Pleased to note Israel Cleantech Ventures’ announcement that they have reached a final close on their first fund at $75mm, above the original target of $60mm. Robeco Private Equity and Piper Jaffray joined other institutional and family fund LPs in backing the group. Good guys over at ICV, so it’s great to see.
Firefly Energy, which [...]
Pleased to point folks to the first of a regular series of columns I’m going to be writing for Mass High Tech, Boston’s leading tech business paper. Should be a good way to share a bit more about what’s going on in this region in particular, as the local cleantech cluster grows quickly. But a [...]
Fuel cell developer ReliOn announced a $23mm Series C round of funding, with new backers PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund and Robeco Clean Tech Private Equity II joining existing investors Oak Investment Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Wall Street Technology Partners, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Buerk Dale Victor, and ReliOn’s former parent corporation, Avista [...]
The updates are coming fast and furious on this topic recently…
The updates are coming fast and furious on this topic recently…
If you have a chance before it goes to sub-only archives, read the PE Week story on Kleiner’s new growth-stage (for companies, spin-outs, etc. with revenue traction already) cleantech fund, which could end up being over $400mm. According to the article, Al Gore and [...]
Today’s chatter: After our post earlier this month regarding the embiggening of cleantech venture capital firms, Jonathan Shieber at VentureWire today wrote about the ongoing fundraising efforts among cleantech specialist firms. He specifically mentioned expectations that RockPort will soon close a fund at more than $450mm; NGEN Partners seeking to raise a new fund [...]
Today’s chatter: After our post earlier this month regarding the embiggening of cleantech venture capital firms, Jonathan Shieber at VentureWire today wrote about the ongoing fundraising efforts among cleantech specialist firms.
While we usually focus on the investment opportunities in cleantech here on this site, today’s a day for getting smart and taking some personal action… Unfortunately, big change isn’t easy — noticed there were just as many cars on the road this morning (including yours truly’s, mea culpa) as any other day.
So, here are a [...]
While we usually focus on the investment opportunities in cleantech here on this site, today’s a day for getting smart and taking some personal action… Unfortunately, big change isn’t easy — noticed there were just as many cars on the road this morning (including yours truly’s, mea culpa) as any other day.
So, here are a few easy things you can do today:
Looking forward to seeing everyone at our REBN-East networking event at Boston University on Tuesday night. As a topic for discussion, I’ll throw this thought out there:
Had the pleasure of visiting NREL last week as part of a productive trip organized by the New England Clean Energy Council. There, I and around a [...]