Monday, 13 February 2012

San Jose, California-based solar cell manufacturer Solar Junction closed its Series D financial round with $19.2 million from investors to scale up the manufacturing of their record-breaking solar cells for the concentrating photovoltaic market. The company closed its largest round to date with investments from venture capital and growth equity firm New Enterprise Associates; venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures; investment firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson; and IQE, a supplier of
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Monday, 06 February 2012

A joint United States-Israel organization is looking for potential renewable energy projects co-developed by companies from the two countries that could get as much as $1 million in technological funding. The call for proposal comes from BIRD Energy which was created by the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, a U.S. Department of Energy agency, and the Israel Ministry of Energy and Water Resources.
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Monday, 23 January 2012

Malaysian investors took the lead in a recently concluded $55 million investment round for startup LanzaTech, another company which produces ethanol at least partly from fossil fuel-derived products.
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Sunday, 15 January 2012

Sunnyvale, California-based CIGS user AQT Solar Inc. took $18.7 million from investors as it prepares to double production capacity for its thin-film solar cells. The company will use the round proceeds to add a second production line at its headquarters and release 30 megawatts’ worth of thin-film solar cells a year from its current 15 MW.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Flagship Ventures announced closing a $270 million fund – it’s largest to date. In a statement, the VC firm said the $270 million pool exceeded a target of $250 million. Flagship Ventures’ “Fund IV” is its fourth fund since its inception in 2000. Although Flagship Ventures plans to spend most of the new fund on early-stage deals, it said it plans to portion “less than a quarter” of the amount for late-stage firms, managing partner and chief executive Noubar Afeyan said.
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Sunday, 01 January 2012

Oil-and-gas giant BP P.L.C., through financing arm BP Technology Ventures, invested an undisclosed amount in biofuel startup Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc. through the latter’s third funding round. According Cool Planet BioFuels’ statement, the Series C round was held a year ahead of schedule so that modular fuel production plants could be developed faster. The company, based in California, held its Series B last March, getting $8 million.
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Monday, 19 December 2011

Agilyx Corp., a startup which developed a process that can recycle plastic otherwise headed for the landfill into crude oil, has brought in $25 million in a recent Series C funding. Chris Ulum, chief executive of Agilyx said that proceeds from the round will be primarily spent on marketing, business development, and funding new projects.
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Monday, 19 December 2011

Israel-based fuel cell startup CellEra closed a funding round led by the investment arm of Vodafone Group P.L.C. which along with Carmel Ventures brought in a total of $9.2 million to the company. CellEra, headquartered in Caesarea in northern Israel, develops polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells without using platinum, a rare and costly metal that catalyzes power generation from hydrogen.
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Monday, 12 December 2011

A California-based company which makes electronics that can improve how solar panels convert sunlight into energy by as much as 20 percent raised $18 million in its fourth financing round as it expands manufacturing and international sales.
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Monday, 14 November 2011

American-Israeli company Better Place L.L.C., raised $200 million in its third financing round as the pioneering company maps out expansion projects in Western Europe. General Electric Company and USB AG are among the new investors, joining existing shareholders Israel Corp., HSBC Group, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Ofer Group and Maniv Energy Capital.
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Thursday, 03 November 2011

Energy storage led clean technology investments during the past three months, raising the total amount of venture capital pouring into the United States close to a quarter compared to the same period a year earlier, a report from Ernst & Young LLP published yesterday revealed. There were 76 companies developing renewable power and energy-efficiency technologies that received $1.1 billion funding recorded in the quarter, more than double the 36 investments last year, the New York-based
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Friday, 28 October 2011

Many think that products like solar panels, electric cars and smart appliances will be billion dollar industries by the end of the decade as demand from an increasingly green-savvy public grows. But sourcing capital for a startup in the green industry is still difficult.
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Friday, 14 October 2011

Khosla Ventures raised $1.05 billion to form a new fund that will invest in early stage information, communications and clean technology companies. The California-based company did not disclose its first picks to get funding, but Mr. Khosla said it is eyeing specific firms ripe for the picking.
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Friday, 07 October 2011

Foundation provides support of up to 50 percent for a project's cost
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Fund to be used for commercialization of Oyster energy device
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Thursday, 22 September 2011

A startup business incubator that gives seed funding and mentorship exclusively to promising green start-ups has begun its first program series. Last May, the San Francisco-based company, Greenstart, announced on their official blog that they were looking for ideas that can produce what they call “fast startups,” small companies that are "capital-efficient and capable of generating revenue in 12 months or less."
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Private equity round was led by GSR Ventures
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Thursday, 08 September 2011

Industrial conglomerate General Electric joined existing investors of energy-efficient buildings maker Project Frog (Flexible Response to Ongoing Growth) to close a $22-million investment round to be spent on the startup’s expansion efforts. Project Frog, headquartered in San Francisco, designs and makes prefabricated buildings that are said to be more energy-efficient, cheaper, and quicker to assemble than a traditional building.
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Friday, 26 August 2011

Devices can be managed though a central home energy controller
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Thursday, 04 August 2011

Clean technology investment in the United States in the second quarter showed fewer deals and shrinking figures, with numbers less than half compared with those in the same period in 2010, Ernst & Young L.L.P. said in a new report. Venture capital investment in green companies plunged 44 percent to $1.1 billion compared with $1.9 billion recorded in the same period last year, the highest level of quarterly investment on the consultancy firm’s record.
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