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Harvest Power Named to GoingGreen Top 50 Private Companies List
Organic Waste Management Leader Honored for Innovation, Market Opportunity, Commercial Value, March, 2010
by alwayson - alwayson.goingon.com
Harvest Power, a developer of energy and compost facilities for next-generation organics recycling, has been named to AlwaysOn’s GoingGreen East Top 50 Private Companies list. The awards recognize the most disruptive and fastest growing companies in clean and green technology in the Eastern United States and Canada. Harvest and other honorees were selected on the basis of five criteria: market opportunity, nature of innovation, commercialization, media buzz and awareness, and ability to create stakeholder value.
“Organic waste management is a unique green solution in that it not only reduces waste, but also recycles it into valuable new commodities, including renewable energy and nutrient-rich compost,” said Paul Sellew, CEO of Harvest Power. “We’re honored to be recognized by GoingGreen as one of the most promising companies in green today. This award is a testament both to our success to date in creating more sustainable communities and to the future promise of our innovative technology.”
Winners were selected by the AlwaysOn editors in collaboration with KPMG from a group of over 200 applicants. The list represents emerging growth companies from the full range of green sectors, including energy management, energy storage, green transportation, green materials and building, life-sciences, water treatment and technologies, biofuels, and wind and solar energy.
“The companies who comprise the AlwaysOn GoingGreen East 50 are leading the clean and green tech revolution by combining creativity with practical businesses solutions,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “These innovative leaders all have the potential to be 'the next big thing,' and we are excited to see what the future holds for each of them.”
Harvest develops sustainable solutions for communities by recycling organic waste into energy, nutrients and organic matter. Investors include venture firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Munich Venture Partners, as well as Waste Management.
About Harvest Power
Through innovative technologies and unparalleled industry experience, Harvest is ushering in a new era of organics recycling. We develop, build, own and operate state-of-the-art facilities that produce renewable energy and compost from discarded organic materials. We deploy best-in-class technologies for composting, biogas production, and biomass gasification. We provide the capital for our projects and top-tier talent to finance, engineer, construct and operate the facilities. By harnessing the energy and nutrients of organic materials, we enable communities to increase their energy independence, reduce their environmental impact, and harvest valuable resources.
About GoingGreen
Like its sister event in San Francisco, GoingGreen East is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet top investors and the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features keynote speakers, CEO showcase presentations, and elite panels where participants engage in high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. At GoingGreen East, our editors will also honor the GoingGreen Top 50 Private Companies on the east coast.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.
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