Clean Tech isn't a new field for VC. Draper Fisher Jurvetson has been investing in Clean Tech since 2001: Managing Directors Steve Jurvetson and Raj Atluru expound on what's big in 2008: Efficiency, Waste Energy, Thin Film Solar, Synthetic Genomics, and more.
Venture Capital and Clean Tech
With 11 deals that invested over 40 million dollars in clean tech in 2007, some say Draper Fisher Jurvetson's lead Clean Tech investing in 2007.
The company made its first investments in Clean Tech in 2001.
DFJ Managing Directors Steve Jurvetson and Raj Atluru sit down and expound on some of the big trends in clean tech with guest host Katie Fehrenbacher, the editor of GigaOM's Earth2Tech
Where DFJ looks to invest: Energy Efficiency, Waste Energy, Biological Solutions
"Nature has evolved inherently clean and green ways of doing things" Steve Jurvetson
More hot areas: Electric Cars (REVA and Tesla Motors), Thin Film Solar (Konarka), Solar Installation and Financing (SolarCity)
Will 2008 bring the first synthetic life forms? Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics could produce custom microbes for energy applications.
