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European and North American cleantech venture investment totals $3.6bn in 200616/02/2007. Source: AltAssets. 
 North American and European venture capital investment in the cleantech category reached a record $3.6bn in 2006, representing a significant increase from the $2.5bn invested in 2005 and the $1.7bn invested in 2004, according to the Cleantech Venture Network.
About $775m was invested in cleantech in Q4 2006, a ten per cent increase over the Q4 2005 investment of $704m. The fourth quarter 2006 total was down 28 per cent from the record $1.1bn invested in Q3 2006.
Energy-related investment accounted for $2.6bn, or 72 per cent, of total 2006 cleantech venture investment. This represented a near doubling over the $1.3bn invested in the energy category in 2005 and almost three times the amount invested in 2004.
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