LG Group's corporate venture capital unit has launched a new fund to back startups that are part of the energy transition.

After spending a year as Baker Hughes's New Venture Group's senior deal lead, Kai Martin has been hired by Shell Ventures as its new investment manager.

Deal count was up in energy and transportation among an overall decline in corporate-backed venture funding.

The Japanese startup has created battery technology that replaces the need for rare earth metals in fuel cell vehicles.

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.

Fit your technology to the current energy system, get the cost of green hydrogen under $1 per kilo and understand your funders.

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.

Tim Romero has spent most of his career in Japan as a founder, podcaster and startup investor.

From technology that studies cosmic rays to measure soil moisture to a system that can turn air into water, we look at the most promising new startups in the water tech sector.