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SG Biofuels

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SGB is a fully integrated bioenergy crop company using molecular breeding and biotechnology to develop and produce elite hybrid seeds of Jatropha as a low-cost feedstock for biodiesel, bio jet fuel and specialty chemicals. With the largest and most diverse library of Jatropha genetic material, SGB is turning the opportunities of Jatropha into reality through a world-class leadership team, leading-edge science and genetics and expertise in agronomy and plantation management. SGB has been named one of the Top 5 Renewable Jet Fuel Supply Chain Companies in the World by The Carbon War Room (2011), one of the Top 50 Companies in Bioenergy for three consecutive years (2009, 2010 and 2011) and the 2010 Feedstock Domestication Project of the Year by Biofuels Digest and one of the Top 200 Going Green Private Companies in the World by Always On.

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  SG Biofuels added Jerry Caulder as Chairman.
  Posted 5/22/12 at 4:36pm
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  SG Biofuels added Kirk Haney as President & CEO.
  Posted 9/14/10 at 6:02pm
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  SG Biofuels received $17M in Series B funding. (1/17/12)
  Posted 1/17/12 at 3:03am via businessreel.com
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  SG Biofuels received $9.4M in Series A funding. (9/14/10)
  Posted 9/14/10 at 6:02pm via finsmes.com
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  SG Biofuels — SG Biofuels named one of the Top 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest (12/1/09)
  Posted 6/6/11 at 12:20pm via biofuelsdigest.com
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  SG Biofuels — SG Biofuels named one of the Top 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest (12/1/10)
  Posted 6/6/11 at 12:20pm via biofuelsdigest.com
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  SG Biofuels — Subscribers of Biofuels Digest recognize SG Biofuels as Feedstock domestication project of the Year (new feedstock or traits) for its development of the JMax platform for jatropha in Central America. (12/1/10)
  Posted 6/6/11 at 10:32am via biofuelsdigest.com
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  SG Biofuels — SG Biofuels is named one of the Top 100 Emerging Cleantech Companies by Always On. (9/1/09)
  Posted 6/6/11 at 10:28am via aonetwork.com

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Sources

1. SG Biofuels Completes $9.4M Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
2. SG Biofuels Raises $17M From Thomas McNerney, Finistere, Others (businessreel.com) [edit]
GoingGreen Top 100 Companies (aonetwork.com) [edit]
Biofuels Digest (biofuelsdigest.com) [edit]
biofuelsdigest.com [edit]
The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, 2010-11 (biofuelsdigest.com) [edit]