{"id":446791,"date":"2010-03-19T08:18:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2010-03-19T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:18:43","slug":"exclusive-emerald-technology-ventures-nears-first-close-on-e150m-cleantech-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446791","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Emerald Technology Ventures Nears First Close on \u20ac150M Cleantech Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/solar.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Solar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emerald Technology Ventures, a Zurich-based cleantech venture capital fund, expects to hold a first close <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/09\/emerald-technology-ventures-to-launch-e150m-new-cleantech-fund-whitney-rockley-joins-as-partner\/\" >for a \u20ac150 million ($204 million) <\/a>cleantech-focused fund, by early summer, an industry source tells G.E.R.  <span id=\"more-7100\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This would be the firm&#8217;s third fund and like the previous two &#8212; the\u00a0 \u20ac90 million Emerald Cleantech I and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacaisse.com\/en\/nouvelles-medias\/communiques\/Pages\/cloture-fonds-emerald.aspx\" >the \u20ac135 million Emerald Cleantech II <\/a>fund &#8212; its investment capital would support renewable energy companies and water and advance material companies<\/p>\n<p>We understand that returning investors include Dow Chemical, Credit Suisse, Rabobank&#8217;s Rabo Private Equity unit, Canadian oil and gas company Suncor. As well as tractor maker Deere &amp; Company, Unilever, Volvo and GIMV, an investment firm based in Antwerp, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Emerald Cleantech II has invested in Toledo, Ohio-based thin-film  photovoltaic maker Xunlight and Synapsense, a developer of energy  management solutions based in Folsom, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/0djSGs_lLx0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald Technology Ventures, a Zurich-based cleantech venture capital fund, expects to hold a first close for a \u20ac150 million ($204 million) cleantech-focused fund, by early summer, an industry source tells G.E.R. This would be the firm&#8217;s third fund and like the previous two &#8212; the\u00a0 \u20ac90 million Emerald Cleantech I and the \u20ac135 million Emerald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446791","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\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}