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Emerald Technology Ventures
Emerald Technology Ventures is a global leader in cleantech venture capital and operates from offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2000, Emerald is a pioneer in this rapidly emerging sector and is focused on innovative technologies in energy, advanced materials and water. Since inception Emerald has managed three venture capital funds and two venture capital portfolio mandates totaling over EUR 300 million (USD 440 million). Emerald is currently investing out of its latest fund and is looking for energetic and passionate entrepreneurs with the vision to build world-class clean technology companies.
>> www.emerald-ventures.com
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NES Partners ApS
NES Partners is an experienced fund manager specialised in driving value in unlisted New-Energy-Solutions companies through active ownership to the benefit of our Investors and Stakeholders. Being amongst the pioneers in the New-Energy space, NES Partners has since 2002 invested in and contributed to the successfull growth of 24 companies within Tidal Power, Solar Power, Biofuels, Fuelcells, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Smart Grid, Clean Water and Advanced Materials. NES Partners has offices in Copenhagen and Los Angeles and was previously known as Bankinvest New Energy Solutions. NES is a founding member of the Energy Venture Forum. Contact nes@nespartners.dk or you can find more information at www.nespartners.dk
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Swiss Re
Swiss Re is a leading and highly diversified global reinsurer. The company operates through offices in more than 25 countries. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re offers financial services products that enable risk-taking essential to enterprise and progress. The company’s traditional reinsurance products and related services for property and casualty, as well as the life and health business are complemented by insurance-based corporate finance solutions and supplementary services for comprehensive risk management. For almost a decade, Swiss Re has managed a portfolio of investments in sustainability related sub-sectors, including alternative energy and water.
>> www.swissre.com
>> www.swissre.com/sustainabilityreport
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WHEB Partners LLP
WHEB Partners invests in cleantech companies with high growth potential. Its focus is on later stage venture capital deals through to mid-market buyouts. A pioneer in European clean technology investing, WHEB Partners began as an award winning clean technology incubator and corporate finance group in 1995, evolving into the UK’s first dedicated cleantech venture capital firm.
WHEB Partners has offices in London and Munich and its team of ten investment professionals manage two specialist private equity funds.
WHEB Partners is part of the WHEB Group, the specialist investment management firm focused on environmental markets. The WHEB Group has total assets under management of over £165 million. The WHEB Group comprises WHEB Asset Management which invests in globally listed sustainable stocks, WHEB Infrastructure, which invests in renewable energy generation
infrastructure and WHEB Partners.
>> www.whebpartners.com
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Capricorn Venture Partners n.v.
Capricorn Venture Partners NV is an independent pan-European manager of venture capital funds that invest in innovative European companies with technology as competitive advantage. The investment team of Capricorn is composed of experienced investment managers with deep technology expertise and a broad industrial experience. Capricorn has longstanding industrial and venture capital experience in backing entrepreneurs with breakthrough technologies in the cleantech, life sciences, biotechnology, IT and material sciences sectors. Capricorn is currently investing out of the Capricorn Cleantech Fund, our third consecutive venture capital fund. The Capricorn Cleantech Fund focuses on innovative growth companies in Europe that own or develop breakthrough technologies in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency, water, renewable resources and biorefineries, clean air, CO2 reduction and climate change, green chemistry and advanced materials, etc.
>> www.capricorn.be
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Frog Capital
Based in the heart of London, Frog Capital is an investment partner to some of Europe’s most ambitious growth-stage companies. With €100m under management, Frog’s experienced team invests across the European cleantech and IT & digital media sectors, leading or partnering in fundings of €2 million to €20 million. We consider a wide range of ownership structures and funding models, and show equal flexibility in our ongoing support, working with advisors and management teams to help make the leap from an exciting young company to a successful, grown-up business. Frog’s cleantech investments include SiC Processing (exited), a global recycler of key fluids that are used in the production of semiconductor and solar wafers; agri.capital (exited), Europe’s largest biogas company; Ostara, a wastewater treatment company that recovers polluting nutrients from sludge and recycles them into an ecologically-friendly fertilizer; Hydrodec, a recycler of valuable industrial oils such as the transformer oils that keep electricity grids running; and Solar Century, the UK’s best-known solar energy company. To find out more, visit
>> www.frogcapital.com
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Rabo Ventures
Amsterdam based Rabo Ventures is a leading Dutch venture capital firm that focuses on fast growing companies in the cleantech industry. Rabo Ventures covers the European and North American markets. The team covers amongst others: clean energy, clean air, clean water, advanced materials, energy efficiency and environmental technologies. The Rabobank Group is a top 25 financial institution and a global leader in sustainability-oriented banking.
>> www.raboventures.com
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GIMV
Gimv is a European investment company with 30 years of experience in private equity and venture capital. The company is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels and currently manages around EUR 1.8 billion of assets (including third party funds).
Gimv undertakes buyouts and provides growth capital to established companies. Local teams in Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Germany concentrate on these activities. Gimv-XL provides growth financing to larger growth companies in Flanders. Gimv makes venture capital investments in high tech sectors through its specialist teams in Life Sciences, Technology and Cleantech. Its DG Infra+ fund also focuses on infrastructure projects in the Benelux. Gimv is also active in Central and Eastern Europe through several funds and joint ventures.
>> www.gimv.com
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Novusmodus
Novusmodus is an investment firm whose aim is to provide capital, support and knowledge to companies and projects in the renewable and cleantech sectors. It is based in London, Dublin and Munich, and has a European focus, but a global mandate.
We are the investment adviser to ESB Novusmodus, a €200m fund established by ESB, the leading Irish utility. Through this unique relationship, we have direct access to ESB's wealth of technical knowledge, engineering skills and commercial experience, the benefits of which we pass on to our investment partners.
Existing investments include Nualight, Airvolution, InTune Networks, Lumicity, SELC, and Wind Energy Direct.
>> www.novusmodus.com
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Demeter Partners
Demeter Partners is a French PE management company exclusively dedicated to Cleantech investments. Demeter partners is currently managing Demeter 1, €105M and Demeter 2, € 203M, PE funds dedicated to French, German and SpanishSMEs running their business in the fields of eco-industries (water, waste,air & soil treatment) and eco-energies (renewable energies).
The 2 sponsors of the FCPR Demeter (CDC Entreprises, IFP Investissement) arealso sponsors of the FCPR Demeter 2. The Demeter 2 fund counts also ten orso faithful investors already present in the 1st Demeter Fund (Robeco,Cardif, CIC/Crédit Mutuel, CNP), as well as new investors (EuropeanInvestment Fund (EIF), Total, Crédit Coopératif, Dahlia, Caser, GDF-Suez).The portfolio is made up of 25 companies and various stages of development.
>> www.demeter-partners.com
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Espírito Santo Ventures
Espírito Santo Ventures is a venture capital firm of the Banco Espírito Santo Group, focused on technology-based companies and innovative business projects with high-growth potential. Based in Lisbon, Portugal and with more than 250 million Euros in assets under management, Espírito Santo Ventures invested in 40 companies in Europe, North and South America and Australia, through three Venture Capital funds, that are developing worldwide leading products and services in the areas of CleanTech, Healthcare & Well-being and IT. Espírito Santo Ventures will shortly begin raising its fourth Venture Capital fund.
>> www.es-ventures.com
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EDP Inovação, S.A.
Energias de Portugal (EDP) is a Portuguese based utility with activities in Iberia, rest of Europe, USA and Brazil, whose current market value is around M€ 15.000. Through its subsidiary EDP Renováveis, EDP is the fourth largest renewable power producer worldwide.
EDP Inovação, a subsidiary of EDP, promotes innovative projects within the EDP Group, assuming responsibility for engineering development and research of new concepts and technologies, with main focus on renewable energies, distributed generation, energy efficiency and information and communication technologies, prior to their installation and operation.
Our role includes the following activities:
- Technological supervision, acting as a central observatory for the core business technologies and assuring the opportunities searching for projects participation;
- Global project management, covering the business cases development, the economical analysis and financial structuring, and the management of the relationships with the key stakeholders involved (universities, technological centres, independent promoters, local and country authorities, consultants, etc).
Besides developing R&D / Innovation Projects, EDP Inovação is responsible for development and management of the Corporate Venture Capital fund of the EDP Group. This recently created fund is focused on investment in energy related cleantech companies, whose technologies may be interesting to create value within the EDP Group.
>>> www.edp.pt
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Aster Capital
Aster Capital is the multi-corporate venture firm with Schneider Electric, Alstom, Rhodia and other investors in its new EUR 100 million fund ASTER II that we launched January 2010. Our 10 strong team is based in Paris, Shanghai and Silicon Valley.
Aster's focus is on early-to-growth stage investments in cutting edge technology innovation or new service business models in - energy
- mobility
- infrastructure
- environment
Our special value proposition is our access to our corporate sponsors. Post investment, we dedicate much time to creating business opportunities for our portfolio companies with Schneider Electric, Alstom, Rhodia and other partners in our network. We see these large groups as opportunity for your business to develop a new potential application for your technology, to supply your product into a system or solution provided either by Alstom or Schneider Electric or as your sales channel in markets where you do not have own coverage. Having said that, we clearly wish our portfolio companies to remain independent. Our preferred exit is an IPO or a trade-sale to another player in the industry.
>> www.aster-capital.com
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