Cleantech

Matchstar Venture Search is quickly becoming a leader in the Cleantech or "green" technology space. Although "cleantech" can be an all encompassing label, our focus is in a number of core areas:

• Energy (covering both incremental and disruptive technologies in Energy Generation, Efficiency, Infrastructure, Transportation and Storage)
• Manufacturing and Materials
• Water and Wastewater

Although we have completed searches in most of the above sectors, we remain domain agnostic and emphasize a scaleable "human capital" research process for effective sourcing across all areas of Cleantech.

What competencies does Matchstar bring to this accelerating growth sector? The increase in large institutional funding is bringing a demand for management with a unique set of talents. Driven by a traditional venture capital ethos, the "new" cleantech executive must bring a set of values and disciplines that has been historically found in the early stage tech environments:

• Extreme adaptability, flexibility, and multi-tasking capabilities
• A 24/7/365 "thrive or die" mentality
• Understanding of burn rates and follow-on financing
• Skills in building teams with frequently low levels of resources
• Brand building knowledge in a low "customer awareness" position
• Proven track record scaling early stage companies from funding to exit

Quite frequently, these companies require "cross-over expertise," where candidates are pulled from non-traditional domains to add competencies in their space. An example would be pulling semiconductor production talent into unrelated industrial manufacturing or software marketing talent into an emerging BtoB fuel space.

Matchstar's entire business model – stemming out of Series A-C exec placement – emphasizes these characteristics. Combined with our ablity to quickly employ research around "hard" characteristics (i.e. – deep domain expertise, functional performance assessments, etc.) and marry cultural and values based factors, success in Cleantech has been an absolute "natural" fit.

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