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by Claremont Creek Alerts on January 18th, 2012 
January 18, 2012 source: MedCity News
Personalized medicine company AssureRx Health has released the next-generation version of its genetic screening test for psychiatric drugs.
The Cincinnati-area company’s GeneSightRx test, which helps doctors pick the right psychiatric drugs for patients based on their genes, was launched in 2009. The test uses a cheek swab, mathematical algorithms and bioinformatics to narrow drug choices to those that work with a patient’s genes.
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→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures’ portfolio company AssureRX updates its psychiatric drugs screening test
by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 22nd, 2011 
December 21, 2011 source: this article by Eric Wesoff appeared in GreenTechEnterprise
GMZ Wins VC From KPCB for Thermovoltaics and Waste-Heat-to-Electricity The year of living thermoelectrically
Venture capital tends to move in waves, like sets of breakers on a beach or lemmings off a cliff.
In September, we witnessed two early-stage waste-heat-to-energy firms receive VC funding. They are both still in the pre-product phase.
MTPV raised $6.5 million in the initial closing of its . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures’ portfolio company Alphabet Energy covered in GreenTechEnterprise article
by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 19th, 2011 
Guest Post by Frank Richards The Building of a Company As an avid fan and investor in real estate I identified a significant gap in the residential investment market around 2004. I noted that 15-20% of all homes sold in the US are for investment. But I also discovered that there were no national platforms or proprietary algorithms that could help people identify the best investment markets and the best properties. Essentially there was no Charles Schwab for the residential investment market. I realized there was a great opportunity for a private banking platform to help people research, plan, acquire and manage residential real estate investments nationwide. . . .
→ Read full post: Entrepreneur’s Perspective, part two: : Frank Richards, serial entrepreneur and former CEO of SmartZIP: The Building of a Company
by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 15th, 2011 
September 9, 2011 source: originally published in the San Francisco Business Times
Photo: Spencer Brown The winner “is the company that’s going to help families,” says GSN CEO Rabinowitz.
Gene Security Network’s race to develop safer, more accurate prenatal test is all business for Matt Rabinowitz — and it’s personal.
A relative of Rabinowitz, Gene Security Network’s CEO, took a blood test for the likelihood of Down’s syndrome in her unborn baby and . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures’ portfolio company Gene Security Network in race for prenatal test
by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 15th, 2011 Guest Post by Frank Richards
As a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, I love building great teams and visionary companies. I feel truly fortunate to have built three innovative companies starting from “the garage”, to taking the company public in the midst of the dot com bust, and to raising a VC round of financing for a real estate analytics firm during the biggest real estate downturn in the history of the U.S. Throughout my journey, I . . .
→ Read full post: Entrepreneur’s Perspective: Frank Richards, Claremont Creek Ventures serial entrepreneur on the importance of partnerships
by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 4th, 2011 
December 2, 2011 source: GreenTech Media
At the end of 2010, Clean Power Finance (CPF) CEO Nat Kreamer and a group of the biggest names in greentech venture capital, including Kleiner Perkins and Google, decided to take the company to the next level.
CPF was founded in 2007 as an online tool to connect solar buyers and sellers with financial products and help them design solar systems. By 2010, . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures’ portfolio company Clean Power Finance channels $1 Million into solar every day
by Claremont Creek Alerts on November 19th, 2011 
November 16, 2011 source: the Gates Notes
Bill Gates has posted a really good writeup on energy storage and the innovative company Energy Cache on his blog, Taking Energy Storage to a Higher Level. Energy Cache is a recent early-stage investment of Claremont Creek Ventures and we’re excited about its new approach to storing electricity that could help lower the cost of clean, renewable energy for everyone. Stay tuned, . . .
→ Read full post: Bill Gates blogs about Claremont Creek Ventures’ investment company, Energy Cache
by Claremont Creek Alerts on October 13th, 2011 
October 13, 2011 source: Engadget
EcoATM offers instant money for your old phone, we go hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video)
Old-fashioned ATM meets modern-day phone recycling program. That’s the idea behind EcoATM, a startup aimed to help reduce electronic waste and beef up your wallet at the same time. Of course, it’s not a new concept: phone recycling programs have been around for a while now, helping you stay . . .
→ Read full post: Engadget reviews Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company EcoATM
by Claremont Creek Alerts on October 10th, 2011 
October 9, 2011 source: CBS News
As part of CBS morning news, TIBION was profiled by correspondent Barry Peterson. At approximately four minutes 21 seconds into the video, see how TIBION stands out. We are proud of our portfolio company that is getting worldwide recognition.
The next step in bionics
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The new world of high-tech prosthetics includes the Tibion Bionic limb, that helps stroke victims re-learn how to use . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Tibion’s VP of Engineering Matt Murphy shows off the Tibion Bionic Limb on CBS Morning News
by Claremont Creek Alerts on September 25th, 2011 September 23, 2011 source: Forbes
What the Solyndra Bankruptcy Means for Cleantech Investors
by Jennifer Kho. Forbes Contributor
As executives of defunct solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra keep mum in Washington, Silicon Valley and Wall Street are discussing what the bankruptcy – and the federal investigation – could mean for investors.
“It has an impact; it’s such a big story,” says Sheeraz Haji, CEO of research firm Cleantech Group.
In what some are calling “the Solyndra . . .
→ Read full post: Goldhaber claims there’s still plenty of investor enthusiasm for companies that are installing or financing solar projects
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