The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, which is the country’s largest pension fund, has put close to a billion dollars into cleantech over the past five years and says it’s only returned a tenth of that capital. Yikes. Read more »
It’s been a long year and a half since Cleantech Blog published its last Cleantech Blog Power 5 highlighting the top investors in cleantech. . . And the bottom five wild cards. Time for round two. Read more »
What Forbes and others were reporting earlier this year is now official: Famed cleantech investor Vinod Khosla has officially raised $1 billion for two new funds, largely from outside investors, a substantial portion of which will be focused on cleantech startups. This is the first time […] Read more »
Reports emerged last month that Vinod Khosla, the high-profile green venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder, was finally turning to outside investors to create two new funds that together would raise $1 billion to primarily back cleantech startups. Hard evidence has now surfaced about one of […] Read more »
Russell Read, the exec who leads investment strategy for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s $244 billion pension fund — the largest in the country — said today that he plans to launch his own private equity fund devoted to clean energy after he steps down […] Read more »
Where do you get your ideas? Much of my work on the Web involves content development which is my fancy way of saying I write articles, monthly columns and bi-weekly blog posts for clients. Coming up with new ideas to publish on a regular basis for […] Read more »
Two days ago we were hearing that Fujitsu is cramming 500 GB of capacity into a 2.5-inch notebook hard drive, but many UMPC device owners are left out of the upgrade path since most of these devices use smaller 1.8-inch drives. We’re still not able to […] Read more »
Looks like Verizon is dipping its toes in the fixed wireless waters. The experiment is happening in Grundy, Va. Verizon said the opportunity seemed perfect to try a small fixed wireless pilot using Alvarion BreezeAccess VL gear. Verizon will use unlicensed spectrum at 2.4 GHz and […] Read more »