Cleantech Group in the news

With solar overheated, here are two indirect ways to play climate change  BloggingStocks, 10/15/09

"Information technology related to cleantech is very cold right now. So are certain types of pollution controls and recycling technologies," says Rafael Coven, managing director and index manager for the Cleantech Group's Cleantech Index Fund, an ETF that tracks green investing issues.

Harris: Uptick in venture funding for clean tech reported  San Jose Mercury News, 10/1/09

Cleantech Group managing director Dallas Kachan said clean and green is now a "dominant theme" in venture investing, only four years after it had a "niche" status, attracting less than 5 percent of investments.

Investors seen returning to 'cleantech' sector  Associated Press, 9/30/09

It marked the second consecutive quarter that cleantech investment has increased, an indication the sector is recovering, said Dallas Kachan, Cleantech Group's managing director.

Study paints Kindle e-reader a  dark shade of green  CNET, 8/28/09

Claims that the Amazon Kindle electronic reader is more environmentally friendly than paper books hold up, according to an analysis by the Cleantech Group.

Asian Nations Could Outpace U.S. in Clean Energy  Washington Post, 7/16/09

"A lot of people underestimate how focused China is on becoming a global leader in clean technology," said Brian Fan, senior director of research at the Cleantech Group, a market research firm.

Investment In Cleantech Picks Up  Forbes, 7/1/09

Venture capitalists pump $1.2 billion into alternative energy in second quarter, with stimulus driving interest. The data was compiled by accounting firm Deloitte and the consultancy Cleantech Group. 

Venture funding for clean-tech rebounds  San Jose Mercury News, 7/1/09

From April to June, venture investments in clean tech totaled $1.2 billion across 94 companies, according to preliminary results released Wednesday by The Cleantech Group, a San Francisco research and strategy firm, and Deloitte & Touche.

Where Smart Money is Going in Cleantech  BusinessWeek, 6/17/09

"This year could be considered the first down year for cleantech," says Richard Youngman, Cleantech Group's managing director. "That's not surprising after the growth we've seen over the last six years, but the long-term drivers [for cleantech investment] remain in place."

London to Electric Car Biz: On Your Marks, Get Set  Earth2Tech, 6/10/09

Dallas Kachan, managing director for the Cleantech Group, offered the short version: “There’s some pretty darn good infrastructure — financial and other infrastructure,” that entrepreneurs can leverage to do business in London, including the highest concentration of VCs of any city in Europe.

Clean and green China  Canadian Business Magazine, 5/18/09

“In the last eight months, China has put more money to work fostering clean technologies than any other country on the planet,” says Dallas Kachan, San Francisco–based managing director of the Cleantech Group, which tracks investment in clean technologies globally.

Cleantech: the future, now  Investment Week, 5/18/09

The sphere of clean technology, or 'cleantech', has reached a key moment in its development. While the key drivers – climate change, energy supply and increasing resource scarcity – become ever more pressing, the impact of the global financial crisis and the way the world has reacted to it are creating a host of new challenges and opportunities.

EPA Ruling Great News For Cleantech  Forbes, 4/18/09

"This is going to open up opportunities in energy transmission and storage, and could create demand for advanced materials to replace things like cement, the manufacture of which is a major source of greenhouse gasses," says John Balbach of the Cleantech Group, a trade organization.

Big Oil Sees Promise in Pond Scum  CNBC.com, 4/17/09

"Oil companies got started in algae research and development and investment in 2007, as they realized that first generation biofuels—grain ethanol and palm or soy biodiesel—would not reach large production quantities cost-effectively," says Brian Fan, senior director of research at the Cleantech Group, a market research firm.

Is growing food the next green-tech innovation?  CNET, 3/27/09

To most people, green technology means renewable electricity, fuel efficiency, and perhaps water purification technologies. But to Parker, those technologies--most of which focus on addressing climate change--are still just a sliver of the innovation needed to address the world's environmental woes.

Lobbyists Are First Winners in Obama's Clean-Technology Push  Bloomberg, 3/25/09

Cleantech Group, a San Francisco consulting and executive-search firm, says venture capitalists are bombarding it with requests to form a trade association. They want a permanent presence in Washington to lobby for the industry.

This tax credit is wasteful, expert says  Financial Advisor magazine, 3/4/09

The payback on solar electric systems, which can cost as much as $60,000, can be as long as 15 to 20 years, but the payback can be six months to five years for energy-efficiency options.

Clean tech confab warns on warming  San Francisco Chronicle, 2/26/09

"We are now on a very short time curve to address the climate change challenge," said Nicholas Parker, co-founder of the Cleantech Group in San Francisco, which sponsored the conference. "It must define our generation."

America plays cleantech catch up  BBC NEWS, 2/25/09

"There is no lack of capital to be brought to this industry. What it needs are long term assurances that there will be a continued market for cleantech," said Mr. Kachan the managing director of the Cleantech Group which organised the forum.

US Could Soon Be Greener Than Europe  Newsweek, 2/21/09

"What hasn't been happening in Washington, D.C., has obscured what's been happening all over the country," says Nicholas Parker, chairman of San Francisco-based Cleantech, an industry advisory group. "Watch out for the Americans--they're coming."

Flow of venture capital for green tech slows  San Francisco Chronicle, 1/7/09

Green tech companies worldwide received a record $8.4 billion in venture capital during the year, according to figures released Tuesday by the Cleantech Group consulting firm. That's a solid 38 percent increase from $6.1 billion in 2007.

Green-tech venture investment jumps nearly 40 percent in 2008  CNET, 1/6/09
Green-tech venture capital funding soared last year, aided by megadeals in thin-film solar companies, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Cleantech Group.

Investment in Clean Technology Suffers Quarterly Decline  Wall St. Journal, 1/6/09

The swoon in what has been one of the hottest venture-capital sectors was largely driven by the global economic downturn, and is likely to persist at least into the current quarter, say officials of Cleantech, which tracks venture activity world-wide.

Cashing In On Clean Technology  Inc. Magazine, 1/09
Projected increases in global energy demand, declining production of oil and coal, growing concerns about climate change, and a desire for U.S. energy independence are "long-term drivers that haven't changed and won't change with respect to the credit crunch and the downturn," says Brian Fan, the Cleantech Group's senior director of research.

Clean-tech Forecast: Guardedly Optimistic  San Jose Mercury News, 12/31/08
For 2009, many experts expect the pace of investments to slow, but most still see strong potential and think clean tech will outpace other sectors. The Cleantech Group, a research and strategy firm based in San Francisco, forecasts that clean-tech venture investments will fall to about $7 billion.

Utopia In The Desert  Forbes, 11/24/08
Two years ago the investment fund of the oil-soaked city of Abu Dhabi handed Sultan Al Jaber $4 billion and a 2.5-square-mile parcel of desert. It was a starter kit ... "The scale and speed with which they want to get this done is amazing," says Nicholas Parker, chairman of the Cleantech Group.

The Cleantech 10  Corporate Knights, 11/01/08
The Cleantech Group's Cleantech Index has consistently outperformed the NASDAQ Composite Index, The S&P 500 and the Russel 2000 Index, with 42.9 percent total annualized returns in 2007, and a return of 8.2 percent in the second quarter of 2008.

Energy: Mr. Clean  Canadian Business Magazine, 10/27/08
The magnitude of what Parker has achieved in the brave new world of the low-carbon economy is no joke. After all, it was Parker who coined the term “cleantech” and helped invent the asset class that accompanies it. Now a global industry, cleantech represented 10% of all VC investments made last year by U.S. firms.

"In 20 years time there may not be a cleantech industry" GLOBES, 10/6/08
Rafael Coven, the man behind the global cleantech index, is confident that environmental awareness will become the benchmark and that polluting companies simply won't survive.

Interview with Cleantech Group's Nicholas Parker at the Clinton Global Initiative  Economist, 9/08
Cleantech Group's Nicholas Parker was interviewed at the Clinton Global Initiative in September, 2008 in New York by the Economist's Vijay Vaitheeswaran.

The six million dollar men  Ode Magazine, 9/08
John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, California. He is firmly focused on clean technology, energy technology that can save the planet from global warming.

Green planning pays off: expert  Calgary Herald, 9/16/08
Nicholas Parker is one of the new financial hybrids: the astute businessman who is environmentally aware and doing something about it. His current company, Cleantech Group, founded in 2002 with partner Keith Raab, has become a key player in an industry many are saying will define this century.

Software deals boost market for clean product design  greentechmedia, 9/11/08
Software is going to be one of the fastest growing segments in greentech. Today, Sustainable Minds and Autodesk announced that they will collaborate on services and products that will effectively make it easier for manufacturers to design cleaner products.

Looking inside the new transportation ETF  Seeking Alpha, 9/11/08
Invesco PowerShares is set to open to investors its Global Progressive Transportation ETF (PTRP), a new exchange-traded fund that invests in "progressive" transportation companies, adding its name to the growing roster of ETFs focused on green businesses.

Area firms poised to catch clean-tech investment wave  Toledo Blade, 9/7/08
For a promising solar-energy start-up launched in a research laboratory at the University of Toledo, investment cash has poured in from California's Silicon Valley, Zurich, and Amsterdam.

Cleantech Israel business network fills niche  The Jerusalem Post, 9/6/08
Over 130 entrepreneurs, investors, government officials, academics and even some journalists attended the sixth meetup of the Israel Cleantech business network. They came for an informal shmooze session and to hear visiting guest lecturer Richard Youngman, Managing Director of Cleantech Group Europe.

Green investing gold rush  NuWire, 9/2/08
As wealthy investors pour money into green investments, small investors flock to green funds, despite high volatility. Venture capitalists worldwide invested a whopping $3.25 billion in green energy companies in the first six months of 2008, according to the Cleantech Group, market researchers which track green energy investments.

Greenhouse capital sets sights on $100m clean tech fund  Business Green, 8/26/08
According to reports from the Cleantech Group analyst firm, the venture capital outfit is in talks to raise its second clean tech fund early next year and it will be around eight or nine times larger than its initial $11m fund, raised late last year.

Nexus India Capital closes $220M fund with cleantech focus  Earth2Tech, 8/20/08
Mumbai-based Nexus India Capital closed a second early stage fund of $220 million to invest in 20 to 25 startups in clean technology, as well as consumer, business services and media sectors over the next three years.

A killing in clean technology  On Line opinion, 8/17/08
For more than 20 years many have emphasized the money to be made in cleaning up the environment. According to the Cleantech Group, while overall venture capital investment was drying up over the past quarter, clean technology investments increased by 48 per cent.

How to profit from China's environmental woes  Seeking Alpha, 8/12/08
With the health of its population fading and global opposition to carbon emissions rising, China has no choice but to address its pollution epidemic. Cleantech Group LLC, which recently hosted an energy conference in Beijing, estimates that China will attract $700 million in venture capital funding for clean technologies in 2008.

What is clean tech?  CNET News, 8/10/08
Cleantech, also referred to as clean technology, has emerged as an umbrella term encompassing the investment asset class, technology, and business sectors which include clean energy, environmental, and sustainable or green, products and services. Cleantech was popularized in large part through the work of Nick Parker and Keith Raab, founders of the Cleantech Venture Network (now Cleantech Group).

IKEA to invest $77 million in clean tech, could result in solar sales in stores  GreenBiz, 8/8/08
IKEA plans to invest in $77 million in clean tech startups in the next five years with an eye to selling solar panels and other green tech products in stores or having suppliers use them, the Cleantech Group reported.

Funding rises for clean-tech start-ups  USA TODAY, 7/11/08
Despite the slow economy, venture-capital funding of clean-tech start-ups in the USA and abroad is on pace for a record year. In the second quarter, venture funding for nearly 100 biofuel, solar, wind and clean-water start-ups hit a quarterly record of nearly $2 billion, says the Cleantech Group, a market research firm in San Francisco.

Cleantech investment hits record  BBC NEWS, 7/8/08
Global venture funding for clean technology has hit a record high with $2bn invested in the last quarter. The Cleantech Group, which promotes environmentally friendly investments, said the industry is defying the downward trends in the overall sector.