Novomer, an eco-friendly plastic maker, raises $6.6M

Novomer, an eco-friendly plastic maker, raises $6.6M

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Just as cars guzzle oil and spew out carbon dioxide, so does plastic manufacturing. Worse, landfills are overflowing with plastics that won’t degrade for hundreds of years, and harmful chemicals from some plastics threaten living organisms or eat away at the ozone layer.

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Khosla invests $15M into eco-friendly chemistry company, Segetis

Segetis, a private company in Plymouth, Minn. that provides ways to build materials from low-cost renewable sources rather than fossil materials such as petroleum or gas, has raised $15 million in a first round of capital from Khosla Ventures.

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