Yellowstone Capital opening new $50M cleantech fund
Yellowstone Capital Partners, a Houston, Texas venture capital firm, is in the process of raising a new $50 million fund for early-stage cleantech investments, to be called Yellowstone Energy Ventures II.
The firm’s first fund, was distributed between Heliovolt, Solfocus, Solaris Nanosciences, and several other companies. In general, Yellowstone makes investments primarily in energy generation technologies.
General partners Bill Brewer, Rick Owen and Omar Sawaf will continue to manage Yellowstone’s cleantech investments.
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Chris Morrison writes about cleantech and environmental issues for VentureBeat, with occasional forays into gaming and semantic technology. He got his start writing about tech for Business 2.0 magazine, but quickly realized new media was the ticket when that institution closed its doors in 2007. Chris has also covered public equities and regulatory issues. He originally hails from southern Virginia, graduated from Evergreen State College in Washington, and now lives in San Francisco.