Sapphire Energy, a company that creates algae-based fuel, just announced a whopping $144 million in funding.
In recent years several startups have emerged to create fuel out of plant material, all hoping to lure people away from gasoline made from …
Aurora Algae, a developer of biofuels and biochemicals produced from processed algae, announced today that it has raised $22 million in its most recent round of funding.
The company is part of a small set of funded biologically-produced chemical companies …
Investing in biofuel companies that produce oil-alternatives fell 5.4 percent to $930 million in 2010, down from $980 invested in alternative fuel companies in 2009, according to a report from cleantech analysis firm Lux Research.
While investing in alternative fuels …
Two partners are leaving storied cleantech investment firm Khosla Ventures, as excitement has started to peter out in the once-buzzing clean technology space.
Khosla Ventures partners Jim Kim and Alex Kinnier have followed former partner Gideon Yu in leaving the …
Cleantech companies might not be feeling the sting of today’s market frenzy any worse than the rest of the pack. But for those companies, which typically require massive capital investments, a sustained downturn could crunch down on the sector’s badly-needed …
Investments in clean technology projects fell 10 percent in the second quarter this year to $1.83 billion when compared to $2.03 billion in the second quarter of 2010, according to research firm Cleantech Group.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led …
