Oil and Gas Q3 2025: Scaling clean energy: mature tech drives hydrogen innovation

Contents:

• Tulum repurposes steel furnaces to make hydrogen
• Investors zero in on decentralised energy options
• Surge in AI data centres sparks investment in nuclear startups
• European venture builder launches startup creation fund
• Power firms join electrification VC fund
• Taesa’s startup investment unit
• 8 startups at the intersection of AI and the energy sector
• Big fusion funding rounds push up total startup spend
• Deals
• Exits
• People moves

Corporate venture building 2025: trends and case studies

In this report:

• What corporate venture building is and why it matters today

• Key trends in corporate venture building models and methodologies

• Best practices from successful corporate venture builders

• Lessons learned from failures and challenges

• Real world examples of from global leaders in innovation

GCV Powerlist 2025

Global Corporate Venturing’s annual list of the top 100 professionals who are shaping and influencing the corporate venturing industry in 2025.

Oil and Gas Q2 2025: Powering the future: the energy challenge of data centres

Contents:

• Innovations and challenges in energy supply for data centres
• Power upgrades urgently needed to meet AI demands
• Skeleton Technologies: Smoothing out power usage spikes
• Lightium: Photonics chips cut interconnect power use
• ZutaCore: A direct-to-chip liquid cooling system that does not use water
• Seven data centre power startups to watch
• O&G interest in hydrogen startups is still alive in H1

Corporate collaboration with universities: How to commercialise innovative research

In partnership with Out The Back Ventures

• Foreword: The OTB Team
• Introduction
• University spinouts: How corporate investors can tap academia
• PeroCycle: Anglo American seeks green steel solution
• NanoSyrinx: M Ventures invests in biotech spinout
• ElectraMet: Wastewater treatment spinout attracts HG Ventures
• Glossary of terms

Oil and Gas Q1 2025: Energy firms invest in tech to boost electricity grid efficiency

Contents:

• Investors back startups enhancing grid efficiency
• National Grid Partners’s £100m AI fund
• Toho Gas’s Shin Infrastructure Fund
• BayWa Renewables spins out CVC unit
• Nine recycling tech startups to watch
• Analysis: Value of oil and gas company investments jumps in Q1 2025
• Deals
• Exits
• Funds
• People moves

GCV Emerging Leaders 2025

Global Corporate Venturing’s annual list of the 50 mid-career professionals who are influencing the corporate venturing industry in 2025.

GCV Rising Stars 2025

Global Corporate Venturing’s annual list of the 50 early-career professionals who are rising fast in the corporate venturing industry for 2025.

University spinout funds: a powerful emerging asset class

A guide to global university funds

• Introduction and survey results
• Recently-launched funds
• Focus: US
• Focus: Europe
• Focus: Asia
• Focus: Australia and New Zealand
• Case study: Stellenbosch University

Oil and Gas 2024: Energy startups widen their horizons for new investors

• Energy companies not the only source for investment
• Investors steer different course on greener shipping fuels
• FEV finds opportunities amid solar and EV “disaster”
• Deregulation and data centre boom will boost energy sector
• Analysis: Decline in oil and gas-backed rounds continued in 2024
• Deals
• Funds
• People moves

The World of Corporate Venturing 2025

The definitive guide to the industry

• The Global Corporate Venturing Survey 2025
• Focus: US/Canada market
• Focus: Brazil market
• Focus: UK market
• Focus: Japan market
• Focus: German market
• Corporate backing gives startups an edge
• VCs want more active corporate investors
• Setting up a successful CVC platform team
• Corporates planning their own startups
• Why media for equity is grabbing attention
• Venture clienting vs CVC investment
• AI mega rounds push up investment

Bumpy road: self-driving cars make a cautious comeback

The evolving landscape for the self-driving car industry

Sponsored by Denso

• The bumpy road to autonomy
• Regulation is the key factor
• The impact of AI

Finding a new path: CVCs leading transformational change

How venture units can guide corporations through transformational change

Sponsored by Btomorrow Ventures

• Introduction: CVC as a catalyst of transformational change
• BTomorrow Ventures: Moving BAT from tobacco to drinks and snacks
• XCarb: Helping ArcelorMittal rethink steel manufacture
• Telus Global Ventures: Taking Telus from telecoms to healthcare

Oil & Gas Q4 2024: Taking a leap of faith on pioneering commercial projects

• How to get investors to take a leap of faith on first-of-a-kind projects
• Fervo Energy: clever ways to derisk early projects
• Solarcycle: modular approach to project finance
• O&G investors pull back in Q3 – except in transport
• A round-up of deals
• A round-up of exits
• Recent fundraisings

Oil & Gas Q3 2024: Look beneath the surface

• Aramco targets AI investments to aid energy transition
• Startups changing what is possible below Earth’s surface
• Data centre energy startups scene is heating up
• O&G Investors take bigger bets in cleantech in Q2 2024
• Deals
• Exits
• Funds
• People moves

GCV Powerlist 2024

Global Corporate Venturing’s annual list of the top 100 professionals who are shaping and influencing the corporate venturing industry in 2024.

Oil & Gas Q2 2024: Corporates dig deep

• CVCs make up a third of startup investment
• National Grid speeds up startup collaboration
• BP signals beefed-up $1bn venture strategy
• XGS rides wave of geothermal investment
• Samsung backs Niron Magnetics
• Oil and gas investors keep steady pace

GCV Rising Stars 2024

Global Corporate Venturing’s annual list of the 50 early-career professionals who are rising fast in the corporate venturing industry for 2024.

GCV Emerging Leaders 2024

Global Corporate Venturing’s annual list of the 50 mid-career professionals who are influencing the corporate venturing industry in 2024.

Oil & Gas Q1 2024: Energy powers on

Energy investors feel optimistic for a bright 2024, despite dimming prospects for exits

In partnership with Chevron

• Plenty of funding rounds but few exits
• Investors bet on fusion payoff within a decade
• LG eyes “once-in-a-century” energy transition opportunity
• New BP Ventures head broadens investments
• Oil & gas-backed startup funding rounds fell in 2023

GCV Report: India's next investment wave

• The shift from consumer to deeptech
• Investor views
• Indian startups to watch
• The spacetech sector
• The rise of EVs in India

The World of Corporate Venturing 2024

The definitive guide to the industry

• The Global Corporate Venturing Survey 2024
• Brazil’s CVC sector begins to take off
• Domestic focus boosts Japan’s CVC scene
• Focus: US market
• Focus: UK market
• Focus: German market
• CVC investment value falls in tough market

GCV Report: Sustainability

• Carbon capture
• Investor views
• Sustainability startups to watch
• Startup profile: Tidal Vision
• Plastics Recycling
• Watertech

GCV Report: Multi-LP corporate funds: emerging models

Sponsored by TDK Ventures

• Corporate funds benefit from taking on external investors
• Cross-sector fund with strategic goals
• Cross-sector fund with financial goals
• Same sector fund with strategic goals

GCV Report: Korea's tech ecosystem takes to global stage

Supported by Korea Venture Capital Association

• South Korea’s rapid-growth tech ecosystem turns to AI and batteries
• Opinions: Investor views
• Startups: 12 to watch
• Analysis: Deal size and valuations soar in South Korea’s tech sector

Japan’s CVC industry finds its footing

• Corporate venture helps build Japan’s moonshot capacity
• Investor views
• Startups: 12 to watch
• Japan corporate venture survey

Upward trajectory

Investment ready for take-off 

• Investors get on board with sustainable aviation fuel
• Has climate act made the US a magnet for cleantech?
• Oil and gas companies back bigger deals in Q3

In Partnership with Chevron

Battery technology faces scaling challenge

Supported by TDK Ventures

• Battery makers in battle over costs and raw materials
• The inside scoop on frontrunners in battery tech
• See what investors have to say about the state of battery technology
• Grid-scale battery technology lights up investors

Finland: An emerging deeptech ecosystem

Supported by Helsinki Partners

• From mobiles and games to a deeptech nation
• The inside scoop on frontrunners in Finland’s ecosystem
• See what investors have to say about latest tech and tips

A vision for fusion

Stellar breakthroughs in fusion technology attract investment to the nuclear energy space

• Tokamak spherical design attracts fusion investment
• Airline investors line up for CleanJoule’s aviation fuel
• Venture deals by oil and gas companies slow in Q2 2023

GCV Special Report: Functional Foods

Supported by Btomorrow Ventures

• Eating with purpose: When taste is no longer enough
• The inside scoop on frontrunners in the functional foods space
• See what investors have to say about latest tech and tips