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GE Exec: Developing World has the Greentech Opportunities
According to Mark Vachon, a 29 year GE veteran and the leader of ecomagination, the best opportunities for greentech are in the developing world and not in the US. GE has adopted a business strategy that has invested $5 billion in clean tech research and development and generated $106 billion in revenues through 2011. Ecomagination [...]
Solar Venture Capital Funding Falls Off A Cliff
A new report from Mercom Capital Group, llc, found that solar venture capital (VC) funding fell to $72 million in the third-quarter of 2012. And at 14 deals in the quarter, that’s the lowest level since 2008, the report found. That’s also down quarter over quarter from $376 million in 32 deals in the second [...]
CleanTech PatentEdge Launches First Online Green Patent Database
For over a year now I’ve had the pleasure of using a beta version of CleanTech PatentEdge, a powerful database of green technology patents and published applications. Now you can use it too! IP Checkups, the Berkeley patent analytics firm that created CleanTech PatentEdge, recently announced the official launch of the database. The only comprehensive online [...]
GM Gives Props to Envia’s Car Battery
Back in February, Envia Systems made an announcement regarding tests of its electric vehicle battery technology, and said it had achieved an energy density of 400 Watt-hours/kilogram (Wh/g) with battery technology for electric vehicles. This week, General Motors, which backs Envia, reinforced during an employee conference that Envia’s solution could power an electric car for [...]
Q2 Cleantech VC Declines
Venture capital invested in cleantech companies dropped a substantial 25% in the second quarter (Q2) from Q2 2011, and declined 14% from the first quarter of 2012, according to Cleantech Group. $1.6 billion less poured into companies worldwide than in Q1, in just 155 deals, compared to 197 in Q1. 92 of the 155 deals [...]
Greentech Media Launches iPhone App
Greentech Media is excited to announce the official launch of our new iPhone app, available now in the App Store. The FREE, fully-integrated app offers access to all of GTM’s daily content and lets you preview market research reports fromGTM Research. From each article page, you can post and read comments,share the story via Twitter and [...]
Ikea Greentech Makes 2.8M Investment in Alelion Batteries
Swedish furniture maker Ikea announced that its venture capital armhas invested US$2.8 million in Alelion Batteries marking the firm’sfirst investment. Established to invest in innovative clean-tech companies, Ikea Greentech has US$70.1 million at its disposal. This first investment makes Ikea thesecond largest investor in Alelion Batteries — a manufacturer of energy storage devices. Beyond the [...]
Google’s Data Power in Greentech $GOOG
I attended an event and opulent spread at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California sponsored by Sierra Ventures on Tuesday evening. Apparently, the recession has not struck the VC community. Yet. Sierra Ventures has an investment in Miox (water) and Bob Walker, a partner, is an expert in solid-statelighting. Ben Yu, a partner, [...]
California’s Silicon Valley: A Center for Greentech Growth!
In the not so distant past it was the silicon valley that was one ofthe best examples of American ingenuity and progress in technology, andour drive to usher change to the rest of the world. But now that manyother countries outcompete silicon valley in making simple electronicsand computers there has been a need to get [...]