Nanosolar is a privately held company with financial backing from an elite group of private technology investors, including:

• Premier venture funds
  • Benchmark Capital -- the venture firm behind such franchise companies as eBay, Handspring, Juniper Networks and Red Hat Software;

  • MDV - Mohr Davidow Ventures -- the venture firm behind such leading companies as Rambus, Epigram, FormFactor, and Agile Software;

• Leading corporations
  • EDF -- the world's largest electric utility;

  • AES Corporation -- one of the world's largest power producers;

  • Energy Capital Partners -- a multi-billion developer of energy projects;

  • Riverstone Holdings -- a multi-billion developer of energy projects of the Carlyle Group;

  • Swiss Re -- the world's leading and most diversified reinsurer;

  • Mitsui & Co., Ltd. -- Japan's oldest and largest international trading company with over 300 years of business presence in the world and more than $100 billion in annual business;

• Blue-chip family offices
  • First Ventury -- SAP founder Klaus Tschira's investment vehicle;

  • the Skoll Foundation -- formed by eBay founding President Jeff Skoll;

  • the private fund by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar;

• Top-ranked hedge funds
  • Lone Pine Capital -- one of the world's top ranked hedge funds;

  • SAC Capital -- one of the world's leading hedge funds;

  • GLG Partners -- Europe's largest hedge fund;

  • LGT Capital Group -- Europe's largest wealth and asset management group;

  • Grazia Equity -- the original backer of Conergy AG, the world's largest PV system integrator;

  as well as

• Stanford University -- the place where many of our team members received their education;

• Individual investors including Martin Roscheisen, Sergey Brin, Carl & Larry Page, Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman, Sunil Paul, Bernhard Beck, and Christian Reitberger.