http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/07/venrock-china-energy/ Two of venture firm Venrock’s energy investors, Matt Trevithick and Matthew Nordan, have left the firm. Trevithick is an accomplished investor…
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Taking the long view on cleantech investment
The slew of struggling cleantech companies, particularly in solar and battery technology, combined with the headline grabbing bankruptcies that have accompanied these…
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There’s an interesting post from Venrock Capital’s Matthew Nordan regarding the correlation of natural gas pricing with demand response compensation for frequency…
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This is a presentation I made for a decal class at UC Berkeley's Haas school on Wednesday night. I learned of BrightSource pulling its IPO on my way out of the class, which made me feel like the guy in the first slide.…
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Venrock Capital’s Matthew Nordan has an excellent analysis of the evolution of natural gas pricing over the past as the price plummeted…
Read MoreFinancing the next generation of great cleantech ideas
Despite many challenges — from disappointing EV sales to the headaches in subsidizing solar — the cleantech sector survived 2011. Where is it headed next? It is clear that early-stage companies and ideas hold the keys to future growth, much like the first wave of Internet companies did for later companies like Twitter, Groupon and Square. But in a market where VC funding primarily goes toward later-stage companies, the question is, How will those early-stage players find adequate funding?…
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The second of a four part post series on earth2tech from Matthew Nordan, an energy investor at Venrock, is an excellent debunking…
Read MoreQ&A With Venrock’s Newest Green Investor: Matthew Nordan
Venrock, the venture capital firm that was originally established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, is bulking up its cleantech…
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