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Anders Will Specialize in Energy Technology – Hiring Confirms Commitment of Seed and Early Stage VC firm to Energy Market
OAKLAND, CA (May 8, 2012) — Underscoring its ongoing commitment to energy technology investing, Claremont Creek Ventures today announced the hiring of Hanns Anders as a new associate in the firm’s energy technology practice.
Hanns Anders
Anders, 30, will draw upon his experience in the alternative energy and environmental services industries to evaluate investment opportunities . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures hires Hanns Anders as new Associate
by Claremont Creek Alerts on April 25th, 2012 
http://youtu.be/xn8LdxmSfSk
On March 20, 2012, the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship proudly recognized biotech pioneer Moshe Alafi with its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at a special awards dinner. A Berkeley alumnus, Mr. Alafi is one of the founders of the biotechnology industry. He has funded and helped start over 60 companies through his venture capital firm Alafi Capital. Many of these firms have created entire new industries including such pioneers as Cetus, Biogen, Applied Biosystems, and Amgen. His life is an incredible inspiration to entrepreneurs as a successful investor and startup partner as well as one who has done an incredible amount to improve our health and scientific knowledge with biotechnology breakthroughs. . . .
→ Read full post: Moshe Alafi wins Lifetime Achievement Award — videos of event
by Ted Driscoll on March 30th, 2012 
March 30, 2012 source: Start-Up Emerging Medical Ventures – March 2012
Fueled by cost containment pressures and surgeon and patient demand, start-ups are working to develop next-generation incision closure devices that address the shortfalls of gold standard sutures and staples.
Surgical Incision Closure: Start-Ups Address A Megatrend In Health Care
For many years, and in millions of surgical procedures each year worldwide, non-absorbable and absorbable sutures and staples have been the primary methods of . . .
→ Read full post: ZipLine Medical Inc. A suture-like outcome at the speed of staples
by Nat Goldhaber on March 27th, 2012 
March 25, 2012 source: GigaOM Earth2Tech
Update: March 27, 2012 – see GigaOM’s followup article: The story of Energy Cache, a drop-dead simple energy idea by Katie Fehrenbacher from an extensive interview with the founder and President of Energy Cache, Aaron Fyke, giving the details of how the technology works, how the company came into being, where it’s headed and how Bill Gates and Bill Gross became involved.
Energy Cache, one . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Energy Cache featured in GigaOM Earth2Tech
by Randy Hawks on March 27th, 2012 
March 22, 2012 source: Billeo
Recently, one of our portfolio companies Billeo, Inc. released data on current online shopping trends from its network of over 100,000 online shoppers. The findings suggest that the rewards offered by a loyalty program can have a large impact on online shopping behavior. One statistic I found to be intriguing is that shoppers are almost five times more likely to use a reward offering the ability . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Billeo’s data reveals what rewards consumers find most appealing
by Claremont Creek Alerts on March 24th, 2012 
by Nat Goldhaber and John Steuart
Moshe Alafi, a former mentor to both of us and investor in our startups earlier in our career, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Haas School’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley last week. There wasn’t any doubt that he fully deserved to win this highly prestigious award.
Moshe, after all, has been called one of the founders of biotechnology. We believe he is the most successful . . .
→ Read full post: Biotech Industry Guru Moshe Alafi Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From UC Berkeley
by Claremont Creek Alerts on March 14th, 2012 
http://vimeo.com/38536736
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship will proudly bestow its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship to Moshe Alafi, Founder and Principal of Alafi Capital Company LLC.
The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley is proud to honor Moshe Alafi with its Lifetime Achievement Award. A Berkeley alumnus, Mr. Alafi is one of the founders of the biotechnology industry. He has funded and . . .
→ Read full post: Moshe Alafi – Lifetime Achievement Award Trailer video
by John Steuart on March 9th, 2012 
Moshe Alafi will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award for 2012 by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley on Tuesday, March 20th. Moshe has been a mentor to me and Claremont Creek Ventures is proud to be a sponsor of this event.
You may register to join us on March 20, 2012. The award dinner will take place at The Great Hall . . .
→ Read full post: Moshe Alafi honored with the Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award for 2012
by John Steuart on March 6th, 2012
On February 22, I had the pleasure of speaking with Douglas Crawford, the associate director of QB3 the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences in Berkeley –. It was quite exciting to be the first guest on their new podcast, QB3 Bio Entrepreneurship. During our lively hour discussion, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the current state of venture capital, my strategies for investing (see the title!), and how entrepreneurs can better . . .
→ Read full post: “Be better, faster and cheaper and if I don’t get cheaper, I don’t invest!”
by Randy Hawks on February 16th, 2012
February 15, 2012 guest post originally published at: peHUB
Recent attacks against leading GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney depict him essentially as a brutal, bare-knuckled capitalist when he ran Bain Capital. They shed a very unflattering light on the private equity world. Romney rivals have cast him as a “vulture capitalist” that took over companies, aggressively sold significant assets and fired workers to maximize profits.
This is highly exaggerated hyperbole. The fact is, . . .
→ Read full post: A VC Leaps to Private Equity’s Defense
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