Cleantech Entrepreneur? Check Out The California Coast Venture Forum

Several times a week I’m approached by cleantech businesspeople looking to raise investment capital to establish or expand their companies.  As I know I’ve mentioned, we at 2GreenEnergy do what we can to help; to this end, we’re constantly expanding our relationships with angels, VCs, private equity, and institutional investors.

But I’m always happy when I come across innovative groups and concepts along these lines that enable me to supplement what we’re doing here.  It was for this reason that I was thrilled to have been introduced to the California Coast Venture Forum (CCVF) earlier this month.

If you’re an entrepreneur wishing to present your business plan to a set of potential investors, let me suggest that you look into the CCVF, a non-profit whose mission is to advise and promote growing companies in markets in California. I’ve had a series of meetings with these folks, and here’s a group that gets it. Their tagline? “Where Socially Responsible Investors and Service Providers Meet Socially Responsible Entrepreneurs.”

Something that impresses me greatly about CCVF is its results; the statistics speak for themselves. Private equity, venture capital and angel investors have made over $110 million in capital investments over the previous 12 years into emerging growth and later stage companies participating in the California Coast Venture Forum events.

Jerry Knotts, the group’s CEO, an engaging and super-energetic fellow who’s been around the block once or twice, tells me that he sees increased investor interest in clean tech, ethical, green, socially responsible, and sustainable enterprises. The main event each year is Clean Business Investment Summit, which aligns the power of capital and clean business principles to build viable, attractive, clean tech, green, socially responsible, sustainable enterprises.

I hope you’ll check them out via the links above.