GLG Partners
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
GLG Partners is a VC fund in London focused on Solar and Renewable Energy. GLG one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world, offers its base of long-standing prestigious clients a diverse range of investment products and account management services.GLG's focus is on preserving client's capital and achieving consistent, superior absolute returns with low volatility and low correlations to boththe equity and fixed income markets.Since its inception in 1995, GLG has built on the roots of its founders in the private wealth management industry to develop into one of the world's largest and most recognized alternative investment managers, while maintaining its tradition of client-focused product development and customer service.GLG uses a multi-strategy approach, offering over 40 funds across equity, macro, emerging markets, credit and convertible bond investment products. Strong and sustained absolute returns have been achieved in both alternative and long-only strategies.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries GLG Partners invests in
Stages GLG Partners invests in
Countries GLG Partners invests in
Contacts
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Jamil Baz
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Steven Roth
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Sudi Mariappa
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Taras Chaban
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Teun Johnston
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 2 (33%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (33%)
- Energy 1 (17%)
- Mobile 1 (17%)
- Messaging 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series D 2 (33%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 3 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (17%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Jamil Baz
Chief Investment Strategist
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Chief Investment Strategist | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Steven Roth
Portfolio Manager
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Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Sudi Mariappa
Portfolio Manager
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Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Taras Chaban
Asset Manager
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Asset Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Teun Johnston
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Infinia
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Infinia Corporation is a solar energy technology company and the developer of the PowerDish, a proprietary solar power generation product that converts solar energy into electricity. The PowerDish is expected to be sold globally beginning in late 2010 and will be initially sold to energy asset developers, utilities, commercial companies and othersengaged in deploying large scale solar asset projects. | $11.5M / Feb 09, 2010 | |
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Infinia
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Infinia Corporation is a solar energy technology company and the developer of the PowerDish, a proprietary solar power generation product that converts solar energy into electricity. The PowerDish is expected to be sold globally beginning in late 2010 and will be initially sold to energy asset developers, utilities, commercial companies and othersengaged in deploying large scale solar asset projects. | $7M / Series B / Apr 22, 2008 | |
SpinVox
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Spinvox is a voice to text service. Spinvox started with their (now patented) Voice Message Conversion System in 2005, becoming one of the first companies to convert voicemails to text messages for both landlines and mobile telephones. Users subscribed to the service have incoming voicemail converted and sent as text messages to their mobile phoneor emails in their inbox.In order to compete with other similar service providers, Spinvox has recently introduced some other features such as SpinVox Blog; it allows users speak a post to a blog from any phone. There is also the Memo service: users speak memos to themselves -- the messages subsequently get transcribed and sent as email reminders. Lastly, SpinVox users can speak a text message, update social networks, or send messages to groups of people at once using recepient lists.SpinVox is the only voicemail-to-text conversion service available in six languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. Competitors include: | $100M / Series C / Mar 20, 2008 | |
Nanosolar
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Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company toutilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing. | $300M / Series D / Mar 01, 2008 | |
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Infinia
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Infinia Corporation is a solar energy technology company and the developer of the PowerDish, a proprietary solar power generation product that converts solar energy into electricity. The PowerDish is expected to be sold globally beginning in late 2010 and will be initially sold to energy asset developers, utilities, commercial companies and othersengaged in deploying large scale solar asset projects. | $50M / Series B / Feb 12, 2008 | |
Mode Media
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Mode Media, a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month, was founded in Silicon Valley in 2004 with a simple, yet powerful idea—to help people discover relevant content by combining the power of human curation of premium content with technology that distributes the right content to the right people at the right time. Today,Mode Media is building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators powered by distribution and streaming technology that delivers targeted native videos, content and branded entertainment at scale in real-time. Mode.com is an owned & operated social networking platform where creators can upload videos and build content stories. Content on Mode is curated by professional editors and distributed in user feeds—personalized by the Mode content algorithm technology. Since launch six months ago, Mode has grown from zero to 31 million unique monthly users, and crossed over 1 billion streamed video views. | $65M / Series D / Feb 01, 2008 |
Co-Investors
Vulcan Capital
3 deals together
Idealab
2 deals together
Accel
1 deal together
Blue Mountain Capital Management
1 deal together
DAG Ventures
1 deal together
EDF Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does GLG Partners invest in?
GLG Partners invests primarily in Solar, Renewable Energy and Energy startups, most often at Series D and Series B stage. Most of the 6 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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The team at GLG Partners includes Jamil Baz (Chief Investment Strategist), Steven Roth (Portfolio Manager) and Sudi Mariappa (Portfolio Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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