$30M for Joule

Wade Roush4/27/10

Cambridge, MA-based Joule Unlimited, which is developing a technology that mimics photosynthesis by turning carbon dioxide into ethanol, has collected $30 million in a second round of funding from Flagship Ventures and unnamed additional investors, according to a report today in VentureWire. Formerly known as Joule Biotechnologies, the company launched last summer and is building a pilot plant near Austin, TX.

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