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Mitch Gainer has become director at NextEra Energy Investments, where he will lead climate tech startup investments.
rEnergy Partners, the newly independent CVC of BayWa r.e., will continue managing its portfolio while backing early-stage cleantech startups.
Course has resigned as digital innovation program manager at Shell Ventures.
From digital twins to superconducting transmission lines, energy companies are looking technologies to bring more renewable generation onto the grid.
The gas utility will back startups in food and agriculture, wellness, real estate and tourism as it seeks to use corporate VC to expand its business.
Andrea Sguazzi spent several years at Italy's Enel Group where he formed collaborations with the parent and startups.
A decade after forming real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan's CVC arm, Takeshi Kodama is set to take over at Japan's JERA Ventures.
From nuclear waste recycling to making T-shirts out of plastic bottles, here are nine of the most interesting new companies in the recycling sector.
After six years at Dutch energy utility Eneco's corporate VC subsidiary, legal specialist Susan Heerings is moving to clean energy investor Meewind.
Corporate VCs expect the needs of AI data centres and US deregulation to boost energy funding, with grid tech and nuclear among the winners.
GCV has looked through our data to find the busiest investors in corporate venture capital. Here's how and where they invested in 2024.
AI funding rounds commanded huge prices in 2024, but corporate investors also made large bets in healthcare, energy and robotics.
Shioyama was a principal at Mitsui Fudosan's CVC arm for five years.
When companies face foundational change, the corporate investment unit can often become a pathfinder for new business ideas.
Husk Power Systems has just raised $100m from investors including Shell to build 1,500 solar mini-grids in India and Nigeria in the next four to five years.
Ten corporate investors were part of a $380m series C round this week, including Fortescue, United Airlines, Rio Tinto, Amazon, Microsoft and BP.
The US's $369bn climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), promises to put the US at the forefront of the clean energy transition, but the act has its limitations.
Algae, alcohol and electrofuels all have potential for creating sustainable aviation fuel — but which ones are winning backing from industry?
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