Tagged: clean energy

July 26, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rainbow Energy says they have some updates for their business customers. They are now working with Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), which claims to be the leading platform for small business loans, as a trusted partner in order “to help small businesses get the infrastructure in… Read More

February 5, 2023 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sunstone Credit, Inc., a technology-enabled clean energy financing platform that helps businesses go solar, announced an oversubscribed $20 million Series A funding round. The investment round was “led by an affiliated fund of Greenbacker Capital Management LLC, which provides flexible capital and best-in-class guidance for… Read More

January 23, 2022 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SOLIVUS, a company that’s on a mission to power mega-buildings and homes with clean energy “generated on-site using new thin-film solar, overcoming weight and aesthetic challenges,” has acquired 306% (£1,531,428) of its £500,000 target from 1455 investors (at the time of writing) through its crowdfunding… Read More

October 10, 2021 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Viridi Funds, a registered investment advisor and emerging asset manager offering environmentally-focused cryptocurrency investment products, reveals that the Viridi Cleaner Energy Crypto-Mining & Semiconductor ETF (NYSE: RIGZ) achieved the milestone of $10 million in AUM. Adding to Viridi’s steady growth, it has also hired Cameron… Read More

March 30, 2020 @ 2:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fully Charged Show, a YouTube channel dedicated to “the future of energy and transport,” has quickly secured its initial 500,000 funding target on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. Launched in 2010 by by TV personality, Robert Llewellyn, Fully Charged reportedly averages more than three million monthly… Read More

January 22, 2018 @ 2:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wello, a Finnish clean energy company that provides a wave energy based solution called the Wello Penguin, has successfully secured its minimum €1 million funding target on equity crowdfunding platform Invesdor thanks to more than 275 investors. As previously reported, Wello, which was founded by Heikki Paakkinen, stated it… Read More

December 28, 2017 @ 10:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wello, a Finnish clean energy company that provides a wave energy based solution called the Wello Penguin, is now looking to raise a minimum of €1 million (max of €2 million) through its equity crowdfunding round on Invesdor. Founded by Heikki Paakkinen, Wello revealed that with commitment… Read More

July 31, 2017 @ 1:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian clean energy fintech company CoPower Inc. announced on Monday it has secured $2 million in equity financing to further scale its successful investment platform. The round was led by Fondaction CSN, a Montreal-based pension fund and included other existing shareholders such as the Royal… Read More

October 8, 2015 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

CoPower, an investment crowdfunding platform that targets the clean energy sector, has announced that it has raised $850,000 in seed financing led by RBC and Innovation Support. The company has been in operation for several years and has helped to raise over $1 million in… Read More

April 9, 2014 @ 2:55 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Ashden Awards take place every year and recognize leaders in a collective effort to reduce carbon emissions and affect ecology in a positive way. This year, UK-based Abundance Generation has been named a finalist for the award for their work in funding and financing… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 6:43 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Mosaic has teamed with The Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA) and Sungage Financial in a $5 million deal to offer homeowners crowdsourced loans for solar installations. This partnership is creating an entirely new ecosystem for solar financing in which individuals can take part in and… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 12:52 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Abundance Generation is claiming a record for a crowdfunding campaign in the green energy space after a recent project raised £214,000 in just four days according to BusinessGreen. Renewable Energy Generation launched the project, dubbed REG High Down. The wind installation comprised of a single… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Saying a web site is the Match.com or Airbnb of some niche has become a bit clichè, but in the case of Geostellar it is probably most apt to call it the Kayak of solar installations. Part search engine and part matchmaking service, Geostellar aims… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mosaic President Billy Parish appeared on Bloomberg West to talk about Mosaic’s business model and their unique approach to funding solar projects. To date, Mosaic has facilitated $5.6 million in solar projects with zero defaults and 100% on-time payments. Pretty incredible for an investment that… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 1:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK-based renewable energy crowdfunding platform Abundance Generation has announced a partnership with CCgroup. CCgroup is a UK-based PR agency with an embedded cleantech department. That department has reportedly been briefed on Abundance Generation’s model and will help in publicizing investment opportunities on the platform. CCgroup… Read More

December 14, 2013 @ 2:39 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Abundance Generation’s Conor Bishop took to the company blog to share details of a recent survey enacted by Abundance Generation and market research firm One Poll. According to the poll, the following five categories of investment represented areas that UK investors were most interested… Property… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CNN Money | How IBM bypasses bureaucratic purgatory IBM has an in-house crowdfunding platform that they use to allow employees to vet and evaluate their colleagues’ ideas. It’s an effort to “improve the way we do things internally” according to the head of IBM’s CIO… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK alternative energy crowdfunding platform Abundance shared the preceding trailer on their blog this week. The trailer is for an upcoming documentary called Transforming Finance. The film is sponsored by The Finance Innovation Lab and aims to “inspire a financial system that sustains people and planet.”… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 11:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

I was feeling a little festive yesterday and didn’t get to a roundup, so we’re making up for it today with a big roundup of things we’ve found throughout the week. My turkey coma has thankfully worn off. Forbes | Britain’s Crowdfunders Plot World Domination… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BackerKit Blog | 2014 is the Year of the Crowdfunding Hero, and she’s got new tools in her belt. BackerKit is a service for crowdfunding project creators that “helps you manage your post-crowdfunding mayhem so that you can deliver on time.” They’ve seen a few… Read More