Cleantech Investor? We Need Your Insights
Reuters is conducting a short survey to help inform the discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos later this month. Over 30 cleantech VCs have taken the survey so far. A couple of interesting data points: One, most of the respondents expect one or two of their cleantech portfolio companies to go public or get acquired this year. And two, most of the respondents are focusing their current investments on startups that help conserve energy (e.g. makers of LED lighting, energy-efficient building materials, software that tracks and manages energy used in home and electric vehicles) -- as opposed to startups that create energy (e.g. biofuel companies) or startups that store energy (e.g. battery makers). All the survey results will be published later this month on Reuters.com and in an upcoming issue of Venture Capital Journal. Our goal is to get at least 50 respondents. If you’re a cleantech investor and you haven’t taken the survey, we’d love to hear from you. Please shoot me an email to lawrence.aragon@thomsonreuters.com and I’ll send you a link. It’s a really short survey.
