CleanTech Portfolio
VantagePoint has established a leading practice with the team, resources, and relationships to meet the large and rapidly growing opportunity in CleanTech. The scope of the issues being addressed—resource scarcity, energy security, and climate change—represents both a business challenge and an opportunity of substantial magnitude.
Global demand for and consumption of energy, water, and other limited resources continues to grow at an accelerated pace. This growth, combined with the increased adoption of technology and efforts led by many of the world’s largest corporations, is significantly expanding the commercial opportunities for companies capable of developing and delivering products and services to address resource limits.
We look for companies that address these resource needs with technological innovation in solar and other forms of renewable power, transportation, smart grid, power management and storage, water, materials and others that have the potential to transform their industries.
Adura Technologies
Adura Technologies provides a full-service demand response and lighting energy management solution that substantially reduces the use of electricity in commercial and industrial facilities.
San Francisco, CA
AlertMe
AlertMe is a leader in smart home energy that provides an intelligent service that enables people to manage and control their homes from their mobile phones and the web.
Cambridge, UK
Amprius
Amprius develops advanced lithium-ion batteries for consumer electronics and automotive applications.
Menlo Park, CA
Angstrom Power
Angstrom Power is designing the next generation of safe, mobile power for tomorrow's multi-purpose hand-held electronics.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Better Place
Better Place is the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) services provider, catalyzing the transition to sustainable transportation.
Palo Alto, CA
BridgeLux
BridgeLux is a leading supplier of energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED) technology for high-volume, solid-state lighting markets.
Sunnyvale, CA
BrightSource Energy
BrightSource Energy develops large, utility-scale solar power plants using high-temperature solar thermal technology that concentrates sunlight and converts the resulting heat into electricity.
Oakland, CA
Chemrec AB
Chemrec is a Swedish company with a gasification technology to convert "black liquor", the major by-product of pulp mills and a highly concentrated form of biomass, into a significant energy source, yielding electric power as well as motor fuels or chemicals.
Stockholm, Sweden
Cobalt BioFuels
Cobalt Biofuels is leading the development of next generation biofuels with its bacterial fermentation of renewable plant materials, making possible a new generation of fuels.
Mountain View, CA
FloDesign
FloDesign produces high-efficiency shrouded wind turbines based on the application of mature aerospace technologies.
Wilbraham, MA
iWatt
iWatt designs, develops and manufactures power supply control ICs and modules, and delivers improvements in size, cost and efficiency.
Los Gatos, CA
Mascoma
Mascoma Corporation is a leading developer of cellulosic ethanol technology, which is the production of ethanol fuel from inexpensive fibrous plant material.
Boston, MA
MiaSolé
MiaSolé is a pioneer in the development of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) thin film photovoltaic products.
Santa Clara, CA
New Energy Capital*
New Energy Capital is a project finance firm making investments in a portfolio of renewable energy and distributed generation facilities.
Hanover, NH
Ostara
Ostara’s proprietary technology removes phosphorus and other nutrients from wastewater and recycles them into environmentally safe commercial fertilizer.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Premium Power Corporation
Premium Power provides zinc-bromide flow batteries for large-scale power storage applications.
North Reading, MA
Senergen
Senergen is a solar-cell startup with a novel approach for building silicon-based photovoltaic cells.
Fremont, CA
Serious Materials Inc.
Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that dramatically reduce the impact of the 'built environment' on the climate.
Sunnyvale, CA
SolarCentury
SolarCentury is Europe’s leading building integrated solar company, with commercial installations generating 9.5 MW of electricity every year.
London, England
Solazyme
Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company and the leader in algal biotechnology.
South San Francisco, CA
SuperBulbs
SuperBulbs is a stealth-mode company that is working to transform the light bulb through an innovative use of traditional and of new lighting technologies.
Redwood City, CA
Tendril Inc.
Tendril’s technology facilitates a dialog between consumers and suppliers through an energy ecosystem that connects in-home devices (like thermostats) to the utility back office.
Boulder, CO
Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors designs and sells electric cars combining world-class automotive design and Silicon Valley technology with an innovative sales and support strategy.
San Carlos, CA
Ze-gen
Ze-gen is a leading developer and integrator of waste gasification technology that converts construction and demolition waste and municipal solid waste into near zeroemissions synthetic natural gas (syngas) and electrical energy.
Boston, MA* M&A and IPOs