21Ventures Portfolio Company Selected to Present at California Israel Chamber of Commerce Cleantech Mission 2009.ETV ETV abbr. educational television ETV n abbr (US) (= Educational Television) → televisión escolar ETV n abbr (US) (= Educational Television Motors Is One of a Select Few Companies Chosen to Participate and Showcase to CICC CICC Custom Integrated Circuits Conference CICC Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (Studio City, CA) CICC China International Capital Corp. Members TEL AVIV, Israel -- 21Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the United States and Israel, announced today that ETV Motors (ETVM) was selected to present to participants in the Cleantech Mission to Israel sponsored by the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. The presentation took place today at the Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע) is a world-renowned institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel. in Rehovot, Israel. ETVM is developing series-hybrid electric drive technology that will power Range-Extended Electric Vehicles and have wide applications in transport and other settings. 21 Ventures, along with The Quercus Trust invested $12M in ETVM in 2008 Series A milestone-driven round. "We believe in ETV Motors' mission to create new engine technology that will help improve the environmental impact of automobiles," said David Anthony, Managing Partner of 21Ventures. The CICC Mission to Israel is held annually and is meant to introduce new innovations, entrepreneurial landscape, acquisition opportunities and joint ventures to interested global technology and venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . About 21Ventures Founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , 21Ventures invests in seed, early stage technology and publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in the security, clean energy and mobile software markets. 21Ventures is led by David Anthony who, in addition to serving as Director of several 21Ventures portfolio companies, serves as member of the board of directors of Entech Solar, Inc (ENSL ENSL Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (French) ENSL English as a Second Language .OB). The fund's primary geographic focus is Israel, where over half of the company's investment capital has been deployed to date. 21Ventures currently manages more than $250 million worth of investments in 25 companies in Israel and the United States. More than half of 21Ventures' investments are in clean energy companies. More information at www.21Ventures.net |
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