Bright Capital Takes Position Among Top Five Global Cleantech Investors

MOSCOW and WASHINGTON, DC, October 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Bright Capital has again been named one of the world's top cleantech investors by Cleantech Group, a leading global research and advisory firm focused on energy and environmental innovation.

Cleantech Group makes annual awards to the Global Cleantech 100 companies and to the corporate and financial investors whose farsighted investments support the advances of the Global Cleantech 100. This year Bright Capital placed among the five top financial investors by percentage of  2013 Global Cleantech 100 companies in their cleantech venture portfolios. In 2012 Bright Capital grabbed the top spot.

The Global Cleantech 100 list identifies private cleantech-energy efficiency, biofuels and biochemicals, smart grid, renewable energy, water and waste, and transportation-companies most likely to make significant market impact over the next five to ten years. The list of the 2013 Global Cleantech 100 firms and the full report are available at Cleantech Group's website, http://www.cleantech.com/global-cleantech-100.

There are 414 disclosed investors in the Global Cleantech 100, of which 56 percent were financial investors, 20 percent were corporations or corporate venture units, three percent were public sector entities, three percent were investment banks, and the remaining 16 percent were a mixture of family offices, private individuals, and asset managers.

Bright Capital's Energy I Fund includes five companies in the 2013 Global Cleantech 100 list: Aquion Energy, Epuramat, Genomatica, Siluria Technologies, Transphorm.  Another 16 companies round out the portfolio.

Bright Capital is an independent venture capital firm that invests globally in a wide range of promising companies. It invests across multiple technologies in energy and resource efficiency, clean technology, and industrial biotech. In addition to financial investment and managerial expertise for its portfolio companies, Bright Capital provides direct access to markets in Russia and the CIS through its network of industrial businesses. Working as a merchant venture entity, the firm uses a multi-corporate model to build bridges, particularly among companies in the United States, Russia and the CIS, Europe, Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

To learn more about Bright Capital, please visit http://bright-capital.com.