30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals sneak preview: Rennovia

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Company name: Rennovia Inc.

Company description: Developer of chemo-catalytic process technologies for production of high-volume chemicals from renewable raw materials

Year Founded: 2009

Chief Executive Officer: Robert Wedinger

Annual Revenues: none to date

Major Investors (if a public company, please provide trading symbol and exchange). 5AM Ventures, Versant Ventures

Type of Processing Technology(ies) : (if applicable) Chemical catalysis

Products: (renewable chemicals (base, fine, speciality, or platform), or bio-based materials (plastics, polymers, monomers, resins, lubricants, inks, detergents, surfactants, rubbers, adhesives, hardeners, additives, or other materials) renewable chemicals; first product: adipic acid

Feedstocks: glucose from starch, sugarcane, or lignocellulose

Product Cost (if applicable – per US pound): (If you do not manufacture or have long-term stable feedstock pricing, please use the latest December futures contract pricing for traded feedstocks, or $55/ton for untraded biomass – or provide notes on your own feedstock pricing assumptions). Proprietary information

Offtake partners: Proprietary information

Co-products: Proprietary information

3 Top Milestones for 2009‐10 (1) Secured Series A financing; (2) Demonstrated lab-scale production of adipic acid from glucose; (3) Filed broad catalyst and process patents around production of adipic acid from carbohydrates using chemical catalysis

3 Major Milestone Goals for 2011‐13 (1) Demonstrate adipic acid production at pilot-scale; (2) Initiate design/construction of first commercial-scale renewable adipic acid plant; (3) Demonstrate Product 2 production at pilot-scale

Business Model: Owner/operator and licensor

Competitive Edge(s): Significant cost advantage over incumbent petrochemical process

Distribution, Research, Marketing or Production Partnerships or Alliances. Proprietary information

Stage (Bench, pilot, demonstration, commercial) Bench/pilot

Projected production volume for 2011: < 1 ton

Website URL: www.rennovia.com