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Powering Our Automotive Future with--Pond Scum: Scientific American...fuel needs. He's so sure, in fact, that last week he joined the Rockefeller family and London-based Wellcome Trust to invest $100 million in a California start-up devoted to churning out biofuel from this tiny primitive plant. San... In this article: Carbon dioxide, Solazyme, Biofuel, Sapphire Energy, Bill Gates, and Scientific American |
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Xconomy | October 23, 2008
Investors Talk Biofuels Winners, Latecomers to the Party, and $100 Billion Dollar Companies at Algae Biomass Summit Xconomy
...commitments for future funds that are quite large," Nelsen says. In addition to Arch Ventures, Sapphire is backed by Bill Gates, Venrock, and Wellcome Trust. "We want to create the market leader based on a real technological...
In this article: Aurora Biofuels, Biofuel, Noventi, Gabriel Venture Partners, Sapphire Energy, and Seattle
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CNET News.com | September 17, 2008
Bill Gates invests in algae fuel Green Tech - CNET News
...the total amount it has raised to more than $100 million. Investors include Gates' investment firm Cascade Investment, as well as Arch Venture Partners, Wellcome Trust, and Venrock. The lowly algae is the renewable fuel industry's great...
In this article: Bill Gates, Sapphire Energy, Cascade Investment, CNET News, God, Cattle, Jet fuel, and Biofuel
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Plunging Oil Prices Require Alternative Fuel Startups to Take a Long View
...that turns heads. Sapphire announced in September it has raised more than $100 million from Bill Gates' venture fund, Cascade Investment, as well as Seattle-based Arch Venture Partners, Venrock and Wellcome Trust. The critical thing to...
In this article: Sapphire Energy, Biofuel, Alternative fuel, Seattle, Biodiesel, General Catalyst Partners, Fossil fuel, Cascade Investment, and New York Mercantile Exchange
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VentureBeat | September 17, 2008
Sapphire Energy getting the green for its algal biofuel » VentureBeat
...may be inaccurate. The new investor in this round, officially the second, is Cascade Investment, which is owned by Bill Gates. The other investors are ARCH Venture Partners, Wellcome Trust and Venrock. Sapphire is based in San Diego, Calif.
In this article: Sapphire Energy, Biofuel, ARCH Venture Partners, Jet fuel, Revenue, Derivative, Waste, Cascade Investment, and Bill Gates
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Bill Gates, Arch Venture Back Biofuel Maker Sapphire Energy Xconomy
...WA-based Cascade Investment. Sapphire Energy, which is working on oil-producing algae, has now raised a total of $100 million, and is also backed by Arch Venture Partners, Venrock, and Wellcome Trust. In addition to its Seattle-area...
In this article: Sapphire Energy, Bill Gates, Biofuel, Cascade Investment, Seattle, Cancer, University of Washington, and Vinod Khosla
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Seeking Alpha | December 09, 2008
Continental Chooses Sapphire Energy for Bio Jet Fuel
Still, Sapphire - which has raised more than $100 million from investors including Arch Venture Partners, the Wellcome Trust, Venrock and Bill Gates's Cascade Investments (see Bill Gates Digs Algal Oil) - may not brag too loudly about this...
In this article: Sapphire Energy, Biofuel, Continental Airlines, Solazyme, General Electric, Hydrocarbon, Air New Zealand, Jet fuel, Virgin Atlantic, and Honeywell
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The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research. On 5 February 2008 the Wellcome Trust committed to increasing its funding for research and large scale biomedical projects to almost £4 billion over the next five years. The overall mission of the trust is "to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health", and in addition to funding biomedical research it supports the public understanding of science.
- Name:
- Wellcome Trust
- Location:
- London, United Kingdom
- Founder:
- Sir Henry Wellcome
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1936
- Key People:
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- Sir Mark Walport, Director of The Wellcome Trust
- Sir William Castell, Chairman of the Board of Governors
- Endowment:
- £13.1 billion
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