Energy

Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK minister for investment, gave a keynote on the development of a fertile environment for the growth of decarbonisation technologies.

Mach49’s Paul Holland spoke with BlackRock Alternatives Investors’ Jim Barry on the latter’s firm’s climatetech strategy.

The Spark initiative in partnership with incubator Forge had 1,350 registrations with 23 accepted.

Hitachi’s chief environmental officer Alistair Dormer gave a keynote on the firm’s commitment to sustainability through innovation.

Cox Enterprises invested in digital media company Axios at a $430m valuation while Bristol Myers Squibb helped enzyme drug developer Nitrase Therapeutics boost its series A round to $45m.

Jens Madrian introduces Neom Energy, which is set to start investing in technology companies from 2023.

AES and Siemens are each retaining nearly 35% of the energy storage system provider, which has closed an upsized initial public offering.

The energy provider's National Grid Partners unit has deployed a total of $24m to Cogniac, AptEdge, Finite State, TS Conductor, Sync Computing and Risilience

GCV editor-in-chief James Mawson gave welcoming remarks together with chair Ignacio Gimenez, managing partner of BP Ventures.