Industrial

Rare earth metals are critical to the clean energy transition but their extraction comes at massive environmental costs. Here are six startups with solutions, from mining on the moon to microbes that extract minerals without toxins.

The small Baltic nation is rapidly innovating under threat from Russia, but more sophisticated investors and an easier procurement system are needed to take its defence sector further.

Ulrich Quay and Sander Verbrugge join the team as partners, while founding team partner Kelly Chen announces her departure.

Booz Allen Ventures has expanded to a $300m unit as it looks to compete against Chinese counterparts in areas like AI, quantum computing and cybersecurity.

Defence and industrial investors are increasingly interested in using quantum sensors to go where the GPS system cannot take us.

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.

Startups are coming up with innovative technologies to make polyester production more sustainable, but the problem lies in scaling them.

George Hoyem has left the defence investment arm of the US government to join the investment committee of a Canadian VC investor.

A spokesperson for the company confirmed the Chemovator incubator has shut down. It comes amid restructuring of the company.

Former Zeon Ventures president Yoshi Kagawa will run corporate VC operations for the mining and metals group, which launched its second fund in December.