It’s no secret that seed and series A funding rounds are very hard to come by right now in cleantech, and perhaps for all startups. The massive VC firm, NEA, which manages around $13 billion and closed a $2.6 billion round last summer, has allocated a small amount of money for seed investing. Jon Sakoda, who was involved with funding OPower, gives an interview where says that NEA allocated about $20 million for seed investing and does investments as small as $100,000. NEA has become known for doing very large later stage investment rounds like ones at Bloom Energy and Fisker.

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