{"id":15413,"date":"2011-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20111018-03n"},"modified":"2011-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:00:00","slug":"biobased-chemical-industry-venture-funding-dries-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biobased-chemical-industry-venture-funding-dries-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Biobased Chemical Industry Venture Funding Dries Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A venture funding boom for biobased materials and chemical start-ups is nearing an end as the market matures, according to a Lux Research report released Oct. 18.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Over the past seven years investors have poured $3.1 billion into ventures that utilize biomass to replace petrochemicals in chemical products, such as polyethylene. But a wave of IPOs and major acquisitions of the once-fledgling companies indicates the industry is rapidly maturing, says Mark Bunger, a Lux Research director and lead author of the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/articles\/_biobased_chemical_industry_venture_funding_dries_up_25831.aspx?SectionID=4\" >www.industryweek.com\/articles\/_biobased_chemical_industry_venture_funding_dries_up_25831.aspx?SectionID=4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Keywords: acquisitions, artificial photosynthesis, novel molecules, biomimetic structural materials, microfabrication, synthetic biology<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A venture funding boom for biobased materials and chemical start-ups is nearing an end as the market matures, according to a Lux Research report released<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2101],"class_list":["post-15413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-luxresearch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15413"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}