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| Jul 12, 2013 | A New Place For Better Place, As Bankrupt $800M+ Backed Electric Car Startup Sold For $12M | Looks like we have a final chapter for Better Place, the Israel-based electric car tech startup that raised $786 million plus $50 million in debt, only to then file for bankruptcy in May: it has now been acquired by a group called Sunrise, ... |
| May 26, 2013 | Electric Car Tech Company Better Place Hits The Deadpool, As The Greentech Shakeout Continues | Better Place, the Tel Aviv- and based electric car battery technology company that’s raised more than $800 million in venture capital funding since its 2007 inception, confirmed today that it has filed a court motion to dissolve and liquida... |
| May 26, 2013 | Electric car company Better Place shuts down after burning through $850M | 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!
Better Place is the electric car company that hop... |
| May 26, 2013 | Electric car company Better Place shuts down after burning through $850M | Better Place is the electric car company that hoped to change the world with its ambitious battery-swapping stations. But today it said it’s shutting down. The closure brings to an end arguably the most audacious “clean tech” company ever a... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Funding Daily: Hakuna Matata | 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!
I am going to see The Lion King tonight, and in m... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | Electric-car startup loses executives as struggle for customers continues | 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!
Much publicity, high hopes, and hundreds of milli... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | 'It’s not rudeness, it’s chutzpah' – an insider’s take on Israel’s startup success | With the DLD Tel Aviv Conference kicking off tomorrow, part of a full week of festivities in one of the world’s most sizzling tech hubs, Israeli venture capitalist and tech journalist Gil Kerbs shares his take on the startup nation’s succes... |
| Aug 28, 2012 | Better Place Secures €40M Loan from EIB | Better Place, a global provider of electric car networks, has secured a €40m loan from the European Investment Bank.
The company intends to use the majority of the proceeds from the loan (approximately €30m) to finalize network deployments ... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Better Place Raises $200M Series C |
With the launch of the first nationwide electric car networks in Israel and Denmark just months away, Better Place today announced that it has secured $200 million through a Series C equity financing from a consortium of top-tier investor... |
| Nov 13, 2011 | Better Place Raises $200M in Series C Funding | Better Place, a Palo Alto, California-based global provider of electric car networks, has secured $200m in Series C equity financing.
Backers include new investors GE and UBS AG and existing shareholders Israel Corp., HSBC Group, Morgan Sta... |
| Nov 11, 2011 | Better Place raises another $200 million for electric cars and charging network | 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!
Electric vehicle infrastructure startup Better Pl... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Better Place Opens Up An EV Battery-Swapping Joint In Its Home Country, Israel | Back in August of ’10 (them were the days) we posted about how an Israeli company called Better Place was testing out a system for switching out batteries in Japanese electric taxis. They drive in, get their new battery, and drive out. A go... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Biofuel company LS9 closes $30M round | The company gets support for its renewable fuels from BlackRock
Industrial biotechnology company LS9 announced Tuesday morning the close of a $30 million round of funding led by BlackRock, a firm with over $3 trillion in assets. All of LS9’... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Smart grid in Europe is all about renewables | George Bernard Shaw once claimed that England and America were “two countries divided by a common language”. This adage may hold true even when the language is smart grid.
The culture gap became clear at a recent smart -grid event held by t... |
| Oct 30, 2010 | 32 companies charging the Super Grid now | The super grid, the theme of VentureBeat’s next GreenBeat conference, involves a bewildering array of technologies and companies from industry behemoths like GE and Cisco to disruptive young startups. Together, they’re taking existing effor... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | On the GreenBeat: Saudi Arabia imports SolFocus’s solar, Prop 23 could send VC investment to China | Here are the top cleantech stories we’re following today on the GreenBeat:
SolFocus announced it will build the first and largest concentrated photovoltaic solar system in Saudi Arabia, delivering around 300 megawatt-hours of energy. Japane... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | GE throws its weight behind electric car adoption with Better Place partnership | GE will team up with electric vehicle (EV) services startup Better Place to roll out a host of financing and technology initiatives aimed at encouraging widespread adoption of electric vehicles, the two companies announced today.
The key co... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | Cheaper, faster electric cars by next year? | A lithium-ion battery developer raises $4.2M and may bring better performing EVs to the road
A new era of mass-produced, elecric vehicles for the average driver is upon is, and the venture capital industry is trying to embrace it.
To wit: S... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Coulomb Technologies raises $15M in series C | The electric vehicle service provider is backed by Rho Ventures and Voyager Capital
It’s 2010 and according to 1960-1989 science fiction movies, we should have robot slaves, jetpacks, matter transporters (tricky, as Jeff Goldblum demonstrat... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | Coulomb brings its EV charging stations to the home | Coulomb Technologies, one of the most successful companies rolling out rapid roadside charging stations for the new generation of plug-in vehicles debuting this year, announced today that it has adapted its technology for use in the home.
I... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | Coulomb brings its EV charging stations to the home | 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!
Coulomb Technologies, one of the most successful ... |
| Jul 13, 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 ... |
| Jul 13, 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... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | VantagePoint’s Alan Salzman on Tesla and how VCs should think green | 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!
I just sat down with Alan Salzman, CEO of Vantage... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | VantagePoint’s Alan Salzman on Tesla and how VCs should think green | I just sat down with Alan Salzman, CEO of VantagePoint Venture Partners — perhaps better known today as the top venture capital firm investing in Tesla Motors — to see how he’s feeling about the big win, and what it might mean for VPVP’s gr... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Coulomb launches ambitious plan to electrify cars: 4,600 new charging stations | 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!
Coulomb Technologies unveiled ambitious plans tod... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Coulomb launches ambitious plan to electrify cars: 4,600 new charging stations | Coulomb Technologies unveiled ambitious plans today to install 4,600 new charging stations for plug-in vehicles in homes and commercial spaces across the U.S. — a project nearly half-funded by federal stimulus money.
The news comes at a ten... |
| May 21, 2010 | Morning Read: Some good pharma news (finally) | Top VC recipients of 2010: As we (kind of) near the halfway point of 2010, peHUB runs down the top venture capital recipients so far. Alas, the healthcare industry has but one apperance and it’s at No. 10. Achaogen, a San Francisco-based de... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | GE, Nissan join forces to ready the grid for electric cars | 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!
Nissan continues to beat the electric car drum. L... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | GE, Nissan join forces to ready the grid for electric cars | Nissan continues to beat the electric car drum. Last week, it started taking reservations for its all-electric Leaf, and beat its own expectations with more than 6,600 immediate orders. Now today, it announced that it is teaming up with Gen... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Record number of cleantech deals in Q1 as green transportation heats up | The cleantech sector continues its strong rebound as the economy gradually comes back to life. The first quarter is notoriously slow for most industries, but the number of cleantech venture deals hit record heights, up 29 percent from fourt... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Record number of cleantech deals in Q1 as green transportation heats up | 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!
The cleantech sector continues its strong rebound... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | GM brain drain: Chevy Volt leader jumps to Calif. battery startup | General Motors is losing one of the key players on the team developing the Chevrolet Volt — the hotly-anticipated plug-in vehicle that is supposed to forever change the green vehicle market. And where is Denise Gray, director of global batt... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | GM brain drain: Chevy Volt leader jumps to Calif. battery startup | 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 Motors is losing one of the key players o... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Pike Research: 2.8M fuel-cell vehicles will hit the road by 2020 | Fuel cells have catapulted into the public spotlight this week following the 60 Minutes debut of Bloom Energy’s powerful Bloom Box fuel cell. But before all the talk of these devices powering buildings and neighborhoods, there was buzz abou... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Pike Research: 2.8M fuel-cell vehicles will hit the road by 2020 | 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!
Fuel cells have catapulted into the public spotli... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | Oorja unveils methanol fuel cell that could triple EV driving ranges | Sequoia Capital-backed Oorja Protonics may be making methanol fuel cells to charge batteries in forklifts — but its new product, the OorjaPac Model 1, could give it a big-time entree into the plug-in vehicle market. Supplying 50 times more ... |
| Jan 29, 2010 | Honda takes the lead in hydrogen car game, tests fuel pump | 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!
We’ve been hearing more about cars powered by hyd... |
| Jan 29, 2010 | Honda takes the lead in hydrogen car game, tests fuel pump | We’ve been hearing more about cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells in the last few weeks, with Toyota expanding its hydrogen vehicle program earlier this month, and new entrant SunHydro unveiling plans to build hydrogen fueling stations alon... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | SunHydro looks ahead to highway lined with hydrogen fueling stations | Among the many advanced vehicles set to hit the road in the next several years, a few under development at Daimler, Honda, Mercedes Benz and other automakers are being design to run on hydrogen fuel cells. But they will still hit the big ro... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Better Place secures $350 million | Startup looking to power the worlds electric vehicles
Better Place announced it has secured $350 million in new equity financing. The Series B round values Better Place at $1.25 billion.
New investors include HSBC, which led the round with ... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Better Place Raises $350 Million To Make This World A Better Place | I’ve been quite fascinated by electric car firm Better Place since I read up on how the company was founded by former SAP executive Shai Agassi in the excellent book ‘Start-up Nation’, which tells of Israel’s historical entrepreneurial DNA ... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Better Place Secures $350Million Series B Round Led by HSBC Group | In one of the largest clean tech investments in history, Better Place, a Palo Alto, CA-based electric vehicle services provider, has signed an agreement with an HSBC led investor consortium for a $350m Series B equity financing.
Investors i... |
| Jan 24, 2010 | Better Place draws massive $350M to charge electric cars | Electric cars will be making their big debut later this year — but one of the biggest questions standing between their release and wide market adoption is charging infrastructure. It doesn’t make much sense to buy a car that you can only fu... |
| Jan 24, 2010 | Better Place draws massive $350M to charge electric cars | 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!
Electric cars will be making their big debut late... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Smart Grid spending boom to top $200B by 2015 | If there was one breakout business within the cleantech sector this year, it was the Smart Grid. Companies working toward the construction of a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid have multiplied, offering new ways to connect homes and ... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Smart Grid spending boom to top $200B by 2015 | 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!
If there was one breakout business within the cle... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Warren Buffett: the next clean energy baron? | 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!
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens and master currency... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Warren Buffett: the next clean energy baron? | Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens and master currency speculator George Soros have both gone green in the last several years. Now it could be Warren Buffett’s turn to crank up his participation in the cleantech sector. Already with four related... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Nissan’s wireless EV charging could leave Coulomb, Better Place in the dust | Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last two years. Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive have proven that EVs can be fast and decently ranged, even sexy. Nissan is promising to make them fairly cheap. General Motors is working on so... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Nissan’s wireless EV charging could leave Coulomb, Better Place in the dust | 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!
Electric vehicles have come a long way in the las... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | Backblaze launches for businesses | Online backup service targeting business computers
Backblaze, an online backup service announced on Tuesday it launched its unlimited storage solution for businesses. The company has been offering a consumer-focused online backup service si... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Toyota muscles into EV charging business with solar stations | Toyota, used to being top dog in the advanced transportation business with its hybrid Prius, has pushed into a whole new area of the electric vehicle business: charging stations. Watch out, Better Place! Move over, Coulomb Technologies! Get... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Toyota muscles into EV charging business with solar stations | 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!
Toyota, used to being top dog in the advanced tra... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | La dependencia del petróleo en la industria de la automoción puede llegar a su fin | 17/08/2009
LA DEPENDENCIA DEL PETRÓLEO EN LA INDUSTRIA DE LA AUTOMOCIÓN PUEDE LLEGAR A SU FIN.
Ese es, al menos, el plan que tiene el Gobierno de Israel a partir del año 2011.
Nissan-Renault suministrará en masa coches eléctricos sin emi... |
| Aug 6, 2009 | DOE hands eTec $100M for electric car charging stations | The Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), has received a grant of $99.8 million from the Department of Energy to make widespread electric vehicles and the requisite charging station infrastructure a reality.
Needless to sa... |
| Aug 6, 2009 | DOE hands eTec $100M for electric car charging stations | 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!
The Electric Transportation Engineering Corporati... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | Coulomb brings electric vehicle charging stations to Sacramento | 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!
Coulomb Technologies, maker of networked electric... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | Coulomb brings electric vehicle charging stations to Sacramento | Coulomb Technologies, maker of networked electric vehicle charging stations, is gradually growing its presence in and around the Bay Area — it already has a significant number of stations in San Francisco, San Jose and Walnut Creek, for exa... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | McDonald’s attempts to go green with help from EV charging co. Coulomb | McDonald’s — battered by almost constant criticism of its negative nutritional and environmental impacts — is attempting to turn the tide by opening its first “green” restaurant. Built with sustainable materials and integrating eco-friendly... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Wired’s First “Geeks in Suits” Event Was Great | On Monday, Wired held its first-ever business conference, titled “Disruptive By Design.” A stellar cast was on stage and, perhaps more interestingly, in the audience as well. The audience had people you would normally see on stage, like Mar... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | VantagePoint strengthens cleantech efforts | VantagePoint Venture Partners has brought two new specialized partners aboard to strengthen its position in the cleantech sector. Mark Plashton hails from Trident Capital, where he also focused on green investments, and Brad Mattson is an e... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | How to: Work on Stuff That Matters | Tim O’Reilly spoke tonight at ETech in San Jose, on a theme he has been talking about for the past 6 months or so: working on things that matter in the web world. In this talk though he went into a lot of actual examples, as well as strateg... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Winners of the 2008 Crunchies | Here are the winners of this year’s Crunchies, which honor the best tech companies from 2008. More than 170,000 people voted to select the nominees, and more than 350,000 people voted to select the winners. The awards were sponsored by Tech... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | VantagePoint charges up on $435M for cleantech | The clouds may have rolled in for many other sectors in today’s economy, but the sun still shines on cleantech — and VantagePoint Venture Partners in particular. The San Bruno, Calif.-based firm just landed $435 million for its second fund,... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | America helps Japan in the distribution of electric car stations | Palo Alto-based Better Place, a company that builds electric-vehicle networks and is led by famous entrepreneur Shai Agassi, announced it will help the Japanese government in a pilot project to encourage the use of green cars in the country... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | The digital car is the next big applications market | [Editor’s note: The following is an op-ed piece by Dev Khare, vice president of VC firm Venrock in Palo Alto. Dev frequently blogs on this topic at http://www.nextwala.com.]
In parallel to the Web and mobile devices, a new marketplace for a... |
| Morning Read: Some good pharma news (finally) | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Finally! Some good pharma news: Amid what seems like an endless cascade of merger-inspired Big Pharma layoffs, one bright spot has emerged. Generic drugmaker Wats... |