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More bad news about cellulosic biofuel maker Range Fuels. The financially-strapped company reportedly plans to shut down its plant in Georgia after making just one batch of ethanol. It needs to more raise more money and tackle technical problems at its first commercial plant. Read more »

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For next-generation biofuels to make any type of dent in the fossil fuel industry, oil companies will have to get on board, and here comes one to the rescue for the struggling cellulosic ethanol sector. Oil giant Valero is backing cellulosic ethanol startup Mascoma. Read more »

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The inevitable future of clean(er) power is natural gas. Startup Ciris Energy, which uses biotech to convert coal into methane gas, announced this morning that it has brought on high-profile venture investor Khosla Ventures for a Series B round. Read more »

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SB Nation, which runs a network of almost 300 team-focused and regional sports blogs, has closed a new $10.5-million round of financing from Khosla Ventures and several other venture funds, and the company’s rapid growth contains some valuable lessons for other web-based media efforts. Read more »

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Hulu might slash the price of Hulu Plus in half, from $9.95 a month to $4.95 a month. The possibility of a price cut could indicate the subscription service, which is still in beta, might not have generated the consumer interest that Hulu had hoped for. Read more »

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Cogenra has developed a concentrating PV system with a heat harvester to produce electricity and heat water. The company is one of a growing number of hybrid system developers vying for generous incentives from states such as California. Read more »

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Amyris IPO: The S-1, By the Numbers

Amyris, which started trading on the NASDAQ today, has racked up millions of dollars from investors since its founding in 2003, including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and French oil giant Total. For some of those backers who took a chance early on, it’s a decent exit. Read more »

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Amyris IPO Update: DOE Funds Roll In, Losses Top $136M

One of the possible greentech IPOs on the horizon is looking a bit bullish. This week next-gen biofuel producer Amyris amended its S-1 saying it plans to raise up to $122 million in an IPO, up slightly from its previously planned max offering of $100 million. Read more »

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Yet another biofuel startup has filed for an IPO this week, and this time its backers are Silicon Valley heavyweights. On the heels of PetroAlgae filing its S-1, Gevo, which is backed by Khosla and Virgin Fund, plans to raise up to $150 million in an IPO. Read more »

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Calera Corp., a startup working to capture emissions from industrial flues and recycle it into pavement and building materials, has won a $19.9 million vote of confidence in a government program for projects recycling carbon emissions in to useful projects. Read more »

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Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla have just turbo charged diesel engine startup EcoMotors International with a “substantial” amount of second-round financing. EcoMotors announced today that Khosla’s venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and Gates are the “two exclusive investors” in this round. Read more »

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Get ready to start hearing a whole lot more about stealthy low-power server maker SeaMicro. The under-the-radar company has finally unveiled its server technology that consumes a quarter of the power of a regular server but packs more than 2,000 CPU cores and costs $139,000. Read more »

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Here’s one reason why greentech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla might have been a bit skeptical of stealth energy storage company EEStor last year — looks like he’s invested in a company that could be a competitor called Recapping (that is if EEStor ever releases a product). Read more »

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Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors and onetime frontman for the plug-in Chevy Volt, never seemed a likely candidate to spend his retirement laying low and playing golf. Well now we know of at least one of the projects “Maximum Bob” will be taking on: […] Read more »

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Over the next 10-15 years we will fundamentally reinvent the structure of society said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures speaking today at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco. Khosla explained that he’s now investing in areas that two years ago he would never have considered. Read more »

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Sakti3, a Khosla-backed battery startup spun out of the University of Michigan, has filled its coffers with $7 million — more than doubling its total fundraising to date. Read more »

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Here’s the latest sign that the next-generation battery business is just really tough for startups: On Friday and over the weekend local Illinois media reported that Peoria, Illinois-based battery startup Firefly Energy has stopped operating. Specifically The Peoria Journal Star reported on Friday that Firefly Energy […] Read more »

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While nuclear giant Areva declined to disclose how much it plans to pay for solar thermal startup Ausra this week, the deal speaks volumes about greentech exits (or a lack there of) as well as the solar thermal industry. For several of the venture capitalists who […] Read more »

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The turn of the new year seemed to act like the flip of the light switch in terms of greentech venture investing — already in 2010 greentech startups, and particularly smart grid firms, are seeing a rush of investment. And it looks like Vinod Khosla — […] Read more »

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UPDATED: Wyclef Jean, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews and Justin Timberlake are just a few of music stars that will take part in tonight’s Hope For Haiti Now benefit concert, starting at 5 p.m. PST and 8 p.m. […] Read more »

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Recently, I’ve been pondering the role that lists play in my life — from Twitter’s “playlists of people“ to Umberto Eco’s thoughts on lists as a cultural tool for “facing infinity” to my own ideas about the use of “someday list” for lingering tasks — which should […] Read more »

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When the Department of Energy announced that it was awarding 14 data center efficiency projects $47 million this morning, one name piqued my interest: SeaMicro. The stealthy server maker has remained under the radar despite raising at least $10 million from backers like Khosla Ventures, Draper […] Read more »

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In February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The two talked […] Read more »

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In an interesting twist involving how the $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds are being allocated, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this morning announced that energy storage technology received 16 grants for a total of $185 million from the U.S. federal government. While the list […] Read more »

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Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), one of the most respected funds in Silicon Valley, says that it’s closed NVP XI, a $1.2 billion fund that will invest in diverse sectors and geographies. NVP, which recently recorded a major hit with the $405 million sale of video conferencing […] Read more »

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When news breaks that a company is in talks to be acquired, pundits are often quick to point to it as a positive sign. But in reality, it all depends on the valuation and the price of the deal. Over the past couple of days the […] Read more »

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Amyris Biotechnologies, which is developing synthetic organisms to make chemicals and biofuels, is closing in on its third round of funding. The Emeryville, Calif., company announced Thursday it has raised $41.75 million of a targeted Series C round of approximately $60 million. The announcement represents an […] Read more »

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It looks like Ausra’s plan to sell components, instead of building large solar-power plants on its own, has started rolling. Ausra on Wednesday announced it has been selected to supply a critical component, a solar steam boiler, for a 100MW concentrated solar thermal power project being […] 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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Stealthy solar startup SkyWatch Energy is in the process of raising $3.2 million in its first round of equity financing, according to a Securities and Exchanges Commission filing in June. Khosla Ventures this week divulged it invested in the company as a side note to an […] Read more »

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Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest cleantech backers and the founder of Sun Microsystems, may be keeping an eye on the hype about lithium-ion batteries, but the venture capitalist is still excited about one of his earlier lithium battery plays: Seeo. The stealthy startup, which […] Read more »

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I used to wonder why real estate and insurance agents put their photos on their business cards, even though I’m not good at connecting names and faces. Then, a couple of years ago, two things happened that made me understand how useful adding images to contact […] Read more »

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Reports emerged last month that Vinod Khosla, the high-profile green venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder, was finally turning to outside investors to create two new funds that together would raise $1 billion to primarily back cleantech startups. Hard evidence has now surfaced about one of […] Read more »

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With billions of dollars in government funds coming down the pipeline for advanced batteries courtesy of the stimulus package, and the auto industry gearing up to make its first real go at marketing plug-in vehicles for the masses, the race to build lithium-ion batteries for vehicles […] Read more »

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Updated with comment from the EPA: What’s bad for Cello Energy, the Khosla Ventures-backed startup that an Alabama jury last week decided made fraudulent claims about its biofuels technology, could in a way be good for cellulosic ethanol — or at least open up new incentives […] Read more »

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Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has made yet another bet in the struggling biofuels sector. Despite already having almost one-third of his portfolio companies in the space, his VC firm has invested an undisclosed amount in HCL CleanTech, a new startup in the cellulosic biofuels industry. Tel […] Read more »

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Sakti3 to Team Up with GM on Battery Tech: Khosla Ventures-backed startup Sakti3 is collaborating with engineers from General Motors to design new materials for vehicle batteries. GM is not providing funding. — Michigan Business Review Think in the Clear: Norway’s Think Global has secured for […] Read more »

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Transonic Combustion, the Khosla Ventures-backed startup currently developing a high-efficiency fuel injection system that could lead to 100 mpg vehicles, said today it’s raised a third round of funding, though it declined to say exactly how much. Venrock, Rustic Canyon Partners and Saints Capital also participated […] Read more »

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