May 19th, 2008
Molecular Imprints, Inc., Austin’s premier company in nanopatterning systems and solutions, has announced the successful completion of $12.9 million in financing. Investors in this round include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tokyo Electron Venture Capital, Wafra Investment Advisory Group, KT Venture Group, Alloy Ventures and Motorola Ventures. This latest investment brings the total amount raised by Molecular [...]
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May 14th, 2008
Stacey Higginbotham is breaking the news over at GigaOM property Earth2Tech that Joel Serface, director of the Clean Energy Incubator, will be leaving to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at Kleiner Perkins Department of Energy Program, which is an effort to commercialize clean technology coming out of the national laboratories.
Maybe he will favor us with [...]
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February 27th, 2008
For those of you exploring the clean energy space, here’s a venture capital firm that you should be talking with. Good Energies is a global investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Let me share with you a quote from the CEO Richard Kauffman that should grab your attention.
“We want to invest half a billion [...]
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February 26th, 2008
TechTurn, an Austin-based technology recovery, refurbishing and resale company, today announced that Vito Fabiano has joined the executive team as Chief Operating Officer. Fabiano brings to TechTurn global leadership experience from key executive rolls at Dell and Pitney Bowes. Fabiano will be responsible for helping TechTurn fully realize its unprecedented potential within the exploding corporate green [...]
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January 22nd, 2008
LifeSize announced it’s PlanetWise initiative today, an environmental initiative to promote green technologies. They also announced their partnership with The Climate Group. As part of the green program, LifeSize conducted an internal audit of company operations to measure their carbon footprint. “LifeSize is dedicated to being an environmentally friendly company, and our commitment starts with [...]
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January 11th, 2008
Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich
Ok everyone, for prior readers of this blog, you’ll notice a couple of things:
- First, that was a really long “week” since the last Cleantech Friday post, where we left you hanging about promising a further peek into the Austin Chamber’s Clean Energy Council (or CEC)
- Second, by the slight change [...]
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January 9th, 2008
We were hearing rumors that the relationship between EEStor and Mort Topfer was on the rocks, which would be a huge loss for EEStor. But today they released news and made it official that Mort has joined the Board of Directors. The release goes on to say that they have 1 patent issued with 17 [...]
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