Clean Pacific Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Clean Pacific Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Clean Pacific Ventures invests in early stage clean technology companies.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Clean Pacific Ventures invests in
EnergyRenewable EnergySaaSSolarFinTech
Stages Clean Pacific Ventures invests in
Series BSeries AFunding Round
Countries Clean Pacific Ventures invests in
United States
Contacts
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Dave Herron
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Jeff Barnes
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Sean Schickedanz
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 2 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Solar 1 (13%)
- FinTech 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (50%)
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Dave Herron
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Jeff Barnes
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Sean Schickedanz
General Partner and Chief Investment Officer
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General Partner and Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
T-REX
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Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedentedtransparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency. | $4M / Series A / Jan 01, 2014 | |
Wireless Glue Networks
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Wireless Glue is a United States-based company with offices in Japan that delivers software and hardware solutions that capture and deliver energy data in real-time for the Commercial and Industrial market. | $4.5M / Series B / Feb 21, 2013 | |
HydroNovation
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HydroNovation has been established to manufacture ElectroConditioning modules of various sizes for a variety of commercial and residential applications. Their primary business goal is to partner with companies that supply complete water treatment systems for these applications.The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in La Palma,California. | $3.1M / Series B / Jan 23, 2012 | |
Clean Power Finance
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Clean Power Finance (CPF) is building an online business-to-business marketplace to drive the mass-market adoption of solar. The company connects providers of capital who are committed to investing in residential solar with qualified solar marketers, installers and distributors who need residential solar finance products to differentiate and growtheir businesses. CPF raises 100 percent third-party‐owned project finance funds from institutional investors such as Morgan Stanley and Google, working with the investors to structure and launch the funds with managed risk and return profiles. CPF then markets the funds as solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) to qualified solar professionals, including Paramount Solar and Real Goods Solar (Nasdaq: RSOL), through its licensed online solar sales platform, CPF Tools. CPF Tools is software-as-a-service that simplifies complex sales, quoting, proposal and finance processes and minimizes the “soft costs” of selling solar.CPF’s fund investors earn favorable returns on stable investments on the resulting portfolios of residential distributed generation projects. The company’s solar professional partners gain access to solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) that they can brand and sell to homeowners who want the benefits of solar without the cost and hassle of owning and maintaining a system.CPF manages approximately half a billion dollars of capacity on behalf of fund investors, and supports more than 100 solar professional customers who currently use the CPF Market to sell residential solar finance products to homeowners in CA, CO, HI, MA and NJ. Thousands of solar professionals in all 50 states have extensively used CPF Tools to quote and design solar systems. | $25M / Series B / Sep 02, 2011 | |
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Clean Power Finance
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Clean Power Finance (CPF) is building an online business-to-business marketplace to drive the mass-market adoption of solar. The company connects providers of capital who are committed to investing in residential solar with qualified solar marketers, installers and distributors who need residential solar finance products to differentiate and growtheir businesses. CPF raises 100 percent third-party‐owned project finance funds from institutional investors such as Morgan Stanley and Google, working with the investors to structure and launch the funds with managed risk and return profiles. CPF then markets the funds as solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) to qualified solar professionals, including Paramount Solar and Real Goods Solar (Nasdaq: RSOL), through its licensed online solar sales platform, CPF Tools. CPF Tools is software-as-a-service that simplifies complex sales, quoting, proposal and finance processes and minimizes the “soft costs” of selling solar.CPF’s fund investors earn favorable returns on stable investments on the resulting portfolios of residential distributed generation projects. The company’s solar professional partners gain access to solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) that they can brand and sell to homeowners who want the benefits of solar without the cost and hassle of owning and maintaining a system.CPF manages approximately half a billion dollars of capacity on behalf of fund investors, and supports more than 100 solar professional customers who currently use the CPF Market to sell residential solar finance products to homeowners in CA, CO, HI, MA and NJ. Thousands of solar professionals in all 50 states have extensively used CPF Tools to quote and design solar systems. | $3.6M / Series A / Jan 06, 2010 | |
SunLink Corporation
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SunLink Corporation brings powerful solar energy solutions to market through innovative, highly engineered products, in-demand customer services and best-of-breed software that make solar PV electricity easier, safer, more reliable and less expensive to install. In addition to bringing to market well-designed products that are agile in theirimplementation, the company leverages unparalleled R&D, a legacy of more than 1 GW of successful projects, state-of-the-art engineering and creative problem solving to develop optimized, full-scope product+service+software solutions for roof and ground-mount solar projects of every size and complexity. It is this unique combination of trusted insights, products, services and EnTech convergence that helps solar developers and installers overcome obstacles and furthers the industry’s shared mission of advancing universal solar power adoption. | $1.8M / Nov 09, 2009 | |
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SunLink Corporation
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SunLink Corporation brings powerful solar energy solutions to market through innovative, highly engineered products, in-demand customer services and best-of-breed software that make solar PV electricity easier, safer, more reliable and less expensive to install. In addition to bringing to market well-designed products that are agile in theirimplementation, the company leverages unparalleled R&D, a legacy of more than 1 GW of successful projects, state-of-the-art engineering and creative problem solving to develop optimized, full-scope product+service+software solutions for roof and ground-mount solar projects of every size and complexity. It is this unique combination of trusted insights, products, services and EnTech convergence that helps solar developers and installers overcome obstacles and furthers the industry’s shared mission of advancing universal solar power adoption. | $1.8M / Series B / May 21, 2007 | |
Marrone Bio Innovations
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Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., a biopesticide company, engages in the discovery, development, and marketing of natural products for weed, pest, and plant disease management. Its products include Regalia, a product that protects food and ornamental crops from fungal and bacterial diseases; GreenMatch EX, a post-emergence herbicide for burndown weedcontrol for organic growers; and GreenMatch, a burndown herbicide that controls various annual and perennial weeds. The company also offers insecticides, herbicides, and products for controlling invasive zebra and quagga mussels in waterways. In addition, it finds naturally occurring microorganisms from habitats and develops them into products for controlling insects, weeds, nematodes, and plant diseases. The company provides its products online. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Davis, California. | $3.8M / Series A / May 02, 2007 |
Co-Investors
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2 deals together
Sand Hill Angels
2 deals together
3M New Ventures
1 deal together
Angeleno Group
1 deal together
Calvert Social Venture Partners
1 deal together
Ecosystem Integrity Fund
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Clean Pacific Ventures invest in?
Clean Pacific Ventures invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Clean Pacific Ventures?
The team at Clean Pacific Ventures includes Dave Herron (General Partner), Jeff Barnes (General Partner) and Sean Schickedanz (General Partner and Chief Investment Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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