Investors
Keiretsu Global Forum Lafayette, CA
A worldwide angel investing group with interest in many sectors, including clean technology.
Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest angel investor network with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180m in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.
The forum is interested in Clean Technology deals and members have already invested in multiple start-ups in this space. Forum members collaborate in the due diligence, but make individual investment decisions, with rounds in the range of $250k-$2m. Keiretsu Forum’s community is strengthened through education on angel investing, as well as charitable giving. Forum members have donated over $1m to 90 non-profit organizations.
Clean Pacific Ventures
San Francisco, CA
A San Francisco based early stage cleantech venture fund.
Clean Pacific Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in promising early stage clean technology companies. Clean Pacific focuses primarily on clean technologies related to energy, water, agriculture and materials.
Clean Pacific intends to target companies needing the first institutional round of $1-3 million to commercialize and expand their current businesses.
Areas of particular interest include: Renewable energy, Carbon markets, Energy storage, Energy efficiency and intelligence, Water purification, Water efficiency and intelligence, Food safety and purification, Advanced materials, Recyclable and remanufactured materials
@Ventures Waltham, MA
Dedicated cleantech early stage venture fund.
@Ventures, CMGI’s affiliated venture capital group, provides venture capital to early stage and mid-stage technology companies. Formed in 1995, @Ventures has funded more than 75 software, Internet, and energy technology companies.
The focus of @Ventures’ current fund, formed in 2004, is on investments in the cleantech sector, including alternative energy, energy storage and efficiency, and water purification technologies.
Cleantech Ventures Melbourne, Australia
An Australian-owned and managed venture capital company.
Cleantech Ventures is a specialist venture capital fund manager focused on investments in companies developing clean technologies.
Australia has a strong technology and R&D skills base through universities, CSIRO, Co-operative Research Centres and industry and is recognised globally as being a centre for innovation, punching well above its weight on the world stage. Significant opportunities exist for new technologies that provide solutions to the worldwide structural changes that are under way to address global warming, water scarcity, water quality, waste and pollution.
Areas of particular interest include: renewable energy, energy storage, biofuels, cleaner fossil fuel processes, water purification and waste water treatment, recycling, energy efficiency, pollution reduction and advanced materials (including nanotechnologies).
