John Melo is the CEO of Amyris and has a stellar 20-year background in the energy industry.
Sometimes one company missing its IPO forecast, as Amyris has done, can create buying opportunities in the sector.
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Gevo and Amyris have both figured that out and left the biofuel business.
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Before joining Amyris, Melo was president of U.S. fuels operations for British Petroleum.
Very similar to Pure Power, Amyris has one starting molecule that serves as the basis for a wide range of products.
With a little judicious searching, Amyris thinks it has come up with isoprenoids that have the right characteristics to substitute for petrol.
Amyris, Inc. shares are currently trading down about 8.7% on the day.
The four companies in question include Tesla Motors, RecycleBank, EdeniQ and Amyris.
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Amyris, Inc. shares are currently trading off about 4.2% on the day.
The Codexis-Cosan-Shell partnership and the Amyris-Santelisa-Total one are the furthest along of the drop-in fuel businesses, but others are coming up on the rails.
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On March 4 she will follow her passion for renewable resources and sustainable energy products when she joins Amyris as Chief Business Officer.
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Research into clean and alternative energy is exploding, with everyone from giants like ExxonMobil and BP to upstarts like Amyris and Codexis getting into the market.
Across the road is Amyris, a Californian company which has developed enzymes that in laboratory experiments have turned sugar into substitutes for motor and jet fuel.
Do we need companies like Exxon, BP, and Amyris to come up with alternatives to fossil fuels, or are we just over-reacting to a natural warming trend?
The list included Solyndra, Abound Solar, Range Fuels, A123 Systems, and Amyris, which collectively have attracted billions of dollars of investments but have not delivered profitable results.
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Unlike Codexis, which deals in purified enzymes, Amyris employs a technique called synthetic biology, which turns living organisms into chemical reactors by assembling novel biochemical pathways within them.
Tesla and Amyris went public with stock offerings in 2010.
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Revenues are likely to climb sharply starting in 2011 with the market introduction of chemicals, fuels, and co-products such as cosmetics from firms such as Solazyme, Gevo, and Amyris.
But since Mr. Gore joined up in 2007, Enphase and Amyris are the only two Kleiner green companies to go public, and their performance doesn't leave investors begging for more.
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The field of custom-engineering microbes has become one of the hottest areas of alternative energy, with investments by tiny startups like Amyris and LS9 and giants such as Exxon and BP.
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But Amyris Biotechnologies, which is also based in California, in Emeryville, and which also started by dabbling in drugs (in its case an antimalarial medicine called artemisinin), is slightly more forthcoming.
At least three other companies Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif.
The shares of Kleiner-backed Amyris Inc.
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Goldman also reduced its price targets for a wide range of alternative energy stocks, including not just First Solar but also MEMC Electronic Materials, SunPower, STR, EnerSys, Itron, Amyris, KiOr and Solazyme.
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