Mark Boslet

New fund comes as cleantech venture funding hits $2.6B in Q1

MoneyTree: In Q1, the average investment size climbed as cleantech once again attracted VCs

The atmosphere was low key at the Under the Radar conference as venture capitalists and entrepreneurs sorted through enterprise startups still honing business plans and shedding stealthy existences. But what stood out was this: many that had flown from Montreal or Israel, or driven from San Francisco, were not seeking money at Thursday’s event at […]

It is no secret the IPO market in the United States has rebounded solidly since the middle of last year. Well, here is something you may not know: first-time stock offerings continue to gain steam, as well. So far this month, 21 deals were done with $5.6 billion raised for issuing companies and investors logging […]

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are feeling more upbeat about business conditions than they have at any time in the past three years, according to a survey of VC sentiment. An uptick in fund-raising and a more welcoming IPO market lifted spirits in the first quarter, boosting the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index to 3.91. […]

Cleantech IPOs may be gaining momentum. Solar plant developer BrightSource Energy filed what is certain to be an explosive initial public offering last week. A couple months earlier biochemical maker Gevo launched its IPO to what proved to be a warm reception. Experimental algae-to-fuel company Solazyme is waiting in the wings. Which company will be next? In November, Venture Capital Journal published a list of the most likely and lucrative cleantech IPOs of 2011. At the top of our list was BrightSource, so we are off to a good start. Watch our slideshow to see the other six cleantech companies VCJ believes have a very good shot of going public this year. Our investment data comes from Thomson Reuters, publisher of this blog.

If you need more evidence funding green energy and infrastructure companies has become an insular business, look at the top 10 most active U.S.-based cleantech investors for the first quarter. As a group, the 10 most active U.S. VCs funded 47 companies — or 40 percent — of the 118 cleantech companies that received backing […]

If a cleantech company’s IPO creates the “Netscape moment” John Doerr predicted last fall, it could be the offering of BrightSource Energy Inc. The solar thermal plant developer filed for a $250 million initial offering late Friday with investors VantagePoint Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson set to be big winners if the stock does […]

Silver Lake Kraftwerk Managing Director Adam Grosser is still hush-hush about the size of the expansion stage cleantech fund he is putting together. But other details of Grosser’s organization are coming together, including that he will have a total of six investment partners, with two of the slots yet unfilled. The new fund will also have a […]