clean technology

Silicon Valley 3.0: Tech's New Wave

Pui-Wing Tam and Cari Tuna, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Edenvale Technology Park gives a glimpse of the new Silicon Valley. The long recession only tiptoed through the 2,300-acre office park, with many start-ups here expanding their operations over the past 18 months. One prominent tenant, solar company Nanosolar Inc., began producing solar panels in March and plans to add space and more employees to its 350-person work force.

Painting Silicon Valley a New Shade of Green

Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Silicon Valley is trying to become a hub for clean technology–companies that specialize in alternative energy or energy-efficient products. Helping to lead the shift are local venture capitalists such as Vinod Khosla.

The Incredible Shrinking Information-Technology Industry

Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 19, 2010 at 1:57 pm PT

The information-technology industry, which produced some of the world’s largest tech companies and spawned Silicon Valley, continues to lose favor with venture capitalists. Tech giants like Apple, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Oracle and Sun Microsystems all benefited in their early days from venture capital.

Better Times for VCs? Redpoint Raises $400 Million Fund Focused on Social, Mobile, Cloud and Clean.

Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the “social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.” Is the closing a sign that things are looking up for the venture business after one of the toughest years in a dozen, with the amount VCs made in 2009 dropping 37 percent, according to a recent report? Who knows–but here’s the skinny on the Redpoint IV fund.

Announcing the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Trepidation Index

John Paczkowski in News on January 22, 2010 at 9:50 am PT

Venture capitalists, your calls for smaller funds and for more of an old-school approach to investing have been answered. VC investments last year were the lowest since 1997, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released on Friday.

Khosla Ventures's Take on Tech

Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 2, 2009 at 5:28 pm PT

Venture-capital firm Khosla Ventures announced Tuesday that it had raised more than $1 billion in two new funds–the first time the firm has raised funds from outside investors instead of just investing the money of its founder, Vinod Khosla, a longtime venture capitalist and a founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is putting two thirds of the money towards clean technology investments. But what about tech?

Vinod Khosla on Why Clean Technology Is Misunderstood

Timothy Hay, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 31, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Vinod Khosla emphasized several times Thursday that costs–and not idealogy–will drive the clean technology industry, and said that much of the hype around cleantech is fueled by misunderstood information.