Eni launches Eniverse Ventures, all the details
The creation of a new Corporate Venture Building vehicle is part of Eni's new business model for technological innovation
Eni launches a new corporate venture vehicle to enhance proprietary technologies in new businesses.
The energy group has announced the creation of Eniverse Ventures (Eniverse), a 100% Eni Corporate Venture Builder, dedicated to the identification, birth and development of innovative and high-tech entrepreneurial initiatives that explore new markets. The goal is to promote Just Transition, creating value with a short and medium term horizon.
According to a note , the new corporate vehicle of Corporate Venture Building is part of Eni's new business model and completes the framework of levers to promote and enhance technological innovation with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, according to the principles of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the objectives of the Paris Agreement on climate.
"With Eniverse, Eni is among the first companies in the energy sector to launch a vehicle for the enhancement of its wealth of technologies and talents, or rather the pillars of innovation on which the company has always invested and on which it leverages to successfully face the challenge of the energy transition ”commented Giacomo Silvestri, president of Eniverse.
All the details.
WHAT ENI CORPORATE VENTURE BUILDING WILL DO
Eniverse will combine research and internal skills, experience in business development and external entrepreneurship in order to enhance in the short and medium term technological assets, its own or third parties, with high potential, focusing on technologies with a marketing path of less than 3 years.
In detail, Eniverse will deal with market incubation for those technologies that have not yet reached adequate levels of maturity; market validation, through interactions with the market; business building, setting up new ventures and supporting them in the scale up phase.
ENHANCEMENT OF OWNERSHIP TECHNOLOGIES ALSO WITH EXTERNAL REALITIES (STARTUP, TECH COMPANY AND UNIVERSITY)
Eniverse therefore makes use of the skills gained by Eni in many engineering and scientific sectors and will allow the enhancement of a portfolio of proprietary innovations and technologies also through networks of collaborations with external realities such as startups and technology companies, universities and alliances with strategic partners.
Already today a screening has been carried out on over 130 proprietary technologies, among which those with the highest market potential will be identified, eligible for the creation of businesses.
ENIVERSE JOINS JOULE AND ENI NEXT
Finally, in this path, Eniverse joins Joule , Eni's School for Business that supports the growth of innovative and sustainable startups, and Eni Next, the company that invests in startups with high potential for the creation of game-changer technologies. for the energy transition.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/eni-lancia-eniverse-ventures-tutti-i-dettagli/ on Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:40:04 +0000.