Benjamin Kuo’s Blog

We just posted an interview I did with Bill Gross of Idealab
this morning. There are a surprising number of clean technology and energy related companies hiding here in Southern California: Altra Biofuels, Clipper Windpower, Earthanol, Energy Innovations, eSolar, Fallbrook Technologies, Oryxe Energy, Transonic Combusion, Soliant Energy, Stirling Cycles, Sunpower Systems, Vycon, Gevo, NanoH2O and Zinc Matrix Power, just to mention a few. Vinod Khosla (via Khosla Ventures) is fairly active in investing in firms in the clean energy space here, having funded NanoH2O, Transonic Combusion, Gevo, and Altra Biofuels; so is Rustic Canyon, with investments in Transonic and US Renewables (headed by Jim McDermott of Stamps.com)–itself an investor in biofuel and clean energy projects. Idealab’s companies are Energy Innovations, Stirling Cycles, eSolar and Aptera Motors. NGEN Partners, a major investor in the space nationwide, is located in Santa Barbara.

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