Hurricane Harvey left Kemal and his family “shaken but dry and all right” and CTV’s venturing strategy mostly unchanged. “What has enabled Chevron Technology Ventures to be a successful venturing group and the longest-lasting, continuously operating oil and gas venturing arm is our focus on resilient infrastructure,” he says. “This unfortunate event confirms the validity of our long-term strategy.”

But CTV has a new, additional, short term focus; “to energise local entrepreneurs and accelerate their business activities into…