Tagged: solar

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

August 23, 2021 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lending data platform dv01 has partnered with GoodLeap, a point-of-sale platform for sustainable home solutions, to enable greater data transparency within the solar asset-backed securities (ABS) market, according to a release. dv01 will be serving as Loan Data Agent (LDA) for Carbon Level Mitigation… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 3:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT) has announced the launch of solar panel financing along with installation for consumers. Rocket is best known for its digital mortgage process. Citing research that indicates solar energy installations are supposed to quadruple by 2030, Rocket sees an opportunity to provide… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Solfácil, a solar Fintech based in Brazil, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by top Fintech VC QED Investors. According to a note from Solfácil, the round is the largest venture capital injection in the distributed solar sector in Brazil.  Existing… Read More

April 15, 2021 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Solar investment marketplace Trine is reporting that a debt offering seeking €750 000 closed in just 5 hours, the fastest loan funded through Trine’s impact investment platform to date. The investment platform said that the debt financing for Redavia, a firm offering solar farms to… Read More

January 14, 2021 @ 9:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Solivus, a UK-based startup that designs and creates solar products for the home and bespoke solar solutions for businesses, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with £1.26 million secured. The funding round, which made its debut last month, originally sought to raise… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 9:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Solivus, a UK-based startup that designs and creates solar products for the home and bespoke solar solutions for businesses, has secured more than £840,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The funding round, which quickly secured its initial £500,000, has attracted nearly 650 Seedrs investors…. Read More

December 13, 2020 @ 10:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Solivus, a UK-based startup that designs and creates solar products for the home and bespoke solar solutions for businesses, has successfully secured more than £670,000 in funding through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The funding round recently made its debut, originally seeking £500,000…. Read More

October 7, 2020 @ 12:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Dividend Finance Inc., a U.S.-based fintech that specializes in point-of-sale lending to solar and home improvement contractors, announced on Wednesday the launch of a new technology platform. Founded in 2013, Dividend claims it is a leading national provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient financing… Read More

August 13, 2020 @ 10:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Loanpal, a U.S.-based residential solar financing provider, announced on Thursday it has joined forces with Blackstone (NYSE: BX), through funds managed or advised by GSO Capital Partners, to invest in up to $300 million of residential solar loans originated and serviced on the Loanpal… Read More

January 14, 2020 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-headquartered Power Ledger, a blockchain-based energy solutions provider, has reportedly acquired a 250 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic system that will use a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-powered data management and settlement platform. According to a press release, Power Ledger acquired the system from Perdaman Advanced Energy, an… Read More

October 9, 2018 @ 3:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Investment platform Downing Crowd has launched a ‘7-day access’ bond which will invest a further £2.5 million for renewable energy generation and reserve power company, Bagnall Energy.  More than £201,4854 has already been secured for the raise which will close on Halloween morning. “The renewable energy… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 7:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Downing Crowd, a debt based crowdfunding platform that focuses on the renewable energy sector, has listed a series of solar investments by Populo Energy for projects in East Anglia and Norwich. The offering is for a £6.25 million bond for Populo Energy that will allow… Read More

June 16, 2018 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neoen, an independent green energy producer, and WiSEED, a European crowdfunding platform, have  inked an agreement to partner on funding of renewable energy projects in France. The very first offering is to raise money for a solar energy project located at a former coal mining… Read More

October 30, 2017 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Enerwhere, the “world’s first” distributed solar utility company, has become the region’s largest equity crowdfunding round. Listed on Eureeca, Enerwhere has already seen almost $700,000 committed. Eureeca is the first multi-regulated global Equity Crowdfunding platform based in MENA. Chris Thomas, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Eureeca, commented; “The… Read More

October 30, 2017 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

PeerIQ, a leading provider of loan-level analytics that is big into the alternative finance space, has partnered with  Mosaic on a $307 million loan securitization. Mosaic is a leader in the solar financing sector. Launching as a peer to peer lender, Mosaic has shifted into… Read More

October 15, 2017 @ 5:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Geostellar successfully crowdfunded on Republic last week and became the most funded campaign on the platform to date. According to the campaign page, Geostellar attracted the support of 729 investors who invested $325,308 on a minimum goal of $50,000. Geostellar is a platform that is… Read More

June 8, 2017 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowd4Climate.org, a crowdfunding platform for climate protection projects in developing countries, has successfully funded its second project since the launch of the platform in November 2016. A Mobile solar power plant, Africa GmbH & Co. KG from Germany, collected more than €170,000 for a mobile… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 2:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Lumo and Oneplanetcrowd have joined together to crowdfund a solar project located near Perpignan in the South West of France.  Lumo is a France-based crowdfunding platform. Oneplanetcrowd is operating out of the Netherlands. The two platforms were said to have jointly developed a solution to overcome… Read More

April 3, 2017 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Berlin-based ecoligo, a crowdfunding startup for solar projects in emerging markets, has opened to investors today with an offer to back a 66 kWp solar installation for a flower farm in Thika, Kenya. ecoligo is seeking a total investment of €107,000 that will fund the… Read More