RockPort Capital

RockPort Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in the areas of alternative and traditional energy, mobility, and sustainability. For more than a decade RockPort has partnered with entrepreneurs to foster growth and create value in a broad range of industrial and consumer facing companies whose technologies and products provide innovative solutions to significant worldwide markets. RockPort has a collaborative approach to investing, deep domain expertise, and insights into all aspects of energy and cleantech. With offices in Boston and Menlo Park, RockPort is globally recognized as being among the largest and most established energy-focused venture capital firms.

Alexander Hap Ellis III

General Partner

Prend MBA, BS, David J.

Managing General Partner

Wilson, Stoddard Moran

General Partner

Abe Yokell

Partner

106 past transactions

Qnovo

Series C in 2022
Qnovo is redefining the foundation of mobility and technology for a more resilient and mobile future—the lithium-ion battery. Since 2010, Qnovo has enabled the electrification revolution with its intelligent battery management software and predictive analytics that improves the performance of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and consumer devices with enhanced health and safety. Qnovo is working with the world’s top automotive OEMs, holds over 50 patents in the space, and the first generation of Qnovo technology is on more than 150 million smartphones worldwide. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California. Its investors include BorgWarner, OGCI Climate Investments, Constellation Technology Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and RockPort Capital. Visit www.qnovo.com.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series D in 2020
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology firm focused on discovering and developing sustainable agricultural solutions based on bacteria and related microorganisms. The company's services are primarily focused on the study, development, and commercialization of symbiotic bacteria, which are helpful plant bacteria that help farmers combat plant disease and boost agricultural yields.

Ratio.City

Seed Round in 2019
They help real estate professionals strategically identify and efficiently evaluate urban sites to unlock their full development potential.

Achates Power

Series D in 2017
Achates Power specializes in the fields of combustion engine development, clean diesel, and 2-stroke oil control management. It is focused on applying its proven technical know-how and expertise, coupled with the industry's leading-edge testing, simulation, and analysis tools.

Honest Buildings

Series B in 2017
Honest Buildings is an integrated, data-driven project management and procurement platform purpose-built for commercial real estate owners and managers. Its products are designed to automate new construction and building improvement processes, these companies are unlocking value in data that previously sat unrealized in endless, complicated spreadsheets. Companies like Brookfield, Beacon Capital Partners, Invesco, The JBG Companies, SL Green, Parkway Properties, and Rudin Management use Honest Buildings to streamline project management processes, increase revenue through faster project delivery, reduce project costs and increase efficiencies on projects portfolio-wide.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series C in 2017
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology firm focused on discovering and developing sustainable agricultural solutions based on bacteria and related microorganisms. The company's services are primarily focused on the study, development, and commercialization of symbiotic bacteria, which are helpful plant bacteria that help farmers combat plant disease and boost agricultural yields.

Enlighted

Series D in 2016
Designed to give you more control over the buildings you manage, increase efficiency and make you smarter about virtually everything in your commercial spaces, Enlighted converts the abstract Internet of Things into something tangible. Enlighted’s mission is to help our customers reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money and increasing efficiency. Using our first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, we provide smart energy solutions for commercial buildings. Our technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them. Our solutions go beyond theory. Customers are saving millions in energy costs - up to 70% in some instances - while making smarter business decisions based on the actionable data we provide. To date, our sensors have been installed in over 70,000 square-feet and are deployed in Fortune 1000 company workplaces, like AT&T and Oracle.

Renovate America

Private Equity Round in 2015
Renovate America provides financing solutions for homes and communities in the areas of energy and water in the United States. It aims to lead the way in making homes and communities more energy and water efficient. The company offers HERO Program, a financing solution made possible by the Property Assessed Clean Energy legislation. It partners with cities and counties to implement low-risk, scalable programs that deliver multiple benefits, including energy savings, lower utility bills, reduced emissions, new jobs, and local economic stimulus. Its in-house development team creates custom tools to support all users of its product, from property owners and contractors to municipal leaders.

Qnovo

Series B in 2015
Qnovo is redefining the foundation of mobility and technology for a more resilient and mobile future—the lithium-ion battery. Since 2010, Qnovo has enabled the electrification revolution with its intelligent battery management software and predictive analytics that improves the performance of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and consumer devices with enhanced health and safety. Qnovo is working with the world’s top automotive OEMs, holds over 50 patents in the space, and the first generation of Qnovo technology is on more than 150 million smartphones worldwide. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California. Its investors include BorgWarner, OGCI Climate Investments, Constellation Technology Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and RockPort Capital. Visit www.qnovo.com.

Honest Buildings

Series A in 2015
Honest Buildings is an integrated, data-driven project management and procurement platform purpose-built for commercial real estate owners and managers. Its products are designed to automate new construction and building improvement processes, these companies are unlocking value in data that previously sat unrealized in endless, complicated spreadsheets. Companies like Brookfield, Beacon Capital Partners, Invesco, The JBG Companies, SL Green, Parkway Properties, and Rudin Management use Honest Buildings to streamline project management processes, increase revenue through faster project delivery, reduce project costs and increase efficiencies on projects portfolio-wide.

EcoFactor

Series C in 2015
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.

GaN Systems

Series C in 2015
GaN Systems offers a range of Gallium Nitride high-power switching diodes and transistors for clean tech power conversion applications.

FirstFuel Software

Series C in 2015
FirstFuel Software provides a customer intelligence platform that transforms energy providers into trusted advisors to their business customers. FirstFuel’s SaaS solutions accelerate customer acquisition, optimize energy efficiency and DSM programs, and boost customer engagement and satisfaction. The company draws on deep domain expertise in data analytics, building science, and software in its deployments with large utilities, energy service providers, and government agencies in North America and Europe. Requiring only electric or gas utility meter data and address, FirstFuel produces a remote set of building-specific performance benchmarks and custom recommendations that utilities and energy service providers use to target, guide and enable their sales, service and engagement activities with commercial customers. Founded in 2009 and privately held, FirstFuel is headquartered in Lexington, MA. For more information, please visit www.firstfuel.com.

InVisage Technologies

Series F in 2014
InVisage Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, produces quantum dot-based image sensors. The company's product enables the high resolution images from handheld devices, such as camera phones and PDAs. Its products are used in security and surveillance, automotive imaging, military, and medical imaging applications, as well as mobile phone cameras, Webcams, and digital still cameras. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Flywheel

Series C in 2014
Flywheel is a mobile app that allows users to hail a cab, track a ride, and make payments. Flywheel adds entire taxi companies at once, using cars already on the road to meet demand at any time of day or night. By working with existing taxi companies, Flywheel can scale supply quickly and predictably while avoiding long, expensive regulatory battles and the pains of inexperienced professional drivers. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series B in 2014
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology firm focused on discovering and developing sustainable agricultural solutions based on bacteria and related microorganisms. The company's services are primarily focused on the study, development, and commercialization of symbiotic bacteria, which are helpful plant bacteria that help farmers combat plant disease and boost agricultural yields.

GlassPoint Solar

Series C in 2014
GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.

Enlighted

Series D in 2014
Designed to give you more control over the buildings you manage, increase efficiency and make you smarter about virtually everything in your commercial spaces, Enlighted converts the abstract Internet of Things into something tangible. Enlighted’s mission is to help our customers reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money and increasing efficiency. Using our first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, we provide smart energy solutions for commercial buildings. Our technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them. Our solutions go beyond theory. Customers are saving millions in energy costs - up to 70% in some instances - while making smarter business decisions based on the actionable data we provide. To date, our sensors have been installed in over 70,000 square-feet and are deployed in Fortune 1000 company workplaces, like AT&T and Oracle.

Renovate America

Private Equity Round in 2014
Renovate America provides financing solutions for homes and communities in the areas of energy and water in the United States. It aims to lead the way in making homes and communities more energy and water efficient. The company offers HERO Program, a financing solution made possible by the Property Assessed Clean Energy legislation. It partners with cities and counties to implement low-risk, scalable programs that deliver multiple benefits, including energy savings, lower utility bills, reduced emissions, new jobs, and local economic stimulus. Its in-house development team creates custom tools to support all users of its product, from property owners and contractors to municipal leaders.

Streetline

Series D in 2014
Streetline builds solutions to longstanding problems in city management and operations, through the customized design and application of new sensing technologies. Our parking management system offers cities the first real control and oversight of their complex inventory of on- and off-street spaces, and forms the backbone for other sensing solutions that lower city costs and improve public services.

Gridco

Venture Round in 2014
Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distribution below the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision.

InVisage Technologies

Series E in 2014
InVisage Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, produces quantum dot-based image sensors. The company's product enables the high resolution images from handheld devices, such as camera phones and PDAs. Its products are used in security and surveillance, automotive imaging, military, and medical imaging applications, as well as mobile phone cameras, Webcams, and digital still cameras. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

FirstFuel Software

Series B in 2013
FirstFuel Software provides a customer intelligence platform that transforms energy providers into trusted advisors to their business customers. FirstFuel’s SaaS solutions accelerate customer acquisition, optimize energy efficiency and DSM programs, and boost customer engagement and satisfaction. The company draws on deep domain expertise in data analytics, building science, and software in its deployments with large utilities, energy service providers, and government agencies in North America and Europe. Requiring only electric or gas utility meter data and address, FirstFuel produces a remote set of building-specific performance benchmarks and custom recommendations that utilities and energy service providers use to target, guide and enable their sales, service and engagement activities with commercial customers. Founded in 2009 and privately held, FirstFuel is headquartered in Lexington, MA. For more information, please visit www.firstfuel.com.

Honest Buildings

Series A in 2013
Honest Buildings is an integrated, data-driven project management and procurement platform purpose-built for commercial real estate owners and managers. Its products are designed to automate new construction and building improvement processes, these companies are unlocking value in data that previously sat unrealized in endless, complicated spreadsheets. Companies like Brookfield, Beacon Capital Partners, Invesco, The JBG Companies, SL Green, Parkway Properties, and Rudin Management use Honest Buildings to streamline project management processes, increase revenue through faster project delivery, reduce project costs and increase efficiencies on projects portfolio-wide.

Gridco

Series B in 2013
Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distribution below the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision.

Project Frog

Series D in 2013
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco, California, Project Frog develops component buildings that assemble easily onsite, giving architects and builders a fast and cost-effective way to create beautiful and energy-efficient buildings. Project Frog is on a mission is to revolutionize the way buildings are created by applying technology to overcome the inefficiencies of traditional construction. The company’s approach results in a structure that is measurable greener and significantly smarter, creating brighter, healthier spaces that inspire better performance by the people who occupy them. The versatile ecosystem of products adapt to all kinds of uses including: healthcare, education and retail.

EcoFactor

Series B in 2013
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.

Achates Power

Series C in 2013
Achates Power specializes in the fields of combustion engine development, clean diesel, and 2-stroke oil control management. It is focused on applying its proven technical know-how and expertise, coupled with the industry's leading-edge testing, simulation, and analysis tools.

Accend

Series A in 2013
Accend, Inc. develops software solutions for the oil drilling industry in the United States. The company’s software provides petroleum well data, drilling permits data, and interactive mapping and notifications. It also offers enterprise data collection and application development services. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Flywheel

Series B in 2013
Flywheel is a mobile app that allows users to hail a cab, track a ride, and make payments. Flywheel adds entire taxi companies at once, using cars already on the road to meet demand at any time of day or night. By working with existing taxi companies, Flywheel can scale supply quickly and predictably while avoiding long, expensive regulatory battles and the pains of inexperienced professional drivers. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Honest Buildings

Series A in 2013
Honest Buildings is an integrated, data-driven project management and procurement platform purpose-built for commercial real estate owners and managers. Its products are designed to automate new construction and building improvement processes, these companies are unlocking value in data that previously sat unrealized in endless, complicated spreadsheets. Companies like Brookfield, Beacon Capital Partners, Invesco, The JBG Companies, SL Green, Parkway Properties, and Rudin Management use Honest Buildings to streamline project management processes, increase revenue through faster project delivery, reduce project costs and increase efficiencies on projects portfolio-wide.

Enlighted

Series C in 2013
Designed to give you more control over the buildings you manage, increase efficiency and make you smarter about virtually everything in your commercial spaces, Enlighted converts the abstract Internet of Things into something tangible. Enlighted’s mission is to help our customers reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money and increasing efficiency. Using our first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, we provide smart energy solutions for commercial buildings. Our technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them. Our solutions go beyond theory. Customers are saving millions in energy costs - up to 70% in some instances - while making smarter business decisions based on the actionable data we provide. To date, our sensors have been installed in over 70,000 square-feet and are deployed in Fortune 1000 company workplaces, like AT&T and Oracle.

InVisage Technologies

Series D in 2013
InVisage Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, produces quantum dot-based image sensors. The company's product enables the high resolution images from handheld devices, such as camera phones and PDAs. Its products are used in security and surveillance, automotive imaging, military, and medical imaging applications, as well as mobile phone cameras, Webcams, and digital still cameras. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Streetline

Series C in 2013
Streetline builds solutions to longstanding problems in city management and operations, through the customized design and application of new sensing technologies. Our parking management system offers cities the first real control and oversight of their complex inventory of on- and off-street spaces, and forms the backbone for other sensing solutions that lower city costs and improve public services.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series A in 2013
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology firm focused on discovering and developing sustainable agricultural solutions based on bacteria and related microorganisms. The company's services are primarily focused on the study, development, and commercialization of symbiotic bacteria, which are helpful plant bacteria that help farmers combat plant disease and boost agricultural yields.

OptoAtmospherics

Series A in 2012
OptoAtmospherics develops UV-based Light Detection and Ranging Technology (“LIDAR”) systems for the wind industry. Their laser-based atmospheric measurement products and services offer continuous wind speed, temperature, and density reporting that enable more accurate site assessment, increased energy output, and reduced maintenance from turbine-mounted or ground-based platforms.

HydroPoint Data Systems

Venture Round in 2012
HydroPoint Data Systems develops various irrigation system controllers for residential and commercial landscape applications. HydroPoint is the proven leader in 360° smart water management solutions. HydroPoint's WeatherTRAK solution delivers a multitude of financial and environmental benefits by reducing the greatest area of waste in urban water use: landscape irrigation. Landscapes consume 58% of urban water and are overwatered by 30-to-300%. It was founded in 2002 and is based in Petaluma, California.

GlassPoint Solar

Series B in 2012
GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.

EcoFactor

Series A in 2012
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.

Renovate America

Series C in 2012
Renovate America provides financing solutions for homes and communities in the areas of energy and water in the United States. It aims to lead the way in making homes and communities more energy and water efficient. The company offers HERO Program, a financing solution made possible by the Property Assessed Clean Energy legislation. It partners with cities and counties to implement low-risk, scalable programs that deliver multiple benefits, including energy savings, lower utility bills, reduced emissions, new jobs, and local economic stimulus. Its in-house development team creates custom tools to support all users of its product, from property owners and contractors to municipal leaders.

GlassPoint Solar

Venture Round in 2012
GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.

Honest Buildings

Seed Round in 2012
Honest Buildings is an integrated, data-driven project management and procurement platform purpose-built for commercial real estate owners and managers. Its products are designed to automate new construction and building improvement processes, these companies are unlocking value in data that previously sat unrealized in endless, complicated spreadsheets. Companies like Brookfield, Beacon Capital Partners, Invesco, The JBG Companies, SL Green, Parkway Properties, and Rudin Management use Honest Buildings to streamline project management processes, increase revenue through faster project delivery, reduce project costs and increase efficiencies on projects portfolio-wide.

Nextremity Solutions

Series A in 2012
Nextremity Solutions is focused on the research and product development of extremely precise and highly innovative implants. It is a privately held pure-play foot and ankles medical device company offering novel solutions and approaches to forefoot surgical intervention. The Company’s procedure ready, sterile implant systems for the correction of forefoot pathologies include uniquely precise, proprietary technology designed to achieve repeatable and superior clinical outcomes.

GaN Systems

Series B in 2012
GaN Systems offers a range of Gallium Nitride high-power switching diodes and transistors for clean tech power conversion applications.

Aspen Aerogels

Debt Financing in 2012
Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range of consumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gears, apparel, and footwear products.

Gridco

Series A in 2012
Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distribution below the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision.

Flywheel

Venture Round in 2012
Flywheel is a mobile app that allows users to hail a cab, track a ride, and make payments. Flywheel adds entire taxi companies at once, using cars already on the road to meet demand at any time of day or night. By working with existing taxi companies, Flywheel can scale supply quickly and predictably while avoiding long, expensive regulatory battles and the pains of inexperienced professional drivers. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Redwood City, California.

FirstFuel Software

Series A in 2012
FirstFuel Software provides a customer intelligence platform that transforms energy providers into trusted advisors to their business customers. FirstFuel’s SaaS solutions accelerate customer acquisition, optimize energy efficiency and DSM programs, and boost customer engagement and satisfaction. The company draws on deep domain expertise in data analytics, building science, and software in its deployments with large utilities, energy service providers, and government agencies in North America and Europe. Requiring only electric or gas utility meter data and address, FirstFuel produces a remote set of building-specific performance benchmarks and custom recommendations that utilities and energy service providers use to target, guide and enable their sales, service and engagement activities with commercial customers. Founded in 2009 and privately held, FirstFuel is headquartered in Lexington, MA. For more information, please visit www.firstfuel.com.

GaN Systems

Series A in 2011
GaN Systems offers a range of Gallium Nitride high-power switching diodes and transistors for clean tech power conversion applications.

Project Frog

Series C in 2011
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco, California, Project Frog develops component buildings that assemble easily onsite, giving architects and builders a fast and cost-effective way to create beautiful and energy-efficient buildings. Project Frog is on a mission is to revolutionize the way buildings are created by applying technology to overcome the inefficiencies of traditional construction. The company’s approach results in a structure that is measurable greener and significantly smarter, creating brighter, healthier spaces that inspire better performance by the people who occupy them. The versatile ecosystem of products adapt to all kinds of uses including: healthcare, education and retail.

Gazelle

Series D in 2011
Gazelle is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used electronic gadgets. They pay cash for used smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops and then inspect, certify them, and sell them to consumers looking for a cost-effective way to stay connected. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations in Louisville, Kentucky.

Streetline

Series B in 2011
Streetline builds solutions to longstanding problems in city management and operations, through the customized design and application of new sensing technologies. Our parking management system offers cities the first real control and oversight of their complex inventory of on- and off-street spaces, and forms the backbone for other sensing solutions that lower city costs and improve public services.

Qnovo

Series A in 2011
Qnovo is redefining the foundation of mobility and technology for a more resilient and mobile future—the lithium-ion battery. Since 2010, Qnovo has enabled the electrification revolution with its intelligent battery management software and predictive analytics that improves the performance of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and consumer devices with enhanced health and safety. Qnovo is working with the world’s top automotive OEMs, holds over 50 patents in the space, and the first generation of Qnovo technology is on more than 150 million smartphones worldwide. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California. Its investors include BorgWarner, OGCI Climate Investments, Constellation Technology Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and RockPort Capital. Visit www.qnovo.com.

SustainX

Venture Round in 2011
SustainX, Inc. develops energy storage technologies for renewable, commercial, and industrial energy management; and transmission asset utilization and optimization. It offers an energy storage system that utilizes an energy conversion system to store electrical energy in the form of compressed air. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.

InVisage Technologies

Series C in 2011
InVisage Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, produces quantum dot-based image sensors. The company's product enables the high resolution images from handheld devices, such as camera phones and PDAs. Its products are used in security and surveillance, automotive imaging, military, and medical imaging applications, as well as mobile phone cameras, Webcams, and digital still cameras. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

REPOWER by Solar Universe

Series B in 2011
REPOWER by Solar Universe was founded in 2008, and since then we have grown to become one of the largest residential solar installers in the U.S. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Solar Universe is unique among solar companies as the only major solar provider that offers franchise opportunities. We operate a network of 50 franchises across the U.S., from Hawaii to Puerto Rico. Since 2012, Solar Universe has been ranked annually on Franchise Magazine’s Franchise 500 list.

Aspen Aerogels

Venture Round in 2010
Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range of consumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gears, apparel, and footwear products.

Gazelle

Series C in 2010
Gazelle is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used electronic gadgets. They pay cash for used smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops and then inspect, certify them, and sell them to consumers looking for a cost-effective way to stay connected. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations in Louisville, Kentucky.

Solyndra

Private Equity Round in 2010
Solyndra is a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California. Solyndra designs and manufactures photovoltaic systems, comprised of panels and mounting hardware, for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra employs high volume manufacturing based on proven technologies and processes to meet the needs of the global solar market. Using proprietary cylindrical modules and thin-film technology, Solyndra systems are designed to provide the lowest installed cost per system and the highest solar electrical energy output for typical low slope commercial rooftops. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Fremont, California, Solyndra operates a state-of-the-art 300,000 square foot fully-automated manufacturing complex.

Recurve

Venture Round in 2010
Recurve is an open-source SaaS platform and tools that help utilities leverage their smart meter data to measure energy usage. Recurve makes software for contractors who audit homes to increase energy efficiency and perform remodeling and construction services. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Mill Valley, California.

Think Global

Venture Round in 2010
Think Global has been developing and producing urban mobility solutions since the early 1990s. Major investments made during the Ford ownership period contributed to an important infrastructural upgrade. New investors are now grooming Think as The Car Company of the 21st Century."

EcoFactor

Series A in 2010
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.

Enphase Energy

Venture Round in 2010
Enphase Energy brings a system-based, high-tech approach to solar energy, leveraging expertise in semiconductor integration, power electronics, and networking technologies to continually advance the performance, intelligence, and reliability of solar energy systems. Enphase's vision is to make solar simple and energy smart so everyone is empowered to create a zero-energy footprint for themselves, their home, and their business. Their mission is to build the world's finest networked energy system and revolutionize power generation on a global scale - one solar panel, a one-kilowatt hour at a time. Enphase Energy products make solar power systems productive, reliable, smart, and safe, increasing the energy harvest of solar panels by up to 25 percent.

Qnovo

Seed Round in 2010
Qnovo is redefining the foundation of mobility and technology for a more resilient and mobile future—the lithium-ion battery. Since 2010, Qnovo has enabled the electrification revolution with its intelligent battery management software and predictive analytics that improves the performance of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and consumer devices with enhanced health and safety. Qnovo is working with the world’s top automotive OEMs, holds over 50 patents in the space, and the first generation of Qnovo technology is on more than 150 million smartphones worldwide. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California. Its investors include BorgWarner, OGCI Climate Investments, Constellation Technology Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and RockPort Capital. Visit www.qnovo.com.

Achates Power

Series B in 2010
Achates Power specializes in the fields of combustion engine development, clean diesel, and 2-stroke oil control management. It is focused on applying its proven technical know-how and expertise, coupled with the industry's leading-edge testing, simulation, and analysis tools.

Achates Power

Series A in 2009
Achates Power specializes in the fields of combustion engine development, clean diesel, and 2-stroke oil control management. It is focused on applying its proven technical know-how and expertise, coupled with the industry's leading-edge testing, simulation, and analysis tools.

Advanced Electron Beams

Series C in 2009
AEB's compact electron beam emitters replace thermal and chemical processes for cleaner, more efficient, lower-cost manufacturing. For industries such as pharmaceutical, medical devices, food and beverage, printing, and plastics manufacturing, AEB emitters sterilize products and packaging, improve the performance of plastics and other materials, cure inks and coatings and eliminate pollution.

Enphase Energy

Venture Round in 2009
Enphase Energy brings a system-based, high-tech approach to solar energy, leveraging expertise in semiconductor integration, power electronics, and networking technologies to continually advance the performance, intelligence, and reliability of solar energy systems. Enphase's vision is to make solar simple and energy smart so everyone is empowered to create a zero-energy footprint for themselves, their home, and their business. Their mission is to build the world's finest networked energy system and revolutionize power generation on a global scale - one solar panel, a one-kilowatt hour at a time. Enphase Energy products make solar power systems productive, reliable, smart, and safe, increasing the energy harvest of solar panels by up to 25 percent.

Southwest Windpower

Series C in 2009
Southwest Windpower has been designing and distributing small wind turbines since 1987 and is the recognized global leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of small wind systems. A pioneer in wind technology development, Southwest Windpower has built and shipped more than 180,000 wind turbines to over 120 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colo., the company manufactures in Flagstaff, Ariz. and has operations in Cologne, Germany. The mission of Southwest Windpower is to be a global leader as a responsible designer, producer and provider of wind turbines up to 40kW, offering wind products chosen by customers for their quality, focused technology, performance, reliability, aesthetics, quietness, simplicity and lowest cost of energy.

Lilliputian Systems

Series D in 2009
Lilliputian Systems provides mobile power solutions for consumer electronics devices. The company aims to revolutionize mobile fuel, ushering in new applications and devices made possible by their technology.

Solyndra

Series E in 2008
Solyndra is a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California. Solyndra designs and manufactures photovoltaic systems, comprised of panels and mounting hardware, for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra employs high volume manufacturing based on proven technologies and processes to meet the needs of the global solar market. Using proprietary cylindrical modules and thin-film technology, Solyndra systems are designed to provide the lowest installed cost per system and the highest solar electrical energy output for typical low slope commercial rooftops. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Fremont, California, Solyndra operates a state-of-the-art 300,000 square foot fully-automated manufacturing complex.

Project Frog

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco, California, Project Frog develops component buildings that assemble easily onsite, giving architects and builders a fast and cost-effective way to create beautiful and energy-efficient buildings. Project Frog is on a mission is to revolutionize the way buildings are created by applying technology to overcome the inefficiencies of traditional construction. The company’s approach results in a structure that is measurable greener and significantly smarter, creating brighter, healthier spaces that inspire better performance by the people who occupy them. The versatile ecosystem of products adapt to all kinds of uses including: healthcare, education and retail.

Gazelle

Series B in 2008
Gazelle is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used electronic gadgets. They pay cash for used smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops and then inspect, certify them, and sell them to consumers looking for a cost-effective way to stay connected. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations in Louisville, Kentucky.

Northern Power Systems

Series A in 2008
Northern Power Systems has been delivering innovative wind energy solutions in a changing landscape for over 34 years. Their partnerships with the Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have helped lay the foundation for Northern's advanced wind turbine technology. From Alaska to Malaysia, Their installed base of turbines has logged millions of kilowatt-hours of production to date, demonstrating their commitment to performance and reliability.

Recurve

Series A in 2008
Recurve is an open-source SaaS platform and tools that help utilities leverage their smart meter data to measure energy usage. Recurve makes software for contractors who audit homes to increase energy efficiency and perform remodeling and construction services. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Mill Valley, California.

Deerpath Energy

Venture Round in 2008
Deerpath Energy, Inc. is a full service provider of micro-wind energy systems that integrate beautifully into a community. Using their proprietary siting techniques, elegant designs, and state-of-the-art technologies, Deerpath creates renewable energy projects that save money and make a positive impact on the local environment.

Hycrete

Series C in 2008
Hycrete products make concrete waterproof, by reducing absorption of water and dissolved salts into the concrete and by forming a protective layer over reinforcing steel. Built on a foundation of corporate and environmental responsibility, Hycrete takes ownership of innovating solutions to the biggest challenges of the world’s most widely used building material. They believe that sustainable construction practices should go hand-in-hand with solutions that yield meaningful cost benefits, simplify and speed assembly, and create more durable structures. And their green concrete products deliver on that.

Eka Systems

Series D in 2008
Eka Systems builds energy data communications networks that enable energy management and utility operations. Eka is a global manufacturer and supplier of self-managing smart networks that offer utilities monitoring and control of metering and data for electric, water, and gas.

Aspen Aerogels

Series D in 2008
Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range of consumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gears, apparel, and footwear products.

Soliant Energy

Venture Round in 2008
Soliant Energy was founded in 2005 by a small group of former NASA engineers with the goal of providing the best solar solution for commercial rooftops. Today, Soliant is driven by an experienced management team focused on flawless execution and a highly innovative technical team with expertise from the automotive, semiconductor, and photovoltaic industries. The Soliant difference is a product that is engineered specifically for the demands of the commercial rooftop by a team that is uniquely qualified to deliver a reliable and cost-effective solution. Soliant is backed by a group of world-class investors including GE Energy Financial Services, Trinity Ventures, Convexa, Nth Power, Rockport Capital Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners. In 2007, Soliant was chosen by the US Department of Energy as a Technology Pathway Partner. Soliant has focused exclusively on commercial rooftops in hot, dry and sunny locations where Soliant provides the greatest amount of solar electricity in the smallest footprint. This is enabled by concentrating multi-junction cell technology together with integrated dual-axis tracking. The patent-protected design includes features that appeal to the large, existing channel of solar integrators, installers, and PPAs. A Soliant rooftop provides outstanding payback.

EcoSMART Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
EcoSMART Technologies, the world leader in safe pesticide solutions, is a venture-backed company with patented technology and a world-class management team. Our mission is to create the world’s safest, most effective pesticides based on natural ingredients. We have 15 years of scientific research and a wealth of patents behind us. We make the only 100% safe insecticide that is proven to work. We offer the only complete line of EPA exempt pesticides sold in the US. EcoSMART was the first company to apply modern science to essential plant oils — creating the first 100% safe pesticides. Our products are based on the natural defenses that plants and trees have used for their self protection against insects and pathogens for millenia – essential oils. University research has shown that these oils attack octopamine neuro-receptors. Octopamine is a key insect neurotransmitter that regulates insect movement, behavior and metabolism. The blockage of the receptor activity prevents the transmission of the octopamine signals, which delivers quick knock down, kill and repellency against a wide variety of household pests such as cockroaches, ants, dust mites, flies, wasps, spiders, crickets, and fleas. Our blends of natural plant oils are every bit as effective as synthetic chemicals, killing bugs fast without any toxins or harmful residues.

PPT Reasearch

Series B in 2008
PPT developed proprietary chemistry and process technology that enables cost-effective slurry management for the solar, semiconductor, and optical industries. The Company's initial focus is outsourcing slurry management used to slice silicon ingots into wafers for use in photovoltaic cells, integrated circuits, and fiber optics.

NanoGram

Series C in 2008
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturing supply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea.

Lilliputian Systems

Series C in 2007
Lilliputian Systems provides mobile power solutions for consumer electronics devices. The company aims to revolutionize mobile fuel, ushering in new applications and devices made possible by their technology.

Tioga Energy

Series A in 2007
Tioga Energy accelerates access to clean energy by owning and operating renewable energy facilities for commercial, government and non-profit organizations. With a Tioga Energy solar PPA (power purchase agreement) customers eliminate up-front capital investments and ongoing operational concerns. The company partners with trusted industry experts to install and operate efficient and reliable systems. Through deep, trusted relationships with solar industry partners, Tioga Energy provides simple, reliable, low-cost and long-term access to clean energy options without the risk of up-front capital investments or the ongoing commitments of owning and operating an independent solar facility.

Eka Systems

Series C in 2007
Eka Systems builds energy data communications networks that enable energy management and utility operations. Eka is a global manufacturer and supplier of self-managing smart networks that offer utilities monitoring and control of metering and data for electric, water, and gas.

Think Global

Series B in 2007
Think Global has been developing and producing urban mobility solutions since the early 1990s. Major investments made during the Ford ownership period contributed to an important infrastructural upgrade. New investors are now grooming Think as The Car Company of the 21st Century."

Tioga Energy

Series A in 2007
Tioga Energy accelerates access to clean energy by owning and operating renewable energy facilities for commercial, government and non-profit organizations. With a Tioga Energy solar PPA (power purchase agreement) customers eliminate up-front capital investments and ongoing operational concerns. The company partners with trusted industry experts to install and operate efficient and reliable systems. Through deep, trusted relationships with solar industry partners, Tioga Energy provides simple, reliable, low-cost and long-term access to clean energy options without the risk of up-front capital investments or the ongoing commitments of owning and operating an independent solar facility.

Southwest Windpower

Series B in 2007
Southwest Windpower has been designing and distributing small wind turbines since 1987 and is the recognized global leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of small wind systems. A pioneer in wind technology development, Southwest Windpower has built and shipped more than 180,000 wind turbines to over 120 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colo., the company manufactures in Flagstaff, Ariz. and has operations in Cologne, Germany. The mission of Southwest Windpower is to be a global leader as a responsible designer, producer and provider of wind turbines up to 40kW, offering wind products chosen by customers for their quality, focused technology, performance, reliability, aesthetics, quietness, simplicity and lowest cost of energy.

Advanced Electron Beams

Series B in 2007
AEB's compact electron beam emitters replace thermal and chemical processes for cleaner, more efficient, lower-cost manufacturing. For industries such as pharmaceutical, medical devices, food and beverage, printing, and plastics manufacturing, AEB emitters sterilize products and packaging, improve the performance of plastics and other materials, cure inks and coatings and eliminate pollution.

HydroPoint Data Systems

Series C in 2007
HydroPoint Data Systems develops various irrigation system controllers for residential and commercial landscape applications. HydroPoint is the proven leader in 360° smart water management solutions. HydroPoint's WeatherTRAK solution delivers a multitude of financial and environmental benefits by reducing the greatest area of waste in urban water use: landscape irrigation. Landscapes consume 58% of urban water and are overwatered by 30-to-300%. It was founded in 2002 and is based in Petaluma, California.

EcoSMART Technologies

Series C in 2006
EcoSMART Technologies, the world leader in safe pesticide solutions, is a venture-backed company with patented technology and a world-class management team. Our mission is to create the world’s safest, most effective pesticides based on natural ingredients. We have 15 years of scientific research and a wealth of patents behind us. We make the only 100% safe insecticide that is proven to work. We offer the only complete line of EPA exempt pesticides sold in the US. EcoSMART was the first company to apply modern science to essential plant oils — creating the first 100% safe pesticides. Our products are based on the natural defenses that plants and trees have used for their self protection against insects and pathogens for millenia – essential oils. University research has shown that these oils attack octopamine neuro-receptors. Octopamine is a key insect neurotransmitter that regulates insect movement, behavior and metabolism. The blockage of the receptor activity prevents the transmission of the octopamine signals, which delivers quick knock down, kill and repellency against a wide variety of household pests such as cockroaches, ants, dust mites, flies, wasps, spiders, crickets, and fleas. Our blends of natural plant oils are every bit as effective as synthetic chemicals, killing bugs fast without any toxins or harmful residues.

Southwest Windpower

Series B in 2006
Southwest Windpower has been designing and distributing small wind turbines since 1987 and is the recognized global leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of small wind systems. A pioneer in wind technology development, Southwest Windpower has built and shipped more than 180,000 wind turbines to over 120 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colo., the company manufactures in Flagstaff, Ariz. and has operations in Cologne, Germany. The mission of Southwest Windpower is to be a global leader as a responsible designer, producer and provider of wind turbines up to 40kW, offering wind products chosen by customers for their quality, focused technology, performance, reliability, aesthetics, quietness, simplicity and lowest cost of energy.

NanoGram

Venture Round in 2006
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturing supply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea.

Lilliputian Systems

Venture Round in 2005
Lilliputian Systems provides mobile power solutions for consumer electronics devices. The company aims to revolutionize mobile fuel, ushering in new applications and devices made possible by their technology.

Aspen Aerogels

Series D in 2005
Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range of consumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gears, apparel, and footwear products.

NanoGram

Series B in 2004
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturing supply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea.

NeoPhotonics

Series B in 2004
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

Aspen Aerogels

Series C in 2003
Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range of consumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gears, apparel, and footwear products.

Pionetics

Series B in 2003
Pionetics is an innovative water technology company that develops smart water treatment products that produce great tasting, safe drinking water with less wastewater than traditional water treatment systems. Pionetics is privately owned and financially backed by Kline Hawkes & Co, NGEN Partners, and Unilever Technology Ventures Fund.
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