Posts Tagged ‘ A123 ’

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 ]

Will Project Better Place really work?

Many people in the electric vehicle arena are very familiar with Project Better Place.  In short, the firm intends to circumvent the problems caused by the expensive batteries needed for EVs by employing a battery swap, or lease model, to charge users for their mileage rather than upfront capital costs of batteries. These next generation [ READ MORE ]

Tesla Motors rumored to IPO soon

The company that made electric vehicles cool again and dispelled the ugly golf cart stereotypes is rumored to file for an IPO very soon according to a recent Reuters report. What makes this CleanTech startup unique from say the recent A123 Systems IPO? Tesla is currently profitable! Profitability is one way to counter the IPO [ READ MORE ]

Electrification Coalition | News

The electrification report (Nov 2009) published by the Electrification Coalition is very detailed; needs a few hours to digest the details. It appears to attempt to give a brief history of the sector and highlights challenges and potential road blocks ahead. In some areas it serves as a Primer. We see that Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins [ READ MORE ]

A123 Systems – Key negatives on the watchlist

Just read a research piece published by BoA/ML on A123 (Nov 3, 2009). They rightly observe that yes, the company could be $10bn revenue business by 2020. However, a lot of things may become larger impediments than anticipated today. None of the issues are material in isolation and can be addressed, particularly the management issue. [ READ MORE ]

Interesting week for the battery sector

A123 Systems will IPO this week on Thursday on the US based NASDAQ market using the symbol AONE. The IPO has been widely anticipated as A123 often receives much of the attention within the battery start up sector. A123 has high profile backers such as GE and Kleiner Perkins. Already public firms such as Ener1 [ READ MORE ]

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