Some Insights from the Cleantech Innovation Forum in London, at Kensington Olympia

http://www.renewableenergyjobs.com/greenleader/uk/last-week%E2%80%99s-cleantech-innovation-forum/

1. (In the UK) VCs no longer want to finance seed round cleantech companies, but that only angels are investing

2. Investors are becoming too reliant on copious amounts of data at the expense of gut feel, in order to de-risk the investment, which can also end up making the process overly lengthy and costly.

(HP: This will always be the case, highly dependent on each firm's "nature".

3. Investors who remain active are people who understand the market and technologies, while those who are less focussed on cleantech have fallen off the bandwagon.

(HP: Survival of the fittest!! Other articles/observations have noted how some VCs/investors really have limited technical/market experience in Cleantech)

4. The fundraising team (of clean tech companies) has more and more creative and interesting people that will work without a salary, for equity alone.

(HP: This is very very surprising... especially in cleantech where the returns or time taken to reach neutral cash flow is quite lengthy and riskly as compared to some other types of investments.