Having invested $190m over the past decade in technology to help its parent’s energy operations, Chevron Technology Venture Investments ranked number one in its sector.
Month: October 2010
Clean-Tech Profile: Chevron Technology Venture Investments
A route to better research and business development has been found through Chevron’s disciplined, consistent strategy.
Clean-tech case study: Solazyme
Crude algae is converted into profitable oil with help of large list of strategic backers.
Profile: Shell GameChanger
Ideas find a safe home within Shell’s incubation unit.
Venture capital troubles in clean energy
Academic paper argues venture capital funds need a potentially “radical” reworking of their model to cope with clean-tech’s demands.
Top 20 Energy Corporate Venturing Firms
List of top 20 energy corporate venturing firms
China leads clean-tech world
China leads the manufacture of solar and wind turbines (see tables below) as the country’s authorities subsidise the move into energy efficiency and solar power.
Dawn of energy’s new era
Money turns global clean-tech revolution as natural resources sector increases pace and influence of their corporate venturing activities.
Corporate venturing opportunities in energy
Challenges facing oil and gas industries are enormous and venturing offers a way to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions.
Third Rock incubates new venture capital model
Venture capital firm applies pharmaceutical companies’ approach to drug discovery to its business model to create an incubation partnership.
Reed Elsevier Ventures: market maps showed way to generate dealflow
Reed Elsevier Ventures is one of the few corporate funds set up in 2000 – the heady days of the dot.com bubble – to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Diana Noble, a former partner at Schroder Ventures (now Permira), was persuaded to lead it and first to join her was Tony Askew. Kevin Brown followed as a principal and was promoted to partner the next year. Noble stepped down as managing partner at the end of 2004 to join the William J Clinton Foundation and Askew took the reins. The three of them discussed with editor James Mawson in last month’s issue how the venturing team was originally architected and, in this second article, Reed Elsevier Ventures’ approach to investing.
Reality of decision-making at big companies unveiled
Software AG, the second-largest software vendor in Germany, examined how and whether to set up a corporate venturing unit and decided against it a few days before gaining expected ratification from the full board. Global Corporate Venturing editor James Mawson spoke to Frederic Hanika, senior vice-president and head of mergers and acquisitions.
Innovation mechanisms tailored to business needs
In-house solutions are being replaced by partnerships
Deal round-up: September 2010
Summary of September 2010’s deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement.