Biofuels Digest releases today its summary of US venture capital

investment in biofuels.

For 2008, VCs poured $680.2 million into US biofuels during 2008,
including $437 million for cellulosic ethanol, $175.9 million in
microalgae, $42 million in butanol and 25.3 million into systems and
infrastructure providers. VC invested $110.5 million in the 4th quarter
economic slowdown, after a lively $233 million in the 2nd quarter, high
for the year.

Summary of the years transactions by company, date, amount

and investor.

Petro Algae, $10 million, 12/26: Undisclosed investors

Coskata, $40 million, 12/5: Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners,

Sumitomo, Arancia, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures,
Globespan Capital Partners and TriplePoint Capital.

SunEthanol, $25 million, 11/19: Venrock, Battery Ventures. BP, Soros

Fund Management, Long River Ventures and Camros Capital

Solix, $10.5 million, 11/12: I2BF Venture Capital, Bohemian

Investments, Southern Ute Alternative Energy, Valero Energy and
Infield Capital

Cobalt Biofuels, $25 million, 10/21: Pinnacle Ventures, Vantage Point

Venture Partners, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, @Ventures, LSP
and Harris and Harris.

Sapphire Energy, $100 million, 9/18: ARCH Venture Partners,

Wellcome Trust, Venrock and Cascade Investment

Solazyme: $45.4 million, 8/27: Braemar Energy Ventures, Lightspeed

Venture Partners, The Roda Group and Harris & Harris Group .

Amyris Technologies, $90 million, 8/15: DAG Ventures, Khosla

Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, TPG Ventures, John Melo,
Jeryl Hilleman, Kinkead Reiling, Jack Newman, Neil Renninger, Ralph
Alexander, and Tamara Tompkins.

Arisdyne Systems, $5.3 million, 7/30: Undisclosed investors

Raven Biofuels, $10.0 million, 7/11: Blackhawk Investments, Clean

Energy HoldingAurora BioFuels, $20.0 million 6/10: Oak Investment
Partners, Gabriel Venture Partners, and Noventi

EdenIQ, $30.0 million, 5/29: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Element,

Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Angeleno Group, Omninet, The
Westly Group, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich, and Northgate Capital

Gevo, $17 million, 5/14: Burrill & Co, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital
Fund

Mascoma, $61 million, 5/6: Khosla Ventures, Atlas Venture, Flagship

Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Pinnacle Ventures, Genertal
Motors, Marathon Oil, and VantagePoint Venture Partners

Range Fuels, $166 million, 5/6: In Colorado, Khosla Ventures,

unnamed energy company. Morgan Stanley

Greenline Industries, $20 million, 3/28: Leaf Clean Energy Company

BlueFire Ethanol, $15 million, 1/8: Quercus Trust

Fulcrum BioEnergy, unknown, unknown: US Renewables Group,

Rustic Canyon Partners