| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.05.2024 | Riding the continuation fund trend in venture capital | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Continuation funds are taking hold in venture capital.
Driving the news: Lightspeed Venture Partners has a term sheet from a lead investor and is hoping to wrap things up by July, while NEA is quietly... |
| 30.04.2018 | Every Boston Venture Firm, Listed | The reports on 1Q 2018 are in: 1,683 venture-backed companies raised $28.2 billion in funds last quarter, according to industry database Pitchbook. It's the fourth quarter in a row that has seen over $20 billion in venture capital, and $28.... |
| 07.09.2017 | UPDATE: NewLeaf Closes $30m Series C, Doubling Funding for Next Gen Biologicals | ** UPDATE: Added additional S2G Ventures investment of $6 million.**
NewLeaf Symbiotics, a biological crop input startup based in St Louis, has closed a $30 million Series C Round. The company announced an initial close of $24 million in Ju... |
| 29.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 29, 2016 | Health Catalyst bagged $70M; Enlighted secured $25M; Centage Corp completed $13.5M Series A funding
Enlighted, provider of smart sensors and analytics for businesses, secured $25 million in Series D funding from the company’s existing inves... |
| 03.11.2015 | Redbox, Coinstar And ecoATM Owner Outerwall Buys Gadget Trade-In Site Gazelle For $18 Million | Outerwall, the automated kiosk operator that runs Redbox, Coinstar and ecoATM machines, has made a move into e-commerce with the acquisition of Gazelle.com – an online site that buys and sells pre-owned consumer electronics, including smart... |
| 02.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 2, 2015 | Renovate America collected $90M; Dome9 Security raised $8.3M; Zeemee landed $5.8M
Propeller Aerobotics, a start-up that uses drones to make 3D maps for mining and construction companies has raised $1 million from investors including fund Bl... |
| 20.11.2014 | Flywheel Gets $12 Million In Series C Funding, Slams Uber And Finds A New CEO | Flywheel, the app that hooks up taxi drivers with riders, announced Rakesh Mathur as the new CEO today. Mathur served as an Amazon VP in the early days, after the “The Everything Store” purchased his e-commerce startup Junglee.
Mathur has b... |
| 15.09.2014 | Newleaf Symbiotics raises $17M for pink bacteria technology | NewLeaf Symbiotics, a St Louis, Missouri-based agricultural biotechnology company focused on the commercialization of beneficial plant bacteria, announced today that it has closed a $17 million Series B round of financing. The proceeds will... |
| 10.12.2013 | FirstFuel Raises $8.5M in Series B to Make Buildings Greener Beyond the U.S. | Energy use intelligence company FirstFuel Software announced Tuesday it has raised $8.5 million in Series B, from E. ON SE, one of the world's largest investor-owned utilities. Existing investors Battery Ventures, RockPort Capital and Nth P... |
| 15.10.2013 | EcoFactor Closes $10M Series B Financing | EcoFactor, a Redwood City, California-based provider of home energy services, closed a $10m Series B financing.
Backers included new investor NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), and existing investors Claremont Creek Ventures, RockPort Capital Pa... |
| 09.08.2013 | drillMap Closes $6.5M Series A Funding | drillMap, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based platform for the aggregation, visualization and analysis of energy data, closed a $6.5m Series A funding.
The round was led by RockPort Capital with participation from Ridgewood Capital and ConocoPhill... |
| 24.06.2013 | Honest Buildings Raises $5.5M in Series A Financing | Honest Buildings, a New York City-based online marketplace and discovery engine for building professionals, raised $5.5m in Series A Financing.
Backers included Westly Group and RockPort Capital.
The company intends to use the capital to co... |
| 10.01.2013 | NewLeaf Symbiotics Completes $7.0M Financing | NewLeaf Symbiotics (formerly known as TrophoMax LLC), a St. Louis, MO.-based an agricultural biotech firm, has completed a $7.0m financing.
Investors include Rockport Capital, Open Prairie Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, and other unnamed indiv... |
| 11.10.2012 | EcoFactor Closes $8M Venture Funding | EcoFactor, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of residential energy management service solutions, has closed an $8m venture funding.
Backers include new investor Aster Capital, and existing financing from Claremont Creek Ventures and Roc... |
| 11.09.2012 | Honest Buildings opens door on new cash, launches in Portland | Honest Buildings, a 6-month-old real-estate startup with operations in Seattle and New York City just announced the completion of its first round of financing, led by RockPort Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures. The amount of investment and ... |
| 28.03.2012 | 5 trends in oil & gas technology, and why you should care | Oil is in the news again. Last week, oil prices touched all-time highs due to Iranian export declines; the chief economist of the International Energy Agency said that high oil prices could cause an international recession. And whereas it l... |
| 09.11.2011 | GaN Systems Raises Series A Funding | GaN Systems, an Ottawa, Canada-based start-up that makes power conversion semiconductors for cleantech applications, has raised a Series A funding.
The round was led by Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital’s CELP III Fund, with participation fr... |
| 08.09.2011 | Project Frog Raises $22 in Funding | Project Frog, a San Francisco, CA-based builder of prefabricated environmentally sustainable buildings, has raised $22 in financing.
The investment round was led by GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services, with participation from Cl... |
| 21.07.2011 | Gazelle Raises $22M in Series D Financing | Gazelle, a Boston, MA-based provider of a service that allows consumers to sell unwanted electronics or to recycle them, has raised $22m in Series D financing.
The round was led by Craton Equity Partners, with participation from existing in... |
| 25.01.2011 | Solar Universe Raises $7 Million To Franchise Solar Installation | Solar Universe — a company building a franchise of solar installers across North America — raised a $7 million series b investment led by RockPort Capital, the company announced today. Abe Yokell, a principal with RockPort is joining the Li... |
| 25.01.2011 | Solar Universe Closes $7.0M Series B Funding | Solar Universe, a Livemore, Calif.-based provider of residential and small business solar installations, closed a $7.0m Series B funding.
The round was led by RockPort Capital Partners, with participation from returning founding investors.
... |
| 16.11.2010 | GE Invests In Makers Of Solar-Powered Air Conditioners, And Eleven Others | At a conference held by General Electric (GE) this morning in New York, chief executive Jeff Immelt revealed his company’s plans to invest $45 million in twelve digital energy, or smart-grid related companies— the first of several investmen... |
| 21.07.2010 | Gazelle lands $12M to buy and resell your used electronics | Gazelle, a company that buys and resells used consumer electronics, announced Wednesday that it has raised a third round of funding for $12 million. The new funding, bringing its total to about $22 million, will be used to grow the business... |
| 21.07.2010 | Gazelle lands $12M to buy and resell your used electronics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Gazelle, a company that buys and resells used con... |
| 13.07.2010 | General Electric unveils EV charger, $200M smart grid tech contest | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
General Electric stepped up its game in the smart... |
| 13.07.2010 | General Electric unveils EV charger, $200M smart grid tech contest | General Electric stepped up its game in the smart grid industry today, launching both a charging device for electric vehicles and a $200 million contest calling for projects working to make electrical grids cleaner and more efficient. Both ... |
| 13.04.2010 | Cooper grows Smart Grid presence with Eka Systems buy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Electrical equipment manufacturer Cooper Industri... |
| 13.04.2010 | Cooper grows Smart Grid presence with Eka Systems buy | Electrical equipment manufacturer Cooper Industries expanded its Smart Grid strategy today with the acquisition of wireless networking provider Eka Systems.
The deal is significant because it shows just how hard it is for smaller wireless n... |
| 04.09.2009 | Gov’t shines on Solyndra with $535M loan guarantee | Vice president Joe Biden and Department of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu joined forces this morning to officially bestow the $535 million loan guarantee on Fremont, Calif.-based Solyndra, one of the leading makers of cylindrical solar panels... |
| 04.09.2009 | Gov’t shines on Solyndra with $535M loan guarantee | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Vice president Joe Biden and Department of Energy... |
| 28.08.2009 | RockPort Ups Investment in Think | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Think, the Oslo, Norway-based startup developing long-range electric vehicles, announced yesterday that it has exited bankruptcy protection and raised $47 in new funding, with... |
| 04.08.2009 | GE participates in $14.2M for Advanced Electron Beams | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
General Electric announced today that it has pour... |
| 04.08.2009 | GE participates in $14.2M for Advanced Electron Beams | General Electric announced today that it has poured more cash into Advanced Electron Beams (AEB), a company working on making electron beam technology more energy efficient. With electron beams used widely to instigate industrial and manufa... |
| 24.04.2009 | Cleantech Venture Investors See Potential Boon in Federal Stimulus Funding | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If there was a theme in the first session of the Cleantech Capital Summit that convened in San Diego yesterday, it’s that government spending on cleantech projects in 2009 wil... |
| 30.01.2009 | VC Group Plots Familiar Strategy For Industry Recovery | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The venture capital model might not be completely broken, but the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association says it needs to be fixed.
With only six venture-backed ... |
| 05.01.2009 | Solar co. Solyndra shines with $220M | Solar installation maker Solyndra has every reason to celebrate the new year, raising $219.2 million in fifth-round funding from a flock of 23 investors. This is the second largest investment received by any U.S. cleantech company in the la... |
| 19.10.2008 | Sustainable builder Project Frog leaps ahead with new $4M | Sustainable building developer Project Frog has raised $4 million in the first tranche of a second round of funding led by Rockport Capital Partners. The total goal for the round is $8.6 million, which will go toward supplying schools with ... |
| 09.09.2008 | Micro-inverters on the rise with Enphase funding | To a layman, electricity seems like a fairly straightforward proposition: It flows like water through wires and into gadgets, end of story. But the real story is a bit more complex, which is why Enphase Energy, a company that makes a device... |
| 07.07.2008 | VC McDermott Rocks to Cleantech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Our latest Who Knew? list of quirky details on prominent members of the Boston-area innovation community included this one: “Chuck McDermott, general partner at RockPort Capit... |
| 05.06.2008 | Rockport Capital Launches World’s Largest Cleantech Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston-based venture firm Rockport Capital is upping the ante on cleantech investing. The six-partner firm, which has focused since its founding eight years ago on cleaner and... |
| 20.01.2006 | US firm RockPort Capital Partners closes second venture capital fund on $261m | Investors include endowments, foundations, pension funds, family offices and funds of funds. RockPort’s first fund |