DOE Funding Very-Early-Stage Clean Tech
The DOE's newly formed ARPA-E -- an Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy modeled after the Defense Department's DARPA, which created the Internet -- handed out $151 million in funding today to 37 companies and projects. Some are venture-funded -- companies backed by Khosla Ventures, Polaris, North Bridge, incTANK Ventures and the secretive X/Seed Capital are on the list. But most are still projects inside universities, federal labs or big companies. Some are in stealth mode, and some don't even have Web sites.
26 October 2009•1 min read
