venture capital founded 2006 headquarters ramat hasharon israel number of locations 1 website www.israelcleantech.com israel cleantech ventures is an israeli specialized venture capital firm founded in 2006 by glen schwaber jack levy and meir ukeles . 1 it was the first israel focused clean technology venture capital fund intent on providing growth capital to israel s energy water and environmental technology sectors . 2 3 it raised 75 million for its first fund in 2007 from investors that included robeco and piper jaffray 3 as well as institutional investors and family offices . portfolio companies edit aqwise working on increased treatment capacity and nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants . 4 brightview systems founded in 2007 to develop and bring to market process and production optimization technologies for the thin film photovoltaic industry to enable solar cell manufacturers to maximize panel efficiency and reliability as well as attain high volume productivity . 5 cellera working on disruptive low temperature fuel cell technology . 6 cre citrine renewable energy developing systems converting biogas into high value biomethane . 7 emefcy utilizing microbial fuel cell mfc technology to produce electricity from the treatment of wastewater . 8 frx polymers has developed and is commercializing a family of novel non halogenated and therefore environmentally friendlier transparent high melt flowing fire resistant plastics . frx s products are suitable as polymeric flame retardant additives and as stand alone inherently flame retardant engineering plastics . 9 metrolight based in netanya with an office in franklin tennessee ; 10 the company has established products on electronic ballast solutions for hid lighting systems . 11 it was 2008 israeli company of the year at the eagle star awards gala by the american israeli chamber of commerce . 12 pythagoras solar founded by gonen fink dr. itay baruchi and precede technologies . based in hakfar hayarok with an office in san mateo california the start up works with photovoltaic technology and builds medium concentration solar cells using silicon . 13 14 scodix leading provider of digital enhancement presses for the printing industry 15 tigo energy hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency management and control to photovoltaic solar installations 16 references edit israel cleantech ventures management profile . israeli greentech companies make their pitch jeff st. john greentech media november 11 2008 a b israeli funds look to clean technologies jessica steinberg international herald tribune october 18 2008 ; accessed december 22 2008 . aqwise company page . 1 http www.cellera.biz cellera website icv portfolio page emefcy company site 2 vc firms looking for next wave of innovation linda bryant nashville business journal november 23 2007 . metrolight eagle star award company profiles pythagoras solar company page ; accessed 22 december 2008 150 solar start ups eric wesff green tech media december 4 2008 . 3 4 external links edit official website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title israel cleantech ventures & oldid 736138834 categories companies established in 2006venture capital firmsfinancial services companies of israelsolar power in israel navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 25 august 2016 at 12 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view