After the success of Greenbang’s UK Clean Tech Start-up Company Index last year, we are again looking for new Clean Tech companies with innovative ideas and technologies. We are researching for a report on Clean Tech Companies that have passed through University incubators. Do you know one of these? Contact us at: rowan@theglobalview.com
Can't keep up with all the developments in cleantech? Here are some news stories you might have missed:
Carbon capture and sequestration technologies are too expensive to be viable as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, leading cleantech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla told attendees at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Khosla's preferred…
Climate Change Capital, the UK-based alternative investment manager, is going shopping for clean tech bargains in China.
The company is planning to invest $732m in environmental and clean tech projects in China over the next three years.
According to this report by Reuters, the company is taking advantage of the lack of credit in the current financial…
Intel Capital, the VC and investment arm of the chip giant, has made a couple of big clean tech investments in China this week.
First is a $20m investment in Trony Solar Holdings, a Chinese thin-film solar energy provider. Trony plans to use the investment to enhance its production capacity to 105 megawatts, to serve a…
The global banking crisis has had a sphincter-tightening effect on investment but research suggests the clean tech sector is bucking the trend - for now, at least.
A quarterly report from clean tech analysts at StrategyEye claims worldwide investment in the sector has more than doubled over the last three months, compared to the first quarter…
Helen Hopper of Kyocera Mita UK talks to Greenbang about the Greencard events - a business network to encourage people to reduce the impact of their business activities on the environment, whilst sustaining a profitable business.
More information about the Greencard events can be found here .
Start-ups could soon be off...
The UK could lose some of its best young talent in the clean tech sector because the investment environment is 'too tough to grow in', start-up companies report.
An in-depth Greenbang study, called the UK Clean Tech Start-up Company Index 2008, found many UK start-up companies are tempted to head off…
Ohhhh, this has been a long time coming. Welcome readers, to the Greenbang UK Clean Tech Start-up Index.
It's taken a lot of work to get this finished, but finally we're there.
Over the next month, you'll be hearing us talk about what we found in our research from our interviews with these companies. You'll also be…
Greenbang doesn't know if you've noticed, but leggings have made a comeback. Greenbang has no idea why that most 80s of fashion crimes - which made even the most slim and attractive of women look like a load of potatoes wrestling in a Lyrcra condom - outstayed its welcome long into the 90s and then…
Greenbang would like to congratulate VCs Rockport Capital on closing their latest fund, focused on clean tech, for $450 million. That's enough to buy 56 of the world's most expensive diamonds, 9,825 Porsche Boxsters, 2,812 bottles of Chateau Lafitte 1787 or 900 million Crunchies. Greenbang knows what she'd pick. She's pretty sure she wouldn't get…