Israel Cleantech Ventures
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 | |
| Industry | Venture capital |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Ramat HaSharon, Israel |
| Number of locations | 1 |
| Website | www.israelcleantech.com |
Israel Cleantech Ventures is an Israeli specialized venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Glen Schwaber, Jack Levy, and Meir Ukeles.[1] It was the first Israel focused clean technology venture capital fund intent on providing growth capital to Israel's energy, water and environmental technology sectors.[2][3] It raised $75 million for its first fund in 2007 from investors that included Robeco and Piper Jaffray,[3] as well as institutional investors and family offices.
Portfolio companies
- Aqwise — Working on increased treatment capacity and nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants.[4]
- BrightView Systems — founded in 2007 to develop and bring to market process and production optimization technologies for the thin-film photovoltaic industry to enable solar-cell manufacturers to maximize panel efficiency and reliability as well as attain high-volume productivity.[5]
- CellEra — Working on disruptive low-temperature fuel cell technology.[6]
- CRE (Citrine Renewable Energy) — Developing systems converting biogas into high value biomethane.[7]
- Emefcy — Utilizing microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology to produce electricity from the treatment of wastewater.[8]
- FRX Polymers — has developed and is commercializing a family of novel non-halogenated (and therefore environmentally friendlier), transparent, high melt flowing, fire resistant plastics. FRX’s products are suitable as polymeric flame retardant additives and as “stand-alone” inherently flame retardant engineering plastics.[9]
- Metrolight — Based in Netanya with an office in Franklin, Tennessee;[10] the company has established products on electronic ballast solutions for HID lighting systems.[11] It was 2008 Israeli Company of the Year at the Eagle Star Awards Gala by the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.[12]
- Pythagoras Solar — Founded by Gonen Fink, Dr. Itay Baruchi, and Precede Technologies. Based in Hakfar Hayarok with an office in San Mateo, California, the start-up works with photovoltaic technology and builds "Medium" concentration solar cells using silicon.[13][14]
- Scodix — leading provider of Digital Enhancement Presses for the printing industry[15]
- Tigo Energy — hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management and control to photovoltaic solar installations[16]
References
- ↑ Israel Cleantech Ventures management profile.
- ↑ Israeli Greentech Companies Make Their Pitch, Jeff St. John, Greentech Media, November 11, 2008
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Israeli funds look to clean technologies, Jessica Steinberg, International Herald Tribune, October 18, 2008; accessed December 22, 2008.
- ↑ Aqwise company page.
- ↑
- ↑ http://www.cellera.biz/ CellEra website
- ↑ ICV Portfolio Page
- ↑ Emefcy company site
- ↑
- ↑ VC firms looking for next wave of innovation, Linda Bryant, Nashville Business Journal, November 23, 2007.
- ↑ Metrolight
- ↑ Eagle Star Award company profiles
- ↑ Pythagoras Solar Company Page; accessed 22 December 2008
- ↑ 150 Solar Start Ups, Eric Wesff, Green Tech Media, December 4, 2008.
- ↑
- ↑
External links
| |||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.