Who: Ahwahnee Technology is angel-backed and looking for VC funding. Update: Ahwahnee has raised $1 million in angel funding. What: The company is developing a new energy-efficient lighting source for the general illumination market. The technology uses carbon nanotubes, nano-scale material 10,000 times thinner than … Read More »
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Lean and green is the goal of Project Greenhouse, a video series in which an SUV-driving, red meat-eating, cigarette-smoking blogger spends thirty days living the carbon-neutral, healthy life. The series, part of New York-based HealthiNation‘s growing network of health-centric videos, focuses on … Read More »
One of our daily reads is the online clean tech trade publication Inside Greentech. Well, we want to give congrats to them this morning, as the company writes that it will become cleantech.com and a property of the Cleantech Network. Inside Greentech started publishing … Read More »
The funding for online video sites continues to flow unabated. Metacafe, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based video site that competes with the likes of YouTube, has raised $30 million in new funding, according to VentureWire (via VentureBeat). Highland Capital Partners and DAG Ventures led the … Read More »
We’ve covered “How to Manage Kids in the Home Office” and provided “10 (More) Tips on Doing Productive Web Work with Kids in the House.” But neither article included one resource we’ve come to rely on in my household: TumbleBooks. This online collection of … Read More »
Last week it was Venture Vehicle’s series A round, and this week Dan Primack at PEHub says that electric SUV and truck maker Phoenix Motorcars is in the process of raising a $15 million series A round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & … Read More »
Most of us will agree that these days trying to do anything other than making plain vanilla phone calls and sending short messages on a regular 12-keypad mobile phone is an ordeal. The triple tapping gives the thumb muscles a complete workout. No wonder it … Read More »
The fullest incarnation of Web video has arrived, in both the best and worst sense, with cool applications of technology and crass commercialism all wrapped into one package. It’s called SeenON! Shopisodes, and it’s a custom Web video player that helpfully directs us mid-stream to … Read More »
Orion Energy Systems, a Plymouth, Wis.-based maker of energy-efficient lighting systems for the large commercial and industrial market, has filed for an IPO, which could raise up to $100 million according to a regulatory filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Orion has … Read More »
When entering college in 1995, I purchased my first computer that was all mine – a Performa 631CD, with screaming 33 MHz performance and a 68040LC processor. Sporting 8 MB of RAM and 500 MB of hard drive space, I was good to go. … Read More »
Innovation in drywall isn’t necessarily something that springs to mind when you think about clean tech. But Sunnyvale, Calif. based green building material startup Serious Materials is in the process of raising a whopping $50 million series B round to deliver more earth-friendly drywall. The … Read More »
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