Virgin Green Fund
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Virgin Green Fund has been established to invest in companies in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors in the US and Europe.
Biofuels
Solar
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Waste Management
Water
Transport
Investment opportunities
Virgin Green Fund is a sector-focused, multi-stage investment firm investing primarily in expansion/growth capital opportunities with an allocation to earlier stage venture capital opportunities. Virgin Green Fund is committed to helping companies at an inflection point of substantial growth and/or disruptive innovation. Diversification is a cornerstone of their strategy, investing across stage, geography and technology in their core sectors.Portfolio
As of April 2010 Virgin Green Fund's portfolio includes:Biofuels
- GevoGevo, IncGevo, Inc. is a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company headquartered in unincorporated Douglas County, Colorado in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area. The company develops bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based products using a combination of biotechnology and classical chemistry...
Solar
- SolyndraSolyndraSolyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California. Although the company was once touted for its unusual technology, plummeting silicon prices led to the company being unable to compete with more conventional solar panels...
- OdersunOdersunOdersun AG is a German company which develops and manufactures thin-film solar cells and modules on copper tape specifically for building-integrated photovoltaics .- Company :...
Energy Efficiency
- Metrolight
Energy Storage
- Wildcat Discovery Technologies
Waste Management
- DuraTherm
Water
- Seven Seas
- Quench USA
Transport
- GreenRoad
Further reading
- Virgin Green Fund leads Odersun funding round.
- Benchmark, Branson Keep Eyes on Cleantech Road.
- http://www.socaltech.com/gevo_licenses_ucla_technology/s-0012927.htmlGevo has received investments from Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, silicon technology and clean technology sectors....
and Virgin Green Fund]. - Gevo Licenses UCLA Technology.