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Sensor Networker Pinpoints $13.3M

Awarepoint, whose sensor networks track hospital assets through radio frequency identification, has pinpointed $13.3 million in a fourth round of funding. The round was led by Cardinal Partners and included Venrock and prior...

If You Fund It, They Will Come

Uncle Sam isn’t just backing banks these days. Biofuels are due for a major uptick under a 2007 government energy pledge—and investors are seeing green. Front and center is a type of ethanol produced from cellulose rather than...

BP, Soros Fund invest in ethanol-making microbe

Oil giant BP and George Soros' investment firm are putting millions of dollars into a company that has isolated a microbe that can create ethanol. Qteros, formerly called SunEthanol, on Tuesday announced the $25 million series...

Qteros claims 15-fold improvements in cellulosic ethanol yield

Exclusive By Emma Ritch, Cleantech Group The company formerly known as SunEthanol announces $25 million in funding and plans for commercialization in 2011. Hadley, Mass.-based Qteros, known until this week as SunEthanol, said...

SunEthanol Raises US $25 Million for Cellulosic Ethanol Technology

SunEthanol has raised US $25 million in Series B financing from a consortium including BP and Soros Fund Management LLC and is changing its name to Qteros. The new name refers to its breakthrough Q Microbe technology for...

Venturing To New York

Venrock partner David Pakman on where the growth is in digital media and why Silicon Valley just doesn't cut it. Earlier this week, former eMusic Chief Executive David Pakman started as a partner at the venture capital firm...

PhillyDeals: PhillyDeals: Under Obama, microbe could be big for firm

Six months ago, William Frey, Ph.D., was global biofuels director at the DuPont Co. in Wilmington. Today, Frey is chief executive officer at Qteros Inc., Amherst, Mass., whose assets include "this unique microbe we have that...

LyricFind, Acquisition Candidate

When I was growing up, it was commonplace to get lyrics as part of an album or CD. Without those lyrics, how could I possibly sing along to the songs? Today, I rarely buy albums. Rather, I buy singles on iTunes or download...

How to Craft a Winning Investor Deck - BusinessWeek

Investor decks, or the presentations businesses use to attract investors, often fall short. Here's how to polish them—and bring in the cash Quite often, I get PowerPoint presentations targeted at investors (known as "investor...

Boston-Power Founder and CEO Named 2008 “Best Entrepreneurâ€_

Boston-Power, Inc., the rapidly growing provider of Lithium-ion batteries that redefine portable power, today announced that Founder and CEO Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud has been named a winner of a 2008 Stevie Award for Women...

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