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Kenyan community-scale green innovator needs cash for solar lighting scheme - 14 Jun 2013Financing needed for 5MW solar project in India - 4 Jun 2013
Nigerian solar-powered race organiser seeks funding partners - 22 May 2013
UK start-up sets July deadline to raise equity for emerging market green activities - 11 May 2013US solar innovator needs bridge loan for local, Chinese projects - 30 Apr 2013 Soitec to launch equity offering to refinance convertible bond - 19 Jun 2013
California green homebuilder City Ventures eyes $150m IPO - 19 Jun 2013
SolarCity plans $175m note offering - 19 Jun 2013
US investor to pump cash into green IT - 18 Jun 2013
US organic PV developer aims to attract additional investors - 18 Jun 2013
Kenyan community-scale green innovator needs cash for solar lighting scheme - 14 Jun 2013Financing needed for 5MW solar project in India - 4 Jun 2013Nigerian solar-powered race organiser seeks funding partners - 22 May 2013UK start-up sets July deadline to raise equity for emerging market green activities - 11 May 2013US solar innovator needs bridge loan for local, Chinese projects - 30 Apr 2013
Geothermal innovator reveals equity needs for Californian project - 22 Apr 2013
Developer of Portuguese Eco Centre requires up to €5m - 16 Apr 2013UK innovator commercialising transport sharing solution has cash need - 8 Apr 2013Energy efficient engine developer needs cash to enter proving lab - 2 Apr 2013
Waste-to-oil technology developer seeks partnerships - 27 Mar 2013 Soitec to launch equity offering to refinance convertible bond - 19 Jun 2013
California green homebuilder City Ventures eyes $150m IPO - 19 Jun 2013
SolarCity plans $175m note offering - 19 Jun 2013
US investor to pump cash into green IT - 18 Jun 2013
US organic PV developer aims to attract additional investors - 18 Jun 2013
Indonesia sets up $300m geothermal fund - 18 Jun 2013
Malaysian power and water group Ranhill to IPO this month - 18 Jun 2013
German utility to sell off non-core assets - 18 Jun 2013
Middle Eastern investors to finance green project developments - 17 Jun 2013
UK city to be innovation test-bed as European Green Capital for 2015 - 17 Jun 2013
The most active investors in cleantech, renewables & sustainability discuss where the best opportunities lie in 2013
Earlier this month, a remote monitoring system in Hawaii recorded the first time in human history that the daily average for carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit over 400 parts per million (ppm). Crossing the 400ppm line is not inherently meaningful, other than reminding us that we are on a path to a place we don’t want to go, writes Daniel Vermeer, executive director of the Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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Dallas, US-based Circular Energy, a full-service solar design and installation firm, has secured $2.7m in Series A funding. 
Venture capital firm Long River Ventures is targeting $40m for its fourth fund, through which it will seek cleantech investment opportunities, NewNet has learned. 
The Irish government has launched a new €175m seed and venture capital fund aimed at providing additional funding for high-growth Irish companies with the potential to generate large amounts of additional export sales and grow jobs. 
Seattle, US-based early stage investor Divergent Ventures has doubled the target for its third big data and mobile technology-focused fund to $50m. 
California-based SoloPower has reportedly sold off thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment and will make more layoffs as it struggles to stay afloat. 
Venture-backed green chemicals group BioAmber saw its shares drop significantly in the first day of trading after pricing its IPO at the bottom-end of its expected range. 
Canadian venture firm MaRS Cleantech Fund has invested in energy storage innovator Hydrostor, which converts surplus electrical energy to underwater compressed air and stores it for use at peak times. 
SJF Ventures has closed its third growth equity fund on $90m, surpassing its target of $75m, as its strategy of combining an impact fund with a ‘better cleantech’ approach attracted a multitude of investors, NewNet has learned. 
US venture capitalists invested $5.9bn in 863 deals in the first quarter of 2013, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, but the cleantech sector declined by 35 per cent. 
Wind farm optimisation company Romo Wind has received €4.8m in funding from Yellow&Blue Investment Management, ABB Technology Ventures, and B-to-v Partners. 
The value of private equity and venture capital investment in the cleantech sector declined for the third consecutive month in March 2013 after peaking at $3.05bn in December 2012 in the 12 months under review, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet. 
Smart grid venture capital funding in the first quarter of the year totalled $62m in nine deals, mirroring the level of activity witnessed in 2012, a report by consulting firm Mercom has found. 
Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to launch up a new venture capital firm alongside Kazakh businessman Kenges Rakishev and web entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg. 
Venture capital veteran Matrix Partners has reportedly raised $450m for its tenth fund, down from its previous vehicle, to continue its focus on early stage investments. 
US cleantech deals and funding hit multi-year lows with less than $500m of total financing awarded to the cleantech sector in the first quarter for 2013, a new report shows. 
Early-stage venture capital firm Ignition Partners, which has backed a number of big data companies, has closed its fifth fund on $150m after a significant restructuring saw it scale back its fundraising ambitions. 
Shell has revamped its corporate venturing activities, setting up a successor to Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 managed by Kenda Capital to back emerging technology companies and venture funds through an in-house team. 
Spanish state backed bank Instituto de Crédito Oficial has launched a €1.2bn venture capital fund of funds to provide another source of financing to Spanish SMEs. 
California, US-based EmiSense Technologies, which is developing emissions sensor technology, has closed its third round of funding led by 9th Street Investments. 
ZeaKal, a plant science company spun-out of the Kapyon Ventures incubator, has completed a $3.8m Series A round led by Finistere Ventures, Two Oceans and the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council. 
