Archive for the ‘ Clean Technology VC Funds ’ Category

VC land a coup & A123 loses its CFO

Black Coral Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Stata Venture Partners landed a coup when they announced that A123 CFO Michael Rubino was going to join their venture backed firm Digital Lumens. A123 – The consequence This move may be a blow to A123 but a great opportunity for Digital Lumens. We wrote about ‘The Past, the [ READ MORE ]

Clean.Invest – RSS Feed for our Cleantech & PE/VC Fund and Company Blog

We have reached 50,000 readers on our blog – we are surprised about the level of interest and like to thank our readers for the continued support. If you haven’t subscribed to our RSS feed yet, you may want to consider to add http://cleaninvest.wordpress.com/feed/ to your RSS feed either in MS Outlook, netvibes.com or any other [ READ MORE ]

SEC proposes definition of Venture Capital Fund under Dodd-Frank

We thought we share this SEC update. The critique is provided by our colleagues at Venture Best. SEC PROPOSES DEFINITION OF VENTURE CAPITAL FUND UNDER DODD-[ READ MORE ]

Chinese 12th 5-year plan – New Energy, New Energy Cars

Are the days counted for China’s top-down macro economic decisions and for its state-owned monopolies? The next 5-year plan proposed by the Chinese Government focuses its attention on new energy and clean-energy cars. According to China Daily the government intents to ‘speed up new energy development and promote clean and efficient use of traditional energy, develop [ READ MORE ]

CleanTech Investing in 2009 & 2010

356 investments in CleanTech occurred in 2009, a new high. However the dollar amount is down to $4.85B from $7.6B in 2008 over 350 deals comparatively, according to a new report from GreenTech Media. The downward trend over more deals may reflect the global capital markets as much as it does the CleanTech sector itself. [ READ MORE ]

Clean Energy Patent filings expanding despite capital markets

With less capital flowing from investors to inventors, clean energy patents are still flourishing. According to a recent report from Heslin Rothenberg Farley and Mesiti, the index of Clean Energy Patent Growth (CEPGI) had its best quarter since its inception in Q2 2009 with 274 patents granted, up from 217 year over year. Fuel cells, [ READ MORE ]

Khosla Ventures announces $1.1 billion cleantech funds

Finally, on 1 Sep 2009, Khosla Ventures has announced that it had raised more than $1 billion for 2 new funds focused on cleantech and renewable energy. Khosla Ventures III and Khosla Ventures Seed raised more than their targets of $750 million and $250 million respectively. The investors include the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, [ READ MORE ]

Why Invest in Water?

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin If you read “The State of the Water Industry” and the “Introduction to Water Investing 2008” reports on the Summit Global Management’s website, you might go away feeling depressed about the current or future state of our water. If you think the [ READ MORE ]

India to launch green tech venture fund

Just last week I wrote that the Indian Prime Minister’s Council approved in principle a 1 trillion rupees ($21 billion) Solar Mission over a 5-year period ending March 2012 to make India a global leader in solar power. Now, according to EETimes report on 14 Aug 2009, the Indian government plans to launch a venture [ READ MORE ]

CalPERS invests $60m in Khosla’s closed $250m seed-stage fund

In my earlier blog, I mentioned that a Forbes article on 20 July 2009 reported that Vinod Khosla is near to closing $1 billion in new funds. He is on the verge of announcing 2 new funds with money from outside investors: $250m vehicle for seed-stage investments and a $750m fund called “KVIII” for larger [ READ MORE ]

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