Press Releases

2010-07-20
AT&T and Petra Solar team to offer smart grid solar system technology
Combining the benefits of Petra Solar’s smart grid and renewable energy technology with AT&T’s wireless network enables utilities to improve power quality and grid reliability

2010-02-23
AquaSpy Group wins inaugural State Government innovation award


2010-02-08
Petra Solar Announces $40MM Growth Financing


2009-09-30
A123 Systems Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering and Exercise of Over-Allotment


2009-09-24
A123 Systems Announces Pricing of Its Initial Public Offering


2009-04-13
A123 Raises $69 Million in New Round of Private Financing
GE Deepens Relationship with Battery Manufacturer A123Systems Through New Investment and Planned Addition of GE’s Technology Head to Board of Directors

2008-12-08
UltraCell Wins U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Advance Fuel Cell Manufacturing
Company Will Receive Up to $2.4 Million, Along with its Partners, to Develop Leak-Checking Technology for High-Volume Fuel Cell Manufacturing

2008-12-08
UltraCell™ Unveils Industry’s First Ultra Compact Portable Fuel Cell with Integrated Hybrid-Battery Capability
XX55™ Fuel Cell Delivers More Peak Power, Greater Fuel Efficiency, Breaks All Industry Benchmarks Relating to Temperature and Altitude

2008-10-05
SPIE Professional features Multiwave Photonics


2008-06-23
UltraCell Receives Additional Funding from U.S. Army CERDEC and DARPA
Company’s Next-Generation Micro Fuel Cell System Embraced by U.S. Military; Investment to Drive Design Developments, Field Readiness

2008-05-02
Multiwave Photonics closes €5M Series B financing round
Multiwave Photonics, a company based in Maia, Portugal, has closed its Series B financing round of €5 million (US $8M).

2008-04-01
EDF Energies Nouvelles Enters Strategic Partnership with California-Based Nanosolar
EDF Energies Nouvelles (Paris:EEN - News) announces the signing of a photovoltaic panel supply master agreement with Nanosolar and a $50 million investment in the company via EDF Energies Nouvelles Réparties.

2007-10-31
Atraverda closes £10.4m (US $21.4m) Series B financing round, Advanced Materials Company welcomes new investors


2007-08-29
Fundo ES Ventures II encaixa 11,3 milhões de euros com a venda da Chipidea à MIPS Technologies


2007-08-27
MIPS Technologies Acquires Chipidea
MIPS Technologies Acquires World's Leading Analog Intellectual Property Company

2007-06-22
Espírito Santo Ventures invests 2,4 M EUR in OutSystems
OutSystems today announced that it has closed a 2,4 M Euro investment round from ES Ventures, the venture capital of the Espírito Santo Group, through the ES Ventures II Fund.

2007-06-18
Chipidea Marks 10th Year Anniversary By Announcing World’s First Analog Intellectual Property (IP) Foundry
Chipidea announced it has created the first Analog IP Foundry™ to help customers circumvent the challenges of analog and mixed-signal design

2007-05-28
YDreams and PT launch a brand new way to access the Internet from home
PT Comunicações and YDreams launched a pioneering product, where users can quickly and intuitively access the Internet to obtain useful localized contents via a touch screen, from the comfort of their own home.

2007-05-16
Oceanlinx selected as the fourth developer for the £28 million Wave Hub project off the coast of Cornwall in South West England
Oceanlinx Limited, a leading international developer of wave technology has been chosen to deploy its unique wave energy converter at the UK’s Wave Hub, to be built off the coast of Cornwall.

2007-04-17
Agrilink attracts further $7.5 million investment from Australian and European investors
Agrilink has attracted $7.5 million in funding from Australian and European investors, including $2.5 million from European venture capital firm, Espírito Santo Ventures (ESV), based in Lisbon, Portugal, and $1 million from the Australian-based Centre for Energy and Greenhouse Technologies (CEGT).

2006-12-29
Chipidea secures 5M EURO in series C funding
Lisbon, Portugal – Chipidea, the leading analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions provider, today announced that it has closed a series C funding round for a total of 5M Euro from sole investor Fundo de Capital de Risco para Investidores Qualificados ES Ventures II (ESV), a fund managed by Espírito Santo Ventures, a leading Portuguese private equity company within the BES Group.

2006-09-29
Coreworks S.A. receives investment round from ES Ventures
Lisbon, Portugal – Coreworks S.A. (formerly Coreworks, Lda) has received a round of funding from ES Ventures, to support the development of a proprietary reconfigurable computing IP platform to be used in the implementation of algorithms in the areas of audio and video transmission, sample rate conversion and compression/decompression. Expanding marketing and sales activities is another big objective of this operation. INESC-ID, the research institute from where Coreworks originated, has also taken part in this investment round.

2006-08-02
UltraCell To Deliver XX25 Micro Methanol Fuel Cell Systems To U.S. Air Force Research Lab in Ohio
LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 2, 2006 - UltraCell Corporation, a leading manufacturer of reformed methanol fuel cells for portable power, announced today that it has received a contract award for delivery of its XX25™, a 25-watt reformed methanol fuel cell system, to the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, for use as an airman power device. The contract was awarded by GTS, with the fuel cell units scheduled for delivery in September 2006.

2006-01-20
BES Investe 7,5 MEUR na YDreams
O Grupo BES vai investir 7,5 milhões de euros na YDreams adquirindo cerca de 15% do capital daquela empresa portuguesa fornecedora de soluções tecnológicas na área da computação, telecomunicações, processamento de imagens, sistemas de informação geográfica e engenharia ambiental. O Grupo BES deterá 2 lugares não executivos no Conselho de Administração composto por um total de 7 administradores.

2004-08-27
E.S. Tech Ventures aliena participação na Clarity Payment Solutions
A Espírito Santo Tech Ventures, ex BES.com, vendeu a sua participação de 48% na empresa Clarity Payment Solutions, com sede em Nova Iorque, ao segundo maior processador de pagamentos do mundo: a Total Systems, com uma mais valia de 127% sobre o valor investido.