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Nanosolar

500 employees

Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity.

Basic info

Industry

renewables & environment

Sectors

Solar
Renewable Energy
Nanotechnology

Date founded

2002

Funding rounds raised

Total raised

$300M

from 20 investors over 20 rounds

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Nanosolar raised $70M on June 1, 2012

Investors: OnPoint Technologies, Aeris Capital AG and Mohr Davidow Ventures

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Nanosolar raised $300M on March 1, 2008

Investors: Grazia Equity, Omidyar Network, Lone Pine Capital LLC, Energy Capital Partners, Skoll Foundation, The Carlyle Group, Riverstone Holdings and Electronic Data Systems

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Nanosolar raised $20M on September 24, 2007

Investors: U.S. Department of Energy

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Nanosolar raised $75M on June 21, 2006

Investors: Grazia Equity, Swiss Re, OnPoint Technologies and Mohr Davidow Ventures

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Nanosolar raised $20M on May 1, 2005

Investors: Benchmark Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures and OnPoint Technologies

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Nanosolar raised $5M on June 24, 2003

Investors: Benchmark Capital

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