Technoeconomic Assessment on Innovative Biofuel Technologies: The Case of Microalgae

Table 3

Recent investments from venture capital firms in algae firms.

Venture capital firms	Algae firms
Aardvark Investments SA	Cequesta Algae
Arch Venture Partners	Sapphire Energy
BIRD Foundation	Algatech, GreenFuel
BlueCrest	Blue Marble Energy, Solazyme, Earth2tech
Braemar Energy Ventures	Solazyme
Cascade Ventures	Sapphire Energy, Cedar Grove Investments
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)	GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
Gabriel Venture Partners	Aurora Biofuels
Harris & Harris Group	Solazyme
I2BF	Solix Biofuels
Lightspeed Energy Partners	Solazyme
Noventi (formerly Cypress Ventures)	Aurora Biofuels
Oak Investment Partners	Aurora Biofuels
Quercus Trust	Livefuels
Southern Ute Alternative Energy LLC	Solix Biofuels
The Roda Group	Solazyme
VantagePoint Venture Partners	Solazyme
Venrock	Sapphire Energy
Wellcome Trust	Sapphire Energy
XL TechGroup, Australia	Petroalgae

Source: [4].