Tue, 03/02/2010 - 06:48
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Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum: Getting the Green for Your Green Technology - Financing Your GreenTech Venture
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech, Pasadena
Registration, Exhibition and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 am
Program: 9:00 to 11:30 am
Breakfast, Exhibition & Networking with Speakers: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Cost: $40 on-line registration; $50 at the door, full-time students $10; free to Caltech students
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For Registration: http://www.entforum.caltech.edu/may2010.html
Bloom Energy: $400 Million
Tesla Motors: $705 Million (Private equity and DoE)
A123 Systems: $640 Million (IPO + DoE grant)
SolarCity: $60 Million (in tax equity)
These are just a few of the GreenTech companies that have raised significant growth capital recently. Is GreenTech the next wave of entrepreneurship that will be a potent engine of economic growth this decade?
The need for innovation to decrease our reliance on non-renewable energy sources, to slow the pace of climate change and to manage our increasingly scarce sources of clean water has created new sources of financing opportunities for GreenTech ventures. GreenTech entrepreneurs not only follow the traditional route for raising capital -- friends and family, angel investors, venture capital -- but also they are able to tap into alternate financing sources, such as government grants, community foundations, corporate foundations, Tax credits and foreign entrepreneur immigration incentives.
Who is investing in GreenTech and what makes a GreenTech venture financeable? How does an entrepreneur tap into these new sources of capital? Will these capital intensive projects provide investors a return on their investments?
Join us for a program focusing on the financing opportunities and sources in the green technology sector. In addition to our keynote speaker and panel of GreenTech experts who will be sharing their experiences on raising capital for their GreenTech ventures, for the first time, we will exhibit some emerging green technologies before and after the program allowing attendees to see and experience game-changing innovations that will impact the way we live.
To register, please go to: http://www.entforum.caltech.edu/may2010.html
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Keynote Speaker
Marianne Wu
Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
www.mdv.com
Panelists
Dr. Calum Chisholm
CEO
SAFCell, Inc.
www.safcell-inc.com
Rachid Yazami (Click to see bio)
Visiting Associate in Chemistry
Engineering and Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~yazami/
Randy Churchill
Director of Business Development
PricewaterhouseCoopers
www.pwc.com
Mr. Churchill will be presenting the latest data for investments in green technologies in Southern California from The PwC MoneyTree™ Report (www.pwcmoneytree.com).
Moderator
Producers
Nikhil R. Jain, Managing Partner, Artilient Labs
Kevin D. DeBré, Partner, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Stephanie Yanchinski, Founder and Partner, SCY Associates
Rogelio F. Nochebuena, President, Nochebuena R&D Consulting
(1 vote)
Tue, 04/27/2010 - 08:13
#1
To the VC's in the panel.
1. What do you see as the technology of the future with regards to funding opportunities for entrepreneurs and why do you believe so?
2. Are there any lessons that we can learn from Brazil and how they have achieved energy indepedence?
Tue, 04/27/2010 - 08:51
#2
Bridging the funding for the stage between initial lab prototype and field testable unit is really challenging. Often the amount needed is around the angel level but generally they don't understand the technology, so they are risk averse for this stage. VC's generally aren't interested in sub $1m investments. So what are the other options?
Tue, 04/27/2010 - 11:21
#3
What advice do you have for inventors/entrepreneurs who lack connections in the Angel/VC community? What is a good way to get exposure and get your company noticed by investors?
Tue, 04/27/2010 - 13:40
#4
Even though we have performed better in terms of VC founding for green start-ups I doubt it would be enough to curb the current green house levels, especially since we are lagging behind most other international communities in terms of green tech financing.
Fri, 04/30/2010 - 09:54
#5
I read the other day that the US gov funded over 2,800 companies in green tech or 1 in 4 that applied for funding. How does a start up get in front of the DOE for these funds?
