Stealthy Adesto lands $14M for fabless semiconductors
Adesto Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company that’s so secretive that there’s no content on its web site, has raised $14 million in equity and warrants, according to a regulatory filing. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the three-year-old company has a pretty healthy funding history. It raised… Continue Reading
Plextronics snaps up $14M for organic lighting, solar cells
Plextronics, a unique company developing organic solar cells and light emitting-diode displays — including television screens so flexible you can bend them — announced today that it’s brought in $14 million in second-round funding. The Pittsburgh company says it will use the money to continue… Continue Reading
Semprius absorbs $6M for cheaper, printed solar cells
Semprius is one of a few companies focused on thin, printed solar modules — a relatively new technology that could save a tremendous amount of solar cell waste if widely implemented. The modules are considered “printed” because they consist only of a very thin layer… Continue Reading
Enphase catches $22.6M for solar micro-inverters
Enphase Energy, maker of micro-inverter systems for solar applications, has raised $22.57 million in capital, according to peHub. The Petaluma, Calif. company says the funding came from Applied Ventures, Rockport Capital Partners and Third Point Management.
Enphase’s flagship system consists of three separate processes. Its micro-inverters… Continue Reading
Sage Electrochemics catches $20M for green window coatings
Sage Electrochemics makes a thin-film window glaze that changes tint throughout the day to let in an optimal amount of light and selectively trap the sun’s rays to heat or cool green buildings. The Fairbault, Minn. company just brought in $20 million in a third… Continue Reading
Infinite Power gears up with $13M for thin-film batteries
Infinite Power Solutions, a developer of rechargeable thin-film batteries, has announced that it took $13 million in second-round financing to scale production of its Thinergy line of cells — said to be thinner, more flexible and more energy-efficient than other solid-state batteries on the market.
The… Continue Reading
Innolume raises $13.4M for quantum-dot lasers
Innolume, a diode laser manufacturer co-based in Santa Clara, Calif. and Dortmund, Germany, has raised $13.4 million (€8.6 million euros) in its third round of funding.
The company makes lasers that can operate in a wavelength unattainable by other lasers, useful for applications in manufacturing, telecommunications… Continue Reading
Google.org gives electric cars a push, with investments in Aptera and ActaCell
Two companies have been tapped as the first recipients of an investment from a program called RechargeIT, run by Google’s philanthropic arm: Aptera Motors, a Carlsbad, Calif. company that is gearing up to sell a futuristic three-wheeled car; and ActaCell, a battery company that hopes… Continue Reading
Low cost, super-efficient solar cells? Newly funded, Wakonda Technologies says it’s possible
In the solar cell market, there are three broad categories. Thin-film manufacturers produce cells that convert little of the sun’s energy to electricity, but are dirt cheap. Opposite thin-film, companies like Spectrolab and Emcore make highly efficient, but very expensive cells. Between are the standard… Continue Reading
SunEdison raises $161 million for solar services and installing
SunEdison, a solar services company based in Beltsville, Md., has taken $131 million in venture funding and $30 million in debt to finance its rapid expansion and ongoing projects, including some of the largest solar installations in the United States.
In the booming market for solar… Continue Reading
Invarium, integrated circuit design company, to raise $10M
Invarium, a San Jose provider of hardware and software for the design and manufacture of advanced integrated circuits, is about to finish raising $10 million in a third round of funding, according to VentureWire (sub required)
Existing backers Goldman Sachs & Co. and Onset Ventures are… Continue Reading
Solaicx, a solar cell maker, raises $27.1M more
Solar cell maker Solaicx, of Santa Clara, has raised $27.1 million more in a third round of funding to help it it expand production, saying its cells are more efficient.
The venture capital arm of D.E. Shaw & Co. led the round, which also included… Continue Reading