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18 March 2009

Private equity firm C Change Investments and Korea Investments & Securities to manage Korea’s Green Growth Fund

Private equity firm C Change Investments Management and Korea Investments & Securities has been drafted in to manage Korea's Green Growth Fund.

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17 March 2009

Energy efficient data centre company Teraco Data Environmental raises $4.8m in Series A funding round

Teraco Data Environmental, a South African vendor co-location facility provider, has closed a Series A financing round on ZAR47.5m ($4.8M). Both new and existing investors participated.

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16 March 2009

Ontario offers $12.8m energy efficiency transportation grant

The Government of Ontario has offered a grant of $12.8m to support an investment by Thales Rail Signalling Solutions of $85m over the next five years to improve its transit rail technology and energy efficiency.

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13 March 2009

Scottish government launches £5m tender for plastic recycling facilities

The Scottish government has launched a £5m tender for plastic recycling facilities from its Mixed Plastics Capital Grant Programme.

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13 March 2009

Spanish private equity firm Eland Private Equity launches €30m renewable energy fund

Spanish private equity firm Eland Private Equity has announced a new fund for investment in renewable energy, according to reports. Eland Energías Renovables III has a target of €30m.

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9 March 2009

Element Partners closes second cleantech fund on $486m

Cleantech-focused growth equity firm Element Partners has closed its Element Partners II fund on $486m. The fund had an initial target of $400m.

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4 March 2009

Khosla Ventures hires former Sequoia partner Pierre Lamond

US cleantech-focused venture capital firm Khosla Ventures has hired former Sequoia Capital partner Pierre Lamond, according to reports.

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3 March 2009

Rickman brothers launch new UK technology investment group

UK angel investors Andrew and Robert Rickman have launched a new technology funding group by the name of Rockley Group.

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3 March 2009

Technology-focused venture capital firm Index Ventures raises €350m fund, turns attention to cleantech

Technology-focused venture capital firm Index Ventures has raised €350m for its fifth early stage fund, Index Ventures V.

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2 March 2009

Canadian venture capital firm Ventures West to launch clean energy fund

Canadian early stage venture capital firm Ventures West is launching a new clean energy fund, alongside Mossadiq Umedaly, chairman of Canadian electricity company BC Hydro, according to reports.

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26 February 2009

Good Energies leads $20m investment in US energy efficiency company SAGE Electrochromics

Smart window products company SAGE Electrochromics has closed a $20m investment round. The funding will go towards expanding its projects internationally as well as its sales and marketing initiatives.

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24 February 2009

XcelPlus Holdings begins funding talks to expand renewable energy projects

International holding company XcelPlus Global Holdings has begun funding talks with capital sources, and hope to be able to make a funding announcement by the end of February, according to a company statement.

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20 February 2009

Solution Capital Partners makes first investment into cleantech fund

Cleantech private equity fund of funds Solution Capital Partners has made its first investment into Element Partners II, a cleantech fund which focuses on businesses with significant growth opportunities.

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17 February 2009

British Columbia Bioenergy Network awards $5m to biomass projects

The $25m British Columbia Bioenergy Network has awarded two biomass projects up to $5m in funding.

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17 February 2009

EIB to support Europe’s cities and regions in promoting energy efficiency

The European Investment Bank will support and finance the development of energy efficiency and sustainable energy investment programmes by Europe's cities and regions, according to EIB president Philippe Maystadt.

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17 February 2009

Ant Global Partners to raise $250m cleantech fund

Singapore-based private equity firm Ant Global Partners is to raise a $250m cleantech fund over the next three years for Indonesian water treatment and renewable projects, according to Reuters. The fund is being raised in conjunction with the Indonesia Ministry of Finance.

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16 February 2009

Cleantech-focused firm AquAgro third most active venture capital investor in Israel, report

Cleantech-focused venture capital firm AquAgro made seven investments in 2008, making it the third most active Israeli venture capital fund, according to the IVC Research Center's league of most active venture capital funds in Israel. The survey ranked funds on the number of first investments made in 2008.

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4 February 2009

GreenHunter Energy raises $5m in Series B private placement

GreenHunter Energy raises $5m in Series B private placement

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2 February 2009

Climate Investment Fund lines up countries for $500m funding

The Wold Bank's $6bn Climate Investment Fund has selected which countries will be offered funding under a pilot programme.

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29 January 2009

BonVenture launches second socially responsible venture capital fund

German venture capital fund BonVenture has launched its second investment fund.

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