| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.09.2011 | Mascoma, Biofuels Maker Backed by Big VCs, Files for IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Big news today in New England cleantech—a sector that could certainly use some positive developments. Lebanon, NH-based Mascoma, a biofuels firm that plans to break ground on ... |
| 09.08.2010 | 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... |
| 09.08.2010 | 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 ... |
| 30.06.2010 | 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... |
| 30.06.2010 | 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... |
| 04.06.2010 | GM launches venture arm to keep up with automotive tech | Cars are quickly becoming the new connected devices. Equipped with voice-command, streaming media centers, navigation displays and more, the newest line of vehicles out of major automakers are borrowing more from computers, the web and mobi... |
| 04.06.2010 | GM launches venture arm to keep up with automotive tech | 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!
Cars are quickly becoming the new connected devic... |
| 24.05.2010 | 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... |
| 24.05.2010 | 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... |
| 23.04.2010 | Mascoma Collects $3.4M in Debt Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Mascoma, the Lebanon, NH-based developer of advanced methods for making ethanol from wood fiber and other non-edible plant matter, has raised $3.4 million toward a $10 million... |
| 01.04.2010 | 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... |
| 01.04.2010 | 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... |
| 27.10.2009 | 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 ... |
| 27.10.2009 | 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 ... |
| 15.09.2009 | Mascoma teams with Chevron to turn ethanol byproduct into diesel and jet 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!
Soon after announcing funding for Soane Energy — ... |
| 15.09.2009 | Mascoma teams with Chevron to turn ethanol byproduct into diesel and jet fuel | Soon after announcing funding for Soane Energy — a company working to clean up its oil extraction projects — Chevron released news that it will partner (PDF) with biofuel maker Mascoma to turn lignin, a byproduct of ethanol production, into... |
| 05.05.2009 | Innovating Through the Downturn: The View from the Nantucket Conference | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
At the Nantucket Conference, an invitation-only gathering of New England-area CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture partners, and select others, first-time attendees get a single blue ... |
| 15.04.2009 | From Ultracapacitors to Soybeans to Sludge: University Teams Pitch Local VCs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three local venture firms put on what amounted to a university startup fair at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square yesterday. I went hoping for a peek at a few of the companie... |
| 15.04.2009 | Mascoma to Cut Staff, Leave Boston | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston-based Mascoma, a startup developing techniques for making ethanol from high-cellulose feedstock such as wood chips, said yesterday it will consolidate its operations in... |
| 04.12.2008 | Re-energizing Energy Innovation: Experts Spar (Lightly) at Xconomy Forum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The role of technology entrepreneurs in rebuilding the U.S. energy economy was the main theme at Xconomy’s latest forum Tuesday night. Topping the agenda was an all-star panel... |
| 01.07.2008 | At Mascoma, Taxpayers Foot Much of the Biofuel Bill | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As part of a strategy to accelerate development of its biomass-to-ethanol technology, Cambridge, MA-based Mascoma appears to be sparking a little competition between state gov... |
| 06.05.2008 | Our Mascoma Math Coma | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here at Xconomy, tracking venture funding for local technology startups is one of our favorite pastimes. We don’t report on every single funding round we hear about, but when ... |
| 28.02.2008 | Mascoma Reportedly Raises $50 Million for Ethanol Production | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
(Updated, Feb. 28—This report now confirmed) According to an unconfirmed report this morning from Private Equity Hub, Boston-based Mascoma has arranged a sizable funding round... |
| 27.09.2007 | U.S. Cleantech Venture Deals Soar; A123 Tops New England List | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
U.S. venture capital firms poured money into clean technology startups in the first half of 2007, investing $892.6 million in 71 deals, a 70 percent jump from the $525 million... |
| 13.08.2007 | 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... |
| 20.12.2006 | Mascoma gets $14.8M to produce ethanol from biomass | Mascoma, a Cambridge, Mass. start-up that is trying to become the first commercial developer of cellulosic ethanol — something some environmentalists see as the most promising prospect for alternative, anti-global warming fuel — has won... |
| 13.11.2006 | Mascoma raises $30M for cellulosic ethanol | See our story here.
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| 12.11.2006 | Mascoma gets $30M for cellulosic ethanol — in bid to replace gasoline | Mascoma, a start-up that is trying to become the first commercial developer of cellulosic ethanol — something some environmentalists see as the Shangri La of alternative fuel — will announce tomorrow it has raised $30 million more in ventur... |
