“Building a relationship with Chevron Technology Ventures is an important step toward commercialization of Solazyme’s technology which fits cleanly into Chevron’s existing refining and fuels distribution infrastructure,” said Jonathan Wolfson, chief executive officer of Solazyme.

Using a proprietary protected process that optimizes algal oil production, Solazyme is producing high-value, functional oils that can be leveraged across a wide variety of industries and applications including biodiesel, biojet and other biofuels. Solazyme has developed an industrial scale fermentation process currently capable of producing thousands of gallons of algal oil using standard industrial equipment. In addition, Solazyme has plans to dramatically expand production in 2008.

About Solazyme:

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, Solazyme is a synthetic biology company unleashing the power of marine microbes to create clean and scalable solutions for the renewable energy, industrial chemical, and specialty ingredient markets. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.solazyme.com.