Claremont Creek Ventures

Smartphones as the Next Frontier in Medical Imaging, EMRs and Telemedicine

John Steuart — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:33:15 PDT

On Wednesday May 16 I will be presenting at the iMedicine & Mobile Life Sciences World Summit concerning smartphones as the next frontier in medical imaging, telemedicine and EMRs. I am presenting with Tobin Arthur of Cureus. Cureus is revolutionizing medical publishing and is founded by John Adler, a famous neurosurgeon at Stanford. Physicians today use their smartphones 5 times a day on average and these smartphones are another form of clinical decision support . . .
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Our portfolio company Clean Power Finance is on a tear

Nat Goldhaber — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:08:47 PDT

Our portfolio company Clean Power Finance is on a tear. Recently they partnered with Morgan Stanley subsidiary MS Solar Solutions Corp to help fund up to $300 million in residential solar leases. This illustrates that consumers are increasingly demanding low-risk, high-reward solar – and participating solar installers can easily provide their customers with a variety of lease options. . . .
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Claremont Creek Ventures hires Hanns Anders as new Associate

Claremont Creek Alerts — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:49:58 PDT

Anders Will Specialize in Energy Technology – Hiring Confirms Commitment of Seed and Early Stage VC firm to Energy Market

OAKLAND, CA (May 8, 2012) — Underscoring its ongoing commitment to energy technology investing, Claremont Creek Ventures today announced the hiring of Hanns Anders as a new associate in the firm’s energy technology practice.

Hanns Anders

Anders, 30, will draw upon his experience in the alternative energy and environmental services industries to evaluate investment opportunities . . .
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ecoATM attracts $17 million in second round of investments

Claremont Creek Alerts — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:22:45 PDT

May 1st ecoATM announced they had raised an additional $17 million in a second round. Current investors Claremont Creek Ventures, Coinstar, Inc. and TAO Ventures all increased their investments while new investors joined the syndicate. New investors include PI Holdings, Moore Venture Partners, AKS Capital and Singapore billionaire Koh Boon Hwee.

The announcement generated a lot of interest and was well covered in both the financial and hi-tech . . .
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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Blue Pillar Raises $7M for Hospital, Military, Data Center Demand Response

Claremont Creek Alerts — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:51:01 PDT

May 4, 2011 source: GreenTechMedia by Jeff St. John

The startup specializing in energy management microgrids for hospitals raises money to expand to other customers with critical power backup needs.

Blue Pillar, a startup that’s built up an interesting niche in enabling hospitals to manage power for efficiency and demand response needs, has raised a $7 million Series B round aimed at expanding its presence into the data center, military, education and manufacturing . . .
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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company ecoATM attracts $17 million in second round of investments

Randy Hawks — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:00:31 PDT

Congratulations to our portfolio company ecoATM, the award-winning San Diego start-up known for its commitment to the environment and its innovative kiosks that automate the buy-back of used mobile phones and other used portable electronics directly from consumers.

It is closing its series B investment round today of approximately $17 million. Claremont Creek Ventures, Coinstar, Inc. and TAO Ventures all increased their investments while new investors joined the syndicate.

ecoATM is expanding . . .
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Adura announces a Series B of $8.5M and adds Kaiser Center garage—Oakland marquee building as a customer.

Nat Goldhaber — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:33:04 PDT

April 25, 2012 source: Adura Technologies press release

ADURA GROWTH REPRESENTS A 273 percent jump in revenue in 2011 over 2010

Adura Technologies, one of our energy technology portfolio companies and a leading provider of wireless lighting controls and energy management systems, today announced that they added the 500,000 square foot Kaiser Center Garage, one of the largest privately-owned garages in Oakland, to the list of facilities . . .
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Moshe Alafi wins Lifetime Achievement Award — videos of event

Claremont Creek Alerts — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:31:03 PDT

On March 20, 2012, the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship proudly recognized biotech pioneer Moshe Alafi with its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at a special awards dinner. A Berkeley alumnus, Mr. Alafi is one of the founders of the biotechnology industry. He has funded and helped start over 60 companies through his venture capital firm Alafi Capital. Many of these firms have created entire new industries including such pioneers as Cetus, Biogen, Applied Biosystems, and Amgen. His life is an incredible inspiration to entrepreneurs as a successful investor and startup partner as well as one who has done an incredible amount to improve our health and scientific knowledge with biotechnology breakthroughs. . . .
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My newest investment: Genalyte — Augmenting Claremont Creek Ventures’ Digital Healthcare Tools Portfolio

Brad Webb — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:26:25 PDT

I’m excited that we have recently added a new portfolio company Genalyte to the Claremont Creek digital healthcare family. I’ll be joining the Board, and I am looking forward to working with founder and CEO Cary Gunn and the Genalyte team. Genalyte is a developer and manufacturer of advanced biomarker detection technology strategically located right in the center of the San Diego life science community. Claremont Creek Ventures participated in a $11.8 . . .
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ZipLine Medical Inc. A suture-like outcome at the speed of staples

Ted Driscoll — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:35:17 PDT

March 30, 2012 source: Start-Up Emerging Medical Ventures – March 2012

Fueled by cost containment pressures and surgeon and patient demand, start-ups are working to develop next-generation incision closure devices that address the shortfalls of gold standard sutures and staples.

Surgical Incision Closure: Start-Ups Address A Megatrend In Health Care

For many years, and in millions of surgical procedures each year worldwide, non-absorbable and absorbable sutures and staples have been the primary methods of . . .
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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Energy Cache featured in GigaOM Earth2Tech

Nat Goldhaber — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:19:16 PDT

March 25, 2012 source: GigaOM Earth2Tech

Update: March 27, 2012 – see GigaOM’s followup article: The story of Energy Cache, a drop-dead simple energy idea by Katie Fehrenbacher from an extensive interview with the founder and President of Energy Cache, Aaron Fyke, giving the details of how the technology works, how the company came into being, where it’s headed and how Bill Gates and Bill Gross became involved.

Energy Cache, one . . .
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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Billeo’s data reveals what rewards consumers find most appealing

Randy Hawks — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:30:38 PDT

March 22, 2012 source: Billeo

Recently, one of our portfolio companies Billeo, Inc. released data on current online shopping trends from its network of over 100,000 online shoppers. The findings suggest that the rewards offered by a loyalty program can have a large impact on online shopping behavior. One statistic I found to be intriguing is that shoppers are almost five times more likely to use a reward offering the ability . . .
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Biotech Industry Guru Moshe Alafi Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From UC Berkeley

Claremont Creek Alerts — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:29:31 PDT

by Nat Goldhaber and John Steuart

Moshe Alafi, a former mentor to both of us and investor in our startups earlier in our career, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Haas School’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley last week. There wasn’t any doubt that he fully deserved to win this highly prestigious award.

Moshe, after all, has been called one of the founders of biotechnology. We believe he is the most successful . . .
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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Clean Power Finance selected as 2012 New Energy Pioneer

Nat Goldhaber — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:32:04 PDT

March 19, 2012 source: Bloomberg Businessweek

Today Bloomberg New Energy Finance announced that our portfolio company, Clean Power Finance, is a 2012 New Energy Pioneer! It was selected as one of ten out of hundreds of applications from around the world. Clean Power Finance is driving the mass-market adoption of residential solar by building an online business-to-business marketplace to connect the solar industry with capital markets. For solar marketers, installers and distributors, it . . .
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Moshe Alafi – Lifetime Achievement Award Trailer video

Claremont Creek Alerts — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:25:04 PDT

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship will proudly bestow its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship to Moshe Alafi, Founder and Principal of Alafi Capital Company LLC.

The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley is proud to honor Moshe Alafi with its Lifetime Achievement Award. A Berkeley alumnus, Mr. Alafi is one of the founders of the biotechnology industry. He has funded and . . .
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