The Cleantech Group itself recently announced a partnership with the National Venture Capital Association, an Arlington, Va.
Most of the sectors tracked by the Cleantech Group saw fewer deals in 2012 than in 2011.
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The number of early-stage deals has dropped to the lowest level since 2008, according to Cleantech Group.
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According to the Cleantech Group, only 2% of global institutional venture capital was focused on smart water investments.
In fact, I recently returned from a Water Innovation Summit in Berkley that was hosted by the Cleantech Group.
"The financial instruments for the high-tech market cycle don't work as well in cleantech, " says Cleantech Group Managing Partner John Balbach.
Recently, the San Francisco-based Cleantech Group, convened top investors, utility executives, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and public sector leaders for a Water Innovation Summit.
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Greg Neichin, executive vice president of Cleantech Group, gave a positive spin to the declining amount of venture capital when he discussed the first-quarter investments on Friday.
"This is ultimately going to be a political process, " said Ron Bloom, a former Lazard investment banker now with the United Steelworkers union, before the September Cleantech Group gathering.
Global green tech investments tumbled in 2012, but a few sectors, such as water and agriculture, attracted a greater interest from investors than the year before, according to market data released by the Cleantech Group on Thursday.
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But SolarCity's stock has more than doubled in trading since its IPO, a market performance that has helped ease some investor worries about the clean-technology sector, said Sheeraz Haji, chief executive of consulting firm Cleantech Group in San Francisco.
In a sharply worded analysis that will cause fear and trembling in the U.S. cleantech industry, a group of three research and policy organizations have produced a report saying that a cleantech collapse is imminent in this country unless subsidies, incentives, and federal policies are extended and reformed.
Global revenues from clean tech businesses--including air and water purification, advanced materials, distributed power generation, renewable energy, and process controls, such as sensors to monitor air and water--now surpass 85 billion pounds, according to the Cleantech Venture Network, a for-profit membership group that connects venture and institutional investors with entrepreneurs.
The new Cleantech industry has a firm footing in Michigan, and in fact the thought leaders in the world, the Cleantech Venture Network based just north of Ann Arbor, is the group holding conferences all over the world (U.S., China, Toronto, Germany, France) to create financial markets for this new industry.
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