Ann Arbor SPARK and Wayne State University recently announced that eleven Southeast Michigan startups have received investments from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund and microloan awards from the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Local Development Financing Authority (LDFA). The investments are meant to help... Read more »
Out-of-towner Amory Lovins drew a packed audience to Kendall Square last Thursday for a chat about his vision for our energy future—and how it can be achieved with better economics, no new acts of Congress or government regulation, and no major shift... Read more »
VC, cleantech, and biotech players populated the New England deal news this week.
—Cambridge, MA-based coal-to-natural-gas company GreatPoint Energy formed a $1.25 billion partnership with China Wanxiang Holdings, according to a report in Dow Jones VentureWire. The deal also included $420... Read more »
After last night’s stellar event with Amory Lovins and Jim Matheson, I’m thinking about our energy and cleantech future today. Luckily, so is a Boston-area company that apparently makes billion-dollar deals for breakfast.
GreatPoint Energy, a coal-to-natural-gas company in Cambridge, MA, has... Read more »
I’m getting excited for tonight’s chat featuring two great energy—and clean energy—experts. Coming in from out of town as the star of the show is Amory Lovins, the visionary cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He will... Read more »
Acquisitions are in the air in New England. Here’s what happened in the past week.
—Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the Web content and delivery giant of Cambridge, MA, made a move to tackle Web performance at the browser level, with the acquisition of... Read more »
The founders of Greenstart, the San Francisco-based venture incubator for cleantech startups, believe a new chapter is opening in the energy business—and they’re changing their program to keep up.
The second class of Greenstart companies arrives today for its 12-week session of... Read more »