Clean tech generating buzz with money crowd. Big payoffs seen as possible in broad sector

Venture capitalists’ growing enthusiasm for a broad range of clean technology investments has some talking bubble.

But clean tech also has all the hallmarks of a fertile field for venture investing: innovative technology in large markets with the potential to pay off big.

The so-called double-bottom line — doing good while doing well — is seen by some as merely a bonus.

"This isn’t all about the double-bottom line, it’s about the bottom line," said Ira Ehrenpreis, general partner at Technology Partners, a venture fund investing in life sciences and clean tech before clean tech was the Next Big Thing.

San Francisco Business Times
by Mark Calvey

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