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by Nat Goldhaber on December 30th, 2011 
December 29, 2011 source: GreentechMedia
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Paul Straub
All of us at Claremont Creek Ventures are happy to congratulate our portfolio companies EcoFactor and Project Frog for making Greentech media’s top startups to watch in 2012. As an early stage investor in EcoFactor and Project Frog, we have been involved with the companies since the outset. Read the excerpts from Greentech Media’s article below or click . . .
→ Read full post: Trend Spotting: 12 Greentech Startups to Watch in 2012 includes two of our portfolio companies
by Paul Straub on December 6th, 2011 
December 5, 2011 source: Greentech Media
Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Sentilla, launched a software suite today that promises to help customers plan their data center needs . We are excited with the traction Sentilla is getting in the market and this greentech article captures the essence of this announcement well.
Sentilla Targets Business Beyond Data Center Efficiency
Sentilla wants to move from data center efficiency to data center planning.
Sentilla, . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures’ portfolio company Sentilla announces version 4.0 with analytics and planning capabilities
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
by Claremont Creek Alerts on September 7th, 2011 
September 7, 2011 source: Project Frog
GE Leads $22 Million Investment in Energy Efficient Building Maker Project Frog; Installing Sustainable Building at GE Learning Center
Providing both capital and collaboration, GE led a $22 million investment round in San Francisco-based Project Frog and began construction of one of its prefabricated environmentally sustainable buildings at GE’s renowned Learning Center in Ossining, NY.
Led by GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Project Frog announces $22 Million investment
by Claremont Creek Alerts on June 24th, 2011 June 23, 2011 source: Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Building Products
Today, Adura Technologies announced that award-winning independent news source Sustainable Industries named Adura’s wireless lighting control system as one of its sixth annual 2011 Top 10 Green Building Products award winners. Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products guide is an annual digital and print publication profiling industry-leading green building products selected by a panel of expert . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Adura Technologies selected as a Sustainable Industries 2011 Top 10 Green Building Product Award Winner
by Nat Goldhaber on June 21st, 2011 Great news about our portfolio company EcoFactor. Homes using EcoFactor for controlling their heating and cooling have seen on average a 17 percent reduction in energy use, the company announced on June 9, 2011.
In conjunction with local utilities and home service providers, Silicon Valley-based EcoFactor collected data from homes in both pilot and commercial programs using two-way thermostats connected to the company’s software platform.
Read more on this → Read full post: Homes using EcoFactor for controlling their heating and cooling have seen on average a 17 percent reduction in energy use
by Claremont Creek Alerts on April 25th, 2011 April 21, 2011 source: Gigaom
When it comes to clean-energy investing 2.0, venture capitalists are beyond looking for the silver bullet — or the magic battery –- they spent the last decade hunting and hoping for.
Today, VCs are more likely to invest their dollars in slightly less ambitious energy-efficiency projects, Paul Kedrosky, senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, told the audience at GigaOM’s Green:Net conference. Kedrosky sat down with a . . .
→ Read full post: For VC’s, No More Chasing Magic Batteries
by Nat Goldhaber on April 25th, 2011 March 2011 source: Financial Executives International (download a pdf reprint of the article)
Over the years, venture capitalists have invested in clean technology and renewable energy with the expectation that returns will take a long time. The VCs were right.
Development of technologies such as solar cell manufacturing, utility-scale renewable energy projects and genetically engineered algae for bio-fuels do indeed have great promise. But they require great patience.
Yet, with the . . .
→ Read full post: Trends Bode Well For Clean Tech IPOs This Year
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