Kenda Capital Manages the Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 B.V. (the Fund) is an investment fund focused on accelerating the development and deployment of new technologies across the energy sector. Its primary focus is on the upstream oil and gas sector, but also selectively invests in the downstream, renewable energy and by-product recycling technologies. We make first outside round and follow-on investments as well as making some strategic acquisitions. Investments typically range from $1 to $20 million. To date we have made investments in companeis based in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

The Fund’s primary focus is on the upstream oil and gas sector, but also selectively invests in downstream O&G, renewable energy and by-product recycling technologies. Areas of interest include: oil and gas exploration, sub surface visualisation, well construction and automation, automated production operations, processing facilities and infrastructure, CO2 and sulphur disposal, biofuel, renewable energy technologies and water and fluid treatment.

AWS Ocean Energy (wave energy), C-fix (carbon sequestation, new materials), CoalesSense (pollution control), CoolEnergy (carbon sequestration), Echotecht (building materials), EMbaffle (energy efficiency), Twister (process efficiency).