San Francisco-based Chomp has raised $2M from Bluerun Ventures, Ron Conway, Brian Pokorny and David Lee.
Miami-based Labotec has landed a round of funding from Kima Ventures, although the amount was undisclosed.
2010 is setting up to be a year of consolidation and change within the solar industry as several manufacturers expect to double their revenues while others predict more modest gains.
Second Porch, out of Portland, OR has raised $1M in Series A funding led by the Oregon Angel Fund. Second Porch competes with Home Away in the vacation home rental and home exchange markets.
The Golden State is being good to San Jose-based SunPower Corp. (SPWRA, SPWRB:NASDAQ) as they announced today that they will be designing and building a 1 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Yolo County, California.
San Diego-based EMN8 has raised $14.4M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing. EMN8 is backed by GRP Partners, Sid R.
Not often does The Alarm:Clock cover parties as the staff here experienced the dot.com era and haven’t attended any event in the past 5 years that remotely brings back memories of the good times associated with fundraising for a cause or an organization.
Social gaming's Playdom, which has raised $43M in funding, has invested in an Argentine rival, MetroGames.
Seeking to double its 2009 sales this year, Suntech Power (STP:NYSE) took a step closer to that ambitious goal today by announcing they will be supplying the solar panels for Taiwan’s largest solar power plant.
With the Evergreen Solar (ESLR:NASDAQ) looking for a boost after declining revenues and its Sorvello deal, the company announced today that the 5 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Apulia, Italy is now online.
Foster City-based BrightEdge has raised $6.5M in Series B funding. Battery Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Altos Ventures and Illuminate Ventures.
Financial Engines shares jumped more than 30% on their first day of trading Tuesday after the provider of retirement research and advice priced an initial public offering above the expected range.
LA's Magento Commerce (aka Varien) has raised $22.5M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing.
Snaptu (f.k.a. Moblica) has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. The concept is to partner with online service providers, media companies and content owners to enable rapid deployment of any online service as a full-featured mobile application, we extend our partners' reach to every Internet-enabled mobile device.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG:NYSE) may be facing a tough battle in California to hold onto its customers but is still working to improve its business.
Delivering Q4 2009 and full-year profits that hardly show a company with the wind at their back, Broadwind Energy (BWEN:NASDAQ) delivered results today that will certainly leave doubts in the minds of investors.
Sensata Technologies' shares were up as much as 5.6% on its IPO day. The stock closed up 2.78% at $18.
Mountain View-based MATRIXX Software has raised $9M from Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. The company sells software to telecoms that they say dramatically speeds up the time it takes to charge customers for sales of content.
LivingSocial.com out of Washington, D.C. has raised $25M in Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners with return backers Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC.
As solar companies from around talk about growing sales in Italy, SunEdison (WFR:NYSE) announced today that it will soon begin construction on the largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant in Italy because they have received final approval from the Italian government.