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Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open Launch!. National Expansion Sponsor:. 2009 Competition Sponsor:. 2009 Pacific Northwest Host City:. Thank You to our Regional Founding Partners. Martin & Associates, Inc. Thank You to our Competition Partners.
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National Expansion Sponsor: 2009 Competition Sponsor: 2009 Pacific Northwest Host City:
Thank You to our Regional Founding Partners Martin & Associates, Inc.
CTO Launch Program Agenda 5:30 – 6:45 Cocktail Reception6:45 – 7:15 Introduction to the CTO7:15 – 7:30 Q&A Speakers Include:Byron McCann & John Pierce – Regional Co-ChairsCharlie Chrissman – CTO Alumni, Goose NetworksRex Northen – Executive Director, Clean Tech Open
CTO Alumni Companies = 125
Number of Customers Serviced by CTO Alumni = 992 (Including Home Depot, Facebook, The Gillette Company, Johnson Controls, Marriott Hotels, PG&E, Whole Foods, Yahoo! and many more!)
Amount of CTO Prizes Awarded (2006-2008) = $2.7 Million
Amount of Funding Raised by CTO Alumni = $125 Million
CTO Alumni Success Stories NiLA Inc. (www.nila.tv) 2006 Energy Efficiency Runner Up 2007 Energy Efficiency Winner 2008 Alumni Award Winner The company develops and sells innovative and environmentally sustainable high-output, solid-state lighting systems. NiLA recently secured a worldwide distributor for its lighting systems. They provided lighting for the 2008 James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” and Ron Howard’s “Angels and Demons”. The company also provided lighting for CNN coverage of the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. NiLA light on the set of “James Bond: Quantum of Solace”
CTO Alumni Success Stories Cool Earth Solar www.coolearthsolar.com 2006 Renewables Runner Up Closed a $22 million Series A financing round, and is ramping up for utility-scale production and deployment of its system. The funding is enabling a transition from R&D to construction of a manufacturing plant capable of turning out 50 MW of systems a year.
CTO Alumni Success Stories GreenVolts, Inc. (www.greenvolts.com) GreenVolts, a concentrating photovoltaic technology company, has achieved many milestones since winning the Renewables category in 2006. GreenVolts has signed an agreement with PG&E for a two megawatt HCPV power plant that, when completed, will be the largest such system in the world. The company has also successfully closed two institutional funding rounds: (1) a $10 million Series Aand (2)a$35 million Series B.
So... Do you have a brilliant clean tech idea?
Win the Pacific Northwest Regional Competition... ...Get a cash and in-kind prize package valued at $50,000.
Win the National Competition... ... Get a cash and in-kind prize package valued at an additional $250,000.
Enter the 2009 Clean Tech Open. www.CleanTechOpen.com
For more information and to register for the competition, please visit:www.cleantechopen.com