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| Jul 11, 2011 | Cleantech startups, here’s why you need a Commercialization Executive | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Warning — Trite Statement to Follow: The leadersh... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | D.O.E. Grants $83 Million To Biofuels Startups (Not One Of Them In Silicon Valley) | Maybe it’s just a biofuels thing this year, but it seems like the feds are giving cleantech grant money to companies and institutions that are based anywhere but in the nation’s capital of venture capital.
The U.S. Secretary of Energy Steve... |
| Mar 18, 2011 | Scientific Alliance newsletter 18th March 2011 | Scientific Alliance newsletter 18th March 2011
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Mainstream opinion is that the way to tackle climate change is to invest in subsidised renewable energy. Vinod Khosla thinks differently. He is a venture capitalist prepared to take ... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | Clean Tech Investor Vinod Khosla: "Environmentalists Get In The Way" | “Environmentalists get in the way…and do more damage than they know,” said Vinod Khosla, one of the world’s leading clean tech investors, today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Why? Self-described environmentalists dem... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | On the GreenBeat: GE puts $28 million in China wind JV, Amyris shares start trading today | GE announced it has formed a joint venture with Chinese company Harbin Power Equipment to service the $13 billion wind industry in China. The country is the world’s biggest market for wind turbine sales, according to the release, and is exp... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Range Fuels opens plant to commercialize methanol | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Range Fuels, one of the more successful biofuel s... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Range Fuels opens plant to commercialize methanol | Range Fuels, one of the more successful biofuel startups backed by Khosla Ventures, announced today that it has opened up its first commercial plant to make cellulosic methanol out of non-food feedstocks. Located in Georgia, the facility is... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Solazyme bottles $52M for algae-based fuel | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
San Francisco-based biofuel company Solazyme anno... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Solazyme bottles $52M for algae-based fuel | San Francisco-based biofuel company Solazyme announced today that it has landed $52 million in a fourth round of venture capital to commercialize its algae-based fuel. Morgan Stanley joined its flock of backers, which also includes Chevron ... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | Cleantech investment up 65 percent worldwide in first half of 2010 | Venture capital investment in cleantech in the second quarter totaled $2.02 billion across 140 companies in North America, Europe, China and India. A little down from the $2.04 billion invested in the first quarter, the total still reflects... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | Cleantech investment up 65 percent worldwide in first half of 2010 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capital investment in cleantech in the se... |
| May 18, 2010 | Khosla company EcoMotors snags $18M to develop “breakthrough” car engine | Even as many electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles near their launch dates — foreshadowing the demise of the internal combustion engine — a small Michigan company called EcoMotors is betting that fossil fuel engines are here to stay for a wh... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Amyris gets $47.8M more for sugarcane-based biofuel | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the more successfu... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Amyris gets $47.8M more for sugarcane-based biofuel | Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the more successful companies in the emerging biofuels industry, just took another step up, raising $47.8 million from Singapore venture capital firm Temasek Holdings. The company relies primarily on sugarcane... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Amyris racks up $41.8M for renewable biofuels | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the most generousl... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Amyris racks up $41.8M for renewable biofuels | Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the most generously-funded startups using microorganisms to produce synthetic biofuels, has added to its third round of funding, taking it from $24.7 million to $41.8 million. But Amyris is not going to stop t... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Westly Group closes $120M fund for cleantech | The Westly Group, the firm founded and managed by former California state controller and financial officer Steve Westly, just closed a $120 million fund to fuel revenue-generating cleantech companies. With 13 companies already in the Menlo ... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Westly Group closes $120M fund for cleantech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Westly Group, the firm founded and managed by... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | LanzaTech churns steel factory emissions into fuel | Biofuel companies are gaining momentum — with the market fixing its eyes on the conversion of corn and other agricultural stocks into ethanol. But another area of the business seems to be heating up: turning trash into transportation fuel. ... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | LanzaTech churns steel factory emissions into fuel | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Biofuel companies are gaining momentum — with the... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | Amyris takes $24.7M for renewable biofuels | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the best-funded co... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | Amyris takes $24.7M for renewable biofuels | Amyris Biotechnologies, one of the best-funded companies deriving biofuels from synthetic microorganisms, has raised $24.75 million of a targeted $62 million third round of venture financing, according to a regulatory filing with the Securi... |
| Jun 8, 2007 | Craig Venter wants to patent some life forms | Craig Venter, the controversial entrepreneur who led the private-sector effort to sequence the human genome, is now seeking a patent for a “minimal genome,” a type of synthetic biology aimed at creating life forms, or living “machines.”
It ... |
| Oct 12, 2006 | Amyris gets $20M from high-profile investors to find alternative fuel | Two high-profile Silicon Valley investors known for their aggressive support of alternative energy have helped pump $20 million into a new Emeryville biology company called Amyris.
The investment is notable because Amyris is using synthetic... |