Publishing and conference startup Greener World Media takes $1.4M
Updated June 27th, 2008: Levy Family Partners and CMS Platinum Fund have joined this round, bringing the amount to $1.4 million. This story was originally published on June 6th.
Greener World Media, the Oakland, Calif.-based owner of GreenBiz, GreenerComputing and several other media properties dealing with the cleantech and environmental world, has taken a first investment of $1 million to expand its business.
The company also runs yearly design conference in Virginia, and has a research arm that produces a report called State of Green Business. Greener World plans on extending all three of its business arms with the funding.
K Group, a venture firm based in the US and Israel, provided the financing.
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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.