News Archive.

  • The Renewables Sector Still Creating Jobs – April through June

    August 20, 2012

    This story just ran in Greentech Media‘s Enterprise section. Green Jobs: 37,409 Green Jobs in Q2 2012—Report Solar shined, wind was threatened, and public-private partnerships worked.   Despite a still teetering economy, the renewables sector continued…

  • We can’t wait for SOCAP 12

    July 31, 2012

    Here’s a link to the full schedule.  If you’re planning on attending the DBLInvestors team will be there.  Leave a comment below or tweet at @cynthiaringodbl if you’d like to meet up!

  • London’s Silicon Roundabout Nurtures Clean-Tech Startups

    July 30, 2012

    From the AOL Energy blog. The traffic circle at the intersection of Old Street and City Road in East London’s Shoreditch neighborhood would be just another ugly piece of urban infrastructure if it hadn’t become identified…

  • Soladigm Closes $55 Million in Equity Financing

    June 25, 2012

    MILPITAS, Calif., Jun 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Soladigm, a leading manufacturer of highly energy-efficient Dynamic Glass for buildings, announced today that it closed $55 million in Series D equity financing, co-led by Reinet Investments…

  • Women And Clean Energy: Overcoming The Double Standard

    June 25, 2012

    This post originally appeared at Forbes.com, written by Nancy E. Pfund, As a woman in venture capital, I am part of a small club, and it’s part of my job to try to change that. …

  • The wisdom of investing in wind power

    June 22, 2012

    DBL was featured in an article appearing in the Washington Post on June 22. Charles Lane suggested that the United States should “fold” on incentives for clean, renewable sources of energy such as wind. This…

  • Jim Marggraff, Livescribe

    June 20, 2012

    There were doubts when Jim Marggraff came up with the idea for Livescribe’s smart pen, which records speech and links it to handwritten notes. Some were skeptical about the technology and whether, for example, it could…

  • DBL Partners’ Nancy Pfund Soundbites

    February 14, 2012 | Newswire.FM

    Managing Partner Nancy Pfund gives insight into how impact investing is good for the socially-minded, as well as for those who look to more traditional success metrics.

  • Should the government subsidize alternative energy?

    December 10, 2011

    See the original Yale Insights Dec. 2011 article here. By Nancy Pfund, a Managing Partner of DBL Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in solar companies. The bankruptcy filing by solar panel manufacturer Solyndra,…