Ahead of the inaugural Houston Energy + Climate Startup Week, the AP Ventures team sat down with Roslynn Velasquez and Matt Peña from the Rice Alliance to hear about why Texas is a great place to start and grow a cleantech venture, how Rice Alliance supports these startups, and other exciting cleantech developments in Texas. We also spoke with AP Ventures’ portfolio company Amogy on why it chose Texas to build its ammonia-to-power clean energy technology there.
AP Ventures is pleased to announce its investment in Aether Fuels. Aether’s flexible technology enables the conversion of a wide range of waste carbon feedstocks into jet fuel and other liquid hydrocarbons.
AP Ventures’ Kosuke Kobayashi and Brandon Zhanda sat down with the managing team of MIT’s Climate & Energy Prize (CEP), Daniel Capelin, Tohori Tsuchiya, and Ryota Shoji to talk about the history and challenges of the initiative, as well as its promising future.
AP Ventures is pleased to announce its investment in Airhive, alongside co-investor Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Airhive’s low-cost, energy-efficient and rapidly scaleable direct air capture technology has the potential to support the achievement of global warming and net-zero targets.
AP Ventures is pleased to announce its investment in Immaterial Ltd. alongside co-investors SLB, CEPSA, Chevron Technology Ventures, JERA Inc., Energy Revolution Ventures, TriREC and Ultratech Capital, in addition to existing investors. Immaterial’s monolithic metal-organic frameworks technology has the potential to create solutions for multiple application areas of industrial decarbonisation, including carbon capture and hydrogen storage.
On Sunday 16 July, AP Ventures celebrated 5 years as an independent fund manager.
