
While AI is increasing demands on energy supply, a number of startups are harnessing AI to make energy networks more efficient and sustainable. Here are ones to watch.
Having less than $50m in capital is challenging for a corporate VC fund. But with the right approach and in the right sector it can work.
Two years since the inception of the investment arm, new head Takeshi Kodama is helping solidify the unit's vision for the future energy mix.
Defence and industrial investors are increasingly interested in using quantum sensors to go where the GPS system cannot take us.
The costs of making things in space — and getting them back to earth — is high. But infrastructure to bring down the costs is being built.
The decline of cleantech and hydrogen investments is overstated in H1, according to GCV data, while transport investments go cold.
Funding numbers are down as Southeast Asia's startups have failed to keep track with the move to deep tech, but they can overcome that by adopting an international outlook.
Some 50 corporate-backed startups had an exit in June including six stock market listings and two company closures.
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Tulum Energy, spun out of industrial group Techint, has developed a technology that creates emissions-free hydrogen at similar costs to hydrogen based on fossil fuels.
Set the businesses up as independent legal entities from day one, hire outside founders (and give them equity) — but make sure there are structured ways to connect back to the parent company.
A shift in focus to premium drinks brands and profitability, along with new strategic direction from the c-suite, may have played a role in Diageo's exit from Distill Ventures.
Big AI mega funding rounds are pushing up the dollar value of funding rounds, but the underlying number of rounds is up 25% signalling growing investor confidence.
In this month's local investors guide, Madelyn Rutter of TechNexus Venture Collaborative introduces us to The Windy City's VC scene (and its breakfast sandwiches).
Fujitsu Ventures has raised a new $104m fund to invest in AI and quantum computing — as well as even more cutting-edge emerging technologies.
While AI is increasing demands on energy supply, a number of startups are harnessing AI to make energy networks more efficient and sustainable. Here are ones to watch.
Having less than $50m in capital is challenging for a corporate VC fund. But with the right approach and in the right sector it can work.
Two years since the inception of the investment arm, new head Takeshi Kodama is helping solidify the unit's vision for the future energy mix.
Defence and industrial investors are increasingly interested in using quantum sensors to go where the GPS system cannot take us.
The costs of making things in space — and getting them back to earth — is high. But infrastructure to bring down the costs is being built.
The decline of cleantech and hydrogen investments is overstated in H1, according to GCV data, while transport investments go cold.