| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.11.2019 | Booming, blooming micro-algae | Hundreds of thousands of species of micro-algae float through the world’s waterways. Just a fraction have been categorised or studied. It leaves an imaginarium of possibilities to explore.
For decades, the hottest and most tantalising possi... |
| 16.02.2017 | A Guide to Seafood & Aquaculture Technology: Startups Raise $193m in 2016 but More Innovation Needed | Startups in seafood and aquaculture technology raised $193 million in 2016, a 271% increase on the $52 million raised across both 2014 and 2015, according to AgFunder research.
Investment in seafood-related startups grew in 2016 as investor... |
| 10.08.2016 | Powerplant Ventures Raises Largest Animal-Free Food Fund to-date with $42m Close | Powerplant Ventures has closed a $42 million fund aimed at funding plant-centric companies. The fund’s goal is to leverage technologies that tap into plants’ benefits and various applications to support what it describes as the “next wave o... |
| 07.11.2014 | First wave of products containing Solazyme's microalgae-based food ingredients hits shelves | San Francisco-based microalgae specialist Solazyme - which posted a net loss of $39.7m on revenues up 66% to $17.6m in the third quarter - saw its shares plummet this week after admitting that progress at its new oils and lubricants facil... |
| 13.06.2011 | 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... |
| 04.05.2011 | Braemar Energy Launches $300 Million Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Braemar Energy Ventures, which has offices in New York and Boston, plans to raise $300 million for a new fund, according to an SEC filing. Braemar focuses on energy technology... |
| 19.03.2011 | Solazyme to Go Public through $100M IPO | On March 11, 2011, Solazyme, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based developer and supplier of algal oil and bioproducts for the fuels and chemicals, nutrition, and skin and personal care markets, filed an S-1 registration statement to go public th... |
| 07.10.2010 | In wake of Amyris IPO, projected winners and losers in biofuels | Biofuels company Amyris had its IPO last week, and the results were considered a decent exit for some of its investors (mostly its early-stage ones). But don’t expect that to have any effect on fellow biomaterials IPO hopefuls Gevo and Petr... |
| 11.09.2010 | Solazyme Adds Richard Branson as Investor in Series D Financing | Solazyme, Inc., a South San Francisco, CA-based biotechnology company producing renewable oil and bioproducts from microalgae, has added Sir Richard Branson as an investor in its Series D financing.
Sir Branson, who has invested in Solazyme... |
| 26.08.2010 | Solazyme Receives Strategic Investment from Bunge in Series D Financing | Solazyme, Inc., a South San Francisco, CA-based industrial biotechnology company producing renewable oil and bioproducts from microalgae, announced that Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG), a global agribusiness and food company, has joined its Series ... |
| 26.08.2010 | Bunge Joins Solazyme Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
South San Francisco-based Solazyme, which is developing a technology to use fast-dividing algae to produce biofuels, collected a $52 million Series D round of venture financin... |
| 11.08.2010 | PetroAlgae chances weak green IPO market with $200M filing | 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!
PetroAlgae, a company claiming that it has found ... |
| 11.08.2010 | PetroAlgae chances weak green IPO market with $200M filing | PetroAlgae, a company claiming that it has found a cheap way to convert algae into fuel — a goal that formidable competitors like Sapphire Energy and Solazyme are also chasing — just filed for a $200 million IPO despite a weak public market... |
| 09.08.2010 | Solazyme Raises $52 Million | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The South San Francisco company that pioneered the idea of using algae to make biofuels, Solazyme, said today that it has raised $52 million in Series D financing. New investo... |
| 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 Raises $52M in Series D Financing Round | Solazyme, Inc., a South San Francisco, CA-based renewable oil production company utilizing algal biotechnology, has raised $52m in its Series D financing round.
The round was led by Braemar Energy Ventures and new investor Morgan Stanley, w... |
| 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 ... |
| 17.03.2010 | Algae fuel contender Aurora lands $15M — but can it grow? | 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!
On the surface, biofuels derived from algae seem ... |
| 17.03.2010 | Algae fuel contender Aurora lands $15M — but can it grow? | On the surface, biofuels derived from algae seem to be an ideal solution to wean cars and trucks off gasoline. Algae grows anywhere, produces fuel that can work in today’s vehicle tanks, and seems cheap enough. Based on these arguments, Aur... |
| 07.12.2009 | Solazyme Receives $21M DOE Grant for Biorefinery Project in Pennsylvania | Solazyme, Inc., a South San Francisco, CA-based renewable oil and bioproducts company utilizing innovative algal biotechnology, has received a $21.8m federal grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE).
The funds, which will complement sig... |
| 25.09.2009 | 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... |
| 25.09.2009 | 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... |
| 25.09.2009 | 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 ... |
| 06.03.2007 | Solazyme, raises more than $10M to develop algae for biofuels, cosmetics | Solazyme, a Menlo Park company that developing ways to use algae to produce biofuels and cosmetic treatments, says it has raised $8 million in a second round of funding, led by the Roda Group.
Additionally, it says it raised more than $2 mi... |
| 02.03.2007 | Algae-for-biofuel companies, Aurora and Solazyme, raise cash | Several companies using algae to make biofuel have raised money or are looking for money, VentureWire reports today (sub required).
In January, Rich Hilt, of Menlo Park, Calif.’s Live Fuels, wrote an article for VentureBeat, explaining the ... |
