I just agreed to judge this contest. I wanted to see what you guys thought of contests like this. It seems like an amazing way for entrepreneurs to get recognition and differentiation. Cleantech Connect features the hottest and fastest growing Cle... [more]

Wondering what the general emotion of the cleantech venture sector is right now?The three posts I put up today (here, here and here) should paint the picture pretty well.Things are happening. Deals are getting done. Startups are making progress, ... [more]

At Canaccord Genuity's very good sustainability dinner in Boston this week, I had an enjoyable conversation with CG's Marc Marano, a leader on their cleantech team. He told me about some pretty interesting data they'd pulled together on the solar i... [more]

S-1s are great. You can't learn everything about a company from them, but you can learn a heck of a lot. And when the company is pretty indicative of an entire subsector, you can use that company's data to help illustrate trends across a market.G... [more]

As an active investor in the cleantech market I'm definitely hoping we can start to see some successful exits. I, like others, am pining for a few successful IPOs with stellar returns that can be good beacons of hope for the rest of the sector's be... [more]

The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The ... [more]

Guest post by Yan ZhuCross-posted from LeadEnergy.orgLast Tuesday, China revealed its Clean Vehicle Investment Plan (2011-2020), which would invest over 100 billion RMB ($14.7 billion) in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles. The new inves... [more]

By John Addison (8/10/10)The San Francisco Bay Area will add over 5,000 electric car charging stations (EVSE) in the next 2 years and continue as one of the nation's leading areas for electric cars. The Bay Area's 7 million people live in cities that... [more]

Increased urbanization, a supply-demand gap, government subsidies and high returns through multiple revenue streams have made the rather unglamourous water and waste management sectors highly attractive for private equity players.Water treatment has ... [more]

by Richard T. Stuebi You can think of it as a building with sunglasses. So says Rao Mulpurri, CEO of Soladigm, as reported in this item by Michael Kanellos in GreenTech Media.Soladigm is commercializing electrochromic windows, which lighten and darke... [more]