“Energy-efficiency firms often need less money to bring products or services to market, may rely on more proven technologies and may pose less risk to investors. They're not reinventing the wheel.”
Clean tech gets big piece of venture-capital funding, January 6, 2010
“When it comes to cleantech, we have the largest market opportunity in the history of the planet driven by global climate change, resource constraints and energy independence. Silicon Valley is critical to this revolution, but it does not occupy the throne it once did.”
Silicon Valley faces fierce global competition in cleantech, February 1, 2010
“There are more deals waiting to go public in the U.S. than in more than two years.”
ISE debut first cleantech IPO since July 2009, February 23, 2010
“With $400 million having gone to this company, there are some exciting claims, but like everything else out of Silicon Valley, the market will separate fact from fiction, and will prove claims versus reality.”
Secretive fuel-cell startup stirring hopes, doubts, February 23rd, 2010
“This technology will be proven only over time.”
Start-Up Bloom Claims Fuel-Cell Breakthrough, February 25, 2010
Dallas Kachan called it "further vindication that very important sources of capital feel that we are also past the worst in clean technology investment."
The Week in Cleantech, Sept 5, 2009