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WikiCell Designs

Startup WikiCell Designs is creating edible food and beverage packaging, and just raised a first round of funding from venture capitalists Polaris Venture Partners and Flagship Ventures. The idea could reduce the use of plastics and perhaps also gross people out. Read more »

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Joule — the folks behind the unusual hybrid solar-biofuel technology that officially launched last year — have raised a second round of funding of $30 million. Read more »

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Judging from the flurry of venture-capital deals, big oil company investments, and attention from politicians on startups creating biofuels from algae, it might seem like the world has fallen in love with the technology to power vehicles with pond scum. But after all of the algae […] Read more »

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LS9, a company which is using a genetically modified version of e.coli bacteria to make diesel from biomass, on Thursday announced it has raised $25 million in its third round of funding. Chevron Technology Ventures’ venture capital arm, CTTV Investments, participated in the round, making this […] Read more »

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Just don’t call them a biofuel firm, says Bill Sims, CEO of a startup called Joule Biotechnologies that is officially launching on Monday. Biofuels have gotten a bad rap and Joule wants none of the negative PR. But there’s actually a difference in what Joule does: […] Read more »

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A massive cauldron of bubbling construction debris doesn’t seem that valuable, but a group of investors that are backing waste-to-power startup Ze-gen certainly think it could be. This morning, Ze-gen said it has raised $20 million in a Series B financing from Middle Eastern industrial conglomerate […] Read more »

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