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The Lessons Veteran Investors Have LearnedHow have cleantech investment theses’ changed in the past decade?

At Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) West, veteran investors spoke about what they’ve learned.

“We went into [cleantech] with the notion that we have taken a lot of companies public [and] know what IPO management teams looks like,” said Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director of VantagePoint Venture Partners. “Problem was, we were taking companies public at $90 million valuations that were still relative startups. Now we are taking companies public at $2-4 billion. You need a completely different management team. We have had to work much, much harder on getting management teams into these companies that can run multi-billion dollar global enterprises.”

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