(by Meredith Somers, MIT Sloan) Clean Energy Venture Group has invested in 39 companies since its start in 2005, and those companies have earned more than $500 million in follow-on investments from large venture capital firms and major energy companie ...
Clean Energy Ventures Launches $110 Million Early-Stage Venture Fund for Clean Energy Innovation
BOSTON, Oct. 15, 2019 -- Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), an investor in early-stage advanced energy start-ups, today announced the close of its first fund. The $110 million Clean Energy Venture Fund targets the curre ...
Pearl Certification, Clean Energy Venture’s Newest Portfolio Company, Completes $4M Financing to Enable Scaling
We are excited to announce Pearl Certification as our latest Clean Energy Venture Fund portfolio company! Pearl recently closed $4M in financing which will enable them to become the national standard for home certification in the U.S. ...
Legacy Portfolio Company, Pika Energy, Acquired by Generac Holdings
CEV legacy portfolio company, Pika Energy, was acquired by Generac Holdings (NYSE: GNRC). We are very excited about this acquisition as well as Generac’s commitment to deploy Pika’s technology at an accelerating pace to help ...
EnergyBar Panel: The Intersection of Cleantech and Defense. April 4th, 5:30-8:30.
Don't miss this important panel discussion at Greentown Labs' Energy Bar on Thursday, April 4th! We are pleased to co-sponsor with our friends at E2: Environmental Entrepreneurs, Boston. "The US Department of Defense relies heavily on electrici ...
Boston Materials Raises $1.75 Million in Funding
One of our new portfolio companies, Boston Materials, has completed a $1.75M raise and we are thrilled to have such an extraordinary leadership team and game-changing technology as part of the Clean Energy Ventures portfolio! Boston Materials is a ...
New IHS Markit and EFI Report: Advancing the Landscape of Clean Energy Innovation
A new report by IHS Markit and Energy Futures Initiative "Advancing the Landscape of Clean Energy Innovation" sets out some very clear strategies and priorities for policy, finance and market development. We are pleased to see #CleanEnergyVentures#Cl ...
CEV Names Louis Schick as Director of Investments
Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the manager of Clean Energy Venture Fund I, LP, a $100 million early-stage, clean energy focused venture fund, is pleased to announce that Louis (Lou) Schick has joined as Director of Investments, based in the firm’s Bost ...
New CEV Portfolio Company, LineVision, Inc., Closes $2 Million Series A Round
We are thrilled to add LineVision, a spinout from Genscape, as our latest Clean Energy Ventures portfolio company. LineVision, Inc. enables utilities to improve transmission line capacity, resilience and safety through advanced technology. Their ...
Solar microgrids in Africa progress to address energy access and clean energy deployment
We are very impressed with the progress of solar microgrids in Africa and their ability to address energy access and clean energy deployment, as discussed in recent coverage by The New York Times. We are especially proud to see our portfolio company, Spa ...