5 cities to find your green investors

Now we saw in 2009 was a real beginning of the "Green Investment" was with many other forecasting 2010 will be a stellar year for green investment. We have collected information in 2009 following announced deal flows, and determined where the best cities for 2010 are for green investment.

Not surprisingly, the U.S. still dominates the list, and we believe the trend will continue as the U.S. remains the capital of the world's largest enterprise and the private equity market, and frankly, it's pretty hard to see how this will change over the next decade or two. While China is growing, investments are mainly driven by government funding, venture capital are beginning to become influential in China, with most of them actually set up by their counterparts in Europe or the United States.

Therefore, between the cities green venture capital key, are still represented by U.S. city, but we will deal with other cities in future articles.

New York City

Undoubtedly still the best place to raise capital, though many may wonder if New York City is a "green city" in itself? The answer is yes, there are a lot of consistencies between green jobs and green investment. New York City has created jobs, perhaps the greenest of all the other cities in 2009, which was driven by strong demand for internal use, as the largest transport system in the world, a strong demand for smart-grid and the concentration also elevated green finance professionals. New York City is the first choice when it comes to green investments, just like the other investments in venture capital!

San Francisco

San Francisco has always been a "green city", and its population highly proactive, adopting a green lifestyle, as we know, but it also has very large population Loha. Their attitude towards the green lifestyle is a key factor behind the support of its population in green economies.

Furthermore, supported by existing IT investments and technological capacity, the venture capital groups have been learning how they can use their skills in growing green tech sectors.

Compared to other California cities, we also compared Los Angeles and San Diego investment climate, San Francisco remains the preferred destination for investment hot green.

Boston

Back to the east coast once again, there is also a very significant increase in green investment from Boston. Interestingly, our research shows that this is a different evolution than in San Francisco.

The foundation of the transformation in San Francisco has evolved from the technology / IT investments in venture capital, in Boston, this has been evolved from their long involvement in investment life-science/biotechnology.

It is interesting to note that when a comparison is made, we saw Boston has participated in more non-technology investments such as investing in environmental science, chemical applications for environmental improvement and opportunities of renewable energy technologies instead.

Boston also has a strategic advantage with its universities to support and market new developments and new technologies, many universities in Boston are providing support for both graduate and MBA students in the development of applications Greentech, this is a perfect ground for entrepreneurs, the network in Boston for green investment is also very strong and well organized.

Detroit

We put down that Detroit may be a surprise to many, in fact, we were thinking Seattle, Charlotte, Chicago as alternatives. Detroit offers something more unique, is an automotive city, has been hurt by the recession than anyone else.

Yet, it is because of the recession, we found entrepreneurs to Detroit and investment institutions are devoting more efforts to green technologies than others, and you want to use this as an opportunity to raise in Detroit City Green Car world.

Although the automotive industry is active in more investment, they have the technological capabilities to support new developments, many are related to the automotive industry, but these can be transferred to other sectors of transport and more efficient engines, fuel systems best network, the improvements in gas stations, solar cars, better batteries, but it was a great year for Detroit green inventors, and this will continue to attract new investment.

Portland

We also selected Portland to conclude this first article. Portland is an interesting situation. Some $ 70m of venture capital investments were made in cleantech sectors of Portland in 2009, but it is also one of the "low-carbon city" in North America. You can see that the number of people choose to walk or bike to work every day in Portland. It also has initiatives to encourage electric cars such as free parking, and very complete system of public transport that use alternative energies.

To summarize, this makes Portland a place with strong support for the green economy, green products and green transportation alternative. It 's also one of the cities that have created more green jobs in 2009. The combination of these factors have made Portland a great place to find green investment, both from institutions and even individual investors.

The location really make a difference? The entire green investment period had just started about 2 or 3 years ago, and more changes will happen. But if you use both technology and investment in natural resource story as an example, one could argue that, as in "Where there is money" does not help, California-based technology companies tend to find investors more easily, because they are in "hubs" and mining companies always want to focus in the main centers of mining finance such as Texas or Calgary in Canada, or Utah.

A big reason for this is seen as supporting the local investors have in your business / industry. If conducting an IPO technology, you can see the California investors have a dominant position much higher in terms of shareholders, even higher than New York, in many cases, and we did an IPO in the past for health care, we could also see significantly higher proportion of investors from large centers of health capital, as well as from Boston and Cleveland.

Every industry is different and every occasion is different as well, but do not conduct some research, if you're trying to create a new office or to appoint a new director to find investors, which can have a big impact at times .......