Monday, July 23, 2007

GigaOm Reports on Rise in Cleantech Funding

The article below is from GigaOm.

Cleantech funding on an upswing

Monday, July 23, 2007 at 11:49 AM PT | No comments

The 5th annual Dow Jones VentureOne report and we thought it was interesting to see that it attributes emerging sectors like cleantech as one of the factors that made venture investment in 2006 the highest level since 2001. OK, so it’s still a small portion of total investment, but in 2006 the report says that there were 140 financing rounds for cleantech companies worth $1.28 billion — nearly double the size invested in 2005.

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