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Nordic Windpower Raises $38 Million, Led by Khosla

Posted on: January 6th, 2010

Nordic Windpower, a Berkeley, Calif.-based maker of wind turbines, has raised $38 million in Series C funding. Khosla Ventures led the round, and was joined by New Enterprise Associates, Novus Energy ...


Alastair Goldfisher

Message Received: RingCentral CEO Likes Cloud Computing Phone Systems

Posted on: December 16th, 2009

VC-backed RingCentral was started on a shoestring, with institutional investors arriving relatively late in the game, according to founder and CEO Vlad Shmunis. The Russian-born Shmunis previously ...


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Square Launches, Raises $10 Million

Posted on: December 2nd, 2009

Square, a payment service start-up, has launched with $10 million in venture backing from Khosla Ventures and a team of angel investors, Techcrunch reported. The company is already valued at $40 milli...


Deborah Gage

Vinod Khosla: Smart Grids Are Overhyped

Posted on: November 30th, 2009

Already -- and they barely exist yet. That's not to say there won't be important smart grid applications and successful companies, Khosla said at the GreenBeat conference earlier this month. But it so...


Deborah Gage

As India Rises, Silicon Valley Falls Behind

Posted on: November 23rd, 2009

So says the Bay Area Council, which is talking up a 3,000-page report documenting the ever shifting relationship between India and the San Francisco Bay Area -- home to the second-largest population o...


Deborah Gage

More Federal Money For AltaRock

Posted on: October 29th, 2009

AltaRock received another $26.5 million in grants from the Department of Energy today for two new geothermal drilling projects -- despite claims that its drilling project in the California Geysers cou...


Deborah Gage

DOE Funding Very-Early-Stage Clean Tech

Posted on: October 26th, 2009

The DOE's newly formed ARPA-E -- an Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy modeled after the Defense Department's DARPA, which created the Internet -- handed out $151 million in funding today to...


Deborah Gage

Yes, VC Fund-Raising Is Heading Down

Posted on: October 12th, 2009

Dan and I were on the same page this morning. I posted the NVCA chart: Year/Quarter - Number of Funds - Venture Capital Raised ($M) 2004 - 218 - 19,154.4 2005 - 242 - 28,962.7 2006 - 242 - 31...


Deborah Gage

Venture Capital Is Not A Road To Riches

Posted on: October 2nd, 2009

But you already knew that, didn't you? Only five people on Forbes' list of 400 Richest Americans this year are venture capitalists. If you don't count the ones that also made money elsewhere -- Pau...


Deborah Gage

VC Investment In Cleantech Climbs - But So Do Others

Posted on: September 29th, 2009

This is from Greentech Media, which recorded a 56% jump in venture dollars invested in green tech since second quarter and a 47% jump in the number of deals -- that's $1.9 billion invested in 112 deal...


Deborah Gage

Biggest Backers Of A123 Systems Are Taxpayers

Posted on: September 21st, 2009

Venture capitalists and clean tech executives will no doubt watch closely this week to see how A123's IPO goes -- if it happens and it does well, other clean tech companies may be bold enough to follo...


Deborah Gage

Khosla’s LPs Have Invested For The Long Haul

Posted on: September 15th, 2009

Vinod Khosla just raised the biggest first-time funds of any venture capitalist since 1999 -- over $1 billion in two funds -- but he doesn't encourage his clean tech companies to get to market quickly...



VC Bookworm By Jeff Bussgang



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