Braemar Energy Ventures
www.braemarenergy.com
Braemar Energy Ventures focuses exclusively on technology and communications opportunities in the energy sector and has been responsible for investing in more than 20 energy technology companies, including early stage companies which have grown to become some of the most successful in the sector. Braemar principals have significant technical, operating, and financial experience in energy and energy-related industries and are active with a number of energy technology investment organizations. The principals have chaired and participated on numerous industry panels on topics such as electric transmission and distribution system reliability, alternative fuels, renewable energy and corporate venturing in energy technology.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
www.dfj.com
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a premier early-stage venture capital firm. Founded in 1985, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has created a global network of affiliated venture funds with over $3 billion in capital commitments and offices in the major technology centers around the world. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm has proven expertise in identifying and helping extraordinary entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
Element Partners
www.elementpartners.com
Element Partners is a leading venture capital investor in clean technology that invests in and supports companies developing promising solutions to economically important resource constraint problems. They specifically focus on products, services and technologies in the energy and power, water, air, and manufacturing/industrial sectors. Element Partners is also a co-manager of the $30 million California Clean Energy Fund.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
www.lightspeedvp.com
Lightspeed is an early-stage technology venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build large, sustainable enterprises globally. The partners of Lightspeed have invested over $800M in more than 100 technology companies over the past two decades. Lightspeed's hallmark is lead early stage investing, including an active seed investment program.
Technology Partners
www.technologypartners.com
Founded over 20 years ago as a private venture capital firm, Technology Partners manages a total of more than $400 million of investment capital. Technology Partners teams with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful new companies, serving principally as a lead investor and business advisor to both Life Science and Cleantech companies. Technology Partners concentrates their investments within these areas, in which they have deep industry knowledge, domain, experience, and technical expertise. Technology Partners looks primarily for four critical ingredients in making investment decisions: passionate and pragmatic people with whom them can build productive partnerships, large market opportunities with a clear customer need, unique and defensible technology that provides competitive positioning to secure market leadership, and a focused and capital efficient business model.
Warburg Pincus LLC
www.warburgpincus.com
Warburg Pincus is a global leader in the private equity industry, with four decades of experience and investments of more than $20 billion in more than 525 companies in 30 countries around the world. With an average investment period of five to seven years, Warburg Pincus helps companies to formulate strategy, conceptualize and implement creative financing structures and recruit talented executives. The firm's professionals are organized into industry groups to provide the highest level of domain expertise to portfolio companies and facilitate the professionals' understanding of the industry's products, services, technologies and market trends. Warburg Pincus's Energy Industry Group has provided more than $1 billion in equity funding for energy companies around the world since the late 1980's, focusing on oil and gas, power generation and transmission, alternative energy and renewables, and innovative energy technologies.
