Bruce Niven
Chief Investment Officer @ Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
Bruce Niven is a Series B investor at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures focused on Solar and Energy. Corporate venture capital specialist
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
Last updated:
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Industries Bruce Niven invests in
Stages Bruce Niven invests in
Countries Bruce Niven invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 2 (13%)
- Energy 2 (13%)
- Software 2 (13%)
- Industrial 2 (13%)
- Manufacturing 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (25%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Funding Round 3 (19%)
- Seed 2 (13%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 3 (19%)
- United Kingdom 3 (19%)
- Germany 2 (13%)
- Ireland 1 (6%)
- Singapore 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Arkestro
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Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com | $36M / May 14, 2025 | |
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Arkestro
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Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com | $36M / Series B / May 14, 2025 | |
Ucaneo
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Ucaneo is an environmental services company that develops carbon removal technology designed to capture carbon dioxide from the air. | Seed / Mar 11, 2025 | |
Spiritus
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Spiritus is a climate tech company developing direct-air-capture technology. Its approach combines the Spiritus Sorbent and the Spiritus Carbon Orchard, offering a scalable and modular system for low-cost DAC and sequestration (DAC+S). The company is committed to making carbon removal an accessible and practical tool in the global fight againstclimate change. | $30M / Series A / Mar 06, 2025 | |
Andium
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Andium is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company that builds a smarter world and empowers leaders to create meaningful change.Andium is a revolutionary software platform that brings the intelligence of modern computing to devices as small as your fingernail, providing a level of technological sophistication previously unavailable in suchcost-effective and power-efficient hardware. | $21.7M / Series B / Oct 29, 2024 | |
Promethean Particles
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Promethean Particles design, develop and manufacture inorganic nanoparticle dispersions to our customer’s specifications. Promethean uses continuous hydrothermal synthesis to make the optimum product for each application and backs this up with a brand new multi-ton scale nanoparticle manufacturing plant (in excess of 1000 tons per year). We covermany industry needs such as printed electronics (enabling flexible circuitry, 3D printing etc.), nanocomposites, catalysts, MOFs, healthcare etc. In addition, we offer a feasibility study service to tailor a custom made solution for the specific requirements of a customer. Promethean is not only unique due its multi nano-material production capacities, the company possesses significant know-how, a successful patented technology and flexibility to offer the right solution to its partners. | $10.3M / Series A / Aug 14, 2024 | |
Dendra Systems
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Dendra's vision is to empower humanity to restore the balance of our natural world. Our mission is to create the tools needed to power scalable ecosystem restoration. | $15M / Series B / May 08, 2024 | |
Parallel Carbon
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Parallel Carbon is creating the hardware platform required for a post-fossil-fuel society. To eliminate emissions, they are developing technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while producing hydrogen. Their mission is to provide the most scalable solution to climate change. | $3.6M / Seed / Jan 08, 2024 | |
Redex
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Redex is a blockchain-enabled platform that monitors and confirms REC ownership transfers and retirement.Redex provides a comprehensive set of services for managing Renewable Energy Certificates. | $10M / Series A / Oct 30, 2023 | |
Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $4M / Series C / Aug 10, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Aramco Oil Company. It's mission is to invest globally into start-up and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to Saudi Aramco, and to accelerate their development and deployment in Saudi Aramco’s operations. Based out of Dhahran (Saudi Arabia),SAEV also operates through regional offices in North America and Europe. SAEV's Objectives are: - Enhance reserve identification, management and production - Increase energy production - Improve operational efficiency - Increase value in downstream processes - Optimize energy & water consumption in Saudi ArabiaSAEV's investment Focus Areas are: - Upstream Oil & Gas - Downstream & Petrochemicals - Sustainability - Digitalization and IR4.0 - New Drivers of Hydrocarbon Demand
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures Contacts
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Arne Frøiland
Investment Director
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Bruce Niven
Chief Investment Officer
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Daniel Carter
Investment Director
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Hans Middelthon
Managing Director of SAEV Europe Venture Capital
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Jim Sledzik
Managing Director, North America
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FAQ
What does Bruce Niven invest in?
Bruce Niven invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Bruce Niven last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bruce Niven closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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