Virgance gets funding, deal to install solar for businesses
Virgance, a San Francisco startup with multiple business lines all focusing on social activism, has scored $750,000 in seed funding and is also unveiling a new deal that should help it install more solar panels on roofs around the Bay Area.
We’ve covered Virgance before, although it’s a difficult company to track given that it has several founder teams, each focused on different ideas. There’s Carrotmob, which just soft-launched today; it organizes groups of consumers to… Continue Reading
Green marketing spreads on Facebook with winery application
Over the past year, it has become difficult to read business news without finding a mention of how one company or another has launched a recycling initiative or installed solar panels. Motivations vary, but marketing departments long ago realized that going green generates good press.
Enter Village Green Energy with a Facebook application it’s calling Green My Vino. With it, users give “gifts” of renewably generated electricity to each other; each time they hit certain milestones,… Continue Reading