New Investors Total Energy Ventures and ELFH Holding join existing investors Braemar Energy Ventures, CYM Ventures and DuPont Ventures In California, NexSteppe, announced that it has raised $22M in its third round of funding. New investors Total Energy Ventures and ELFH Holding GmbH, a vehicle of the Berninghausen family in Germany, a serial founder and […]
It’s hard to make a valuable molecule out of low-value biomass. And even harder to make money out of it. What are the rules of the road, as understood by those who have dared, and done it, and lived to tell the tale? So, the Biofuels Digest Index is up 10 percent since May, but it’s […]
Sustainable development ready to take a major step forward – but what does sustainable mean, in the larger context? And why is it critical, even beyond environmental and economic concerns? Back in 2002, DuPont CEO Chad Holliday, collaborating with Stephan Schmidheiny (then board chair of AVINA foundation) and Sir Philip Watts (then board chairman at Shell), […]
In Florida, Dyadic International filed a Form 10 with the SEC. If accepted by the SEC (they have 60 days to respond with questions), Dyadic will become a fully reporting public company again. For those newer to the scene, Dyadic imploded in 2006-07 over a series of mishaps relating to an Asian venture, which resulted […]
KiOR, the struggling cellulosic biofuels producer, issued these statements as part of its most recent SEC 10-Q filing: During the first quarter of 2013, the Company commissioned the Columbus facility’s hydrotreater and fractionation units, and made the Company’s first cellulosic diesel and gasoline shipments in March 2013 and June 2013, respectively. During 2013, the Company […]
Algae researchers think they may have discovered a trigger that establishes gender, and sexual reproduction. We humans experience asexual cellular division, or mitosis, though we rarely write songs or poetry in celebration of it. Our earliest life experience reflects that process, as two cells become four, and four become eight. As multicellular organisms, however — and […]
In the UK, a new report from the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership shows the UK automotive sector has been revitalized by consistently applied policy centered on cutting carbon. Carried out for LowCVP by E4tech and the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School, the study was conducted between March and June 2014. The […]
Are your biotechnologies run down, listless? Do they poop out at pitch meetings? Are they unpopular? The answer to your problems may well be in this list — in the technologies that eliminate the waste that comes from biorefining itself? Making industrial biotech more efficient, transformative and sustainable. So, join the happy peppy people following our 10 […]
You’ve heard its psychoactive cousin, marijuana, described as weed, smoke, ganja, bud, grass, mary jane, reefer, or herb…but advanced bioeconomy feedstock? Yep, no kidding, there’s a movement to bring hemp back in a big way. The Digest investigates. We first started tracking hemp back in 2009, when a 43-acre biomass trial launched in California that features […]
The following is excerpted from KiOR’s most recent 10-Q quarterly report, as filed with the SEC. “We have substantial doubts about our ability to continue as a going concern. To continue as a going concern, we must secure additional capital to provide us with additional liquidity. On March 31, 2014, we entered into a Senior […]
