Archer Daniels Midland Company is a world leader in agricultural processing and fermentation technology.

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Solazyme, founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, uses patented technology that allows algae to produce oil and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities quickly, efficiently and on a large scale.

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Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.

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