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| 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... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | On the GreenBeat: Nissan confirms Leaf delays, McPhy lands hydrogen storage deal | Here’s the latest action we’re following today on the GreenBeat:
Nissan admits to Leaf delays — VentureBeat first reported on expected delays of the all-electric Nissan Leaf last year. Now the automaker has formally acknowledged Leaf delive... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Biofuel company LS9 closes $30M round | The company gets support for its renewable fuels from BlackRock
Industrial biotechnology company LS9 announced Tuesday morning the close of a $30 million round of funding led by BlackRock, a firm with over $3 trillion in assets. All of LS9’... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | LS9 Raises $30 Million More To Replace Petroleum- With Plant-Based Fuel And Chemicals | A new SEC filing revealed that LS9 — a biotechnology startup turning plant-based materials into fuel and chemicals for use within traditional petroleum-based systems — has raised a series D investment of $30 million.
The round was led by Bl... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | On the GreenBeat: Buffet’s BYD nixes electric sedan in China, A132 exec joins Digital Lumens | Here’s some of the latest action we’re following on the GreenBeat today:
BYD reportedly cancels electric car — The Warren Buffet-backed Chinese automaker saw lukewarm sales of its plug-in hybrid, Autoblog Green reports, selling just over 10... |
| 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 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 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 22, 2010 | Energy Dept. pours $122M into turning sunlight into fuel | The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it has awarded $122 million to a team of scientists in California to establish an Energy Innovation Hub focused on converting sunlight into different types of liquid fuel.
An interdisciplin... |
| Jul 22, 2010 | Energy Dept. pours $122M into turning sunlight 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!
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today tha... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Kleiner-backed Siluria turns natural gas into green chemicals | Siluria Technologies, a young startup that engineers bugs to convert natural gas into organic chemicals, has just emerged from stealth. Sounds dull, but there are lots of dollar signs attached — including an investment from Silicon Valley’s... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Kleiner-backed Siluria turns natural gas into green chemicals | 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!
Siluria Technologies, a young startup that engine... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Green steel: LanzaTech to turn Chinese mill’s emissions into energy | Five years after its founding, LanzaTech, a company that transforms waste gases released by steel mills into fuel ethanol, is finally commercializing its technology through a new partnership with China’s major iron and steel maker Baosteel.... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Green steel: LanzaTech to turn Chinese mill’s emissions into energy | 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!
Five years after its founding, LanzaTech, a compa... |
| Jun 15, 2010 | LS9, Creator of Synthetic Microbes to Make Biofuel, Edges Toward Moment of Truth | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Every hot startup has to put up or shut up at some point. This is when it’s time to stop talking about the gee-whiz founding idea and scientific progress. It’s the point when ... |
| May 24, 2010 | Tony Blair is Khosla’s answer to Kleiner’s Gore | Venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers counts former Vice President Al Gore among its partners — now its Bay Area neighbor, Khosla Ventures, has recruited a super star statesman of its own to add heft to its cleantech practice: f... |
| May 24, 2010 | Tony Blair is Khosla’s answer to Kleiner’s Gore | 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 firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... |
| 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... |
| Mar 25, 2010 | Genomatica bags $15M as green chemicals trounce biofuels | Despite a rosy outlook early on, biofuels have hit a wall. Too expensive and unwieldy to scale, most projects have stalled in the demonstration stage, unable to make the leap to market. Several of the companies that make them, however, have... |
| Mar 25, 2010 | Genomatica bags $15M as green chemicals trounce 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!
Despite a rosy outlook early on, biofuels have hi... |
| Feb 3, 2010 | Biofuel leader LS9 buys demo plant to churn out renewable diesel | 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!
LS9, one of the biggest names in the burgeoning b... |
| Feb 3, 2010 | Biofuel leader LS9 buys demo plant to churn out renewable diesel | LS9, one of the biggest names in the burgeoning biofuels market, just took a giant step closer to making cost-effective renewable petroleum on a commercial scale. Armed with $25 million in capital raised in September, it has bought a demons... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Biofuel maker Codexis stuns cleantech market, files for $100M IPO | 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!
As blog after blog comes out with end-of-year gre... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Biofuel maker Codexis stuns cleantech market, files for $100M IPO | As blog after blog comes out with end-of-year green IPO predictions, the same three companies have consistently been tapped: Solyndra (which filed for its $300 million public sale two weeks ago), Silver Spring Networks (the anointed Smart G... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Biofuel companies still on shaky ground despite wins with airlines | When it comes to biofuel adoption, the airlines are way ahead of the automakers. In August, synthetic fuel maker Rentech signed a deal to produce 1.5 million gallons of diesel made from sewer sludge to power ground equipment for eight airli... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Biofuel companies still on shaky ground despite wins with airlines | 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!
When it comes to biofuel adoption, the airlines a... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | DOE, USDA hand out $24M to biomass projects | Biomass is often overlooked in favor of sexier renewable energy sources like solar and wind — it’s dirty, capital intensive and not emissions free — but it is one of the only drop-in technologies in the alternative fuel space (meaning that ... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | DOE, USDA hand out $24M to biomass projects | 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!
Biomass is often overlooked in favor of sexier re... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Chevron follows the money, bats down climate bill | In a not so surprising turn of events, Chevron’s CEO heir apparent, John Watson, spoke out against U.S. climate change legislation — offering the party line argument that increasing regulation will jack up energy prices and let the air out ... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Chevron follows the money, bats down climate bill | 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!
In a not so surprising turn of events, Chevron’s ... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Qteros and ACT: Sewage goes in one end, fuel comes out the other | Qteros, a company that until now has been one of many using microbes to convert cellulosic feedstocks into fuel, has broken away from the pack, partnering with Israeli firm Applied CleanTech to turn recovered sewage into a biofuel replaceme... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Qteros and ACT: Sewage goes in one end, fuel comes out the other | 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!
Qteros, a company that until now has been one of ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Navy taps Solazyme to make jet fuel out of algae | The Pentagon announced today that it has chosen San Francisco-based biofuel company Solazyme to supply the Navy with jet fuel made entirely of algae derivatives. This isn’t the first time it has worked with the military, having already had ... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | USA, LS9 Secures $25M Funding | LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company, an industrial biotechnology company pursuing the commercial development of renewable fuels and chemicals, completed a $25m round of funding.
Participating investors in the round included CTTV Inve... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Chevron chips in $25M for biofuel company LS9 | 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!
LS9, perhaps the company to watch synthesizing bi... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Chevron chips in $25M for biofuel company LS9 | LS9, perhaps the company to watch synthesizing biofuels and chemicals from organic feedstocks like switchgrass, has brought in $25 million in a new round of capital from Chevron Technology Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partn... |
| Sep 12, 2009 | Interview: Vinod Khosla Is On The Hunt For Great Technologies | In venture capital, Vinod Khosla likes to go his own way, which is why he’s been so successful. He was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and then moved to venture capital and became a star partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he backed Jun... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| Dec 4, 2007 | Group Led by Harvard’s George Church Will Bid for Genomics X Prize | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A local group has finally thrown its hat into the ring for the $10 million Archon X Prize for Genomics, and it’s a biggie: the newly minted Personal Genome X-Team (PGx), led b... |
| Aug 30, 2007 | Rubbing Elbows and Dodging Bees With Synthetic Biology Pioneer George Church | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On Monday I had the privilege of hanging out with Xconomist George Church and a few other distinguished scientists—Craig Venter, Freeman Dyson, Robert Shapiro, Dimitar Sasselo... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | Directing Clean-Energy Investment in Massachusetts: An Xconomy Debate | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In a survey publicized last week, the non-profit Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) confirmed what most local energy entrepreneurs and investors have been saying for... |
| Jul 30, 2007 | LS9 says it has produced petroleum-like cleaner fuel | LS9, a San Carlos, Calif. company, says it has developed a petroleum-like fuel made out of renewable sugars, pointing the way to a potentially more efficient type of clean alternative to dirty crude oil.
Executives of the Silicon Valley com... |
| 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 ... |
| Mar 13, 2007 | LS9, biofuel company, raises $5M | LS9, a biofuel company based in San Carlos, Calif., has raised $5 million in a first round of funding from Khosla Ventures and Flagship Ventures, Venturewire reports today (subscription only).
We mentioned the LS9 backing last week, but the... |
| Mar 9, 2007 | LS9 and Gevo latest biofuel companies, backed by Khosla Ventures | LS9 and Gevo are the two latest biofuel start-ups in Silicon Valley backed by venture capital firm Khosla Ventures.
LS9, of San Carlos, was first mentioned by the Mercury News after it launched recently. It is using synthetic biology to pro... |
| Lean launchpad and life science entrepreneurs: Lessons learned in therapeutics | This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked t... |