Investors

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm helps entrepreneurs extend the potential of their ideas in breakthrough scientific work in clean technology areas such as solar, wind, battery, high efficiency engines, lighting, greener materials like cement, glass and bio-refineries for energy and bioplastics, and other environmentally friendly technologies as well as traditional venture areas like the Internet, computing, mobile and silicon technology arenas. Vinod Khosla founded the firm in 2004 and was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins and founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California. For more information visit www.khoslaventures.com

CMEA Capital

CMEA Capital provides capital to entrepreneurs and investors in the life sciences, energy & materials, and information technology sectors. Through its combination of solid scientific credentials and seasoned management expertise, CMEA identifies, funds and manages new businesses based on the emerging, interdisciplinary science required to meet the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing global economy. The firm currently manages seven funds representing investments in excess of $1 billion. CMEA has been an early stage investor in many leading companies, including Flextronics, Symmx, Codexis, Maxygen, A123 Systems, Entropic, Silicon Spice, Luminate (formerly Pixazza), Blekko, and Jobvite. For more information, please visit www.cmea.com

GE Energy Financial Services

GE Energy Financial Services’ experts invest globally with a long-term view, backed by the best of GE’s technical know-how, financial strength and rigorous risk management, across the capital spectrum, in one of the world’s most capital intensive industries, energy. GE Energy Financial Services helps its customers and GE grow through new investments, strong partnerships and optimization of its approximately $20 billion in assets. The company was named by the Cleantech Group as “Corporation of the Year” in 2011 for its venture capital investing and innovation in cleaner energy technologies. GE Energy Financial Services is based in Stamford, Connecticut. For more information, visit www.geenergyfinancialservices.com

Statoil Technology Invest (STI)

STI is Statoil ASA’s Corporate Venture team investing in the energy sector in Scandinavia, Europe, and North America. The team is managing Statoil‘s venture portfolio of around 30 early phase companies and has provided seed project finance to some 300 companies. The close cooperation with technology users as well as Statoil’s in-house R&D gives STI a unique ability to review and help build young companies with the potential to develop break-through technologies needed in the energy sector. STI is located in Stavanger, Oslo, and Trondheim. For additional information please visit innovate.statoil.com or www.statoil.com/en/Pages/default.aspx