📢 Boston innovators: Catch CEV Managing Partner David Miller next week at the MIT Energy Conference, where he’ll join speakers from ARPA-E, Kraken, and Renew Home to weigh in on the value of building industry relationships and crafting compelling messaging on the “Communicating Climate to Investors, Regulators, and Industry” panel on March 3. If you’re still around later in the week, David will also be attending the MIT Climate & Energy Prize semifinals on March 7 alongside CEV portfolio Transaera, Inc. CEO Sorin Grama. Take a peek at the agenda for next week: https://lnkd.in/ewcsNDPP
Clean Energy Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Boston, MA 32,617 followers
Investing in companies that can substantially reduce greenhouse gases associated with the production or use of energy.
About us
Clean Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in companies commercializing disruptive advanced energy technologies and business model innovations that can achieve significant scale by taking advantage of market-driven forces to address global climate disruption. The firms’ principals have been investing in, supporting and mentoring early-stage clean energy startups together since 2005, and work with a deep bench of Venture Partners who, together with the Principals, represent more than 300 years of combined clean energy operating and investing experience. Additional information is available at: https://www.cleanenergyventures.com.
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https://www.CleanEnergyVentures.com
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 11-50 employees
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- Boston, MA
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- Partnership
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- 2017
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- Clean Energy, Climate Mitigation, Startups, Innovative Finance, and Clean Tech
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Congrats to CEV portfolio SparkMeter on teaming up with Honeywell to offer on-demand grid insights to one of the largest US electric co-ops, SECO Energy (Sumter Electric Cooperative). 🎉 U.S. utilities have been hard-pressed to manage the load growth from data centers, EVs and extreme weather conditions on the grid. Through SparkMeter and Honeywell, utilities can now turn all data into actionable insights, enabling them to detect and prepare for outages and maximize their investment in AMI and other financial and operational systems. Congrats to Daniel Schnitzer, Stan McHann and the entire SparkMeter team! More on how SparkMeter is bringing never-before-seen AI-driven insights to utilities ⬇️
SparkMeter is excited to announce that one of the U.S.’s largest electric co-ops, SECO Energy (Sumter Electric Cooperative), has signed on as the largest utility yet to leverage SparkMeter’s Praxis platform and GridScan and GridFin applications, which provides on-demand insights and analysis to automate and modernize grid assets. Delivered in partnership with Honeywell, the SparkMeter solutions that Honeywell Forge Performance+ For Utilities allow SECO Energy to maximize their investment not only in AMI but also their other financial and operational systems. Through SparkMeter’s Praxis platform, all this data is now in one platform designed to analyze utility engineering, financial, and operational data. Central Florida-based SECO Energy is home to a booming EV and residential solar market, as well as new home construction putting immense pressure on the grid. SparkMeter’s GridFin application will replace a multitude of spreadsheets and manual calculations that SECO Energy runs on everything from supplier bills to customer usage to rate structures. On grid management, GridScan is enabling monitoring of transformers, lines, and distributed solar contribution to support better decision-making around asset allocation as load growth soars. "Our partnership with Honeywell transforms how utilities approach the energy transition," said Daniel Schnitzer, CEO of SparkMeter. "By providing continuous monitoring of grid assets and on-demand financial analyses, we're enabling utilities like SECO to make data-driven decisions that improve reliability and manage costs during this critical industry transition." More on how utilities are leveraging the platform for on-demand decision-making: http://bit.ly/3CZ3kIh
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Our team members from the East Coast, West Coast and Europe recently gathered in the snowy mountains of Vermont for our annual retreat, where we hit the slopes in between strategizing for growth in the next year. ❄️⛷✨ We’re energized about what's to come in the next 12 months, and can’t wait to unveil exciting news in the next few weeks.
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Making history at CEV: We’re announcing our first investment in the plastics recycling industry with MacroCycle Technologies, a developer of a novel PET & polyester textile waste upcycling technology. 👏 Today, 85% of global plastics are disposed of in our landfills and waterways, or are incinerated. Outperforming current recycling methods, MacroCycle’s technology is cost-effective and requires 80% less energy to upgrade plastic waste into its previous high-quality form. Congrats Stwart Peña Feliz and Jan-Georg Rosenboom and the entire MacroCycle team on your funding! We’re looking forward to supporting MacroCycle’s growth alongside our incredible co-investors Volta Circle, KdT Ventures and Neotribe Ventures. More on how MacroCycle is creating circular supply chains for waste-intense industries: https://lnkd.in/e_ueWTPv
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With AI in the spotlight, the U.S. needs more grid innovation to power the growth in data centers. Luckily, companies like CEV portfolio LineVision are already working to enable cables to carry more power – one of the biggest bottlenecks in delivering electricity. Through their sensors, LineVision provides real-time data on windspeeds and cable sag, which signals utilities when a cable is cool. An inside look into how it's already working: LineVision installed 11 sensors across a 35-kilometer section of the UK’s grid, which saved National Grid $17.5 million in 2022 alone by increasing power capacity by 19%. More from Bloomberg on how LineVision and other grid technologies are ramping up ahead of AI’s energy demand: https://lnkd.in/dCnU8Frr
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CEV Investment Partner Yi Jean Chow took the stage at Cleantech Group’s annual North America Forum alongside U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Kristen Frick and EarthGrid PBC CEO Troy Helming to unpack how we can bolster the grid amid unprecedented load growth. Incredible insights from this year’s conference amid a volatile and evolving market – a huge thank you to Cleantech Forum for having us!
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Shout out to CEV Impact Manager Saurabh Kumar, who was featured in the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business’s annual report for his passion and work in advancing sustainability goals. At CEV, Saurabh’s passion for sustainability has been evident in his work to expand our efforts to evaluate, monitor and improve impact and ESG within our firm and across our portfolio. Check out the full feature: https://lnkd.in/eFtWaXJF
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Don’t miss Greenly | Certified B Corp’s 2025 Summit in New York next week, where investors across the climate industry will gather to discuss strategies for climate compliance, innovation & leadership. We’ve been proud to work with Greenly as part of tracking, measuring and mitigating our carbon emissions and are looking forward to connecting at the event.
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Next week, catch CEV Investment Partner Yi Jean Chow at Cleantech Group's North America Forum, where she’ll join leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and EarthGrid PBC on a panel discussion around short-term and long-term solutions to strengthen the grid amid unprecedented load growth. See what the world’s energy leaders are unpacking next week in San Diego: https://lnkd.in/eTyxHZYu
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CEV Managing Partner David Miller spoke on the New England Venture Summit’s “The Changing Venture World" panel, where he shared his outlook on the challenges and opportunities facing the future of venture capital, and how aspiring VCs can unlock inventive investment opportunities. Thank you to youngStartup Ventures for hosting us at the conference! We loved meeting and speaking with all of the companies shaping the future of tomorrow.
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