Article: BRIEF: Biofuel maker gets second round of funding: Amyris gets VC funding.

Byline: Matt Nauman

Sep. 19--Amyris Biotechnologies, an Emeryville maker of transportation biofuels, intends to announce $70 million in second-round venture funding today. In a statement, Amyris Chief Executive John Melo said the company has succeeded in creating three biofuels that could go on sale by 2010 -- biogasoline, biodiesel and biojet fuel -- in its labs. The funding will allow Amyris "to implement our business model as the first biofuels company to go from production to customer," he said. The funding was ...

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