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[Posted on May 17, 2007 - 12:42 PM]
Venture firms tend to be leery of government involvement in clean energy, but also recognize the role it plays as a potential customer and funder of research, said a panel of venture investors speaking at The Clean Energy Venture Summit Wednesday. They included Venrock, Arch Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sevin Rosen Funds and Applied Ventures, the venture arm...

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[Posted on May 17, 2007 - 12:29 PM]
Companies presenting at the Clean Energy Venture Summit typically have been realistic about the route to liquidity for their investors. As it is across most tech sectors, M&A is the most likely exit. For startups that combine information and energy technologies, the action is picking up. Oracle Corp. last month announced plans to acquire Lodestar Corp., which makes software...

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[Posted on May 16, 2007 - 12:57 PM]
Solar, biomass and wind could be considered the big three in clean energy, but there are several interesting niches emerging, especially for those scouting for more immediate M&A opportunities. Companies that add intelligence to the electric grid might not generate headlines — or electricity, for that matter — but some of these small companies are already showing a return...

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[Posted on May 16, 2007 - 11:09 AM]
America is trading national security and a cooler climate for cheap oil, said James Woolsey, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in his keynote speech on Tuesday at the Clean Energy Venture Summit in Austin, Texas. Woolsey advocates electric cars or a hybrid plug-in vehicle to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but he concedes that dealing with...

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[Posted on May 15, 2007 - 11:44 AM]
Although it obviously pained some of the panelists at Monday’s Clean Energy Venture Summit to admit it, a group of investors representing firms like New Enterprise Associates and Austin Ventures acknowledged that clean energy startups experience a decided “uplift” in valuation simply by virtue of their green focus. “The liquidity event for an enterprise software company sucks,” said Jimmy...

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[Posted on May 15, 2007 - 11:17 AM]
The opening day of the Austin Clean Energy Venture Summit was fodder for those fearful of global warming, with the temperature hovering at 95 degrees Monday afternoon. The cloudless sky also nicely exhibited Austin, Texas’ abundant solar resources, which, along with wind and biomass, are some of the reasons Austin Clean Energy Incubator director Joel Serface moved from Silicon Valley...

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[Posted on May 10, 2007 - 12:40 PM]
Houston is known as the home to many of the nation’s oil and gas companies, but the Texas capital is making a bid for the next generation of energy firms. As part of the effort, Austin will host about 275 entrepreneurs, investors and energy executives for the Clean Energy Venture Summit, hosted by the Clean Energy Incubator and Austin...

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