Clean Energy Investors Directory

This directory is a partial list of investors interested in clean energy technologies. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive and contains only information provided by the investors. We are currently processing information from additional firms, and will continually update the directory as we receive information from additional investors.

Using This Directory

Because of binding legal requirements, NREL does not -and cannot - endorse the use of any particular firm. This directory is provided as an information service for our clean energy entrepreneurs and investor colleagues. We encourage all users of this information to perform their own "due-diligence" on potential investment and other strategic partners. This includes working with your own legal, financial, and other expert advisers/counsel to facilitate discussions and negotiations; and making any decisions or selections based on the most complete information. However, we hope this directory will give you a good starting point for your entrepreneurial venture.

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List of Investors

Below is an alphabetical listing of clean energy investors.

A-D | E-M | N-Z

Adams, Harkness & Hill

Adams, Harkness & Hill is an investment bank whose mission is to help emerging growth companies and the institutional investors that follow them achieve success. We accomplish this in two ways: first, by acting on their behalf with credibility—credibility based on our long-standing reputation for unbiased and objective research. Second, by acting with continuity—the result of our long-term and quality-focused relationships.

Eric Prouty and Nam Kapur of AHH are analysts devoted to writing coverage of energy technology companies. AHH has five bankers devoted to providing investment-banking services to energy technology companies.

Contact Information

Russell W. Landon, Managing Director
60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
Phone: 617-371-3703, Fax: 617-371-3798
E-mail: rlandon@ahh.com
Web site: www.ahh.com

Investor/Financier Type: Investment banking
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early, venture pre-IPO, and IPO/Post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: AHH is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forum

Key Bios

Not provided

Advanced Materials Partners, Inc.

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Warner K. Babcock, Managing Director
45 Pine St., New Canaan, CT 06840
Phone: 203-966-6415, Fax: n/a
E-mail: wkb@amplink.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 million - $2 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Not provided
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Advent International

Advent International is one of the world's largest private equity firms with $6 billion in cumulative capital raised and offices in 13 countries. Since the group's founding in 1984, it has invested in more than 500 companies in 35 countries and has helped businesses raise $10 billion through public equity and debt offerings, including 128 IPOs on major stock exchanges worldwide. Advent has invested in energy technology for the past 15 years, including Active Power, Astro Power, Boulder Battery, Superconductivity, and Xenergy.

Contact Information

Michael Bevan, Principal
75 State St., Boston, MA 02109
Phone: 617-951-9741
E-mail: mbevan@adventinternational.com
Web site: www.adventinternational.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 million to $8 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Advent International is interested in investments in all areas of renewable energy technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Sloan Wobbeking - Associate
Michael Bevan - Principal
Lindsay Pike - Partner
John Rockwell - Partner
George ReichenBach - Partner

Altira Group, LLC

Altira Group deals in venture capital for seed and early-stage energy technology ventures.

Contact Information

1675 Broadway, Suite 2400, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303-592-5500, Fax: 303-592-5519
Web site: www.altiragroup.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Altira Group is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in involvement with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

Ameren Energy Fuels and Services

Ameren is the utility for Missouri and central Illinois. The business development group of Ameren Energy Fuels & Services includes 12 individuals and an annual budget of $80 million for investments in fuels-related businesses.

Contact Information

1901 Choteau Avenue, MC 611,
St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: 314-554-2629, Fax: 314-554-4188
E-mail: invest@ameren.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, industry, utility, debt
Investment Range: $1 million
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Ameren is interested in future investment opportunities in alternative fuels and chemicals, combined heat and power, fuel cells, green buildings, hydrogen, microturbines, photovoltaics, wind, and energy-efficient lighting systems.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Angeleno Group

Angeleno Group is a private equity firm focused on high growth investments in energy and environmental technology companies.

Contact Information

Molly Mickelson
2029 Century Park E., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: 310-552-2790 Fax: 310-552-2727
E-mail: info@angelenogroup.com
Web site: www.angelenogroup.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1M-$20M
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, Pre IPO, IPO/Post IPO, Mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and International
Technology Interests: Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions Control, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Emissions Control, Fuel Cells, Power Quality, Reliability, Transmission (Electricity), and Other Advanced Energy Technology - Energy intelligence and control, transmission and distribution efficiency, power storage, fuel technologies, power quality & reliability, emission reduction technologies, and distributed generation.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Yaniv Tepper is co-founder and a Managing Partner of Angeleno Group ("AG"). Mr. Tepper oversees AG's investment activities in generation oriented technologies, advanced materials & components and energy storage. Prior to the formation of AG in 2001, Mr. Tepper managed $2 billion in private and public equities and structured securities on behalf of institutional and mutual fund clients while at Aetna (now a part of ING Group), a financial services company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Tepper was a materials engineer at Bechtel. Mr. Tepper holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, an M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT and an M.S. in management from MIT.

Daniel Weiss is co-founder and a Managing Partner of AG. Mr. Weiss oversees AG' s investment activities in the areas of pollution control, transmission and distribution infrastructure and fuel technologies. Prior to the formation of AG, Mr. Weiss was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, working in the firm's mergers and acquisitions, international and high technology practice groups. Mr. Weiss holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. with high honors from U.C. Berkeley.

Zeb Rice is co-founder and a Managing Partner of AG. Mr. Rice oversees AG's investment activities in the areas of energy efficiency and demand management, environmental technologies and exploration and production technologies. Prior to the formation of AG, Mr. Rice managed venture investing for News Corporation in Australia and Asia. His portfolio included seed and expansion stage investments in high growth technology companies. Mr. Rice received a B.S. Magna Cum Laude in Government and Economics from Bowdoin College.

Applied Ventures, LLC

Applied Ventures, LLC is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. (*NASDAQ, AMAT), the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products. At Applied Materials, we apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live. Applied Ventures invests in high-growth, early stage technology companies. We are driven by both financial and strategic objectives, and our mission is to profitably invest in companies that provide a window on technologies that advance the semiconductor and related industries. The fund focuses on companies pursuing technologies and markets that provide a natural extension to Applied Materials' core business in addition to innovations that stimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays and related products and services.

Contact Information

Robert Salama
3050 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95052
Phone: 408-563-5390, Fax: n/a
E-mail: robert_salama@amat.com
Web site: www.appliedventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $3 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels and Chemicals, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: No, but I want to become involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

Ardesta

Ardesta is like a traditional venture capitalist — investing in microsystems startups and early stage companies. Ardesta is like an incubator — providing business and technical resources to support these companies. It does the following:

Acquires and aggregates intellectual property rights
Starts new businesses to develop commercial/industrial applications
Invests in developing companies
Creates an efficient channel of distribution for microsystems technologies and information
Develops industry-building activities such as trade publications, web sites and trade shows.

Contact Information

Tony C. Anast, Vice President of Corporate and Business Development
755 Phoenix Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone: 734-994-7000, Fax: n/a
E-mail: tonyanast@ardesta.com
Web site: www.ardesta.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2.5 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Ardesta is interested in future investments in fuel cells, energy-efficient lighting systems, microturbines, and photovoltaics. The group also is interested in MEMS, microsystems, nanotechnology, and other forms of small technologies related to energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Aretê Corporation

Aretê Corporation has been managing venture capital funds focused on the needs and interests of the electric and gas utility industries since 1985. As manager of the Micro-Generation Technology Fund, Aretê has the ability to:

Participate in the origination of ventures to address unfilled needs in the micro-generation market
Provide active management assistance to ventures in the Fund's portfolio.

Contact Information

Robert Shaw Jr., President
P.O. Box 1299, Center Harbor, NH 03226
Phone: 603-253-9797, Fax: 603-253-9799
Email: aretecorp@cyberportal.net
Web site: www.arete-microgen.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Between $500,000 - $3 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: The group has made investments in combined heat and power, emissions control, fuel cells, hydrogen, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, and power quality. Arete is also interested in expanding its investments in the same areas.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Asia West

Strategic investor in environmental technologies that have application in the developing world.

Contact Information

Sanford J. Selman, Managing Director
121 Post Road East
Westport, CT 06881
Phone: 203-221-7454
E-mail: sandy@asiawestfunds.com
Web site: www.asiawestfunds.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early, Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National, International
Technology Interests: Not provided
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Atrium Capital

Atrium Capital is a leader in corporate strategic venture investing.

Contact Information

Eric Ramberg, Principal
3000 Sand Hill Road, Building 2, Suite 240
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-233-7878
E-mail: eramberg@atriumcapital.com
Web site: www.atriumcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, National, International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal, Transmission (Electricity), Wave Energy Generation
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Would like to become involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

Battelle Ventures

Battelle Ventures, L.P., a $150-million fund, will principally, but not exclusively, create new or support existing early-stage companies that can materially benefit from technologies that emerge from Battelle Memorial Institute and the National Laboratories that Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Contact Information

Tracy Warren, Associate
103 Carnegie Center, Suite 200
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609-921-1456, Fax: 609-921-8703
E-mail: tracy@battelleventures.com
Web site: www.battelleventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Is interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business and Industry Growth Forums.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a traditional venture capital firm with over $2 Billion in capital under management and investing in early to emerging stage technology firms. We have historically invested in information technology and services, but are actively pursuing energy and renewable energy related investments.

Contact Information

Jason Matlof. Venture Partner
901 Mariner Island Blvd., Suite 475
San Mateo, CA 94404
Phone: 650-372-3939
E-mail: jmatlof@battery.com
Web site: www.battery.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5,000,000 to $20,000,000
Funding Stage: Seed, Early. Venture. Pre IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, National. International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Reliability, Solar Thermal, Wave Energy Generation Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

Bechtel Enterprises, Inc.

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Jane Seto, Vice President
Technology Ventures
50 California Street, Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415-768-2840
E-mail: jxseto@ben.bechtel.com
Web site: www.bechtel.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Average investment size of $3 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture industry
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: Bechtel Enterprises is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

BEV Capital

Brand Equity Ventures specializes in marketing, bringing this value-added expertise to the table.

Contact Information

Michael Majors, Venture Partner
One Stamford Plaza, 263 Tresser Blvd., 16th Floor
Stamford, CT 06901
Phone: 203-724-1100, Fax: 203-724-1155
E-mail: mike@bevcapital.com
Web site: www.bevcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2 million
Funding Stage: Early and venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and local (Stamford, Connecticut)
Technology Interests: The group currently focuses on e-commerce, but they are interested in all types of energy categories in the future.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Black Emerald Group

Black Emerald is an investment banking firm specializing in renewable energy and environmental technology corporate and project finance.

Contact Information

Eric J. Urbani, Managing Director,
445 Park Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY
Phone: 212-675-3105, Fax: 212-675-5890
E-mail: eric.urbani@blackemerald.com
Web site: www.blackemerald.com

Investor/Financier Type: Investment banking
Investment Range: $2.5 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, pre-IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and international
Technology Interests: Black Emerald is interested in investments in alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, clean vehicles, combined heat and power, energy efficiency/conservation, fuel cells, hybrid vehicles, hydrogen, energy-efficient lighting systems, microturbines, solar thermal, wind, and photovoltaics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Blue Hill Partners, LLC

Blue Hill Partners, LLC, invests equity capital in venture-stage companies in the advanced industrial technology sector, which includes companies with technologies that significantly improve industrial process efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain the integrity of the surrounding environment. The group takes equity positions in companies that have growth and profit potential. These companies also have strong management teams and potential "breakthrough" technologies that are likely to transform current practices in their industry or sector. The multidisciplinary team has a broad set of skills, resources, and experience in the sector that is a valuable resource available to portfolio companies.

Contact Information

Joyce M. Ferris, Managing Partner
40 W. Evergreen Ave.,
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Phone: 215-247-2400
E-mail: joyceferris@bluehillpartners.com
Web site: www.bluehillpartners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5 million - $10 million
Funding Stage: Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: The group is interested in advanced industrial technology investments, which include renewable energy, resource efficiency, environmental remediation, water technology, and recycling.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Cadre International

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Scott Gressitt, President/CEO
130 West LA Cienega
San Marcos, CA 92069
Phone: 760-591-9000, Fax: 760-510-9933
E-mail: scott@gressitt.com
Web site: n/a

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, broker, angel, industry, utility, debt, project, and consultant
Investment Range: $1 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO, and mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Cadre International is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Calvert Funds

Calvert is one of the Washington, D.C., area's largest mutual fund groups with approximately $8 billion in assets under management for more than 200,000 investors. Three Calvert funds allocate a small portion of assets to early-stage venture capital and private equity. The venture program invests in companies that have both strong profit potential and a product or service beneficial to health, the environment, or quality of life. The active portfolio includes approximately 30 direct investments as well as 25 investments in other venture funds.

Contact Information

Stephen H. Moody, Principal
4550 Montgomery Ave. 100
N, Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: 301-961-4786
E-mail: ventures@calvert.com
Web site: www.calvert.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $250,000 to $2.5 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Maryland area and national
Technology Interests: Calvert Funds is interested in investments in all areas of renewable energy technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Capital Equity Partners, LLC

Capital Equity Partners structures transactions and raises capital for companies pursuing business opportunities in developing and industrialized nations worldwide in project & infrastructure finance, acquisitions, private equity funds and other funding techniques to support our clients' international business goals, by leveraging the financial support of more than 350 government agencies, global multilateral organizations and private investors, including banks, pension funds, REITS and industry related. Capital Equity Partners has successfully arranged millions of dollars in the telecommunications, water, transportation, wind power, energy, oil & gas, agribusiness and hospitality sectors. We are seeking wind power project in Central and South America to participate, with minimum capital requirements of US $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 dollars.

Contact Information

Aaron Ariel, Director of International Operations
410 Park Avenue
New York, NY 22100
Phone: 775-269-6199
E-mail: aaron@capitalequitypartners.com
Web site: www.capitalequitypartners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, utility, debt, project, and consultant
Investment Range: $10,000,000
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, Pre IPO, IPO/Post IPO, and Mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Biomass Power, Fuel Cells, Hybrid Power Gen., Hydro, Information Technologies, Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal, Transmission (Electricity, Wave Energy Generation, Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Past/Current Involvement with NREL Industry Growth Forum or National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators

Key Bios

Not provided

Cartesian Capital Corporation

Cartesian Capital is a venture partner to Canada's leading corporations. The group is an investment partnership engaged in corporate venturing and alternative asset management, which focuses on energy technologies, enterprise management, and information and communications technologies as applied to the energy industry.

Contact Information

Erwyn Naidoo, Associate
2 Bloor Street West, Suite 3400, P.O. Box 61
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3E2
Phone: 416-644-6000, 500, Fax: 416-644-6001
E-mail: n/a
Web site: www.cartesiancapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, angel, and merchant banking.
Investment Range: $500,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO, and mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Cartesian is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy and is especially interested in measurement and related monitoring instrumentation.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Vahan Kololian cofounder and chairman; Tye Burt cofounder and president; see Web site: for detailed bios

CEI Community Ventures

CEI Community Ventures is a $10M socially responsible fund targeting northeast US.

Contact Information

Michael H. Gurau, President
2 Portland Fish Pier, Suite 201
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: n/a, Fax: 207-772-5356
E-mail: mhg@ceimaine.org
Web site: www.ceicommunityventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland and New York-upstate)
Technology Interests: Is interested in all renewable energy technologies for future investments
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

CEfotech Pte Ltd.

Trading of solar generator and panel technology.

Contact Information

Chuan Hoe Lim, Director
605B MacPherson Road #06-12,
Singapore, 368241
Phone: 65-488-1968
E-mail: cefotech@singnet.com.sg
Web site: n/a

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: CEfotech is interested in future investment opportunities in green buildings, energy-efficient lighting systems, and photovoltaics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Chestnut Capital LLC

Wind Energy Investor

Contact Information

David Marcus, Managing Member
294 Chestnut Street
West Newton, MA 02465
Phone: 617-514-7800
E-mail: dmarcus@chestnutcapital.com
Web site: www.chestnutcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Angel, Industry, Project
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, Pre-IPO, IPO/Post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Chestnut Capital LLC selected "All".
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

ChevronTexaco Technology Solutions

An investment group focused on intersecting advanced energy technologies, including clean energy technologies, at an early to mid-stage of development. Part of ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures.

Contact Information

Jim Gable, Director
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, F1188, San Ramon, CA 94583
Phone: 925-842-2095
E-mail: james.gable@chevrontexaco.com
Web site: www.chevrontexaco.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 million to $2 million initially
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: ChevronTexaco Technology Solutions is currently involved in investments with fuel cells. The group is interested in investments in a broad area of clean energy technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital

Chrysalix Energy invests in and supports compelling technologies and entrepreneurial management teams that address the changing demands of the global energy industry. Its unique combination of experienced venture investment professionals, global strategic partners and specialized domain knowledge, enable Chrysalix to identify, finance and develop highly profitable and innovative growth businesses in the Clean Energy sector.

Areas of investment interest include Solar Technology, Fuel Cells & Hydrogen, Biofuels & Biomass Conversion, New Materials, Clean Coal, GHG Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Battery & Energy Storage, Waste Gasification and Biological Energy Conversion. Founded in 2001, we actively work with our clients and support them with deep industry and technical knowledge, management and board assistance, organized networking with industrial and financial partners, management of intellectual property, and direct access to capital.

Investors in the Chrysalix Energy Partnerships include Robeco, Saristar Enterprises (advised by Consensus Environment), Citigroup Venture Capital International, Teachers? Private Capital, West LB Mellon Asset Management, Delta Lloyd, Kuwait Petroleum Corp, Essent, Mitsubishi Corporation, BASF Venture Capital, Shell Hydrogen and Ballard Power Systems among others.

Contact Information

Brian Wawro, VP, Investments
Suite 400, 1367 W. Broadway Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6H 4A7
Phone: 604-659-5475
E-mail: bwawro@chrysalix.com
Web site: www.chrysalix.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: North America
Technology Interests: See company description above.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

CIBC Capital Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Jay Hatfield, Managing Director
425 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-856-6704, Fax: 212-885-4829
E-mail: jay.hatfield@us.cibc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: CIBC is interested in all forms of energy investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

CIBC World Markets

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Hugh Holman, Executive Director
2000 K St. NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-261-0759, Fax: 202-261-0761
E-mail: hugh.holman@us.cibc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Investment banking
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International, United States, and locally (Washington, D.C., area)
Technology Interests: CIBC invests in fuel cells and hydrogen. The group also is interested in alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, combines heat and power, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, solar thermal, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Cimarron Capital Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Philip Heard, Portfolio Manager
301 NW 63rd, Suite 500
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Phone: 443-841-5576
Web site: www.cimarroncapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: We invest only in venture capital and private equity funds. We do no direct investments.
Investment Range: Up to $7 million
Funding Stage: Seed, start-up, early stage, growth stage, later stage, buyouts.
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Global
Technology Interests: All technologies, with special interest in clean technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: None

Key Bios

Not provided

Cinergy Ventures, LLC

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

David Mulder, Director, Venture Development and Integration
105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 510,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-287-1372, Fax: 513-287-4090
E-mail: dmulder@cinergy.com
Web site: n/a

Investor/Financier Type: Venture and utility investor
Investment Range: $2 million - $5 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States, international
Technology Interests: The group's primary interests include combined heat and power, e-commerce, fuel cells, microturbines, power quality, reliability, and wind. Is looking for future investments in biomass power, hybrid power generation, hydrogen, information technologies, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, and reliability.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Clean Pacific Ventures

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Sean Schickedanz, General Partner
425 California Street , Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415-443-0133
E-mail: sean@cleanpacific.com
Web site: www.cleanpacific.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1-3 million
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, E-Commerce, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions Control, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reliability, Solar Thermal, Space Conditioning, Transmission (Electricity), Wave Energy Generation, Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

CleanTech Partners, Inc.

We are a non-profit 501c(3) located in Madison, Wisconsin. We have a $4 million investment fund which is run with a commercial mindset. Investments are usually up to $400,000 in size, and can be equity or debt. The funding for our current fund specifies that it is to be used to help develop and commercialize energy efficiency technologies that can save electricity or natural gas in the State of Wisconsin. However, there are no restrictions on actual source of the technologies — we have invested in technologies coming out of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Canada besides those developed here in Wisconsin.

Contact Information

Tim R. Konicek, Ph.d
Director - Venture Investments
8309 Greenway Blvd.
Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: 608-203-0112, Fax: 608-203-0119
E-mail: tkonicek@cleantechpartners.org
Web site: www.cleantechpartners.org

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Angel, Debt, Project
Investment Range: $400,000
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Biomass Power, Energy Efficiency/Conservation
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Past/current involvement with NREL's Industry Growth Forum

Key Bios

Not provided

Conduit Ventures Limited

Company Description

Conduit Ventures is focused on venture capital funding for fuel cells and the hydrogen economy.

Contact Information

Daniel Carter, Principal
Unit B, 2nd Floor Colonial Buildings
59-61 Hatton Garden
London EC1N 8LS
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-7831-3131, Fax: +44 20-7841-5808
E-mail: dc@conduit-ventures.com
Web site: www.conduit-ventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPOs
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Conduit Ventures is interested in fuel cells and hydrogen technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Would like to become involved.

Key Bios

John Butt is the Chief Executive Officer and founding partner of Conduit Ventures Ltd. John has worked in mergers and acquisitions and privatizations for over eleven years at Citigroup and PriceWaterhouse based in the US, UK and Germany. As a Director at Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney he focused on the energy industry, fuel cells and related technologies, where he was instrumental in establishing the Power Technology Group in Europe. John has also worked at the Bank of England, London, and was educated at St. Andrews University, Scotland where he obtained a degree in biochemistry and at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he obtained an MBA.

Commons Capital Management, LLC

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Willy Osborn, Manager
115 Buckminster Road
Brookline, MA 02445
Phone: 617-734-1047, Fax: 617-734-3115
E-mail: wosborn@aol.com
Web site: www.commonscapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $250,000 - $500,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture projects
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: The group currently focuses on clean vehicles, energy management systems, fuel cells, microturbines, photovoltaics, power quality, and reliability; but they are interested in investing in all types of investment categories in the future.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

Connecticut Innovations/Clean Energy Fund

Renewable energy investment fund for the State of Connecticut.

Contact Information

Charles Moret, Managing Director
999 West Street, Rocky Hill, CT 06107
Phone: 860-563-0015, Fax: n/a
E-mail: charlie.moret@ctinnovations.com
Web site: www.ctcleanenergy.com

Investor/Financier Type: Not provided
Investment Range: $500,000 - $5 million
Funding Stage: Seed and early venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Locally (Connecticut)
Technology Interests: Connecticut Innovations invests in biomass power, fuel cells, photovoltaics, power quality, and reliability. Their future interests also include fuel cells, wave energy, wind, and green buildings.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Cornell Capital

Founded in 2001, Cornell is a private investment firm that specializes in structured finance and, according to Knobias Pipe Trac, was one of the most active investors in the U.S. in terms of the number of structured equity financings in 2005. Knobias also reported that Cornell has structured over $1 billion in committed equity capital in over 100 transactions within the last 12 months. Cornell works closely with management to design custom-tailored, alternative financing structures that meet each individual company's capital needs and corporate goals. For more information please visit www.cornellcapital.com.

Contact Information

David Ratzker, Vice President, Corporate Finance
101 Hudson Street, Suite 3700
Jersey City NJ 07302
201-985-8300 ext. 130
E-mail: dratzker@cornellcapital.com
Web site: www.cornellcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Investment Banking, Broker, Industry, Debt, Project, Equity
Investment Range: $5M - 25M
Funding Stage: Pre IPO, IPO/Post IPO, Mature, Public
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, National, International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, E-Commerce, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions Control, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reliability, Solar Thermal, Space Conditioning, Transmission (Electricity), Wave Energy Generation, Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

Mr. Ratzker joined Cornell Capital Partners in August of 2003 and has structured and placed over $100 million private equity transactions for publicly traded corporations in a variety of sectors. Mr. Ratzker focuses high growth as well as debt restructure transactions. Mr. Ratzker holds a Bachelors of Science from Yeshiva University.

Cornerstone Holdings

Cornerstone Holdings is a venture capital and private equity group based in Broomfield Colorado. In 2006 the investment team decided to focus on investing in the energy sector. Typically Cornerstone invests between $1 to $3 million per financing round but can go as high as $10 million in the right circumstances.

Contact Information

Chris Rockers, Principal
11001 W. 120th Ave, Suite 310
Broomfield CO 80021
Phone: 303-410-2531
E-mail: crockers@cstoneholdings.com
Web site: www.cstoneholdings.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Angel, Debt
Investment Range: $1-10 million
Funding Stage: Early, Venture, Pre IPO, Mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, E-Commerce, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions Control, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reliability, Solar Thermal, Space Conditioning, Transmission (Electricity), Wave Energy Generation, Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

DFJ Element

DFJ Element is a venture capital fund focused broadly on clean technologies. The fund was launched in 2005 in partnership with Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Contact Information

Patti Szczepaniak
2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 150
Menlo Park, CA 94025
E-mail: Patti@elementpartners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5-7 million
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, Pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National & International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Energy; Appliances, Energy Efficient; Biomass Power; Clean Vehicles; Combined Heat & Power; E-Commerce; Energy Efficiency/Conservation; Energy Management Systems; Emissions Control; Energy Storage; Fuel Cells; Hybrid Power Gen.; Hybrid Vehicles; Hydro; Hydrogen; Information Technologies; Lighting Systems, Energy-Efficient; Micro-turbines; Photovoltaics; Power Electronics; Power Quality; Reliability; Solar Thermal; Space Conditioning; Transmission (Electricity); Wind;
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

The Fund is managed by David Lincoln, former founding partner of EnerTech Capital; John Rockwell, Michael Bevan, and Lindsay Pike, the partners managing Advent International's energy technology investment practice; and Timothy Newell, an investment banking/private equity executive who also served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Clinton. Doug Brown, who served as President and CEO of Advent International from 1995 until 2003 when he became President and CEO of Ionics - a leading water purification technology company - serves as a Venture Partner to the Fund. The firm's investment committee also includes Raj Atluru, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the leader of DFJ's clean technology practice.

DTE Energy Ventures, Inc.

DTE Energy Ventures is the corporate venturing arm of DTE Energy Company. DTE Energy Ventures invests in early-to-late stage private companies in the areas of clean energy technology and energy efficiency / optimization.

Contact Information

Ananth Ananthasubramaniam, Vice President
200 2nd Avenue, 852 WCB
Detroit MI 48226
Phone: 313-235-9127, Cell 313-929-7290, Fax: 313-235-4867
E-mail: ananthasubramaniamg@dteenergy.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, industry, project, and joint ventures
Investment Range: $3 million - $10 million
Funding Stage: Seed, IPO/post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: DTE Energy currently invests in interests including energy-efficient appliances, biomass power, clean vehicles, combined heat and power, emissions control, energy storage, fuel cells, green buildings, hybrid power generation, energy-efficient lighting systems, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, reliability, and solar thermal. Some of their future interests include wave energy generation and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Easenergy, Inc.

Easenergy, Inc., helps launch a strategic partnership with Electricité de France, one of the largest utilities in the world, well recognized for its technical expertise. Through this partnership, interested parties get additional resources (products and work force) to accelerate a company's development with one of the best and largest energy research and marketing centers. Easenergy also helps finance these resources with Electricité de France as an investor and prepares parties for expansion in the fast-moving European markets where Electricité de France is a strong and growing leader.

Contact Information

Didier Gras, Vice President, Sales and Business Development
900 East Hamilton Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008
Phone: 408-879-7411, Fax: n/a
E-mail: dgras@easenergy.com
Web site: www.easenergy.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, utility, consultant, resource investment
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Venture and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and international
Technology Interests: Easenergy, which is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy, invests in clean vehicles, energy-management systems, information technologies, power electronics, reliability, power quality, and transmission (electricity).
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in involvement with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

Earthrise Capital

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Ann Partlow, General Partner
Earthrise Capital
45 Rockefeller Plaza 20th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-332-2482
E-mail: apartlow@earthrisecapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Not provided
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early, Venture, and Pre IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Biomass Power, ,Combined Heat & Power, E-Commerce, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions Control, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reliability, and Wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

Not provided

EBARA Corp.

EBARA partners with energy and environmental technology developers and provides investment through securing of market rights for the Japanese and Asian markets.

Contact Information

Lawrence T. Molloy, Corporate Planning Advisor
600 First Ave., Suite 630, Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-622-1120, Fax: n/a
E-mail: molloy@drizzle.com
Web site: www.ebara.co.jp

Investor/Financier Type: Industry
Investment Range: $10 million - plus
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: EBARA Corp. invests in biomass power, emissions control, fuel cells, microturbines, and photovoltaics. The group is interested in future investments that include alternative fuels and chemicals, combined heat and power, solar thermal, and hydrogen.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Ecoelectron Ventures

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Josh Lampl, President
1106 Second St., PMB 212, Encinitas, CA 92024
Phone: 760-635-1681, Fax: 760-635-1682
E-mail: josh@ecoelectron.com
Web site: www.ecoelectron.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture and Angel
Investment Range: $50,000 - $100,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and locally (California)
Technology Interests: Ecoelectron invests in energy-efficient appliances, fuel cells, energy-efficient lighting systems, photovoltaics, and solar thermal. The group also is interested in alternative fuels and chemicals, energy efficiency and conservation, biomass power, hydrogen, microturbines, power quality, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Ecology Capital Partners, LLC

Ecology Capital provides financial and strategic advice to companies in the energy and environmental industries.

Contact Information

Hugh F. Holman
2 Hamill Road, 355
West Quadrangle, Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone: 410-464-2800, Fax: 410-464-2118
E-mail: hugh@ecologycapital.net

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, consultant
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO, post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Ecology Capital Partners, LLC, is interested in investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

El Dorado Investment Company

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

John R. Finn, Venture Investment Manager P.O. Box 53999, Phoenix, AZ 85072-3999
Phone: N/A, Fax: n/a
E-mail: eldorado@pinnaclewest.com
Web site: www.pinnaclewest.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture and utility investor
Investment Range: $1 million -$5 million
Funding Stage: Pre-IPO stage
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: El Dorado is interested in fuel cells, hybrid power generation, hydrogen, photovoltaics, power electronics, reliability, solar thermal, and wave-energy generation among others.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Energy Capital, LLC

Energy Capital is a financial catalyst focusing on the opportunities available in the power technology and renewable energy sectors.

Contact Information

Peter Dunev, Chief Executive Officer
360 Sun Valley Road,
Ketchum, ID 83340
Phone: 208-727-0002, Fax: 208-727-0003
E-mail: dunev@energycap.com
Web site: www.energycap.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking
Investment Range: $500,000 - $1 million
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Energy Capital, LLC, is interested in investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in involvement with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

The Energy Strategies Institute

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Larry Crowley, Director
5549 S. Cliffsedge Ave., Boise, ID 83716
Phone: 208-890-1871 Fax: 208-345-2424
E-mail: crowleyla@aol.com

Investor/Financier Type: Project and Seed Equity
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International, United States, local (Boise, Idaho)
Technology Interests: Energy Strategies invests in biomass power, energy-efficient appliances, energy-management systems, fuel cells, green buildings, hydrogen, hybrid-power generation, photovoltaics, and electricity transmission. The group also is interested in information technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Energy Ventures Group

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Andrew D. Weissman, Chairman
1101 30th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20007
Phone: 202-625-8320, Fax: 202-625-8321
E-mail: aweissman@energyvg.com
Web site: www.energyvg.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture and consultant
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Energy Ventures Group invests in energy-management systems and information technologies. Future investment interests also include e-commerce and reliability.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

EnerTech Capital Partners

EnerTech targets early to expansion-stage venture investments that can deliver dramatic, defensible improvements to the profitability of the major producers and consumers of energy. Our interest encompasses the full range of energy technologies and includes opportunities that improve the incumbent energy industry as well as the development of the alternative energy and clean energy industries ("cleantech").

Contact Information

Tucker Twitmyer, Principal
435 Devon Park Drive, Building 700
Wayne, PA 19087
Phone: 610-254-4141, Fax: 610-254-4188
E-mail: ttwitmyer@enertechcapital.com
Web site: www.enertechcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Between $3 million and $10 million
Funding Stage: Early to expansion stage
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and Canada
Technology Interests: Interested in alternative energy technologies (i.e. biofuels, solar, wind, etc.) and technologies that improve the efficiency of incumbent energy assets (i.e. power plants, transmission and distribution network, pipelines, etc).
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Entegrity Partners, L.P.

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Maurice Miller, Partner
3145 Geary Blvd., #723, San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: 415-221-9909, Fax: 415-876-1510
E-mail: mmiller@pacificsolar.com
Web site: www.entegritypartners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Between $300,000 - $500,000
Funding Stage: Early-stage venture financing
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Entegrity has made investments in photovoltaics and wind, and is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy. Entegrity noted that while their direct funding capacity is small, they work with a number of outside investors on the right opportunity. They also co-develop projects and provide seed funding for project development opportunities.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Epsilon Synergy Development Corporation

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Salvador C. Loyola, Jr., Director, Business Development
1 R. Duterte Corner Lomboy Streets, Banawa
Cebu City, 6000 Philippines
Phone: 6332-2626264
E-mail: bomboy.loyola@lycos.com

Investor/Financier Type: Project and consultant
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local
Technology Interests: Epsilon Synergy is interested in investments relating to all areas of renewable energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Expansion Capital Partners

Expansion Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in expansion-stage, clean technology enterprises, which present compelling risk-return profiles.

Contact Information

Kjartan Jansen, Principal
Phone: 415-788-8825
E-mail: kjartan@expansioncapital.com
Web site: www.expansioncapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $3 to $10 million
Funding Stage: Expansion/Growth Stage
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and Canada
Technology Interests: Expansion Capital Partners invests in clean technology companies that offer dramatic improvements in resource productivity, creating more economic value with less energy, less materials, and less waste. These technologies significantly lower cost and improve profitability, with short payback periods for customers. Clean technology companies occur across diverse sectors of the economy, including energy, manufacturing, advanced, materials, water & wastewater, transportation. Future investment interests include all clean energy technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in involvement with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

For bios, see Web site

FA Technology Ventures

FA Technology Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on investing in early and expansion-stage information technology and energy technologies companies, with typical investment sizes of $3 million to $8 million. We look for innovative ideas and experienced management teams who are willing to work with our team of experienced professionals to build successful companies and to grow shareholder value. The company's products should be innovative and proprietary, with the ability to drive top-line growth and deliver substantial profit margins. The company should be well-positioned within their market, and have a distinctive, sustainable advantage over their competitors. Most important, the idea should have the potential for greatness, and it should be encompassed by a sound, enduring business model. If your company fits this description, then FA Technology Ventures may be the right value-added partner. Our members have diverse backgrounds in Information Technology and Energy Technologies, and with our vast network of contacts, we bring much more than capital to an investment — we bring the insight and experience to help turn a great idea into a great business.

Contact Information

John Cococcia, Principal
30 South Pearl St., Albany, NY 12207
Phone: 518-447-8056, Fax: 518-447-8139
E-mail: john@fatechventures.com
Web site: www.fatechventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $3 million - $8 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: FA Technology's current investments are in fuel cells and information technologies, but they are also interested in biomass power, combined heat and power, energy-management systems, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, reliability solar thermal, wave-energy generation, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

First Analysis Corporation

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Bret R. Maxwell, Co-CEO
233 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 9500
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 312-258-1400, Fax: n/a
E-mail: bmaxwell@firstanalysisvc.com
Web site: www.firstanalysisvc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Venture financing
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: First Analysis has made investments in alternative fuels and chemicals, clean vehicles, energy efficiency/conservation, fuel cells, energy-efficient lighting systems, biomass power, photovoltaics, wind, wave energy generation, and electricity transmission. They are interested in future investments in many of the same areas.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Fuel Cells America, LLC

Fuel Cells America, LLC is a renewables and hydrogen company relating to the promotion sales of renewable, and hydrogen products to lead to energy efficiency and energy savings. Fuel Cells America also gives presentations about renewables, hydrogen, and energy efficiency.

Contact Information

Steve Books, Managing Member
211 S. 2nd Street
Mount Horeb, WI 53572
Phone: , Fax: 608-437-5478
E-mail: Books24U@aol.com
Web site: www.fuelcellsamerica.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, consultant
Investment Range: less than $1,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National, local
Technology Interests: Current
Technology Interests: are e-commerce, energy efficiency/conservation, fuel cells, and hydrogen. Future interests include the above as well as alternative fuels and chemicals, appliances, energy- efficient appliances, biomass power, clean vehicles, combined heat and power, green buildings, energy efficient lighting systems, micro turbines, and photovoltaics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Steve Books. Bachelors of Science Degree - Technology Education. University of Wisconsin - Stout May 1985. Book is Interested in dealership status for various new fuel cell energy products and companies to get America back on a stable economic track. He is also Interested in promoting hydrogen refueling stations and working with fuel companies to incorporate hydrogen as a fuel to sell at existing automobile service stations, or starting a new type of hydrogen service station for the 21st century.

Garage Technology Ventures

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Bill Reichert
360 Bryant Street, Suite 100
Palo Alto, CA 94304
650-838-0811
E-mail: reichert@garage.com
Web site: www.garage.com

Investor/Financier Type: Not provided
Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000 to $1 million
Funding Stage: Seed and early stage
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National (prefer western US)
Technology Interests: Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Energy Management Systems, Fuel Cells, and Photovoltaics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Garage Technology Ventures is a seed and early stage venture fund focused on companies in emerging technologies sectors. Garage is actively looking for innovative energy technology companies, especially those that leverage semiconductor, nanotech, software, and materials science technologies to achieve breakthrough results. As an early stage investor, Garage partners closely with experienced entrepreneurs and companies that are emerging from universities, large corporations, and National Labs. Garage provides invaluable assistance to these young companies, helping them navigate the difficult first stages of a company's lifecycle.

Gaebler Ventures, LLC

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Ken Gaebler CEO
641 West Lake St., Suite 100
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: 312-207-1190, Fax: 312-207-1192
E-mail: info@gaebler.com
Web site: www.gaebler.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000
Funding Stage: Seed and early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Gaebler Ventures is interested in investment opportunities relating to alternative fuels and chemicals, clean vehicles, fuel cells, photovoltaics, information technologies, and energy-efficient lighting systems.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Genesis Park

Genesis Park provides capital and critical business-building resources to focus and accelerate the growth of new economy companies. Genesis Park partners with companies to provide not only the capital, but also the mentoring and the strategic interaction required to meet the particular needs of each organization as it develops.

Contact Information

Greg Bloh, Vice President
2001 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004
Phone: 713-285-2900, Fax: 713-285-2911
E-mail: gbloh@genesis-park.com
Web site: www.genesis-park.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local (Houston, Texas)
Technology Interests: Genesis Park is interested in all forms of energy investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Geneva Energy Advisors

Geneva Energy serves as an adviser to Gerrard Energy Ventures, who invest in early-stage and development-stage businesses across the power and gas sector with a focus on the European energy market. GEA advises a general power and gas fund interested in the application of clean energy and enabling technologies to today's marketplace. While European-focused, GEA is interested in hearing from companies located outside Europe who are interested in developing their European sales and operations.

Contact Information

Grant Thain
40 rue du Marche, Case Postale 3268, 1211 Geneva 3, Switzerland
Phone: 41-22-312-1266
E-mail: info@geadvisors.ch
Web site: www.geadvisors.ch

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000-$6 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Geneva Energy Advisors is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

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Good Energies

Good Energies is a leading global investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. The firm invests in solar, turbine-based renewables, green building technologies and other emerging areas within clean energy. Founded in 2001, Good Energies manages the renewable energy portfolio of COFRA, a family owned and managed group of companies.

Contact Information

Sean Petersen, Senior Associate
277 Park Ave
New York, NY 10172
Phone, Fax: Not provided
E-mail: sean.petersen@goodenergies.com
Web site: www.goodenergies.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Varies
Funding Stage: Seed; Early; Venture; Pre IPO; IPO/Post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National; International
Technology Interests: Appliances, Energy-Efficient; Energy-Efficiency Conservation; Energy Management Systems; Green Buildings; Lighting Systems; Photovoltaics; Solar Thermal; Wind; Hydro; Wave Energy Generation
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

See Web site

Greenergy Investments Foundation

GIF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization established to accelerate the adoption of clean energy by helping project sponsors identify and secure financing for clean energy projects.

Contact Information

John Lingelbach, President
5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 1000
Englewood, CO 80111
Phone: n/a, Fax: 303-919-5915
E-mail: lingelbach@greenergyinvestments.org
Web site: www.greenergyinvestments.org

Investor/Financier Type: Project
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage:
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Greenergy Investments Foundation is interested in all forms of clean-energy investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

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Green Planet Venture Capital, LLC

GPVC's general field of investment focus is advanced resource productivity. We are interested in investing in companies whose product or service has the potential to radically reduce human impact on the global environment. We do not perceive a conflict between this goal and our financial goal of maximizing returns to our investors. On the contrary, we view current levels of global resource inefficiency as a form of economic inefficiency; whenever an economic system can be made more efficient, business opportunities exist. In this case, the business opportunities are large, because the inefficiencies are great.

Contact Information

Michael Ellsberg, President & CEO
645 Madison Ave., 22nd Floor, New York, NY
Phone: n/a, Fax: n/a
E-mail: mellsberg@greenplanetvc.com
Web site: www.greenplanetvc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $100,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and local (New York)
Technology Interests: Green Planet Venture is interested in all forms of energy investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Haddington Ventures, LLC

Haddington Ventures, LLC, is a private equity fund backed by utilities and financial institutions.

Contact Information

Robert D. Kincaid, Senior Vice President
2603 Augusta, No. 1130, Houston, TX 77057
Phone: 713-532-7992, Fax: 713-532-9922
E-mail: bkinc@hvllc.com
Web site: www.hvllc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Not provided
Investment Range: $5 million plus
Funding Stage: Pre-IPO, but can look at "going-private" transactions for existing public companies and will also look at venture stage occasionally
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Haddington has investments in combined heat and power, energy-management systems, and hydrogen; and is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Haddington's partners are former operating company executives Larry Bickle, Ph.D., former Sandia National Laboratories and co-founder and former CEO of TPC Corporation. John Strom former Union Carbide and former co-founder and President of TPC Corporation (BS, University of Illinois). Chris Jones, former Fixk Electric and TPC Corporation, CFO (BBA, University of Texas). Robert D. Kincaid, former EnCap Investments (mezzanine fund for oil and gas) and Treasurer of TPC Corporation. BS in Computer Science (Baylor University) and MBA in Finance & Economics (Tulane University).

Hydro-Quebec CapiTech Inc.

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Joseph Baladi, Vice President, Investment Funds and Strategic Development
75 Rene-Levesque Blvd. West, 22nd Floor, Montreal, Quebec H2Z 1A4 Canada
Phone: 514-289-4783, Fax: 514-289-5420
E-mail: hqcapitech@hydro.qc.ca
Web site: www.hqcapitech.com

Investor/Financier Type: Corporate venture capital fund, subsidiary of Hydro-Quebec
Investment Range: $1 million - $5 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Canada and United States
Technology Interests: Hydro-Quebec CapiTech has invests in energy-efficient appliances, energy-management systems, fuel cells, hydrogen, and microturbines. They are interested in adding power electronics, power reliability, and wind for future investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

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Hydrogen Ventures LLC

Consulting firm working in the area of advanced energy technologies. We provide services for entrepreneurs, funds, and governmental type of organizations.

Contact Information

Jerald Cole, Chief Technology Officer, Hydrogen Ventures LLC
400 Continental Blvd.
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: 310-426-2628
E-mail: jcole@hydrogen.la
Web site: www.hydrogen.la

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, consultant
Investment Range: $1 million to $5 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and local (California)
Technology Interests: Hydrogen Ventures is interested in all clean-energy and alternative fuels and chemical investment opportunities.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Elias Azrak, Jerald Cole, Lawrence Wnuk

Israel Cleantech Ventures

Israel Cleantech Ventures is the leading provider of early stage capital to Israel's clean technology sector. We invest across a diverse range of cleantech disciplines ranging from renewable energy, water technologies, and green IT.

Contact Information

Meir Ukeles, Partner
Precede Building - Hakfar Hayarok
Ramat Hasharon, ISRAEL 47800
Phone:+972-3-644-6611
Fax: n/a
E-mail: meir@israelcleantech.com
Web site: www.israelcleantech.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Stage: Seed, Early, Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Typical Investment: $500K-$5M (Total funds under management: $75M)
Number of energy projects: 7
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Biomass Power; E-Commerce; Energy-Efficiency Conservation; Power Electronics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: No, but wants to become involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

JP Morgan Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Rich Aube, Principal
1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Phone: 212-899-3931
E-mail: richard.aube@jpmorganpartners.com
Web site: n/a

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5 million and above
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: JP Morgan is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Koch Genesis

Corporate venture fund of Koch Industries (www.kochind.com).

Contact Information

Timothy J. Cesarek, President
4111 East 37th Street North
Wichita, KS 67230
Phone: 316-828-8532
E-mail: tim.cesarek@kochgenesis.com
Web site: www.kochgenesis.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture and Industry
Investment Range: $5 mm to $50 mm
Funding Stage: Early and Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Fuel Cells, Hybrid Vehicles, Hydrogen, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Photovoltaics, Wave Energy Generation, and Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: No, but would like to become involved.

Key Bios

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Jane Capital Partners LLC

Jane Capital is a merchant focused in large part on energy and environmental technology. We advise clients and funds on M&A and joint venture strategies, as well as financing and on select occasions act as a principal.

Contact Information

Neal Dikeman, Partner
505 Montgomery, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415-277-0180
E-mail: dikeman@janecapital.com
Web site: www.janecapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, debt, structuring M&A and joint ventures
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre IPO, IPO/post IPI, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States, international
Technology Interests: Not provided
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

Laranda Solar Technologies

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Vijay Rudra, Deputy General Manager 30-2, 2nd Floor, Jalan 25/70A, Desi Sri Hartamas, 50480 Kuala Lumput, Malaysia
Phone: 603-430-1255, Fax: n/a
E-mail: n/a
Web site: www.laranda-solar.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $100,000
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: The group's current and future investments include energy-efficient appliances, green buildings, conservation, and photovoltaics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

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Marathon Capital, LLC

Marathon Capital is a merchant bank, focused on delivering financial services and products to the power production and energy conservation markets. We specialize in the sale and financing of small and medium electrical generation projects. Our clients range from deregulated subsidiaries of large utilities, independent power producers, or entrepreneurial companies focusing on developing qualified facilities. Our services are tailored to clients' specific needs that may include balance-sheet structuring, project financing, and/or merger and acquisition services.

Contact Information

Jeff Naugle, Business Development Manager
2101 Waukegan Road
Bannockburn, IL 60015
Phone: 847-405-0610, Fax: 847-405-0618
E-mail: jnaugle@marathon-cap.com
Web site: www.marathon-cap.com

Investor/Financier Type: Debt, project, and consultant
Investment Range: $5 million - $100 million
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Marathon Capital is interested in investments focusing on alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, energy management systems, fuel cells, hydro, energy-efficient lighting systems, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Marathon Capital is comprised of senior professionals who have a combination of investment banking, commercial banking, and commercial finance expertise, each with significant experience in providing client-driven service. We limit our staffing to fully dedicated, hard-working, and talented professionals, willing to both learn and teach as well as to contribute both individually and through teamwork

Massachusetts Green Energy Fund

The Massachusetts Green Energy Fund is a private $25M venture capital fund investing in renewable energy technology companies located in or that have a significant presence in the State of Massachusetts.

Contact Information

Eric Emmons, Principal
320 Washington Street
Brookline, MA 02445
Phone: n/a, Fax: 617-739-1155
E-mail: eemmons@massgreenenergy.com
Web site: www.massgreenenegy.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $250K - $1M
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local
Technology Interests: Clean Vehicles, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen, Photovoltaics
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

Merida Thompson

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Merida Thompson
2815 Harris Blvd.
Austin, TX 78703
Phone: 512-478-0004, Fax: 512-478-0066
E-mail: merida@jjaustin.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Angel
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, and Pre IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, National, and International
Technology Interests: Not provided
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch Investment Managers is a fund-management group within Merrill Lynch that has the ability to invest in unquoted and quoted companies operating in the new energy technology environment. Fund under management is approximately $300 million.

Contact Information

Mr. Evy Hambro, Vice President
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers
33 King William Street
London, United Kingdom EC4R 9AS
Phone: 44-207-743-4511, Fax: 44-207-743-1056
E-mail: evy_hambro@ml.com
Web site: www.mlim.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking
Investment Range: Up to $5 million
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO, IPO/Post IPO. mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: Private equity for alternative energy investments. Seed to series A. I have been at Microsoft, started my own software company and taken it public on the NASDAQ (LOUD) and been a venture capitalist (Ignition Partners). I am currently CEO and Chairman of Seattle Biodiesel and doing my own investments in alternative energy companies. I want to do much more investing.

Key Bios

Not provided

MGT Investments

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Martin Tobias, Chairman
417 West Prospect
Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: 206-328-9074, Fax: 206-256-6161
E-mail: martin@55bell.com
Web site: www.martinandalex.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Angel
Investment Range: Up to $5 million
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Biomass Power, Combined Heat & Power, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reliability, Solar Thermal, Wave Energy Generation, Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Would like to become involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

Moore, Clayton & Co. / MCC Energy Advisors, Inc.

Private Equity Advisory Services Firm for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies Industries.

Contact Information

David Olson, Senior Managing Director
1396 W. Muirlands Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: 619-218-5064
E-mail: dolson@mccglobal.com
Web site: wwww.mccglobal.com

Investor/Financier Type: Investment banking, industry, debt, consultant
Investment Range: $2 million to $50 million
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States, international, local
Technology Interests: Alternative fuels & chemicals, biomass power, clean vehicles, combined heat & power, energy efficiency/conservation, energy management systems, emissions control, fuel cells, information technologies, lighting systems/energy efficient, micro turbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, reliability, solar thermal, transmission (electricity), wave generation, wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

David Olson manages the Business Development activities of MCC Energy Advisors which provides professional consulting and services for the Electrical, Energy, and Utility industries in the areas of operations & maintenance, energy efficiency, demand-side management, distributed generation, renewable energy, transmission/distribution & generation application services, energy information systems and related technologies.

Olson was previously Vice-President for Business Development for EPRIsolutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Director, Energy Services for AES/NewEnergy. AES/New Energy was a pioneer in de-regulated retail electricity markets and was the Nation's largest de-regulated electricity service provider during Mr. Olson's tenure.

Prior to AES/New Energy, Olson spent 15 years in a variety of sales, marketing, and management positions in the Automation and Control

Group of Honeywell, Int'l. His most recent assignment at Honeywell was the Business Unit Manager for the Federal Government Market Sector, which includes the creation and development of Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) programs, systems, services and solutions.

Olson received a BS in Architectural Engineering and a BS in Business

MRI Ventures

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Steven E. Lufkin, General Manager
425 Volker Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64110
Phone: 816-753-7600, Ext. 1771, Fax: n/a
E-mail: slufkin@mriresearch.org
Web site: n/a

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed stage
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: All clean energy-related investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

MVP Capital Partners

Meridian Venture Partners is a private equity-investment firm that provides capital for later-stage growth companies and to finance acquisitions and recapitalizations. MVP's portfolio companies represent diverse industries, including publishing, media, specialty retailing, manufacturing, life sciences, and software.

Contact Information

Thomas A. Penn, Senior Partner
201 King of Prussia Road, Suite 240,
Radnor, PA 19087
Phone: 610-254-2999, Fax: 610-254-2996
E-mail: tap@mvpcap.com
Web site: www.mvpcapital partners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2 million
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Pennsylvania area and United States
Technology Interests: Meridian Ventures is interested in investments in a broad area of clean energy technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Thomas Penn is a general partner of the Meridian Venture Funds and has more than 15 years experience in starting, managing, and financing high-growth companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. Before joining Meridian Venture Partners as a general partner, he served as a partner at Boston Millennia Partners. From 1994 to 1998, he was president and chief executive officer of Tektagen, Inc., and before that he was president of Independence Ventures, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of positions in industry and venture capital, and he has been on the founding team of three biotechnology firms. Mr. Penn holds bachelor of science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Metallurgy and Materials Science and in Industrial Management; an MBA from Stanford University; and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

New Energy Capital

New Energy Capital is a $100 million private equity fund in development which will make equity and equity equivalent investments in renewable energy, distributed generation and energy productivity projects and assets.

Contact Information

Daniel Reicher, Managing Partner
53 South Main Street
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-643-8885
E-mail: dreicher@newenergycapital.com
Web site: www.newenergycapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Mature, venture, pre-IPO, investment focus is on secured projects and assets.
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States, International
Technology Interests: New Energy Capital is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is involved with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Dan W. Reicher, Managing Partner

New Hampshire Governor's Office of Energy and Community Services

State Energy Office

Contact Information

James P. Taylor, Director, Grants and Program Development
57 Regional Drive, Suite No. 3, Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-271-8009
E-mail: jtaylor@gov.state.nh.us

Investor/Financier Type: Project
Investment Range: Depends on the project
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: New Hampshire area
Technology Interests: The New Hampshire Governor's Office is interested in investments in all types of renewable technologies, as well as marketing and consumer education.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

NGEN Partners LLC

Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners is a pioneering investor in cleantech sector. We invest in early to late stage businesses that offer economically valuable products and services that positively affect the environment. With a history in materials science, NGEN has deep expertise in alternative energy, energy efficiency, pollution abatement and green resources. We typically lead most of our deals and expect to add significant value to our portfolio companies. Our partners all have operating, financial and international business experience.

Contact Information

Robert Koch, Partner
720 University Avenue, Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: 650-321-4106
E-mail: koch@ngenpartners.com
Web site: www.ngenpartners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5 million - $20 million
Funding Stage: Early, mid and late stage. Early stage company must be able to demonstrate a working prototype with supporting data.
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: We are a broad-based cleantech investor. Areas of interest include efficient resource utilization, alternative energy generation, improvements to conventional energy generation, carbon management, and other solutions to climate change and scarcity of resources.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: We are sponsor of the annual NREL Industry Growth Forum.

Key Bios

Not provided

NGP Energy Technology Partners

NGP Energy Technology Partners, L.P. (NGP ETP) is a private equity fund that invests in growth capital and buyout funding for companies providing technology-related products and services to the oil and gas, power and alternative energy sectors.

Contact Information

Philip J. Deutch, Managing Partner
1700 K Street NW
Washington DC 20006
Phone: 202.536-3920, Fax: 202.536-3921
E-mail: pdeutch@ngpetp.com
Web site: www.ngpetp.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5-15 million, $150 million
Funding Stage: Companies must have $5-$15 million in revenue and existing commercial products or services. Will invest in private companies and PIPES.
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: All
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

Philip J. Deutch, Managing Partner Prior to forming NGP Energy Technology Partners with NGP, Mr. Deutch was a Managing Director at Perseus, L.L.C. where he led, or co-led, the firm's energy investing and was on the firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Deutch is one of the earliest private equity investors to focus on energy technology in the United States and since 1997 has led investments in energy companies in the areas of renewable energy, power quality/reliability, distributed generation, energy management and control, and power electronics. Mr. Deutch is a member of the Board of Directors of Evergreen Solar (NASDAQ-ESLR) and is a former Board Member of Beacon Power Corp. (NASDAQ-BCON), Northern Power Systems and International Marketing Concepts and former Observer to the Boards of Directors of Vision Solutions, SatCon Technology, and Proton Energy. Mr. Deutch has spoken or been on panels at energy conferences held by Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Credit Suisse First Boston, Salomon Smith Barney, and the American Council for Renewable Energy, Bear Stearns, Montreux Energy, McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and the FRA Renewable Energy Finance & Investment Summit. Mr. Deutch served on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 Energy Venture Fair and the selection committees for the 2005 Cleantech Venture Forum and 2005 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Industry Growth Forum. Articles by Mr. Deutch have appeared in Public Utility Fortnightly, Power Finance and Risk, and Foreign Policy.

Christopher D. Sorrells, Principal Prior to joining NGP Energy Technology Partners as a Principal, Mr. Sorrells was a Vice President at Clarity Partners, an $814 million private equity firm focused on telecom, media, and technology where he pursued growth financings and middle market LBO transactions and served as a Director on the Boards of CaseStack and Westec InterActive. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Sorrells worked at Banc of America Securities in both the natural resources and technology groups, covering energy and power, energy technology and information technology service companies. He founded and headed Bank of America's Energy Technology Group from 2000 to 2002 and served as the lead banker on a broad range of transactions, including many private equity financings. Previously, Mr. Sorrells worked in the investment banking department at Salomon Smith Barney from 1996 to 1998, covering energy and power companies.

Nth Power Technologies

Nth Power is an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco and is the first and most experienced venture capital firm funding promising startup companies in the growing sector of energy technology, materials and other related businesses. With over $420 million under management in four funds and an investment record that begins in 1997, Nth Power is widely known and well regarded as the driving force behind many of the most successful energy technology companies.

Contact Information

General Contact
One Embarcadero Center, Suite 1550
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415-983-9983, Fax: 415-983-9984
E-mail: plan@nthfund.com
Web site: www.nthfund.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Typical investment of $3 million
Funding Stage: Early and venture projects
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Nth Power invests in energy technologies broadly. We have deep experience with renewable energy, energy efficiency, green building materials, advanced transportation, intelligent infrastructure, and resource optimization technologies.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

OPG Ventures, Inc.

OPG Ventures makes equity investments in private U.S. and Canadian companies with unique energy-related technologies. OPG Ventures is 100% owned by Ontario Power Generation Inc., a major North American power generator.

Contact Information

David Oxtoby, Vice President of Investments
700 University Ave.
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X6, Canada
Phone: 416-592-5967, Fax: 416-592-8677
E-mail: david.oxtoby@opg.com
Web site: www.opgventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2 million to $5 million
Funding Stage: Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States and Canada
Technology Interests: OPG Ventures is interested in future investments in the areas of alternative fuels and chemicals, energy efficiency/conservation, energy management systems, fuel cells, green buildings, hybrid power generation, hydrogen, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, solar thermal, wave energy generation, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved with the NREL Industry Growth Forums and the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators

Key Bios

Peter Crombie, President & CEO;
David Oxtoby, Vice President - Investments;
Andy Teichman, Executive Director - Investments;
Nicolle Butcher, Investment Manager;
Scott MacDonald, Investment Manager

Parker Venture Management

Parker Venture is a management and venture consulting company that services the clean technology and sustainable sector. Established in 2001 by Nicholas Parker, the PVM team provides high-value venture services to investors seeking superior double-bottom line returns from emerging clean technology enterprises.

Contact Information

Nicholas Parker, Chairman
45 Indian Grove, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2Y1
Phone: 416-763-7184, Fax: 416-769-3505
E-mail: nicholas@parkerventure.com
Web site: www.parkerventure.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, Angel
Investment Range: $500,000 to $2 million
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Early Toronto area, national, and international
Technology Interests: Parker Venture has interests in alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, clean vehicles, combined heat and power, fuel cells, hybrid power generation, hydrogen, photovoltaics, solar thermal, microturbines, reliability, solar thermal, wave energy generation, and wind. Parker Venture also has interests in nanotechnology.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Nicholas Parker has 13 years venture capital experience related to sustainable and clean technologies in Toronto, London, and Boston. Formerly cofounder and principal of SAM Private Equity, Parker has managed two transatlantic sustainable technology venture funds (Euro86M/C$145M). Investors included leading European, North American, and Asian corporations. As former SVP of Environmental Capital Corporation/Technology Development Corporation, he undertook early-stage technology commercialization in collaboration with MIT. He is also the founder and chairman of Cleantech Venture Network LLC.

Pacific Venture Capital, LLC

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Steve Whelan, Vice President
1111 Broadway, Suite 1650, Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: 510-267-8600, Fax: n/a
E-mail: steve.whelan@pvc.pge.com
Web site: www.pacificventurecap.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Venture and pre-IPO stages
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Pacific Venture's current investments include fuel cells and reliability, but they are also interested in energy-efficient lighting systems and photovoltaics as future investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Pangaea Ventures Ltd.

Pangaea Ventures invests in early-stage companies focused on advanced materials, nanotechnology, energy technology and environmental technology. We have offices in Vancouver and New Jersey and invest in companies located in the United States and Canada.

Contact Information

Chris Erickson, Partner
Suite 1580, 1500 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6G 2Z6 Canada
Phone: 604-738-0225
E-mail: chris@pangaeaventures.com
Web site: www.pangaeaventure.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1,000,000 to $2,000,000
Funding Stage: Seed, Early. and Venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local and National
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Emissions Control. Fuel Cells. Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Photovoltaics, and Solar Thermal
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Would like to become involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

Partech International

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Philippe Cases
9 Meadow Park Circle
Belmont, CA 94002
Phone: 415-788-2929
E-mail: pcases@partechvc.com
Web site: www.partechvc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $3 million to $3.5 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/Post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Partech International is interested in investments in the areas of alternative fuels & chemicals, energy efficient appliances clean vehicles, combined heat and power, e-commerce, energy efficiency/conservation, energy management systems, emissions control, fuel cells, green buildings, hybrid power generation, hybrid vehicles, hydro, hydrogen, information technologies, micro turbines, photovoltaics, reliability, solar thermal, space conditioning, transmission (electricity), wave energy generation, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved with The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Pearl Street Liquidity Advisors, LLC

Pearl Street Liquidity Advisors focuses exclusively on technologies and companies relevant to the electricity production and delivery infrastructure, specifically assisting in raising venture or private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, seeking government grants, establishing licensing or other technology development partners. In short, we help our clients achieve growth as they move from one critical stage to the next.

Contact Information

Lee Kosla
13 Skylark Dr. #10
Larkspur, CA 94939
Phone: 415 990-0165
E-mail: lkosla@psliquidityadvisors.com
Web site: www.psliquidityadvisors.com

Investor/Financier Type: Consultant
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed and early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Not provided
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Jason Makansi is a Principal of Pearl Street Liquidity Advisors, an advisory service for energy technology companies raising capital; President of Pearl Street, Inc., a consulting firm serving the electricity industry; and Executive Director of the Energy Storage Council, a public-policy advocacy organization. Pearl Street Liquidity Advisors helps technology companies raise venture capital and private equity funds, create partnerships and alliances, arrange acquisitions and help fuel organic growth. Pearl Street conducts a wide range of technology deployment activities for its clients, which include several global 50 energy industry suppliers, software and IT suppliers, engineering services firms, electric utilities and merchant energy firms, and governmental agencies.

A prolific author, respected industry thought leader, and seasoned communicator, Makansi has been analyzing the technological, business, and regulatory issues in electricity production and delivery for nearly 30 years including an 18-year tenure with The McGraw Hill Companies during which he researched and analyzed every aspect of electricity generation and visited power plants and electricity infrastructure installations around the globe.

Mr. Makansi has appeared on CNBC, TheStreet.com, and the Financial News Network and has been interviewed several times on NPR. He has been interviewed for and quoted in The New York Times, Newsweek and CFO magazine, has written special sections on energy for Business Week, and has had articles published in Power magazine, Electric Power International, Global Energy Business, Electrical World, Power Engineering, Combined Cycle Journal, IEEE Spectrum, and others. He has authored three books the latest of which, Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means to You, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the St. Louis Post Dispatch to name just a few. Additionally, he was featured in a History Channel production of Modern Marvels on power plants. Mr. Makansi earned a BS in chemical engineering from Columbia University.

Perseus, L.L.C.

Perseus is a private equity fund with experienced energy technology investors. The group focuses on areas of alternative energy sources; power quality/reliability; distributed generation; deregulation; transmission/distribution solutions.

Contact Information

Michael L. Miller, Managing Director
2099 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-772-1469 , Fax: 202-429-0588
E-mail: mmiller@perseusllc.com
Web site: www.perseusllc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Private Equity
Investment Range: $10 million to $50 million
Funding Stage: Late stage venture, growth equity and buyouts.
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: North America, Europe and Indian Subcontinent
Technology Interests: Perseus' past investments have included alternative fuels and chemicals, energy management systems, fuel cells, hydrogen, microturbines, wind, power electronics, and power quality. The group is interested in all forms of clean energy for future investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved with the NREL Industry Growth Forum and the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators

Key Bios

Michael L. Miller is a Managing Director of Perseus. Prior to joining Perseus, Mr. Miller was the Managing Partner of Mill Consulting Group, an investment banking boutique specialized in assisting small and medium sized enterprises in the identification and execution of strategic capital formation and M&A transaction. He served as one of the four partners at Swiss Life Private Equity Partners AG in Zurich, Switzerland during 2002 and 2003. Mr. Miller was Vice President and Group Head of Principal Investments at Enron North America in Houston, Texas, where he focused on investments in new energy technologies and built a portfolio that included three companies in which Perseus was also an investor. He founded and led UBS Capital GmbH, the Frankfurt-based private equity investment unit of the Union Bank of Switzerland Group in Germany. Mr. Miller started his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Salomon Brother Inc in New York City and Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Miller is a member of the Board of Directors of Serveron Corp., of Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County (TX) and an advisor and mentor to the Energy Program of the Houston Technology Center. Mr. Miller holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, A B.A. in German and a MBA from Rice University in Houston, TX.

Prometheus Equity Partners

Prometheus Equity Partners provides intellectual and financial capital to help technology-based companies grow global businesses.

Contact Information

Robert Muir, Founding Partner
10 East 29th, 37G, New York, NY 10016
Phone: 646-337-7797
E-mail: robmuir@pepvc.com
Web site: www.pepvc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, angel, and consultant
Investment Range: N/A
Funding Stage: Seed and early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Prometheus invests in alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, fuel cells, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, and solar thermal
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved with the NREL Industry Growth Forums and the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators

Key Bios

Not provided

Prospect Street Ventures

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, Prospect Street Ventures is a private equity and merchant banking firm focused on investing in and adding value to rapidly growing companies, particularly those in the energy/utility, information technology, and communications industries. Prospect Street's experienced team of professionals has invested in several companies that have undergone initial public offerings and acquisitions.

Contact Information

Grier Eliasek, Managing Director
10 East 40th St., 44th Floor,
New York, NY 10128
Phone: 212-448-9577, Fax: 212-448-9652
E-mail: grier@prospectstreet.com
Web site: www.prospectstreet.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 million - $20 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International, national, local
Technology Interests: Prospect Street Ventures supports investments in all types of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved with the NREL Industry Growth Forums and the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators.

Key Bios

Not provided

Prospero LLC

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Daniel Donovan, Managing Member
103 North Park Avenue
Easton, CT 06612
Phone: 203-454-5616, Fax: 203-459-0180
E-mail: ddonovan@prosperollc.net
Web site: www.prosperollc.net

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, and project finance
Investment Range: N/A
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International and United States
Technology Interests: Prospero LLC is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

Protech Asset Management

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Evan Posses, Principal
99 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 205, Jericho, NY 11753
Phone: 516-338-9725, Fax: 516-338-7906
E-mail: protechep@mindspring.com

Investor/Financier Type: Investment banking and broker
Investment Range: $1 million
Funding Stage: Early, pre-IPO, and IPO/post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International, United States, and local (Jericho, New York)
Technology Interests: Protech Asset invests in fuel cells, solar thermal, and solar water pumping/electrical
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

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RockPort Capital Partners

RockPort Capital Partners, www.rockportcap.com, is a leading venture capital firm partnering with clean tech entrepreneurs around the world to build innovative companies and bring disruptive technologies and products to the 21st century. RockPort's investment approach is distinguished by collaboration with management teams to foster growth and create value. Combining domain expertise with policy and international experience, RockPort has a proven track record of leveraging its insights and networks to foster growth and create value.

Contact Information

160 Federal Street, 18th Floor
Boston MA 02110
Phone: 617-912-1450, Fax: 617-912-1449
3000 Sand Hill Road, Building 2, Suite 110
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-854-9300, Fax: 650-854-9302
David Prend, Managing General Partner
Email: dprend@rockportcap.com
Chuck McDermott, General Partner
Email: cmcdermott@rockportcap.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000 - $25 million
Funding Stage: All stages of development, from seed stage to companies with substantial commercial revenues
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National and International
Technology Interests: RockPort categorizes its primary focus into five segments Energy & Power, Resource Efficiency, Transportation, Advanced Materials and Green Building. Rockport specializes in identifying and supporting companies that are poised to bring to market practical solutions to the world's most pressing problems. From energy production, transmission and storage, to cleaner and more efficient transportation and buildings, Rockport's Portfolio Companies have developed a range of technologies that offer innovative solutions to complex and urgent challenges
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: David Prend Director of NREL's Advisory Council Chuck McDermott, Member of NREL's Venture Capital Advisory Committee.

Key Bios

Visit website www.rockportcapital.com

SAIL Venture Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

David B. Jones, Managing Partner
600 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1750
Costa Mesa CA 92626
Phone: 714-241-7500, Fax: 714-241-7505
E-mail: djones@sailventurepartners.com
Web site: www.sailventurepartners.com

Washington DC Office location
Hank Habicht
2900 Wouth Quincy Street, Suite 410
Arlington VA 22206
Phone: 703-379-2713

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1-5 Million
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, Pre IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National, International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Chemicals, Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, E-Commerce, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions Control, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Reliability, Solar Thermal, Space Conditioning, Transmission (Electricity), Wave Energy Generation, Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

Not provided

SAM Equity Partners Ltd.

SAM Sustainable Asset Management is an independent asset management company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Established in 1995, SAM was among the first asset managers to specialize in the field of sustainability-driven investments. During the past few years, the company has grown rapidly in terms of headcount and mandates. Today, SAM's customers include major European banks, global insurance companies, large pension funds, and private clients. SAM Sustainable Asset Management AG is the sponsor of SAM Sustainability Private Equity LP (the "Sustainability Fund") and SAM Private Equity Energy Fund LP (the "Energy Fund"). The funds make venture investments in technology companies that contribute to more sustainable use of resources.

Contact Information

Hans Dellenbach, Private Equity Fund Administrator
c/o SAM Sustainable Asset Management/Zollikerstrasse 60
8702 Zollikon/Switzerland
Phone: 41-1-397-10-28
E-mail: hans@sam-group.com
Web site: www.sam-group.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $4 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International markets
Technology Interests: SAM currently has interests in alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, combined heat and power, energy management systems, fuel cells, green buildings, hybrid vehicles, energy-efficient lighting systems, photovoltaics, solar thermal, power quality, reliability, solar thermal, transmission, and wave energy generation.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

SAS Investors

SAS Investors facilitates the creation and growth of seed- and early-stage core technology companies in the New York metro and tri-state area. Located in New York City - and backed by Canaan Partners, Rho Capital Partners, and Sevin Rosen Funds - SASI targets companies that provide solutions based on emerging technologies. These include technologies emerging out of tech transfer centers, universities, and/or corporate labs in which a subject matter expert has developed unique IP particularly relevant to industry pain points. The fund's activities include venture investing, building and accelerating new businesses, and growing entrepreneurs and their concepts into solvent, scalable companies.

Contact Information

Josh Grotstein, Managing Partner
135 W. 20th St., Fifth Floor,
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-367-7676, Ext. 140, Fax: 212-367-7966
E-mail: jgrotstein@sasinvestors.com
Web site: www.sasinvestors.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: 1 million
Funding Stage: Seed and early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: New York area
Technology Interests: SAS Investors is interested in investments in alternative fuels and chemicals, energy management systems, fuel cells, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, and reliability.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes

Key Bios

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SDTC

"The Foundation will act as the primary catalyst in building a sustainable development technology infrastructure in Canada." The Foundation is a catalyst for creative, collaborative solutions that deliver positive environmental and economic impacts to Canadians. As a funding organization developed through a national government initiative, we foster the rapid development, demonstration and commercialization of technological solutions, which address climate change and air quality.

Initially the Foundation will allocate $100 million to eligible recipients over a five-year period. This initiative is dependent upon the formation of creative and economically sound partnerships from the private sector, academia, not-for-profit organizations and federal or provincial governments.

Contact Information

Rick Whittaker, Vice President, Investments
230 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario K0A 1L0, CANADA
Phone: 613-234-6313, Fax: 613-234-0303
E-mail: r.whittaker@sdtc.ca
Web site: www.sdtc.ca

Investor/Financier Type: Foundation
Investment Range: $1,000,000 (Total fund under management $100,000,000)
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: SDTC is interested in future investment opportunities in appliances and energy efficient technologies, biomass power, clean vehicles, energy efficiency/conservation, green buildings, hybrid vehicles, photovoltaics, and solar thermal.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in involvement with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

See key management, directors and advisory board on our Web site: www.sdtc.ca

Sevin Rosen Funds

Sevin Rosen was founded in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen, who quickly established a reputation for success. In the past two decades, the firm has assembled a team with deep operating, technology, and venture capital experience. SRF's impressive track record is, in large measure, based upon its team approach and that team's extensive experience working together. Since the beginning, SRF's emphasis on very early stage investments, particularly incubations and seed financings, has demanded that our partners work closely with entrepreneurs in what we know is the real long term team sport building companies.

Sevin Rosen Funds' reputation as an entrepreneur-centric VC firm has continued with its role in the founding of companies that became public, including Citrix, CIENA, ArQule and Cypress Semiconductor. SRF has also nurtured a number of successful companies that were later acquired by some of today's leading names in the technology industry—Cisco Systems, Vitesse, National Semiconductor, Intel, Broadcom and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few.

Despite the tremendous changes that have shaped the technology industry during the last twenty-five years, one thing remains the same SRF's entire team upholds the values and investment principles upon which the firm was built. Sevin Rosen Funds continues to make a tangible difference by helping entrepreneurs to shape projects into successful, leading companies in the dynamic and competitive world of high technology.

One of SRF's very early successes was helping to establish Compaq Computer Corporation. In early 1983, the Compaq Portable PC was shipped, revolutionizing the personal computer industry. SRF also played a key role in helping to create other early leaders in the computing arena by funding companies such as Lotus Development Corporation, Electronic Arts and SGI. Sevin Rosen A different kind of venture capital.

Contact Information

Dave McLean, General Partner
13455 Noel Road, Suite 1670
Dallas, TX 75240
Phone: 972-702-1186, Fax: 972-702-1103
E-mail: dmclean@srfunds.com
Web site: www.srfunds.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $3 MILLION TO $5 MILLION
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Energy Management Systems, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics, Power Electronics, and Power Quality
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in involvement with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

SciVentures, LLC

SciVentures is focused on seed and early-stage power technology investments in distributed generation, portable power, and the existing and emerging fuel infrastructure. Through critical analysis of market barriers, SciVentures focuses on companies that address the technical vulnerabilities preventing widespread adoption of enabling power technologies.

Contact Information

E-mail: info@sciventures.com
Web site: www.sciventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $250,000 to $1 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: SciVentures invests in alternative fuels and chemicals, combined heat and power, energy management systems, fuel cells, green buildings, hybrid power generation, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, solar thermal, wave energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, biomass power, clean vehicles, hybrid vehicles, hydrogen, reliability, conservation, and wind. SciVentures also is interested in systems-related parts and components necessary for manufacturing of power technology devices.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved with the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Anthony R Atti, Ph.D. - Managing Director
Timothy G. Fogarty - Managing Director
David A. Wiley - Managing Director

Solar Development Group

Solar Development Group is managed by Triodos PV Partners, a joint venture of Triodos Deelnemingen BV, Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund, and Global Transition Consulting. Solar Development Group aims to expand solar PV businesses that serve off-grid communities in developing countries. SDG includes two entities Solar Development Foundation (providing business development services) and Solar Development Capital (a $28.75 million venture capital fund that places debt and equity in investment- ready solar PV businesses)

Contact Information

Cyndi Janetzko, Business Development Officer
1655 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 520
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 703-522-5928, Fax: n/a
E-mail: janetzko@igc.org
Web site: www.eeaf.org

Investor/Financier Type: Venture and debt
Investment Range: $200,000 - $2 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO. (Seed funding is available only through Solar Development Foundation).
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: Solar Development Group is interested in investment opportunities relating to photovoltaics and solar thermal energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Candace Smith Chief Operating Officer JD Doliner Managing Director (Latin America/Asia) Hans Schut Managing Director (Africa/Asia)

Stephens, Inc.

Stephens, Inc., is a privately owned, full-service merchant bank providing investment banking and capital investing across six primary industries. Stephens' Power Solutions Group is segmented across Power Technology and Power Electronics, and has been actively involved in capital raising, M&A, and principal investing in the power area since 1995.

Contact Information

Kent Sorrells, Managing Director
111 Center Street, Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-377-3444
E-mail: ksorrells@stephens.com
Web site: www.stephens.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking
Investment Range: $3 million plus
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post-IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Stephens, Inc., has invested in clean energy technologies including fuel cells, information technologies, power electronics, power quality, and reliability. Their future interests include alternative fuels and chemicals, fuel cells, hydrogen, information technologies, energy-efficient lighting systems, microturbines, photovoltaics, solar thermal, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Kent Sorrells - Managing Director Joe Mowery - Vice President Jim Johnson - Vice President Ross Rucker - Associate

Sun Coast II

Facilitators between wind and end users.

Contact Information

Gary Armstrong, Owner
246 S. Reynosa Drive
Pueblo West, CO 81007
Phone: n/a Fax: 719-647-0795
E-mail: Gary@suncoast2.us

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, broker, industry, project, consultant
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Sun Coast II currently invests in interests including alternative fuels & chemicals, energy management systems, hybrid power gen., energy efficient lighting systems, micro turbines, power quality, reliability, solar thermal, transmission (electricity), wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Is interested in becoming involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

Sustainable Development Fund

The SDF is a $32MM Philadelphia-based nonprofit fund that provides flexible funding for regional companies/projects that use/develop sustainable energy technologies.

Contact Information

Robert Reiner, Sr. Loan Investment Officer
718 Arch St., Suite 300N, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-925-1130
E-mail: reinerr@trfund.com
Web site: www.trfund.com/sdf/

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, debt, project, and subordinated debt
Investment Range: $500,000
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local (Pennsylvania area)
Technology Interests: The Sustainable Development Fund invests in alternative fuels, biomass power, combined heat and power, energy-management systems, fuel cells, green buildings, hybrid power generation, hydrogen, microturbines, photovoltaics, solar thermal, wave-energy generation, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Interested in becoming involved with the NREL Industry Growth Forums and the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators.

Key Bios

Robert G. Sanders, Fund Manager Roger E. Clark, Program Director Nonprofits Energy Savings Investment Program Robert A. Reiner, Sr. Loan Investment Officer

Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern Pennsylvania

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Thomas J. Tuffey, Executive Director
Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern Pennsylvania
The Sovereign Building, 609 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18101
Phone: 610-740-3182, Fax: 610-740-9511
Email: ppltsef@aol.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, debt, and project financing
Investment Range: Typical investment of $500,000
Funding Stage: Venture, pre-IPO, IPO, and post IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local (Pennsylvania)
Technology Interests: The group's primary interests include alternative fuels and chemicals, energy-efficient appliances, biomass power, clean vehicles, combined heat and power, e-commerce, energy efficiency/conservation, energy storage, fuel cells, hybrid power generation, hybrid vehicles, hydrogen, lighting systems, microturbines, photovoltaics, power electronics, power quality, reliability, transmission, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: N/A

Key Bios

Not provided

Sustainable Energy Ventures

Sustainable Energy Ventures was established in December 2000 with capital stemming from several financial institutions. SEV is managed by a dedicated team with a long experience in environmental and clean energy investments.

Contact Information

Paul Decraemer, Managing Director
Uitbreidingstraat 62, 2600 Antwerpen, Belgium, Europe
Phone: 32-3-285-99-00, Fax: 32-3-285-99-09
E-mail: paul.decraemer@sev.be
Web site: www.sev.be

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $200,000 - $3 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Technology Interests: SEV invests in alternative fuels and chemicals, energy-efficient appliances, biomass power, hydrogen, photovoltaics, solar thermal, and wind. The group is interested in all forms of energy investments for the future, including power quality and reliability.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

SJF Ventures

SJF Ventures is a venture capital fund that focuses on the cleantech, business and Web-enhanced services, and natural and premium consumer products sectors. The Fund looks for experienced management teams that are driving exceptional growth and positively impacting the world. SJF is highly selective in identifying teams, markets and business models that can achieve rapid sales, profitability, and premium exits.

Contact Information

Cody Nystrom, Senior Analyst
400 West Main Street, Suite 604
Durham, NC 27701
Phone: 919-530-1177, Fax: 919-530-1178
Email: cnystrom@sjfund.com Web site: www.sjfund.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 Million to $2 Million
Funding Stage: Growth and Expansion
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Throughout the United States with focus in Eastern United States
Technology Interests: Clean technologies, business and Web-enhanced services
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

SWISSCOGROUP LTD

SWISSCOGROUP is a company with more than 10 years of experience, which core competence is to provide services in a diversity of business fields, such as: Energy, Infrastructure, Construction, Water Treatment, Business Development & Management and Security Systems. Our company strives to position itself as a group of divisions focused in a common objective: to generate value to what our client desires to attempt. In order to fulfill this, we provide services which satisfy the complete needs of our clients in Latin America. For this, we possess professional and demanding human resource, with vaste experience on a national and international level. We are able to fulfill the specific demands from our clients and customers in an efficient and professional way. SWISSCOGROUP is a company dedicated to the development of start up of companies and businesses for both local and international clients and who needs to ensure their development of its business activities in Latin America. We provide services and integrated solutions for our clients (engineering companies, construction companies, utilities, global industrial suppliers, investors, financial and Business communities) from the legal, commercial and technical needs and requirements of each customer and for each specific project. Our clients come from various regions of the world and SWISSCO has participated successfully in different commercial projects with investments exceeding USD 2bio.

Mission: Satisfy the needs and expectations of our clients through quality services, in order to generate a long term relationship.

Vision: To be the leading company in Latin America and be recognized worldwide through the different business areas which we develop. Our values are fundamental to our success. They are the foundation of our company, define who we are and set us apart from the competition. They underlie our vision of the future, our business strategies and our decisions, actions and behaviors. We live by them. We have four core values that represents us.

Clients come First. Our success comes by our clients' success. We make all our resources available to our clients and commit ourselves wholeheartedly to their success. We seek to identify our clients' real needs, not just deliver good work. In trade-offs between SWISSCOGROUP and a client's interest, the client comes first.

Expanding the Art of the Possible. We start with the perspective that the goal is not simply to apply best practice but to invent it. Each client is unique, and there is seldom only one solution. We believe that breakthrough ideas often result from the work of teams seeking to creatively solve real client challenges. We seek to extend the art and science of management by generalizing from our experience.

Partnership. A partnership perspective guides SWISSCOGROUP relationships both internally and with clients. We take a long-term view in our relationships. We strive to build bonds founded on respect, caring, honesty, mutual support, and investment. We work together in a manner that is team-oriented, constructive, and challenging. Internally, we believe that a collegial environment fosters continuous learning. We know that teamwork and cooperation are essential to our success both as a firm and as individuals. We aspire to a lifelong bond with those who have joined SWISSCOGROUP.

Authentic and Innovative. Constant and meaningful innovation is critical to our commercial success. The worldwide business environment is fiercely competitive. Global trade, instantaneous communications and the ease of market entry are among the forces putting greater pressure on product and brand differentiation. To grow continuously, it is imperative that we change, competing in new and different ways that are relevant to the shifting times.

Contact Information

Ricardo Bittig, CEO
SWISSCOGROUP LTD
Av. Cerro Colorado 5240 - Piso 10
Santiago, Chile
Phone: ++ (56-2) 434 5340
E-mail: info@swisscogroup.com
Web site: www.swisscogroup.com

Investor/Financier Type: Industry; Utility; Project Consultant
Funding Stage: Pre Ipo
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International
Typical Investment: $30-200 mio USD (Total funds under management: $1000 mio USD)
Number of energy projects: 7
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels & Energy; Appliances, Energy_Efficient; Biomass Power; Clean Vehicles; Combined Heat & Power; E-Commerce; Energy Efficiency/Conservation; Energy Management Systems; Emissions Control; Energy Storage; Fuel Cells; Hybrid Power Gen.; Hybrid Vehicles; Hydro; Hydrogen; Information Technologies; Lighting Systems, Energy-Efficient; Micro-turbines; Photovoltaics; Power Electronics; Power Quality; Reliability; Solar Thermal; Space Conditioning; Transmission (Electricity); Wind; Current/Past Investments: Appliances, Energy-Efficient; Energy Management Systems; Hydro; Transmission (Electricity); Wind
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Program: No, but I want to become involved.

Key Bios

SWISSCOGROUP is a company dedicated to the development of start up of companies and businesses for both local and international clients and who needs to ensure their development of its business activities in Latin America.

We provide services and integrated solutions for our clients (engineering companies, construction companies, utilities, global industrial suppliers, investors, financial and Business communities) from the legal, commercial and technical needs and requirements of each customer and for each specific project.

Taproot Ventures

Taproot Ventures is the venture capital arm of Harbour Group, a Midwest-based private equity firm with a twenty-five year track record of acquiring and operating industrial, manufacturing, and distribution businesses. Taproot invests in "Industrial Innovation"— breakthrough technologies in areas such as manufacturing and equipment, advanced materials, transportation, energy, and environmental engineering. Further, within this sector we focus on companies with the following characteristics:

Seasoned management with substantial industry experience
Demonstrated, proprietary technology
Products that deliver significant improvements in product cost and/or performance
Compelling existing markets
Existing or near-term revenue from product sales.

Contact Information

Brandon Bezzant, Vice President
7701 Forsyth Blvd., Suite 600, St. Louis, MO 63105
Phone: 314-889-0838, Fax: n/a
E-mail: info@taprootventures.com
Web site: www.taprootventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000 - $3 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National
Technology Interests: Appliances, Energy-Efficient, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Space Conditioning, and Transmission (Electricity).
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the NREL Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

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Technological Research and Development Authority

The Technological Research and Development Authority, which assists Florida investors, has two programs geared toward providing financial assistance to high-tech, clean energy-related companies. The Energy Investment Initiative program provides seed funding up to $150,000 to help companies commercialize clean energy-related products and processes. Participating companies must have a working prototype that can be commercialized within a two-year period. The Venture Smart Florida program is designed to assist high tech companies located in Florida's Front Porch Communities or companies located in one of Florida's four Federal designated Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Community. The program will assist companies with due-diligence investigations, provide assistance with business plans, assist with proposal development and investment documents, and other assistance and monitoring required to help companies prepare and acquire venture capital funding.

Contact Information

Bruce H. Antone, Director of Energy Programs
5195 S. Washington Ave., Titusville, FL 32780
Phone: 321-269-6330, Fax: 321-383-5260
E-mail: Bantone@trda.org
Web site: www.trda.org

Investor/Financier Type: State Government, Seed Investor
Investment Range: $50,000 - $150,000
Funding Stage: Seed and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Locally (Florida)
Technology Interests: TRDA invests in combined heat and power, energy efficiency/conservation, and energy-management systems. The group is interested in future investments in all areas of energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

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Technology Partners

Technology Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm with approximately $400 million under management, serving principally as lead investor.

Contact Information

Ira Ehrenpreis, Partner
550 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: 650-289-9000, Fax: 650-289-9001
E-mail: ira@technologypartners.com
Web site: www.technologypartners.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $1 million - $20 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Technology Partners is interested in future investment opportunities in all areas of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

TechQuest Capital Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Neil E. Kelley, Managing Partner
2001 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004
Phone: 713-630-3100, Fax: 713-630-3111
E-mail: nkelley@tqcap.com
Web site: www.techquestcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: Typical range is $250,000-$1 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International, United States, and local (Houston, Texas)
Technology Interests: The group currently focuses on e-commerce, information technologies, and reliability; but they are interested in investing in all types of energy categories in the future.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

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TransAlta Corporation

TransAlta is an international electric energy company with more than $7 billion in assets and 8,000 megawatts of generation in Canada, US, Mexico, and Australia. They typically look to make investments in the $2 million to $5 million range in private companies that are pursuing business opportunities and technology in clean coal, renewables, distributed generation, and concepts that enhance the competitiveness of their coal and gas-fired generation.

Contact Information

Janet Leskiw, Manager of New Ventures 110 12th Ave. SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M1 Canada
Phone: 403-267-4739, Fax: 403-267-6365
E-mail: Janet_Leskiw@transalta.com
Web site: www.transalta.com/newventures/

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, industry, and utility investor
Investment Range: $2 million -$5 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: International, United States, and local (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Technology Interests: TransAlta's current investments are in wind, and distributed generation. Areas of investment interest include demonstration of coal and gas-fired technologies; distributed generation (development companies, networking technology, sales and service arms, fuel cells, energy management systems); renewable energy (wind, biomass, small hydro, ocean current, solar); and clean coal (coal gasification (IGCC), coke gasification, coal bed methane, synthetic natural gas (SNG), post-combustion clean-up)
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

True North Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Michael J. Ahearn, Partner
6720 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 355, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Phone: 480-596-1938, Fax: 480-596-3410
E-mail: Mikeatnp@earthlink.net

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $500,000 to $20 million
Funding Stage: Seed, early, and venture stages
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: True North Partners' primary interests are in photovoltaics, but they are also interested in energy management systems, hydrogen, information technologies, energy-efficient lighting systems, reliability and space conditioning as future investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

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U.S. Global, LLC

U.S. Global, LLC, is a South Florida investment and development firm that funds companies and develops projects, primarily in energy, technology and real estate. USG employs its own capital and its own engineering and project development expertise and investment banking experience to finance, nurture and strengthen its investments and, over the long term, maximize value for itself and its partners. The largest number of USG's investments to date has been in the energy sector. These range from development of independent energy projects to investment in public companies. USG has focused in particular on the alternative energy sector where tax credits and/or other tax benefits are available including clean coal, renewable energy, coal beneficiation and recovery, waste-to-energy and energy storage.

Contact Information

Ben Wirz, Partner
2937 NW 62nd St., Suite 102 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Phone: 954-636-2532, Fax: 954-636-2483
E-mail: bwirz@usgloballlc.com
Web site: www.usgloballlc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, project
Investment Range: $1 million - $100 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Florida, United States and International
Technology Interests: U.S. Global focuses its investments in clean technology, coal processing and recovery, and other investments that benefit from tax credits. The group is interested in all forms of energy investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

Not provided

US Renewables Group

Acquires and invests in development of renewable energy and clean fuels projects.

Contact Information

Tony Lent, President
128 E. 29th Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 201-993-1580
E-mail: tony@usregroup.com
Web site: www.usregroup.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, project, and capable of providing project equity and sub-debt.
Investment Range: Not provided
Funding Stage: Early, Venture, and Pre IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: National and International
Technology Interests: U.S. Global invests in alternative fuels and chemicals, and combined heat and power. The group is interested in all forms of energy investments.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: No, but would like to become involved.

Key Bios

Not provided

U.S. Trust

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Doug Lindgren, Managing Director
225 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905
Phone: N/A, Fax: n/a
E-mail: dlindgren@ustrust.com
Web site: www.ustrust.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5 million
Funding Stage: Early, venture, and pre-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: U.S. Trust invests in e-commerce, information technologies, and power electronics. Future investment interests include energy-management systems, microturbines, and hybrid-power generation.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

VantagePoint Venture Partners

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Bill Green, Entrepreneur in Residence
1001 Bayhill Drive, Suite 300
San Bruno, CA 94066
Phone: n/a, Fax: 650-866-3100
E-mail: bgreen@vpvp.com
Web site: www.vpvp.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $5,000,000
Funding Stage: Early, venture, pre IPO, IPO/post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, National, International
Technology Interests: VantagePoint Venture Partners is interested in Appliances, Energy-Efficient; E-Commerce; Energy Efficiency/Conservation; Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient; and all other forms of clean energy.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums.

Key Bios

Not provided

Vcapital/Jesup & Lamont

Vcapital builds and finances breakthrough companies. The firm is exclusively dedicated to serving early-stage companies by providing full-service investment banking typically reserved for larger corporations. Vcapital has a team dedicated to clean energy and environmental companies.

Contact Information

Laurence Hayward, Managing Director
541 N. Fairbanks, Suite 1880
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-464-9161, Ext. 104
E-mail: lhayward@vcapital.com
Web site: www.vcapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Investment banking, broker, consultant
Investment Range: $3 million to $100 million
Funding Stage: IPO/post-IPO
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, national, international
Technology Interests: Vcapital/Jesup & Lamont is interested in investments in all areas of clean energy. They also specialize in water and wastewater treatment.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Involved in the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

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Vencon Management Inc.

Vencon Management, Inc (VMI) is a venture capital firm which invests primarily in cleantech companies in the United States. Established in 1973, VMI is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the U.S. Located in New York City's mid-Manhattan, it is able to access nearly 1,000 deals per year.

Contact Information

Irvin Barash, President
65 West 55th Street
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-581-8787, Fax: 208-955-5165
E-mail: vencon@worldnet.att.net
Web site: www.venconinc.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2 million
Funding Stage: All stages from seed to mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: United States
Technology Interests: Vencom's interests include alternative fuels and chemicals, biomass power, fuel cells, advanced materials, recycling, environmental, solar thermal and photovoltaics.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

Not provided

@Ventures

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Marc Poirier, Managing Director
200 Brickston Square
Andover, MD 01810
978-684-7500, 978-684-7520 Email: marc@ventures.com
Web site: www.ventures.com

Investor/Financier Type: Venture
Investment Range: $2,000.000 - $5,000.000
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local
Technology Interests: Hydrogen and Photovoltaics
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

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Washington Rural Electric Co-op Association

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Aaron Jones, Executive Manager
Washington Rural Electric Co-op Assn.
1050 Capitol Way South, Suite Av
Olympia, WA 98501
360-357-6048, 360-357-6085
E-mail: ajones77@aol.com

Investor/Financier Type: Utility investment, RUS
Investment Range: Typical Investment $25,000
Funding Stage: Early
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local (Washington)
Technology Interests: Washington Rural Electric Co-op Association has made investments and is interested in future investments in biomass power, clean vehicles, energy efficiency/conservation, fuel cells, solar thermal, photovoltaics, and wind.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Not provided

Key Bios

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West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund

Company description not provided.

Contact Information

Joseph Badin, Fund Co-Manager
7164 Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046
Phone: 410-953-6252, Fax: n/a
E-mail: jbadin@energetics.com
Web site: www.wppsef.org

Investor/Financier Type: Venture, investment banking, debt, project, and consultant
Investment Range: $25,000 and above
Funding Stage: Early, venture, pre-IPO, IPO/Post IPO, mature
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local (Pennsylvania vicinity)
Technology Interests: All renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies are eligible and will be considered for investment. However, the group's core investment will focus on developing the agriculture-to-energy (biomass-to-electricity) industry in Pennsylvania. The primary emphasis is in the West Penn Power Market Region.
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators and the Industry Growth Forums

Key Bios

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Yellowstone Capital

Yellowstone Capital Partners LLC is a Houston-based, private equity and venture capital investment firm making investments and acquisitions in the traditional energy, alternative energy and manufacturing and life sciences industries – with a focus on technology

Contact Information

Richard M. Owen, Partner
5555 San Felipe, Suite 1650
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: 713-650-0065
E-mail: info@yellowstonecapital.com
Web site: www.yellowstonecapital.com

Investor/Financier Type: Both venture stage, buyout, and growth capital
Investment Range: Venture $250,000 - $500,000, Buyout $3,000,000 - $5,000,000
Funding Stage: Seed, Early, Venture, Pre IPO, IPO/Post IPO, Expansion
Geographic Investment Preferences Country: Local, National, International
Technology Interests: Alternative Fuels and Chemicals, Energy-Efficient, Biomass Power, Clean Vehicles, Combined Heat & Power, E-Commerce, Energy Efficiency/Conservation, Energy Management Systems, Emissions, Control, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Green Buildings, Hybrid Power Gen., Hybrid Vehicles, Hydro, Hydrogen, Information Technologies, Lighting Systems, Energy Efficient, Micro Turbines, Photovoltaics
Involvement with NREL Entrepreneur Programs: Yes, company screener for annual NREL conferences..

Key Bios

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