{"id":257114,"date":"2010-01-31T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-6716672426473604104"},"modified":"2010-01-31T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:29:00","slug":"better-place-raises-350m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/257114","title":{"rendered":"Better Place Raises $350M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleantech.com reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/making-australia-better-place.html\">Better Place<\/a> has raised $350 million of new capital &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantech.com\/news\/5562\/better-place-350m-deal-bested-airtr\">Better Place $350M deal bested by Airtricity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s one of the largest venture capital deals in the history of cleantech, as the company itself described it, but it isn&#8217;t the largest.<\/p>\n<p>Palo Alto, Calif.-based Better Place today announced in a press conference that it secured $350 million in a series B round led by HSBC Group that values the company at $1.25 billion. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While a large round, the largest deal on record to date in cleantech was a follow-on round to Europe&#8217;s Airtricity, according to Cleantech Group data available to clients.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter of 2006, investors put the equivalent of $394,835,000 USD into the Dublin, Ireland-based company, banking on the company&#8217;s wind farm projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/making-australia-better-place.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/files\/better-place.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-6716672426473604104?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bLBz8ocEHVUPO8zvMsRF8DQ2gSE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bLBz8ocEHVUPO8zvMsRF8DQ2gSE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bLBz8ocEHVUPO8zvMsRF8DQ2gSE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bLBz8ocEHVUPO8zvMsRF8DQ2gSE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleantech.com reports that Better Place has raised $350 million of new capital &#8211; Better Place $350M deal bested by Airtricity. It&#8217;s one of the largest venture capital deals in the history of cleantech, as the company itself described it, but it isn&#8217;t the largest. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Better Place today announced in a press conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}