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

Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Emerging Leaders

The emerging leaders in corporate venturing 2025

Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Rising Stars

The rising stars in corporate venturing 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 NZ
• CASE STUDY: STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY

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

Contents:

• 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

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

• BTOMORROW VENTURES
• XCARB INNOVATION FUND 
• TELUS GLOBAL VENTURES 

Taking a leap of faith on pioneering commercial projects

• FEATURE: How to get investors to take a leap of faith on first-of-a-kind projects
• CASE STUDY: Fervo Energy: clever ways to derisk early projects
• CASE STUDY: Solarcycle: modular approach to project finance
• OIL AND GAS REPORT: O&G investors pull back in Q3 – except in transport
• DEALS: A round-up of deals
• EXITS: A round-up of exits
• NEW FUNDS: 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

Oil & Gas Q2 2024: Corporates dig deep

Contents:

• 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

Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Rising Stars

The rising stars in corporate venturing 2024

Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Emerging Leaders

The emerging leaders in corporate venturing 2024

Energy powers on

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

• 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

  In Partnership with Chevron

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 Special Report: Sustainability

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

GCV Special 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

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