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Rice Husks Co. Seeded By DFJ, Cisco In Business Plan Contest

NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty ... found this 7/1/2009 on blogs.wsj.com

After reviewing the business plans of more than 1,000 unknown start-up companies, venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson – joined this year by tech giant Cisco Systems – has awarded a seed round of $250,000 to Husk Power Systems Inc., a company that turns rice husks into energy and is already ...