SD Tech Fund invests $14.7 mln in four Canadian cleantech companies

SD Tech Fund, a venture capital fund sponsored by Sustainable Development Technology Canada, has invested $14.7 million to commercialize clean technologies developed by four companies. These companies are: Macroteck, a specialist in factory exhaust scrubbing; Vive Crop Production, which is focused on crop protection technology; Switchable Solutions, a developer of technology to recover bitumen from ore, and; Solantro Semiconductor, a provider of scalable renewable energy nanogrids. SD Tech Fund has to date committed $598 million to 246 companies and projects.

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