News Archive.
East Bay Economic Development Alliance Innovation Awards
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…
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Nancy Pfund: Jerry Brown should not back down on energy standards
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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…
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Can a Double Bottom Line Bring Better Returns?
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…
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The “Real” Birth of the Solar Industry
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,…
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TheGreenJobBank Announces its Top 10 Green Employers of 2012
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The GreenJobBank just came out with its list of the Top 10 Green Employers of 2012. DBL portfolio companies Tesla Motors and SolarCity are one and two on the list! See news release below. SILVER…
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Impact Investing to hit $9 Billion in 2013
Read the full article on Environmental Leader here. Also, full disclosure: DBL Partners is a Founding Network member of the Global Impact Investing Network. Impact investing is expected to grow 12.5 percent to reach $9…
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Boston’s Mayor, Thomas Menino goes Solar
From The Boston Globe. Read the original article here. Mayor Thomas M. Menino has a new source of energy for his home in Readville: solar energy panels, installed by students from Roxbury’s Madison Park High…
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Voices from the startup community: “What we learned in 2012”
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DBL’s Nancy Pfund appears in this Pando Daily piece from Hamish McKenzie titled Voices from the startup community: “What we learned in 2012” “In 2012, I learned that despite political silence on the matter, the…
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SolarCity Nasdaq (SCTY) IPO News Roundup 12/13/12
It was a whirlwind day at DBL. We were privileged to watch SolarCity, one of our portfolio companies, ring the opening bell at Nasdaq for its first day of trading as a public company. All of the…
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Packaging LCA: Measuring Sustainability and Information Flow Through the Value Chain
Packaging is important for many reasons: It is a vessel that protects the product inside, it conveys vital information to educate people about the product, and it is also the first visual cue that helps…
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The Military-Industrial-Sustainability Complex
The U.S. Department of Defense is spending billions of dollars on everything from advanced battery and biofuel R&D to mass deployment of solar power across bases and military housing. Across the world, militaries are seeking out efficiency and…
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Trashy Startups Haul It In
DBL Partners’ portfolio company Ecoscraps recently made the print version of Venture Capital Journal as part of a roundup of companies taking investment for waste innovation. Unfortunately the full article is behind a pay wall….