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Friday, March 4, 2011

Wall Street Journal releases top 10 cleantech company list

Biorefining Magazine
By Luke Geiver March 03, 2011

The Wall Street Journal has been keeping tabs on the clean technology industry, and with the help of Dow Jones VentureSource, the business publication giant has released a top 10 list of venture-backed clean technology companies. The "Next Big Thing" survey formed to identify green companies that have the capital, executive experience and investor knowledge to succeed in green business, according to the Wall Street Journal, uses calculations from VentureSource (owned by Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of the Wall Street Journal) that applied the financial criteria to roughly 500 U.S.-based venture-backed companies valued at less than $1 billion. Algae developer, Sapphire Energy, made the top 10 list.

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