BioPetroClean, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based water purification company, has closed its second round of financing with $5 million from 21 Ventures, which invested $3.5 million in its first round. The money will help the company set up a sales network …
Well-known but still young biofuel company Sapphire Energy has more than doubled its funding to more than $100 million for its “green crude,” a fuel it says will mimic the best characteristics of the oil we drill for today.
Sapphire’s …
Alt-chemistry battery maker PowerGenix has significantly upped its funding with a $30 million fourth round. The company plans to make batteries for electric vehicles, power tools, electronics and other applications.
One of PowerGenix’s most ambitious plans is to crack into …
Sometimes a lot of people have a good idea all at once. That seems to be the case with car-related Internet startups right now, with vLane, launching a couple months after Driverside and RepairPal, two companies focused on giving consumers …
A stealth-mode San Francisco outfit called RPX, which calls itself a “patent acquisition services company”, has taken an undisclosed funding from top firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles River Ventures.
Details look thin on exactly what RPX does, …
Tesla Motors, the heavily-funded electric car company that produces the high-end Roadster sports car, has settled on a location in San Jose, Calif. for its manufacturing plant to make a more market-oriented car model.
The site of the new factory …
Genomatica creates renewable chemical from sugar water — While most chemicals are petroleum-based, several startups are trying to create new alternatives. One of the first to succeed is Genomatica, which says it has a cheap process to make 1,4-butanediol, a …
Anagran, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that builds “flow management” products to help handle traffic on Internet service provider (ISP) and corporate networks, has taken $8.6 million in a fourth funding round.
Fairly often, flow management simply means handling peer to …
Sometimes, a nice jet of flames is the best way to get a job done. More often, it’s not. Advanced Electron Beams, which just took a new round of funding led by General Electric’s venture arm, is a company that …
CO2Stats, a member of the most recent Y Combinator class, has taken an angel funding round of less than $1 million, according to VentureWire.
The company, also called Enernetics, analyzes the energy footprint of websites then offers the option of …
Mountain View, Calif.-based Soasta, a company that tests applications on cloud networks to iron out problems before users migrate to the cloud, has raised a second funding round of $6.4 million.
Soasta sells its services to other companies, who want …
Coming on the heels of our post yesterday morning about BitTorrent’s new partnerships, it has emerged that the company has taken on $17 million in new financing, according to a filing ferreted out by peHUB.
The funding is a surprise, …
It’s no simple task to store terabytes of information. In addition to just keeping the data safe, companies often require analytics and upkeep for their stored info. Infobright, one of the companies that provides such services, has just raised another …
Zetta, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that plans to offer remote storage for companies, has raised $10.68 million in a first round of funding.
The company is not yet public and has released little information on its plans. However, the funding …
Envivio, a South San Francisco, Calif. company that handles video compression for broadcasting companies, has taken a significant $25 million financing.
The platforms that Envivio is aimed at include most of the largest markets — mobile TV, Internet TV and …
Yet another thin film manufacturer has picked up a massive funding raise. SoloPower, based in Milpitas, Calif., has taken almost $200 million to expand its manufacturing capacity, according to this morning’s VentureWire.
Like Miasole, Nanosolar and several others, SoloPower makes …
Tesla Motors may have significant competition in the high-end electric vehicle space soon, if Fisker Automotive continues on its current path. The Irvine, Calif. sports car company just announced another $65 million in funding, led by a Middle Eastern firm, …
ThermaSource, a Santa Rosa, Calif. company that does drilling and other construction services for the growing geothermal power industry, has acquired Tecton Geologic of Windsor, Calif.
Less than a month ago, ThermaSource announced a $41.5 million funding. The company’s prospects …
To a layman, electricity seems like a fairly straightforward proposition: It flows like water through wires and into gadgets, end of story. But the real story is a bit more complex, which is why Enphase Energy, a company that makes …
Sportgenic, a company that claims to provide high-value market reach to sports advertisers and marketers, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding.
The company targets specific groups of sports enthusiasts based on their predilections, from country club …
