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I attended the SDForum Green and Clean Dinner tonight. The topic was "Where's the Money?" Five panelists, representing a VC firm, a bank, an angel funding group, a bridge-financing firm, and an entrepreneur who has raised his money independently, discussed the various sources of funding for clean tech companies. i took extensive notes, and will provide more details later, but for now some of the highlights were:

  • Liquidity may be different for clean tech companies than we got used to for high tech companies during the Internet boom
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Public Domain. Credit information: Hinode JAXA/NASA

Public Domain. Credit information: Hinode JAXA/NASA

Every day I get emails about "clean tech financing this" and "clean tech financing that" - last year there was over $7 billion in investments in clean technologies in the U.S. In this interview in the San Jose Merc, Paul Holland of Foundation Capital describes some of his philosophy on clean tech investment, including a strong focus on technologies that will reduce energy demand:

"The first lesson is there's nothing wrong with a capital-efficient investment, even in clean tech. The second lesson is, look what happens when you don't pay attention to the first lesson."

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