All Posts Tagged With: "venture capital funding"
Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Venture Capital
Compared to traditional VC investment ecosystems, cleantech companies are much more likely to be led by first-time entrepreneurs who often struggle to create an ecosystem of experienced people around them.
Here’s what they need to understand.
State’s Venture Funding Hits Highest Level
in Nearly Three Years
Clean technology led the way with three deals totaling $158.8 million going to Abound Solar, Ice Energy, and Ciris Energy. Two dozen Colorado companies received $253.7 million in capital during Q4 , marking the third straight quarter of improvement in both the total invested and the number of deals that closed.
23Jan2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Cleantech Investment Reached Record
$243 Billion in 2010
“Growth has been in fairly direct response to government intervention, whether in the form of cheap debt in China … feed-in tariffs for solar or a regulatory push for smart grids. The industry needs to continue to drive down its costs and reduce its reliance on this sort of support,” said BNEFchief executive Michael Liebreich.
21Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Buyout Firms Wary on Cleantech Deals —
Want Government Assurance
Private equity firms want to invest in the cleantech sector but are holding back because a lack of regulatory control and government financial incentives makes it too risky, according to research released last Friday.
3Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Efficiency Bright Spot in Otherwise Deflated
Clean Energy Investment Market
As Nick Hodge of Green Chip Stocks points out, the crux of the problem is that if VCs and private equity fund managers don’t see a profitable exit, they aren’t going to lend money in the early rounds. Lower fossil fuel prices and uncertainty in the regulatory arena have exacerbated the problem.
7Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ritter’s New Executive Orders Encourage
Venture Capital Investment
The first creates the “Investment Opportunity Index” on the Colorado Office of Economic Development’s website which will serve as a clearinghouse for potential investors and partners. The second order calls for the formation and quarterly meeting of a Roundtable on Venture Capital.
1Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
How Clean Tech Firms Can Maximize Funding Chances
Complimentary admission is being provided for the first five qualifying readers who email the sponsoring company at info@minellc.com and mention that you read about the Short Course in Colorado Energy News.
22Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Tech Open Post Script — How the Competition Prepared Startups for the Real World
Start with the business plan. In the Cleantech Open, entrepreneurs had a hard time understanding how to structure the financing - whether the money is debt or equity, how much of the company is being sold - and how to put together the presentation.
24Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Cleantech VC Investment Jumps in Q2 —
Colorado Firms in Top 5 of New Energy Deals
Boulder-based Tendril, a manufacture of smart grid software, received $30 million in funding; and alternative fuels producer, Gevo in Englewood, was the recipient of $40 million. The deals put both start-ups in the top five reported venture-capital funding transactions nationwide for clean energy in the second quarter.
31Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Report: West Leads in Clean Energy Boom
Colorado Ranks Among the Top States
Leading the region is Colorado, with a large and fast-growing pool of clean energy jobs. The state attracted more than $620 million in venture capital in the past three years – the fifth largest amount in the nation – three quarters of which was invested in clean energy generation.
11Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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