China sponsors

Lead Sponsors 

China US Energy Efficiency Alliance

 

ClearWorld Now

ClearWorld Now is an operational investment company that finances and builds innovative companies in the climate change, clean energy, and environment sectors in China, and from China to the World.

Our goal is to find commercial solutions that help solve contemporary problems and deliver them effectively to the market. Opportunity exists in challenges, and we are able to bring about that transformation; for small start-ups looking for their next-step, or for veteran investors and companies unsure of their direction in new and fast developing markets.

Where gaps exist in the market, we build new companies. Where businesses need capital to grow, we collaborate for the best outcomes. With relationships and contacts from government to grass-roots groups and academics to analysts, our well established network is ever-growing and continually assisting us in identifying new partners and new opportunities.

Our strength lies in our targeted and focused area of operations and unrivalled industry background. Our team’s regional knowledge and breadth of experience working in China and Asia is matched only in its technical and operational expertise in both energy and green business and finance and management.

Eversheds

KPCB China

Expansion Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in expansion-stage, clean technology enterprises, which present compelling risk-return profiles. Its team specializes in resource efficiency and productivity investments within the following sectors: energy, manufacturing, advanced materials, water and wastewater, and transportation. 

Neo Technology Ventures Pty Ltd

Neo Technology Ventures (www.ntfund.com) is an Australian venture capital firm investing in early and expansionary stage technology businesses. Neo currently manages the Neo IIF Fund, an early stage information and communications technology fund whose investors include the Australian Government, Macquarie Bank and Hewlett Packard.

The Fund has invested in a portfolio of internet, information and communications technology businesses that have expanded into global markets. Neo is now developing a new cross-border fund that will invest 'value-added capital' in 10-12, small to medium sized, Australian companies selling innovative technologies and services, with high-growth opportunities in the China market. Neo evaluates businesses with world-leading Australian technology that can provide China with exceptional solutions for more efficient and cleaner growth. The return-on-investment focus of Neo’s ‘China Growth Fund’ spans a multitude of industry verticals across two broad investment themes, cleantech and information and communications technology, and is stage agnostic. Neo’s collaborative approach to its business investment partnerships with entrepreneurs helps support and grow young ventures, and protect the interests of innovative ideas and our entrepreneurs that create them.

Qiming Venture Partners

Qiming is a premier venture capital firm located in Shanghai. Qiming invests in high growth companies across China in the technology, communications, media, healthcare and other sectors. The Qiming team - along with its U.S. partner, Ignition Partners - brings together a long term commitment to and established track record of success investing in China with decades of executive experience and relationships at some of the leading companies in China and the world. This unique combination of access, proven insight and global resources is all focused on helping Chinese entrepreneurs gain the advantage they need to build great companies and achieve lasting success. 

Tsing Capital

Established in 2001, Tsing Capital is the fund manager of China Environment Fund. With its affiliation to the distinguished Tsinghua University through Tsinghua Holdings, Tsing Capital utilizes local management plus international capital and technology to maximize financial returns while achieving important environmental and social benefits. Tsing Capital has built a successful track record with strong expertise to become the pioneer and leader in Cleantech investment in China, and has been recognized via a series of distinguished awards, including the 2008 Corporate Citizenship Award by the 21st Century News Group, the 2008 Cleantech Leadership Award and the 2005 Pioneer Award by the Cleantech Group.

Two Sigma Investments