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Back in the months leading up to the general election there was a lot of hand wringing about whether public/private partnerships in the renewables sector made sense.  Failed solar company Solyndra became a political lightening…

Great piece by the Washington Times (full article here) on DBL Partners’ portfolio company Ecoscraps. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3, 2013 – Waste is rampant in our society. Americans produce over 200 million tons of trash…

Big news for DBL Partners’ portfolio company Ecoscraps:  Now you can find Ecoscraps 100 percent all organic potting soil at any of Target’s more than 1700 stores across the United States!  What a fantastic validation…

The debate over net metered solar is getting louder and more spirited, as utilities resist efforts to remove caps on how much energy solar customers can return to their grid.  New reports, like the one…

The car business is famous for incentives.  Now Honda, one of the first and most innovative EV makers , is teaming up with SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) on a unique incentive to bring low- or no-cost…

DBL Partners’ Managing Partner Nancy Pfund is quoted in this Fierce Energy piece about the recent American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) policy forum brainstorming session.  Industry analysts and others with interests in the renewables…

DBL Partners’ Managing Partner, Nancy Pfund and co-author Katie Plichta landed in today’s RenewableEnergy.com with a timely byline in support of clean-energy subsidies.  Energy initiatives have been a staple in our country’s growth for more…

While the Valley tends to get much of the media’s attention when it comes to California’s innovation culture, there’s a lot to be said for the East Bay when it comes to high flying tech…

DBL Partners’ Managing Partner Nancy Pfund placed an article in today’s San Jose Mercury News.  The link to the piece is here.  The content is recreated below. When I took home my new Tesla Model…

That’s what employees of Internet music and DBL portfolio company Pandora are giving kids in Oakland, California schools.  Why would a VC firm encourage its investment companies to do this?  To show how companies with…

Brad Mattson is CEO of Solexant, a DBL portfolio solar startup.  He is also a renowned entrepreneur from the semiconductor industry. Starting at Applied Materials, he later founded and scaled both Novellus and Mattson Technology,…