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  <title>Green Options &#187; andur</title>
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    <title>Move Over Gore: Bjork Becomes Newest Cleantech Celebrity VC</title>
    <link>http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/05/move-over-gore-bjork-becomes-newest-cleantech-celebrity-vc/</link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Jennifer Kho</dc:creator>
    
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<p class="MsoNormal">Think of Björk and the Icelandic musician&#8217;s bizarre videos, eccentric clothing and eclectic music might spring to mind. Now she&#8217;s bringing a new theme to her persona: money.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reykjavik, Iceland-based Audur Capital is raising money for its second venture-capital fund, named Björk, focused on greentech startups (via <a href="http://earth2tech.com/2008/12/19/the-latest-green-vcbjork/">Earth2Tech</a> and <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/bjork-icelandic-singer-and-venture-capitalist/?hp">The New York Times</a>). The singer and Audur jointly established the fund to help turn around Iceland&#8217;s economy, which was crushed by the country&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/world/europe/09iceland.html?scp=1&#38;sq=iceland%20economy&#38;st=cse">banking collapse</a> in the fall. Audur seeded the fund, expected to close in March, with an investment of 100 million Icelandic kronur (about $816,330).</p>
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