| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.12.2011 | Biofuels Firm Coskata, Backed by Boston VCs, Files for IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s another data point for New England cleantech investors. Coskata, a Warrenville, IL-based developer of cellulosic ethanol, has filed paperwork for an initial public offe... |
| 21.08.2011 | Coskata Holds First Close of Series D Round of Financing | Coskata Inc., a Warrenville, Illinois-based developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, held a first close of its Series D round of financing.
The amoungt remained undis... |
| 20.01.2011 | Coskata grabs biggest slice of USDA’s $405M in biofuels loan guarantees | The U.S. Department of Argiculture today awarded $405 million in loan guarantees for biofuel refineries.
All three recipients, Coskata, Enerkem and Ineos Bio, make biofuels by using waste as a feedstock, which is considered an advantage in ... |
| 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... |
| 22.07.2010 | 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... |
| 22.07.2010 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 21.06.2010 | 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.... |
| 21.06.2010 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 18.05.2010 | 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... |
| 27.04.2010 | Coskata Closes Equity Financing | Coskata Inc., a Warrenville, Illinois-based developer of platform technology for the production of biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, has closed a round of equity financing.
French oil major TOTAL invested in the ro... |
| 03.02.2010 | 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... |
| 03.02.2010 | 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... |
| 28.12.2009 | 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... |
| 28.12.2009 | 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... |
| 15.12.2009 | 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... |
| 15.12.2009 | 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... |
| 13.11.2009 | 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 ... |
| 13.11.2009 | 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... |
| 07.10.2009 | 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... |
| 07.10.2009 | 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 ... |
| 01.10.2009 | 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... |
| 01.10.2009 | 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 08.09.2009 | 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... |
| 08.09.2009 | 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. ... |
| 03.09.2009 | Fulcrum BioEnergy squeezes fuel from garbage | Fulcrum BioEnergy claims it can derive commercial-scale ethanol from municipal waste — and it just ran the first demo that proves it, the Pleasanton, Calif. company says. Already, it’s moving on its planned Sierra BioFuels Plant, a facility... |
| 22.07.2009 | Coskata looks to stimulus to finish commercial biofuel plant | Even though cellulosic ethanol maker Coskata just brought in $40 million in a third round of funding in November, it needs more to finish off its new commercial-scale plant — and the government stimulus package for biofuels looks like just ... |
| 22.07.2009 | Coskata looks to stimulus to finish commercial biofuel plant | 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!
Even though cellulosic ethanol maker Coskata just... |
| 12.01.2009 | Mayfield brings cleantech sector expert on board | Mayfield Fund announced today that it’s hired Coskata founder Todd Kimmel, a specialist in cleantech investing, to expand its portfolio of energy technology companies. Before now, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based firm has focused almost exclusi... |
| 05.12.2008 | Coskata Collects $40M from Blackstone, ATV, Globespan, Greatpoint | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Coskata, the Warrenville, IL, cellulosic ethanol startup that debuted with a bang at the Detroit Auto Show last January, has raised $40 million in additional capital in a Seri... |
| 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... |
| 16.01.2008 | Ethanol Minus the Corn: ATV’s Bill Wiberg on Coskata and Its Big Deal With GM | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Switching the nation’s vehicle fleet from gasoline to biofuels such as corn-derived ethanol could reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, which is why President Bush wa... |
