by ATHENA | Oct 11, 2023 | News
A Japanese fund focused on early-stage, Asian deep tech startups is doubling down on the opportunity, despite a wider slowdown investing in moonshots globally. Tokyo-based Beyond Next Ventures is targeting up to ¥25 billion (about $168 million) for BNV Fund...
by ATHENA | Oct 10, 2023 | News
n the nearly 25 years since the first quantum technologies workshops, quantum information science has advanced and its potential to drive major advances has become more apparent. The U.S. government has rightly recognized that it needs to play an active role in...
by ATHENA | Oct 10, 2023 | News
Irish-based international building materials firm Kingspan is backing covolve, a new Irish accelerator and venture fund, to digitise the construction industry. Headed up by Kingspan’s former Global Marketing Director and Director of...
by ATHENA | Oct 10, 2023 | News
Aramco is partnering with Siemens Energy AG to develop a small-scale direct air capture “test unit,” which is set to be finished in 2024. Direct air capture, or DAC, works by extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting it into solid or liquid forms to...
by ATHENA | Oct 10, 2023 | News
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has announced a fast-track action committee to evaluate the potential and challenges of marine carbon dioxide removal. Carbon dioxide removal involves removing CO2 that is already in the atmosphere or...
by ATHENA | Oct 10, 2023 | News
On 9 October 2023, the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee and the Budgets committee adopted their position on the establishment of a “Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP)” designed to boost critical...
