Westly Group ‘more bullish than ever’ with new $160M fund for clean tech

Venture firm The Westly Group closes its latest fund of $160 million to invest in up-and-coming clean tech startups.

Greenstart axes accelerator program to focus on building great design

Clean tech accelerator program Greenstart loses the three-month mentorship model to become a venture firm with a built-in design studio.

Clean-tech company View pulls the curtain off the future of glass

After five years of research and development, View reveals its smart windows that automatically adapt to outside conditions.

Greenlancer: reinventing the construction industry via crowdsourcing and the cloud

It's not completely uncommon in these modern and advanced times to find Thomas Friedman the-world-is-flat-style disaggregated work that is sent to various locations all over the globe to be completed, re-assembled, and sold to a customer.

But you don't expect to find it in the construction industry.

Greenvity launches hybrid chips for energy-efficient smart meters

Chip startups are a rarity, but Greenvity Communications, believes it has found a defensible niche in tiny energy efficient radios.

Funding Daily: investment news best served with a glass of wine

Now that we have survived the bad luck of Friday the 13th, the fireworks and wine-saturated festivities of Bastille Day, and the ides of July, it is time to dive back into the world of venture capital. There was quite …

Space and green technology converge at the Cleantech Open

The Cleantech Open, a competition that helps launch new green tech companies, held its launch event Friday night at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The event brought together nine clean tech companies to exhibit their products or …

Solar-powered Kindle cover means you never have to plug it in again

If you’ve ever wanted a Kindle that you never have to plug in, SolarFocus has the accessory for you with its solar-powered Kindle case.

Green tech has dominated the conversation around cars, but now it seems these eco-friendly trends are …

MoneyTree Report: Clean tech investments top $1 billion

Clean technology investments top $1 billion, according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

The Clean Technology sector, which crosses traditional MoneyTree industries and comprises alternative energy, pollution and recycling, power supplies and conservation, …