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Peter Thiel: The New Cleantech VC Hater
Peter Thiel, known as the “Don of the PayPal Mafia” declared clean technology a “disaster” at Venture Beat’s TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco. OK folks, go on home, stop all this saving-the-world-green energy-stuff. It just isn’t working. Thiel has spoken. Thiel is a billionaire libertarian hedge fund manager and venture capitalist who founded [...]
Tera-Barrier Receives Additional Investment
Executives at the signing ceremonyincluded (from right to left) Russell Tham, regional president, AppliedMaterials South East Asia, Koichi Takeda, director, KISCO Ltd, Dr MarkAuch, CEO, Tera-Barrier, Masayuki Nakazawa, managing director, KISCO(Asia) Pte. Ltd. and Philip Lim, CEO, Exploit Technologies Ptehttp://solarfeeds.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_content. Ltd. Applied Ventures welcomed another investor in one of its portfolio of comapnies, Tera-Barrier. As [...]
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 – [...]
American Investors Looking Into Israeli Cleantech
The Pope was in Israel earlier this month, bringing with him thousandsof Catholic pilgrims (and a request from environmentalists to help clean the Jordan River).A week later 40 investors from the California region came on adifferent kind of pilgrimage to Israel – to see the world-famous cleantechnology opportunities Israeli entrepreneurs have to offer. Despite the [...]
Report: Cleantech Private Equity Funds On The Rise
The cleantech private equity market has grown substantially inrecent years and there are currently over 380 active firms, which arefocusing on the sector, according to a new report. Dublin-based Research and Markets, an international research anddata firm, says that there are currently 78 private equity fundsfocusing exclusively on cleantech investments currently seekinginvestors. “It is likely [...]