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Press Release: Clean Energy Ventures Launches $110 Million Early-Stage Venture Fund for Clean Energy Innovation
Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), an investor in early-stage advanced energy start-ups, today announced the close of its first fund. The $110 million Clean Energy Venture Fund targets the current capital gap for seed and early-stage investments in promising advanced energy innovations. CEV will focus on technologies and business model innovations in the U.S. and Canada that are ready to be scaled and commercialized, and that have the potential to significantly mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Energy
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Press Release: Amped Innovation Closes Series A Funding of More Than $3 Million
This financing accelerates Amped’s ability to bring high-quality, affordable solar-powered appliances to market, serving growing demands from energy distribution companies, utilities and mini- and micro-grid providers for better power solutions.
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- Energy
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Viewpoint: Racial Bias in Investing? Just Look at the Data
That’s what’s most tragic about the status quo – it not only hurts those who aren’t getting chosen, but also the person doing the choosing.
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- Investing
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Splunk Ventures Launches With $150 Million to Fuel the Next Generation of Data Analytics
“Organizations around the world are not only racing to make faster, better decisions, they’re also hoping to turn data into business outcomes that are both cost and time effective,” Doug Merritt, Splunk president and CEO, said in a statement.
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- Investing
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- data, startups, venture capital
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Working With Data In Latin America: Challenges And Strategies
It’s important to analyze the obstacles associated with data collection in emerging economies, and what companies can do to overcome them.
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- Latin America
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- data, venture capital
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Viewpoint: Venture Financing For The Bottom 99.98% Of The Pyramid… And When You Don’t Know Where You Rank
This top-down view of the venture capitalist (VC) works for about 20/100,000 entrepreneurs. But even these 20 could keep control of the venture and of the wealth created by delaying VC – and by letting the VCs come to them, as Jan Koum of WhatsApp did.
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Goldman Sachs, Point72 and Others Invest $42 Million in Mexico’s Credijusto
Mexico has experienced a steady rise in startups aiming to use technology and mobile phones to sell financial services to poor and middle-class customers who do not use traditional banks.
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- Finance, Technology
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LGT Acquires Impact Investor Aspada From Soros Fund
Aspada was launched in 2013 by the Soros Economic Development Fund. It also manages the portfolio of the SONG Fund, an early stage venture capital firm backed by the Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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