3D printing startup Shapeways raises $30M led by Andreessen Horowitz
Shapeways has raised $30 million led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz to grow its 3D printing service, marketplace, and reach of its API. Read more »
For investors sticking with “cleantech,” it could be the best of times (just don’t call it cleantech)
Despite the hand-wringing over the cleantech investing cliff, it actually could be the best of times for investing in energy tech, resource management and sustainability, for investors that stick with it. Read more »
Lux Capital closes $245M third fund, remains committed to energy tech
Lux Capital has closed on its third fund, of $245 million, and remains committed to investing in energy technology, despite that many VCs have backed out of cleantech investing. Read more »
Startup Gridco wants to build a next-gen power grid that looks like the Internet
A new type of smart grid is emerging that includes power electronics and specifically solid state transformers. That’s the type of power grid that looks a lot more like the Internet with distributed and decentralized power grid management. Read more »
A power conversion startup buddies up with Japan’s electronics giants
A startup that makes more efficient power conversion devices has raised money from, and partnered with, a group of Japanese electronics giants. Transphorm is a venture-backed startup and its move is a symbol of the growing importance of corporate partners as well as overseas investors in cleantech. Read more »
The real reason for the greentech IPO missteps
Three greentech IPO hopefuls pulled the plug on their public market plans this month. There’s a lot that these companies have in common, and it’s not that they’re green: it’s the lack of profits and even revenues. Read more »
Kurion dominates Fukushima radioactive water cleanup
Nuclear waste cleanup startup Kurion (which I once called the most successful greentech startup you haven’t heard of) says it’s responsible for removing 70 percent of the radioactivity from the waste water at the Fukushima nuclear plant after last year’s disaster. Read more »
Startup Kurion says Japan nuclear water cleanup is working
In June, a group of tech companies, including Silicon Valley startup Kurion, started cleaning the contaminated water at the nuclear power plants in Japan. Now Kurion says that the efforts are working and that cesium levels in the water have dropped by more than 40 percent. Read more »
Tech companies to begin cleaning water at Japan nuclear plants
A group of nuclear tech companies on Friday afternoon (Japan time) are poised to begin cleaning the contaminated water in the turbine buildings at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan that suffered damage in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. Read more »
Startup Kurion Ships Nuclear Clean Up Tech to Japan
Nuclear waste cleanup startup Kurion says it has shipped several hundred tons of its equipment that will be used to clean contaminated water at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan that suffered damage in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. Read more »
Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey Joins Lux Capital
Former CIA Director, and colorful energy security advocate, Jim Woolsey has left greentech firm VantagePoint Venture Partners, and has joined East Coast firm Lux Capital as a partner, focused on investing in energy technologies. Read more »
Stealth Kurion Emerges to Turn Nuclear Waste Into Glass
Turning nuclear waste into glass — called vitrification — is the generally accepted way of dealing with nuclear waste. But a startup called Kurion emerged from stealth with a plan to modularize that vitrification nuclear waste management process, making it cheaper, faster and more efficient. Read more »
