Air Liquide’s venture capital branch, ALIAD, has revealed it has made four new equity investments in technology start-ups over the past six months.
The investment strategy of ALIAD has targeted sectors linked to the energy transition, healthcare and high tech, and is carving out positions in future technologies by supporting start-ups in their development through R&D or business agreements between these start-ups and the Tier One corporation.
In healthcare, the industrial gas giant acquired an equity stake in French biomedical company, Carmat, to jointly develop a portable hydrogen (H2) fuel cell earlier this year.
Also in early 2016, ALIAD established two new partnerships in the high tech sector. The first deal is with US-based business, Inpria. The company is developing a lithography technology for small surfaces for the semiconductor industry with this investment increasing its production capacity for commercial purposes.
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