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| Feb 24, 2025 | IES Makes Strategic Senior Hire to Drive North America Growth | Christy Martell has joined IES as Senior Vice President of Revenue, North America
Climate tech company, IES is investing in North America, with a new senior hire.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- IES, a leading globa... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Airship: $4 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Make Home Services Easier | Airship, a company that offers software tools and financial products to help home services owner-operators grow their businesses, came out of stealth with the announcement of a $4 million pre-seed round.
This funding round was led by global... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Oracle Energy : CLOSES $1 MILLION FINANCING | ORACLE CLOSES $1 MILLION FINANCING
Vancouver, British Columbia - September 9, 2021. Oracle Energy Corp. (NEX: OEC.H, FRA: O2EM, OTC: OECCF) ("Oracle" or the "Company") announces that it has received approval from the TSX... |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Oracle Energy : ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION FINANCING | ORACLE ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION FINANCING
Vancouver, British Columbia - June 28, 2021. Oracle Energy Corp. (NEX: OEC.H, FRA: O2EM, OTC: OECCF) ("Oracle" or the "Company") is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placeme... |
| May 7, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 5/7/16 | Adobe bought Livefyre; LinkedIn acquired Run Hop; Pinterest purchased URX
Video-sharing website Vimeo acquired VHX, a platform that allows video creators sell their content from their own websites. No financial terms of the deal were disclo... |
| May 2, 2016 | Oracle scoops up cloud utilities solution Opower for $532 million | Last week Oracle bought Textura for $663 million, giving the database giant a vertical construction solution in the cloud. Today it bought Opower for $532 million giving it a vertical utilities cloud solution. I can’t be sure, but I think I... |
| May 2, 2016 | Opower announces acquisition by Oracle | Arlington-based utility software company Opower announced on Monday that it has entered an agreement to be acquired by software giant Oracle. The acquisition is valued at $532 million.
Opower’s software offerings that enable utilities compa... |
| Sep 4, 2015 | Designer Leslie Zacharkow recaps her Philly greatest hits [Exit Interview] | Leslie Zacharkow has been angling for a move to the West Coast ever since she spent a semester in Vancouver during college.
“It was weird and zen, and totally amazing,” she wrote. “Since then I’ve visited SF twice and each time I’ve had the... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | Planting The Seed: Silicon Valley, Mind Control And Finding Order In Chaos | John Mannes Contributor
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| Jun 22, 2015 | Turning Water Problems Into Business Opportunities | Tamin Pechet Contributor
Tamin Pechet is the founder of Banyan Water and founder and chairman of Imagine H2O.
California Governor Jerry Brown recently imposed mandatory water restrictions to combat severe drought that “demands unprecedented... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Funny or Die is coming to DC [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Opower is partnering with Oracle Utilities to make the utilities’ analytics platforms compatible with Opower’s platform. “Working with Oracle is indicative of our commitment to making the Opower platform more intelligent... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Check out these playbooks from successful industry cloud startups | 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!
Industry cloud software companies are on the verg... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Check out these playbooks from successful industry cloud startups | Industry cloud software companies are on the verge of taking off, with several already achieving multibillion-dollar valuations. At Bessemer, we’ve been fortunate to partner with more than a dozen industry software companies. And we’ve watc... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | Former National Geographic execs raise $8M for education platform [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Steam Engine, Inc., an early-stage simulation-based learning platform based in D.C., raised $8 million, according to an SEC filing. The early-stage company was founded by Tim Kelly and Vijay Lakshman, two former top ex... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | 8 surprising energy stats to remember from 2014 | 2014 was a huge year for energy. Solar surged forward, China and the U.S. got serious about climate change, and new tech continued to reshape our relationship with the power grid.
In case you missed the big stories, here are 8 statistics th... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | What to Think, Ep. 32: Opower’s secret weapon for cutting energy usage | Opower has vaulted itself onto public markets by analyzing energy usage for utility companies and providing charts and other bits from data to ratepayers. Opower has an ambitious master plan, and it involves decreasing energy usage at scale... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | What to Think, Ep. 32: Opower’s secret weapon for cutting energy usage | 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!
Opower has vaulted itself onto public markets by ... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | For early oPower investors, 'ecosystem' approach finally pays off | 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 wrote a check after one meeting, when it was s... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | For early oPower investors, 'ecosystem' approach finally pays off | “I wrote a check after one meeting, when it was so early they didn’t even have a name yet, let alone a bank account, so I had to leave the check blank.”
These are the words early oPower investor Ali Partovi sent VentureBeat in an email yest... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Opower, a company that shames you into going green, is raising $100M in an IPO | Following rumors of Opower‘s confidential IPO filing, we now have proof: the firm is going public.
As we’ve previously reported, Opower uses data and social pressure to help its customers conserve electricity. The company does this, in part... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Opower, a company that shames you into going green, is raising $100M in an IPO | 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!
Following rumors of Opower‘s confidential IPO fil... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | After saving people $416.5M in energy bills and 3.7B kilowatts, Opower files to go public | 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!
Opower has saved people $416.5 million on energy ... |
| Nov 29, 2013 | Wibidata Machine Learning Platform Offers Capabilities Comparable To Amazon.com And Google | Wibidata, a big data application provider, has a new platform for building real-time apps that shows the increasing accessibility of machine learning and how e-commerce companies can provide an experience similar to a giant like Amazon.com.... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Green Gamification: the apps, sites, and people that are going to save our planet | 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!
Ashok Kamal is cofounder and CEO of green social ... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Green Gamification: the apps, sites, and people that are going to save our planet | Ashok Kamal is cofounder and CEO of green social media marketing company Bennu.
When I told VentureBeat I wanted to write a piece about the rise of green gamification — the use of games to make sustainability fun and rewarding — they were s... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time | 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!
Every consumer choice you make has an effect on t... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time | Every consumer choice you make has an effect on the environment. The materials in your soap, the hardware in your phone, and the eggs on your breakfast plate are all a part of the global ecosystem. Yet, it can be easy to forget that every p... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Opower embraces big data to lower your utility bill | You want to save money. Utilities want you to conserve energy. Middle-man Opower thinks it can satisfy everyone with a brand-new platform designed to get people excited, yes excited, about energy conservation.
Opower currently works with 75... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Opower embraces big data to lower your utility bill | 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!
You want to save money. Utilities want you to con... |
| Aug 8, 2012 | Top 5 American cities for startups | Below, we’ve curated a list for you of surprising and not-so-surprising locales where you might consider putting down startup roots. Our method? Looking at city tax breaks for small businesses, government programs, talent pools, culture, an... |
| Aug 8, 2012 | Top 5 American cities for startups | 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!
This post is sponsored by Chase – a strong suppor... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Facebook app promotes energy conservation with peer pressure | 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 simple common sense can’t curb energy usage, p... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | 3 medical devices for iOS we’d like to see–plus lessons on mHealth app design | Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth Initiativ... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | Facebook, NRDC & Opower To Partner On Energy-Saving Social App | Facebook, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and clean tech startup Opower are today announcing a partnership on a new social networking-based energy application that will help consumers monitor, improve and compare their home’s e... |
| Oct 8, 2011 | How Zerofootprint Uses Data To Make Schools Greener | Editor’s note: Guest writer Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and start-up enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing.
The word “green” is tossed around a lot as a catchall term to des... |
| May 15, 2011 | IJENKO raises another €3.5 million for in-home smart energy solutions | Paris-based IJENKO provides a number of eco-friendly, smart energy solutions for the home – including its personal smart grid. The company founded in 2008 raised €2 million in January 2010 from Direct Energie, ISource and Bouygues Telecom I... |
| Nov 30, 2010 | OPOWER Closes $50M Strategic Financing Round | OPOWER, an Arlington, VA-based energy efficiency and Smart Grid software company, closed a $50m strategic round of financing.
The investment was co-led by Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from New ... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | Opower raises $50 million from Kleiner, Accel — cash it says it doesn’t need | Energy efficiency company Opower has raised $50 million in third-round financing, but CEO and cofounder Dan Yates says the company “didn’t need to raise the cash” — the company is already breaking even, and will use the cash to accelerate i... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | OPower Gets $50 Million To Drive Energy Efficiency Via Peer Pressure | The Arlington, Va. clean tech startup, OPower, closed a $50 million series C investment led by Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB) and joined by the company’s earlier investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) the... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | For energy savings, work with consumers or around them? | There’s a growing movement to figure out how to squeeze more energy savings out of homes. The big question: Do you do it by working with consumers, or in spite of them?
Players on different sides of this issue talked about that today at Ven... |
| 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... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | AEP picks OPOWER to hook consumers into the smart grid | The movement toward a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid has hit a wall recently. The first phase for most electric utilities has been to roll out thousands of smart meters — meters capable of wirelessly beaming energy-consumption data... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Washington DC | The words “fat cats in Washington” have been uttered in every corner of the nation from Texas to the Bay, yet DC’s tech scene is anything but sluggish. Companies like AOL, Nextel, MCI and Uunet found early success in the region and since th... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | Home energy management gets a star turn at CES | Several companies, appliance maker Whirlpool and energy retailer Direct Energy among them, have joined forces to showcase what the energy efficient home of the future will look like at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas this week.
T... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | Home energy management gets a star turn at CES | 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!
Several companies, appliance maker Whirlpool and ... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | GreenBeat: Where will the VC money flow on the Smart Grid? | 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!
Venture capitalists and investment bankers are fa... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | GreenBeat: Where will the VC money flow on the Smart Grid? | Venture capitalists and investment bankers are fascinated by the potential of making money from Smart Grid investments and initial public offerings in the coming year, judging from the latest panel at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 09 event today.... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | GreenBeat dives into the Smart Grid in T-3 hours! | The seminal conference on the Smart Grid has arrived.
Our two-day inaugural GreenBeat conference kicks off this afternoon at the San Mateo Marriott, bringing together 400 utility, finance, political and entrepreneurial leaders working to ma... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | GreenBeat dives into the Smart Grid in T-3 hours! | 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 seminal conference on the Smart Grid has arri... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | GreenBeat: Google’s Lu, OPower’s Yates join the program | There’s one day to go before GreenBeat 2009 takes off, and we’re still adding Smart Grid experts to the agenda. Rounding out the program, we have Google PowerMeter engineer (and former astronaut!) Ed Lu, and OPower CEO Dan Yates, each addin... |
| 3 medical devices for iOS we’d like to see–plus lessons on mHealth app design | There’s a lot of interest in the impact medical peripherals on iOS mobile platforms can have. Used properly, properly designed apps could help catch diseases earlier and make lives of patients easier. As the blogger covering health IT and m... |
