Energy

Taesa Ventures will seek to invest in startups making advances in the electricity sector.

Increases in corporate-backed funding rounds in IT and industrial startups have driven dealmaking to a post-tech investment boom high in July.

For an early-stage investor it makes sense to use secondary sales to rotate out of some more mature startup holdings as a matter of course, says portfolio manager Davide Romeo Nanni.

While the full picture might be bleak with historic issues still present, investors are opening up to practical grid innovations.

Ammonia-to-clean power startup Amogy is expanding in Asia where demand for its technology is growing for powering AI and data centres.

While AI is increasing demands on energy supply, a number of startups are harnessing AI to make energy networks more efficient and sustainable. Here are ones to watch.

Geert van de Wouw joined Just Climate at the start of July after over a decade at the helm of Shell Ventures.

Two years since the inception of the investment arm, new head Takeshi Kodama is helping solidify the unit's vision for the future energy mix.

The costs of making things in space — and getting them back to earth — is high. But infrastructure to bring down the costs is being built.

The decline of cleantech and hydrogen investments is overstated in H1, according to GCV data, while transport investments go cold.

Former GCV Emerging Leader Scott Pinizzotto is seeking new climate tech VC opportunities after almost 10 years at Engie's venture unit.