Nanotechnology Company

Brite Solar Inc

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Funding Goal $1,800,000
Funding Raised So Far $0
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining $1,800,000
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

Company Overview

Mankind's future may very well depend on how we manage food production, energy, water and land use. Solar energy production can be a key factor in this balancing act but the land demand is very high. Hydroponic greenhouse agriculture can be a great asset, but its energy requirements are high. The ideal answer is a self-sufficient and sustainable greenhouse technology which eliminates the need for external energy sources.

Brite Solar is a nano-materials company that has developed a transparent solar glass technology based on Die Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) . The first target market is greenhouse solar glass, which enables the greenhouse to generate electricity needed for sustaining the internal environment. Using this solar glass, the greenhouse's carbon footprint is significantly reduced as its reliance on externally generated electricity is significantly reduced or eliminated. This is a great value proposition for the greenhouse operator since it reduces the operating cost for the greenhouse by 28% which is currently the cost attributed to energy.
Brite's technology is based on nano-materials which are ink-jet printed on to glass panels, eliminating the expensive and complex production facilities needed to produce traditional solar panels. Variations of the technology will also be used to produce auto-dimming glass as well as architectural glass for building construction.

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Greenhouse Solar Glass

This solar glass is used to either retrofit existing greenhouses or in the construction of new greenhouses

Management

Nick Kanopoulis
Chief Executive Officer
Nick K......

Nick Kanopoulos is the President and CEO of Brite Solar SA which he founded in 2010. Before starting up Brite Solar, he was the Managing Director for Channel Development in Europe/Africa/Middle East for the Solar BU of Applied Materials. Previously, Dr. Kanopoulos was the Director of the Multimedia & Communications (MMC) division of Atmel Corp, where he was responsible for managing product development groups based in the United States, Greece, Sweden, and China. Dr. Kanopoulos was also founder and CEO of Data Communications Technologies, which was acquired by Atmel after its third operating year. In addition, he was the Director of the Integrated Electronics Group at RTI International. For over 10 years, he served as an adjunct professor in Electrical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Rick Orlando
Chief Business Development
Rick O......

Rick O...... has been instrumental in the development and commercialization of several advanced semiconductor technologies At Xicor Inc, he commercialized the precursor of Flash memory technology into consumer, automotive and communications market places As founder and CEO of Summit Microelectronics he successfully introduced programmable analog technology into power management applications in communications and consumer products resulting in an acquisition by Qualcomm.

As founder and CEO of Alta Analog, he developed and commercialized an analog nonvolatile memory technology into the LCD display market. He is a seasoned multi-national executive with experience in managing organizations in the US, Europe and Asia. He holds a BSEE/CSE from the University of Massachusetts and is the inventor of 11 patents.

Elias Stathatos
Chief Technology Officer
Elias S......

Professor Elias S...... was born in Patras, Greece. He obtained his first degree in Physics from University of Patras and then his Ph.D. degree from Engineering Science Department also at University of Patras. Professor S...... is currently at the Technological-Educational Institute of Western Greece and Head of the Nanotechnology and Solar applications laboratory. He has more than 85 publications in peer reviewed journals, 50 proceedings papers and 4 book chapters which are recognized of more than 3500 citations. He is also co-investigator of four patents related to solar energy technology and he is member of numerous societies. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies, International Journal of Photoenergy and Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. His research interests include conversion of solar into electrical energy using dye-sensitized solar cells and polymer solar cells. Other areas of his research interests are electroluminescen

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Funding Goal $1,800,000
Funding Raised So Far $0
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining $1,800,000
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
Investor Ownership
Interest / Dividend
Previous Funding

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Brite Solar Inc

Los Gatos, CA 95033, US

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