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Preqin Special Report: Private Equity Cleantech 02-June-2009 Private Equity Cleantech: A Booming Sector Since 2005, the number of funds that include cleantech cleantech focused funds and in terms of funds that include investments as part or all of their industry scope has grown cleantech amongst a number of industries they invest in. rapidly. As shown in Fig. 1, the number of private equity funds that commenced making investments in 2008 and included Within our newly released publication, the 2009 Preqin Private cleantech in their investment mandates nearly quadrupled Equity Cleantech Review, we list all funds closed historically from the number in 2004, which was the fi rst vintage year to and all funds currently raising, with information and analysis see a signifi cant number of funds begin to make cleantech on fund size, focus, regional preferences, sample investors investments, increasing from 30 in 2004 to 117 in 2008. and more. A similar trend can be seen when only examining funds that are Where Are Managers Based? focused solely on cleantech. While there are just nine purely cleantech focused vehicles of 2004 vintage, 2007 saw 41 As shown in Fig. 2, 45% of private equity fund managers that cleantech focused funds commence their investment periods invest in the cleantech sector are based in North America. As and 2008 saw 39 purely cleantech funds begin investing. well as being the most signifi cant world hub for venture capital in general, Silicon Valley is also known as a major base for Overall, out of all the funds that have closed to date which the cleantech industry specifi cally. 36% of fund managers that allocate some proportion of their capital to cleantech invest in the cleantech sec