This article showcases our top picks for the best United States based Biofuel companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Biofuel industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top United States Biofuel Startups
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Fulcrum Bioenergy
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Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol.
Renewable Energy Group
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Renewable Energy Group produces and supplies renewable fuels like biodiesel and renewable diesel, renewable chemicals, and other products.
Agrivida
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Agrivida is an agricultural biotechnology company that creates renewable, biomass-based alternative fuels, and raw materials.
Solazyme
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Solazyme is a synthetic biology company converting algal biomass into biofuels for the transportation, cosmetic and food industries.
LanzaJet
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LanzaJet producer of aviation fuel that captures waste gas emissions and uses bacteria to turn it into useable ethanol fuel.
POET
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At POET, they’re using the creativity that comes from common sense to deliver a new bounty of American energy from the eternal bounty of
Global Clean Energy Holdings
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Vertically integrated producer of ultra-low-carbon, non-food, renewable fuels. Assets span from agronomy IP to a Calif. biorefinery.
TeraPore Technologies
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TeraPore Technologies is a Cornell University spinout that develops and manufactures high performance filters for protein separations.
Allylix
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Allylix develops terpene products for flavor and fragrance, food ingredients, pharmaceuticals, agricultural and biofuels markets.
Aurora Biofuels
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Aurora Biofuels, now Aurora Algae, produces premium, algae-based products for the pharmaceutical, nutrition, aquaculture and fuels markets.
Biofine Developments Northeast
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Biofine Developments Northeast produces biofuels and renewable chemicals from wood waste and similar cellulosic waste feedstocks.
Biodico
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Biodico is one of the oldest and most experienced biofuel companies in the world. Biodico has worked with the U.S. Navy.
Qteros
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Qteros is a biofuels company focused on developing microbe technologies for the production of cellusoic ethanol.
Cobalt Technologies
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Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels.
Novogy
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Novogy develops and produces cellulosic biofuels made from waste paper sludge to be used in transportation.
SeaChange Group
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SeaChange Group renewable is a bio-fuels company that develops Patented Eco-Hybrid Fuels to protect the environment.
Benefuel
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Benefuel produces fuels, lubricants and chemicals from non-food related fats and oils.
Blume Distillation
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Blume Distillation, a biofuel tech firm, provides alcohol fuel production equipment that converts waste into alcohol fuel.
NiSource
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NiSource (NYSE: NI) helps energize the lives of its nearly 4 million natural gas and electric customers across seven states.
Valero Energy
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Valero Energy is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and a marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products and power.
San Joaquin Renewables
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San Joaquin Renewables convert unwanted orchard residues into renewable CNG, the cleanest transportation fuels on the market today.
Community Fuels
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Community Fuels is an advanced producer of biomass-based diesel fuels.
Darling Ingredients
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Darling Ingredients is global leader in creating sustainable food, feed & fuel solutions from organic by-products.
PBF Energy
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PBF Energy (“PBF”) is one of the largest independent petroleum refiners and suppliers.
Summerhill Biomass Systems
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SUMMERHILL HAS A TECHNOLOGY THAT ALLOWS POWDER BIOFEUL TO ACT LIKE A GAS A burner system and biofuel refinement method.
World Energy
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WorldEnergy is one of America’s largest suppliers of biodiesel offering.
Valley Proteins
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Valley Proteins has been a leader in providing an invaluable service to global economies and the environment.
Algenol
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Algenol produces ethanol by using algae, sunlight, CO2, and seawater for commercial purposes in the United States.
Red Rock Biofuels
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Red Rock Biofuels (RRB) develops processing plants to convert woody biomass into renewable, drop-in diesel and jet fuels.
Hathaway Renewable Energy
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Hathaway Renewable Energy (HRE) is undertaking a project that has a cellulosic bio diesel refinery and clean electricity plant.
Sylvatex Inc
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Sylvatex has developed a renewable nano-chemistry platform with applications in industry processing, materials stability, and fuels.
Spectrum BioEnergy
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Spectrum BioEnergy is a US-based biogas company dedicated to providing innovative waste management and renewable energy solutions.
GreenWhey Energy
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GreenWhey Energy develops bio-energy products for fuel and fertilizer companies.
Spero Energy
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Spero Energy, Inc. is an Indiana based company
US Renewables
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US Renewables is an investment firm focused on the renewable energy industry.
OPX Biotechnologies
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OPX Biotechnologies is a bioproducts company using technology to convert renewable feedstocks into biofuels and green chemistry products.
Green Brick Partners
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Green Brick Partners is a home building and land development company.
GZX
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GZX is a SaaS platform for the bilateral trading of environmental emission credits.
Idaho National Laboratory USDOE
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Idaho National Laboratory USDOE is a research laboratory focused on the development, demonstration, and deployment of nuclear energy.
Primary Ocean
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Vertically Integrated Seaweed Biotech Corp Providing Sea to Soil Sustainability Solutions from Seaweed
Logos Technologies
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Logos Technologies, Inc. serves customers across a broad range of technologies and services, including biofuels research, advanced nuclear
Kintz Plastics
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Kintz Plastics Helping the customer complete a design that will produce a cost-effective thermoformed part.
Solix Biofuels
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Solix Biofuels is producing technology used to create energy from algae.
TetraVitae Bioscience
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TetraVitae Bioscience develops bio-based chemicals, plastics and fuels to replace petroleum-derived products.
Fluid Quip Technologies
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Fluid Quip Technologies develops new technologies and processes for the biofuels and biochemical industries.
Beta Analytic
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Beta Analytic is a commitment to meet the demand of radiocarbon dating with rapid delivery and responsiveness to customer needs.
GZ Energy
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GZ Energy provides OTC voice-brokered and electronic compliance credit trading solutions for the physical bioenergy industry.
Biofuelbox
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BioFuelBox Corporation is an alternative energy company providing modular bio-refineries for converting waste materials into biodiesel.
AB Biotek North America
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AB Biotek produces yeast and provides associated technologies and integrated fermentation solutions.
cellana
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Cellana develops sustainable algae-based bioproducts for health, feed and fuel applications.
Inaeris Technologies
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Inaeris Technologies is a biofuel technology company focusing on transforming non-food biomass into hydrocarbon transportation fuel.
New Energy Blue
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New Energy Blue is fast-tracking commercial projects, jump-starting the revolution in green energy and driving it past its tipping point.
reNature
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reNature makes biostimulants and soil amendments. They partner with local food banks to rescue food otherwise headed for the landfill.
Renewable Biofuels
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Renewable Biofuels is an oil and gas company that processes and wholesale biodiesel for heating oil and motor fuel.
Clean World Partners
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CleanWorld is the leading North American innovator in advanced, high-solids anaerobic digestion (HSAD) technology.
American Biomass
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American Biomass is a provider of biomass fuels in the form of wood pellets.
MV Technologies
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MV Technologies specializes in air emissions and odor control solutions with a primary emphasis on dry scrubber.
Xylogenics
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Redefining fermentation through synthetic biology
Agri Biofuels
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Agri Biofuels involved in the production and supply of renewable fuels.
Quanta Renewable Energy Services
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Quanta Power Generation is a full service engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services provider.
Endicott Biofuels
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Endicott is a second generation biodiesel company possessing proven exclusive differentiating technology.
Sandhill Advanced Biofuels
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Sandhill Advanced Biofuels is a provider of biogas upgrade & cleanup solutions.
Southeastern Biochemicals
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Southeastern Biochemicals provides renewable chemicals and energy production services from biofuel feedstocks.
Pacific Biodiesel
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Pacific Biodiesel produces biodiesel by recycling used cooking oil of restaurants statewide.
Blue Ocean Brokerage
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Blue Ocean Brokerage specializes in the brokerage of energy products like gasoline, liquid petroleum, ethanol, biofuels and petrochemicals.
H2OPE Biofuels
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H2OPE Biofuels provides a clean alternative source of fuel for the masses.
Ebio
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Ebio is a clean tech start up with a proven technology to increase ethanol production.
Allopartis
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Allopartis develops enzymes to convert biomass into sugar for cellulosic biofuel production and industrial biotechnology.
Natural Composites
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Natural Composites creates bio-based functional fillers for plastics & natural fiber composites for commercial applications.
Ternion Bio Industries
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Ternion Bio Industries uses photo bioreactors to capture greenhouse gas emissions and recycle them into algae-based products.
Clean Tech Biofuels
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CleanTech Biofuels provides a sustainable new way to help power usa, and technology improves waste-to-energy approaches through landfill.
CavitroniX™
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CavitroniX™ expects to commercialize its proprietary E2C® fuel emulsion technology to a large oil-consuming market.
Xylofuel
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Xylofuel develop methods and microbial cultures to convert biomass to bioproducts.
BioFuels Energy
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BioFuels Energy specializes in the field of renewable energy solutions.
NextCAT
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NextCAT is commercializing a series of catalysts for use in biodiesel production.
Alkcon
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Alkcon Corporation manufacturers systems for the conversion of methane to propane.
CIRCON Environmental
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Sustainable, innovative waste management solutions.
VERBIO North America
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VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG, with headquarters in Leipzig, Germany, is a leading independent manufacturer and supplier of biofuels
Clean Energy Pathways Inc
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Clean Energy Pathways is a company that knows that any business, household, ceo, worker, and citizen can make a profound difference.
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Bionavitas provides algae based bio-remediation technologies.
ECO Solutions
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Eco-Solution is dedicated to overall performance improvement in industrial biological processes.
New Generation Biofuels
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New Generation Biofuels is a US-based technology company focused on providing biofuel solutions for energy needs.
Greenleaf Biofuels
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Greenleaf Biofuels is a limited liability company formed in 2004 to bring renewable energy alternatives to Americans who value preserving
McCall Companies
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McCall Companies is a provider of asphalt, biofuels, renewables and other energy products.
C2 Biofuels
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C2 Biofuels is commercializing a process to make cellulosic ethanol from woody substances.
CIBDO
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CIBDO, LLC was organized to further exploit the low cost, high profit opportunity of our proprietary process technology.
Crowley Davis Research
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Crowley Davis Research specializes in biomedical research and development based on intellectual property to build hybrid technologies.
PIARCS
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PIARCS is developing an unconventional Biological Phosphorus Removal system more cost effective than competing Struvite and Alum.
Brettech Alternative Fuel
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Brettech Alternative Fuel involves in the production of bioethanol and agricultural byproducts.
Butanol
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Butanol produces alternative fuels to preserve the diminishing petroleum reserves.
United EcoEnergy
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United EcoEnergy specializes in investments in the alternative energy industry, including biofuel companies.
Pressure Pumping Services
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Pressure Pumping Services is an energy company located in Streetman.
Murchison Oil & Gas
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Murchison Oil & Gas is an oil and gas company that acquires, develops, and produces oil and gas resources.
Global Algae Innovations
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Global Algae Innovations is a biotechnology company specialized in providing algae production technologies.
Flint Hills Resources – BioFuel Business
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Flint Hills Resources – BioFuel Business produces and processes bio-ethanol.
Agromin
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Agromin manufactures and supplies eco-friendly soil, organic materials and biofuels products for farmers, landscapers and gardeners.
Biobor Fuel Additives
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Biobor Fuel Additives is an innovative manufacturer of fuel biocides, Biobor Fuel Additives & Hum-Bug microbial test kits.
Environmental Fuel Research
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Environmental Fuel Research converts Grease Trap Waste (GTW) into biodiesel using a bubble column reactor technology.
First United Ethanol
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First United Ethanol operates as an ethanol plant.
Austin Biofuels
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Austin Biofuels provides vegetable oil-based biodiesel to retail customers.
