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Smart grid investments top $140M in Q3: Mercom

October 20, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Venture capitalists are pumping money into smart grid startups. Mercom Capital, a cleantech and healthcare research firm, released a report revealing that VCs have poured $142 million into smart grid companies in 26 deals during the third quarter of 2014. By comparison, smart grid investments totaled 81 million across 13 deals during the second quarter. But funding is slightly […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Stats & Figures Tagged With: cleantech VC, funding, Smart Grid, startup, VC, venture capital

Green Spaces: Coworking for eco-preneurs

August 3, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Green Spaces - Coworking NYC and Denver

Striking out on your own? Not only can starting your own green business be intimidating, it can get pricey. Why not save some money and network with other eco-minded entrepreneurs by coworking? Co-working spaces are, by virtue, pretty a pretty sustainable way of growing your startup. Instead of renting a storefront or an office, coworking […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: business, coworking, entrepreneur, startup

Nest to Honeywell: Bring it!

April 12, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Nest smart thermostat

When you can’t innovate, sue? Unfortunately, that seems to be the extent of the competitive strategies chapter in today’s corporate playbook. The Verge — quickly becoming one of my favorite tech blogs, FYI — has a great post on how Honeywell sicced its lawyers on Nest, the home energy management startup behind the lust-worthy, iPod-inspired […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: home energy management, Honeywell, lawsuit, Nest, smart thermostat, startup

Nest Floats 2.0 Update

April 5, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Nest Smart Thermostat Update

What happens when you cloud-enable a smart thermostat? You get delicious updates, that’s what. Nest is rolling out updates to “Nesters” over the next couple of days. According to the smart energy startup, they include some neat touches like iPhone, Android or Web apps with more controls. An exciting new addition is Energy History. As […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: home energy management, Nest, smart thermostat, software update, startup, update

Vigilent bags $6.7M for green Big Data centers

March 27, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Data Center

If you’ve been following some of my Big Data coverage on Enterprise Apps Today, then you know that it’s kind of a big deal in IT circles lately. And true to its name, storing, processing and analyzing Big Data takes some pretty big IT infrastructure, which in turn results in big, power-hungry data centers. Or does […]

Filed Under: Data Center Tagged With: big data, Data Center, energy management, funding, startup, VC, Vigilent

AMD snaps up SeaMicro

March 1, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

SeaMicro server

Can news be both surprising and unsurprising? Let’s start with the unsurprising part of the announcement that AMD is acquiring SeaMicro, which is that the startup has been taken off the market for a cool $334 million. Since it unstealthed in June 2010, the company has attracted customers like Google and Mozilla with a dense, […]

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Servers Tagged With: AMD, cloud, Intel, Intel Atom, Intel Xeon, SeaMicro, server, servers, startup

iPad EMR startup DrChrono attracts $2.8M

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

DrChrono EMR

This is awesome. NYT Bits Blog has a story today on Silicon Valley startup DrChrono and how it raised $2.8 million from Yuri Milner, in addition to the $1.3 million funded by Y-Combinator and 500 Startups, among others. DrChrono is an electronic medical record (EMR) platform that’s taking advantage of the growing popularity of iPads in […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: electronic medical records, EMR, financing, funding, startup, VC, venture capital

SolidFire is the latest flash storage funding winner with $25M

November 1, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Brisk VC activity surrounding makers of flash storage systems continues apace. The latest funding success is Solid Fire, which just added $25 million to its bank account. It’s not hard to see why it was able to pry open those checkbooks. The Boulder, Colo.-based startup combines two of the hottest trends in IT, SSDs (solid […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: flash storage, funding, solid-state drive, SolidFire, SSD, startup, VC, venture capital

Nest: The iPod of smart thermostats

October 25, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

What does a former Apple exec that’s responsible for the iconic iPod do when the thermostats on the market are too lame for his new green home? He brings design and software savvy to bear on the problem. The result is the puck-like Nest, from Tony Fadell’s startup of the same name. It’s a learning, connected thermostat […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Featured Tagged With: Apple, energy efficiency, home energy management, Nest, smart thermostat, startup

Video: ecoATM in action

October 24, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Sure, you can go to Gazelle.com and get cash for your old electronics, but some folks want instant gratification. For instance, the kind of people that use their local Redbox instead of queuing up a DVD on Netflix. Enter ecoATM, a startup that makes the automated “eCycling” system of the same name. Since it’s in […]

Filed Under: E-Waste & Recycling Tagged With: ecoATM, electronics recycling, recycling, startup

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