Plas2Fuel captures $4.3M for waste-to-fuel technology
Plas2Fuel, maker of equipment that produces synthetic crude oil, has raised $4.25 million in a first round of funding for the commercial rollout of its products. Based in Kelso, Wash., the company sells vessels for converting plastic waste into fuel and manages the sale of what is produced to oil refineries.
Provided by Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Saffron Hill Ventures and Reference Capital Management, the funding round fell a little short of the company’s $5 million… Continue Reading
Image Metrics makes it easier and cheaper to put real faces in games
We’ve said before that the last great challenge in computer animation and video games will be to render realistic human faces. As it stands now, it takes a lot of computing power, time, expense and expertise to create faces that don’t really look all that great.
Still, the latest animated movies and games show a lot of progress. And Image Metrics, one of the companies behind progress in facial animation, is announcing today it is making it… Continue Reading
Marrone Organic Innovations raises $10M for green pesticides
Marrone Organic Innovations, a Davis, Calif.-based based maker of natural pesticides and weed killers, has wrapped up a $10 million second round of funding and expects a second closing of $1 million later this month. The round was led by Stuart Mill Venture Partners and Contrarian Group; returning investors included One Earth Capital, Saffron Hill Ventures, Clean Pacific Ventures, Wavepoint Ventures and local angel investors.
Marrone will use the proceeds to develop and commercialize six new… Continue Reading
Siperian, master data management co, gets $25M more
Siperian , a Silicon Valley company that helps businesses unify their data about customers, products and organizations fragmented across different systems (with so-called “master data management” software), has raised $25 million more in financing.
The San Mateo, Calif. company attracted the round, its fifth, from a number of investor. They include Investor Growth Capital, which led the round, and previous investors Anthem Capital, ArrowPath Venture Capital, Blumberg Capital, Brightspark, Constellation Ventures, Red Rock Ventures, Reed Elsevier… Continue Reading