Tag: Khosla
Mascoma withdraws IPO, blames market conditions
Tweet In New Hampshire, Mascoma has withdrawn its registration for an IPO worth up to $100 m. “The company has determined at this time not to proceed with the offering due to market conditions,” it said today in a filing. The decision comes after Enerkem, Fulcrum BioEnergy, and Coskata have all delayed or canceled their [...]
KiOR closes 4-year term loan with Khosla, AlMCo
Tweet In Texas, KiOR announced that it has closed a $75 million four-year term loan with a lender group comprised of an affiliate of Vinod Khosla and two Canadian corporations owned by certain pension fund clients of Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). Khosla is loaning $25 million while the rest is funded by Alberta. “This [...]
Khosla raises $1.05B fund, $500M for cleantech
Tweet In California, Khosla Ventures has raised $1.05 billion for an investment fund with half of that dedicated towards cleantech. “We fundamentally invest in the companies that we expect to have significant impact, and that’s precisely what the Khosla Ventures IV fund will do,” Vinod Khosla told the San Francisco Business Times. His investments Amyris, [...]
GM, Total, Khosla, Blackstone among Series D investors in Coskata
Tweet In Illinois, Coskata announced a first close of its Series D round of financing. The major investors from previous rounds participated, including The Blackstone Group, Khosla Ventures, Total Energy Ventures International (part of Total, one of the world’s major Oil and Gas groups), ATV, Globespan Capital Partners, General Motors, Arancia, and Sumitomo. Coskata plans [...]
Khosla slams Big Oil, Virent launches plastic bottle alternative at Ethanol Summit
Tweet Khosla slams Big Oil, Virent debuts alternative to plastic bottles at the 2011 Ethanol Summit in Brazil In Brazil, 2,000 industry executives gathered at UNICA’s biennial Ethanol Summit in Sao Paulo. Among the highlights, a charged keynote in which celebrated venture capitalist Vinod Khosla accused oil companies of having a double-standard on risk-taking in [...]
Khosla differentiates KiOR from other failed pre-revenue IPOs
Tweet In California, Technology Review asked Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, whether pre-revenue companies such as KiOR should be attemtping IPOs. The publication asked Khosla to explain the differences between companies such as KiOR and Nanosys, whose pre-revenue IPO Khosla had decried in a 2004 speech at Stanford University. In a letter to the [...]
KiOR files $100M IPO – the complete Digest analysis
Tweet Khosla-backed pyrolysis venture heads for the public markets. Is the IPO window still open? Will this one fly? Should it? The Digest looks at the technology, the team, the progress, the economics, the proof, and the prospects. In New York, KiOR filed its $100 million IPO with Credit Suisse, UBS and Goldman Sachs as [...]
Resistance is futile: Codexis and the chase for low-cost cellulosic sugars
Tweet In California, Codexis yesterday announced a stunning 29% increase in revenue, to $107.1 million, driven by a 77% increase in sales of pharmaceutical products, from $18.6 million in 2009 to $32.8 million in 2010, and increases in collaborative R&D and government grants. With operating expenses growing by only 2 percent, the company swung from [...]
Top Biofuels Tweets: "Robert Rapier is not buying what Vinod Khosla is trying to sell."
Tweet HarvardResearch: Researcher argues U.S. government support of biofuels is a textbook example of ill-conceived policy GLBioenergy: Why is biotechnology so important to biofuels research? Check out GLBRC’s Bioenergy 101 section: EnergyCollectiv: Robert Rapier is not buying what Vinod Khosla is trying to sell on #biofuels SustainableNet: Lux Research: Bioplastics Biofuels Partnership Opportunities Drying Up [...]
LanzaTech (Hot 50: #41) nabs UOP's Holmgren as CEO
Tweet In New Zealand, Lanzatech NZ Ltd. announced today that noted bioenergy executive Jennifer Holmgren, who led the development of renewable fuels and chemicals as VP/GM at Honeywell’s UOP, will join LanzaTech as CEO. LanzaTech, which was initially backed by Khosla Ventures, was founded in early 2005 to develop and commercialize proprietary technologies for the [...]
