Cathy Zoi has joined C3 as its Chief Strategy Officer following her work with Silver Lake clean energy fund Kraftwerk. She was formerly the acting under secretary for the Obama Administration. Read more »
Famed entrepreneur Tom Siebel finally details just what his big data energy startup C3 has been up to. C3 is four years old, has raised a $100 million, and is now demonstrating real products and customers. Read more »
Despite layoffs and business model changes, Smart Grid News’ Jesse Berst thinks home energy startup Tendril is in a good position for growth. Read more »
A new report indicates Apple is on the verge of replacing the Google Maps app altogether in the next version of iOS. Considering Apple’s history of buying up mapping technologies and its preference of using its own technology rather than third-party solutions, the report makes sense. Read more »
Watch out Opower. Carbon and energy software player C3 — the quiet firm started by Thomas Siebel and which counts Condoleezza Rice as a director — has acquired another energy software startup Efficiency 2.0. Read more »
A young startup called Energy Points is looking to use data streams to calculate the miles per gallon — MPG — for companies’ resource use, from energy, to water, to waste, to transportation. Read more »
Here’s 10 questions with former Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham — who led the DOE 2001 to 2005 and was nominated by George W Bush — on his thoughts on the future of energy innovation, nuclear power in the U.S., the energy moves of the current administration: Read more »
Is the greentech industry headed for a breakout year or is it retrenching for hard times to come? The first three months of 2011 provided evidence that could support both assertions, with a big rise in venture capital investment and a big drop-off in global energy financing. Solar power remained the largest green technology sector in terms of venture capital investment, while in the world of electric vehicles, GM’s Chevy Volt hybrid and Nissan’s all-electric Leaf — the first two mainstream plug-in vehicles — hit the showroom floors in significant numbers. Meanwhile the smart grid sector’s relative dearth of VC investment was more than made up for by the massive round of acquisitions. Companies mentioned in this report include NRG Energy, Microsoft, Silver Spring Networks, Tesla and BrightSource Energy. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Thomas Siebel unveiled customers and features of his stealthy carbon software company C3 at the Fortune Brainstorm Green event. It’s not a software product, said Siebel, it’s a $150 million effort that will take a decade to build and is more like a division of SAP. Read more »
HP has launched a whole bunch of energy and resource management products and indicating the progress of a couple of startups already in the resource management space, HP said it would be working with both Hara and C3. Read more »
Energy resource management startup C3 has some major names from the tech and policy world in its corner, and is amassing close to $50 million in funding, according to an SEC filing today, but the company is still largely in stealth mode. Read more »
The US Open are about to start, and this year, tennis fans will be able to enjoy the tournament through live streams from every session. Video will be streamed in HD, and tennis fans will be able to follow the action from all five courts. Read more »
In the second quarter of 2010, greentech startups scored record venture capital and increased spending despite a weak economy. Solar power retained its lead in greentech venture financing, while global investment for clean energy asset financing fell. China, meanwhile, underscored its rising might in the greentech industry, raising billions of dollars in green energy financing. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The market for carbon accounting software in the U.S. last year was as small as an average venture capital funding round — about $10 million — but researchers are predicting that the market will boom to $250 million by 2012. Who will grab that cash? Read more »
It’s probably not too hard for carbon-focused startup C3 to raise funds. The stealth firm started by Thomas Siebel, and backed by Condoleezza Rice, is looking to up its funding by around $4 million to a total of $30 million. Read more »
