Claremont Creek Ventures 'LifeCycle' venturing model attracts a solid flow of energy deals Claremont Creek Ventures is located in Oakland, Calif. It’s not exactly an area one would call a high-tech haven. But being one of the only VC outfits in that part of the Bay Area is a good thing for Nat Goldhaber, one of the managing partners at the Oakland-based firm."We're looking to turbocharge the uncommon investment," said Nat, in this interview with me recently. "[And, to find deals that are very, very, very early stage in the University of California, at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories." There are a lot of new technologies coming out of these centers and with very few VCs in the area, it's a "clean field for us to be able to find the ...   [ Read more ]