Energy

Raghuram Madabushi was previously a director at National Grid Partners, the strategic investment arm of energy utility National Grid.

Corporate VC investors believe conflicts like Iran will help cleantech startups, but resiliency and sovereignty are bigger factors than energy prices.

He was part of the founding team that set up the €50m corporate venture unit Terna Forward in 2022.

Following a collapse in funding between 2022 and 2024, momentum is building for startups backed by energy sector corporations.

Tomomi Natsume will oversee CVC operations for the Japanese conglomerate across its global teams in Asia, Europe, US and Israel.

Funding for corporate-backed rounds leapt 370% in the first quarter of 2026 as OpenAI headlined a range of multibillion-dollar deals.

Sophia Nadur, the BP Ventures managing director that co-founded the energy company's electrification business, will now advise PE-backed companies.

Japan's largest power generation company will work with the US university to commercialise clean energy tech spinouts.

Traditional practices in finance, agriculture, energy and the creative industries are being broken down as blockchain technology ushers in faster and more streamlined transactions.

University of Oxford spinout Densix is developing a power converter with output two orders of magnitude higher than current technology. It may prove critical to meeting the needs of AI data centres.

As head of the ventures unit, John Willis engaged with startup founders and corporate venture investors exploring new technologies in the energy sector.