Cobalt Technologies Among Silicon Valley's Top 100
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Announcing the 2010 GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100
By Weston McBride
Published: October 18, 2010
Smart money and clever business innovations push the green community to create new solutions for tomorrow's clean world.
Global economic depression. Dropping energy prices. Increased international competition. The past year has challenging for the greentech sector, but smart money, clever business innovations, and government support have pushed the industry along and identified winning strategies.
As the industry grows and matures, narrowing down the top 100 greentech companies becomes an increasing challenge. Industries that were seldom looked at in Silicon Valley are now getting a green facelift, reinvesting in cleaner and more efficient systems.
This year's GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100 Top Private Companies list is characterized by companies weathering stormy economic weather through innovative business models, multinational partnerships, and creative use of government incentives. Adhering to the usual criteria, our judges evaluated hundreds of companies, assessing the breakthrough potential of their technologies, market size, management team, and investors. In many cases, we selected mature companies, but for the overall winner, we chose the energy-efficiency customer-engagement experts OPOWER, a young company with a proven business model, a seasoned management team, and a long list of premier clients.