Sapphire Energy was founded with one mission in mind: to change the world by developing a domestic, renewable source of energy that benefits the environment and hastens America′s energy independence. sapphire energy story What began as a debate among friends in early 2007 on how to create the perfect biofuel, by integrating the principals of industrial biotechnology, has become today\\\\\\\'s Sapphire Energy with facilities in San Diego, CA; Orange Country, CA; and Las Cruces, NM.

Sapphire Energy founders are led by entrepreneur and scientist Jason Pyle, and bioengineer Mike Mendez, backed by a team of the nation\\\\\\\'s leading researchers, scientists, and blue-ribbon investors in early-stage companies. Sapphire has already developed breakthrough technology to produce fungible, drop-in transportation fuels—including 91 octane gasoline, 89 cetane diesel, and jet fuel—all out of algae, sunlight, and carbon dioxide (CO2). Or, what we like to call Green Crude.

From the start, our goal has been ambitious: to become the world’s leading producer of renewable fuels and petrochemical products. We’re on the right track and all indications support that. To meet our goal, we brought together a team of people who, as entrepreneurs, investors, scientists and concerned citizens, hold several shared beliefs. We believe that climate change is a threat to our environment and that dependence on imported oil is a threat to our national security and the security of future generations. We believe that existing alternatives to imported transportation fuels are too slow to commercialize, too expensive to produce, and have their own harmful environmental trade-offs.