Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures: a venture capital firm run by people who listen to, analyze, and advise entrepreneurs. We manage a main fund that supports early- and late-stage investments and a seed fund for developing very early-stage experiments. We focus on next-generation energy projects, new materials, mobility, the Internet and silicon technology. Our firm was established in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, who helped turn a computer science project into Sun Microsystems, a multibillion-dollar phenomenon.

Here's a partial list of Khosla Ventures "cleantech" portfolio companies:

• Altarock Energy
• Caitin
• Calera
• Cogenra Solar
• Coskata
• Danotek
• Draths Corporation
• EchoFirst
• EcoMotors
• ePowerSoft
• EtaGen
• Gevo
• GreatPoint Energy
• HCL CleanTech Ltd
• Izar Solar
• KiOR
• LanzaTech
• LightSail Energy
• LS9
• Mascoma Corporation
• NanoH2O
• Nanostellar
• Nordic Windpower
• NRG Dynamix
• PAX Streamline
• Pellion Technologies
• PVT Solar
• Range Fuels
• Sakti3
• Seeo
• Segetis
• Soladigm
• Solum
• Soraa
• Stion
• SunBorne Energy
• TerraPower
• Topanga Technologies
• Transonic Combustion
• Tula
• Varentec

Please note that we didn't include Ciris Energy from the list above since The Green Job Bank doesn't consider it a "clean" energy company. Ciris focuses on the extraction and processing of crude oil, coal and shale.