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- October
2012
Solarcity files for IPO to build global smart green utility
“Our goal is to become the largest provider of clean distributed energy in the world.” Elon Musk, super hero of the Smart Green Economy, is doing it again. As Chairman and biggest shareholder, Elon prepares for his third IPO after PayPal (2002) and Tesla Motors (2010) and positions Solarcity as the smart green utility of the future. Solarcity just filed for its long-awaited Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ by registering the Form S-1 with the SEC. While IPO date, volume and share price are to be defined, reading this investment prospectus is highly recommended. Update: On 27 November 2012, the price range ($13 to $15) and the volume (10.065.012 shares) was announced (S-1 Amendment 27.11.12).
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- October
2011
Smart Green VC Khosla Ventures raises new billion-dollar fund
Vinod Khosla is a wise man and smart green investor. Originally from India, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, Partner at Kleiner Perkins and, since 2004, Founder and Managing Partner of Khosla Ventures, Vinod is probably the most successful Cleantech VC in 2011 with 3 successful IPOs already. Not afraid of taking big risks, ready to fail in order to succeed, focused on the relevance of the Chindia price (unsubsidised price competitiveness in China and India) and self-defining as venture assistant helping entrepreneurs build relevant companies, Vinod is a big role model for me. Now he has even more money to accelerate smart green startups. That’s awesome, dude, congrats to all of us!
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- July
2011
Fast cleantech IPO invitation by Sven Roger von Schilling and his SPAC European Cleantech 1
These guys want to make one of the biggest cleantech deals in Germany by the end of 2012 – at the latest. Their ambition is great and their budget is big. Their Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) European Cleantech 1 (ECT 1) is a recently listed public company that raised €115M to acquire a private cleantech company and take it public at the same time via a business combination. If you are a super successful private cleantech company in Europe and want to go public fast, you should talk to Sven soon.
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