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September 24, 2009
There was some excitement in the mainstream media last July about the demonstration by US firm Witricity of a wireless power device at the TED Global conference in Oxford, UK.
No-one here has had a close look at this particular product, so we can't add any insight beyond what's been reported. What we have seen over the past year though, are all kinds of innovations aimed at the portable power market. There's huge demand, yet with their limited lifespan and toxic ingredients, existing batteries are not the optimum solution. Many innovators are trying to address this issue, in a variety of ways.
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July 24, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's "Venture Capital Dispatch" blog has a brief piece about some of the venture investment being directed towards the efficient lighting sector, which is currently dominated by Light Emitting Diode (LED) technologies.
The article quotes some enticing numbers, with Marc van den Berg of VantagePoint Venture Partners estimating that the LED market will grow from its 2008 size of $5 billion to reach around ten times that by 2020.
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July 17, 2009
You may have read earlier this year that the search giant Google has launched a $100 million venture capital fund called, appropriately enough, Google Ventures.
The part of the announcement that caught our eye related to how they're planning to do the technical due diligence on the investment opportunities that they identify:
"The company will look to its employees to help evaluate both specific start-ups and investment areas in general"From the outside, this sounds like a risky strategy; in our experience, using internal expertise for technical due diligence is often a mistake. Pulling an engineer from his or her day job to consult on an investment opportunity has a lot of potential to cause problems. Read the rest of this entry » |
