Blue Marble Ventures Announces Investment Into Clean Green Guy
Los Angeles, CA, March 19th, 2010—Today, Blue Marble Ventures (www.bluemarbleventures.com) announced an investment into Clean Green Guy (www.CleanGreenGuy.com), the world’s largest online green/clean business and technology resource center.
Clean Green Guy provides a community platform for entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and other greentech related businesses to connect, share, and identify opportunities. One primary benefit of Clean Green Guy is the ability for inventors and entrepreneurs to connect with experts that can help vet their ideas and technologies, as well as receive valuable community feedback. Investors and greentech purchasers on Clean Green Guy gain access to a global market of scrutinized new and established technologies and products. It is free for individuals, investors and business to join Clean Green Guy, as well post deals.
“We realized that there was a significant void in the marketplace that effects both entrepreneurs and investors. Determining which technologies in this global disaggregated industry are viable and which are not makes it incredibly difficult to make the kind of well-informed decisions that would lead to investments." stated Patrick McKenna, a Managing Partner of Blue Marble Ventures. "Clean Green Guy is building an inclusive community of experts and strategic players in these technologies and marrying this with a virtual marketplace where both entrepreneurs and investors can gain exposure to one another, as well as analysis from credentialed experts, which we believe will facilitate more transactions that ultimately foster the next generation of breakthrough technologies and the companies behind them.”
As part of the investment, Kyle C. Murphy, one of Blue Marble Ventures Managing Partners will become CEO of Clean Green Guy. According to Clean Green Guy's founder, Nikhil R. Jain, "Kyle is a passionate and creative CEO with substantial experience in all aspects of operating and scaling a start-up enterprise, which is exactly what Clean Green Guy needs right now."
Mr. Murphy’s previous experience includes over 20 years of executive managerial experience in both startups and global enterprises. He has held CEO, COO, CFO and CMO positions and has a proven track-record of helping startups achieve success and profitable exits through his expertise in execution, marketing and international business.
“I am excited to take on the role as the CEO of Clean Green Guy and naturally I am very positive about the company’s prospects,” stated Kyle Murphy. “The green/clean tech space is a multi-trillion dollar industry that holds the potential not only for companies to secure significant profits but also to alter our current excessive use of resources and creation of waste and pollution. I believe the company has the potential to play a pivotal role in the development of new and exciting technological solutions to our most pressing global concerns.”
According to Nikhil, the funds will be used to further develop the Clean Green Guy services portfolio and increase outreach efforts to entrepreneurs, strategic partners and sources of capital for Clean/Green Technology startups. As well as to secure additional resource including acquiring the services of notable experts in the fields of Clean/Renewable Energy generation to help investors and entrepreneurs validate technologies and further vet new concepts and business plans.
About Blue Marble Ventures:
Blue Marble Ventures focuses on the so-called ‘micro-fund’ level of funding to help inventors and entrepreneurs reach proof of concept stage and prepare for an institutional round of capital or other strategic path.
The Fund’s mission is to invest capital and management resources in promising, very early-stage technologies and business models, primarily within the green/clean technology space. Our objective is to leverage our investments so as to realize venture level returns for us, our investors, and for the other shareholders and managers of each portfolio company.
Contact:
Oliver Starr, Managing Partner
Blue Marble Ventures, LLC
oliver@bluemarbleventures.com
Phone: 424-772-4114
Fax: 424-785-1233
http://www.bluemarbleventures.com