{"id":14828,"date":"2011-09-04T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T18:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/?p=14828"},"modified":"2011-09-04T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T18:15:36","slug":"solazyme-vs-originoil-whos-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/solazyme-vs-originoil-whos-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Solazyme vs OriginOil: Who&#039;s the Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background: <\/strong>This is an Elite Eight (quarter-final), Western Regional  match-up between #1 seed Solazyme and #11 seed OriginOil, in the  2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voting: <\/strong>Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. <a href=\"http:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/d.jsp?llr=5kkymgcab&amp;p=oi&amp;m=1101873817950\">To subscribe (free), visit here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The winner gets:<\/strong> Most votes advances to the Final Four (semi-finals), and a shot at the Championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The loser:<\/strong> Goes home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurels:<\/strong> Solazyme is the 2nd ranked company in the  2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. OriginOil is currently #33.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The match-up: <\/strong>It&#8217;s a tussle between the last two algal-based technologies in the  tournament, and one of the first match-ups between two publicly-traded companies.<\/p>\n<p>Solazyme defeated OakBio in the first round, 79-21, easily  handled Genomatica in round two, 62-38, and defeated Cobalt Technologies  55-45 in the Sweet Sixteen. The Cinderella of the tournament, OriginOil, upset #6 seed Genencor, winning 56-44 in round one, then defeated #3 seed Sapphire Energy 56-44 in round two, and bested Codexis 55-45 in the Sweet Sixteen.<\/p>\n<p>Solazyme is coming off a series of partnership announcements with  Roquette and others, and a celebrated IPO. It&#8217;s path of growing algae in  the dark and producing renewable oils has seen the company sell out its capacity through 2015 as it scrambles to raise $$ to meet the demand.  Solazyme took 79 percent of the vote in its first-round match-up against  OakBio.<\/p>\n<p>OriginOil, an algae-to-fuels technology developer that has recently acquired a hot new customer in MBD Energy, in Australia, for its algal growth and extraction systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deep Dive Data on OriginOil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascension-publishing.com\/TT\/OriginOil-TT.rtf\">OriginOil&#8217;s complete Hot 50 \/ Transformative Technologies profile is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: This is an Elite Eight (quarter-final), Western Regional match-up between #1 seed Solazyme and #11 seed OriginOil, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-producers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}