The art of closing deals before holiday deadlines is a fine one, explains our columnist Tom Whitehouse, head of the London Environmental Investment Forum.
Author: Tom Whitehouse
The clean deal: Four things I learned at the GCV Symposium
Our regular columnist Tom Whitehouse reflects on the
Global Corporate Venturing Symposium.
Comment: I’m in effluents – nice to meet you
You know what it is like when you are on a plane or train and you have to do some work but a fellow passenger wants to engage you in conversation. “What brings you to this part of the world?” they ask. “What do you do?” For me, the quickest way to get back to work is to answer: “I am… Continue reading Comment: I’m in effluents – nice to meet you
The clean deal: Basketball and VC hegemony in the US
Tom Whitehouse is disappointed and surprised by the number
of US clean-tech corporate venturing, venture capital and family
office investors that fail to invest in European companies.
The clean deal: Reduce, reuse – and recommerce?
As a younger man in the salad days of my career in clean-tech financing, I frowned slightly on investors that were looking to back information and communication technology (ICT) enabled resource and energy-efficient technology companies. I thought they were not really getting their hands dirty in the gruelling but noble art of long-term capital-intensive… Continue reading The clean deal: Reduce, reuse – and recommerce?
The clean deal: Views from the Texan-Bavarian highway
Regular columnist Tom Whitehouse reflects on his road trips to Bavaria and Texas, and their vastly different approaches to energy.
The clean deal: Nexus opportunities for the new year
There is typically far too much optimism around at this time of the year, says Tom Whitehouse. He offers a contrarian dose of reality with some predictions for the year ahead.
The Clean Deal: Software feeds the world
Tom Whitehouse looks at the importance of software in
agriculture.
Clean Deal: Recycle the minnows
Finding deals is competitive, expensive and difficult, and it is at least half of the job of a venture investor, corporate or financial. Should you follow the crowd or find your own way? Set up shop in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Munich and Singapore, and elbow your way into the best clean deals? Or get off the beaten track, say goodbye to the… Continue reading Clean Deal: Recycle the minnows
The Clean Deal: Mining’s rich vein of clean-tech
The smart metals required by electric vehicles, second generation wind turbines and other clean technologies cannot be downloaded from the iTunes Store. Dysprosium and neodymium have to be extracted from the earths’ crust by mining companies. You may have already known this. My teenage green-minded god-daughter did not. Berating me for my work with the… Continue reading The Clean Deal: Mining’s rich vein of clean-tech
Give credit to cleantech debt
Start-ups should explore venture debt secured against machinery and intellectual property.
The Clean Deal: Yellow&Blue adds up to green investment
Yellow&Blue Investment Management, a Utrecht-based clean energy venture investor founded by the Dutch utility Nuon in 2008, has emerged as one of Europe’s leading investors in smart grid, renewable and energy-efficient technology companies. Its managing director, Albert Fischer, has clear views about how utilities should do corporate venturing, which he describes as “industrial crowdfunding”. Fischer said: “The key question is how much freedom a utility really… Continue reading The Clean Deal: Yellow&Blue adds up to green investment
Clean Deal: the open innovation approach
If clean deals are to be done, a combination of open innovation, corporate venturing and good old financial venturing are increasingly going to be required.
Water Innovation in Oil and Gas
A LEIF Brief in association with Global Corporate Venturing