| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.02.2026 | Houston startup debuts bio-based 'leather' fashion collection in Milan | Earlier this month, Houston-based Rheom Materials and India’s conscious design studio Econock unveiled a collaborative capsule collection that signaled more than just a product launch.
Hosted at Lineapelle—long considered the global epicent... |
| 23.02.2026 | Utility Global Secures $100M for Global Decarbonization Push | Utility Global, a Houston-based industrial decarbonization pioneer, secured $100M in Series D funding. Ara Partners and APG Asset Management led the investment. This capital fuels the global deployment of Utility's H2Gen technology. H2Gen c... |
| 17.02.2026 | - | Funding accelerates commercial deployment of Utility's H2Gen® technology, which produces cost-effective clean hydrogen and highly concentrated CO₂ streams, enabling at-scale economic decarbonization for existing assets in hard-to-abate indu... |
| 17.02.2026 | Utility Global Raises $100M First Close of Series D Funding | Utility Global, a Houston, TX-based global economic industrial decarbonization company enabling practical solutions for hard-to-abate sectors, raised a first close of $100M in its Series D financing.
The round was led by Ara Partners and AP... |
| 17.02.2026 | Utility Global: $100 Million Series D First Close Raised To Scale H2Gen Platform | Utility Global has announced a first close of $100 million in its Series D financing round to accelerate the global deployment of its economic industrial decarbonization platform. The round was led by Ara Partners and APG Asset Management, ... |
| 20.01.2026 | Divert Lands New Wittington-Led Funding To Scale Food Waste-To-Energy Infrastructure Across North America | Divert secured new funding led by Wittington Investments, Limited to accelerate the buildout of infrastructure aimed at reducing wasted food across North America, as the company scales its “Prevent, Provide, Power” model across major retail... |
| 12.12.2025 | Utility Global and Kyocera Join Forces to Scale H2Gen® Manufacturing Globally for Economic Industrial Decarbonization | Partners are investing in high-volume production of electrochemical cells to meet global demand from Steel, Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical sectors
HOUSTON, Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Utility Global ("Utility"), a U.S.-bas... |
| 28.10.2025 | Utility and Seongnam City Sign H2Gen® Hydrogen Demonstration and Certification Project | Groundbreaking "Frontier Korea" facility to advance economic industrial decarbonization and hydrogen innovation in one of the world's leading clean energy markets
HOUSTON and SEONGNAM, South Korea, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ut... |
| 21.10.2025 | Utility Global ernennt Tetsuya Shioda zum Senior Advisor und Repräsentanten in Japan | Utility Global ernennt Tetsuya Shioda zum Senior Advisor und Repräsentanten in Japan
Ehemaliger Nippon Steel Manager unterstützt das Wachstum und die Partnerschaften von Utility in Japan und Asien HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, October 21, 202... |
| 21.10.2025 | Utility Global Appoints Tetsuya Shioda as Senior Advisor and Japan Representative | Utility Global Appoints Tetsuya Shioda as Senior Advisor and Japan Representative
Former Nippon Steel Executive to advance Utility’s commercial growth and partnerships in Japan and Asia
We’re honored to welcome Mr. Shioda. His steelmaking e... |
| 10.10.2025 | Utility Global and Maas Energy Works Announce Agreement to Develop Dairy Digester-to-Hydrogen Mobility Project in California | Collaboration to deliver deeply carbon-negative hydrogen using dairy biogas to fuel heavy-duty transportation across California
HOUSTON and REDDING, Calif., Oct. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Utility Global, Inc. ("Utility"), a U.S.-ba... |
| 16.09.2025 | Pareen Shah of BioVeritas to Present at North American SAF Conference and Expo 2025 | Pareen Shah, CMO of BioVeritas
Leading SAF expert to discuss HEFA’s dominance in the SAF pathway landscape and solutions to the impending HEFA feedstock ceiling BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, September 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeritas, ... |
| 15.09.2025 | BioVeritas to Speak at Argus North American Biofuels, LCFS & Carbon Markets Summit | Pareen Shah, CMO of BioVeritas
Leading SAF innovator to discuss the challenges SAF developers face today and how fresh funding and innovation are unlocking the path forward BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, September 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ... |
| 26.08.2025 | VAC and Torngat Metals Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Rare Earth Supply Chain | HANAU, GERMANY – Newsaktuell – 26 August 2025 – VACUUMSCHMELZE (VAC), a global leader in the production of rare earth permanent magnets and Torngat Metals, a Quebec-based rare earths development company, have signed a non-binding Memorandum... |
| 24.06.2025 | CycleØ acquires waste facility to convert 121,000 tonnes of waste into renewable gas | CycleØ and GARYC project team L-R Francisco Javier Azón, Pedro Azón. Jordi Berengué, Gran Potter and Maria Azón
CycleØ and GARYC team on site in Toledo
CycleØ acquires Spanish waste management facility GARYC to transform municipal waste int... |
| 24.06.2025 | CycleØ adquiere una planta de residuos para convertir 121.000 toneladas de residuos en gas renovable para 4.000 hogares | CycleØ and GARYC project team L-R Francisco Javier Azón, Pedro Azón. Jordi Berengué, Gran Potter and Maria Azón
CycleØ and GARYC team on site in Toledo
CycleØ ha adquirido la empresa española de gestión de residuos GARYC para transformar lo... |
| 02.06.2025 | BioVeritas to Speak about Opportunities for Farmers through SAF at TopSoil Summit 2025 | Kyle Ross, vice president of process development for BioVeritas
Innovative SAF company to detail the benefits of biofuels and SAF to the American farmer and the ag economy BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, June 2, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeri... |
| 06.05.2025 | Utility Global Appoints Dr. Henrik Adam as Advisor to the Board of Directors | Dr. Henrik Adam
Former CEO of Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp businesses brings deep executive expertise and relationships across steel, automotive, and industrial innovation HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, May 6, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Utility... |
| 02.05.2025 | Ara Partners Reaches Final Close for Inaugural Infrastructure Fund | Ara Partners, a Houston, TX-based investment firm dedicated to the decarbonization of the industrial economy, raised over $800M for its Infrastructure strategy, including its debut Fund, Ara Infrastructure Fund I, and associated co-investme... |
| 03.04.2025 | Utility Named One of TIME’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2025, Honored for Breakthrough Hydrogen Innovation | H2Gen System
Ranked #59 Globally and #32 in the U.S., Utility’s H2Gen® Technology is Driving the Clean Energy Transition in Hard-to-Abate Industries HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, April 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Utility, a clean hydrogen t... |
| 10.03.2025 | Utility Achieves Industry-First Hydrogen Production Using Steel Manufacturing Off-Gases | Onsite hydrogen production using industrial off-gases now offers a commercially viable,
economic clean energy for heavy industry
HOUSTON, March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Utility, the leader in affordable, reliable and clean hydrogen solution... |
| 18.02.2025 | UTILITY ANNOUNCES PARKER MEEKS AS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | Meeks' initial focus includes driving active commercialization phase for Utility's leading clean hydrogen production technology, profitably transitioning heavy-industry across a strong global pipeline
HOUSTON, Feb. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ... |
| 09.01.2025 | Wattstor launches flexi-capped renewable tariff with price protection | Price Protect - the new renewable energy tariff from Wattstor
The team behind Price Protect
Price Protect is a new renewable energy tariff that combines the flexibility of a variable rate with the peace of mind of a fixed one. LONDON, UNITE... |
| 07.01.2025 | Utility and GH EnA Sign Joint Project Development Agreement for the Korean Biogas to Hydrogen Mobility Market | Utility and GH EnA to implement H2Gen projects to produce clean carbon-negative hydrogen using biogas for Korea's growing low carbon mobility market
HOUSTON, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Utility, the off-gas-to-value company pioneering its ... |
| 04.10.2024 | Rice researchers secure $35M federal grant to advance medical device technology | Rice University has secured part of a nearly $35 million federal grant aimed at commercializing a bioelectric implant for treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
The federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health awarded the $34.9 m... |
| 03.10.2024 | Houston's Billionaire Landscape: A Closer Look at Wealth and Innovation | Houston is a city of dreams, where ambition meets opportunity. The latest Forbes 400 list reveals a vibrant tapestry of wealth woven through the city’s fabric. Among the stars, Tilman Fertitta shines brightly. The hospitality mogul and owne... |
| 03.10.2024 | Tilman Fertitta tops new Forbes list of Houston's richest billionaires | A dozen of Houston's illustrious billionaires have made the cut on the newForbes 400, a list of the 400 richest people in the United States for 2024.
Houston hospitality king and Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta is the 12th richest Texan and t... |
| 02.10.2024 | Houston's Energy Transition: A New Dawn for Decarbonization and Innovation | Houston is known as the energy capital of the world. Yet, the winds of change are blowing through its oil-stained streets. The city is embracing a new era—one that prioritizes decarbonization and sustainable innovation. The recent launch of... |
| 02.10.2024 | Houston-based autonomous trucking tech co. raises $20M | A Houston-based autonomous vehicle technology company has raised early funding.
Bot Auto has announced the completion of its pre-series A funding round which was oversubscribed and raised $20 million. The round was led by investments from B... |
| 01.10.2024 | Houston PE firm scores $725M to launch new business unit to invest in decarbonization | Houston-based Ara Partners, a private equity firm that focuses on industrial decarbonization investments, is receiving up to $725 million from a Tennessee-based family office to launch an energy decarbonization unit.
HF Capital, the Knoxvil... |
| 28.09.2024 | Utility Global: Off-Gas-To-Value Company Raises $53 Million (Series C) | Utility Global, an off-gas-to-value company pioneering its proprietary eXERO gas production technology optimized for hard-to-abate industries, announced that it has raised $53 million of an ongoing Series C funding led by the OPG Pension Pl... |
| 26.09.2024 | Utility Global Raises $53M in Ongoing Series C Financing | Utility Global, a Houston, TX-based off-gas-to-value company providing its proprietary eXERO™ gas production technology optimized for hard-to-abate industries, raised $53M in ongoing Series C funding.
The round was led by OPG Pension Plan a... |
| 25.09.2024 | Paratus granted regulatory approval for renewable power industry | Paratus to write the world's first policy for renewable power price protection
GUERNSEY and LONDON, Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Paratus Holdings Limited ("Paratus"), the world's first (re)insurance group underwriting energy pri... |
| 12.09.2024 | Houston company secures $12M series A for decarbonization plant | A fresh $12 million round of funding will enable Houston-based Citroniq Chemicals to propel planning, design, and construction of its first decarbonization plant.
An unidentified multinational energy technology company led the series A roun... |
| 11.09.2024 | A New Dawn for U.S. Rare Earths: The Rise of Domestic Manufacturing | The landscape of rare earth element (REE) production is shifting. As the world grapples with supply chain vulnerabilities, the United States is stepping up to reclaim its place in the rare earth market. Two recent developments highlight thi... |
| 10.09.2024 | BioVeritas Selected for Top Pitch Competition at 21st Annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum | David Austgen, BioVeritas CEO
The Energy Tech Venture Forum is the top energy tech VC conference connecting energy innovators, investors and corporations within the greater energy ecosystem BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, September 10, 2024 /EINP... |
| 06.09.2024 | Ara Partners Closes $335 Million Of Non-Recourse Financing For Magnet Manufacturing Facility | Private equity firm Ara Partners announced the successful closing of a $335 million non-recourse financing of a first-of-its-kind U.S. permanent magnet manufacturing facility, undertaken by Ara Partners and its portfolio company Vacuumschme... |
| 05.08.2024 | Continuum Powders Bolsters Executive Team with New CMO | Renette Youssef, CMO
Top sustainable metal powders company strengthens expertise to accelerate strategic go-to-market planning and quickly increase market share HOUSTON, TX, USA, August 5, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Continuum Powders, the l... |
| 10.06.2024 | Announcing Continuum Powders: MolyWorks Officially Rebrands as Continuum Powders and Appoints New CEO | Rob Higby, CEO of Continuum Powders
Innovative sustainable metal powders company continues rapid advancement in commercialization efforts and new product development HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, June 10, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Continu... |
| 23.05.2024 | Ara Partners Releases Public Industrial Decarbonization Report | Report Outlines Generational Investment Opportunity in Decarbonizing Industry
Provides Total Emissions Reduction and Waste Mitigation Across Ara Partners Portfolio
BOSTON and WASHINGTON, May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ara Partners today annou... |
| 25.03.2024 | Exclusive: Ara Partners raising $500M infrastructure fund | Ara Partners, a private equity firm focused on industrial decarbonization, is raising $500 million for its first infrastructure fund, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The fund will target infrastructure needed to connect different parts o... |
| 12.02.2024 | CEO of BioVeritas to Present at 2024 ADI Forum in Houston, Texas | David Austgen, BioVeritas CEO
Industry expert, David Austgen, to discuss the newest fermentation technology and how clean label, upcycled ingredients benefit food production BRYAN, TEXAS, USA, February 12, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeri... |
| 15.01.2024 | Pareen Shah of BioVeritas to Present at Sustainable Foods Summit North America 2024 | Pareen Shah, CCO of BioVeritas
CCO of revolutionary bio-based ingredients company to discuss a new horizon for upcycled ingredients through directed fermentation BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, January 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeritas, L... |
| 12.01.2024 | Freshly funded startups, NASA-backed engine testing top this week's top Houston innovation stories | Editor's note:Welcome back for another roundup of top Houston innovation news from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included recent startup funding rounds, two new hires, and more.
These 9 Houst... |
| 12.01.2024 | Driverless semi-truck tech to launch between Houston and Dallas later this year | Kodiak Robotics is scaling up its driverless semi truck, which will initially carry cargo on a Houston-to-Dallas route that’s set to formally launch this year.
The most recent version of Kodiak’s truck debuted in Las Vegas at the recent 202... |
| 12.01.2024 | Houston innovation leader named to new role to drive strategy, programming | A longtime Houston innovation leader has added a new title to his role at Rice University.
Brad Burke, who has served as executive director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship for 20 years, has been named associate vice... |
| 10.01.2024 | PE firm acquires Houston renewables fuels infrastructure company | Fresh off its $3 billion fund closure, a Houston private equity firm has made its latest acquisition.
Ara Partners announced this week that it has acquired a majority interest in Houston-based USD Clean Fuels, a developer of logistics infra... |
| 08.01.2024 | BioVeritas Executives Predict “Big Movements” in the Clean-Label Industry for 2024 | Packed with exciting advancements, the clean-label movement is picking up steam and 2024 is set to be one of the most explosive years yet BRYAN, TEXAS, USA, January 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeritas, LLC., a bio-based ingredients com... |
| 14.12.2023 | Ara Partners Closes Over $3 Billion of New Capital Commitments | Ara Partners, a Houston, TX-based private equity and infrastructure investment firm, closed over $3 Billion in new capital commitments for ARA Fund III.
The firm concluded the fundraising for Ara Fund III closing on $2.8 billion of limited ... |
| 14.12.2023 | Ara Partners raises $3bn fund for industrial decarbonisation dealmaking | |
| 13.11.2023 | BioVeritas Presents at 2023 AFCC Conference | Disruptive upcycling company to discuss innovations in fermentation platforms that will accelerate the low-carbon circular economy BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, November 13, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeritas, LLC, a bio-based ingredients co... |
| 27.04.2023 | Houston expert: How to recruit a diverse workforce for your company | Recruiting for diversity is a critical aspect of building a diverse and inclusive workforce. In today’s increasingly global and diverse society, organizations that prioritize diversity and inclusion are well positioned to attract and retain... |
| 26.04.2023 | How this Houston-headquartered company is innovating the future of heart replacement | Heart disease is one of the most common causes of death in the United States — one in five deaths, according to the CDC. But there's not a long-term solutions for patients — even for those lucky enough to have a successful heart transplant.... |
| 25.04.2023 | Texas nonprofit introduces newest accelerator to be hosted in Houston this fall | A Texas accelerator that's focused on supporting traditionally marginalized entrepreneurs has announced its newest program.
DivInc has introduced DWeb for Social Impact Accelerator, a new program set to support BIPOC and women founders of s... |
| 24.04.2023 | The Ion announces new tenants that have recently moved in, expanded within the hub | Several organizations — from tech startups to a nonprofit — have moved into the Ion recently to either relocate or expand their presence in Houston.
The Ion District announced new tenants today, bringing the total space leased to 86 percent... |
| 09.01.2023 | BioVeritas Expands Core Leadership Team with Strategic Executive Appointments | Disruptive bio-based ingredients company finalizes executive leadership team and continues rapid advancement toward market penetration BRYAN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, January 9, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BioVeritas, the only company to pionee... |
| 16.12.2022 | Continuum raises $36M to fund recycled metal 3D printing powder growth opportunities | Award-winning, Californian sustainable metal powder developer and MolyWorks subsidiary Continuum has raised $36 million in funding.
Designed to address 3D printing and metal injection molding (MIM) system users, the firm’s ‘Optipowder’ feed... |
| 08.08.2022 | Utility Global Secures $25 Million Series B Funding and Appoints Claus Nussgruber as CEO | Claus Nussgruber, CEO
Groundbreaking sustainable hydrogen company continues rapid advancement towards unlocking beyond net zero hydrogen
At Utility Global, we are not simply upgrading or outperforming what the industry has already built -- ... |
| 19.01.2022 | Inside crypto exchange FTX’s new venture fund | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
FTX wants to move fast.
Paid Content How to update cybersecurity in the face of potential attacks... |
| 24.09.2021 | Ara Partners lands $1.1B for decarbonization | Houston-based Ara Partners has raised $1.1 billion for its second fund devoted to businesses that help industries reduce carbon emissions. Ara Partners closed its first such fund in 2020 at around $400 million.
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| 23.09.2021 | How Toast came back from the brink | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
A year and a half ago, restaurant software maker Toast laid off nearly half its workforce and fur... |
| 23.09.2021 | Ara Partners Raises $1.1 Billion for Second Decarbonization Fund | Ara Partners has raised about $1.1 billion to invest in businesses that help industries reduce carbon emissions.
The Houston-based firm said it wrapped up Ara Fund II LP far above an initial $650 million target. Ara last year secured roughl... |
| 20.09.2021 | Evergrande is in trouble. But it probably won’t be a Lehman moment | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
It’s certainly eye-catching, but concerns that the collapse of Chinese property giant Evergrande ... |
| 01.06.2021 | Path Environmental Technology Names Don Gawick as CEO, Expanding Leadership Team | HOUSTON, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Path Environmental Technology, a technology-enabled decarbonizing industrial services platform focused on above ground storage tank ("AST") cleaning, has appointed Don Gawick as Chief Executiv... |
| 05.05.2020 | Ara Partners Closes Fund, at $400M | Ara Partners, a Houston-based private equity firm specializing in industrial decarbonization investments, closed its debut fund, Ara Fund I, LP, at $400m.
The fund was backed by a diverse group of institutional investors in North America, E... |
| 18.03.2019 | Justin Courtney Joins Priority Power Management as EVP | Priority Power Management, LLC, an independent energy management services and consulting firm headquartered in Midland, Texas, today announced the hiring of Justin Courtney as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Priority i... |
| 12.03.2019 | Priority Power Management Appoints Danny Smedley and Charlie Hewitt as VPs | MIDLAND & ARLINGTON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Priority Power Management, LLC, a Texas-based leading independent energy management and consulting services firm, announced today the hiring of Danny Smedley and Charlie Hewitt as Vice Presiden... |
| 14.10.2018 | Ara Partners Acquires Majority of Centric Gas Service | Ara Partners Group, an alternative asset manager focused on the industrial, chemicals & materials and energy sectors, today announced a majority investment in Centric Gas Services, LLC, a local gas distribution platform headquartered in... |
| 09.09.2018 | Ara Partners Adds Three To Senior Investment Team | Ara Partners Group, an alternative asset manager focused on the industrial, chemicals & materials and energy sectors, has expanded its senior investment team to include three experienced executives: Cory Steffek as Managing Director, Gr... |
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