Venture capital fuels innovation in oil & gas, energy, and chemicals
Venture capital firms are fueling innovation across energy, chemicals, and industrials. However, they must navigate technical uncertainty, market shifts, and regulatory complexity to succeed.
ADI Analytics supports venture capital firms with comprehensive consulting services across the entire investment lifecycle, including in-depth market research, critical technical insight, scale-up strategies, commercialization support, and robust commercial validation.
Venture capital drives new frontiers
Venture capital is vital for commercializing emerging technologies across energy transition, sustainable materials, specialty chemicals, and advanced manufacturing. Investments target early-stage companiesin areas like hydrogen, carbon capture, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), bioplastics, battery materials, and industrial decarbonization.
Navigating complex investment landscapes
Despite robust innovation, venture capital investors face challenges assessing technical feasibility, product-market fit, regulatory risk, and customer demand. Fast-moving timelines and evolving policies intensify the need for rigorous analysis, while shifting value chains demand agile, informed decisions in scouting, screening, and due diligence.
Scaling and commercializing innovation
Venture-backed companies are pressured to prove scalability, cost competitiveness, and alignment with decarbonization goals. Demonstrating both sustainability and commercial viability is crucial for attracting follow-on capital.
Expert insight for confident investment
ADI helps venture investors build confidence in investment decisions by offering domain-specific insight, commercial validation, and growth strategy support grounded in strong market fundamentals and technical fluency.
How ADI helps
ADI Analytics supports venture capital clients through each phase of the investment lifecycle with data-driven, sector-specific consulting services. Our work spans:
- Thesis development & trend scouting including market scans, white space mapping, competitor analysis, and identification of high-impact technology and sustainability trends.
- Opportunity screening through development of screening criteria, creation of opportunity funnels, and high-level technical and commercial assessments of early-stage targets.
- Commercial and technical due diligence including market validation, TAM analysis, value chain modeling, VoC interviews, business model assessment, and technology readiness evaluation.
- Portfolio support & strategy involving partnership strategy, go-to-market planning, customer segmentation, and alignment with emerging policies, incentives, and regulatory frameworks.
- Exit readiness through buyer identification, market positioning support, and preparation of independent market assessments and transaction narratives.
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