Several news just came in yesterday and the blog is still catching up from interviews made the past 4-5 weeks. I am hoping to soon post articles about the starch market, the world of enzymes, biotech-based surfactants, updates on levulinic acid developments, PHA and other recently-announced press releases. Some of them I’ve already written in Tecnon OrbiChem’s Biomaterials newsletter.

Before I start tackling these stories, let me put some recent “good news” in the funding sectors based on the following announcements:

• Calysta Completes $10 Million Series B Financing

• Green Biologics Secures $76 Million in Debt and Equity Financing

• Edeniq Secures $16 Million in Funding for Cellulosic Sugar Production

• Deinove successfully completes the first key milestone of its Deinochem program and receives 1 million euros

• Microvi Secures Investment From SKion

• Carbios Receives Funds from Bpifrance for Second Stage of its Project THANAPLAST

• NZ Super Fund Invests  $60M in Lanzatech

• Synthace has closed a £2.2 million funding round

• Algenol Closes On Internal Equity Financing

• Comet Biorefining Secures Funding Led By Sofinnova Partners