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Lora Kolodny
July 7th, 2011

Clean Urban Energy Raises $7 Million To "Turn Buildings Into Batteries"

A Chicago startup Clean Urban Energy (CUE) raised $7 million in a series A round from Battery Ventures and Rho Ventures, the company announced today.

CUE’s software-as-a-service “exploits the thermal mass of commercial office buildings to make [them] more efficient,” according to a company press statement. The software was developed at the University of Colorado, which struck an exclusive… → Read More

Lora Kolodny
June 27th, 2011

IBM "Buildings Whisperer" Dave Bartlett On The Dumb Ways We Waste Energy

IBM’s Smarter Planet division released a new solution recently that can make buildings energy efficient— even if they are huge and 100 years old like the company itself. Vice president of the Smarter Buildings division at IBM, Dave Bartlett, visited TechCrunch TV to talk about the stupid ways that people waste energy in medium to large buildings, and how the company’s new Intelligent Building… → Read More

Lora Kolodny
March 9th, 2011

Green Buildings Software Startup, Retroficiency, Closes $800,000 Seed Financing

A Boston startup that makes energy auditing software for the commercial buildings industry, Retroficiency, raised $800,000 in a seed round led by energy management services firm World Energy Solutions (NASDAQ: XWES), and joined by a number of angel investors including Jean Hammond and Jill Preotle (both early investors in ZipCar) the companies announced today.

Facility managers, auditors or… → Read More

Lora Kolodny
February 28th, 2011

Nexus EnergyHomes Raises $1.5 Million To Build Luxury, Net Zero Energy Houses

Annapolis-based Nexus EnergyHomes raised the first $200,000 of a $1.5 million dollar series A round, a new SEC filing revealed. The company designs, sells and builds pre-fab homes that are “net zero,” or zero energy homes (ZEHs).

According to the U.S. Department of Energy ZEHs are “connected to the utility grid but can be designed and constructed to produce as much energy as they consume [or… → Read More

Lora Kolodny
January 19th, 2011

Scientific Conservation Raises $15.6 Million To Help Cut Energy Waste In Commercial Buildings

Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI) — a San Francisco company that makes software to diagnose and help stop energy-wasting problems in commercial buildings — raised $15.6 million in a series B investment led by DFJ Growth Fund the companies announced today. DFJ Ventures and The Westly Group also joined the round, which brings the company’s total funding raised to $24.6 million.

SCI’s… → Read More

Lora Kolodny
January 7th, 2011

Sustainability Roundtable Raises $1.2 Million To Help Corporations Go Green

A new SEC filing revealed that the Cambridge, Mass. consultancy Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc.) raised about $1 million to help corporations green their facilities and operations, and learn how to run their businesses in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

With a special focus on energy efficiency and real estate, SR Inc. bills itself as a provider of “shared cost”… → Read More

Lora Kolodny
December 14th, 2010

Soladigm Raises $30 Million More To Make Smart Glass For Green Buildings

Soladigm raised a $30 million series C investment the company announced this morning. Founded in 2007, the company makes smart glass for green buildings that can change from clear to tinted automatically, in response to changes in light or temperature. Windows using this “electro-chromic” technology help building owners and operators reduce their heat, cooling and lighting costs, and energy… → Read More