Gevo
Americas
Englewood
,
United States
Scaleup
FOUNDED
2005
HEADCOUNT
101-500
FUNDING
Public
Keywords:
yeast, fermentation, metabolic_engineering, SAF, biofuels
BUSINESS
Gevo, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEVO) is a publicly traded renewable fuels and chemicals company founded in 2005, headquartered in Douglas County, Colorado, with approximately 236 employees. Gevo operates a low-carbon ethanol plant with adjacent carbon capture and sequestration, a dairy manure-based RNG facility in northwest Iowa (~400,000 MMBtu/year from 20,000+ dairy cows across three farms), and retains isobutanol production assets at its former Luverne, MN site (ethanol portion sold to A.E. Innovation in November 2025). The company achieved positive net income and positive adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2025.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Gevo was founded on fermentative isobutanol production using engineered yeast (GIFT process, licensed from UCLA), and retains patents and production assets for up to 1M gallons/year of isobutanol. Current operations center on conventional ethanol production with carbon capture, renewable natural gas from anaerobic digestion, and alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) catalytic conversion to sustainable aviation fuel.
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
engineered yeast fermentation; metabolic engineering; GIFT technology
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
renewable jet fuel (SAF); isobutanol; renewable gasoline and diesel