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July 13, 2007

Cleantech Venture Investing Still in its Infancy

On Monday, Topline Strategy be releasing our new report on the trends in Cleantech venture investing. When I first started on this report, I was expecting to find the dotcom bubble 2.0. With all of the hype and reports of phenomenal growth in Cleantech, I didn't see any reason to suspect anything different.

What I found was quite surprising - Quarter over quarter, Cleantech investing for the last four quarters, Q2 2006 to Q1 2007 was basically flat. Furthermore, with just a couple of exceptions, the leading VC firms have been just dipping their collective toes in the water.

What does this mean? From a venture capital perspective, we have barely left the starting gate of a 30 year project to build a sustainable economy and that this project is so different than what VCs have become accustom to in high tech and life sciences that it is going to take a while for them to figure it out.

Our report, chock full of data on who is investing how much in what, provides an in depth analysis of what makes Cleantech different and what VCs will need to do to be successful in the space. While the report will be formally released on Monday, you can download it now from our site.

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