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Leading Edge Equipment Technologies
https://leadingedgetech.io/Last activity: 01.02.2021
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At Leading Edge Equipment Technologies, we’ve developed a revolutionary crystal growth manufacturing technology that creates kerfless, single-crystal silicon wafers for solar panels. Learn more at www.leadingedgetech.io.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Wilmington
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $7.6M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Clean Ener... | cleanenerg... |
| - | PRIME Coal... | primecoali... |
| - | Prime Impa... | primeimpac... |
| - | DSM Ventur... | venturing.... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.10.2020 | Series A | $7.6M | - |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.02.2021 | How Do You Define Carbontech? The Big Climate Tech Hype for 2021 | Elon Musk recently announced he would give $100M to the team that can develop the best carbon capture technology. If 2020’s peak-hype for climate tech (beyond climate tech itself) was Green Hydrogen, 2021 is kicking off with a strong focus ... |
| 16.12.2020 | VC funding in solar 2020: perovskites, silicon and utility-scale foundations, plus lots of software | During the great thin-film PV scare of the late aughts, venture capitalists showered billions of dollars upon scores of largely undeserving solar startups. The solar startup pipeline is smarter these days, as are, one hopes, the venture cap... |
| 02.11.2020 | Energy funding: Voltus raises $25 million for demand response and DERs, plus VC for new solar silicon production | The energy transition is going to need flexible loads, efficient customer premises and cheaper solar. Here are how some entrepreneurs and investors think we’ll get there.$25 million for Voltus, a distributed energy resources platform Voltus... |
| 27.10.2020 | Leading Edge Equipment Technologies Closes $7.6 Million Series A | WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading Edge Equipment Technologies, the maker of revolutionary silicon wafer manufacturing equipment for solar panels, announced today the closing of $7.6 million in Series A financing led by Prime Impac... |
| 27.10.2020 | Daily funding roundup - October 26th, 2020 | Lightyear raised $3.7M; Rune Labs landed $5M; Gauss has secured $10M; Panoply picks up $10M Lightyear: Lightyear is a New York-based startup that wants to make it easier for large companies to procure networking infrastructure like internet... |
| 27.10.2020 | Leading Edge Equipment has a technology to improve solar manufacturing and $7.6 million to go to market | Only a few weeks after the successful public offering of Array Technologies proved that there’s a market for technologies aimed at improving efficiencies across the solar manufacturing and installation chain, Leading Edge Equipment has rais... |
| 20.10.2020 | Why coatings for solar glass are a ‘holy grail’ for the energy transition | Solar and wind have dominated electric generating capacity additions in the U.S. in recent years as their plummeting prices have enabled their competitiveness to surge. In fact, according to the annual levelized cost of energy (“LCOE”) repo... |