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VC Scoreboard: Cleantech shines bright

The 2007 edition of the EETimes Venture Capital Scoreboard is revealing that the $2.6 Billion of VC investment in 168 transactions shows the spotlight on the current darling of VCs: Cleantech and photovoltaics more...
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Solar Startup SolFocus Builds Spanish Solar Plant - Phase 1

Focusing on photovoltaics and claiming to building the world’s first commercial-scale concentrating photovoltaic system, is owned by the Spanish Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems (ISFOC), more...
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Intel Capital invests in solar startup Voltaix

Branchburg, NJ based solar startup Voltaix has received $12.5 Million in funding from Intel Capital. The company manufactures electronic chemicals and gases for chip applications. It also makes CVD precursors more...
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Solar startup G24 Innovations raises $30 Million

After Morgan Stanley's first round of funding, Cardiff, Wales based startup G24 Innovations, a pioneer of dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells has raised its second round of $30 Million to boost its plans more...
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25 Big Names Who Ditched Infotech for Cleantech

Katie has dug out the list of 25 prominent names from the world of IT and the high-tech as we know it and have moved on to changing this world into something more green. The list includes top names such more...
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Solar startup Suniva Inks $300M Polysilicon Deal with REC

Ajeet Rohatgi's ambitious startup Suniva, which is backed by over $50 million from New Enterprise Associates, Advanced Equities, Goldman Sachs Group, HIG Ventures and Quercus Investments, is signing a more...
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Startup Enphase Energy Raises $6.5M for Solar

Two-year-old, Petaluma, Calif.-based startup Enphase Energy, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $6.5 million in a Series B funding led by Third Point Ventures. It is a management system that includes more...
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Solar Startup Stocks: Banking on the Sun

Solar startups that went IPO recently, particularly Evergreen Solar, Akeena Solar and JA Solar, all of which are posting double-digit gains on the Nasdaq Stock Market. This is boom-time for this sector more...
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Start-Up Nanosolar Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost

Focusing on lowering manufacturing costs in CleanTech, Nanosolar which has raised $150 million and built a 200,000-square-foot factory here, is developing a new manufacturing process that “prints” more...
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Solar startup Konarka Raises $45M

Solar startup Konarka which makes photovoltiac arrays that power the buildings housing offices and residences, has raised a big amount of funding: $45 million to be exact. more...
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