell technology,... [read more]
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