Ventures case studies
Verdezyne
Originally focused on providing synthetic genes to pharmaceutical and industrial enzyme businesses, in 2008 Verdezyne began to develop fermentation pathway engineering for renewable fuels and chemicals...
Chromatin
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Chromatin’s patented mini-chromosome technologies enable the development of new seed products and the delivery of multiple genetic traits into any plant...
Cool Planet Biofuels
BP Ventures has invested in Cool Planet Biofuels following earlier investment from, among others, Energy Technology Ventures and Google Ventures…
Liquid Light
BP has invested in Liquid Light, an early-stage start-up founded on discoveries in the fields of catalysis from the research lab of Professor Andrew Bocarsly at Princeton University…
Solidia
The building and construction industries are facing increasing pressure to change and innovate, to create materials with superior properties and to reduce their environmental impact…
GMZ
GMZ Energy was founded in 2007 to commercialize materials and devices that leverage the nanotechnology discoveries of researchers at MIT and Boston College, which allow the efficient conversion of heat to electricity with a thermoelectric device…
Heliex Power
Based in East Kilbride, UK, Heliex Power has exclusivity for the commercialization of screw expander technology developed by City University, London…
Xtreme Power
Founded in 2004, Xtreme Power designs, engineers, manufactures and operates integrated energy storage and power management systems for power producers, transmission and distribution utilities, and commercial and industrial end-users....
OptoAtmospherics
OptoAtmospherics’ products provide 3D atmospheric mapping, not only of wind speed and direction, but also of density and temperature, simultaneously…
BrightSource
BrightSource designs, develops and sells solar thermal power systems that deliver reliable, clean energy to utilities and industrial companies…
Caelux
California-based Caelux is developing a flexible solar-cell manufacturing process and design that minimizes the amount of semiconducting material used…
