A venture capital firm needed to understand the technology needs in emerging shale gas basins to prioritize investments and manage market risk.
The client
A regional venture capital firm was interested in funding start-ups focused on developing technologies for exploiting shale gas basins.
The situation
The client sought a market-backed understanding of technology needs in two or three emerging shale gas basins to prioritize investments and manage market risk.
ADI’s contributions
Primary research
We conducted approximately 40 interviews with industry experts across the shale gas exploration, production, and utilization value chain.
Insight distillation
The insights gathered from the interviews were distilled to identify the key operational and technology pains and needs within the industry.
Prioritization
We segmented and prioritized the identified technology challenges by basin and basin growth data.
Market sizing
We sized the potential revenue associated with each technology challenge to quantify the market opportunity.
Key outcomes
- The resulting technology needs and evaluation framework are being rolled out to investment professionals and are being used to generate, evaluate, seed, and fund new opportunities.
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