SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AlwaysOn today announced its coveted GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies Awards and named Synthetic Genomics as the GoingGreen Overall Winner. Other category winners were Amyris Biotechnologies in Biofuels, CoalTek in Clean Energy, GlycosBio in Clean Manufacturing, Silver Spring Networks in Energy Efficiency, Premium Power in Energy Storage, EcoMotors in Green Transportation, Serious Materials in Green Materials, Genomatica in Green Nanotech & Synthetic Genomics, Ze-Gen in Resource Recovery & Waste Management, BrightSource Energy in Solar Energy, and AbTech Industries in Water Technology. The second-annual elite GoingGreen 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the GoingGreen 100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 500 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts."The GoingGreen 100 companies will accelerate the global movement to a more sustainable environment," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "The ideas and innovation we saw as we reviewed hundreds of green technology companies will be foundational to the next wave of economic growth in California and beyond. My congratulations to each GoingGreen 100 winner — these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year."
Overall Winner Synthetic Genomics was born out of decades of pioneering scientific research by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. and Nobel Laureate Hamilton O. Smith, M.D. The company's scientific team includes leading researchers with expertise in areas including metabolic engineering, microbiology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, plant genomics, climate change and energy policies.
“We are proud to present our top honors to Synthetic Genomics after seeing the implications of the company’s technology and the scope of their business,” said Tony Perkins. “Synthetic Genomics represents a deeply disruptive breakthrough in genomic-driven environment solutions. It is bound to play an important role in addressing global energy challenges.”
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