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Blockchain and Bitcoin
A Brief History of Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin is not all that new and has existed since 2009. The technology it is built on has roots going back even further. In fact if you had invested just $1,000 in Bitcoin the year it was first publicly available, you...
Profile: Frontier Energy
Would it surprise you to hear that a company founded less than two years ago is coordinating top California infrastructure for zero emission cars, helping build some of the most energy efficient housing in the nation, and changing the way restaurants do...
Tenkiv Developing Strategic Partnerships
With the New Year we wanted to check in on Tenkiv. They recently won the sustainability category at 2017 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards and earlier this year they held a 24/7 live stream of their crowdfunding campaign. So, after the final 1 million...
Welcome New Associates!
CleanStart would like to welcome Qidong Jia and Kate Newton as our newest Associates. They will be working on blogs, company profiles and CleanStart Events! Kate is a recent graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and has a strong background in...
Crowdfunding Wrap Up
We were able to raise $2500 more than we did in in 2017 in half the time. We Raised $10,749 with offline donations included. We want to thank you for your support whether you donate or just shared our event. We look forward to bringing you future...
ARB and CEC opportunities for a Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! CEC and CARB making over $750 million available for clean transportation projects If you have some innovative clean transportation technologies that can be used in a project to reduce reduce GHG and air pollution emissions, take a look at...
Looking Forward: What’s in the Hopper for CleanStart?
With our established track record of success in classes and events in 2017, we have been making some plans to expand our offerings in 2018. New for 2018 will be our "Cleantech MeetUps", eventually on a monthly schedule. CleanStart, in collaboration with...
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cleantech
Someone the other day asked what the bitcoin revolution would mean for cleantech. That's a great question. Bitcoin is certainly is getting a lot of attention. Little wonder since bitcoin prices themselves were up 2000% in 2017 (creating a $275 billion...
ACR Solar’s Cool New Tech
Ever felt the heat from a building on a summer day and thought, “That heat is solar energy being wasted, that heat energy cost me more energy to cool my home!” Well a Sacramento stalwart entrepreneur had the same thought. Having worked with both PV and...