From Connecticut comes news that crop protection tech pioneer Enko raised $70 million in Series C funding, bringing the company to an overall valuation of $320 million. Global agrochemical company Nufarm led the round — we’ve covered their NuSeed subsidiary extensively in recent years as it has invested in bringing carinata forward as a feedstock. […]
Earnings season calls, and one of the bioeconomy’s most dynamic and innovative public companies has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — from soybeans to services
Today, The Daily Digest turns 15, it’s our quinceañera! We started the Digest on July 27, 2007 because it seemed to me, then as now, that the industry could use a good 5-minute round-up of what’s going on around the globe. ABLC came along, then the CIRCULAR and not long ago, ROBIN. It seems like […]
One of the bioeconomy’s largest public companies has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — launch-stage, growth-stage, maturity and end of life.
The Iron Law of Sustainability reasserted itself this morning when Ginkgo BioWorks acquired Zymergen and along with it a vast sea of intellectual property and some tasty business opportunities, for the bargain price of $300 million. It’s just a fraction of the $3 billion valuation that Zymergen achieved at its all time high of $4.8 […]
One of the bioeconomy’s stalwarts that has gone through a tremendous transformation from fuels focus to ingredients – and ALTO has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.
In the days around the global financial crisis of 2008-09 when so many eyes were glued to the television watching the cable financial networks like Bloomberg and Fox Business, the 9am Morning Call program at Fox was so frenzied as the storylines expanded, that you might have mistaken it for the frenzy of the US […]
Last week we took a Deep Dive into the BioTfuel technology in a special webinar on SAF, RD via Cellulosic Feedstocks. The BioTfueL project launched by Axens, TotalEnergies and a number of partners is designed to transform lignocellulosic biomass (straw, forest waste, dedicated energy crops) into biofuel via thermochemical conversion. The webinar presentation by David Schwalje […]
Been a lon, lon day here in Digestville, and that’s no typo. We have news on Revlon and nylon, taking a step towards that happy day when product makers no longer Use the Sky as a Free Sewer. From Italy and California news has arrived that long-time partners Genomatica and nylon giant Aquafil broke through […]
One of the bioeconomy’s longest-running and biggest hits, the mighty innovation-at-scale engine known as Amyris, has an updated presentation out — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.
