Micromidas has just completed its first major round of funding, having raised $3.6 million. The funds will be used to deploy their technology at the pilot scale.
Micromidas, based in West Sacramento, develops and scales environmentally benign biological and chemical processes that produce valuable chemical and material commodities from waste biomass. The first Micromidas application for [...]

The party’s over, for now, when it comes to raising private capital for carbon-reducing technologies with a long onramp to profitability — and it shows in the array of regional finalists announced this morning for the Clean Tech Open, a business plan competition that has helped Aurora Biofuels, Lucid Design Group Systems and more than [...]

The annual California Cleantech Open startup competition is always a fun event to attend, because you just might be present for the debut of the Google of green energy or the General Motors of electric cars.
Beyond that, the competition serves as a leading indicator of emerging green tech trends. And given that the Silicon Valley [...]

Six teams represent the best of California cleantech. Each team has won a prize worth $100K, and is entered into the national competition, Grand Prize winner to be announced November 17.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—October 21, 2009: The Cleantech Open (www.cleantechopen.com) has announced the winning teams in the California region of the world’s biggest cleantech business plan [...]