Fundings+Deals

BrightFarms Raises $13.6M for New Urban Rooftop Hydroponic Greenhouses

January 21, 2016

BrightFarms raised $13.6M in venture funding and attracted project financing to build new commercial-scale rooftop hydroponic greenhouses that will supply produce to supermarkets in...

CBRE Exec on Green Buildings: Financing, New Technologies, and New Trends

November 2, 2015

Buildings are becoming ever more efficient, due in part to advances in technology and to more stringent regulations, says Peter Scarpelli, CBRE's global director for energy and sustainability....

Roundup: Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough, Cambridge Univ. Says

November 3, 2015

81 corporations signed the "American Business Act on Climate Pledge"; Toyota, Honda bet on hydrogen-powered cars; DuPont builds world's biggest cellulosic ethanol plant using corn...

The Four Top Northeast Cleantech Open Startups

November 2, 2015

Being capital-light and utilitizing creative business models helped four start-ups win a regional contest; they now advance to the Cleantech Open Global Forum finals later this month....

Resiliency Driving Demand, Financing for Smart Energy Storage

October 20, 2015

Green Charge Networks, Sunverge and NYSERDA officials discuss how energy storage is meeting customers' demand for grid resiliency. And Sunverge is raising capital to deploy its solar...

$470M Wastewater-to-Energy Project Opens in DC

October 20, 2015

An innovative new thermal hydrolysis wastewater sludge-to-energy and fertilizer plant, financed by green bonds, opens in DC, the first such technology in the U.S. Public and private...

For BioLargo, Impact Investors Prove More Liquid than Venture Capital Funding

October 20, 2015

Many investors agree that BioLargo, a sustainable water company that uses technology to leverage the natural disinfectant properties of iodine to decontaminate water cheaply, is on...

Steam Builds for ‘PACE’ Firms to Drive Energy Efficiency Retrofits

October 20, 2015

The Property Assessed Clean Energy financing model is gaining momentum as a key driver of energy efficiency retrofits in both commercial and residential markets, attracting financings...

Hydroponic Farming Co. To Open Urban Greenhouses in New York, Chicago

September 1, 2015

Gotham Greens is among a growing number of urban farming startups building hydroponic greenhouses near, or even on top of, supermarkets -- a trend that brings new meaning to the phrase...

Enertiv: Using Big Data to Encourage Energy Conservation in Buildings

September 1, 2015

Real time energy consumption data has the power to influence tenants to waste less and to take a greater consideration of the costs, both financial and environmental, when using energy....