Posted on: December 21, 2011 by mboslet
We at peHUB have written about emerging biofuels companies on a number of occasions in the past year, chronicling the rush of these still formative companies to the IPO window. Here is a useful “cheat sheet” courtesy of Lux Research on who the ultimate winners and losers could be. The biofuels and biochemical industries are [...]
Tags: Amyris, Biofuels, Codexis, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Gevo, Kior, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Solazyme, VantagePoint Capital Partners
Posted on: November 28, 2011 by mboslet
The uncertainties of the European debt crisis continue to pummel stocks worldwide, including venture back IPOs. Of the 29 venture-backed startups that went public in the United States since May, 16 are below their IPO prices and 13 above. Not a sparkling record, especially considering that five of the “above water” offerings were launched in [...]
Tags: Angie's List, Carbonite, Fusion-io, Imperva, InvenSense, IPOs, Kior, LinkedIn, Pandora Media, Tangoe, Ubiquiti Networks, Zillow
Posted on: April 29, 2011 by mboslet
It is no secret the IPO market in the United States has rebounded solidly since the middle of last year. Well, here is something you may not know: first-time stock offerings continue to gain steam, as well. So far this month, 21 deals were done with $5.6 billion raised for issuing companies and investors logging [...]
Tags: Arcos Dorados, BrightSource Energy, IPOs, Kior, Renren, Trustwave, Zillow
Posted on: October 1, 2010 by mboslet
The edgy economy is spilling over into cleantech venture investing. That seems to be the conclusion to draw from today’s preliminary cleantech investing numbers from the Cleantech Group. The research firm found that $1.53 billion went into 152 deals worldwide during the third quarter, down 11% in dollars from the same period a year ago [...]
Tags: Cleantech Group, Kior, Plasco Energy Group, Third Quarter Investments, Trilliant, venture capital