Did you know that the Cleantech Open is convening its first National Conference?
Join DOE Under Secretary Kristina Johnson, Ron Gonen, Lesa Mitchell and Jon Ortmans, along with the who’s who of Silicon Valley Clean Tech on July 22.
By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — MiaSolé, a solar panel start-up, sits near the heart of Silicon Valley— surrounded by blocks speckled with empty buildings that used to house chip, software and other companies…
9NEWS has been following the Clean Tech Open since March of this year. The competition takes the best ideas from hundreds of contestants and helps them develop the ideas into products people can use by offering business training and finding funding for the projects…
By Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solution The “Valley of Death” is a well known concept in the business startup and technology community. It’s the place where good ideas go to die. If small businesses are the lifeblood of economic growth and job creation, entrepreneurs and startup companies are the marrow. While the entrepreneurial path [...]
The Cleantech Open’s 2010 National Competition Launch took place Friday, Febrary 26 at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. If you don’t know who Art Rosenfeld is, don’t feel bad. Uma Subramanium posted candid thoughts and information about Art Rosenfeld on the Cleantech Open blog. His message to the Cleantech Open alumni: “Work on things [...]
by Dana Sagona – 12.31.09 Developing countries are often plagued with unreliable energy sources, a niche a new Berkeley, Calif.-based startup is working to fill. Point Source Power is working to help provide off-the-grid electricity to some of the 1.6 billion people worldwide who don’t currently have access to it. “We think part of the solution [...]
By Katie Fehrenbacher When we profiled three-year-old startup EcoFactor in November the company said it was in the process of raising its Series A round. Well, today the company filed a document with the SEC that says it is in the process of raising $4.5 million, and has already raised $2.39 million partly from Claremont Creek [...]
Concluso pochi giorni fa il concorso dedicato alla tecnologia ecosostenibile. Tante idee, dalla trasformazione delle acque di scolo in bioplastica alla regolazione dello smog nei tir di SARA FICOCELLI Può un software aiutarci a ridurre il consumo quotidiano di energia? La risposta arriva da Redwood City, cittadina in provincia di San Francisco sede, nei giorni [...]
The Cleantech Open has announced two new speakers, Marc Stanley and Jeffrey Schaub, to its all-star line-up for Tuesday’s Grand Expo and Awards Gala at The Masonic Center in San Francisco. Marc Stanley is deputy director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Jeffrey Schaub is the Green Beat reporter for CBS 5 [...]
America’s primary global advantage is entrepreneurial innovation. I believe that if you were to rank all nations for the output volume of quality innovative ideas and systems, Denmark would join the USA in the top 5 exporters of creativity worldwide. Then I check our twitter account for the Cleantech Open, a new client with an extraordinary [...]
The annual California Cleantech Open startup competition is always a fun event to attend, because you just might be present for the debut of the Google of green energy or the General Motors of electric cars. Beyond that, the competition serves as a leading indicator of emerging green tech trends. And given that the Silicon [...]
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