Soros Fund Management and Silver Lake to launch clean-energy focused fund

February 25th, 2011
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Soros Fund Management LLC, founded by George Soros, and Silver Lake, a private equity firm, are combining forces to found Silver Lake Kraftwerk. According to the Wall Street Journal, the fund will invest in the energy and resource sectors and represents an attempt by Silver Lake to apply its traditional technology-driven investment strategy into the two sectors.

Silver Lake Kraftwerk will be headed by Adam Grosser, former partner at Foundation Capital, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.
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Soros Fund Management
Related People: George Soros; Jeff Eberwein; Robert Donald; Robert Soros; Scott Bessent; Zameer Arora
Related Entities: Pharos Financial Group (seeded) ; Quantum Emerging Growth Fund; Quantum Fund; Quantum Group of Funds; Soros Capital LP; Soros European Equity Fund; Soros Quantum Endowment Fund
Related Article Tags: Green, Socially Responsible, ESG and Sustainable Investmenting Hedge Fund News; Hedge Fund Jobs, Hirings and Firings; Hedge Fund Launches and Hedge Fund Closings

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by jill on April 30th, 2012

I think the idea behind this fund is so good. Clean energy is definitely the future and there is so much going into this. The future is investing in this. cheap furniture NYC


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