MI Ventures, Canary Ventures, On Grid Ventures, Thomas Varghese, Bodley Group, John D. Owen, Noopur Shukla, Andrew Boszhardt Jr., Sandeep Bhanote and others also participated in the round.
Sun has a snazzy new chip called UltraSparc T1, as well as a new "grid" venture, in which the computer maker will, like a utility, rent computing power to customers.
Forget gigabyte; grid technology ventures into the realm of petabyte (1015) storage capacity.
The pair signed agreements to co-operate in such matters as a unified electricity grid and new ventures in satellite rocketry.
The three not only received $250,000; they were also given the opportunity to work for Cisco on their proposed new venture, a "smart grid" framework to reduce the passive consumption of power by electronic devices.
The second is primarily about green entrepreneurship, from solo ventures in off-the-grid couture and furniture design, to communal projects like the vast urban farm established and tended by members of the Vietnamese-American population of New Orleans.
General Electric plans to invest $1.5 billion in technology and financial services joint-ventures with Chinese state-owned enterprises, including a pair of ventures with China's State Grid to develop monitoring and diagnostics capabilities and green power distribution equipments.
Other writers have ventured off the traditional food grid, notably Barbara Kingsolver in "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and Michael Pollan in "The Omnivore's Dilemma".
Under its amended offer GE will take over the bulk of Alstom's gas- and coal-fired turbines business, forming three 50-50 joint ventures with Alstom's electricity-grid, renewables and French coal and nuclear operations.
Yet, when technology has ventured far beyond a simple grid of numbers, the Calendar applications we use haven't seemed to evolve beyond that.
It's home to the Energy Foundry, a $22.5 million nonprofit impact venture fund that backs gamechanging grid and clean energy start-ups.
