Posts Tagged ‘cleantech’
8 February 2012
An investment firm has been launched to source cleantech deals and facilitate access to the Middle Eastern markets.
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6 February 2012
A US-based equity mutual fund has been launched to invest in disruptive technologies and has identified cleantech as a key focus area.
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31 January 2012
The valuation of companies across the renewable energy and cleantech spectrum are undervalued, as a handful of bankruptcies have made investors overly wary, an industry expert said.
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30 January 2012
Fundraising is underway as a Russia-focused cleantech fund is formally launched with €110m already committed by its co-founders.
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27 January 2012
This week US President Barack Obama used part of his State of the Union address to call for clean energy tax credits to support the sector that has ‘never looked more promising’.
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27 January 2012
Danish buy-out house Odin Equity has sold its majority stake in Haarslev Industries, a cleantech business, to Stockholm-based private equity peer Altor Equity Partners.
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20 January 2012
US venture investment into the energy and utilities industry raised $2.9bn for 134 deals as investment stayed flat but deal activity rose 14 per cent, according to new research.
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18 January 2012
An India-based cleantech venture capital fund is set to launch by March and has set a fundraising target of $100m.
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18 January 2012
A new private equity partnership has been formed to invest in the French cleantech market.
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13 January 2012
Developers of smart grid and energy storage technologies will be able to apply for a new cleantech challenge that will invest $100,000 into the sector.
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11 January 2012
A prominent US venture capital firm has raised its largest fund to date and will now spend the $270m in cleantech and healthcare.
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10 January 2012
An Israel-based investment manager has launched a new fund that will target opportunities prompted by both agriculture and water management.
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10 January 2012
The value of private equity, venture and development capital investment in global cleantech companies increased for the second consecutive year in 2011, reaching $9.70bn. However, growth since 2009 has been slow, averaging at less than three per cent over two years, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet.
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4 January 2012
A US cleantech company is on the hunt for a strategic partner as it looks to maintain its Canadian operations.
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4 January 2012
A major finance group is to expand to Arizona to help fuel new cleantech innovation and draw new capital sources to the region.
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3 January 2012
A US-based venture capital and growth equity firm has raised $500m for its sixth venture fund and is likely to continue its trend of supporting start-ups in the Boston area.
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20 December 2011
The UK's cleantech sector has witnessed a surprisingly strong optimism over the past eight months, a new report has found.
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19 December 2011
A technology firm looking to build a scientific ghost town in New Mexico to serve as a hot bed for new technologies has identified green energy as one of its major priorities.
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16 December 2011
A US cleantech company has said it is struggling to find buyers or determine financing options.
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15 December 2011
A newly-formed investment firm will invest in early-stage advanced technologies in the carbon value chain with one of the biggest private equity fund managers in the US investing $355m in the enterprise.
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