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The bubble has burst. The hype and euphoria of 2008 and 2009 is a distant memory. Fueled in part by the externality of the handouts from the stimulus package, and the (now fleeting) spike of natural gas and oil prices,…
So, you’re at a networking event and you get an opportunity to talk with a Venture Capitalist (VC) for just a few min...
Amid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one cleantech progr...
Go ahead -- call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced...
There are so many easy reasons to be a pessimist today: the world financial crisis, the discord and dysfunction in Washington, and ...
The Solyndra debacle is no surprise to this cleantech venture capitalist. The inherent conflict between trying to get money out of the U.S. Treasury as quickly as possible to stimulate the economy and, at the same time,…
After decades of venture capital investment, growth and exit, the traditional focus areas of venture capit...
Invest in a solar, biofuels, or LED lighting company, and nobody will question the company’s cleantech pedigree. Inve...
With the recent “shellacking” (as President Obama referred to the election results) of the Democratically controlled Cong...
Wind turbines stand tall and mesmerize with their motion. Solar cells bask in the sparkling sun. Meanwhile, hidden down in the dark dirty underworld, a compelling technology sits quietly and gets no respect. Once…
The stimulus bill along with the $31B cleantech element focused on grants and loan guarantees through the Department of Energy was passed into law over 18 months ago. About a year ago I wrote about how the cleantech…
While renewable energy often captures most of the cleantech headlines, if anyone doubts why energy efficiency must play a significant ...
While many cleantech companies require very large amounts of capital in order to get to market, there is a quiet group of cleantech companies bucking that trend. Companies like Heartland Biocomposites (Green Building…
With all the complexities of cleantech policy and technologies, there is only one simple thing needed for an explosion of competitive clean technologies – increased price of fossil fuels. The amount of R&D expenditures…
As a “gearhead” (engineer) I must admit I truly enjoy looking at all the cool technologies being developed by cleantech companies. The prom...
Grants for smart grid projects. Grants for battery manufacturing lines. Loan guarantees for renewable energy project development. Grants ...
Sectors like solar, biofuels and smart grid have received a significant overweighting of venture capital investment compared to other sectors. Is this because they are better investment opportunities or because venture…
Building great businesses typically requires three key ingredients: phenomenal people, compelling technology and investment capital. Cleantech companies are no exception. While cleantech venture capital investments have…
The way the Obama Administration used the economic crisis to drive a major policy and spending shift regarding clean technologies was very deft politics. The cleantech stimulus (which represented over $45 billion of the…
After joining Access Venture Partners over two years ago and heading up our cleantech investments, I contemplated starting a blog. But the...