Company Profile: Virdia

Chemical conversion of cellulosic biomass into sugars using acid

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Accelerating Materials Innovation
Alternative Fuels
Bio-based Materials and Chemicals
Owning the Energy Transition

Categories	Biomass to sugars, Cellulosic feedstocks, Cellulosic feedstocks
Competitors	Novozymes, Genencor, Verenium Corporation, Iogen Corporation, Abengoa, Weyland, BlueFire Renewables, Renmatix, REAC Fuel, Codexis, Sweetwater Energy, Chemtex, Inventure Renewables, Range Fuels, Codexis
Relationships	Khosla Ventures (Investor) Burrill and Company (Investor) + 8 additional investors and technology partners. Sign in to view

Strategy & Markets

Originally, Virdia was using fuming hydrochloric acid (HCl) in a series of extraction and...

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Last Update: February 3, 2016

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