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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 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 Paul Straub on October 19th, 2011 
It’s nearly impossible to succeed as an energy startup without a little help from some friends and partners. It’s always challenging to perfect a new technology, launch a product and secure early customers in any market. In energy sectors, these challenges are amplified given the enormous investment in existing assets and infrastructure, well-established incumbents, regulation, and processes that place a premium on high reliability and minimizing risk. One step founders can take . . .
→ Read full post: Robert C. McFarlane, former United States National Security Advisor, joins Alphabet Energy’s Advisory Board
by Nat Goldhaber on September 30th, 2011 
The United States has embraced clean technology relatively aggressively, but is it enough? In particular, is it enough in comparison to the pace of clean tech development in China?
I addressed this topic September 28 at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen 2011 conference, and the answer is that the U.S. isn’t doing enough. China is much more aggressive than the United States in developing clean technology projects and could dominate clean technology development globally for . . .
→ Read full post: China may “clean the clock” of the U.S. in clean technology
by Micah Myers on September 28th, 2011 
Two years ago Claremont Creek Ventures determined that the best opportunity to invest in solar would be in downstream distributed generation and that the right business model could create tremendous value for investors, for consumers, and for the U.S. at large. We then found that model with Clean Power Finance. That is why we are proud of Google’s announcement yesterday about their new partnership with Clean Power Finance along with an . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Clean Power Finance partners with Google creating a $75 Million Fund for residential solar projects
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
by Claremont Creek Alerts on September 22nd, 2011 
September 22, 2011 source: Adura Technologies
Recognized for creating new opportunities in green technology
SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2011 – Today, Adura Technologies, a leading wireless lighting controls company, announced that the company was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Global 200 winners. Inclusion in the GoingGreen Global 200 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Adura Technologies selected by AlwaysOn as a GoingGreen Global 200 Winner
by Claremont Creek Alerts on September 17th, 2011 
September 17, 2011 source: AOL Energy
Although venture capitalists have taken a battering in the renewables sector, as seen in the sorry Solyndra saga, investors continue to see value in smart grid investments, biofuels and electric vehicles.
But the stakes are usually high, the capital costs expensive and the path to profit unclear in uncertain political and economic times in the US. But the gains for the US economy are . . .
→ Read full post: AOL.com names Claremont Creek Ventures’s Nat Goldhaber & Paul Straub as one of theTop Five Clean Energy VCs and Principals
by Claremont Creek Alerts on September 15th, 2011 
September 15, 2001 source: Greentech Media: Enterprise
Using silicon nanowires to tap an enormous potential energy source
Alphabet Energy just raised $12 million in round A funding, led by TPG Biotech along with Claremont Creek Ventures and the CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund, to develop thermoelectrics. The firm had received a $1 million seed round in 2010. The firm has also received some SBIR funding.
Thermoelectrics are semiconductors . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Alphabet Energy gets $12M to convert waste heat to electricity
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