Ze-Gen raises $2.5M venture debt for gasification tech
Ze-Gen is an energy company that converts municipal waste to a synthesized gas good for electricity generation.
The Boston, Mass. company sought the debt funding to finance the permitting and development fees for a new waste conversion facility.
We’ve recently written about other companies promising to turn waste into electricity, including EnerTech Environmental, which recently took $42 million for construction of a new plant.
The $2.5 million venture debt facility was provided by Pinnacle Ventures. Ze-Gen has taken over $8 million to date from Pinnacle and other firms including Flagship Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
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Chris Morrison writes about cleantech and environmental issues for VentureBeat, with occasional forays into gaming and semantic technology. He got his start writing about tech for Business 2.0 magazine, but quickly realized new media was the ticket when that institution closed its doors in 2007. Chris has also covered public equities and regulatory issues. He originally hails from southern Virginia, graduated from Evergreen State College in Washington, and now lives in San Francisco.