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Aster Capital’s Weekly Snapshot
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April 20th 2015
Every week Aster is pleased to share with you a selection of the most relevant news in our industry
New Energy Mix
Stem (Energy Storage) Received $12m from Mitsui,
Angeleno Group, Constellation, Iberdrola Ventures PERSEO, and GE Ventures
Greenlancer (Solar Design and Permitting)
Received $5m from an Undisclosed Investor
LightBeam Electric Company (Owner and
Operator of Renewable Power Producing Assets)
filed for an IPO to raise $100m.
Energy Efficiency
Thermondo (Online Platform for Heating
Providers) Received $6,427m from Holtzbrinck
Ventures, Rocket Internet, E.ON Ventures, IBB
Beteiligungsgesellschaft, and Grey Corp.
Neofocal Systems (Semiconductor Chipset
Designs for Fine Granularity LED Lighting Control)
Received $3m from an Undisclosed Investor
ByteLight (Indoor LED-based Positioning)
Was Acquired by Acuity Brands for an
Undisclosed Amount
Nest (Home Automation) and SolarCity
(Energy Services for Solar Power
Customers) Have Formed a Development
Partnership
Sustainable Cities
Resources Management
Rethink Robotics (Manufacturing Robots)
Received $13,4m from Wellington Asset
Management, GE Ventures, and Goldman
Sachs
Agrisoma (Feedstock Technology for Biofuel
Production) Received an Undisclosed Amount
from an Undisclosed Investor
Navdy (Head-Up Display Unit for Automotive
Industry) Received $20m from Upfront
Ventures, Formation 8, Qualcomm Ventures,
Promus Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, and
wareness.io
Sprig (App-Based Healthy Food Delivery Service)
Received $45m from Social Capital, Battery
Ventures, Greylock Partners, Accel Partners, Pascal
Levy-Garboua, 500 Startups, Ludlow Ventures,
Haroon Mokhtarzada, Russ Fradin, Jim Payne, IDG
Ventures, and Lumia Capital
Cobi (Connected Biking System) Received
$4,274m from Capnamic Ventures, Iris
Capital, and Creathor Venture
Wingz (App-Based Ride-Sharing to Airports)
Received $2m from Binux Capital, Blue Angel
Ventures, Florence Venture Partners, Ocotea
Holdings, Big Bloom Investments, Larry
Marcus, and Olive Tree
AutoHop and carpooling,com (RideSharing Marketplaces) were acquired by
BlaBlaCar for Undisclosed Amounts