Energy Technology Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Energy Technology Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Energy and Oil and Gas. Founded in January 2011, Energy Technology Ventures is a joint venture involving General Electric, NRG Energy, and ConocoPhillips. The fund is focused on the development of next-generation energy technologies. The JV invests in, and offers commercial collaboration opportunities to, venture- and growth-stage energy technology companies in therenewable power generation, smart grid, energy efficiency, oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, emission controls, water and biofuels sectors, primarily in North America, Europe and Israel. With their wide range of deep technical and financial expertise, relationships, services and products, the three companies behind Energy Technology Ventures intend to help start-ups develop next-generation energy technology.The joint venture brings together three market-leading companies with complementary capabilities and significant strategic interests in the development of next-generation energy technology. This is the first corporate venture investment program by both NRG Energy, owner and operator of one of the country's largest and most diverse power generation portfolios, and ConocoPhillips, the third-largest US integrated energy company. GE Capital, through its business units GE Energy Financial Services and GE Capital, Equity, is already among the world's most active energy technology venture and growth capital investors.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Energy Technology Ventures invests in
Stages Energy Technology Ventures invests in
Countries Energy Technology Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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4 more contacts available
Round size
- Series C
- $14M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 6 (50%)
- Oil and Gas 4 (33%)
- Hardware 2 (17%)
- Software 2 (17%)
- Electronics 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series C 4 (33%)
- Funding Round 4 (33%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (58%)
- United Kingdom 2 (17%)
- Israel 1 (8%)
- Norway 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ricardo Angel
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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1366 Technologies
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1366 Technologies is a manufacturer of silicon wafers used to deliver solar modules. The company's silicon wafers leverage existing billion-dollar cell and module investments, enabling businesses to get a long-term, differentiated product roadmap. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. | $18M / Series E / Dec 18, 2019 | |
BiSN
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BiSN is a producer of metal-to-metal downhole sealing solutions for the oil and gas industries. BiSN develops a revolutionary chemical reaction heater that brings the technology into the 21st century and opens the door to a range of applications previously thought impossible. | $6.5M / Jul 26, 2017 | |
Cool Planet
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Cool Planet is a technology company that develops sustainable products to address energy, food, and water. It commercializes a groundbreaking technology that produces engineered biocarbon and renewable, carbon-negative fuel from biomass. It was founded in 2009 and in headquartered Colorado, Mexico. | Series D / Mar 31, 2014 | |
Ziebel AS
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Founded in Stavanger, Norway in 2006, Ziebel provides specialist well intervention services to the global oil and gas industry. Ziebel is dedicated to enhancing production effectively and economically through its pioneering well intervention technologies, including the Z-System™. This proprietary fiber optic composite rod technology makes itpossible to access and visualize the entire well bore in real-time. | $10M / Jan 20, 2014 | |
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1366 Technologies
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1366 Technologies is a manufacturer of silicon wafers used to deliver solar modules. The company's silicon wafers leverage existing billion-dollar cell and module investments, enabling businesses to get a long-term, differentiated product roadmap. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. | $15M / Series C / Oct 15, 2013 | |
Arctic Sand Technologies
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Arctic Sand is an MIT spinoff which is commercializing a power conversion technology for multiple mass markets that consolidates several board-level power components onto one chip. The technology boasts a tenfold reduction in circuit size, and cuts power losses by 75 percent. | $9.6M / Series A / Jan 14, 2013 | |
Zilift Limited
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Zilift was established to develop and market permanent magnet technologies for innovative artificial lift applications. Zilift Magnet Drive™ systems are defined by the high efficiency, compact design capabilities of permanent magnet materials. Zilift innovative artificial lift systems deliver high torque or hi-flow in the most versatile, compactdownhole drivetrain packages.Zilift is currently developing two product lines which will offer reductions in lifting costs and enable customers to explore innovative PCP and ESP deployments in situations and applications where none exist today.Zilift TorqueDrive™ for PCP – is an integrated downhole drivetrain and PCP artificial lift system. Zilift TorqueDrive™ removes the compromises and failure modes that are associated with top drive systems. The system dramatically improves pump performance and wellbore placement options.Zilift SpeedDrive™ for ESP – is the only 2⁵⁄₈″ diameter ESP in the world. Now it is possible to deploy an ESP on cable or wireline and take all the benefits of ESP artificial lift to new through tubing, slim bore, live well intervention and restricted access applications. | $5.2M / May 09, 2012 | |
Glori Energy
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Glori Energy's mission is to cleanly and safely recover billions of barrels of oil that are trapped in existing well reservoirs without having to drill a single new well. Glori partners with oil producers to install the AEROTM (Activated Environment for Recovery of Oil) System to significantly increase oil production. The AEROâ„¢ Systemprovides a new, viable low-cost option to cleanly and safely recover previously trapped oil and bring it to market. | $20M / Series C / Jan 24, 2012 | |
GMZ Energy
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GMZ Energy was founded based on the scientific discovery made at MIT and Boston College in thermoelectric materials and the conviction of the founders that thermoelectric energy conversion has game changing potential in efficient and environmentally friendly direct conversion between thermal and electrical energy, for cooling and powerapplications. The vision of their founders is that thermoelectric energy conversion technology will in the future be widely used in air-conditioning, heat pumping, waste heat recovery, and solar thermal energy conversion. | $14M / Series C / Dec 21, 2011 | |
TaoWeave
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TaoWeave is a design-driven software and hardware company whose mission is to put a new user interface on every computer in the world. Oblong’s technology has roots in more than two decades of research at the MIT Media Lab and was the direct basis for the computers depicted in the film “Minority Report”. The company, founded in 2006, maintainsglobal headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.The g-speak™ Spatial Operating Environment (SOE) is Oblong’s application development and deployment platform. It's the only general purpose platform designed from the ground up to give programmers access to the principles of spatial (and gestural) computing and real-world pixels, and to enable applications that are inherently multi-screen, multi-user, and multi-device. Oblong has used g-speak to help Global Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Saudi Aramco, and GE (as well as government agencies and universities) build and deploy profoundly productive solutions in areas including modeling and simulation, logistics and supply chain management, natural resource discovery and extraction, energy grid management, and financial and scientific data navigation and visualization.Oblong’s Mezzanine™ product, built atop the g-speak platform, is a room-scale visual collaboration system offering a unique shared pixel workspace: multiple participants work across multiple screens, sharing data, live video, and applications -- and exercising collaborative control -- from every device (phones, tablets, laptop browsers) they bring with them into the room. Telepresence capabilities, collaborative whiteboarding, and presentation design and delivery are integrated into the Mezzanine experience. Each Mezzanine room can join up to three other Mezzanine rooms (or connect to standard telepresence / videoconference endpoints) to enable distance collaboration of unprecedented immediacy and fluidity.The Oblong team comprises former executives, developers, and engineers from (among others) Apple, Google, Pixar, Microsoft, Accenture, and Disney. Oblong is privately held; investors include The Foundry Group, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, and Energy Technology Ventures. | $15.8M / Series B / Jul 01, 2011 | |
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FAQ
What does Energy Technology Ventures invest in?
Energy Technology Ventures invests primarily in Energy, Oil and Gas and Hardware startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Energy Technology Ventures's check size?
Energy Technology Ventures typically joins rounds of $14M–$25M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Energy Technology Ventures participates in.
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The team at Energy Technology Ventures includes Ricardo Angel (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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