Investors
Prudent Energy's growth is guided by some of the world's most prominent investors in clean tech, energy, and niche manufacturing.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson ("DFJ")
Based in Menlo Park, California, DFJ has backed over 600 companies across many sectors including Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Athenahealth (ATHN), EnerNOC (ENOC), TicketsNow (acquired by TicketMaster), Feedburner (acquired by Google), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID). www.dfj.com
DT Capital Partners
DT Capital Partners provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies, with a close affiliation with Madrone Capital in the United States, the investment entity for members of the Walton family. www.dtcap.com
Northern Light Venture Capital
Northern Light Venture Capital ("NLVC") is a venture capital firm targeting early and early growth stage opportunities in China, with leading US venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates ("NEA") and Greylock as the anchor investors. www.nlightvc.com/En/
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital was established in the Silicon Valley in 1972 and has backed breakthrough companies as the first institutional investor such as Apple Computer, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo!, Google, and other companies representing more than 10% of NASDAQ's entire market value. www.sequoiacap.com
CEL Partners
China Equity Links (CEL) is one of the few European growth-capital funds in China. Its multinational team of investment professionals has strong energy industry and financial expertise, and is complemented by the long experience of its Senior Advisors, all former chairmen of large corporations in China. CEL typically takes active minority positions in fast-growing midcap companies ($20-150 million in revenues) with average investments per company of $3-15 million. www.celpartners.com
Mitsui Global Investment
Mitsui Global Investment is the venture investment arm of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., an international trading and investment company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and currently manages over $500 million in capital. Mitsui Global Investment acts as a financial investor and provides early stage capital to entrepreneurial ventures around the world in the fields of IT, life sciences, clean tech and retail services
www.mitsui-global.com/en/
Jafco Ventures
As proven, early-stage venture capital investors, Jafco, located in Palo Alto, California, specializes in how best to scale emerging companies to realize their full potential while being mindful of the need to be capital efficient. www.jafco.com