Posts Tagged ‘ India ’

Water and the Food Chain – Crop per drop

The food chain Food prices are bound to explode. Not only do we face a rise in population but we also are confronted by the need to improve our biofuel and ethanol feedstock (Unecsco – Institute for Water Education, ‘Water footprint of bio-energy and other primary energy carriers‘, 2008). No doubt the correlation between soft [ READ MORE ]

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Instead of Clean Technologies- let’s talk oil. Why? Because oil competes with clean technologies, affects government and consumer choices and in large part determines the success or lack thereof of much of what we discuss here. Consumers are much more willing to pay premiums for electric vehicles, biofuels or renewable energy if it does not [ READ MORE ]

China and India should not follow the West?

A new level of Sino-Indian relationship has taken place in the arena of environment. In Apr 2009, India and China told the UN a climate change agreement that slows down their economic growth and locks them into poverty is unacceptable to them. Both countries have taken a series of “ambitious” domestic actions to combat climate [ 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 ]

Sunrise in India

On 3 Aug 2009, the Indian Prime Minister’s Council approved in principle a Rs 91,684 crore (i.e. 1 trillion rupees or $21 billion; 1 crore = 10 million in Indian numbering system) Solar Mission over a five-year period ending March 2012 to make India a global leader in solar power. The Solar Mission is one [ READ MORE ]

Cleantech Group-Deloitte Report 2008

This quite detailed 80-page report has an Investor League Table 2008 that is slightly different from New Energy Finance’s. The Top Investors, measured by rounds of participation are: 1. Khosla Ventures, 21 2. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 19 3. Quercus Trust, 16 4. RockPort Capital, 14 5. Draper Fisher Jurvetson, 13 6. Emerald Technology [ READ MORE ]

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

About: Since its founding in 1972, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has backed entrepreneurs in over 600 ventures, including AOL, Amazon.com, Citrix, Compaq Computer, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health, Google, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Netscape, Lotus, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Verisign and Xilinx. KPCB portfolio companies employ more than 250,000 people. More than 150 of the firm’s [ READ MORE ]

VCs investing in India

In this 21 Feb 2008 report by Xconomy, the 2 leading New England VCs investing in India are Matrix Partners and Canaan Partners. A report from Dow Jones VentureSource shows that venture capital investment collected by entrepreneurs in India nearly tripled in 2007, totaling $928 million across 80 separate deals, as compared to just $349 [ READ MORE ]

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