Where is the Clean Tech Jackpot?

by Glen Grant

Dr. Danny Petrasek is trying to answer that question. Currently on the research and teaching faculty in Bioengineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech and the clinical faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine, Petrasek is uniquely positioned at the intersection of biology, physics, and engineering to determine what the future might look like. And as a Venture Partner at Voltage Capital, he’s putting his money where his mouth is. “Betting on the solutions to our energy shortcomings is the goal of every green tech investor,” he says. “But in truth we have no idea where to solutions will come from. It’s a constant search that will see many failures before an explosive breakthrough.”

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