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The Environmental Business Cluster provides several sponsorship opportunities for business and other organizations to support innovation. These sponsorships may vary in price, but all are high in value. Please contact Erika Kula at erika@prescienceintl.comfor more information.
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron is one of the world's largest integrated energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, we conduct business in more than 100 countries. We are engaged in every aspect of the crude oil and natural gas industry, including exploration and production, manufacturing, marketing and transportation, chemicals manufacturing and sales, geothermal, and power generation. We're also investing in renewables and advanced technologies.
Technology is propelling our growth. We're focusing on technologies that improve our chances of finding, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas.
We also are investing in the development of emerging energy technologies — such as finding better ways to make nonfood-based biofuels, creating hydrogen fuel systems, devising commercial uses for nano-materials and expanding our renewable energy resources.
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Fenwick & West
Fenwick & West is a full service, national law firm with a primary focus on technology and life sciences clients ranging from start-ups to established companies of national and international prominence. Our litigation and tax groups service clients from a wide range of additional industries. We have approximately 300 attorneys providing services from our Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise offices. We are committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services and solutions that focus on global technology industries and issues. Fenwick & West believes that technology will continue to drive our national and global economies and we look forward to partnering with our clients to create the products and services that will help build great companies. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environment and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers.
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Citi
Citi is today's pre-eminent financial services company and was built to create a highly diversified financial services company that could act as one to deliver solutions to clients throughout the world. With the most diverse array of products and the greatest distribution capacity of any financial firm in the world, our 350,000 employees manage 200 million customer accounts across six continents in more than 100 countries. |
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Autodesk
Autodesk, a leading provider of 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, understands the important role that design can play in creating a sustainable future. We are committed to helping leading clean tech companies bring their ideas to market faster and more profitably.
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BayPoint Benefits
BayPoint Benefits provides innovative benefit and human resource solutions customized for each of their clients. BayPoint's Clean Technology Group specializes in structuring, implementing, and administering turnkey benefit programs for high potential companies in the early stages of an aggressive growth cycle. As these companies grow, the diversification of employee needs becomes overwhelming, a substantial management challenge. It is important to begin with a creative roadmap which will identify these needs so that problems or challenges do not arise without an already established solution. Recognizing both the growth and importance of the Clean Technology industry, our Firm strongly believes in developing a well thought out benefits strategy so that these early-stage companies can recruit and retain the most talented employees.
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Alloy Ventures
Alloy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management that invests in the entrepreneurs creating the next generation of ground-breaking Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Cleantech companies.For the last 30 years, Alloy has leveraged the operational experience, extensive networks and forward-thinking vision of its partners to help start and build over 200 market-leading companies in fields such as software, semiconductors, mobile, medical devices, diagnostics, and laboratory instrumentation. Some of our successful investments include Amgen, AMCC, Applied Biosystems, Aspect Communications, CV Therapeutics, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Nuance Communications, Octel, PMC-Sierra, Red Brick Systems, Remedy, and Verity – and our current portfolio includes companies like Barrx, Molecular Imprints, Optimedica, Pacific Biosciences, and Vivotech which are poised to become the next global leaders. |
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Aderly
For your development in Europe, setting up your company in France
Aderly (The Lyon Area Economic Development Agency) is one of the first economic development agencies created in France. Founded in 1974, it is also among the first to have developed in international markets, with the creation of offices in New York and Tokyo.
The Agency’s co-founders are the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Greater Lyon, the Rhône County Council and the Lyon-Rhône MEDEF Business Association. Aderly operates with vital support from some sixty active members, including firms, international leaders in education and research, decision-makers and other key figures in the Lyon area’s economic life.
Aderly works in close collaboration with the Invest in France Agency (IFA) and its many delegations abroad, as well as with the competitive clusters of the Lyon region: Lyonbiopôle, Axelera, Lyon Urban Truck & Bus, Imaginove, Techtera, and others.
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Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
For more than 125 years, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has been delivering exceptional property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses and individuals around the world.
Today, we are the 11th largest property and casualty insurer in the United States and have a worldwide network of some 120 offices in 27 countries staffed by 10,400 employees. The Chubb Corporation reported $48 billion in assets and $13.2 billion in revenues in 2008. According to Fortune magazine, Chubb is the 203rd largest U.S.-based corporation. The magazine also includes Chubb in its list of “America’s Most Admired Companies.” Forbes listed Chubb as one of America’s 400 Best Big Companies.
We have emerged as a leader in the insurance industry not on the basis of our size or our longevity. We consistently strive to build lasting relationships with our customers and 8,500 independent agents and brokers, and we aim to be the best at what we do – by delivering unparalleled service and innovative, scalable and specialized products backed by financial strength and third-party endorsements.
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development (R&D). NREL's mission and strategy are focused on advancing the U.S. Department of Energy's and our nation's energy goals. The laboratory's scientists and researchers support critical market objectives to accelerate research from scientific innovations to market-viable alternative energy solutions. At the core of this strategic direction are NREL's research and technology development areas. These areas span from understanding renewable resources for energy, to the conversion of these resources to renewable electricity and fuels, and ultimately to the use of renewable electricity and fuels in homes, commercial buildings, and vehicles. The laboratory thereby directly contributes to our nation's goal for finding new renewable ways to power our homes, businesses, and cars. |
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The California Energy Commission
The California Energy Commission is the state's primary energy policy and planning agency. Created by the Legislature in 1974 and located in Sacramento, the Commission responsibilities include:
* Forecasting future energy needs and keeping historical energy data.
* Licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts or larger.
* Promoting energy efficiency by setting the state's appliance and building efficiency standards and working with local government to enforce those standards.
* Supporting public interest energy research that advances energy science and technology through research, development, and demonstration programs.
* Supporting renewable energy by providing market support to existing, new, and emerging renewable technologies; providing incentives for small wind and fuel cell electricity systems; and providing incentives for solar electricity systems in new home construction.
* Implementing the state's Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.
* Planning for and directing state response to energy emergencies.
With energy challenges facing the state, the Commission and its dedicated staff of state employees stand ready to turn challenges into opportunities and help Californians continue to have energy choices that are affordable, reliable, diverse, safe, and environmentally acceptable. |
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. Pacific Gas and Electric Company and other utilities in the state are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission. The CPUC was created by the state Legislature in 1911. |
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