# Ben van Beurden

> Ben van Beurden is a grant investor at Shell Oil Company backing Energy and Renewable Energy. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shell Oil Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shell-oil)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2020
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benvanbeurden
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vanbeurdenshell
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lakhsman.sarkar.10

Ben van Beurden is a grant investor at Shell Oil Company in London focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Ben van Beurden was the Chief Executive Officer of Shell. He attended Delft University of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 100% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 100% |
| Natural Resources | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RVE.SOL - Solucoes de Energia Rural | Rural populations forced reliance on biomass and kerosene for their energy needs is causing over 1.6M# deaths per annum. Their lack of access to clean water causes over 5M people to die; 2M of them are children under the age of 5.RVE.SOL's _Changing Rural Life Forever_ initiative is creating alternative, renewable energy choices for therural poor, allowing them to take advantage of natural resources like sunlight, cattle manure and raw water to manage their own way to a better future.Our _KUDURA_ rural village energy hub is community managed; provides communities with potable water, solar electricity, biogas for cooking and organic fertiliser for agriculture.A holistic approach, the solution seeks to target the four areas of rural life that prevalently cause poverty to propagate:1. Access to clean water to obviate transmission of water borne disease2. Access to renewable electricity to obviate the dependance on kerosene for light and improve children's opportunity to study at night3. Access to Biogas to obviate mass destruction of primary forest in a bid to be able to cook food4. Access to fertiliser to reinvigorate over-used soils and so increase quality and quantity of crop harvest for subsistence farmers.Ultimately, this approach seeks to create wealth for rural farmers by offering a choie of more cost effective and efficient services utilising naturally available resources. |  | Grant | Aug 21, 2020 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Shell Oil Company

VC Fund · Houston, United States

Shell Oil Company is an energy company that explores and produces energy products such as fuels, oil, natural gas, lubricants, LPG, chemicals, etc. Shell helps to meet the world's growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally, and socially responsible ways.Shell Oil Company is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary ofRoyal Dutch Shell.

5 contacts available at Shell Oil Company.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colleen Regan | Strategy Advisor, Americas, Renewables and Energy Solutions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colleen-regan |
| Anna Mascolo | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-mascolo |
| Ben van Beurden | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-van-beurden |
| Ben van Beurden | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-van-beurden-88fd |
| Colette Hirstius | Executive Vice President, Gulf of America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colette-hirstius-d428 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben van Beurden invest in?

Ben van Beurden invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Natural Resources startups, most often at Grant stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ben van Beurden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben van Beurden closed in Aug 2020. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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