List Recognizes the Top Private Companies in Clean
Technology Industry
WASHINGTON, October 18, 2011 - The
Cleantech Group, the leading research firm focused
on cleantech innovation, today released the third annual Global
Cleantech 100 list at the Global Cleantech 100 Gala Dinner.
The list recognizes the 100 most promising and innovative
companies in areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency,
water and waste, and low carbon transportation. The Global
Cleantech 100 program is produced in collaboration with the UK's
Guardian News and Media.
"We are proud of how quickly the Global Cleantech 100 list has
gained recognition as a leading resource in the cleantech sector,"
said Sheeraz Haji, Cleantech Group CEO.
"Stakeholders including members of the corporate community,
investors, and regulators now watch the Global Cleantech 100 list
closely to gauge which sectors look most promising and which
companies are poised for growth."
The list recognizes the Cleantech companies most likely to make
a significant market impact over the next 5-10 years. The full list
of Global Cleantech 100 firms and the full report are available
online for free on the websites of Cleantech Group and the Guardian.
Complete profiles of all 100 companies can be found in i3,
Cleantech Group's market intelligence platform.
To qualify, companies must be
independent, for-profit, cleantech companies not listed on any
major stock exchange. This year, 4,274 companies were nominated
from more than 45 countries.
70 members of the expert panel, including leading global
investors and a wide range of corporate executives from
multi-national enterprises such as ABB, BASF, BP, Coca-Cola
Company, DuPont, GE, General Motors, Procter and Gamble, and
Vestas, gave their input on the shortlisted 213, to get to the
final list of 100 companies from 16 countries.
"This year's Global Cleantech 100 shows once again that there is
no end to the innovation that entrepreneurs are capable of creating
in order to attack some of the most pressing resource challenges
and in the process will introduce to the world some outstanding
companies," said Rodrigo Prudencio, Partner at Nth Power and member
of the expert panel.
"The annual list proves that companies are being formed around
the world to pursue a wide variety of opportunities and that
investors, customers and partners see these markets as global and
larger than ever imagined.'
A closer look at the list reveals important trends in clean
technology investment. A full report with commentary and insight on
the 2011 Global Cleantech 100 is available via two
publications:
1) A report authored by Cleantech
Group and sponsored by Autodesk, Deloitte and Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati. Global Cleantech 100: A Barometer of the
Changing Face of Global Cleantech
Innovation is available for download; and
2) A special online newspaper
supplement written by the UK's Guardian, sponsored by Ernst &
Young.
"The third Global Cleantech 100 exemplifies the best in
cleantech innovation across the world," said Richard Youngman,
Managing Director, Europe & Asia, Cleantech Group and the
founder of the Global Cleantech 100.
"This list is based on the collective wisdom and experience of
the world's cleantech leaders and this year it truly reflects not
only the most interesting companies, but also the mainstreaming of
this dynamic innovation theme."
Global Cleantech 100 Quick Facts:
- The United States leads with the most companies on the list in
absolute numbers.
- Weighted for size of economy, the frontrunners are smaller
countries such as Denmark, Israel, the Netherlands and Sweden.
- Over 350 investors, from 28 different countries, hold shares in
the 100 companies.
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is the most prolific
shareholder this year, with investment in 14 companies on the list.
Generation Investment Management has the highest percentage of its
investee companies on the list.
- GE and Siemens are the most active partners with 2011 Global
Cleantech 100 companies.
- TaKaDu heads the 2011 Global Cleantech 100 'Lust List', made up
of the companies who were most consistently admired by the expert
panel, with no dissenters.
- Four other companies made the 2011 Lust List this year: Coulomb
Technologies; Hara; Opower; and Silver Spring Networks.
- LanzaTech topped the charts for the Asia-Pacific region.
- Better Place is the 2011 Global Cleantech 100 company that most
strongly divided opinion across our expert panel and as such heads
this year's 'Marmite List'.
At GLOBE 2012, taking
place March 14-16, 2012, Sheeraz Haji,
Cleantech Group CEO, will moderate a panel on Emerging
Technologies: The Evolution of the Clean Energy
Sector. Experts from the energy and investment communities
will discuss the evolution of the clean energy sector and the
technologies that are predicted to become the power plays of the
next decade. . Get More information on GLOBE 2012
here