Israel Cleantech Ventures
Israel Cleantech Ventures is an Israeli specialized venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Glen Schwaber, Jack Levy, and Meir Ukeles. It was the first Israel focused clean technology venture capital fund intent on providing growth capital to Israel's energy, water and environmental technology sectors. It raised $75 million for its first fund in 2007 from investors that included Robeco and Piper Jaffray as well as institutional investors and family offices.
Projects
- Aqwise - Working on increased treatment capacity and nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants.
- Better Place - California-based company founded in October 2007 by Shai Agassi that aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles.
- CellEra - Working on disruptive low-temperature fuel cell technology.
- CRE (Citrine Renewable Energy) - Developing systems which convert biogas into high value biomethane.
- Emefcy - Utilizing microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology to produce electricity from the treatment of wastewater.
- Pythagoras Solar - Founded by Gonen Fink, Dr. Itay Baruchi, and Precede Technologies. Based in Hakfar Hayarok with an office in San Mateo, California, the start-up works with photovoltaic technology and builds "Medium" concentration solar cells using silicon.
- Metrolight - Based in Netanya with an office in Franklin, Tennessee; the company has established products on electronic ballast solutions for HID lighting systems. It was 2008 Israeli Company of the Year at the Eagle Star Awards Gala by the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.
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