June, 2008: SRV invests seed capital in Promethegen Corporation - an MIT spin-off with a method for increasing the efficiency of biofuel production using high tolerance yeasts. Sky Lance joins the board.
---2007 Events---
December, 2007: Sky Lance appears in article on growth of the "green" investing space by BusinessWeek's SmallBiz Edition. View article.
November, 2007: Sky Lance speaks at the 11-2007 Investor's Circle Fall Conference in Boston.
September, 2007: Sky Lance becomes advisor to Fontaine Clean Energy Partners, a renewable energy fund.
August, 2007: Sky Lance published in Inc. Magazine article gauging the views of various investors regarding a start-up company seeking financing.
May, 2007: Investors' Circle announces new Patient Capital Collaborative led by Sky Lance of Sustainable Resource Ventures (the predecessor to SustainVC).
---2010 Events---
November, 2010: Sky Lance moderates Investors' Circle conference in Washington D.C.
October, 2010: SustainVC named a Pioneer Fund at SOCAP 10, and will be one of the first to receive a GIIRS rating. The Global Impact Investing Ratings system (GIIRS), provides social and environmental impact ratings for companies and funds seeking to raise capital from impact investors. This ratings systems is based upon Impact Ratings and Investment Stadards (IRIS) common language for reporting social metrics.
May, 2010: Sky Lance is moderator of the Investors' Circle San Francisco conference on sustainability; and Tom Balderston is announced as new Managing Principal of SustainVC after having wound up his duties as President of the Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance.
---2009 Events---
July, 2009: Sky Lance joins the board of ORPC Holdings, the holding company to Ocean Renewable Power Company.
June, 2009: Sky Lance, along with Don Shaffer, president of RSF Social Finance, makes a presentation to Women Donors Network on the “Opportunities and Pitfalls of Angel Investing.”
May, 2009: The PCC establishes a Joint Metrics Committee with Investors' Circle (IC), to measure the triple-bottom-line impact of PCC portfolio companies and IC Conference Finalists.
April, 2009: Sky Lance is highlighted in a Reuters Online article on the growth of the CleanTech sector.
Sky Lance gives a workshop on the Power of Angel Investing, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation.
Sky Lance makes a presentation on the Patient Capital Collaborative at the Investors’ Circle Spring Conference.
March, 2009: Sky Lance joins the board of Rivertop Renewables