Green Venture Capital Firms

Post on: 16 Март, 2015 No Comment

Green Venture Capital Firms

This list is a starting point for identifying venture capital firms focused on investments in renewable energy, clean tech, and sustainable technologies. For more resources, consult the National Venture Capital Association .

Firms Serving Maryland

Mid Atlantic Venture Association MAVA’s mission is to facilitate private equity investing in the mid-Atlantic region and represent the collective interests of venture capitalists with investment interests in the mid-Atlantic. With more than 500 venture capital professionals from 125 firms, our members collectively manage more than $100 billion in capital.

SJF Ventures SJF has actively invested in the cleantech, premium consumer products, business services, and web services sectors. Representative investment areas include renewable energy and efficiency, organic and healthy consumer products, digital media, and outsourced business services.

Adena Ventures Adena Ventures provides equity capital and operational assistance to high-growth businesses, primarily in Appalachia. Adena’s investment focus includes growth-oriented ventures at various stages of development across a broad range of industries. From cutting-edge technology to more traditional opportunities, Adena works with portfolio companies to maximize growth.

Rural West Fund The Rural West Fund (RWF) is a wholly owned investment program of the Mountain Maryland Entrepreneurial Development Center, Inc. (MMEDC) RWF is a near-equity fund providing growth capital for businesses in Maryland’s Garrett, Allegany, and Washington Counties. The MMEDC is a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating and supporting economic development through entrepreneurship in Maryland’s western region.

Nationally/Internationally Focused Firms

Braemar Energy Ventures Braemar partners with energy technology firms to help unlock the enormous potential that exists in creating profitable solutions to the issues shaping the future of energy.

Commons Capital Commons Capital is a venture capital firm founded to realize competitive rates of return by investing in promising young companies whose products, services and corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy and deliver market solutions to major social and environmental problems

Draper Fisher Jurveston DFJ backs extraordinary entrepreneurs everywhere. We look for great ideas in many sectors including: information technology, nanotechnology, life sciences, and clean energy. We like to keep an open mind and consider unique opportunities.

Element Partners Element Partners invests in high growth companies offering innovative solutions to global energy, resource, and environmental problems.

Expansion Capital Partners Expansion Capital’s mission is to partner with entrepreneurs to grow clean technology companies to become respected industry leaders. We invest in companies that offer improvements in resource efficiency and productivity, while creating more value with less energy and materials and less waste and toxicity. Invests in companies with current customer revenues of $2 — $30 million.

Good Energies Good Energies is a leading global investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. The firm invests in solar, turbine-based renewables, green building technologies and other emerging areas within clean energy.

Investors’ Circle Investors’ Circle is a network of over 225 angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are actively investing in Greentech innovation and entrepreneurs. We invest in early-stage and breakthrough ventures that have the promise to create new market opportunities.

Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed’s current portfolio is comprised of companies in technology sectors ranging from consumer and business applications to networking, from computing infrastructure to cleantech.

Green Venture Capital Firms

Mindful Investors Mindful Investors is an investment partnership focused exclusively on opportunities in the rapidly growing natural, organic and sustainable consumer products market.

Navitas Capital Navitas Capital is a sector-based venture capital firm within the cleantech sector. Navitas Capital’s investment focus is unique among VCs — dedicated to working with entrepreneurs who are developing innovative building materials and technologies for a sustainable built environment.

NGEN Partners Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners is a pioneering investor in the cleantech sector. We invest in early to late stage businesses that offer economically valuable products and services that positively affect the environment.

Nth Power Nth Power is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and is the first and most experienced venture capital firm funding promising startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology, materials and other related businesses.

Rockport Capital We’re a leading venture capital firm that partners with cleantech entrepreneurs around the world. We collaborate with management teams to foster growth and create value, building innovative companies that bring disruptive technologies and products to the 21st century.

Solstice Capital Solstice Capital seeks superior venture capital returns for its limited partners through investments in seed- and early-stage companies in the industry areas of alternative energy, education, the environment, life sciences and information technology.

Spring Ventures Spring Ventures is a multi-strategy investment fund that invests in and incubates novel clean energy technologies, companies and projects that attempt to address climate change.

TBL Capital TBL Capital has developed an intentional, patient capital venture fund focused on the needs of the entrepreneur with a balanced emphasis on people, planet and profits. Our firm invests in entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies with strong triple bottom line returns.

Virgin Green Fund Virgin Green Fund focuses on middle market growth and expansion investment opportunities in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors including water.


Categories
Stocks  
Tags
Here your chance to leave a comment!