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Amyris goes public

Posted on behalf of Yana Balling Amyris Inc, a start-up biotech company specialising in biofuels, raised $85 million in its first public offering yesterday. An estimated 5.3 million shares were sold throughout the day on the NASDAQ Global Market. The company, based in Emeryville, California, had hoped to raise $100 million. Analysts ascribe the disappointing performance to Amyris entering the market too early, before it has commercialised any of its renewable products. But Biofuels Digest declared the glass half-full, saying that the money raised was a ‘hallmark of faith’ in the potential of biofuel technology. Amyris, now with 200 employees, 

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