| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.06.2021 | Quidnet Energy and Emissions Reduction Alberta partner to develop transformative energy storage resource | June 17, 2021
Taking a step towards reliable renewable energy in Alberta, Quidnet Energy and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), with funding from the Government of Alberta, launched an ambitious project to develop an ultra-low-cost, multi-g... |
| 04.06.2021 | Evok Innovations & BDC Capital Winners of 2021 VC Deal of the Year for DarkVision | June 4, 2021
We are pleased to announce that Evok Innovations and BDC Capital’s ICE Venture Fund have won the 2021 Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) Venture Capital Deal of the Year award for our joint investm... |
| 20.05.2021 | Osperity has entered a partnership with Viper Imaging | May 20, 2021
Osperity now offers visual detection of fugitive gas emmissions through its intelligent visual monitoring platform.
Osperity has entered a partnership with Viper Imaging, a market leader in optical gas imaging, to deliver fugit... |
| 19.05.2021 | Clean technology enjoys a renaissance | May 19, 2021
Since February, two British Columbia clean-technology companies have raised a total of $200 million. Loop Energy, a hydrogen fuel cell company, debuted on the Toronto Stock Exchange in a $100 million initial public offering, an... |
| 12.05.2021 | Podcast: Breaking Down Electrified Chemical Manufacturing with Syzygy Plasmonics | May 12, 2021
On this episode of the Small Biz Insider podcast, Maggie Martin speaks with Syzygy Plasmonics co-founder and CEO Trevor Best about why the startup wants to make chemical manufacturing cleaner, how Houston can solidify its posit... |
| 22.04.2021 | Hydrogen is hot, but it’s more than hype | April 22, 2021
In January, Vancouver startup Ekona Power received a $3 million investment from BDC Capital to prove out a new process for making what might be called “turquoise” hydrogen: a methane pyrolysis reactor that can make hydrogen a... |
| 22.04.2021 | Five Cleantech Innovators Receive Awards at 2021 NREL Industry Growth Forum | April 22, 2021
Two Evok portfolio companies, Mosaic Materials and Opus 12, were recognized as cleantech innovators at this year’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Industry Growth Forum.
Mosaic Materials won the Early Stage Outstanding V... |
| 13.04.2021 | Expeto Completes $10 Million Financing | April 13, 2021
Expeto, the world’s leading enterprise Private Mobile Networking platform, announced today it has closed $10 million Series A financing round, led by Evok Innovations, Mistral Venture Partners, Lavrock Ventures, and BDC Capit... |
| 06.04.2021 | Syzygy Attracts Global Investors, Raises $23 Million Series B | April 6, 2021
We are happy to announce an over-subscribed Series B for Syzygy Plasmonics with Horizons Ventures, Equinor Ventures, The Engine and GOOSE Capital. These funds will be used to commercialize Syzygy’s technology, which is a combu... |
| 01.04.2021 | Simple, Secure Connectivity Solution Empowers IoT | April 1, 2021
Learn more about Expeto’s affordable mobile private networking, which is effective and easy to deploy, but with the scalability and security only 5G and other relevant cellular technologies can deliver” said Expeto CEO, Michae... |
| 25.03.2021 | Expeto to Collaborate with Rogers for Business | March 25, 2021
Congrats to the Expeto team for their latest collaboration with Rogers for Business.
Rogers will use Expeto’s NeXtworking™ platform to provide wireless private networking solutions over both private and public cellular networ... |
| 17.03.2021 | Allonnia Announces Evok as Strategic Investor | March 17, 2021
We are pleased to announce our latest investment in Allonnia LLC, a bioremediation company. As a part of the transaction, Allonnia will acquire the assets of Evok portfolio company Metabolik Technologies, whose work has pushe... |
| 11.03.2021 | ARIX Graduates Shell GameChanger Program | March 11, 2021
Congrats to ARIX Technologies for graduating the Shell Game Changer Program! Through this partnership, the ARIX team have successfully demonstrated the novelty, feasibility, and value of their #robotic pipe-inspection technol... |
| 08.03.2021 | Lamor Acquires License for HARBO Boom | March 08, 2021
Evok is pleased to announce the acquisition of the licensing rights to HARBO Technologies‘ product line by Lamor Corporation.
HARBO has developed the lightest oil spill response boom on the market. The modular system fits in ... |
| 19.02.2021 | Evok Innovations Honoured in 2021 BC Cleantech Awards | February 19, 2021
Big thank you to Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre for recognizing the Evok Innovations team at the 2021 BC Cleantech Awards last night! We are honoured to have been chosen as the winner of the Innovation Funder Award... |
| 18.02.2021 | Innovative Quidnet Technology Designed to Prevent Texas-Type Grid Failures | February 18, 2021
Quidnet Energy‘s modular pumped hydro solution is specifically designed to prevent Texas-type grid Failures. On its current development trajectory, Quidnet’s long duration energy storage technology could be installed acros... |
| 03.02.2021 | VEERUM Raises $7.4 Million in Growth Capital | February 03, 2021
Evok portfolio company, VEERUM, is a rapidly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider in the industrial asset visualization space. We are pleased to announce a $7.4 million Series A funding round led by BDC’s Industri... |
| 02.02.2021 | Expeto Powers Next Level AgTech with the 5G Open Innovation Lab | February 02, 2021
Expeto has partnered with technology leaders T-Mobile, Microsoft, Intel, Amdocs, Nokia, Dell and other innovators to create the 5G Open Innovation Lab. The project will showcase 5G-powered food resiliency applications, lik... |
| 25.01.2021 | Carbon Capture: The Air Miners and the Pickaxe Sellers | January 25, 2021
Several novel carbon capture startups are working to push the boundaries of capture technologies and ratcheting down costs. Mosaic Material’s technology has the potential to improve the efficiency of a broad spectrum of car... |
| 19.01.2021 | Ekona Power raises $3.0 million from BDC Capital | January 19, 2021
Congrats to the team at Ekona Power for raising $3.0 million from BDC Capital to accelerate the development of its novel technology for low-cost, clean hydrogen. “Clean hydrogen production will play a key role in Canada’s c... |
| 04.11.2020 | Industry Challenge: ARIX winner of best new robotic solution for CUI | November 4, 2020
From the four companies shortlisted to participate in the Industry Challenge, an initiative of program sponsors Phillips 66, Royal Dutch Shell and Woodside Energy, and led by Quasset, ARIX Technologies emerged as the overal... |
| 14.10.2020 | Philanthropies flow funds to climate technologies | October 14, 2020
Several new funds are taking on “tough tech” — unsexy but important efforts to mitigate global warming. Prime Coalition, a nonprofit organization in Cambridge, Mass., focuses on funding technologies with major potential to ... |
| 21.07.2020 | ERA announces $58 million for natural gas innovations worth $155 million | July 21, 2020
As part of their Natural Gas Challenge, ERA is committing $58.4 million for 20 projects, including Ekona Power, to improve the cost competitiveness and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Alberta’s natural gas sector.
I... |
| 08.07.2020 | SensorUp Secures Series A Financing led by Evok Innovations | July 8, 2020
Evok is pleased to announce that SensorUp Inc. is joining our portfolio. SensorUp, a Calgary-based SaaS provider in the movement intelligence space, integrates data from any sensor or third-party system to provide a single sour... |
| 06.07.2020 | Quidnet leverages drilling tech to provide pumped hydro type storage at half the price | July 6, 2020
Houston-based Quidnet Energy is combining conventional pumped hydroelectric storage technology with existing drilling technology to provide long-duration energy storage for utilities and renewable energy developers. As opposed ... |
| 01.07.2020 | Eyes In the Oilfield AI Data Analytics in Action | July 1, 2020
An interview with Osperity CEO, Scott Crist, discusses how Artificial Intelligence is taking on an ever more important role in the oil field and beyond. Osperity, a young Calgary and Houston based start-up, is one of the first ... |
| 30.06.2020 | Meet the 21 rising stars who are transforming the future of clean energy and taking on a $16 trillion opportunity | June 30, 2020
Business Insider names Etosha Cave, Co-founder of Opus 12, as one of the rising stars of clean energy. Their showcase includes 21 people quickly making a name for themselves within the industry, identified by experts as emergi... |
| 23.06.2020 | Canadian cleantech making big environmental strides in oil and gas | June 23, 2020
Evok CEO, Marty Reed, an established Silicon Valley venture capitalist moved to Vancouver five years ago to make an impact in the world of energy. He was drawn by Canada’s confluence of great science, technology, engineering a... |
| 23.06.2020 | Quidnet Energy Gears Up for Commercial Deployment of Long Duration Energy Storage | June 23, 2020
Quidnet Energy today announced the closing of its $10 million Series B financing and the execution of a contract with the New York State Energy Development Authority (NYSERDA) for commercial demonstration of its Geomechanical ... |
| 11.06.2020 | Expeto Selected by Digital Technology Supercluster to Power Virtual Healthcare in Canada | June 11, 2020
Evok portfolio company, Expeto, joins Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster to provide its enterprise-first Nextworking solution over 4G/5G networks to enable the safety of healthcare workers through remote care.
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| 19.05.2020 | Koch Engineered Solutions Acquires DarkVision In Move To Develop Integrated Asset Integrity Platform | May 19, 2020
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES), a unit of Koch Industries Inc., today announced it has acquired a majority stake in DarkVision Technologies in the first step towards developing a broad asset integrity platform within KES. In c... |
| 14.05.2020 | California startup Opus 12 aims to help polluters recycle carbon dioxide | May 14, 2020
New technology, from California startup Opus 12, could help companies turn carbon pollution into alternative fuels or plastics. The company’s technology breaks down carbon dioxide and water, then combines them to create other m... |
| 07.05.2020 | Syzygy to join MIT Startup Exchange Stex25 Accelerator | May 7, 2020
MIT Startup Exchange is pleased to announce the addition of eleven companies, including Syzygy Plasmonics to its roster of STEX25 startups for its Spring 2020 cohort.
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| 05.05.2020 | Can Alberta Tech Transform Global Energy? | May 5, 2020
RBC Disruptors Podcast
Alberta was already deeply challenged heading into 2020. The twin blows of COVID-19 and a global price war for oil has left the economy reeling. Can the province turn this crisis into an opportunity, to he... |
| 12.02.2020 | DarkVision Authors Industry Leading SPE Paper | February 12, 2020
DarkVision has released it’s first SPE paper with co-authors Jagged Peak, PETRONAS Canada, and Encana Oil & Gas (USA). SPE-199718-MS is revered for being the most comprehensive overview of perforation erosion analysis ... |
| 12.02.2020 | Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada Winners Announced | February 12, 2020
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan, today announced Ekona Power as one of 10 winners of the Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada initiative — a first-of-its-kind public–private initiative... |
| 19.11.2019 | Behind the scenes at Shell Ventures | November 19, 2019
Shell Tech Ventures discuss the perks of corporate venture capital and how their investments, in companies such as Osprey Informatics, have helped facilitate a classic win-win situation for both their portfolio companies a... |
| 11.11.2019 | C&EN’s 2019 10 Start-Ups to Watch | November 11, 2019
After scouring hundreds of potentially world-changing chemistry start-ups, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) included Mosaic Materials and Syzygy Plasmonics in their list of 10 Start-Ups to Watch. Winning companie... |
| 10.10.2019 | International Airlines Group backs net zero emissions by 2050 | October 10, 2019
International Airlines Group (IAG) is the first airline group worldwide to commit to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The emissions goal will be achieved through numerous environmental initiatives, including par... |
| 01.10.2019 | No news is good news! | October 01, 2019
At 2:45am on a Monday morning, at a refinery in California, an oil spill occurred. The skeleton crew of two people made a quick decision to deploy a game-changing spill response kit developed by Evok portfolio company HARBO... |
| 24.09.2019 | VEERUM secures strategic investment round led by Evok Innovations | September 24, 2019
“We are proud to announce that VEERUM is joining our portfolio. They are an outstanding team of industry and technology experts who intimately understand the inefficiencies in construction and asset management.” Marty Ree... |
| 13.09.2019 | Rice Alliance names 10 most promising energy technology companies at its annual forum | September 13, 2019
Two Evok portfolio companies, HARBO Technologies and Syzygy Plasmonics, were ranked in the top 10 most promising startups in the energy industry at this year’s Rice Alliance Energy & Cleantech Venture Forum in Houston... |
| 03.09.2019 | Ultra-light oil spill containment system could dramatically cut response time | September 3, 2019
Three years ago Evok invested in Israel-based HARBO Technologies. The company’s new oil spill containment system, which is about one-third the weight of conventional booms, has undergone extensive research, development and... |
| 27.08.2019 | Here’s a question you should ask about every climate change plan | August 27, 2019
Bill Gates’s latest blog discusses how we can cut down on emissions from all the steel, cement, and plastic we’re making. One solution for dealing with climate change is direct-air capture to pull greenhouse gases from the a... |
| 26.08.2019 | ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials to explore new carbon capture technology | August 26, 2019
ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials have entered into an agreement to explore the advancement of a breakthrough technology that can remove carbon dioxide from emissions sources.
This agreement is part of Mosaic’s commitment to a... |
| 26.08.2019 | A Sponge To Soak Up CO2 Is In The Works | August 26, 2019
ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials have signed an agreement to accelerate the trajectory of a pellet-sized technology that could help bring carbon capture to scale around the world. This new technology, invented at the Universi... |
| 23.08.2019 | Houston company raises $5.8M to create cleaner chemical reactor | August 23, 2019
Evok portfolio company, Syzygy Plasmonics, has raised $5.8 million for its technology to create an environmentally friendly chemical reactor that could, one day, replace those used at refineries and chemical plants.
“Syzygy’... |
| 29.07.2019 | Intelligent Visual Monitoring for Oil and Gas Operations | July 29, 2019
In the face of volatile commodity prices, increasing regulation and global competition, oil and gas companies need to manage costs while mitigating safety and environmental risks to be successful. Many companies are turning to... |
| 04.06.2019 | 10 innovative oil and gas startups to watch | June 4, 2019
Two Evok portfolio companies, Syzygy Plasmonics and DarkVision Technologies, were ranked in the top 10 most promising startups at this year’s Rice Alliance Startup Roundup event, as part of the Offshore Technology Conference in... |
| 14.05.2019 | Bill Gates: A critical step to reduce climate change | May 14, 2019
Wind and solar powered generation is expanding, but one challenge we face is how to store that energy when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. Bill Gates recently featured Quidnet Energy as one of three innovative ... |
| 08.05.2019 | Rice Alliance names the 10 most promising startups at Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference | May 08, 2019
Over 50 different startups from across the globe gathered at the Offshore Technology Conference for the fifth annual Rice Alliance Startup Roundup event. After interacting with all the various startups, the Rice Alliance’s pane... |
| 29.04.2019 | I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – Bono | April 29, 2019
Corporate venture capital can be a powerful tool to meet a company’s strategic innovation mandate, with the specific innovation requirements driving the deals in the venture capital portfolio. But what happens when the search... |
| 25.04.2019 | Feds announce $2.8M for Squamish clean tech company | April 25, 2019
For the last eight months, Rotoliptic Technologies Inc. has been creating and testing equipment for a new two-piece oil and gas pump in Squamish’s business park. Now, the company hopes to have its product ready for sale in th... |
| 23.04.2019 | Energy Excellence Awards: Innovative Companies Driving Forward The Digital Oilfield Of The Future | April 23, 2019
Congratulations to Osprey Informatics for being named champion in the digital oilfield subcategory at the Daily Oil Bulletin Energy Excellence Award
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| 08.04.2019 | Osprey Informatics names Mark Slaughter as Chief Executive Officer | April 08, 2019
Osprey Informatics announced today that its board of directors has named Mark Slaughter to the position of chief executive officer (“CEO”) and to the Company’s board of directors. Slaughter has deep experience in growing comp... |
| 15.03.2019 | Evok at CERAWeek and Innovation Agora | March 15, 2019
Evok attended the OGCI (Oil and Gas Climate Initiative) Venture Dinner and Second Venture Day events in Houston on March 10 and 11, respectively. Several CEOs, from OGCI member companies, spoke at the dinner about the importa... |
| 14.02.2019 | Oilpatch AI keeps a wary eye on remote wells after human officials go home | February 14, 2019
In December, Osprey Informatics raised $3.75 million to open a new office in Houston, taking on new investors including the venture unit of client Royal Dutch Shell.
Osprey is pursuing new applications to visually detect s... |
| 16.01.2019 | An Eye on the Prize: Shell Invests in Computer Vision Developer | January 16, 2019
A recent investment into a Calgary-based technology developer, Osprey Informatics, aims to solidify the future of computer vision as a widely used digital tool in the oil and gas sector. Founded in 2011, Osprey Informatics ... |
| 14.01.2019 | How Algorithms Are Taking Over Big Oil | January 14, 2019
When BP recently partnered with San Francisco-based start-up Kelvin Inc., they deployed thousands of sensors across hundreds of wells to create streams of real time data and decided to see what would happen if the AI system... |
| 20.11.2018 | Opus-12 Wins 2018 R&D 100 Special Recognition Award | November 20, 2018
Congratulations to Opus-12 for being the co-recipient of this year’s R&D 100 Special Recognition Award. The annual R&D 100 Awards recognized 100 technologies of the past year deemed revolutionary by an independent ... |
| 23.10.2018 | Visualizing the Future of Asset Management | October 23, 2018
“Truck trips”, “windshield time” and “milk runs” – there are many ways to describe the time oil and gas professionals spend travelling highways and backroads to remote sites. But none of these descriptions hint at the dange... |
| 19.09.2018 | US DoE awards long duration energy storage funding | September 19, 2018
Geomechanical pumped storage company Quidnet Energy received the third highest award, at US$3,298,786 for a new method of pumping pressurised water into gaps between underground rocks. Pressure built up between the rocks ... |
| 19.09.2018 | ARPA-E Funds Research on Energy Storage That Can Last for Days | September 19, 2018
A $3.3 million grant went to San Francisco-based Quidnet Energy to explore the idea of “geomechanical” pumped hydro energy storage. The concept is to pump pressurized water into gaps in underground rocks, and then allow t... |
| 12.09.2018 | Innovation rush in the oil sands | September 12, 2018
Dozens of emerging technologies for almost every facet of oil sands production could be paving the way for solutions to the most significant environmental and operational challenges faced today. In fact, according to a st... |
| 11.07.2018 | Energy, Energy, Everywhere – And No Place to Store It | July 11, 2018
There is vast potential to make our energy system more robust, efficient, and sustainable, but first we need to create more reliable and cost-effective energy storage solutions. Such a breakthrough would not only enable more e... |
| 12.06.2018 | Bill Gates-Led Breakthrough Energy Ventures Has Its Sights on 2 Energy Storage Startups | June 12, 2018
Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), the fund launched by the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, and George Soros in 2016, announced at the end of last year that one of its focus areas would be e... |
| 12.06.2018 | To hit climate goals, Bill Gates and his billionaire friends are betting on energy storage | June 12, 2018
The world needs radical new energy technologies to fight climate change. In 2016, a group of billionaires—including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani, and Richard Branson—launched Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV... |
| 24.05.2018 | Taking On Climate Change “Carbon Dioxide Emissions Become Fuels and Materials” | May 24, 2018
Imagine a future where car engines run on particles gathered from the fuel they’ve already burned and where plastic doesn’t sit in landfills forever, but has another life — as plastic.
That’s the future dreamed up by Kendra Kuh... |
| 08.05.2018 | BP’s New Roughneck Is An Algorithm, And It May Supercharge Production | May 08, 2018
BP has turned to Silicon Valley for help, and with vendor Kelvin Inc. they’ve outfitted hundreds of Wamsutter wells with arrays of cheap sensors that gather and transmit oceans of data into supercomputers where A.I.-driven algo... |
| 17.04.2018 | HARBO advances T-Fence oil spill technology | April 17, 2018
HARBO Technologies Ltd. launched its boom at Interspill 2018 London with deployments on the Thames from HEBO Maritiem‘s Tideman boat. According to the company, T-Fence blocks spills before they spread since it is the only sys... |
| 11.04.2018 | A New Network | April 11, 2018
Take a second to imagine the following scenario…
You are a senior executive for a multi-national resource company, prior to an important international trip, you are issued a new sanitized 4G/LTE enabled tablet with all the se... |
| 05.04.2018 | Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model | April 05, 2018
The problem that Etosha and her Opus 12 cofounders ran into when they first sought to leverage the Silicon Valley ecosystem to get their business off the ground was that venture investors typically want to see a real product.... |
| 27.03.2018 | Grist Top 50: 2018 | March 27, 2018
Want a reason to feel hopeful? We got 50. Meet the people who are cooking up the boldest, most ambitious solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges. We like to call these forward-thinking phenoms “Fixers.” They are leaders wh... |
| 12.03.2018 | Can California’s Carbon Queen Recycle Pollution? | March 12, 2018
If tickets to Mars were on sale, Etosha Cave would be the first in line — and she’d prefer a one-way trip, thank you. “If you want to be an explorer, you go out there and make it your home,” she says. Cave’s personal moonshot... |
| 01.02.2018 | Clear Image, Dark Well | February 01, 2018
Most “basement stories” begin with a worn-out credit card and excruciating work hours, but this entrepreneurial story also begins with a delivery truck lost in the suburbs, driving in circles and swinging its heavy load of... |
| 05.12.2017 | Two years in… | December 5, 2017
In the fall of 2015, I sat with James Wells in front of a blank whiteboard and began to draft a strategy for Evok. The challenge was simple but daunting: how do we accelerate the pace of innovation from ideation to adoption... |
| 17.11.2017 | 25 People Shaping the Future in Tech, Science, Medicine, Activism and More | November 17, 2017
Kendra Kuhl, Nicholas Flanders and Etosha Cave: How to Rid the World of CO2
One of the keys to solving global warming is: How can we make carbon pollution useful? Opus 12, founded by former Stanford scholars Kendra Kuhl, N... |
| 09.10.2017 | Opinion: Canada has what it takes to lead in CO2 conversion | October 9, 2017
Canada needs to continue to invest in this exciting and growing sector, for both environmental and economic reasons.
The roads we travel on, the plastics that protect our goods, the fuels that move us forward: what do all of... |
| 05.10.2017 | As Trump turns his back on climate change, Canada’s clean-technology sector stands to gain | October 5, 2017
The U.S. president has turned his back on climate change, which in turn could hurt America’s cleantech industry — but potentially help Canada’s.
Donald Trump makes no secret of the fact that he’s anything but an environmenta... |
| 04.08.2017 | A New Paradigm For Spill Response | August 4, 2017
A marine oil spill is like a heart attack. Let me explain.
The likelihood of a person surviving a heart attack depends on how quickly they receive emergency medical attention. For every minute without treatment, the chances o... |
| 19.06.2017 | Innovators toil to revive Canada oil sands as majors exit | June 19, 2017
In the boreal forests and on the remote prairies of Alberta, a handful of firms are running pilot projects they hope will end a two-decade drought in innovation and stem the exodus of top global energy firms from Canada’s oil ... |
| 19.06.2017 | Putting Eyes In The Wellbore | June 19, 2017
Imagine a surgeon conducting open-heart surgery with the lights out or someone driving a car blindfolded. Oil and gas producers have been operating that way for over a century, operating wellbores thousands of metres long with... |
| 05.06.2017 | The Dark Side of the Oil Tech Boom | June 5, 2017
As artificial intelligence becomes ever more attainable and tech start-ups continue to divide and multiply, traditional oilfield research and development is going the way of the buffalo. Drilling is still an inexact and complex... |
| 18.05.2017 | Mosaic Materials: Capitalizing on carbon capture | May 18, 2017
Chemist Zoey Herm fills a balloon with carbon dioxide using a bike-tyre cartridge, then fits it over the lip of a bottle of chalky white pellets. While she chats with fellow chemist Thomas McDonald, co-founder and chief executi... |
| 18.05.2017 | Remaining Canadian oilsands operators in ‘best position’ to replicate Permian-style tech transformation | May 18, 2017
Even the most bullish U.S. shale production forecast—roughly five million bbls/d growth over the next five years—still leaves about 10 million bbls/d of additional production required by 2022 to meet expected demand, says Rober... |
| 28.04.2017 | The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas | April 28, 2017
In February I was asked to kick-off the Big Data, IoT & Machine Learning in O&G Conference. I expect the organizers felt someone from Silicon Valley would know about these topics that are often lumped together, more f... |
| 04.04.2017 | Opus 12 joins Autodesk Entrepreneur Impact Program | April 4, 2017
Opus 12, led by Cyclotron Road alumnae Etosha Cave and Kendra Kuhl, recently joined the Autodesk Entrepreneur Impact Program. As part of the program, they receive $150,000 worth of software from Autodesk, as well as access to ... |
| 29.03.2017 | Cenovus Energy buying most of ConocoPhillips’ Canadian assets for $17.7B | March 29, 2017
Cenovus Energy announced Wednesday it plans to swallow most of the Canadian assets belonging to ConocoPhillips in a C$17.7 billion blockbuster acquisition that builds upon a recent trend of Canadian consolidation in the oilsa... |
| 14.03.2017 | We Need to Get Smarter, Cheaper, Faster | March 14, 2017
After recently speaking at the Future of Oil & Gas 2017 Conference in Calgary, our CEO, Marty Reed was invited by TheFutureEconomy.ca to answer a few additional questions:
TFE.ca You spoke at our conference, The Future of... |
| 13.03.2017 | Cleantech is the fastest growing sector of the BC economy: KPMG report | March 13, 2017
BC’s Cleantech industry surges with 9,800 employees forecasted in 2017, $1.8 billion in expected revenues for 2016
VANCOUVER – Over the past five years, British Columbia has emerged as a globally recognized centre of Cleantec... |
| 28.02.2017 | Cyclotron Road Researchers Hit Their Stride, Bringing Benefits for Berkeley Lab Scientists Along the Way | February 28, 2017
Founder of Mosaic Materials, Jeff Long, and students in his research lab had come up with exciting new materials for doing gas separations very efficiently, including materials for removing CO2 from a gas. The discovery ha... |
| 09.02.2017 | Opus 12 Wins $400,000 Roddenberry Foundation Grand Prize | February 9, 2017
Congratulations to Opus 12 for winning the inaugural Roddenberry Foundation grand prize, beating 600 other companies from around the world.
The Roddenberry Prize awards ideas from innovative thinkers that: put humanity firs... |
| 06.02.2017 | Reflections from our CEO – Q1 2017 | February 6, 2017
Welcome to Evok’s inaugural quarterly update in which we will share the latest news from our portfolio and our team, as well as trends from within the cleantech community.
2016 saw several key additions to the Evok team. Mi... |
| 01.02.2017 | Splitting Molecules And Fitbits For Farms: Energy Excelerator Invests $5M In 12 New Cleantech Companies | February 1, 2017
Hawaii’s Energy Excelerator (EEx) announced today that Opus 12, led by Cyclotron Road innovators Etosha Cave, Kendra Kuhl and co-founder Nicholas Flanders, was selected to join its 2017 Cohort. According to the press releas... |
| 27.01.2017 | A chain reaction to spare the air | January 27, 2017
Last year, in the high-profile journal Nature, Jeffrey Long, professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering, reported devising a new material that can capture and release CO2 at a lower temperature and ... |
| 24.01.2017 | Researchers to develop strain of E.coli to act as ‘kill switch’ for oilsands water pollutants | January 24, 2017
A team of researchers led by the University of British Columbia is looking at a strain of the bacteria E.coli as a solution to allow oilsands mining companies to discharge process-affected water back into the Athabasca Rive... |
| 19.01.2017 | MBA Polymers wins the 2017 Circulars Awards at Davos Conference | January 19, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Biddle for winning the Young Global Voices Award for Circular Economy SME on behalf of MBA Polymers. The award recognizes excellence in the circular economy, promoting long-life use, recovery &am... |
| 17.01.2017 | Oilpatch transformation requires forward thinking | January 17, 2017
Whether it’s about environmental performance, growing productivity or reducing costs, Canada’s energy sector is poised for change in 2017 as innovation and technology play increasing roles.
While this will require capital a... |
| 27.12.2016 | Eight Innovators to Watch in 2017 | December 27, 2016
Smithsonian recognizes Opus 12 as one of the top innovators to watch in 2017. Opus 12, which was co-founded by three scientists who met at Stanford—Kendra Kuhl, Nicholas Flanders and Etosha Cave, have created a small react... |
| 16.12.2016 | Opus 12 Wins ARPA-E REFUEL Award | December 16, 2016
Congratulations to Opus 12! This team of Cyclotron Road Innovators, led by Etosha Cave and Kendra Kuhl, and co-founder Nicholas Flanders, was recently awarded nearly $2,000,000 by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Ener... |
