{"id":849,"date":"2009-01-10T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2009-01-10T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T10:34:00","slug":"vc-investment-in-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/vc-investment-in-green-energy.html","title":{"rendered":"VC investment in green energy technologies in 2008 exceeded $7.7 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"content\">Greentech Media Inc., the industry-leading online media company covering green technology news and analysis, released the most recent quarterly data showing that venture capital investment in green technologies exceeded $2.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, a modest decrease from the previous quarter&#8217;s total of $2.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greentech VC investors remain optimistic on this sector and still have faith in the VC model. Investors continue to fund early stage deals as well as later stage deals,&#8221; said Eric Wesoff, Senior Analyst at Greentech Media. &#8220;At least 30 of the 115 deals this quarter were seed stage or A rounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;VCs are now digging deep in the greentech sector and looking outside traditional technologies at previously underinvested areas like energy storage, energy efficiency, recycling, water, cleaner coal and green IT,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content\"><\/p>\n<pre>Greentech Sector                   Total Q4 VC Funding    Number of Deals<br \/><br \/>   Solar                                  $1,335.9M+                 29<br \/>   Ethanol, Biofuels, Gasification          $358.55M                 18<br \/>   Wind                                       $218M+                  5<br \/>   EE, DR and Smart Grid                     $208.5M                 11<br \/>   Batteries, FCs, Energy Storage           $101.55M                 14<br \/>   Energy Project Development                   $96M                  2<br \/>   E-Waste and Recycling                      $74.8M                  7<br \/>   Green IT                                  $37.3M+                  7<br \/>   Automotive and transportation             $29.03M                  4<br \/>   Green Agriculture                            $25M                  2<br \/>   Lighting                                  $23.9M+                  7<br \/>   New Coal Tech                                $9M+                  2<br \/>   Misc. Greentech                             $8.6M                  2<br \/>   Green Buildings                             $4.0M                  1<br \/>   Geothermal                                  $3.5M                  1<br \/>   Environmental Technology                    $3.9M                  2<br \/>   Water                                       $1.5M                  1<br \/>           Q4 VC Totals                       $2540M                115<br \/><br \/>   Source: Greentech Media<br \/><\/pre>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span class=\"content\"><br \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sev.prnewswire.com\/oil-energy\/20090105\/NE5529705012009-1.html\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Greentech Media Inc., the industry-leading online media company covering green technology news and analysis, released the most recent quarterly data showing that venture capital investment in green technologies exceeded $2.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, a modest decrease from the previous quarter&#8217;s total of $2.9 billion. &#8220;Greentech VC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}