Investor confidence in Cleantech grows as North American investments reach new high of $1.26 billion 10/25/2007
The Cleantech Network™ today issued its Q307 results for the cleantech investment category for North America
and Europe. Investor momentum in clean technologies reached an all-time high as venture capitalists in North America and Europe invested a record $1.74 billion in the third quarter.
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Q2 2007 Cleantech venture capital totals nearly $1 billion for North America and Europe 09/06/2007
The Cleantech Network™ reported today that in Q2 2007 North American and European venture investments in the cleantech category totaled just under USD $1 billion, representing a 10% increase over the $903 million invested in Q1 2007.
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Cleantech Network™ projects 2007 Cleantech investment in China will total $580 million a nd more than $720 million in 2008 07/19/2007
The Cleantech Network™, a Cleantech Group™ company, today announced that Chinese cleantech venture capital investment is expected to rise dramatically in 2007 to US $580 million and will surpass $720 million in 2008.
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Clean Technology investment surges amidst global warming concern, high energy prices and new public policies 06/05/2007
Investments in the clean technology sector soared in 2006, as venture capitalists increased spending by 78 percent to $2.9 billion. Experts say the market is hot amidst concern about global warming, higher energy prices, improved technology, and public policies enacted at the state and national levels.
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Cleantech Group™ announces first Cleantech business park in China 05/17/2007
The Cleantech Group™ LLC announced yesterday at the Cleantech Forum™ XIII in Frankfurt, Germany the launch of Xuzhou Cleantech Park, the first of its kind, in the municipality of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The Xuzhou Park is a joint venture between Cleantech Group™, Tsing Capital, Tsinghua Holdings and the municipality of Xuzhou.
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Cleantech Venture Network announces European Cleantech award winners for 2007 05/03/2007
The Cleantech Venture Network®, a Cleantech Group™ company, announced today the winners of its European Cleantech Awards for 2007. The awards will be presented during Cleantech Forum XIII at the Frankfurt Marriott on May 14-16, 2007.
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Global business leaders and investors of the Cleantech Venture Network, representing over €5 trillion in assets, to convene in Europe to mitigate climate change 05/01/2007
The Cleantech Venture Network®, a Cleantech Group™ company, announced today that at Cleantech Forum XIII a number of Europe's leading research laboratories, including: the Fraunhofer Institute, Imperial College London, General Electric, Chalmers University of Technology and EUREC (European Renewable Energy Centres), will showcase new and emerging technologies with the potential to transform the creation, delivery and use of clean technologies around the globe.
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Cleantech Group opens London office as part of global expansion 04/23/2007
The Cleantech Group™ today announced the establishment of its European headquarters in London with the appointment of Torsten Merkel to European director. In his new role, Mr. Merkel will accelerate the growth of the cleantech community throughout Europe. The opening of the London office comes less than two months after the opening of Cleantech China™ in Beijing.
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Q1 2007 Cleantech Venture investment totals $903 million 04/18/2007
Cleantech Venture Network® researchers reported today that in Q1
2007 North American and European venture investment in the cleantech category totaled $903 million
(USD). Q1 2007 venture capital investment represented a 16.5% increase over the $775 million invested
in Q4 2006 and a 42% increase over Q1 2006 investment of $634 million.
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Global investment, science and policy leaders to convene at Cleantech Forum™ XIII to increase capital investments addressing climate change 04/12/2007
Cleantech Forum™ XIII, the premier annual gathering of the global cleantech community in Europe, will bring together more than 400 investment, business, science and policy-leaders from across Europe, North America and Asia to focus on increasing capital investment opportunities to address climate change, water scarcity, removing toxins from industrial and consumer products, increasing energy efficiency and improving capital flows globally to cleantech companies and markets.
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Cleantech Index (CTIUS) realigns focus and composition 04/03/2007
Cleantech Indices, LLC, in conjunction with the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) has announced a significant revision of the Cleantech Index™ (ticker: CTIUS). The resulting changes occurred during the Index’s quarterly rebalancing on March 30, 2007. The changes will also be reflected in the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based upon the Cleantech Index: the PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio (AMEX ticker: PZD) and the KSM Cleantech ETF (Bloomberg ticker: KSMCLNT)
in Israel.
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Cleantech Group launches executive search firm for clean technology market 03/08/2007
The Cleantech Group™ LLC today announced the launch of Cleantech Search™, a retained executive search firm focused exclusively on the emerging clean technology market. Ray A. Fortney, an experienced entrepreneur, executive and management recruiter, will serve as president and managing partner of Cleantech Search™, which will be based in the San Francisco area.
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Cleantech venture network honors industry leaders at Cleantech Forum XII 02/21/2007
Cleantech Venture Network, LLC announced three major cleantech award winners at the Cleantech Forum XII Gala Dinner in San Francisco last night. The Cleantech Leader of the Year award was given to Jesse Fink, the Managing Partner and founding sponsor of MissionPoint Capital Partners and Bob Epstein of E2 and New Resource Bank. The Cleantech
Emerging Enterprise of the Year was awarded to both the SunPower Corporation, which designs,
manufactures and markets high-performance solar electric technology worldwide and Schmack Biogas
AG, a leading German supplier of biogas plants. The Cleantech Corporation of the Year was presented to Wal-Mart.
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2006 European and North American Cleantech venture investment totals $3.6 billion 02/15/2007
The Cleantech Venture Network® reported today that North
American and European venture capital investment in the cleantech category totaled a record $3.6 billion
for 2006, representing a 45% increase over 2005 cleantech investment of $2.5 billion, and a doubling over
2004 investment of $1.7 billion.
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Leading experts in emissions markets gather in San Francisco during Cleantech Forum XII 02/14/2007
The Cleantech Venture Network®, LLC, a Cleantech Group™ company, today announced that it is co-hosting on February 22 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco a conference focused solely on the rapidly emerging emissions markets as part of Cleantech
Forum XII.
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Cleantech Venture network launches Cleantech China 02/05/2007
Cleantech Venture Network® LLC today
launched Cleantech China™, LLC, a joint venture between Tsing Capital, based in Beijing, China and
Cleantech Venture Network®. Cleantech China will implement the successful Cleantech Venture
Network® model of bringing cleantech innovation and capital together throughout China.
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Amory Loving discusses global drivers of Cleantech public/private partnerships 02/01/2007
The Cleantech Venture Network LLC today announced that Amory Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute, will lead an allstar panel at 7:00PM February 20 th at the San Francisco Marriott. Mr. Lovins and panel members are the featured program at the Gala Dinner being held as part of the Cleantech Forum™ at the San Francisco Marriott.
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Venture Capital powering renewable energy investment, totaling $1.6 billion in 2006 01/24/2007
The North American venture capital community invested $740 million in biofuel companies in 2006, representing a nearly 7X increase over 2005 investment of $110 million. Additionally, $866 million was invested in solar, wind, geothermal and hydro
marine companies in 2006, representing a 3.4X increase over 2005 activity.
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John Balbach Joins Cleantech Group as Managing Partner to expand offerings and global reach 01/17/2007
The Cleantech Group™, founder of the
cleantech investment category, today announced that John K. Balbach has joined as a
Managing Partner. The Cleantech Group™ is the premier global provider of cleantech
market research and thought-leadership and the parent company of the Cleantech Venture
Network®, the Cleantech Forums™ and the Cleantech Indices™.
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2006 North American Cleantech Venture investment totals $2.6 billion 01/11/2007
Cleantech Venture Network® reported today that North American
venture capital investment in the cleantech category totaled a record $2.9 billion for 2006, representing a
78% increase over 2005 cleantech investment of $1.6 billion, and a 140% increase over 2004 investment
of $1.2 billion. About $613 million was invested in cleantech in Q4 2006, a 22% increase over the Q4
2005 investment of $502 million. The fourth quarter 2006 was down from the record invested in Q3 2006
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