Purfresh adds on $5M for clean food and water
February 28, 2008 | Chris Morrison
Purfresh, a Livermore, Calif. company that makes ozone equipment for purification of food and water, has added on $5 million to close out its $25 million third financing.
The company is busy expanding into Europe, although its CEO told VentureBeat a couple months ago that it could be profitable “tomorrow afternoon” if it stuck to business at home.
Perella Weinberg Partners added the $5 million investment. The investors in the remaining $20 million were Chilton Investment Co, Chrysalix Energy, Grauer Capital and Foundation Capital. Purfresh has taken $42 million to date.
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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.
