It’s been a busy, ummm interesting year. We’ve tracked profits to founders and investors of $14 Billion in major global IPOs on US exchanges and $9 Billion in major global M&A exits from venture backed cleantech companies in the last 7-10 years. Money is being made. A lot of money. But wow, not where you’d [...]
It’s December again (how did that happen!?) and our annual time for reflection here at Kachan & Co. So as we close out 2011, let’s look towards what the new year may have in store for cleantech. There are eggshells across the sector for 2012. Global economic uncertainty in particular is leaving some skeptical about [...]
It struck me the other day that I may have been looking at the recent spate of cleantech IPOs backwards. Perhaps instead of lamenting the dearth of profitable healthy companies going public on major exchanges in our sector, what we should be considering is whether early and still risky IPOs mean cleantech venture capitalists are [...]
