“Dr. Branz has given us key advice about a variety of investment opportunities in the green energy space, providing us with detailed, ground-truth insights that others have missed.

Dr. Branz is always quick to respond and eager to dive into the details of a relevant technology, giving us the kind of insights that can both point the research on an investment opportunity in the right direction and provide roadmaps for technology and market development within a portfolio company. Howard can quickly focus on the key technical differentiators of promising approaches, with a keen eye on the technology's commercialization potential and an unusually precise understanding of the interaction between the technical value proposition and the needs of fast-paced markets such as solar photovoltaics. When he writes a report, we can count on it to be concise, insightful, and most importantly, relevant to the unique contours of the opportunity under investigation. Howard consistently flags issues we hadn’t considered, and often suggests key experiments to remove technical risk from an opportunity. The breadth of his expertise in solar energy, and his ability to merge his technical understanding with his knowledge of the market, has proven incredibly useful to us."