KPCB, Khosla, DFJ Top Latest List of Clean-Tech Investors (Energy Priorities)

3Q '07 numbers are out. Deal count is down slightly, but dollars are way up: $2.5 billion. And the year's not over yet. Nationally the most active investor in clean tech was Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which invested $76.8 million. That was followed by Khosla Ventures at $68.4 million and Draper Fisher Jurvetson at $38.5 million.

by Denis Du Bois
November 29, 2007

According to a collaborative report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based upon data from Thomson Financial, venture capitalists invested $2.5 billion in clean tech in the first three quarters of 2007. John Cook at the Seattle P-I, using an advance copy of the report, did the math and said the number could have been higher, but some deals weren't included, for various reasons.

California, Massachusetts and Texas took the top 3 positions. Washington ranks fourth.

That ranking and megadeals at Imperium Renewables ($113 million) notwithstanding, I stand by my grousing last week about the Northwest VC firms' sluggish uptake in clean tech investing.

PricewaterhouseCoopers put a summary of the report data on PWC's Money Tree web site. With the required free registration you can browse the underlying data using a very basic query tool.

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