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Bloom Energy Raises Another $150M
Bloom Energy, Kleiner Perkins’ first cleantech investment, has raised another $150 million, according to VentureWire as reported in the WSJ. Bloom, founded eleven years ago, builds and sells fuel cells of the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) variety. The devices run on natural gas and produce electricity with less emissions than a diesel gen-set. This [...]
MiaSolé Announces Layoffs
MiaSolé, the Kleiner Perkins- and Vantage Point-backed CIGS solar company, has laid off 30 percent of its workforce, according to sources close to the company. A company spokesperson has verified that there have been layoffs, but did not specify the extent of the reduction-in-force. We understand that many of the layoffs have occurred in engineering [...]
Update on Alta Devices Investors
Alta Devices, the secretive solar startup that seems to be workingon thin-film solar cell materials, has also received funding fromTechnology Partners. Alta is listed in the firm’s portfolio catalog,but the link goes to a dead end.Nothing to see here, boys. Put the cameras back in the car. Kleiner,Perkins – that gabby bunch of guys – [...]
What Went Wrong at Optisolar?
It all made sense. On paper. OptiSolar, the mushrooming solar outfit that seemed destined for success just weeks before its dotcom-likeimplosion, had raised millions – at least $322 million according to areview of Securities and Exchange Commission documents – to realize avision of solar manufacturing laid out nearly five years ago in a paper published [...]