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Distributed Energy Storage Market Sees its Second Startup Get in the Zero Down Game

March 5, 2014

Green Charge Networks raised $10 million to provide financing to commercial and industrial customers for customer-sited energy storage technology that uses smaller batteries and predictive...

Joule Assets Provides Access to $900B Energy Reductions Asset Market

February 10, 2014

The firm’s new energy efficiency PE fund buttresses access to data and financing, while disrupting key market segments by providing entry to HVAC and LED lighting solutions.

Today’s Cleantech VC Trends, Funds & People Moves

January 31, 2014

Cleantech VC's favoring later-stage startups; the growing role of corporates; energy efficiency getting its day in the sun; investors venture from cleantech to "sustainability."

Mobile Device “Connected Home” Startup Raises $1.5M Series A

January 31, 2014

Changers Systems, which lets you charge your mobile devices with your own renewable energy, has raised funding from BFB Frühphasenfonds Brandenburg, Heliocentris Energy Solutions...

$3M Series A for Online Environmental Sustainability Behavior Startup

January 31, 2014

Practically Green, a mobile app and software that tracks employees' commitments to environmental sustainability, received angel funding from CommonAngels, Pan Asia Solar, Clean Energy...

Solar Investor Project Analysis Firm Gets $1.7M Series A

January 31, 2014

Mercatus, a solar project evaluator for developers and financiers, closes its Series A round, having raised $3.7 million in total, led by strategic investor Trepp, LLC.

Former US Energy Secretary Joins Board of Inventys, Maker of Carbon Capture Tech

December 20, 2013

Inventys is the developer of a pioneering method for capturing CO2 from coal and natural gas power plants.

Cleantech People News: If You Can’t Hire Expertise, Borrow It

November 8, 2013

A host of cleantech companies made moves recently to add needed skills by hiring new employees or adding board members. Here are the highlights.

Will the Stream of ‘Green’ Graduates Fill the Talent Gap?

November 8, 2013  |  1 Comment

New programs are addressing the shortage of experienced talent in cleantech and sustainability related industries, but experts debate whether they will meet the demand that employers...

This Summer’s Hottest People News in Cleantech

August 9, 2013

DARPA Alum Launches New Cleantech Fund; SunRun, SVB, Lux Capital Make Key Hires; Cleantech Fellows Changes Name; Lots of Green Jobs Training, Few Jobs; and much more…