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Notes from the SDForum VC Cleantech Breakfast

Posted: July 8th, 2008 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Business, Sustainability, Technology | Tags: , , , , , , , | View Comments

Clean DolphinThis morning I attended SDForum.org’s quarterly Venture Breakfast, this time focusing on cleantech investing. The panel of speakers included Steve Bengston of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, David Horning from Palo Alto Investors, Steve Eichenlaub from Intel Capital, Peter Nieh of Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matthew Trevithick from Venrock. The following are some interesting highlights:

About cleantech investing in general:

  • The potential market for energy technologies is huge.
  • New energy technology transitions will take decades to replace existing technologies, not the short adoption timeframes associated with typical Silicon Valley tech companies.
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