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- February
2013
Smart Green Dealflow: Sunfire, Greenergetic, Sonnenbatterie, LEDeXCHANGE, Valopaa and Friedola Tech
6 smart green startups successfully raised new venture capital recently: Power to gas and fuel startup Sunfire (seven-figure, Germany), PV online retailer Greenergetic (undisclosed seed, Germany), residential storage provider Sonnenbatterie (undisclosed, Germany), retrofit LED provider LEDeXCHANGE (€500K seed, Germany), LED lighting company Valopaa (€2M, Finland) and recycled plastics manufacturer Friedola Tech (€31M, Germany). The active cleantech VCs include Bilfinger Venture Capital, eCapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, VNT Management, Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Kleiner Perkins.
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- February
2012
Smart Green Cleantech VCs You Should Know
Ecosummit connects startups, investors and corporates to foster the transformation to the Smart Green Economy. Since 2010, we have met many cleantech VCs and would like to present our favourites. Many of these smart green investors prefer backing late stage startups that have substantial revenues (€2M plus), great management teams, proven execution of their business plan and successfully reduced the technology risk. At the same time, there are cleantech VCs who love early stage entrepreneurs that are just about to take their technology innovation from lab to fab. The result are different investment strategies and USPs that startups should know before pitching. This alphabetical selection of 28 cleantech VCs includes many investors and startups you can meet at our Ecosummit events. We update this list frequently and welcome your input.
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