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Ava Winery co-founder Josh Decolongon pours a Moscato sparkling wine on July 25, 2017 at the company's new location on Illinois Avenue in San Francisco, Calif. The startup has begun to engineer synthetic wine without using grapes. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Synthetic Winemakers Believe They Can Compete With Grapes

by Marisa Kendall The Mercury NewsAugust 12, 2017

San Francisco — The founders of Ava Winery spend their days turning water into wine. They aren’t miracle workers. They’re chemists with one goal — to reverse engineer the perfect bottle of wine, in a lab, without grapes. By freeing their…

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Smaller Startups With New Ideas Take on Big Data

by Marisa Kendall The Mercury NewsApril 2, 2017

Genie Laborde, 88, on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 at the home she rents out to start-up tenants in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. Silicon Valley tech startup Nest once rented space at this home before striking it big. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)

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Startups Start in Grandma’s Garage

by Marisa Kendall The Mercury NewsNovember 20, 2016

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Synthetic Winemakers Believe They Can Compete With Grapes

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Startups Start in Grandma’s Garage

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