SunPower snaps up microinverter startup SolarBridge
Fresh off its bullish earnings last week, SunPower has bought some new solar tech.
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Fresh off its bullish earnings last week, SunPower has bought some new solar tech.
Quite a few greentech companies closed sizable funding rounds this week, and Battery Ventures is involved in three of them. Is cleantech support holding on in the venture world?
Now that solar inverter maker Enphase Energy has ended a solar IPO drought by making its public market debut on Friday, it’s time to look at how well the investors did, at least on paper.
Solar inverter maker Enphase Energy, which made its market debut this morning, rose in morning trading by as much as 29 percent to $7.76, but settled back down to $7.22 by noon ET.
Two greentech companies that have planned to go public — waste to fuel company Enerkem, and solar inverter company Enphase Energy — have set the expected price ranges for their shares in recent days. Is it a sign that the IPO window is slowly opening back up?
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Enphase Energy wants to raise money from the public market, but given how much the IPO market sucks these days, the solar power conversion gear company is turning to private investors. The company has raised $21.86 million from a fundraising goal of $81.86 million.
As the solar market grows and competition intensifies, technology that can maximize energy harvesting from solar panels will continue to win over investors. The latest example comes from Tigo Energy, which has raised $5 million, according to its government filing Tuesday.
Solar panel giant SunPower has decided to embrace microinverters, which are a new emerging form of solar inverter that are embedded on each panel and are used to convert direct current generated by solar panels into alternating current for the grid.
Figuring out ways to convert solar power efficiently is attracting a lot of public and private dollars these days. Google-backed Transphorm is teaming up with another startup, Enphase Energy, to develop a device using a novel material with financial support from Department of Energy’s ARPA-E.
Here is another sign that a new class of solar inverters is cementing its hold in the market: SolarBridge Technologies announced Monday that it has raised $19 million to expand the sales and manufacturing of its microinverters.
Enphase Energy, which makes small distributed microinverters for solar panels, filed an S-1 yesterday for a $100 million IPO. Here’s the breakdown of how much Enphase is earning, spending, and shipping, and who will win out in the public debut.
Solar inverter maker Enphase Energy is taking a plunge by filing to go public. In a government filing Wednesday, the California company said it plans to raise up to $100 million.
The leader of the U.S. solar microinverter market, Enphase Energy, needs to watch its back. On Tuesday U.K. startup Enecsys announced that it’s raised £25 million ($41 million) in equity to essentially try to conquer North America.
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The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has thrown its greentech weight behind Enphase Energy, an early mover in the realm of microinverters for solar panels. Enphase announced today it has closed a $63 million round joined by Kleiner and other investors.
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