With the fourth quarter of 2009 now behind us, it appears clear that the field of green technology — renewable energy and energy storage systems, energy efficiency technology, smart grid infrastructure… Read more »
Envia Systems, a battery materials startup based in Hayward, Calif., has just entered an elite group: the 1 percent of applicants awarded a first-round grant under the Department of Energy’s high-risk… Read more »
It’s not often that the Department of Energy gets to go far out on a limb with its investments. But that’s exactly the point of ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) –… Read more »
The idea of launching a startup with some venture capital and going public or getting acquired within a few short years — in other words, cashing out — has its appeal… Read more »
For the founding team of startup Envia Systems, working at battery companies before starting their own helped them realize a gaping hole in the battery industry: They saw an absence of… Read more »
With billions of dollars in government funds coming down the pipeline for advanced batteries courtesy of the stimulus package, and the auto industry gearing up to make its first real go… Read more »
Ever since World of Warcraft started showing signs of cancer-like growth — ravenously consuming massively multiplayer online game subscribers — video game industry entrepreneurs and investors have hunted for a WoW… Read more »