• Anuvia Plant Nutrients

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2016

  Anuvia Plant Nutrients develops and manufactures sustainable field-ready bio-based fertilizers, including its SymTRX XP line, for agriculture, turf, and lawncare. The company uses proprietary technology to optimize nutrient availability and efficiency for plants while improving soil health, preserving natural resources, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Led by CEO Amy Yoder, Anuvia produces fertilizers at a U.S.-based eco-friendly manufacturing facility and recently completed an expansion of its Plant City, Florida plant. The Plant City facility has capacity to expand to 1.2 million tons per year, which the company says could service over 20 million acres of agricultural crops. Anuvia intends to increase production capacity further and expand commercialization of its SymTRX XP products to meet growing demand for sustainable fertilizers. Anuvia Plant Nutrients converts excrement, food waste and agricultural processing waste into controlled-release fertilizers using a proprietary catalytic process. Its treatment controls nutrient release to boost crop productivity, reduces leaching to protect groundwater, and returns carbon to the soil. The technology is already used on roughly 1,200 farms and the company projects deployment on 20 million acres by 2025; ERM verified its performance versus traditional fertilizer on corn, rice and cotton. Anuvia says farmers see increased yields around five times their previous production levels, and that its treatment can cut production greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 32% compared with commercial fertilizers. The company operates a 1.2 million-ton production facility and plans to build additional capacity and develop new fertilizers for market. Anuvia is led by Amy Yoder and is backed by investors including TPG ART, Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, Generate Capital and Piva Capital. Anuvia Plant Nutrients develops enhanced-efficiency fertilizers using a patented process that converts organic waste into a homogenous multi-nutrient product for turf and agricultural customers. The company's core product is a specialty enhanced-efficiency fertilizer (EEF) serving agricultural, professional turf and consumer lawn care markets. Management is led by CEO Amy Yoder. Anuvia opened its specialty fertilizer production facility in Zellwood, Fla. in April 2016, which is expected to produce 80,000 tons annually. The company recently secured $23M in equity funding to support product development and expansion. Planned uses include developing a liquid formulation, expanding into international markets, and building a second plant in Zellwood to enable further growth.

• Alphabet Energy

  Participated · Series C · Jul 2016

  Alphabet Energy develops thermoelectric waste-heat-to-power products built on its proprietary PowerBlocks™ thermoelectric material, leveraging nanotechnology research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Michigan State University. The company holds over 60 patents issued and filed and offers a line of waste heat recovery products for energy-intensive industries. Its Power Generating Combustor (PGC™) targets oil and gas flares and combustors to generate remote power and help mitigate permitting risk. Customers span oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, transportation and defense, where the products reduce fuel consumption, operating costs and carbon emissions. To support commercial traction in oil and gas, Alphabet Energy recently opened a sales and support office in Houston and plans to scale production for oil and gas and automotive markets. Alphabet Energy develops a platform silicon thermoelectric technology to generate power from a variety of waste-heat sources. The company is building a device intended to generate electricity from the exhaust flows of engines in industrial applications. It plans to use new capital to speed up product development and to launch that device. The technology was developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The company is led by founder and CEO Matt Scullin and is based in Hayward, California. Recent hires include Mothusi Pahl as vice president of marketing. Alphabet Energy develops thermoelectric technology to generate electricity from wasted heat and is prototyping its first simple, turnkey product. Its thermoelectrics are intended for applications ranging from power generation to heavy industry, automotive, aerospace and military. The company was founded in 2009 by Matthew L. Scullin and Peidong Yang and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Alphabet recently secured $2M in debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital following a $12M Series A equity financing led by TPG Biotech. It intends to use the new funding to scale development and manufacturing and to continue the build-out of a new Hayward facility. The company is hiring as it moves from prototyping toward scaled production. Alphabet Energy develops silicon-based thermoelectric technology for generating electricity from wasted heat. The company is based in San Francisco, California. It intends to use the financing to accelerate product development, deploy initial pilot projects, grow the team, and relocate to a new facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Series A round totals $12M. In conjunction with the funding, a TPG Biotech partner joined Alphabet’s board and another joined as a board observer. The company is led by CEO and founder Matt Scullin. Alphabet Energy develops thermoelectric materials and devices that convert waste heat directly into electricity, targeting heavy-industry and transportation applications. The company emerged from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory technology and is incubated at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Its materials are intended for use in metals refining, cement and glass production, power generation, automotive and aerospace, and military applications. The new financing will be used to manufacture commercial prototype devices using existing semiconductor infrastructure. Alphabet has previously received $320,000 in Small Business Innovation Research grants from the U.S. Army, Air Force and Department of Energy, plus roughly $320,000 in angel funding in 2009. The startup has also won multiple Clean Tech Open awards, including the People’s Choice and California Sustainability awards.

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