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Cleantech Blog – Premier site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech.

Cleantech Blog – Premier site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech.

We announced today that last night Texas based synthetic biology CO2 to products startup Cemvita Factory edged energy forecasting software startup Amperon and Stanford cooling materials startup SkyCool for the 2021 Cleantech.org $100K GS Beyond Energy Innovation Prize. Jeff Wolfe of energy storage company Veloce Energy, and whose executive team comes from market leaders Tritium […]




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Neal Dikeman



2021-07-22 09:49:18Synthetic Biology Startup Cemvita Factory Edges Amperon and SkyCool for $100K Cleantech.org Competition Win

The market continues to move aggressively.  A number of notable new energy transition venture funds have closed despite the pandemic. We are tracking around $6-7 Billion in energy transition private venture capital raised since the pandemic started or expected to close this year. Tracking favorably to support venture investment even compared to the cleantech investing […]




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Neal Dikeman



2021-07-01 09:05:52Over $5 Bil in US Cleantech and Energy Transition Focused Venture Funds Raised in last Year

Cleantech.org announced today that it has selected the 6 Finalists for our GS Beyond Energy Innovation Challenge in the following categories: Digitization of Energy, eMobility in Cities, and New Fuels.  The finalists will pitch in a virtual pitch event on July 21 with the top team winning the cash award of $100,000 with no strings, […]




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Neal Dikeman



2021-06-30 10:24:196 Finalists Named in Cleantech from CO2 to Storage for $100,000 Prize

I’ve been investing in cleantech since 2001, founded a bunch of startups, and have a good stack of exits to my name across every cleantech investing wave. In fact my last 4 investments have all exited. Not sure I’ll ever be able to say that again. And renewable power is cheaper than fossil. It’s fun […]




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Neal Dikeman



2021-06-30 08:46:33What’s Changed in Cleantech Investing? Two things: Economics and Returns

Cleantech.org, the first, and one of the top portals for technology commercialization in cleantech, has hosted an innovation challenge competition, with a $100K cash prize for the best energy startup product in Digitization of Energy, eMobility in Cities, and New Fuels. The semi-finalists were announced today. As founder and Chairman of Cleantech.org and one of […]




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Neal Dikeman



2021-06-21 14:02:1524 Semifinalists Selected for Cleantech.org’s $100,000 Innovation Challenge

Co-published with Energy Transition Ventures The Energy Transition is the term of art that arose out of the climate and cleantech sector in common use in corporate board rooms and policy circles around 2015 to 2020 to describe the shift, and the secondary effects and impacts, from changing the source of the majority of the […]




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Neal Dikeman



2021-02-05 12:31:36What Will Happen in the Energy Transition?

100 years ago my great grandparents were also angel investors – in Infrastructure, Media and Bee tech They invested in media, ag / cleantech, and infrastructure.  Lest you think angel investing is new or VCs are smart – it really hasn’t changed much in a century. In the 1920s my great grandparents were active angel investors […]




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Neal Dikeman



2019-07-06 23:57:12It is a Long Lane that Never Turns – Agtech Angel Investing 100 Years Ago

by Neal Dikeman, chief blogger, Cleantech Blog Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been the electric vehicle darling since almost the day it launched.  I’d argue there are some really neat aspects to its product and strategy, but it is far from a resounding market leader in EVs. The Range and Battery Scale Advantage There are a couple of […]




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Neal Dikeman



2015-03-15 20:18:49Is Tesla Really the EV King?

Analysis of 2014 financial results and valuation of Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA)




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Neal Dikeman



2015-03-15 13:44:41EV King Tesla – Where Did the Cash Go?

At the University of California, Berkeley, a team of engineers is pioneering ocean-source energy technology by using “carpet” to capture the energy generated by ocean waves. The team, which includes wave energy guru and Assistant Professor Reza Alam, and Ph.D. Marcus Lehmann, an engineering researcher, aims not only to capture the kinetic energy contained in […]




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Jeanne Roberts



2014-03-25 14:16:47Seafloor Carpet Turns Surf’s up to Lights On

A decade ago, biofuels were considered the Holy Grail of combustion-engine fuels. Measurably cleaner than fossil fuels, they were the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, at least according to some clean energy experts. Fast forward to 2008, when the biofuel industry’s withdrawal of food crops such as corn, rice, wheat and palm […]




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Jeanne Roberts



2014-03-10 17:49:01Boeing’s SBRC Makes Biofuel from Agricultural Rejects

The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit working in the areas of energy efficiency, green building, and environmental protection. Much of IMT’s effort goes toward correcting inadequacies in the construction/remodeling vertical that prevents investors from taking a stake in energy efficiency and sustainability in the United States. Cliff Majersik, Executive Director, […]




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Jeanne Roberts



2014-02-19 12:40:36Cliff Majersik, IMT, Identifies Efficiency as Energy’s Biggest Asset

It’s particularly troubling to those of us watching the energy efficiency marketplace to see one program or another take a hard hit. That’s why the 2010 class action lawsuit by Henry Gifford against the US Green Building Council – the parent organization of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) – had such wide-ranging responses […]




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Jeanne Roberts



2014-01-28 12:57:56LEED v4, the Evolution of Green

Over at Bye Aerospace, Inc., Founder George Bye and colleagues are designing drones. But don’t worry. The Denver, Colorado company, founded in 2007, isn’t the site of the next Evil Empire, and the drones which will eventually start going out the door (here or elsewhere, but not under their own power) are meant for peaceful […]




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Jeanne Roberts



2014-01-22 14:26:55Silent Guardian: Drones without the Scare Factor

The recent CBS 60 Minutes documentary, The Cleantech Crash, was an apocryphal tale of wasted government funding and failed companies, and left one feeling sorry for a much maligned Vinod Khosla, deemed to be a prime architect behind the ‘failed cleantech revolution’. Khosla has rallied with a strong and stirring rebuttal in open letter to CBS. Cleantech, (if narrowly […]




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Paul O`Callaghan



2014-01-20 13:49:46Has a Cleantech crash spurred the need for Bluetech innovation?

La législation sur les jeux d’argent en ligne présente souvent des lacunes qui résultent du développement rapide de la technologie qui sous-tend l’évolution du secteur. Certains pays, dont la Belgique, le Canada, la Finlande et la Suède, ont des monopoles d’État sur les jeux de hasard et n’accordent pas de licences aux exploitants de casinos étrangers. Selon leur législation, les opérateurs titulaires d’une licence sur le territoire de ces pays ne peuvent être considérés que comme légaux. Dans le même temps, ils ne peuvent pas poursuivre les opérateurs de

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