For homeowners that want to go green, but have trouble figuring out how to do it, Palmetto Clean Technologies has the answer. The company has an army of salespeople to pitch the benefits of solar power and energy efficiency, and will connect would-be clean energy consumers with financing options, installers, and software to monitor and manage […]
View More Palmetto gets $20 million credit line for its solar and energy efficiency installation marketplaceCategory: universe
The Green New Deal is long on vision, short on details, and a potential windfall for startups
The Green New Deal has landed. Proposed by the rising star of the Democratic Party, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Edward Markey, a longtime advocate for decarbonization in both the House and the Senate, the sweeping proposal is a grand vision for what a progressive push to rebuild American institutions for the 21st century looks […]
View More The Green New Deal is long on vision, short on details, and a potential windfall for startupsNew material design stores energy like an eagle
Auxetics are materials that store energy internally rather than bulging out. In this way they can store more energy when squeezed or struck and disperse it more regularly. Historically, however, these materials have had sharp corners that could break easily with enough pressure. Now researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University of Cambridge […]
View More New material design stores energy like an eagleEverything old is new again as demand response comes to real estate with Blueprint Power
Real estate developers and their properties are getting an opportunity to cash in on power management and surplus energy production thanks to a new company called Blueprint Power. It’s a new twist on an old idea dating back to the first cleantech boom based on ideas of demand response and power management. Companies like EnerNOC […]
View More Everything old is new again as demand response comes to real estate with Blueprint PowerThere’s a race to discover dark matter, and it’s deep underground
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In the heart of an Italian mountain, scientists are building a machine. Deep in a former gold mine, tucked in the Black Hills of South Dakota, another team is doing the same.
They’re looking for a signal: a spark of light and free electrons. Evidence of dark matter
It’s never been detected in a lab. But scientists believe it’s more plentiful than “ordinary” matter. A lot more. Everything made of atoms — known as baryonic matter, the stuff we’re made of — is thought to make up less than 5 percent of the universe. Dark matter makes up another 25 percent. The rest is dark energy, a mysterious force that repels gravity and explains why the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Read more…
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View More There’s a race to discover dark matter, and it’s deep undergroundMobile website creator Universe nabs $4 million Series A
The small team behind Universe, an iOS app that allows users to build modular, simplistic websites in a minute or two, has scored some new funding as it looks to grow its operation and its ambitions. The startup has closed a $4 million Series A investment from Javelin Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Box […]
View More Mobile website creator Universe nabs $4 million Series AEver wonder how the universe might end?
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Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist, meaning it’s her job to think about the greatest mysteries of the cosmos. She specializes in cosmology, following in the footsteps of people like Stephen Hawking, and truly wants to answer the big questions: How was the universe formed and how might it end? In fact, she’s writing a book about different ways the universe might cease to exist—and she’s pretty excited about it. Read more…
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Vesper’s new microphone technology attracts millions from the biggest names in sound technology
Vesper Technologies, a new microphone technology developer, has raised $23 million from some of the biggest names in audio technology to finance the commercialization of its piezoelectric microphones. As audio technology and voice controlled devices become more ubiquitous, manufacturers are hoping to turn to higher performance MEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems) microphones that use acoustic sensors […]
View More Vesper’s new microphone technology attracts millions from the biggest names in sound technologyGreen Power Exchange enables peer-to-peer energy sharing
True friends share everything, from purses to lawnmowers to the limitless energy they pull from the sun, wind, and deep underground. Green Power Exchange aims to make one of those sharing scenarios a bit simpler. Green Power Exchange or GPX is running an ICO to create a coin that lets you trade energy. While there […]
View More Green Power Exchange enables peer-to-peer energy sharingSolar project lending startup Wunder Capital raises $112 million as renewable energy shines
As renewable energy continues to gobble up more and more of the new energy capacity coming online, the solar project lending company Wunder Capital has raised $112 million in primarily debt financing to boost its business. The 90 percent debt and 10 percent equity commitment came from the multi-strategy investment firm Cyrus Investments, which has […]
View More Solar project lending startup Wunder Capital raises $112 million as renewable energy shinesThe top 7 startups from Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day 1
Autonomous cargo shipping, voice games and a camera that fits in a catheter were amongst the most impressive startups that launched yesterday at the Y Combinator Winter 2018 Demo Day 1. You can read about all 64 startups that launched in verticals like biotech and robotics, and our full coverage of all the companies from […]
View More The top 7 startups from Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day 1Universe, an Instagram for building mobile websites, nabs funding from YC
As social media sites grow more massive and all-encompassing, one startup is looking to bring back the friendly customization of Myspace to a new generation of users looking to define their online presence in a unique way. Universe is a mobile-based website builder for the social media era, eschewing complicated templates for easily customizable website “filters” […]