Vinod Khosla looks beyond Lanzatech to further New Zealand investments

In New Zealand, majority Lanzatech shareholder Vinod Khosla was back in the country this week listening to the pitches of other entreprenneurs in search of capital. Though he pronounced several of them “interesting” he maintained that LanzaTech was ‘unbeatable’ because of its use of waste streams as feedstocks and the efficiency of microbial conversion. “It makes for an unbeatable cost structure and that’s what you need to compete.” He added that Lanzatech’s microbes are “designer bugs” capable of producing a wide array of chemicals and that if a given chemical’s price increased in the future, LanzaTech can begin producing more of it. He said he saw Lanzatech as a large public company in five years with a wide array of products and hopefully leveraging a large number of partners.

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