{"id":889,"date":"2009-01-26T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-05-10T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T10:29:23","slug":"biofuels-digest-released-summary-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/biofuels-digest-released-summary-of-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Biofuels Digest released summary of US venture capital investment in biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For 2008, VCs poured $680.2 million into US biofuels during 2008, including $437 million for cellulosic ethanol, $175.9 million in microalgae, $42 million in butanol and 25.3 million into systems and infrastructure providers. VC invested $110.5 million in the 4th quarter economic slowdown, after a lively $233 million in the 2nd quarter, high for the year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Summary of the years transactions by company, date, amount and investor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Petro Algae<\/strong>, $10 million, 12\/26: Undisclosed investors<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Coskata<\/strong>, $40 million, 12\/5: Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners, Sumitomo, Arancia, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners and TriplePoint Capital.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Solix<\/strong>, $10.5 million, 11\/12: I2BF Venture Capital,  Bohemian Investments,  Southern Ute Alternative Energy, Valero Energy and Infield Capital<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sapphire Energy<\/strong>, $100 million, 9\/18: ARCH Venture Partners, Wellcome Trust, Venrock and Cascade Investment<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Solazyme<\/strong>: $45.4 million, 8\/27: Braemar Energy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, The Roda Group and Harris &amp; Harris Group .<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Amyris Technologies<\/strong>, $90 million, 8\/15: DAG Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &amp; Byers, TPG Ventures, John Melo, Jeryl Hilleman, Kinkead Reiling, Jack Newman, Neil Renninger, Ralph Alexander, and Tamara Tompkins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aurora Bio Fuels<\/strong>, $20.0 million 6\/10: Oak Investment Partners, Gabriel Venture Partners, and Noventi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biofuelsdigest.com\/blog2\/2009\/01\/23\/vc-investment-in-us-biofuels-reaches-6348-million-in-2008-a-biofuels-digest-special-report\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nBy the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. For 2008, VCs poured $680.2 million into US biofuels during 2008, including $437 million for cellulosic ethanol, $175.9 million in microalgae, $42 million in butanol and 25.3 million into systems and infrastructure providers. 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